tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370872011-04-21T17:36:06.672-07:00DurheyAbove average.Kennoreply@blogger.comBlogger8861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-62166518213203888432008-03-26T11:25:00.001-07:002008-03-26T11:29:51.900-07:00I'm finally out of the Extended Stay Hotel, and am working from home this week, as well as trying to get a new job lined up. Oddly enough, it feels like I'm completely preoccupied now, even though I know, mathmatically speaking, that I have more free time. I think it's because with the melding of my work space and private space, there's no clear line between "work time" and "free time".Like, I doKennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-23002274516905421652008-02-25T21:17:00.000-08:002008-12-09T16:09:27.257-08:00I started playing that Professor Layton game, and damn if they didn't take the whole integrate-your-puzzles-into-the-narrative thing and run with it. Well, that's what I get for taking just about 3 years now to work on this Pythagoras game. They've even got an exchanging coins for hints systems like... well, like I was planning on using. I suppose my hook is that the puzzles are actually part of Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-11247007112603688332008-01-30T21:23:00.001-08:002008-01-30T21:30:32.022-08:00Well, today for some reason the wireless is going respectably speedy., at least with most sites. Probably one of the tenants was downloading huge files or something. I wonder how they divide up the bandwidth?Anyhow, yesterday I spent my 15 minutes on dull portfolio updates, since I'm trying to re-establish an online resume. Yesterday I worked a little bit on music, which was pretty much just Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-24512510534433538532008-01-28T21:39:00.000-08:002008-01-28T22:15:55.233-08:00Honestly, I would be updating more if the wireless internet here wasn't literally slower than dial-up. I've been timing how fast it takes www.yahoo.com to load, and so far it's been over 5 minutes. For some reason, my FTP seems to be going pretty well, though, so here's a screenshot of what I spent my 15 minutes on today:I animated the splash where the falls hit the water, and made a few small Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-58020611597952821342008-01-10T19:31:00.000-08:002008-01-10T19:43:38.934-08:00How cost-prohibitive would it be for Apple to hire someone to do a quick case-by-case human check on censorship for iTunes? As it is, it's clearly handled by a script, with results that kind of defeat the whole purpose.For starters, if I type in the word "fuck" and do a search for it, clearly I am okay with seeing the word "fuck" on my screen. I can understand it if in the case here, I had Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-59221623204850352742008-01-02T20:10:00.000-08:002008-01-08T20:27:36.536-08:00So, the plan for this year is to spend at least 15 minutes a day doing some sort of creative pursuit outside of work. Whether it be developing Pythagoras, working on the new Hence the Name album or anything else, I just need to dedicate 15 minutes. I'm sure that includes writing blog entries as well, so why not talk about Wheel of Fortune.I get free cable at the hotel. And maybe it's just me at Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-61624035907602525252007-12-06T21:01:00.000-08:002007-12-06T21:07:10.375-08:00Once again I find myself rocking the Extended Stay in the interest of game development.Actually, I don't know if I can honestly claim to be rocking it. The guy in the room above mine certainly is though.This time around it's a wireless connection rather than the old dial-up. Oddly enough, it seems the wireless network is roughly the same speed as dial-up was the previous time I was here. It's a Kennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-36935814826491794892007-06-15T23:17:00.001-07:002007-06-15T23:31:34.281-07:00Fun with the patent office.Just in case regular toothpaste isn't enough:Appetite suppressant toothpasteSleeping aid toothpasteAnti-cancer toothpasteKennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-51582019297027394862007-06-03T17:26:00.000-07:002007-06-03T17:30:16.402-07:00One Screenshot Reviews:Wall Street Kid: 43/87Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-23908144701644085982007-05-06T11:33:00.000-07:002007-05-06T11:34:38.718-07:00One Screenshot Reviews:Incredible Crisis: 3/4Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-62444939180183034262007-04-29T17:11:00.000-07:002007-04-29T17:13:33.198-07:00One Screenshot Reviews:N.A.R.C (2005): 1/3Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-33776351743954925522007-04-17T21:53:00.000-07:002007-04-17T21:57:29.169-07:00One Screenshot Reviews:Bookworm Adventures: 99/110Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1176450030377958442007-04-13T00:35:00.000-07:002007-04-29T17:14:08.123-07:00Why the Hell has no one ever told me about Sparks?!Dick AroundThis Town Ain't Big Enough for Two of UsPerfumeKennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1176257634923371242007-04-10T19:12:00.000-07:002007-04-10T19:13:54.923-07:00One Screenshot Reviews:Runaway: 56/113Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1175966114503769992007-04-07T10:12:00.000-07:002007-04-10T19:11:44.556-07:00One Screenshot Reviews:Astro Boy Omega Factor: 5/7Kennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1175752877685843152007-04-04T22:57:00.000-07:002007-04-04T23:17:09.173-07:00One Screenshot Reviews:Mr. Pants: 8/10Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1175411702794536582007-04-01T01:08:00.000-07:002007-04-04T23:15:54.933-07:00One Screenshot Reviews:Snatcher: 3/5 Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1168198151969948142007-01-07T11:22:00.000-08:002007-02-25T10:32:14.700-08:00Ami and I were had some luck on the way to Vegas and found a Wii in a Target in Eastvale. So, my desire to purchase one at no higher then retail price was fulfilled, and only a week after Christmas.The initial novelty of the control scheme has worn off a bit, but it's still a very fun system. Even the operating system has entertaining things to do. One thing that is unfortunately a bit clumsy is Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1166082666935848032006-12-13T23:44:00.000-08:002006-12-13T23:51:06.960-08:00My current favorite amazon reviewer.She's quite passionate about the prices of things. I also get a kick out of her review for Crazy Cat Lady.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1165915925595378572006-12-12T01:31:00.000-08:002006-12-13T23:55:16.456-08:00User submitted safety quotes and suggestionsSome faves:Use your head figuratively--wear a helmet.While on a ladder, never step back to admire your work.Our job is to save Sailors from themselves.Hand in, hamburger out.Crashing sucks!Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1163493331936110892006-11-14T00:10:00.000-08:002006-11-14T00:35:31.970-08:00When I own a nationwide chain of gas stations, my prices will end in 7/10ths of a cent. You may wonder why I don't just make it 8/10ths of a cent. Well, if I did that, there would be people who were upset that I didn't reduce it to 4/5ths, and if it were 4/5ths, there are people who would wonder, "Now, is that more or less than 9/10ths?".It's best go with a nice safe fraction like 7/10ths.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1163313594528664282006-11-11T22:12:00.000-08:002006-11-11T22:41:52.430-08:00Next thing you know, ancient dead sea receipts will indicate that Leviticus paid for a man to lay down with him as with a woman.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1161063159839414572006-10-16T22:29:00.000-07:002006-10-23T20:26:06.153-07:00I'm kind of ashamed to admit it, but I did get a bit nostalgic looking at Yahoo's Retrispecto-visionI remember using the Random button to find some pretty sweet stuff. Of course, the web was around 60% sweet stuff back then. I hadn't actually been to yahoo.com in a couple years at least, and the way it looks now, I thought I was at the wrong website. I wish there were a blue-text, grey backgroundKennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1160708709230255982006-10-12T19:59:00.000-07:002006-10-12T20:05:09.253-07:00Like anyone else, I'm squicked out by the fact that Dustin "Screech" Diamond now has his very own sex tape. However, "sex tape" is simply a euphimism for "porno", and the guy's name is Dustin Diamond, which is exactly the type of name one would expect to see in porn.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1158286789877620172006-09-25T19:17:00.000-07:002006-09-25T23:17:52.030-07:00Left Behind: Eternal ForcesLet me just start by saying I really wanted this to be a good game. I dig post-apocalyptic games, and the world after a biblical rapture would be a great place to set a post-apocalyptic game. If nothing else, it would be good to have an example of a religously-themed game that wasn't dreadful.LBEF is not another dreadful game based on Christianity, it is instead a Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1158523264584328632006-09-17T12:56:00.000-07:002006-09-17T13:01:04.596-07:00Yay! I found some old shorts I saw on Liquid TV over a decade ago. Sadly I couldn't find the ones I used to sample from to make World Builder games. Dang. But still, free TV:Grinning Evil DeathNietschze PopsKennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1156734233946330792006-08-27T20:01:00.000-07:002006-09-14T19:17:18.663-07:00In a perfect world...Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1156112582779663002006-08-20T15:12:00.000-07:002006-08-21T14:32:10.090-07:00I don't know what it is about Irvine, but we have encountered so much more wildlife here in our planned community than we ever did in San Jose. Not only do we have adorable bunnies infesting the college next door, and duckies in our "backyard" virtua-creek, but oddly enough there are also crayfish. I don't know excatly how crayfish came to live in a man-made pond thing with no connection to any Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1155798419524923612006-08-17T00:03:00.000-07:002006-08-17T10:15:28.640-07:00I'd bet that, were someone to actually get some snakes onto a real plane in the next few days, the air travel industry may be out of business for a decade or two.Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1154403652725312312006-07-31T20:39:00.000-07:002006-08-20T15:24:29.870-07:00Hence the Name made an appearance on one of my personal favorite sites for bizarre music, WFMU's Beware of the Blog. There's a post about the PSA collection we contributed to, Superpickle's "'Till Someone Loses an Eye". Ah, good times, good times. Finally I can feel I contributed something back to the blog that got me the Breakin' 2 sountrack. Thanks, WFMU!Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1154310414032019912006-07-30T18:44:00.000-07:002006-07-30T18:46:54.046-07:00My my, looks like E3 might be totally cancelled forever. Great! More production time is lost scrambling to have something to show at E3, or simply being at E3 than I care to think about. Now publishers can simply go back to announcing things when they're ready, rather than having a big huge overabundance of announcements in May.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1153276442648934162006-07-18T19:31:00.000-07:002006-07-18T19:34:02.660-07:00Just traded in a bunch of games and pikced up Prey. Man, when you give game developers specularity passes, they'll give you giant vaginas. Seriously, I think glistening alien sphincters and squishy meatscapes are the crates and barrels of modern FPS games.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1152859315777704612006-07-13T23:37:00.000-07:002006-07-13T23:41:55.793-07:00In Passenger 57 (Irvine's most popular rental according to Netflix (though I notice they've since removed this feature (because it clearly didn't work properly))) did they bother including a shot of Wesley Snipes' character putting hand grenades in his jacket pocket, when he later simply punched the villian out of an airlock? If he had only stuffed a live grenade in the villian's pants first, it Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1151740247710596232006-07-01T00:38:00.000-07:002006-07-05T22:44:54.756-07:00I was just trying to google some reference images for fish tanks, and I find the tale of the redneck neighbor, which chronicles a pretty severe awful neighbor story. It's made all the weirder by the fact that another neighbor decided to obsessively document every stupid thing his neighbor did on the internet, with pictures; some apparently taken from on the guy's property.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1151637047031849962006-06-29T19:50:00.000-07:002006-06-30T13:26:32.766-07:00After roughly 4 years off the wheel I recently purchased myself a btand new unicycle, the 2007 Torker LX. This is the first time I've owned a current (or future) model year vehicle. Though the LX turned out to be designed for a 6-foot tall person, but a litle hacksaw action and the seat no longer damages my balls.I took it into work and was scolded by the HR manager, but really it's easier to Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1150657651563037582006-06-18T12:03:00.000-07:002006-06-18T12:07:31.580-07:00Boy, I wish I had something exciting to write about that wasn't work-related. All the most interesting things going on in my life currently are protected under NDA.Well, Netflix seems to think that Passenger 57 is the most popular rental in Irvine. I'm guessing they still have a few bugs to work out of their system. But then, I've never seen it. Maybe there's something about that really appeals Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1150266690814605032006-06-13T23:26:00.000-07:002006-06-14T14:05:18.776-07:00This neighborhood typically proves to be pretty quiet, but just now a car sat in the parking lot with the radio blaring radio commercials. Not any music, just about a minute of commercials. I would usually chalk this up to antisocial obliviousness, but I can't help thinking it may be a new subversive marketing method.Kennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1149138327383193762006-05-31T22:02:00.000-07:002006-06-14T14:06:22.173-07:00I've kind of prevented myself from getting too jubilant about it, since I'm so used to things going awry, and partly because I thought it might be too good to be true, but after many years of working at it, tomorrow I seriously start as a game designer. Well, assistant game designer to be exact, but a type of game designer nonetheless. That's pretty freakin' sweet.Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1148358685563948082006-05-22T21:28:00.000-07:002006-05-22T21:31:25.563-07:00I'm moving to Orange County. I'm pretty excited about the new job, but I just don't think the place is going to be the same without Marisa. And that's the only "The OC" related-joke I intend to make about moving to Orange County. Although, from my previous experience with the place, I'll bet most folks there think making jokes about "The OC" are prety damn funny since, OMG, they live in the real Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1147383186193968452006-05-11T14:28:00.000-07:002006-05-18T09:11:59.773-07:00My great grandfather was a silent film actor and director. It's very difficult to get ahold of all but the most famous silent films, so I've never seen any of his work. They must be around somewhere, because there's an IMDB page about him. My own IMDB page pales in comparison, but I find it kind of weird I have one at all, since I've never worked on a movie. Plus they credited me wrong for Axis &Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1146785786319400582006-05-04T16:34:00.000-07:002006-05-04T16:36:26.330-07:00Spotted on the drive home yesterday, a be-ponytailed man driving a Subaru Brat with the license plate "YIFF". Now that's some hardcore furry pride.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1146610771144441632006-05-02T15:51:00.000-07:002006-05-02T15:59:31.156-07:00I've got to say I must be old because I frickin' love that Brain Age game. It's like WarioWare for your mind, man.Actually, the interesting thing about it for me is that it's almost perfectly tailored to all of my mental quirks. There's a brain training game about counting syllables in phrases, which is something I do all the time anyhow. Seriously, I constantly count the syllables while reading Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1145491504590108112006-04-19T16:58:00.000-07:002006-04-19T17:22:18.373-07:00According to Nintendo's newest alternative gaming offering, my Brain Age is 34. This is not too bad for a 28 year old. The goal is to get one's brain age to 20. I don't know about you, but I was kind of a dipshit when I was 20. Dr. Ryuta Kawashima (yes, the Dr. Ryuta Kawashima) is going to be stimulating my pre-frontal lobes over the next few days until my brain becomes young enough to get bored Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1144638513887154352006-04-09T19:50:00.000-07:002006-04-10T16:06:13.690-07:00Sometime in 2001, I think it was, Steve got a sloppily-typed e-mail from someone accusing HTN of being rip-offs and sucky, for which an argument could be made, I suppose. The funny thing was, apparently this gentleman was upset because we were using the name of a band he liked. Typing in hencethename.net turned up a SoCal punk band that used the same name. Of course, we'd been using the name for Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1144479435974300862006-04-07T23:48:00.000-07:002006-04-07T23:57:15.986-07:00My favoriate gargantuan vehicle used to be the NASA shuttle mobile launch platform, but now the Krupps bucket-wheel excavator is a strong contender.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1144044295939010102006-04-02T23:03:00.000-07:002006-04-02T23:04:55.953-07:00In German, it's pronounced "Koontz"Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1143531458836653062006-03-27T23:35:00.000-08:002006-05-22T21:27:31.110-07:00It's a blast searching for music videos on Youtube. My current favorite: Doctor Pressure, a mash of Mylo and Miami Sound Machine, which Mylo is going to release as a 12", since it's so sweet. Why can't more artists just give in to awesome mashups and remixes, pay some cash and sell it? It's not like anyone ever listened to the original version of Tom's Diner, but Suzanne Vega was smart enough to Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1143530896095005432006-03-27T23:20:00.000-08:002006-03-28T12:40:13.200-08:00I spent last week at the Children's Oncology Conference in Chicago, showing off our game to all the attendees. We had a pretty sweet booth with a plasma TV showing a DVD montage and a demo of the game running and everything. I'd say it was the flashiest booth there. People had a hard time believing we were giving the game away for free, especially the pharma company reps. Oh yeah, and we had an Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1142371633241903402006-03-14T13:25:00.000-08:002006-03-14T13:27:13.253-08:00It is worth noting that Accordion Hero now has a postmortem up on gamasutra.com. Nothing like an insutry site with a sense of humor.In other news, no I haven't been working very muhc on my game, but I have put some effort into music. As long as I'm setting difficult creative goals for myself, I might as well cover as much ground as possible.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1141769188095013662006-03-07T13:58:00.000-08:002006-03-07T14:06:28.110-08:00Funny thing about the new Blogger is I don't seem to be able to title entries anymore. That really doesn't bother me, since in the past I'd post up a two-sentence brain fart and then stare for minutes trying to think of a clever title that didn't really make sense out of context, but would seem hilarious once the viewer read the entry.Of course, I don't have readers any more either, so the point Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1141583790299171872006-03-05T10:27:00.000-08:002006-03-05T10:36:30.310-08:00I've been considering Guitar Hero with trepidation. It does look like a fun and original way of playing game, but on the other hand, I think I'd suck at it, and it costs $70. Accordion Hero, however, looks right up my alley, and I would totally pay $70 for it... if it actually existed. Brought to you by the developers of Cthulhu Karts.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1141366798985416722006-03-02T22:09:00.000-08:002006-03-02T22:19:59.000-08:00The "Little Pythagoras Deluxe" development process is pretty unusual.1. Sketch puzzle design during meeting at work2. Do basic proof-of-concept3. Script puzzle4. Shoehorn puzzle into plotAside from the gameplay development prcoess described above, there is the "polish" phase, which falls is scheduled to the time between working on puzzles.1. Become frustrated with trying to script something2. Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1141341578655145502006-03-02T15:16:00.000-08:002006-03-02T15:19:44.696-08:00Oh man, why has no one thought of this before: Steampunk Transformers. If this comic book makes the transition into toys (and those sketches look pretty darn close to toys already), I would totally shell out mad cash for that ironclad Shockwave.I wonder how many tons of coal it takes to make one energon cube?Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1141244131837409902006-03-01T12:15:00.000-08:002006-03-01T12:15:31.850-08:00Up until about 5 minutes ago, I was under the impression that "Snakes on a Plane" was not actually a real movie. I stand corrected.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1140995278706415322006-02-26T14:42:00.000-08:002006-02-26T15:07:58.723-08:00So, "Little Pythagoras Deluxe" (I'm pretty sure that the title will change at some point), has changed significantly from my first thoughts of merely recreating the old World Builder title. Though I'll definitely be lifting a lot of older puzzles and content, I'm trying to add in some actual plot elements and move the emphasis away from mathematics towards more logic-based puzzles, primarily Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1140914593051079472006-02-25T16:40:00.000-08:002006-02-25T16:43:13.066-08:00Since I'm trying to make sure I maintain a good pace of work on my RPG Maker game, perhaps a good use of this space would be to document my progress.Today I am creating new states for the default cat charset, so that cats in the game can have more actions than simply move-around/stand-still. The other animals in the gmae so far all have improved animation, butterflies stop and rest on the groud, Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1140729207452499752006-02-23T13:04:00.000-08:002006-02-23T13:13:27.463-08:00Well, it turns out that after all this time, the blog I had quite posting in over two years previous still remains on blogger. Though Durhey.com is no more, and all the moveabletype posts I had written in the interim are lost and gone forever, these old ones from 1moredork remain. If that's not a demonstration of blogger's robustitude, I don't know what would be.So, a quick re-naming, change of Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1140036563549137432006-02-15T12:48:00.000-08:002006-02-15T12:49:23.563-08:00Uhhhh... guuuhhhgghhh... I can.... I can do this.....ssseeerrrrrriousssssleeeeeeeeee...Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1132727354236586342005-11-22T22:28:00.000-08:002005-11-22T22:29:14.236-08:00..............................................................................................#.......##.............://...................................Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1063046346171475482003-09-08T11:39:00.000-07:002003-09-08T11:39:06.100-07:00Spot the typo!
This is an easy one. I'm really just seeing if the new servers for HTN.com are working okay.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1062704378458562182003-09-04T12:39:00.000-07:002003-09-04T12:39:38.450-07:00Now, I know this might make some people angry, and I may be called a "traitor", or a "conformist", but I have made the switch.
I recently became the owner of a Dell Dimension.
I have been a Mac person for all of my previous computing life. The only expection was waaaay back in grammar school when I used wither an Apple IIe or Vic 20. Oddly enough, Victor doesn't seem to be be making computersKennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1062645576578783982003-09-03T20:19:00.000-07:002003-09-03T20:19:36.560-07:00I had a work-week that was more than twice as long as a normal work week, then a weekend which was only 50% longer than a normal weekend. Maybe I'll be back to normal soon.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1062103492633633132003-08-28T13:44:00.000-07:002003-08-28T14:06:40.280-07:00As you are probably already aware, a woman in Nigeria is appealing her death sentence, which was given due to her having committed the heinous crime of adultery (Okay, it's not even actually adultery since she wasn't married to anybody at the time, but that's beside the point). I don't think I really need to point out how inhumanly sadistic Sharia law is, but there is another story in the news Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1062094834335827512003-08-28T11:20:00.000-07:002003-08-28T11:20:34.330-07:00Man, I really hate it when I see a person driving all crazy-like, and they've got their kid in the car. Normally, when I see a person all crazy-like, I like to fantasize about them driving onto the shoulder without signaling to overtake someone who's already going over the speed limit, and then hitting a patch of oil and spinning into a culvert, rolling over twice, and lying in a crumpled heap, Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1061879561050534962003-08-25T23:32:00.000-07:002003-08-25T23:32:40.976-07:00You know, it's kind of cool when they mix creepy and cute on the tank tops with the comic books and the Roman Dirge, but it's just confusing when it happens in real life. Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1061834410766300462003-08-25T11:00:00.000-07:002003-08-25T11:00:10.783-07:00Hummer fan club members showed up at the dealership to show their support for their massive playschool toy cars (you can also play Spot-The-Typo with that story). I'm surprised the fan club members are still so enthused with their cars. After all, if I spent $50,000+ on a military-themed Sports Utility Vehicle, I would expect it should be able to take a little molotov cocktail. The original Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1061680022168337802003-08-23T16:07:00.000-07:002003-08-23T16:08:06.876-07:00I'm sure that by now you're aware of GOP Team Leader's "Astroturf" campaign, in which they encourage their minions to copy a pre-written letter, sign their name to it, and then mail it in to their local newspaper, as though anyone who genuinely believed that George Bush was doing a good job could write a complete sentence. Their latest hoax is all about how much better our schools are doing Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1061500509258387512003-08-21T14:15:00.000-07:002003-08-21T14:15:09.250-07:00I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but "Wicked Screensaver" would be a great name for a band.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1061500311063061002003-08-21T14:11:00.000-07:002003-08-21T14:11:51.063-07:00Today I was working on narrowing down a bug in a First Person Shooter and managed to make a clone of myself which lacked collision. I was able to step inside the cloned version of myself and look out through its body. Then I looked down and saw something I had never before experienced in an FPS game: my feet.
In early, fixed perspective FPS games, like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, the only portion Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1061488782105384162003-08-21T10:59:00.000-07:002003-08-21T10:59:41.913-07:00I've got to say, the new "Sobig" virus really cheers me up in the morning. See, I get to work and look at my inbox, and I'm like "Fuck, I have to deal with 67 e-mails today?" and then I see that about half aof them are about "Re: That movie" or something like that, and I can just delete them! Actually, now that I think about it, maybe I could just delete them all and say to anyone who asks me, "Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1061343136403908102003-08-19T18:32:00.000-07:002003-08-19T18:32:16.336-07:00The Gender Genie is bunk, I'm afraid. The algorithm, which can ostensibly determine the gender of an author simply by examining the text entered generated some very disappointing results when the following phrases were entered:
"I am a woman." - Male
"My nuts itch." - Female
"My visit to the gynecologist was very enlightening." - Male
"My two ovaries produce eggs, which are used to produce the Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1061341343195912182003-08-19T18:02:00.000-07:002003-08-19T18:02:23.213-07:00Secret Codes and Tricks: Work Bathroom
To flush the middle stall, manipulate the flush handle in the following manner:
1. Quickly press and release
2. Press, hold for 3 seconds, then release
3. Quickly press and release
The contents of the toilet should then flush all the way down.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1061341208667769562003-08-19T18:00:00.000-07:002003-08-19T18:00:08.663-07:00Great-Great-GrandmilfKennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1061331776938718032003-08-19T15:22:00.000-07:002003-08-19T18:00:50.263-07:00I was thinking of writing about how blatant the irony is that Bill O'Reilly's whining about how Al Franken is such a jerk for making baseless attacks upon him and his upstanding employers, but that would be too easy.
I did notice the following phrase in O'Reilly's column, though: "The dominance of Fox in the cable news world has shattered the stranglehold the left had on TV news for decades, Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1061238011545841692003-08-18T13:20:00.000-07:002003-08-18T13:20:11.566-07:00So not only did we get free food and booze at the dealership on Thursday, but free food at a reception at the Santa Cruz MAH on Friday night, and then free food and booze at the San Jose Museum of Art's surf culture art opening on Saturday.
The surf culture show at the SJMa is pretty dope. It seems like it would be more appropriate for Santa Cruz, but the exhibit is way too big for the SCMAH's Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1060981364022241192003-08-15T14:02:00.000-07:002003-08-15T15:34:05.886-07:00Yesterday, Ami took me to the opening of a new Mercedes dealership in San Jose.
I have never otherwise set foot into a Mercedes dealership, not being a millionaire and all. Man, this place was swank though, it had two floors, and there were dozens of these little offices with the dealers' names embossed on the glass doorways. There were various earth-toned vases and reed baskets stuck on Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1060908799818886542003-08-14T17:53:00.000-07:002003-08-14T17:57:49.403-07:00Officials are saying that the massive power blackout in the North-East is not terror-related, but rather may be due to lightning striking a Niagara power plant. It's obvious that Al-Qaeda now has obtained the ion correlator necessary to complete the Weather Dominator. Let us pray.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1060906539644634492003-08-14T17:15:00.000-07:002003-08-14T17:20:09.716-07:00I have to admit that it was the casting of Samuel L Jackson, Michelle Rodriguez, and LL Cool J which mostly led me into the theatre to see a matinee of S.W.A.T., but I had passed a tolerable hour and a half while in there.
Miss Rodriguez gave her typical "whatchoo lookin' at? you wanna get yer ass kicked by a girl?" sneering performace, which she does so well (I can't wait to see her star in Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1060727126503137942003-08-12T15:25:00.000-07:002003-08-12T15:25:27.266-07:00If you are a Kung-Fu movie enthusiast, you've no doubt encountered films based upon the legends of Wong Fei Hung several times, either as a stoic healer/martial arts master in the masterpiece Once Upon a Time in China series, or as a younger rebel/martial arts master in the amazing Drunken Master series (Wong Fei Hungover?), or perhaps as a precocious kid/martial arts master in Iron Monkey. Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1060632308829386022003-08-11T13:05:00.000-07:002003-08-11T13:10:57.280-07:00Unwritten screenplays:
Split Fighter - Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in this story of heroism, dedication, and revenge. When he hears of his brother's tragic demise in a brutal Swedish split fighting tournament, JCVD breaks his parole to travel to Sweden, where he is introduced to his uncle, a wizened old split-fighting trainer. At first, his uncle is reluctant to train him, after what happened toKennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1060557054832898292003-08-10T16:10:00.000-07:002003-08-10T16:10:54.803-07:00I was a little taken aback when I noticed that today's dictionary.com word of the day was "cum", until I remembered that it was latin for "with". Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1060126922489844722003-08-05T16:42:00.000-07:002003-08-05T16:42:02.380-07:00Dork humor - Previews of upcoming sequels:
Harmonix is wrapping up their third rhythm/music game. Hot on the tail of their previous hits Frequency and Amplitude come Duration, which features an even more eclectic collection of music, with hits from such artists as Garth Brooks, Lawrence Welk and Phillip Glass.
A new Castlevania is being planned, this one has the working title so far of Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1060048278485709722003-08-04T18:51:00.000-07:002003-08-04T18:57:29.193-07:00Ami and I are progressing nicely on the road to Van Dammenation. We've seen a dozen of his films so far. So far, here is comprehensive list of whether or not he does the splits in the films we've seen:
1985 NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER - Yes
1987 BLOODSPORT - Yes
1988 CYBORG - No
1989 KICKBOXER -Yes
1990 DEATH WARRANT - No
1991 LIONHEART - No
1991 DOUBLE IMPACT - Yes
1992 UNIVERSAL SOLDIER - No
Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1059775753604751692003-08-01T15:09:00.000-07:002003-08-01T15:09:13.580-07:00Two recent developments in the gaming industry have given me new hope for accountability in video game creation.
First of all, Eidos has transferred development of future Tomb Raider games from Core Design, who delivered the last installment of the series in an apparently extremely buggy and crappy state, to US-based Crystal Dynamics, who make the decent Legacy of Kain series of games. You'd Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1059755696108128342003-08-01T09:34:00.000-07:002003-08-01T09:34:56.060-07:00Apparently some drunken fuckwad driving on a suspended license ran into Bruce Campbell's car. Usually it seems like the drunk person is always the one who leaves the accident unhurt while his victims lie mangled or dead, but fortunately in this case, Bruce only had minor injuries while the drunken fuck is in the hospital with critical head injuries. Good. Although it would have been supremely Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1059690813584521212003-07-31T15:33:00.000-07:002003-07-31T15:34:25.683-07:00Ugh, I'm feeling pretty ill today, but I thought I should mention just how rad CA Extreme was.
CA Extreme was very rad.
Memorable things include:
Playing Dand Dance Revolution with Ami, and actually getting pretty good at the 2 feet (out of 10 feet) difficulty level, after having only played it a dozen times or so, then having my DDR aspirations crushed by watching Ernie glide across both padsKennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1059519598384414472003-07-29T15:59:00.000-07:002003-07-29T16:02:04.853-07:00Now any FPS enthusiast can earn money for playing games all day, just like me! Except, unlike me, you have to be good at them. Youplaygames.com allows folks playing Return to Castle Wolfenstien to bet actual cizzash on their in-game performance
This site seems likea great idea to me. Now people can finally put their money where their mouth is. It'sa shame I've been out of the online FPS loop Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1059496972749151642003-07-29T09:42:00.000-07:002003-07-29T09:42:52.620-07:00I've been wondering about this one for a while, since I saw it mentioned in an old Fangoria, according to 8bit, the trailer is now online. I can't view it, because I'm at work, but maybe you can, and with a name like this, you can't possibly go wrong:
Bruce Campbell in Bubba Ho-TepKennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1059448470059721252003-07-28T20:14:00.000-07:002003-07-28T20:14:30.026-07:00I haven't heard their music, and their web site design is pretty unfriendly, but you just can't beat a badn name like Birdie Num Num.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1059442861526569312003-07-28T18:41:00.000-07:002003-07-28T18:41:01.370-07:00Ugh, Sprite Tropical Remix tastes like carbonated Rainbow Brite urine. "Tropical flavors" indeed, like maybe tree frog juice.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1059438185108111922003-07-28T17:23:00.000-07:002003-07-28T17:23:05.026-07:00I'm sure by now that you've heard about Bob Hope's death (but what were his last words?? They must have been pretty funny.), but did you know that Jane Barbe also passed away recently? You may not know the name, but you are almost certianly familiar with her work. She was the "I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service" lady. I always wondered who she was; now I know. Oddly Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1059177857356522742003-07-25T17:04:00.000-07:002003-07-25T23:34:04.973-07:00Death of the Arcade Part 4 - So What to Do?
As arcades become more and more corporate-owned and homogenized, it becomes clear that the arcade culture of the past will soon have faded entirely and probably will not be back. Fortunately, there are some options available to those of us who wish to relive the halcyon days of youth drooling in front of coin-op cabinets.
Emulation - Naturally, the Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1059077894941424852003-07-24T13:18:00.000-07:002003-07-24T14:08:19.543-07:00Bad Boys II - The Fall of Rollins
Well, I admit I went to see the car chases, which I understood as being pretty over-the-top, and they were, in terms of ridiculous numbers of cars destroyed. The whole cars-falling-off-the-back-of-a-big-rig thing was a intriguing chase element, but the chases were still pretty poorly blocked. It's the same complaint I've got with most western action films, Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1059003862334650732003-07-23T16:44:00.000-07:002003-07-24T12:53:20.403-07:00Today's main story in Salon, Air Osama (gotta watch an ad for a day pass), is about the potential for terrorists to train themselves on flight simulators to fly planes into buildings. As cute as it is when uninformed non-gaming journalists try to write about electronic entertainment, this one is really pretty ignorant.
Although a flight simulator can certainly educate the player as to where allKennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1058925560312323322003-07-22T18:59:00.000-07:002003-07-22T19:05:31.343-07:00There are few things more amusing than observing people on message boards argue fiercely and endlessly over subjective matters. My current favorite is the battle between those who hate Manos: The Hands of Fate and those who hate From Justin to Kelly in the battle to determine who will sit at the bottom of imdb's bottom 100 films of all time. People are encouraging each other to vote a "10" on theKennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1058906474680048582003-07-22T13:41:00.000-07:002003-07-22T13:41:15.023-07:00On Friday, some friends and I went to see Tiffany perform live at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Yes, that Tiffany.
She wasn't all that great, doing mostly derivative female-artist rock or covers, but a good time was had.
Now we can honestly say, "I saw Tiffany perform live in concert".
That's the reason I went.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1058906093634470412003-07-22T13:34:00.000-07:002003-07-22T13:34:53.576-07:00My love may be tainted, but my hatred is pure.Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1058904586097812042003-07-22T13:09:00.000-07:002003-07-22T13:09:46.043-07:00Learning to play the didgeridoo is tough. The most difficult parts are circular breathing, wherein you manage to contort your diaphragm so that one lung is inhaling, while the other is exhaling (harder than it sounds), and getting over the fact that you are essentially just making fart noises into a big tube. Slobber factors heavily as well.
In place of working hard to master the traditional Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1058828378913289572003-07-21T15:59:00.000-07:002003-07-21T15:59:38.870-07:00The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (or, as the drive-in marquee put it, "League of LXG") - Not nearly as disturbing or violent or engaging as the remarkable comic-book series. Pretty much the only thing it has in common with the source material was the names of the characters and their professions, but since the comic book took liberties with the original literary characters anyhow, that's Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737087.post-1058822621096934862003-07-21T14:23:00.000-07:002003-07-21T14:23:41.070-07:00In-joke: Lobster BearKennoreply@blogger.com0