June 2007 Entries
In the words of Robert Heinlein, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." I'm pretty sure this is true on a fundamental level. Unfortunately, too many people never bother trying to figure out what something will actually cost before supporting or endorsing it. An Example One such instance is a new movement here in Utah called Zero Fatalities. They're running radio ads here and my blood pressure rises every time one comes on. This is from their front page: Even though there are more people living in Utah and people are driving more, fewer people are...
Technorati tags: Nerd, Quiz
This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: suck (3x) crappy (1x) Apparently I need to cuss more often if I want to pull that rating up. Technorati tags: Rating, G
So this is why I'm so darn smart. There's still no scientific word on why I'm so charming. Technorati tags: Smart, Study
For those of you who are tired of City of Heroes posts and who haven't been tracking my technical blog, a bunch of posts there lately have been more thoughtful than technical. You might want to check them out. Is Microsoft Evil? Undercutting Your Own Argument On Being a Microsoft Shill Don't those titles alone make you want to check them out? Technorati tags: Technical, Microsoft
My last couple of posts have been pretty City of Heroes centric and I'm afraid that this one isn't going to be any different. I'm going to pick on some poor schmuck this time, though, so at least I'm trying to give you some variety.
The group I usually play with are all semi-casual players. We do have a Ventrilo voice chat server and we all have microphones, so we're well setup relatively speaking. We typically have a full team (8 people) on Tuesday nights (our regular night), but we also have a minor team going on other nights of...
This is simple tip for City of Heroes. This one is pretty trivial and more in lines of "stuff I think about that nobody else would." In City of Heroes, your mission map can do more than just tell you where you've been. The way things are set up, it can also tell you how much further you have to go and in what general direction. This is most useful on those map types that don't have elevators (caves and warehouses etc.). Those missions with elevators breaking the map up only really give away information for the current "floor". The key...
One of the problems with City of Heroes is that there is so much utility hidden from casual use. I understand about keeping the defaults simple to avoid confusing players, but sometimes they make it harder than it should be to find that you could have so much more. The best example of this is the team list. Here's what the team list looks like by default. Note the little blue arrow on the right side (I circled it just to make it obvious). That sucker is easy to miss and it's a shame if you do. Here's what it...
I've noticed that most people don't tend to use their inspirations much in City of Heroes. That's too bad, really, because those boosts, while temporary, are quite handy. I've developed a technique that I use with my inspirations that makes this much less of a problem. It's simple, really, I just make sure that I leave one slot open at all times. Yeah, I'll keep a couple of the "good ones" in stock because when you need them, you really need them. If you fill up all your slots, though, the end effect is that you don't really use...
I knew as soon as I saw the headline of this article what I would find. Sure enough, Orrin Hatch, Utah's leading disgrace, is the third highest taker of RIAA direct cash donations. I've watched this develop because I noticed Hatch's evolution from someone with reasonable suggestions from both sides of the debate in July of 2000, including this: a complete lack of licensing puts in question the labels’ professed desire to be ubiquitous, and a policy of merely cross-licensing among major label-related entities might raise some competition concerns that this committee would have a duty to consider....
If you ever enroll your daughter in a private school that grew out of the local Jewish Community Center and her fifth grade class decides to have a campout and you join them... it's probably best not to plan bacon as the foundation of your breakfasts...