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With my new job underway I have some free time that I am plugging with two old hobbies: writing a finance app in Python and playing video games. More on the former later; more on the latter now.
tags: FINally · video games
This just in (sort of) – there’s a new StackOverflow site for gaming: Gaming – Stack Exchange!
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During this trip we had the misfortune of having some free-time align perfectly with the showtime for Sex & The City 2, which we saw, and which everyone in the group hated. The two-plus hour run time allowed for plenty of private thoughts such as: Is Kim Cattrall intentionally tanking her lines? Could this movie be any more offensive to Muslim peoples? Is Paul falling asleep or having an aneurysm? Why am I not watching Predators, Splice, Avatar: The Last Airbender, etc… any of those must be better than this drivel!
What the hell is Mastodon ftw! doing with 109 views in 14 days? Given that I am not a Mastodon fan-site and most of my friends and acquaintances don’t really care for Mastodon’s brand of prog-metal, this makes virtually no sense. It would make sense if I wrote a post called “Smushed-face cats and hand-drawn [...]
haHA! You thought I had fallen off the wagon and started ignoring my Daily Tool responsibilities when I was, in fact, just busy playing Bayonetta and Assassins’s Creed 2 and slowly drawing this beast…
tags: tool of the day
“We drinking Santana champ ’cause it’s so crisp… I got my swim trunks, and my flippie-floppies… I’m flipping burgers, you at Kinko’s Straight flipping copies.”
tags: law school
I have been slacking off lately, taking a break to do things like “read books” and “go shopping for 6 hours,” but now I’m back. I am going to redouble my efforts to do a tool drawing every one to two days – depending on the tool complexity. I used the facetious quotes above because I’m so fond of them – but I actually am reading a new book, and I also actually spent six hours at Sommerset in Troy last Saturday looking for THE PERFECT DRESS. FOR MY WIFE. NOT FOR ME. SRSLY.
tags: tool of the day
This drawing will be the fifteenth in my technically cartooned tools series – which means I am exactly one-half of the way done with my original 30-tool goal. To try and be a little more active reading other people’s blogs I’ve been wandering the blogosphere and I’ve noticed that more and more people I know are working on a daily/weekly/monthly creation project. My wife and several of my Facebook friends are participating in weekly self-portraits on Flickr and Facebook. I’m a proponent of these challenges because they help us be a little more structured with our creative endeavors. Trying to meet a quota can be a strong motivational force, and if you’re lucky enough to have people observing your art it becomes even stronger.
tags: tool of the day
I was talking to a co-worker about a game we both recently played – Dragon Age: Origins – and he mentioned a character specialization called a Reaver, which I had no idea existed. Apparently Reavers are Lich King/Revenant/Nazgul types, which puts them right up my video game alley. I’m so irked to have missed this specialization that I’m considering playing the whole 80+ hour game again just to get in a few hours as a Reaver. In any case, the discussion reminded me of how much I like customizing weapons in video games; and it inspired this creation…
tags: tool of the day
I apologize for the ultra l337 post title. I’m a giant nerd.
Here’s the deal with my wife’s old computer: it’s actually a Shuttle I built three years ago when I lived in Iowa. I wanted it to play Vampire Bloodlines: Masquerade and it was basically underpowered as soon as I built it. The smallish power supply and MicroATX motherboard that the case mandated were not good choices.
