Tic-Tac-Toe

Paul and I are in the process of game creation. Our plan is to start small and work our way to bigger and better games.

So our first collaborative work is Tic-Tac-Toe. You can't start much smaller than that. It's finished, and now we plan working on a Tetris clone.

Google Street View: Coming to a street near you

I was talking with one of my co-workers during a break, and he revealed that Utica, KS had been Googlized! So I wondered what other places of Kansas they drove through. As it turns out, it was a bunch.
They hit Tribune (and some highway), Macksville (who is this guy?), and plenty of other western Kansas towns got hit too. An obvious one they missed: Hays! I'm sure Google will not stop until they've managed to index every town, and then move on to our very own brains. It'll be great, I can't wait.

Mario Kart!!!!!!!!!!

Do you guys remember playing Mario Kart all the time? I sure do, and I found this song on youtube that brings me back to the good ol' days.



Enjoy

Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime

It is Christmas season, and you know what that means: Instead of radio stations playing standard rotations of 5 pop songs on repeat, they play their rotations of 5 Christmas songs on repeat. YEAH!

So instead, why not listen to a catchy Christmas song set in the future? (Don't worry, you don't need to buy it, Jon offers the song for free. I'm sure he'd be happy with more money though)

If you would like visuals with it, I'm sure some YouTube goods will help out.

Paul! What's the deal with your alternate life?

Hey Paul, I just watched this video on YouTube, and you've got some explaining to do. I was just wondering when you decided to move to "Chicagoland, Illinois?" Also, when did you gain all that weight and change your vocals? I noticed that you still like to wear red hats at least.

Whew.... Gald I check this place once in a blue moon

Not much happen here in the blog world. It must be way too exciting out there. Me I'd rather be...

One Night, Three Targets.

It was a September night and needed some sauce. Not just any sauce we needed Tikka Masala. They reason we wanted the sauce was friend was over and wanted some because they could not get it where they lived. So the word was you could get it at Target. We go to a Target close to the house find where the sauce should be and no sauce. We ask the a target employee, which was very nice and told us how to find it other stores in town have the sauce. A quick check with the service desk and we find one Target close by has one jar and one Target across town has 12. We call the close Target to check and according to them they have one jar. I make the call and we go to the close one. We get there and no sauce. No space for the sauce on the shelves. We ask an employee and he has no idea. 20 minutes later and across town we hit the jackpot. 12 jars of Tikka Masala. We take 6 and go. Funny thing is I still don't know if it is any good. Guess I will have to cook some chicken :).

Famous People Punching Steve

If you want to make it big on the Internet with photography, you have to have a theme. I guess. Anyway, this guy is no photographer, and the lighting and framing are all wrong, but the shots are still striking nonetheless. Go to Famous People Punching Steve, and I'll guarantee that "You'll laugh 'til you stop laughing!*" (tm)

*Assuming that you started laughing.

The Luke Arm

The Luke Arm is an advanced prosthetic device that is, um, head and shoulders above the rest. You can watch videos about it at medgadget. I only watched part 2, but it provided a nifty and simplified version of how it works. People, listen: This thing can pick up grapes! There was another guy, who had no arms but two Luke arms, and was able to disassemble and reassemble a gun, and then fire it. All of this with minimal training too!

It may be a long video (almost 15 minutes) but there are some really neat things going on.

Firefox tweaks I can use

Personally, I use tips 9 and 10 from this guy's list of 28 Coolest Firefox About:Config Tricks.

Trick 9 is about how to handle JavaScript pop-ups, which differs ever so slightly from the normal method of pop-ups, I guess. Whatever. Ever since Firefox got the ability to open the list of tabs that were in the previous session, I was always a little ticked when I found out there was yet another Firefox window open that had an advertisement in it. Well, no more, Paco!

Trick 10 is useful for me because it enables spell check in all fields, not just the multi-line ones, and I am a horrible speller.

Take this mac

http://www.slate.com/id/2198535/?gt1=38001

Weee

FHSU has an awesome debate coach. Kind of wish I knew the guy.

Payless vs. American Eagle

A few years ago, the accounting club went on a field trip to Payless Shoes and they were talking about how Payless owned the trademark for American Eagle shoes. They were getting ready to start marketing shoes with that brand name, and I thought, wow that sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Well, it took a few years, but here it is. Maybe I should quit my day job and become a psychic. I'm going to need my visions to come true faster, though.

While I am at it ...

Have you ever noticed that places seems bigger when you were smaller. Well I few summers back the family took a trip to the one room school I went too as a grade schooler. While I as there I took the chance to do something I could of never done back then, grab the rim. Note the rim is now bent down so had it not been for that I might of still not been able to grab it. Anyway, I did get it, but I had not planned it out so well as you might see.

Paul's Sidewalk View

So I was looking over some of the videos I have taken with my camera and found one I thought I could post about. It is nothing great. Just my attempt of recording a video while riding a bike. I am calling it "sidewalk view", because it is like Google's street view on a bike. This made me think I should get an eight way camera and do just that. Except I don't want to be sued.

Anyway here is 22Mb of junk to let Google backup forever.

P.S. I also found FHSU has a youtube channel thing, seems like a lot of tablet propaganda.

McCracken Rodeo 2008

Free Army Advertisement Music

There's a great series of TV ads that the Army shows. What makes them great for me is the inspiring symphonic goodness playing as the action goes on.

It turns out the song is called "Army Strong" and it is freely available for downloading at the United States Army Bands MySpace page if you have an account set up with MySpace. If you don't want the hassle of that, you can also download the mp4 at the U.S. Army Field Bands Listening Room. But don't let them con you into getting QuickTime just so you can play the song. (It is official: QuickTime is now higher up on my devil list than MySpace). Just use VLC and don't regret a thing, since it already comes with all the codecs it needs.


On a side note, you might wonder why QuickTime is ranked higher on the "things-I-hate" list. It is simple. If I need a MySpace account, I can use a throwaway email address to get what I need and am then done. QuickTime, on the otherhand, would have to be installed on my machine, and I've had it up to HERE [raises hand to neck level] with it asking me to buy QuickTime Pro.

Classics Corner #16: Speech Recognition

I was searching around the blog and I happened to rediscover Paul's entry on his test of Window XP's speech recognition. It's even funnier if you read it out loud, as if you are trying to use the software yourself. Personally I found it among the most hilarious of our entries, and so far it's comedy has stood the test of time (of two years).

It's harvest time!

Water in a hurry.

A lot of water.