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In honor of the the Oscars (hilarious)
Sean gets credit for finding this one. Watch in HD fullscreen for the full effect! Note the particular attention to detail; the cinematography is great!
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Music translated to ASL. It’s worth your time.
Stephen Torrence has done a great service by recording and sharing a number of his translations of songs that catch his attention into American Sign Language (ASL). HowStuffWorks.com interviewed Stephen to get some insight into the process he goes through in writing his translations and the details may surprise you. The effort he puts into [...]
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Renaissance Fest Ho!
A staple in every nerd’s diet, I’m off to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. I’ll bring you back a turkey leg and a flagon of mead! Update This pic summarizes my festival experience:
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Happy Father’s Day!
Being a dad can be taxing, but I’d definitely do it again (commit to being a dad, that is). This one goes out to my beautiful wife and daughter, thanks for making the journey an interesting one! Also to all the other dads out there… enjoy your day and make the most of it!
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How Adam Savage Made My Day
Having over 24,000 followers on twitter at the time of this writing, Adam Savage (of MythBusters fame) is no stranger to the venerable “@” tweet. Having been directed (by his Twitter feed) to his outstanding TED talk, I became immediately curious as to how he managed his “Creative Projects” repository of images, having recently begun [...]
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Proof of Concept: The Economic Server Build
Last weekend I had just received all the parts to complete what I felt was a pretty exiting build. With the primary goal of low power consumption and secondary goal of fits-in-my-house, I chose MSI’s new “Nettop” barebone: MSI Wind Nettop 100 Intel Atom 330 (Dual-core with Hyperthreading!) Small Form Factor (11.8″ x 9.5″ x [...]
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Live Writer to hijack all attempts at making excuses for not writing a blog post…
One of my biggest hurdles to sitting down and writing a good healthy blog post is, simply put, WordPress’ rather cumbersome writing interface. While I’m usually a huge proponent of open-sauce software first, I think Microsoft may be onto something with it’s Live Writer software. I’ve been using Outlook/Express and, recently its successor, Live Mail [...]
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Derek’s 2008 Build
Modest Build: Processor: Intel E8400 @ 3.01 GHz Video: ASUS 9800GT Ultimate (OC to 725 MHz core) RAM: Corsair XMS 2×1GB (CAS latency 4) Storage: Seagate 250GB SATA Here are the 3DMark06 Scores: SMS2.0 – 6301 CPU – 2838 SMS3.0 – 6239 Return to Proxycon – 52.41 fps Firefly Forest – 52.6 fps CPU1 - [...]
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LEDs are Freaking Cool
Call it a mild obsession if you will, but I think LED’s are quite wicked-cool. For example, posted above is our new TIX clock which we picked up from ThinkGeek.com. No, it’s not binary, but it’s not the most simple of things to read either… the lights randomly shift their orientation, so it can be [...]
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Neatx: Remote Desktop for Linux