In what I hope will be another regular installment, I present Mix Tape, a collection of songs with one unifying theme, slapped together for your pleasure. After milling over the most legal (read: least liability for me) way possible to do this I settled upon using Seeqpod.com to host/stream the mixes. Seeqpod is a frequented site of mine but it’s questionable how much longer these guys will be around (RIAA, lawsuits, yadda yadda yadda), so I figure I might as well take advantage of it while it lasts.

At any rate, the following is a compilation of songs from yesteryears, simpler times when MySpace and Paris Hilton didn’t exist yet and you could still get a gallon of gas without having to pay an arm and a leg (and feel guilty about killing some poor penguins at the same time). Grab an Ecto-cooler, sit back, and enjoy the sounds of 1990s alternative radio, as it was meant to be remembered (on computers!).

Nevermind the 90s

SIDE A

• Track #1 Beastie Boys – Sure Shot
• Track #2 The Smashing Pumpkins – Zero
• Track #3 Butthole Surfers – Pepper
• Track #4 Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
• Track #5 Faith No More – Epic
• Track #6 Primus – My Name is Mud
• Track #7 Beck – Where It’s At
• Track #8 Cake – Going the Distance
• Track #9 Radiohead – Paranoid Android
• Track #10 Jamiroquai – Virtual Insanity

SIDE B

• Track #11 Weezer – Buddy Holly
• Track #12 Collective Soul – December
• Track #13 Nine Inch Nails – The Perfect Drug
• Track #14 Prodigy – Breathe
• Track #15 Red Hot Chili Peppers – Rollercoaster of Love
• Track #16 Foo Fighters – My Hero
• Track #17 Nada Surf – Popular
• Track #18 Bush – Swallowed
• Track #19 Blur – Song 2
• Track #20 Oasis – Don’t Go Away

Nedroid is one of those rare comics on the internet that readers can appreciate for both its sense of humor and appealingly unique style. Strips are non-sequitur, usually involving karate or robots (sometimes bacon), but many sequences tend to follow the deadly duo of Reginald, a little birdy guy, and Beartato, a little furry guy. Other work by Nedroid includes the response to a challenge posed by a reader to draw 200 bad comics, and a slew of short series, prints, sketches, and other b-sides in the archive, plenty of material to pore over.

Nedroid

Praise the lawd for StumbleUpon. Besides being an excellent way to waste my time most every day it has also introduced me to some really great websites. I tell you about one of them now, I do.

inspiredology.com is the graphic design blog of Chad Mueller, a designer himself who posts lists of his favorite media designs, cd covers, photo heavy websites, and concert posters so far, for others to take in and appreciate. I’ve only had time to glance through the concert posters but I’ve been impressed by a lot of the content already and will be anxious to catch more updates as the site grows (the page is only a month or so old, mind you).

125 Concert Posters | inspiredology.com

Quoted from !WBTG!:

This game is very hard. You could find that getting past the very first few screens is taking you the better part of an hour, or more. Do not be deterred. It’s supposed to be unfair. Realize this before all else; any and all situations can kill without warning. Take nothing for granted. If it appears safe; you can be nearly certain that it is a trap. Understand that you can only get hit once before you die in a particularly gruesome manner. Be careful!

If you find yourself becoming sloppy calm down, take a deep breathe, and either continue on or stop playing for awhile. You may just be worn out. Often times you’ll find nearly impossible situations are a lot easier when you’ve had a night’s sleep.

In the end, you can at least take heart that save points can be frequently encountered. It is just about the only solace you shall have on your quest to become The Guy.

Frustrating doesn’t even begin to describe the difficulty level of this game. Stitched together from pieces of old 8-bit platform games, ‘I Wanna Be the Guy’ mischievously takes the most challenging parts of every boss you ever battled on the SNES and strings them back to back. Major props on the Megaman intro.

boingboing.net

10pm on the East Coast, 7pm on the West look out your window tonight, weather permitting, to catch a glimpse of the moon going behind the Earth for an hour or so. This will be the last lunar eclipse until December 20, 2010.

CNN

What I’m assuming is a side project of Design Shed’s founder Troy Paiva, the Lost America series is a beautifully retro slice of desolate and abandoned pieces of America’s past. The past in this case is otherwise defined as the time from the 1950s-mid 1970s when everyone drove a Cadillac and people wore hats to work.

North Shore Marina, Salton Sea. All, the letters are gone now. That white crust on the ground? Dead fish. Millions of dead fish. Night, 160T film, 100% full moon / star light, 8 minutes, f5.6.

Inside one of the out buildings at the ghost town Lockhart, CA. Night, full moon, totally dark room, LED flashlight. Canon 20D.

The stars spiral overhead at the massive abandoned mine complex in Grantsville, Nevada. Night, full moon, 6 minutes, f5.6, 100VS film. Available light only.

Lost America: Ghost Towns

Yup, getting up to date with some new looks here. I will be adding more to the sidebar and the header in the next day or two (hopefully I can also get my other pages working too). After that I plan to get my comment form functioning properly, maybe add a theme switcher or two, and then rock out on some posts (also hopefully). I’m anxious to get my portfolio up here. Still searching for the proper plugins to display the content though. It needs to integrate with WordPress well and shouldn’t a cheap-feeling piece of Flash crap.

Plans also include adding a projects section and a photostream galler, just to name a few. I should also test an image or two while I’m at it.

(well maybe just one for now)

Areas where I have achieved:

1. Ethernet is working
2. Sound works
3. X server is working (kind of)
4. Bluetooth support
5. Hibernation/Sleep mode working

Areas where I have yet to achieve:

1. Wireless internet
2. Printing support
3. Infrared support
4. Audio recording and JACK
5. LAMP server
6. Get X working with DRI
7. Read network and use SMB shares

It’s hard being an achiever

Well, it’s been a few months going, but I’ve finally got a working computer with a working, stable operating system again! Before I hopelessly broke Ubuntu and tried choking down another install of Windows Vista things seemed to be working just dandy. At any rate though, I’m now running a super fast super stable install of Gentoo Linux on my aging Thinkpad and I couldn’t be happier.

Well, I could be a little happier with it. One of the complicated aspects of Gentoo has to do with the fact that you need to configure a lot of the system by hand (no fancy Gnome programs here!) and while it’s useful in helping to understand exactly what’s going on with your system, it also presents some problems. Right now for instance I cannot get my graphics card working when I log in as my user. Instead I’ve been logged in as root the past few days, but this problem is one in a long list that I plan to squelch, and when I do, it’ll probably be announced here.

While I don’t have much of it at the moment (and probably won’t until I graduate), I’ll end up posting some bits of my Gentoo adventure when I get a sliver of free time. Some fixes to this website will also follow. Hopefully there will be many of them made.