Getting to play a City of Heroes character through to Level 50 in under five minutes is, in a way, quite a fun experience. In the last day or so I’ve built a half-dozen characters, thanks to the CoH Planner.
I suppose now I should actually… er… play the game, huh?
Do you love “The Princess Bride”? What about “The Lord of the Rings”?
If you do, and the thought of seeing what happens when quotes from one are used in scenes from the other offends your delicate sensibilities… well, tough luck.
The Inn of the Prancing Pony:
HOBBITS: Who are you?
STRIDER: No one of consequence.
HOBBITS: We must know.
STRIDER: Get used to disappointment.
HOBBITS: Okay.Ithilien:
GOLLUM: Good night, hobbitses. Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.Tomb in Minas Tirith:
DENETHOR: I am the Dread Steward Denethor. There will be no survivors!
GUARD 1: Now?
GUARD 2: Not yet.
DENETHOR: My men are here. I am here. But soon you will not be here!
GUARD 1: Now?!
GUARD 2: Light him!Outside Minas Tirith:
WITCH KING: Good heavens. Are you still trying to win? You’ve got an overdeveloped sense of vengeance. It’s going to get you into trouble someday.
EOWYN: Hello. My name is Eowyn. You killed my uncle. Prepare to die!
[…]
EOWYN: I admit it, you are better than I am.
WITCH KING: Then why are you smiling?
EOWYN: Because I know something you don’t know.
WITCH KING: And what is that?
EOWYN: I am not a man!The Tower of Cirith Ungol:
FRODO: Sam, I’ll tear your arms off.
SAM: Oh, you mean this Ring.
Oh, just go read the whole thing, won’t you?
Gustav (yes, the Gustav) sent me the following bit of amusement. It’s an Engadget homage, of sorts, to the heady days of yore, back when we engaged in all sorts of wild speculation about what computing technology would be like in the years to come.
You know, ‘cause we don’t do that sort of thing nowadays. Ahem.
Anyway, read and enjoy, won’t you?
The Project: See if using external USB devices for TV tuning and quality audio I/O is a viable alternative to cramming PCI cards into crowded 2U rackmount computer chassis, so we can intelligently order appropriate gear for the next batch of production studio computers.
After several workdays during which ATI’s tech support insulted my intelligence by suggesting I try things that I already told them I’d done, they finally came through with a sensible suggestion that helped me get their TV Wonder USB 2.0 device working.
(James Burke Voice:) Well, sort of.
I had to dial down the USB bandwidth setting in order to get video that didn’t look like the actors on TV were experiencing severe and prolonged epileptic seizures. And then I made the mistake of actually hooking up the Digigram USB audio device. Bzzzt. That was it, no more ATI television viewing. At all.
Believe me, I tried a lot of things to make it work (again). No go.
My verdict? This solution isn’t even remotely ready for prime time. Once again, USB devices fail to live up to their glorious advance billing…
In a fit of getting-things-done, I’ve finally posted my slowly-growing collection of photographic computer desktop wallpapers in the gallery. While I was at it, I also posted some of my favorite collected anime wallpapers.
Share and enjoy. Please don’t hotlink, however. I don’t want to have to start doing Stupid Apache Tricks, hmm?
Photographic Wallpapers
Favorite Anime Wallpapers
One of those rare, if you’ll pardon the pun, joys in life is a holiday weekend during which one is allowed to consume respectable amounts of fire-grilled meat. Yesterday it was burgers at home; today it was steaks at Lil’ & Geoff’s place. In both cases, I enjoyed it to the fullest and then some.
As a guy who’s pretty much broke, I’m considering this the feast before the famine, but you know what? It’s meals like this that see you through the days of sandwiches and ramen noodles. Heck yeah.
On a side note, I also only have a three day work week ahead. I’m taking Friday off because someone special is coming to town. As the kids say, “Sweet!”
