January 2012
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December 2011
31 posts
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My Top 10 Games of 2011
1.) Rocksmith (360)
I don’t know how this game has not garnered more attention. I have been playing guitar off and on for about 15 years. I have never been great, I can play about 100 or so riffs and a few whole songs usually by muscle memory and looking at tabs online. I can read music and transcribe it into chords (even the odd ones with some research) write it all down then play it,...
“3. The theater experience. Moviegoers above 30 are weary of noisy fanboys and...”
– Ebert is always so spot on.
I’ll tell you why movie revenue is dropping…
In other news, Lindsey and I went and saw Girl With the Dragon Tattoo today. It was not bad, Craig did a great job and I think it is hard to compare Mara to RApace’s (edit*) amazing performance, but Mara...
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“In an open auction with no reserve, there’s no way to know how much Lee 1...”
– The very first car I ever fell in love with.
First General Lee To Be Auctioned At Barrett-Jackson
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My Top 25 Albums of 2011
1. Ellie Goulding - Lights 2. Foster The People - Torches 3. Washed Out - Within and Without 4. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Self Titled 5. REM - Collapse Into Now 6. Florence + The Machine - Cerimonials 7. Anthony Hamilton - Back To Love 8. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs 9. Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire 10. MuteMath - Odd Soul 11. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead 12....
The Windows Phone Problem In Three Words: Way Too... →
I carry both a WP7 phone and ipad around with me most of the day. I much prefer the Microsoft OS. All the information I want is within a glance and the OS is just superb. Zune lacks, but still isn’t as bad as the suckfest that is iTunes. Unfortunately though parislemon is right, Apple is just too deeply embedded.
underpaidgenius:
I can reduce a way-overlong post by Paris Lemon...
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Thoughts on 'The coming retail apocalypse'
The coming retail apocalypse: some axioms
Absolutely one of the best prognostications I have read in awhile. I think that for the most part he has hit the nail on the head, but I think that it will be in a much shorter time span (5-8 year outlook) however I think it will be somewhat of a cyclical retail sales method, cycling about every 8-10 years until a good model is found.
First,...
“The name itself is cleverly designed to conceal the fact that your profile no...”
– Exclusive: Leaked Details of How Facebook Plans To Sell Your Timeline to Advertisers
Giggle at “Graph Rank”, look at Facebook trying to be all Googly.
“Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., half of Sweden sits down in front of the...”
– Sweden’s bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve.
“Nestled beneath 3,200 feet of Mediterranean seawater, a neutrino detector called...”
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Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean
“Neurotypical people pity autistics. I pity neurotypicals. I pity anyone who...”
– The Obsessive Joy of Autism
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Hoping this lives up to the Swedish version, one of my favorite books of the last few years.
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“That other-world won’t be reserved for the rich forever. As the costs of...”
– Interesting Read.
Computers Will Entertain Us to Death
WatchExcellent stuff by 60 mins.
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“Many programmers in normal coding jobs hate having the interference of a...”
– The Mature Programmer
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