Chawlk

1. Drawar
2. Fenxy
3. Decaflon
4. Two Credits
5. Wriging
6. Loose Suits
7. Chixe
8. Dud3s
9. Wing Colors

 

They're all hooked up at once, but at the moment I'm working on devising a quick swap system so that current gen consoles and necessary bits stay plugged in all the time, and the others can basically swap in and out without fiddling with anything behind the TV. It's quite a mess having them all hooked up at once.

That's actually a really solid idea Griffith, especially because a number of consoles use interchangeable A/V cables, and there are a number of aftermarket cables that do multiple consoles. I'd still have to have an insane number of power bricks, but I could probably cable tie the necessary cables for each console together so that they could be swapped out easily.

I do actually play all of them, so I'd still have to find a way to store them and their accessories within easy reach, but it opens up a lot of options since they no longer have to be within cords (and by cords I mean, hidden cords at that, haha) reach of the TV at all times.

Also, I do use a PowerSquid in my setup right now. Probably going to swap out the other power strip back there for another one pretty soon. Considering the massive size of some of those bricks (running the CDX with the 32X alone is enough to make at least 4 slots on a normal strip worthless), it'll reduce the wasted bits.

Attached and playable. That's what makes it difficult for me to figure out.

I planned out how to physically wire it together, getting the most out of each console A/V wise from the start, but I can't figure out where to put the damn things while they're hooked up. Right now I can jump from the 360 to the NES... about as drastic a difference as it comes in terms of video and audio hookups... all but effortlessly, but the floor around the TV stand looks like a garage sale.

Yeah.

I considered shelfing too... both wall shelving and a bookshelf type setup next to the tv, but it seemed like it would be oddly disproportionate

I've got... well for the most part... the cabling system handled. I'm hoping to upgrade that in the future to a real A/V receiver to reduce the amount of work necessary to go from a modern console to the dark ages.

Oli,
A big part of this project is the authentic experience, but that hasn't actually ruled out emulation. In the process, I've converted an original NES controller to USB, picked up an SNES controller to USB adapter, and an N64 to USB adapter that even supports the rumble pack.

The hunt and work for this... you know, the journey... is a big part of it though. I was able to pick up the NES and an unbelievable collection of games for very little money, but it was completely busted ass and literally had bugs living inside of it (and a smushed roach in the bottom of the copy of Robocop, haha). Repairing it, cleaning it and the controllers up, and searching for classic games that I loved and ones I missed out on has really brought the experience to a whole new level.

The real issue I'm having isn't so much cabling or getting the consoles, but what to do with them in the damn living room. I mean, my TV stand has 2 undersized (can't even fit standard 19" equipment in them) compartments and a single larger one where the cable box lives. All the ingenuity in the world has barely squeezed 4 consoles, an Apple TV, the cable box, and the A/V switch in (and under) there.

Thanks for the responses guys.

The Pixies has to be, by far, my #1... even though they're back now. Smashing Pumpkins is another huge one that's back together.

I completely agree with Stabbing Westward. Darkest Days is an unbelievably good album. Pissed I wasn't paying attention when they were together.

I didn't even know Kidney Thieves broke up. I just got their newest album not long ago... didn't even know they had more than one album out for the longest.

Blink 182, even though +44's first album is great.

I really have to recommend SimpleLog for standard, essay style blogging. It's relatively new compared to WP and MT, but it makes WordPress and every other platform you thought was simple look super complicated. It's exactly what you need and nothing more.

That said, I've actually moved over to Tumblr. I was posting more and more asides on my blog, so I decided to try switching over to an asides only format.

I'm on every day at work, but lately I've been too slammed for my usual jackassery. The more the merrier though, it's usually only at a dull hum during the afternoon, and dead as a rotting corpse in the morning.

Pi has a fantastic soundtrack. The first Matrix is great too.

This shouldn't be much of a surprise for anyone running rails on the gs.

When I had mine, I had a single copy of Mephisto, and a super simple site that interfaced with the Flickr API, and they shut me out until I bought an upgraded container.

I've since moved on to A Small Orange, where I'm running no less than that Flickr app, a copy of Mephisto, a copy of SimpleLog, and a handful of small projects I'm working on (which I can even run in development mode if I so wish no questions asked) all for less than what the gridserver cost me excluding the cost of the rails container.

Don't get me wrong, the people at (mt) were very nice and offered me several months of free hosting when I decided to leave, but moving on was the best choice I've made.

TextMate is fantastic.

If you're a comic book fan, I have to recommend Comic Book Lover too. The interface is a good imitation of iTunes... useful for organizing and viewing your digital comics. I can't live without it for those can't-ever-find or can't-ever-afford issues.

SFK is by far my favorite instance in the game.

wtf

ZOMG GRATS, LEVEL UP

Alien Loves Predator
Apple Geeks (although I miss the pre-serious days)
Ctrl Alt Del
Diesel Sweeties
Order of the Stick
Penny Arcade
Perry Bible Fellowship
PvP
Questionable Content
VG Cats

Wondermark has its moments too, but it's actually fallen off of my regular reading list at this point. I like to hit it and run through a fistful every once in a while.

File size is a huge issue with this new design, whether it's attractive or not. The header image alone is as large as the entire site should be, at the most.

I'm sitting on a huge pipe here at work and there was still a noticeable delay in it loading

Glad it worked for you.

I'm all but identical to you height and starting weight wise.

I started Nutrisystem and working out regularly two weeks ago, and it's been kicking my ass, but it's worth it. I'm getting married in four months, and that's a huge motivator.

If I could drop what you did in twice the time, I'd be happy with myself. I've never been outrageously active... my fiance is the marathon runner in the family, I just play my DS at the finish line, haha... but I never used to be completely sedentary either.

Good luck keeping it off. I hope it continues to go well for you man.

I must be the only person on here who isn't hip enough to understand Twitter.

Everything useful... such as the day to day diary idea that was mentioned above... could be accomplished as easily with a blog that consists entirely of asides style entries.

Being notified by SMS seems useful, but when you see what people post on there... it's not like "We're going to the mall" which makes you go "ZOMG JONS GOING TO THE MALL, LETS GO TOO"... it's "I'm eating turkey and I just farted" which is the last thing I want my cell phone blowing up with.

I don't believe that the similarities are a coincidence, but I also don't believe this is blatant theft. If the RSS chat bubbles weren't so amazingly similar to the Go bubbles on Jared's site, I'd call it a case of designer man love.

Wonderful. Corking has since gone down.

You can still get a decent idea from the screenshot in this article here. It's in the first section, towards the bottom.

All of this credit business aside, I don't think either site really emphasizes simplicity.

5ThirtyOne has a somewhat busy background and three columns. There's not a drop of whitespace anywhere in the design. That said, it's beautiful.

It is, to a normal beautiful three-column site, what a black and gray tattoo is to a color piece. Everything on the entire site is softened... off whites and grays... and well placed into the grid, but simple it is not.

Without having seen one in person, I can only assume that the center column sits back far enough that it's not obtrusive. They can't have designed something this beautiful and overlooked the obvious.

That said, since the first time I saw this desk, I've been really curious as to just how expensive it is. If it's regular expensive... like a Biomorph desk or something else beautiful like that... then I'd theoretically buy it if I found myself with a pile of money.... but I have a sinking suspicious that it's outrageously expensive.

I use small notepads. Scribble notes, mostly outlines and one off ideas, then scratch it up and rewrite it with a more refined version.

Once I have an idea of the type of objects being handled, relationships come together and it goes pretty quick.

I'm big on design, but honestly not big on details in design. I just need to know that A fits into B which has a lot of Cs and so on. The details of how that works come out while I'm working on it.

The bottom line is that X-Men has always had strong ties to the duality of the Civil Rights movement. It's always going to be a part of the history of the comic, and it's going to show through constantly. That means all mutants are going to work out that way.

I don't think it's across the board weird either. Captain America is at the peak of human capacity thanks to the Super Soldier Serum. He's still very much human and easy to identify with.

The real issue with mutants is that the line between hero and villain is blurred. Even Magneto is more the anti-hero than the villain.

I've felt for a long time that religion was the downfall of spirituality, at least for a lot of people. I was raised Methodist, went to Catholic school and went through a portion of the process to convert to Catholicism with my mom.

I feel exactly what all of the "if I had to say anything" Buddhists here are saying.

I've been fascinated for a long time, but I spent a lot of time with the idea that I don't have the dedication in this lifetime to make anything of it spiritually, but I'm trying to reverse that idea. A few people close to me and close to those around me have died in the last few years, and it's made me realize how important spirituality is to me, and how much I wish I had a firmer path to walk.

Being afraid to disappoint people or simply be out of place has kept me from completing my research in a face-to-face manner---I've got ridiculous anxiety---but I'm manning up and determined.

For anyone else in my position, good luck on your spiritual journey.

I used the same keyboard Tyme has for quite a while and I really liked it.

Now that my household has become completely Mac-ified, I'm back to using standard Mac keyboards all around, and it's not horrifying... but not great.

Honestly, I would only recommend it if you're having pain or numbness. I have carpal tunnel in both wrists (which, apparently can be exacerbated by breaking your wrists, or so I've been told) and it definitely helped me. For a while, I was to the point where a good flick against the wrist would make my thumb and index finger go numb out of existence (or bending it the wrong way in my sleep), but after using an ergonomic keyboard for a few months, I was back to normal weirdness.

I don't think there are any other real benefits though.

Oh, and as far as getting used to it is concerned, it's painless. It'll be rough for a day or so, and then it'll be natural.

Who is Shakespear?!

Shakespear is what happens when natives hoola hoop.

I knew that other e in the box couldn't have been an extra piece.

Wordiness. I know it's not a grammatical error, but still.

I try to put relevance to everything---I write because something affects me, not because I thought of a topic---and this can lead to a lot of unnecessary backstory and babbling.

Usually when I write a post, I hit the highlights and get out what I originally intended on saying, then read and destroy what I wrote. The second time around it'll come out with less garbage.

I try to limit the number of times I do that when blogging though. If I didn't, I'd spend a week over analyzing my own choice of words.

I'd say I don't mix tense much, but I caught myself doing it this morning, heh.

I've got the comma issue too, or at least I'm afraid I do.

Written word loses inflection which is at the core of spoken humor.

This isn't a problem if you're John Q. Shakespear because you're aware that you're writing jokes, but when you're blogging in a conversational tone, you lose something there.

That said, I don't think emoticons have any place in written pieces. They break the natural flow of things.

Maybe if it was written as a conversation.

Definitely watching, but I've lost a little interest in the ARG. The most exciting thing related to it I've seen lately is the teaser video that ends with "The Presence."

Good stuff.

That aside, I'm very excited about the album. The four tracks out so far are fantastic. The newest (the beginning of the end) has this solo that's just... noise. It's beautiful.

I'm a little biased though. The woman and I saw them live three times last year, heh.

Good luck brother.

Thanks for making me feel better guys <3

I was starting to feel like we'd all lost our minds for a minute.

Unfortunately, I'm in stealth mode at the moment and being ridiculously vague about this, but catalog data of books is probably an accurate comparison.

Title, Author, Company of Publication, Year Published, and so on.

It's very much a niche site, so I'm hoping that will help with the comradere aspect of community building, but there's always a few bad apples.

What really makes me nervous is that there's a lot of cloning with this kind of data... lots of books have the same company of publication, the same author, et cetera, so if the author data is stored somewhere centrally where it can easily be modified for all entries, it gives a malicious user the ability to cause problems.