One of the reasons I decided to upgrade my computer was because The Orange Box games have to run at low resolution on it to remain smooth.  I figured that since I'll probably never permanently tire of TF2, and may want to replay HL2 at some point, and since future games are only going to get MORE resource-hungry, upgrading might be a good idea, ( Read more... )

First off, let me apologize if my sentences get really, really long.  I've been watching Zero Punctuation videos.
If you haven't experienced or at least heard of Second Life, you're either missing the best experience you'll ever have on a computer, or you're saving yourself several minutes of confusion if not years of therapy.

For the most part, ( Read more... )

I had the brilliant idea last Christmas to build myself a new computer. I haven't built a computer in over 5 years, because last time I needed to upgrade it was actually cheaper to buy a Dell. Given that I have not yet successfully built a computer without getting at least one defective part--starting WAAAAAY back when I built a K6 with parts ( Read more... )

Well, we had a good run: 160,000 years, several billion people, and millions of species wiped out, but it looks like it's time for humanity to say goodbye and let evolution take its course.  We'll go out with a bang, though.

I'm referring, of course, to the Japanese doctor of robotics who has created the first functional, useful, and practical ( Read more... )

As I periodically do, I was checking various Iraq War casualty statistics against one another.  While doing so, I found two different sets of statistics that claimed over 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed violently since the war began.  There are a few significant reasons these stats are exaggerated, which you may read under the cut at the bottom ( Read more... )

  As some of you may know, I'm scoring the essay section of a certain standardized test, and some of these kids are fucked up.  I score over 200 tests a day, and of those, at least 50 contain something that makes me either give the monitor a look like the one my cat displays in my userpic, or want to slap my head in lieu of that of the student ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how or why, but somehow Cracked.com is the best source for information on upcoming movies that might interest me.  They informed me of the Speed Racer movie nearly a year ago, but I didn't believe it, thinking it was a "possible" project or something.  Silly me.

Now, they've put out this list of upcoming comic book movies that, as they ( Read more... )

Apparently the only people who read my journal anymore are random people who find it via page 55 in a Google search, or something.  That's fine, that's three more people than I thought would read it, bringing the total to three.

In my original post about why Asperger's Syndrome is a bunch of bullshit, and how I overcame it (contradiction intended), ( Read more... )

I haven't offended anyone in a while, so I feel the need to piss off some people.  Since nobody reads this journal anymore, I doubt I'll succeed, but I can pretend.

I've always lumped Asperger's Syndrome in with ADD and and homosexuality as fake diseases.  That is, they are patterns of behavior that are slightly out of the norm, but really not that ( Read more... )

My local Big-5 Sporting Goods ad had an interesting rifle on the front page this week.  A PAR-3 Romanian pump-action AK variant.  Apparently it was made using mostly Romanian parts, and enough American parts to be technically American-made, and made pump-action so Californians could own it.  The PAR-3 is a .223-caliber, but the PAR-1 uses a ( Read more... )