Hah!
Got my XSPF player working again. Also, did “The Hand that Feeds” on Rock Band, despite the fact that it is REALLY HARD. Of course, it wasn’t the hardest performance that we got the best score on. It was “Dani California” by RHCP. Oh well.
Gaming and blogging updates
Hah! Now I have LJ and MySpace working on the same blog… I think. Anyway, I love mucking about in blog guts. Although I am not relishing the idea of moving to WP 2.5. It looks really pretty, but it’ll kill my LJ crossposting which is hanging on by a thread, and more than likely, will kill MySpace crossposting and several other plugins to boot. Oh well, I’ll just wait.
Been playing FF7: Crisis Core quite a bit. The Materia Fusion system is deep and requires much levelling. The DMW spinner has been criticized for being too random, but it’s based on SP and seems to trigger at VERY similar times if you redo a level after resetting. That tells me it’s less random that one might suspect. The story is awesome, especially if you know Final Fantasy 7 very well. Already have God of War: Chains of Olympus mostly finished. Just need a couple solid hours to finish up the last bit.
Also, Echochrome is friggin’ amazing. That is all you need to know. Buy it ASAP.
Tinkering
I had decided to fix a few things on my blog, maybe add the Myspace Crossposter, when I decided to change themes. Of course, it broke the whole shebang, and I ended up swapping my old theme into the default folder and then swapping back to my original. I’m not entirely sure why I always feel the need to change and make things better, but I do know that even when I don’t succeed, I learn something. That alone makes me happy right now, in the quiet cool-down after Shabbat holiness – studying and doing family time can take a lot out of me. So here in the dark, I continue to tinker with arcane coding and try to reveal my inner thoughts.
“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the honor of kings to investigate.”
- Proverbs 25:2
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-26
- @zerojay I was getting really good @ hard vocals but our tv died and I’m out of practice now. having to start back @ medium again. #
- yael naim is teh hawtness #
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-23
- Been meditating today on this http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html #
- I think this odd burgeoning feeling within me is actually some rare resistant strain of happiness. How curious. #
Domestication
“What’s so unnatural about working for a big company? The root of the problem is that humans weren’t meant to work in such large groups.
Another thing you notice when you see animals in the wild is that each species thrives in groups of a certain size. A herd of impalas might have 100 adults; baboons maybe 20; lions rarely 10. Humans also seem designed to work in groups, and what I’ve read about hunter-gatherers accords with research on organizations and my own experience to suggest roughly what the ideal size is: groups of 8 work well; by 20 they’re getting hard to manage; and a group of 50 is really unwieldy.”
http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html
This applies equally well to magicians and Kabbalists. Personal experience says that while 8 or 9 well-adjusted people can get along pretty well, our kind (heh, presumption) are rarely well-adjusted, so the number strays down to between 3-7 in real-world circumstances. Big gatherings ala Esozone and Pantheacon (much like company meetings) can mitigate this, but again there you’ll sometimes end up with one exemplar representing a group of people again. If the goal is to reduce the fractal scaling and maintain single plane of communication, options are limited. It also explains the backlash against ‘sheepish’ members of larger orders. It’s the wild ones trying to whip the tame ones into shape.
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-21
- @KevinCTofel Your Sony-hate post and your post on blogging integrity being on the same page makes you a hypocrite #
- @KevinCTofel What else does NO SONY mean? #
- @KevinCTofel Even if it was JK, you still blog with him. #
- @KevinCTofel "Opinions matter but only if they are clearly identified as such" – hmm… #
- @KevinCTofel It’s not a subjective matter. You can hate on companies if you like, but you’re a poor mobile blogger for it. #
- Whether or not you have a good Purim is kind of a crapshoot. (rimshot) #
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-20
- feeling a little sad. Another one bought into the lie today. #
- @zerojay Not sure what it was, but I was there for echochrome. #
- the FCC should quit worrying about bad words and ban siren/horn sounds from radio stations. #
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-19
- hong kong psn store is getting hammered right now. sigh. #
- Ukulele Hero! http://tinyurl.com/3dxut4 #
Twitter Updates for 2008-03-18
- @guttertec i’m on psn often – same as my twitter name. #
- CXMB – custom themes for custom firmware PSPs – very cool stuff #
- Sony copied their themes from the homebrew community, who in turn learned from Sony when producing CTFs. Amazing cloud mechanics… #
- echochrome demo is still blowing my mind. off the charts awesome. #
- @guttertec yes i do. are you in the beta too? #
- @guttertec I could shoot an email to the Sony rep, but they’re all SCEA, not SCEE. They have different forums for the beta in each territory #
- @guttertec I’ll definitely send an email then and we’ll see what happens. #
- @guttertec No prob. Glad to help out!
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