I’ve noticed that people have been registering on my blog. I’m not sure why, since registration is not required to comment, and registered users cannot do anything non-registered users can’t. Perhaps people are clicking the register link thinking it’s to register for wordpress? I don’t know…
Well, I’m not going to stop you 🙂 Maybe I’ll add some benefit to being a registered user.
Spiderman 3 was a great movie. One of the most anticipated movies of the year, and it’s only May (reminds me of 1999, 2002, and 2005 and their respective star wars releases). I really loved the action sequences and the sandman discovery scene. They were…magical. And the scenes where Peter Parker is an emo had me laughing and cringing at the same time. He rocks the emo look so well it’s crazy. He should have kept his glasses though, they would have perfected it.
Without giving away too much, let’s just say that some main characters die in the end, and there’s an awesome battle involving basically everyone, though I’m not saying who’s on who’s side. It’s an awesome scene, and Venom is done perfectly. I’d like to see Carnage (not Carthage, Cutter…) in a future movie, but they’ve stated that 3 is the last one. Riiiiiiight.
I’ve uploaded my photos to the Intertubes and made a Tabblo out of them. After deleting the really blurry ones and the duplicates, I really didn’t take that many photos…This is just a tiny taste of what was there. 🙂
Last night, my computer warned me that my startup disk was almost full, with 2gb remaining. I plugged in my MyBook 320gb, and within 20 minutes I had freed up 26gb of space, a quarter of the hard drive. All by dragging files to the MyBook. Simple as that. This thing is really a life-saver…
Last night the fourth and final pod in the Uru Pod Series was opened to the public. It’s called Tetsonot and seems to be broken. It’s way under the ocean, and it seems to be flooding. The bottom floor is up to my knees in water, and the power is emergency lights only. The whole place is very creepy, and very much like Stoneship. The other pods were Negilahn (a forest), Dereno (an arctic environment), and Payiferen (a desert). As much fun as they all are, there only seems to be one thing to do in them, which is to wait for a portal to appear and jump through it. So while it’s great to have the new content, many people have become restless and want larger ages.
There was another subtle update for uru on mac, which is that the mac client now supports widescreen resolutions! That means I can run it at my computer’s native resolution, and it looks awesome. Still no windowed mode support, but Uru is looking better than ever.
I’ve been saying this to everyone online today, I might as well say it here too.
NAAAA
NANANANANA
NANA
NA
KATAMARI
DAMACY!
Woot! A Series of Tubes just got its 194th individual visitor today, which breaks my old record by 1! Thanks everyone! :3
To celebrate I’ve opened up an archives page using the awesome Extended Live Archive plugin (which I unfortunately just lost the link to, sorry!). It uses AJAX and is basically awesome. Check out the new Archives tab up at the top there to try it out!
Now that I have used Uru on Mac for a day or so, I’m writing a follow-up review. All in all, it’s much better than trying to deal with Vista on unsupported hardware, and it performs about the same as the windows client does, which is good. There is no noticable lag (I got a tiny bit in the hood, but it was momentary), link times were not extreme, downloads for ages are decent…They’re slightly faster than on Vista, actually…but again, my wifi card is not supported with Vista drivers yet so that could be the problem.
One annoyance though. It doesn’t do windowed mode. You have to run it full-screen, and you don’t have nearly all the resolutions the windows client does. I had to use 1280×800 (as opposed to the 1440×900 that is the native for my default monitor, or the 1650×1080 for my external), which isn’t horrible but it looks blurry. Oh well.
Also just a general Uru gripe, dual monitors are useless, you can only use the primary one. Which is annoying when your secondary is so much bigger (15″ vs 22″, 22″ wins). It’s even more annoying when said fullscreen app renders the secondary monitor useless, since it blacks it out too and doesn’t let the cursor go over it. Whatever.
All in all, Uru for Mac is a great thing, and a long-awaited development, I think (since Uru was the only Myst game not compatible with Mac, not counting the fact that it’s next to impossible to run any of them on Intel macs…). If it had windowed mode it would be perfect.
One thing I just tried for zPhoto. Putting all the effects on at once. It basically comes out a garbled mess. I’ll probably have to take out the extreme ones like pop art for it to work, or do it first. And Sepia and Black and White kinda cancel each other out, plus if you remove or modify the color thermal doesn’t do anything but make it all bluish…so I really don’t think its worth it to put in an “all” filter.
The only reason I say this is because I saw ‘photobooth all filters on at once’ in my referral search strings, so I tried it out.
You can see the trailer here:
(Disclaimer: Trailer not actually available until midnight. 🙁)