ok, everyone knows that google has a fancy calculator that you can use to do things like “20 feet in mm“, or “100 cups in gallons.”
but i’ll bet you didn’t know you can convert to shots.
10 ounces in shots.
awesome.
i did an image search for iamkevin.
turned up mostly a bunch of puzzle hunt images i have on my site (or had, i thought i got rid of them).
also it turned up this:
http://avatar2.gamer.com.tw/avataruserpic/i/a/iamkevin/iamkevin.png
what the hell is that?
besides a perfect representation of me.
the last day to get preregister with an early bird discount for pax is the 31st, which is to say tomorrow. or today if today is march 31st.
if you’re interested in going, and you want to come visit me that weekend, you’re welcome to stay at my place. (that was directed at people i know, not random weirdos who happen to be looking for a place to stay during pax.)
it’ll be sweet. if you’re a geek.
for absolutely no reason, here’s a bunch of artists whose albums i’ve listened to in the past week or so:
the offspring
white zombie (& rob zombie)
joss stone
choking ghost
eric clapton
garbage
ozomatli
the crystal method
sum 41
fiona apple
bush
carbon leaf
Nine inch Nails
VAST
conjure one
bond
better than ezra
delerium
9 new maps will be out in the near future, ALL FREE by the end of the summer, and released staggered online as premium content, and also in a $19.99 expansion type package in stores, and as I said finally all will be free by the end of the summer.
The first 4 maps will be out in late april, preceeded by a patch to fix some glitches, cheats, exploits, etc. that are abused in mulitplayer and make for a generally unpleasant time. I haven’t experienced very much cheating, but last night i played 2 games that really put a sour taste in my mouth. One game the host used a standby cheat in which the host can hit a standby button to temporarily disable their connection. meanwhile they go around killing other people and then they reeneable the modem and everyone’s dead because the host’s version of the game is the “right” one.
In the other game the other team used some strange glitch in which you can make it look as if the bomb fell below out of the map, but is apparently not actually gone, and as long as someone is standing in the right spot, the bomb is “contested” so it never counts down and resets.
All these things should be fixed once the update arrives in the next few weeks.
As for maps, 2 will be released for free (sponsored by mountain dew…) and 2 will be released as premium content, all 4 in late april after the update is out. Then on June 28th you’ll be able to buy 5 more maps through Live, or buy the Expansion Disc in retail stores for $19.99 which includes the 9 maps and a sidestory cinematic, plus a documentary type movie.
And finally by the end of summer, all the maps will be avalalbe to as free downloadable content.
Personally, I like the “pay now, or get it free later” approach that bungie is taking. A lot of other premium content has been later released for free, but it was never announced as part of the plan, and I think bungie is doing the smart thing by saying “you can get it early if you pay, but if you can’t or don’t want to , you’ll be able to get it later, so don’t worry.” And by having it available in retail stores, people without live can get the new maps and the fixes that they haven’t been able to in the past.
It makes sense from a money-making without being a bastard point of view.
here’s the official news story from xbox.com
and here’s bungie’s explanation and more detailed map description.
i wish i had more to write about, but… well i pretty much work all day, then go home and sleep, and go back to work. but strangely, i don’t mind it so much, which is a bit dangerous. i don’t really want this to be a habit, although i can’t really not work as much, there’s lots to be done.
i went running yesterday for about 20 minutes which was good, but man my lungs are wussy - they don’t like doing much of anything in the cold.
i need to do my taxes…
for some incredibly smart reason i stayed up until 3:00am watching fight club last night with jim, even though i had a 9:00 meeting today. but fight club is good, so it was worth it. i hadn’t seen it in years. I like how you can see the evidence of tyler durden throughout the movie, which you don’t notice until you’ve seen it once or twice, or if you do notice it, you don’t know what it is.
i like brad pitt, but only when he plays the weird, quirky, interesting characters like in fight club and 12 monkeys. his role in troy wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t anything that required him, anyone could have played achilles just as well.
i give props to the scottish episcopal church - they are backing gay priests.
this shirt is awesome: f*ck it.
yeah, that’s all i got, i use del.icio.us a good amount now so i don’t really do a whole lot of posting random crap.
god damn this car is nice looking.
2005 Ford Shelby Cobra GT500
I just got a fake but believable email claiming to be Paypal, saying there was Unauthorized Account Access and that i should log in as soon as possible to verify the activity, and until i do my account access will be limited.
if i ignore it, it may result in account closure.
The site it links to is http://www.paypal.com.cmd-id.com and it looks pretty close to the real Paypal login.
Just a warning to watch out in case you see something like this.
I noticed it was fake because 1) it used my old @umich.edu email account which I haven’t used in years, but gets forwarded to my hotmail account; 2) it used some weird Routing Code that made no sense; and 3) the URL it sends you to is not right.
so beware!!!!! or something. i’m guessing most of the 3 people who read iamkevin already know this kind of stuff, but hey, if i hadn’t been paying any attention at all I mighta tried to log into it.
There isn’t any place that you can report something like this, is there?
full text of the email inside…
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hank showed me this, the weirdest blog ever.
this guy takes a picture of every meal he eats and posts it.
apparently he’s been doing this since october of 2002.
Also, go buy some t-shirts from threadless (and in doing so, give me money).
threadless is a pretty cool site - anyone who wants to can submit a t-shirt design to the site. people vote on the designs for 7 days, and after the 7 days are over high scoring designs are made into shirts.
twitter.