Archive for July, 2006

metallica… are they new?

Monday, July 24th, 2006

A friend sent me this comic earlier today. Funny stuff.

It occurred to me after reading it, that I do in fact have an inordinate amount of my musical knowledge from video games. While on vacation last week, I realized that the Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein pinball machine in the game room (it was an awesome house) played “Frankenstein” from the Edgar Winter Group and proudly told my whole family. Thanks Guitar Hero! I know of Motorhead from one of the Tony Hawk games. I’m pretty sure the first time I heard Jurassic 5 was on another Tony Hawk game. And so on and so forth. I’ve heard of more new bands and introduced to more classics in video games than if I just listened to traditional radio and MTV. (Freezepop on the other hand I heard first on Achewood.)

Between games, the Internet, Adult Swim and Quentin Tarantino movies, do we even need radio and MTV anymore?

It makes me wonder how many other good bands I would hear if we were a little more liberal with copyrights and file sharing. If content creators on YouTube could easily use the music from their favorite bands in their videos, how many new good bands would be discovered?

Just a thought.

barcampRDU…

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

I’m here at RedHat attending the illustrious unconference, BarCamp! It’s basically a conference where the attendees decide what will be presented or taught. Very informal but it somehow works. Throughout the day I may be updating this post with anything interesting I might learn….

Yes, I realize that this isn’t game related at all, but it’s something to blog about and this is the only blog I own.

- Best session so far (and we’re not halfway through the presentations): juggling.

- My first session: Google Web Toolkit… as I’m not a java programmer, most of it went over my head, but the crowd consensus felt that it was mostly an unknown or a toy. I thought it was fairly interesting.

- Second session: Sex and the Death of Advertising.

- Third session: Maim the Music Industry.

- Forth session: Intro to Ruby on Rails.

- Fifth session: Ajaxifying w/ Dojo.

greetings from the beach…

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Hello everyone.  I’m relaxing in beautiful N. Mrytle Beach, stuck on a Windows machine with a Firefox browser that doesn’t work.  And considering that my machine is currently on it’s way back to Apple for some repairs, I have to do everything through IE6.

I’m not very happy about this.

Anyway, just a quick question to anyone who might be paying attention and has a gmail account: is it working for you?  Everytime I go to the site it says it’s unavailable.  Anyone else having this problem?