Quakecon registration opens tomorrow night. If you want to go and be able to take in your computer, you better be worried about being at your computer tomorrow night at 8:00pm (central).
So that's: Wednesday, 8pm, www.quakecon.org.
My old teammate, jasonKOK (we called him rench, ok?), posted a comment about this but I think it deserves a full post. This doohickey's a great idea, just 10 years later than it should've happened. Air America is the new liberal talk-radio station that's slowly spreading around the country. They're only up in like 6 major cities (and especially not ones in the South), but they've got a beast streaming network that apparently recently had 1.2 million simultaneous listeners for Al Franken's show, "The O'Franken Factor."
My roommate has this constantly playing. Now before everyone gets all in arms about politics, here's my lay of the land:
Good:
-Finally, a strong counterattack to the right-wing media (Fox, Rush, etc.)
-Has some good arguments
-Quality conversations/arguments with show guests/callers
-Al Franken makes fun of conservatives Bad:
-This stuff is strictly liberal. I, a liberal sympathizer, don't agree with all of it, which means most of you very likely won't either. But just because the argument is there doesn't mean everything they want to happen has to happen.
-Even the liberals can get their whack jobs on the air. One woman's show that Tim (roommate) is constantly listening to is just crazy, it's like putting a Feminazi on the air. Can we say bleeding-heart? Verdict:
-It's good. There has needed to be a strong opposition to this Republican-friendly crap factory for a long time. Even if it is over the top, all the better. We smarties (by smarties I refer to all of my readers) can make better determinations about what this country needs. But the brainless right-wingers who worship Rush Limbaugh or the No-Spin Zone (ha) daily need someone to tell them to sit down and shut the hell up. Give it a listen, it's amusing regardless of your political standing.
-Finally, a strong counterattack to the right-wing media (Fox, Rush, etc.)
-Has some good arguments
-Quality conversations/arguments with show guests/callers
-Al Franken makes fun of conservatives Bad:
-This stuff is strictly liberal. I, a liberal sympathizer, don't agree with all of it, which means most of you very likely won't either. But just because the argument is there doesn't mean everything they want to happen has to happen.
-Even the liberals can get their whack jobs on the air. One woman's show that Tim (roommate) is constantly listening to is just crazy, it's like putting a Feminazi on the air. Can we say bleeding-heart? Verdict:
-It's good. There has needed to be a strong opposition to this Republican-friendly crap factory for a long time. Even if it is over the top, all the better. We smarties (by smarties I refer to all of my readers) can make better determinations about what this country needs. But the brainless right-wingers who worship Rush Limbaugh or the No-Spin Zone (ha) daily need someone to tell them to sit down and shut the hell up. Give it a listen, it's amusing regardless of your political standing.
Vivek is a damn cool guy. He's this dude that I met here on the very first weekend I arrived in Austin, and we both ended up going to see the Austin Symphony Orchestra with some mutual friends. I got to have a nice convo with him a couple weekends back, and he's truly a fascinating character.
He's from India, and (like I had guessed when I first met him), an IIT reject. But I use the word 'reject' so lightly it's almost sarcastic: he was in the 92nd percentile in the IIT entrance exams. Like many who don't go to IIT, he looked to American universities and chose Texas since it was the cheapest school with such a strong engineering program. I remember the first day I met him, he couldn't have been in the country more than a week. He had a heavy Indian accent and spoke with very slight hesitation, as though he were extremely well-taught in English but not immersed. He was dressed like he had just gotten out of church. Over the year, it's been so incredibly cool to see him adapt to American life. He gradually dressed down more and more, exchanging button-down shirts for khaki shorts and burnt orange t-shirts. I saw him chatting up some girl once in Kinsolving and thought it was just the coolest thing ever that he was fitting in so well.
His family's extremely proud of him. They're all really excited to see America through his eyes, it's almost like they live through him vicariously.
As we walked across campus together, I invited him out to the after-party that was supposed to follow the Texas Revue. I caught him near the cafeteria the next day, after it turned out that the party fizzled out. I told him I hoped he hadn't tried to go down to 6th and wind up disappointed on account of me. "Don't worry," he said, "I found a party on this side of campus anyway." I was happy to hear, since I wasn't able to find anything to do that night. "Next time, give me a shout," he said as he started to leave. He promised me, with his trademark Indian accent, "I'll let you know where the party's at."
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music 2.0 owns completely. After I play with this some more I'll post some recommended things to check out.
I was stupidly in a hurry to get this posted. Anyway, it's a Flash toy that lets you click on various genres and subgenres of electronica to listen to samples of each (between 4-8 songs are posted for each one). Along with each set of samples is a Maddox-esque description of each genre to tell you how it evolved within the electronica world. Oh, and they're spread out along a circular decade grid, so you can see when your favorites really came about. Surprisingly, most of the stuff I like originated about 5 years before I thought it did. There is a TON of music on here, so be sure to play around with it.
A bleeding anus cloud, who'd a thunk it. They make
plugs for that, you know.
which rejected character are you?
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