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First Person Singer
While a bit unfortunate that it is not longer, Opera Slinger turns out to be unreasonably fun for such an odd premise: Using the classic WASD first person control scheme, get your character into the spotlight before the competition and then sing your heart out. It’s only one level, and just four songs with some pretty corny lyrics so it plays out in less than 10 minutes. I did find navigating the opera house to be a bit more problematic than I would like, but I imagine running it a couple more times would solve lots of those issues.
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Programmatically reprehensible
I have seen some pretty scary requirements for installation software before, but changing the regional time format? That is just so far beyond stupid.
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Making your drive a bit more surreal
Apparently you can have Mr. T (Yes, that Mr. T) speak your driving instructions if you have a TomTom GPS unit that supports “NavTones”. He’s not the only one: Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds, and (newly added) Gary Busey.
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Retaliation
You know, I’m amazed at how much news there is out there. I mean, when you really think about it.
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Not a huge surprise
The new Flat Earth chips that I have been enjoying are produced by Frito-Lay.
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Brass Mario, a funky Mario
The Super Mario Theme performed by three trombonists!
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Excellent advice
From Terry Pratchett: Let grammar, spelling and punctuation enter your life. Yes, publishers have people who will do this sort of thing—and they are called authors.
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Before I lose it again…
I just need to link to the MnDOT Data Tools website. It is quite possibly one of the most cool data resources I have ever run across.
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Too bad about the name, but…
Infodoodads pointed me to another social book site that I think might fit my needs a bit better than the other three that I’ve played with so far: goodreads. My profile can be found here and I might play with the widget a bit and see what it looks like.
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Reducing perforce clutter
As I was getting ready to leave work this evening I went into Perforce to find out who all had files checked out despite the request to get everything checked in before a major outage this weekend. I noticed there were a huge number and that there were some really low numbered changelist numbers so I started browsing through them and noticed a huge number of empty changelists. After a little bit of searching, I found out that you can delete an empty changelist from the command line as long as you have admin access using the following: P4 change -d -f [changelist #]
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