the diablo 3 trailer:
a gameplay / narrative vid:
My estimate D3 release date — Q4 2010*.
* based on nothing scientific.
More info and eye candy over at the official blizzard diablo III page.
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friday, yeah baby!
in related news, new futurama came out three days ago (june 24th!) holy crap!!
previously on AGF, dumb and dumber.
it looks like a tiger. grrr.
while not exactly my style, I dig it. especially like the blacked out exhaust cover. I will have to paint mine…
Update June 30 ‘08: I painted my exhaust cover. :)
you know, because they are so flipping happy.
[img via jezebel & splashnews]
for years an’ years, my go-to for translations has always been babelfish.altavista.com … today, on my way to look up “va te faire foutre” I am redirected! oh my, no more Altavista.
when did babelfish.altavista.com become babelfish.yahoo.com?
according to ye’ ol’ wikipedia:
1.) “…AltaVista (part of Yahoo! since May 9, 2008)…”
2.) “After a long sojourn at babelfish.altavista.com [since 1995!], the site was moved in May 2008 to babelfish.yahoo.com.”
RIP babelfish.altavista.com
hit 186,000 miles on my ‘91 benz which I purchased at 133K.
I have yet *knocks very-hard on wood* to have any major repairs. on my ~75 mile a day commute I use about ~2.3 gal. of gas. not too shabby for a 17 year old car.
WARNING: painful to watch, worse to hear; bleeding of the ears may occur…
this is the kind of overproduced trash that makes me cringe at the possibility of microsoft absorbing yahoo… (I can’t imagine yahoo allowing something as awful as this vid - not to mention Y!’s “ecosystem” is entirely contrary to microsoft’s) - it’s so bad… it’s not even funny.
update: I purchased this bike!
Needs
(and what the V-Strom offers):
- comfort: upright riding position, feet flat on the ground at stop, no major fatigue from just cruising
(fairly hard to judge from intarweb reviews and a brief sit on it at the dealership)
- great mpg: would love 60+
(concensus seems to be ~52)
- safety: high speed travel with crazy commuter cagers and the occasional lane splitting
(ABS! full frontal fairing.. additional safety accessories available)
- sports-like torque, great 0-60 - top speed no where near as important
(still need to test ride it… but reviewers and various tidbits from around the web show it on the slow side from what I’d like)
- love the way it looks: cruiser appeal with the protection of a touring bike, great color paint
(it almost has it all… it’s a teensy bit too bug-like lookin’ but compared to the alternatives hardly an issue)
- passenger comfort, storage
(the girlfriend wants to feel safe & secure too! laptop & lunch needs a safe place while I ride)
Big consideration: 75-90% highway travel (commute ~70 miles a weekday)
a concise video review of a very-similar model:
a short thread on how much I’m shooting for at the dealership.
official suzuki DL650 V-strom product page of the exact bike I will purchase (most likely.)
BBQ’d Happy People by naterawer
just two painstakingly long months to go til the June 24th release.
[the new film is the]…most tentacle-packed Futurama epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. What lies beyond is a mix of horror and love as the Planet Express crew encounters a repulsive, planet-sized monster with romantic intentions.
The second feature-length Futurama film will be followed by at least two more movies…
as proclaimed by this animation mag post
as observed in this Hate Rises - washingtonpost article
(technically, RI also has “none”, but that ruins my title, and honestly how accurate can this really be?)
in short: it is awesome, even without the BB data plan - sprint has been unable to add to my account for me.
(note: sprint CS on the whole, sucks ass. however, once in awhile you will get through to some great people; really depends on the time of day.)
I have a pre-existing data plan on my account that “conflicts” and will not allow BB data on top or instead of. cest la ve ~ no +$30/month for sprint… besides not being able to use the BB browser/messenger/maps, I am cool with the data plan I have now. it allows me (via BB’s underlying built-in TCP stack) I am able to use all these cool (nate’s naraku approved) free apps:
- google maps (takes advantage of the GPS unit in the phone; freaking awesome)
- gmail
- yahoo go (unable to load so far..)
- opera mini
- jivetalk
other than a few issues loading apps on the phone by USB (one “big” key is getting them without the use of the BB browser - use this user agent switcher firefox add on to fool google & yahoo into letting you download) all is swell. battery life seems a tad on the poor side but I likely just need to tweak settings more.
here is a neat side-by-side compare of the RIM BB Pearl and the Apple iPhone.
my new BB pearl replaces the former samsung a900 which I reviewed nearly two years ago - it had a great run.
last updated: 4/1/08
…They [Researchers from several Japanese Universities] asked drivers to cruise steadily at 30 kilometres per hour, and at first the traffic moved freely. But small fluctuations soon appeared in distances between cars, breaking down the free flow, until finally a cluster of several vehicles was forced to stop completely for a moment.
That cluster spread backwards through the traffic like a shockwave. Every time a vehicle at the front of the cluster was able to escape at up to 40 km/h, another vehicle joined the back of the jam.
this issue is rather easily alleviated if people didn’t fucking tailgate. you don’t need to break when there’s slowing down in front of you, IF there’s enough space to compensate. it’s common sense people.
see?!
be a hero - dampen the shockwave - don’t tailgate.
the guys over at 37 signals experimented with the 4 day work week, 3 day weekend last summer and have since made it the standard. I think this snippet sums up the logistics of their thinking:
Three-day weekends mean people come back extra refreshed on Monday. Three-day weekends mean people come back happier on Monday. Three-day weekends mean people actually work harder and more efficiently during the four-day work week.
I imagine this sort’ve setup, however dreamy as it is, probably does not work as well as hoped especially as an organization grows. 37S is pretty small (~10?) and nearly no central office anyway, so great for them.
it all goes back to how do we fairly & accurately quantify “work-done / day” anyway? especially when it comes to creative production - sure, just about anybody can say “yes it is done” but only the author/artist/developer/etc can truly say when and how much “progress” is made. quantifying based on things like lines of code, strokes of a brush, or words written are obviously flawed.
I digress; I want 4 day work-weeks too. upon hire, I requested 4 in-office work days, 1 at home work day (wednesday, or friday) … still gunning for that on a certainty weekly basis. I know how much work I could get done, it’s the (employeer) trust issue that’s generally at stake.
