Capricon XXXI 2011! (1 of ???) Live Band Klingon Karaoke

Heh.

Capricon (www.capricon.org) rocked, and my favorite part.... the live band Klingon Karaoke of course with Sing With the Band!

First Video is up, more to come!

... ever needed to use another wireless adapter with your Mac?

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We just got a Apple iMac G5 with no Airport Extreme Card in it. Dave has a tiny USB Wireless Card, it's a Buffalo WLI-UC-GN. He told me that he wasn't sure if the USB wireless card would work at all. First thing I did was grab my MacBook to go find drivers on the Buffalo website. They only had drivers for Windows. So my next step was to do a bit of research because I knew it had to work. I did a google search for Mac drivers. Looked at a couple of websites and found a forum that had the answer http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=193751. I was directed to go to the ralink site http://www.ralinktech.com/. I was a little confused at which UBS driver to download but the forum posted which file to download. After the download finished I popped in my 2gb flash drive and copied the file over. I plugged in my flash drive and installed the driver. I used the ralink software to connect to our wireless at home and went to the system preferences, network to make sure I was getting an IP address. It works and works very well.

Fuck you Pat Robertson.

Pat Robertson: Haiti 'Cursed' By 'Pact To The Devil'

Fuck you.

Hypocrisy and Religion, re: Haiti Earthquake

I'm livid right now. However, I've channeled that into an intelligent, well thought out response on Facebook. Since Facebook is a crappy isolated walled garden, I'm posting it here for everyone to see.

Hey.

ASSHOLES.

Yeah, i'm talking to you.

If you work for the "Christian and Missionary Alliance" or decide that the mere fact that you go to church or claim to worship the "one true god" whatever that may be (Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Flying Spaghetti Monster, whatever) and claim that you're Pro-Life "from the moment of conception", practice that shit.

'cause you know what? If you don't, i'll call you on it, and use the nuclear option on you publicly, in front of your friends and family, you fucking hypocrite.

I'm eloquent, educated, and previously a very interested party in biblical scripture and history. If you want to measure your Christian Penis (tm) with me, I'll make mine go "TIIMMMMBER" in front of you and embarrass the hell out of you.

TL:DR:

Publicly avowed Pro-Life Christian decides non-believers deserve death via earthquake in Haiti. (see a parallel with Katrina & sinners?) I call them out in front of friends and family, and an epic win ensues.

Nathan Quote #4:

"I'm going to pee on you, because I hate you."We told him he could not have candy.

• He decided to argue. I sent him to his room.
• He cried, complained, and yelled. I sent him to the top bunk, took the ladder away, told him he was in his room for the rest of the night, and sat there with Nikki watching him and not speaking until he calmed down.
• He stripped off his clothes and threw them at us. He then threw down his teddy bears, and his bed clothes and sat up there naked.
  

Parenting is fun. I barely contained my laughter. Since on the Internet I don't have to, here's what I instantly thought of. :)

Chapelle's R. Kelly - Pee on You | Viral/Other | SPIKE.com

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EPIC REDDIT THREAD ALERT

"Hey Ask Reddit, what's your favorite .gif?"

Mine is really a c-c-combo:

Help! Need help naming a track (v2.1): DK & Santogold & TEPR Update!

I forgot that I followed up on this request for help and found the answer...

Santogold - Say Aha, remixed by TEPR

I believe TEPR's site (LOL MYSPACE) is here:

http://www.myspace.com/tepr

Sooo, here's the mix I was looking for:

Sing With The Band f/ VINNY!

Sing With The Band does Live Band Karaoke every thursday night at Chicago City Limits

Thinly Veiled Excuse of Drink and Game for Make Benefit Glorious Operating System of Windows 7! (The Presentation, The Pictures)

The pictures... the presentation...

Prepare yourself, oye... :)
*NOTE
These videos are available in HD on youtube, so click on 'em to go to youtube, or just watch and laugh here.




So we started out with some music, we oooh'd and aww'd over a new Windows 7 laptop one of the guests brought in. We moved on to some Rock Band 2, and some Skype conferencing with another party in North Carolina.

We ate some pizza, drank a bit, fooled aruond, and started the presentation, which... I gave you above.

After we moved onto a Bomberman Live contest that ended in me giving away the Party Pack copy of Windows 7 Ultimate!

Second place got the poster. :)

Full Flickr Photoset here:

Halloween 2009!!!

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What I've Bought Lately: UPS

I've needed some better surge protectors / uninterruptible power supply, and I saw a special for a 1285VA UPS, so, I grabbed two!

I bought a Cyberpower CP1285AVRLCD UPS
I got 2 for $200 total from Buy.com. (Now they're available on Amazon for $108 each)


I'm using one for my television / stereo / gaming equipment, and one for my computer equipment in the other room.

What I've Bought Lately: Video Card

Well, I hosted that Windows 7 Party and had my computer hooked up to my television (Toshiba 40RV525U 40" LCD) and realized if I wanted HD Audio I had to use three minijack/headphone to rca converters and send them to my receiver... I don't have an optical audio out (toslink) or a coaxial audio out port on my motherboard (ECS G31T-M, purchased for free at a Fry's B&M store) so... I needed to remedy that.

My video card, an XFX GeForce 8600GT worked well, but didn't have any native hdmi out, just two dual-link DVI which are great and work with DVI-HDMI converters, but... do not output audio.

So I looked for the best card I could get for under $100 that did not take up two slots. nVidia didn't have anything to offer with these requirements, however AMD/ATi did, I found a HIS Radeon HD 4670 that fit the bill.
It may take up two slots, but it's "second slot" is to the LEFT, not to the right, and I had space to the left!

So, that's what I've bought lately

Thinly Veiled Excuse of Drink and Game for Make Benefit Glorious Operating System of Windows 7!

Just to clarify:

My Windows 7 Party, "Thinly Veiled Excuse of Drink and Game for Make Benefit Glorious Operating System of Windows 7!" is happening tonight. So, get a hold of me and join us there!

Windows 7 Whoppers! Hmmm..... mmmmm....

I think I know where we're getting dinner tonight at the Windows 7 party. :)

Linus Torvalds Gives Windows 7 a Big Thumbs Up!

heh heh heh

So I'm holding a Windows 7 Launch Party of my own!

Happening tonight, check it out!
http://houseparty.com/party/176744

Toshiba 40RV525U: Awesome, when it works...

We have a Toshiba 40RV525U flat panel television that's nine months old. For six of these months it's had some issues. We had it repaired a few months ago, it still has the same issue.

I'm keeping track of it all here, just so if someone needs to refer to evidence, they can.



Also:

Are we proud of our country yet?

I posted a new diary on the Daily Kos titled: "Are we proud of our country yet?", it was prompted by this picture:

These are just "stream of consciousness" thoughts that came up in the middle of an instant messaging conversation. So, if you're going to read then yell at me, at least read the whole thing then yell at me. :)

Thanks.

IMMA INDOCTRINATIN YOUR CHILDREN

... because if there's one thing Obama loves, it's indoctrinating children.

1 vs 100, Live Show, Avatar Video!

Hehe, so ... Chris from 1 vs 100, (The live host) asked us to submit video of people doing the dance that the avatar does, so...

HERE IT IS!

(lol) (taken with my new Canon PowerShot SD960IS, and yes I am crazy about it)

...and now for more from your capitalist shill:

I'll be brief:

I'm selling, via eBay, two Blackberry Curve 8320 phones. They're fully unlocked, in near-mint condition, are fully tested, come with all the original accessories (and one of them has an extra battery and silicon case), and come with a pitch man... me!

• Auction with original accessories
  
• Auction with extra battery, silicon case

While eBay auctions aren't new, the "pitch man" aspect seems to be.

Frank suggested I do a bit of video. Half a year ago I had a Sidekick 2 with a broken screen, but I wanted to eBay it for parts so we filmed a couple minute video showing it working, making phone calls, but unable to display anything on the screen.

That never went anywhere.

However, I wanted to film myself showing whatever product I was selling working. Frank suggested I take it the next step and do something a little more comprehensive. So we started with these eBay auctions, and we'll move on to something more involved later, but here's the online video (also embedded in HD in those auctions... check 'em out!):