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Go Howard!

Check out Howard’s Stern website!

He’s a little pissed at the Bush Administration, and urging folks to register to vote. His entire front page is dedicated to his effort.

I listened to Howard when I lived in Philadelphia, and enjoyed his show (though he has so many commericals…), and listened off and on for the brief time he was on here in Minnesota.

What’s interesting to me, is that I would assume his listener base would tend to vote Republican. This isn’t new for him, the last 6 months to a year he has been railing against the administration, especially after the Clear Channel debacle around the FCC fines when Clear Channel dropped him on a handful of stations (he’s distributed by Clear Channel’s largest competitor, Infinity).

It will be intriguing to see what impact this may or may not have on the general election.

Linux Gaming

This article sums up most of my views of gaming on Linux.

I have 2 machines that still run XP – one for gaming, the other I used to 2box my other Everquest account back in the day. It still has a bunch of music I need to transfer to my server, but other than that, I keep telling myself it will be for video editing as that’s the only other thing Linux isn’t as good as Windows still.

But back to Linux gaming: As I game less and less now, I realize I have to get my basement done, as my using my high end computer for non-gaming tasks drives me nuts in Windows. For the last two weeks I’ve seriously considered wiping my XP partition, or at the least making it dual boot. But I’m lazy, though I’m getting closer every day. As I look at what games I play, only Doom 3 has the potential to be played on Linux. If I only ran Linux, I’d have UT2k4 there as well. I had great success with NeverWinter Nights on Linux, but other than that, there are no RPG choices. As I debate EQ2 and World of Warcraft, neither will play on Linux.

Is playing games on the X-box my only choice? (If I were to only run Linux).

I absolutely agree with the article regarding WINE. WINE is not an option for Linux gaming, and for developers it’s a cop-out. Yes, I understand DirectX has matured better and faster than OpenGL. But if major games can work natively on Mac OSX, is Linux that far out of reach?

Help a Fat Guy Out!

So here I am watching NFL football.. watching the CBS feed on NFL Ticket and Kevin Smith pops in a commercial for Jersey Girl.

Holy crap was it funny – he holds up a picture of his wife, says how hot she was and a guy who looks like him needs the bling bling to keep her. So buy his movie. And help a fat guy out.

His self-deprecating humor cracks me up.

On a related note, I watched Jersey Girl this past Tuesday.

It was one of his better films, and very much unlike anything he has done before. While hints of his style and his older films were there (the jokes in the beginning, the 80s references, the obligatory Star Wars reference) the story was touching without being too sweet. And as much of a hard time as Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez got / get, I thought they had amazing chemistry on screen. (Don’t worry, she dies early in the flim). George Carlin has acting chops few know about, and the the girl who plays Gertie was a great actress for one so young. I highly recommend it.

Sunday Sunday Sunday!

Ahh, NFL kickoff Sunday. Sitting here in the living room with the laptop wirelessly, flipping between games, currently on Bengals @ Jets.

Saw Resident Evil 2 last night. It was entertaining, closer to a rental than in the theater, but we had a good time.

White Chocolate Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are weird.

In general silwenae.net news, I have my old blog re-installed, but I cannot get it imported into this one for whatever reason. Both the RSS importer and the b2evo2wp importer crap out. I might look into doing it by hand, but blech.

Have some plans for the silwenae.net homepage, but all this CSS & PHP stuff needs to be learned.

I did get my GPG key uploaded so now you can email me securely!

Gatorade commercials

I dig the new Gatorade commercial “Thank You” – the tribue to Mia Hamm.

The Keith Jackson narrating the founding of Gatorade from a year or two ago rocked as well.

I need to find out who their ad agency is!

Let the music play

And the music server is back!

At a slightly different address, but symlinks worked perfectly.

I’m still using Netjuke to power the site. I’m disappointed, the developers have been promising Netjuke 2, with a tentative date of July 15th which came and went without a peep. Love Netjuke 1, I’m just disappointed they haven’t communicated anything yet.

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Duke Nukem In-Development 4ever

Duke Nukem In-Development 4ever

As seen on Evil Avatar:

The History and Timeline of Duke Nukem 4ever as written by Syfer on the 3dRealms forums.

Some Choice Quotes from the timeline:

Janurary 1997: Work on DNF started.*

Late 1999: 3DR announces upgrade to UT level tech. It is expected to take two weeks. 3DR releases a Christmas card saying that DNF will be released in 2000.

Unknown 2002: Broussard states that DNF will definitely be out before DooM 3.

Late 2003/early 2004: Take 2 complains about DNF development and expects it around “late 2005”. “At this point we’re just hoping the team [in garland] will finish the project.”

Speaking of Opus

I liked the comic this morning. I thought it was a really good way to re-introduce the old penguin.

I submitted the MSNBC interview link to Slashdot on Friday about Opus, but they didn’t take mine, and posted someone elses yesterday. And it was my first ever submission too! At least I had mod points at the time.

Jumping the Shark

I think Inside the Actor’s Studio has jumped the shark.

I have my TiVo set to record all of the new episodes, and the latest one with the cast of Will & Grace, was disappointing.

About 6 months ago, NBC bought out Bravo (as you can see from the re-airings of West Wing, Boomtown, and the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy partnership).

If NBC hadn’t bought Bravo, would we have seen the cast of Will & Grace on Inside the Actor’s Studio? Probably not. As one of the anchor’s for NBC’s Must See TV Thursday night, and soon to be “the” anchor with the demise of Friends after this season, I believe NBC used the Actor’s Studio to help position Will & Grace.

At the beginning of the show during the interviews, James Lipton even introduces the President of Bravo (and VP of NBC) who is sitting in the audience.

The show itself wasn’t bad – I might not care for Will & Grace, but with the 4 lead actors they also had the two main writers, and James Burroughs (director). It was interesting to hear them talk and James Burroughs is an icon himself, with his work on Taxi, and directing 75% of all Cheers episodes.

I can appreciate NBC flexing their marketing muscle. And I understand why they purchased Bravo. But I think it’s unfortunate that the one show that should have remained pure and free from marketing bias was affected.

(And I’m still waiting for the anniversary episode that Will Ferrell referred to on Dinner for Five on IFC – where Will Ferrell (as James Lipton) interviews James Lipton!)