May 2005

E3 - new consoles // lacki threw this into the junk drawer on Tuesday, 05.17.05
E3 officially begins tomorrow, but all of the major console players have unveiled their upcoming systems that will turn our current consoles into pieces of garbage. OK, that's not exactly true, but both Sony and Microsoft have done little to show what their new systems will be capable of. Sure, they have laundry lists of specs and meaningless (well, to me anyway) numbers, but hardly any in-game footage aside from cutscenes. Granted, it's E3, and they have to show something, but there isn't a single game for either of those systems that makes me want to run out and preorder. Microsoft seems more interested in creating the "everything console," maybe because they saw what people did with their modded X-Box systems. I don't need it to play mp3s, I don't need to view picture slideshows on a TV screen, I just want it to play games. And, not surprisingly, the only company that seems to understand that is Nintendo, as they always have. Their upcoming system isn't going to be a technical powerhouse, but it sounds like they're more open to the idea of innovation over expensive eye candy. Plus, they're offering older titles (NES, SNES, N64) as downloadable content. Once again, Nintendo is going to be the lowly "kiddy" console that hardcore gamers ignore because they can't play Madden or the latest Grand Theft Auto on it, but dammit, they've got heart.

ipod penis++ // lacki threw this into the junk drawer on Monday, 05.16.05
This is a cool little program that parses the iTunesDB file on your iPod and exports the contents to html. I had trouble running the perl version, which is weird since the OS X terminal can usually run perl scripts without a problem. Anyway, it has a hard time with capitalization in the ID3 tags (like, it lists Gwar and GWAR as two separate entries) but other than that it's a very good way of sharing your massive collection of awesome music with the world.

rump my hump // lacki threw this into the junk drawer on Tuesday, 05.03.05
I have been very busy, doing... something. To be honest, I have no idea why I've been busy because when I try and think of what I've been doing that would make me busy, there's nothing there. So let's just pretend that I'm a very busy individual without a free moment to update my very sexy website. Speaking of very sexy websites, check out krankindustries.com on 5/5/05 for a very special and heartwarming internet experience, guaranteed to change the way you view internets forever. Wait a second, now I remember what's been keeping me so busy: growing a very sexy moustache. I love it, except when I wake up in the middle of the night and mistake my moustache for a caterpillar and punch myself in the mouth over and over in an attempt to kill it before it hatches into a beautiful butterfly. Last night I dreamt I was killing zombies with a shotgun in a log cabin. I was feeling great until my mom showed up and asked me why I was making such a mess. I tried to explain the zombie situation, but it was no use. Yo, parents just don't understand.

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