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What would have happened if Salvador Dali had made a cartoon in the 2010s?
He’d have made Bee and Puppycat, Natasha Allegri’s latest surreal cartoon masterpiece. I think there’s something great about Allyn Rachel’s mumbling delivery that really sells it. I love this amazing world we have that allows for experimentation – I hope we don’t lose it through bungling of Net Neutrality issues. (I like eps 1 and…
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KDE 2010-2015 (KDE 4.x)
Desktop – Super Mario: Fedora – KDE 4: 2015 Programming Activity: Video Editing Activity: Video Games Activity: Photography Activity: 11 Dec: Multimedia Activity: School Activity: Main Activity: 2014 Programming Activity: 11 Dec: Video Editing Activity: 11 Dec: Video Games Activity: 11 Dec: Photography Activity: 11 Dec: Multimedia Activity: 11 Dec: School Activity: 11 Dec: Main…
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Grand Canyon: 9 Oct 2010
While on my trip to the Grand Canyon I kept a journal of my experience in order to create an after-the-fact travelogue. This is the last entry of an edited version + photo essay of my trip. (First entry here) — 9 Oct 2010 1530 The drive to Phoenix was uneventful. I did finally get…
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How to get around Elisa’s lack of last.fm scrobbling
Elisa is currently the “default” KDE music player, replacing Amarok. I am just taking a guess, but I think that Amarok just ended up with too large a codebase to be maintainable at a reasonable pace. I’ve been using Cantata, an mpd player for KDE that’s currently on maintenance mode. On the one hand, I…
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2020 Video Games and 2020 Game of the Year
Because the pandemic left me at home for a couple months, this year I played about double the amount of games from my previous record. You can watch the video below or read the text below that to find out what I thought of the games I played this year and which game I named…
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Perfect Blue
I used to hate Hunger Games because I considered it to be yet another example of America getting credit, fame, etc from another culture’s work; Battle Royale in this case. Eventually, I got the Hunger Games Trilogy from a Humble Bundle and read it, realizing that while the plots were the same in the abstract…
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2014 in Books
I only have a bit of free time each day – usually no more than about two hours when you add it all up. So whichever of my hobbies tends to catch fire is the one that gets the majority of the attention. 2013 was a pretty good year for video games, but in 2014…
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Last.fm 2013 Listening Trends
This year I bought LOTS of albums. I don’t know if it’s the most albums I’ve purchased in one year since writing these blog posts or even since keeping track of Scrobbles. I do know that while I listened to my music randomly, in general, I did also listen to entire albums whenever I purchased…
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Returning to Universal Studios
The last time I went to Universal Studios Orlando was nearly 20 years ago for Rock the Universe 1999. It was one of the most fun things I’ve ever done – enjoying the park by day with all my close friends and then a series of concerts at night. Despite getting soaked by the night-time…
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Review: Sansa Clip Zip
I’ve been using MP3 players since they first existed. I can’t remember the name of the device, but I got it with my Audible subscription. Then, I used my PDA for a while – remember those? Then I used an iPod Shuffle, but it didn’t work well with my Linux computer. The database kept getting…
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Using Digikam from the Point of View of Lightroom User
As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I’ve been into photography since I was five years old. That’s when I got my first Kodak Instamatic camera and started shooting photos and creating photo albums. I have about ten photo albums, with most of them coming from when I got to high school and could really…
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Testing out Amarok 2.4.3’s Dynamic Playlists
I’ve spoken about Amarok’s Dynamic Playlists before. Despite my best attempts, I couldn’t quite get it to work correctly. However, Amarok 2.4.3 has revamped the dynamic playlists engine and interface, so I wanted to check it out and see if it worked better as well as testing out some of the new features. For one…
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Last.fm Listening Habits 2011 Q1
I wanted to take a look at my music listening habits quarterly to see how each quarter’s stats stack up against the final numbers at the end of the year. I started off the year listening to some of the new artists I’d bought, then just switched to random listens for the rest of the…
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KDE Look Part 6: 4 Months In
I started using KDE in November of last year so I figured that I’d give an update on how things are working for me four months in. First off, KDE 4.6.x has not yet hit the official Fedora repositories. Since I like to yum upgrade or preupgrade from release to release, I try to stay…