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December 2012 Games Report
Saint’s Row the Third (14 hrs): I got a lot of video games for my birthday and Christmas (mostly on Steam). So I wanted to finish up the last narrative game I had started before playing those games. I played a few missions in Saint’s Row The Third. As I had surmised before, the loose…
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last.fm 2012 Music Trends
In 2012 I accelerated my trend of listening to new music. More than ever, I experienced new music via various outlets that provided free music like Jamendo, Rolling Stone, and others. I discovered some great music that I really, really enjoyed. Since it mostly consisted of singles, a lot of the new artists I discovered…
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last.fm listening habits Q4 2012
Throughout the month of October I alternated between listening to newly acquired music (of which I had quite a bit) and a dynamic playlist that was weighted so that most of the music had auto-ratings above 90, less music above 75, and even less above 50. Any song that I listened to only once would…
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November 2012 Video Games Report
Civilization V (17 hrs) – I took advantage of the Steam Fall Sale to finally pick up the Gods and Kings expansion to Civ V. I have enjoyed founding my own religion, Otakuism. Religion plays a much more key role than they did in Civ IV. In the previous game, I would pretty much just…
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The Future of Today’s Games
Recently I was putting away my old video game systems into deep storage. The Playstation 2 hadn’t been played in a year and I didn’t want to clutter up my entertainment console with unused systems. So I started exploring the emulation landscape on last generation’s systems. Would I be able to play last generation’s games…
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High School Class Continues to Pay Dividends 15 years Later
One always wonders if and when those classes you take in high school will be important. For me, as an engineer, most of my high school classes were laying the foundation for the classes I’d take in college. I’ve used plenty of those classes in my work and personal life. One of the classes that…
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Last.fm Top Artists
This has been the configuration of the top eight artists on last.fm for a very long time. Only Five Iron Frenzy and Weird Al have traded spots. Everyone else has been secure in their position for years. The Beatles might soon overtake Anberlin. Both of them have a long time to go to unseat…
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New Feature Over on Dan’s Blog
I started a new feature over on Dan’s blog since his blog is so focused on video games. It’s called You Never Forget Your First Time and it’s about reliving the first moments with a game. The first entry is here.
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Last.fm Listening Habits 2012 Q3
For the first time since I started keeping track The Beatles did NOT make the list! That’s mostly because I have been acquiring TONS of new music (over one thousand tracks) in this quarter and haven’t really been listening on random as much. Although my #1 artist doesn’t have as many listens as some other…
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August 2012 Games Report
Team Fortress 2 (5 hrs) – a lot of this time was spent testing out my new private server which I described setting up in this post. Civilization V (1 hr) – played a little bit in the game I’m documenting at onemoreturn.ericsbinaryworld.com . Been too busy to play much more than that. Saints Row:…
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The Easiest Server Setups: ownCloud, Team Fortress 2, and Piwigo
I first heard about virtual machines about six to seven years ago. I couldn’t see a point in wanting to run another computer inside your computer. A few years ago I used VMs to test and blog about Linux distros. In the past year I’ve used it to preview new features in Fedora while the…
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July 2012 Games Report
The Walking Dead (7 hrs) – I had no reason to play this game. I like point and click adventure games, but I don’t read The Walking Dead or watch the TV show. I don’t really care much for zombie games although I’m not opposed to them. But the same was on sale during the…
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Last.fm Listening Habits 2012 Q2
I started off this quarter using a smart playlist that only played songs I hadn’t heard in the last quarter in an attempt to listen to even more great music, but Amarok lost my library which clears out the last played field and so I ended up with lots of repeats again. Oh well! It’s…
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June 2012 Video Game Report
Civ V (11 Hrs) – talk of the expansion pack made me want to play some more Civ. I played a scenario and then I played a regular game. I had a blast and I can’t wait to buy the expansion pack. Peggle Deluxe (5 hrs) – Worked on some of the challenge puzzles Team…
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May Video Games
Just one game while waiting to feed my daughter Portal 2 (1 hour) – Just played some commentary levels. It was fun, but the inability to save in that mode kept me from doing it more