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 quarters, I think this is the first (or second, at most) time where my #15 artist has more than 20 listens.  There are some great new artists making their debuts on my list and hopefully you can discover some new music to listen to!

Went to Brooklyn and had Grimaldi’s for the first time.

From my trip to VM World last year

[caption id=“attachment_5592” align=“alignleft” width=“480”] Saints Row: The Third - My Engineer Mask[/caption]

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.

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 next version was in beta.  This week I used them in the most useful way yet: to test server software before implementing them on my public, paid server.  These were some of easiest installs I’ve ever done - even easier than Wordpress’ famous Five Minute Install.

A year ago my most interesting photos mostly involved Lan when she came to visit my house.

This Photojojo time capsule contains Otakon photos as well as one of Dina and one of a strange car I saw on 295.

[caption id=“attachment_5589” align=“aligncenter” width=“480”] The Walking Dead - “Oh, FL…..too often the butt of jokes”[/caption]

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 Steam Summer Sale and Dan bought it for me.  This is a really, really good game.  While you can probably really appreciate it if you’re a fan of the comic or TV show, I’m enjoying it without the need to know anything about what happens in that fiction.  I think is easily accomplished because the game serves as a prequel to the comic (and, by extension, loosely a prequel to the tv show as well).  So I don’t need to really know anything or have unnecessary character exposition to set up the world.  You’re playing as the zombie apocalypse happens.

Apparently my most interesting photos from this time last year were of my chilis and of Dina rock-climbing

What was I doing a year ago?  Apparently playing pool and attending the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest