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

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 all great music!

1. Five Iron Frenzy (65 plays) - I continued to listen to some great music from my high school years

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 Fortress 2 - (3 hrs) - played when the Pyro pack came out.  Really enjoyed the new mode.