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That was fast!
Ars Technica is reporting that Netflix is promising that they will be working very hard to get Macintoshes supported. Looks like they read my letter and now they have my brother covered. Now they need to work on Linux support. And drop the DRM because I guess they ignored my paragraph on how it’s BS…
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An Open Letter to Netflix
I am not an unreasonable man and I full understand your need to focus on making your “watch now” feature debut available exclusively to Windows users. After all, they do make up about 90% of computer users. However, I do have some problems with this as a long time plan. First of all, it does…
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Influence
When my brothers and I were young, influence pretty much flowed in one direction – from me to my brothers. Whatever music, movies, or video games I was into they also wanted to experience. It’s not that they didn’t also have their own likes and dislikes. They did like some stuff I didn’t and disliked…
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Why Linux is better than Windows Vista
I was recently in a hotel room with my wife and her brother and sister. We both have the exact same acer computer – the Acer Aspire 3680-2022. I have Ubuntu on mine and he has Windows Vista. We bought them both at the same time. So this is IDENTICAL equipment. And in the hotel…
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Jose’s Dinner is finally complete!!
Thanks to my wife, Danielle, and my brother, Danny, for providing voice talents for the film. What are you waiting for? Go see it here. And check back over the next few days, I have some stuff I’ll be adding there.
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Stop Motion Studies by [[- charetteprod -]]
The beat was stuck in my head for days. My youngest brother says it’s a Daft Punk song. Having done some of these on a small scale all I can say is that this must have taken them HOURS (if not days) to do! stop mo’ studies from [[- charetteprod -]] on Vimeo
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Awesome webcomic
I found this great web comic, xkcd, courtesy of my brother Dan. I don’t know how the site is overall and they do have a warning that some strips could be bad, but I found this one hilarious. I love this particular strip because of the crazy circular logic involved to keep yourself sane if…
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My top 5 most Viewed Videos on Vimeo
War is Hell on Vimeo 2051 Views Anime Hurricane on Vimeo 1397 Views Unnecessary Tuffness on Vimeo 898 Views Pao Bhangra 1 Disc 1 Part 1 on Vimeo 865 Views Kung Fu Fighting (Super Smash Brothers Melee) on Vimeo 825 Views
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Introducing Character Animation with Blender
Luckily, my younger brother pre-ordered this for me for my birthday (which came months ago), because the book is now sold out. Ever since I heard about it in Oct 2006, I couldn’t wait for it to come out. There are really great tutorials online, but I needed a nice coherent, beginning to end book…
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The Name Change
One of the biggest trends over the last few years has been customization. People customize their cellphones, myspace pages, websites and computers. Via the popuplar widgets system on the Mac OSX, SuperKaramba for KDE, and gDesklets in Gnome, people customize their desktops to make them unique to their vision. Even Microsoft has jumped on the…
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Hidden Features
Veterans of Linux installs from the early days may chuckle at my new discovery, but I’ve only been installing Linux since the graphical days of Anaconda and Fedora Core 1. (But first some background info) I was recently installing Xubuntu on my father-in-law’s computer. He wanted me to install a new Windows Media Player version,…
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Another reason not to use Vista
My brother upgraded and now his MICROSOFT brand mouse does not work. Specifically, the extra buttons no longer work. Way to not support your own stuff Microsoft!
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I’m Sorry, but you’re wrong – Linux IS ready for the prime time
I read a blog post a few days ago where someone who purported to be a Linux user (so as to not be accussed of trolling) claimed that although Linux and its freedoms were great and all – at the end of the day – the user had to return to Windows to get any…
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Cycles, Vimeo hits, and Vimeo Limits
I’ve written before about how my interests tend to go in cycles. I haven’t played Sims 2 or Civ 4 in ages. In fact, since getting to work after Christmas Break I haven’t really taken many photos either. I became consumed with Blender and getting my animations done. Then Vimeo raised the upload limit from…