Jan 05 07:15

Terrible AMV #3

Currently Listening To: 
Redwall

So I like making these but they are absolutely horrendous...
This one I worked hard to synchronize several key moments of music to the video...
Unfortunately I am finding that windows movie maker is extremely limited...

Movie: KaKuRenBo-Hide and seek
Music: Time Scar from Chrono Cross
enjoy!

Jan 02 06:16

"LIttle Brother" by Cory Doctorow

Currently Listening To: 
"After the Garden" by Niel Young

So I had heard a while back that Cory Doctorow had a released a really good book under creative commons about what the world may look like if the way things have been going with Homeland "Security" continued on the path that they were on. I was meaning to read it for a long time and I finally did. All I have to say is that this book is amazing. It's about 150 pages long so it doesn't take too long to read and it is well worth it.

Dec 28 23:33

What Can Be Learned From Anime...

Currently Listening To: 
Star Guitar - The Chemical Brothers

Found this little gem while I was stumbling around the depths of the Internet...
(Click for full post)
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All I Ever Learned, I Learned from Anime
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1. War sucks.
2. You CAN have too many women.
3. Smart people wear glasses.
4. Music foreshadows plot.
5. The less you care about sex, the more opportunities you'll get.

Dec 28 21:42

so i'm addicted to window shopping

Currently Listening To: 
the big sleep- streetlight manifesto

I am totally addicted to window shopping and http://wists.com/verdancyhime this site supports that really well, without making me broke. i think it's the site i update the most, even more than my blogs, which is kinda sad. i think sometimes women have to satisfy their searching/gathering food instincts and their hunting instincts by shopping and finding good deals and exotic things no one has ever seen before. this is a good substitute for that, people steal your finds if their good enough, so you even have a status thing. plus it helps me remember what i want to buy when i DO get money.

Dec 27 21:31

Annoucing the SU Podcast Mirror

Currently Listening To: 
"The Restless Consumer" by Niel Young

So recently Dreamhost gave me unlimited bandwidth and storage so I decided I would use bashpodder and cron to set up a podcast mirror. I am using chess's version of bashpodder so it organizes by show name. If you would like your podcast added to the mirror email me at alex@slightlyunstable.org. Check out the mirror here: http://slightlyunstable.org/podcasts/

Dec 27 16:20

songs and 'kin and mignon delusions

Currently Listening To: 
swallow- emilie autumn

Dec 27 12:39

apology for something i will almost certainly do again

i don't always know what to do or what to say, and i sometimes hate when i get what i want
i am not the perfect, shining thing you used to think i am
if my wishes for you were horses
a thousand angry beggars could storm a castle on thoroughbreds
i want to make you happy, even when i do not know what to do to do that
i try so hard to twist myself into the one you need me to be

you are beautiful, the soft lines of your face and the sorrow in your eyes
the way you love everything and everyone so much
that you would fight and die for creatures who barely know you exist

Dec 23 17:38

Mac Vs PC

Currently Listening To: 
Buzz Out Loud - C|Net

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the Mac Vs. PC argument met Transformers? Watch this video. (Embeded in full post)

Dec 23 00:30

Remove PulseAudio From Ubuntu

Currently Listening To: 
"Save Me" by Shinedown

So a lot of people really hate pulseaudio including me. I finally decided to remove pulseaudio from my system and here's a simple tutorial of what I did. I hope it works for you but no guarantees.

First we have to remove pulseaudio from the system
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio

Now to remove it from xsession, we will move the xsession entry to the home folder in case we want to revert back to pulse audio
sudo mv /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio ~

Now we need to use Alsa and esound
sudo apt-get install alsa esound

Reboot. I hope this works for you, like I said no promises.

Dec 18 18:32

Annoucing SU Micro

Currently Listening To: 
Ring of Fire Podcast

No I am not announcing a version of the site for your phone, it's a micro blogging service. For a definition of micro blogging go here.

I currently don't have stuff like message by email, and SMS set up yet. The site is running Laconica, which is an open source system. What's really cool is that users on one Laconica site can communicate with users on another. They work together amazingly. Some examples of other servers would be Identi.ca and LinuxOutlaws.net.

To check it out click the "Micro" link in the nav bar or to micro.slightlyunstable.org