after hours of blood and sweat i’ve configured my desktop just the way i wanted. went through tons of different styles before i decided i was happiest with the current incarnation. i even went so far as breaking my computer in the process by tinkering with .dll files in my windows directory, but i have to admit that fixing it was a fun process akin to solving a difficult puzzle. and now that this task is complete it’s on to bigger and better things: finishing my halloween costume!

dirty south.

i’ve been making huge changes to my music library recently. first off, i’ve finally said my final goodbyes to the shitty bloatware that is itunes. i’ve started using musicbee instead, a program that i’m pretty much in love with at the moment.

for one it supports flac, which i had a lot of but had to previously use vlc for. another fantastic feature is that it automatically scrobbles tracks to last.fm without any additional plugins, which brings me to my next point: i love scrobbling! i really wish i had started it sooner. for the uninitiated scrobbling simply means keeping a history of all the music you listen to. my last.fm acct is here, and one of the main reasons i started doing this is so that in the near future i can make a badass music history chart. if you haven’t started scrobbling you should, all the cool kids are doing it. and if you have started then you should add me.

since i’ve migrated to a new music platform i decided that it was finally time to organize my music library. i started about a week ago and i’m currently up to the letter “i” by which i mean adding art work, tagging every song and album appropriately, and deleting/downloading pieces of my collection so that is makes sense. i’ve got a lot of work ahead of me but it’ll be perfect when it’s finished. shouldn’t take more than a few more weeks. let’s hope i can find time to work on my video during as well…

544 images later, i’m finally done editing my still photographs. god damn that took forever. i’m only about halfway done at this point, but now the fun begins: video editing! i’m hoping to start this soon but we’ll see how much progress i make since the fam is coming into town this weekend. there will be much halo and much rejoicing.

the fam is going out of town tomorrow. i was super stoked to go but alas I could not get the time off. instead i will be doing the next best thing: working on my next video. this is a small preview. i took 750 photos that i will be editing and animating in the coming weeks. finally made use of that damn green screen.

this is a work of genius. planning on reading these books in the near future finally. can’t wait to read this scene.

dust storm hit phoenix yesterday. looks like something out of the mummy. needless to say the car looks like shit and everything tastes like sand now. although i suppose that isn’t much different from before the storm hit.

i got rid of my facebook because it seemed rather useless at the time. i had more “friends” than i had real friends and the whole privacy thing was pain in the ass. now google comes out with this, trying to suck me back into social network. guess we’ll have to wait to see if i get an invite.

gat dayum. this is almost enough to make me want to play this game. if only i didn’t have a life. why in the world don’t they make something like this into a full movie? these 6 minutes alone are probably better than the prequels put together. also, bender as a space cowboy. fuck yea.

i would pay a ridiculous sum for a zelda chess set such as this. really fantastic work. another pic here and more info on how they were handmade here. speaking of chess i wish i knew some fantastic strategies in this game. whenever i win against a regular peon i feel all high and mighty when in reality i’m sure whatever i just did would pale in comparison to a chess master. teach me your ways deep blue.