A view of my Dorm Room.
While I am away on break, I created this simple webcam to watch and show what is happening in my room. Enjoy.

Live Dorm Room Stream

Today is the beginning of the retched finals week for those at Portland State University. As such I have done all that is in my power to not study, not work on finals work, and try to remember that there is no need to panic…

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Finals Week by scimanal related [alexwitherspoon.com]

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So I have not gotten around to finishing my latest overview of the CyborgCamp Unconference I went to last weekend! But it IS coming.

I wanted to also mention however the recent mention of AlexWitherspoon.com PodCasts in a FullSignull episode! Check out ALL their shows, because it will cure your leprosy. Make sure to definitely check out show number 7 for the shoutout, and excelent show!

Link:  FullSignull.com - episode 7

ShowNotes from Episode 7
“Nipping at the heels of a terribly slow week in both gaming and tech, we’re still coming back from the holiday in full force. Rick Astley makes a welcome appearance at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving parade that left the country in a state of disarray. Fable II has new DLC to offer this month. Should we care? Xbox live standings baffled the masses last month with Halo 3 being the number 1 played game. We go back in time and delve into the beastly matriarch that is Final Fantasy III. To wrap things up, we’re talking about our top 3 releases of 2008. Dive in, dudes, enjoy!”

 

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Game: EVE Online
Rating: 3 out of 5

It goes without saying that EVE online is one of many, many MMORPGs available online. an Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing game has the added game benefit of large quantities of human players. In EVE’s instance this creates a massive amount of very real and stimulating simulation in that the players provide a depth of content and experience to the game that current programming lacks far behind in. Many modern games have compensated for the lack of compelling AI and programs for the simple and effective use of the players to help drive the game. This community effect in EVE provides a surreal exposure to all forms of life, both int he game, and literally as one interacts with the various different human players.

The game features an ‘eveolving’ graphics system that ranges from ugly and to the point, to a truly excellent looking game. The scaled down version of eve is small and runs on the most humble of graphics cards, while the premium all out visuals still will run well on even a 1-2year old video card decently. The graphics are stunning in regard to the scale, while at times there can be hundreds of other players in a region it can provide an immerse situation.

In these situations you can play out the roles of a trader,scientist,miner,fighter,pirate,Politician,or Guy who lives in Grandma’s basement. This provides a top down economy from raw materials to end user being provides potentially by human players.

The combat system is turn based, as are all actions within the game. This provides for a manageable-yet slow system to move about and act out your actions. The other premise to this game is the leveling system. Your level depicts your awesomeness/UV level against skin. In EVE unlike other MMORPGs such as WOW you accrue skill continuously even while not playing.  By allowing this one does not have to live in the game as much as some spend in other games, making it is easy to spend a few hours in the game and move on with your real life and be well off in the game.

I gave this game a 3 out of 5 because it will apeal to some and it will be an instant hit, while players who prefer faster gameplay will be dissapointed with how slow it is to train a character, some of the original players of the game are still out there, and they will remain years ahead of the average new player purely because of time and not because of any true player skill.

Hello Gameboy from Lonny Quattlebaum on Vimeo.’

This was an event we held at MindScapes in Wichita Kansas. It was a hugely successful demonstration of mad geekery. Check out the video!

After a tenuous moment when SiteGround.com notified me of a need to renew at their recently jacked up prices, I quickly told them NO. I must say their service has been largely good, despite a slight fiasco about how only 5GB of the 750GB allotted can be used for media and how my podcasts were all stolen movies. Media being defined as video,audio,pictures. I don’t know anyone with that many gigs of HTML…

The issue then arose that the Database for Wordpress was corrupted, and in this moment I decided it was a time for a move. Bluehost became a cheap alternative. I was definitely happy to see the CEO’s blog, and after some very knowledgeable reads I decided bluehost.com was worth a spin. It catered well to podcasting, which is something I wished to expand upon, so this was important to me.

After watching grass grow, erm I mean DNS names propagate I began recreating my site based on old database records. After doing some SQL injection I found my site back up and running.

I also took some time to clean up the look a little bit, and ditched ads, since those made me *maybe* something in the ballpark of $0.50 - $1.20 total.

So with this migration I will delay the Podcast until Sunday so I can do it right.