These are my links for June 28th through July 5th:
Jul 3
Dec 22
(A Minecraft music video)
These are my links for August 25th through September 7th:
Words cannot describe this escalating Rube Goldberg machine, just watch
Last night was the grand opening of Bass concert hall after it was closed for remodeling. In order to showcase all the new features, they had a wide range of music for the bill, from opera to old American ballads to choral to jazz… to the most awesome finale featuring Ghostland Observatory. The University of Texas band and orchestra played alongside them!
And I do mean old. I will say that I had almost this exact same dot matrix printer that I used for many many years. Kudos on using the Spectrum, but the amazing thing to me is that the hard drives act as speakers.
Here it is… the remix of Radiohead’s “Nude” :
Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.
Mar 30
Researchers find a French recording made in 1860 of a piece of the song “Au Clair de la Lune”. It was made utlizing a machine called a phonautograph, which scribbles audio waves onto a paper covered with soot, a phonautogram. The man that made the phonautograph, and recorded the song fragment, was Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. This discovery pre-dates the previous recording thought to be the first, which was by Thomas Edison 28 years later.
The phoneautograph and its maker had no way of playing back the sounds at the time. But the American researchers that found the recordings converted them to a digital audio recording.
Feb 7
Finally, a Guitar Hero for people who actually play guitar. Not to say Guitar Hero isn’t a blast, but there was always that twinge of something missing. That feel of actually playing the music. Now a development group called Gametank is releasing details of just such a game: Guitar Rising.
This will be a PC game, and it is due out before the end of the year.
Here’s the teaser clip:
I’ve been lax. I haven’t posted on anything relating to the Orange Box. I guess I really couldn’t say much more than the 5 bazillion other people who are playing it. I loved TF2, Episode 2 was short but a blast, and Portal was even better than I expected.
Especially the story… and the culmination in the end song. But again, this is definitely not a unique opinion.
But when I found this combining two things I really like… well, that’s enough impetus to post:
Aug 6
Koji Kondo, who did the original music on games such as Super Mario Bros., played a little concert at the just-ended GDC. Here’s him warming up before the show, with a song you might just recognize:
Mar 5
Back in July, I made a video to illustrate how Project Reality plays, and to have a few laughs with some CoFRs I had been playing it with.
After getting a few comments on it in the last couple weeks, I just realized that I only casually linked it here on drzy, without so much as an introduction or the embedded video from YouTube.
So, as for the introduction: This video shows me playing Project Reality Mini Mod on a public server that happens to have a few other CoFRs also playing. I think this is version .32 of the game.
Those that play this BF2 mod know that you only can identify teammates. There is no way to tell who an enemy is specifically in-game, and there is also no concrete way to tell you’ve killed an enemy aside from standing over his still-warm corpse.
I took a demo of an especially long and intense play session on the map Road to Kyongan’Ni. I had no idea that I had any interaction with anyone I knew, aside form players on my team. It turns out, I had a pretty good battle with my friend Shack and his squad. By pretty good, I mean: they killed us, ran up the hill, avoided an oblivious tank completely, and then killed us a couple more times. 
So, I wanted to show this to him and the other CoFRs. I recorded the demo and uploaded it to YouTube. It’s got a fair amount of views and a few comments over the months. At the least, it’s worth listening to the soundtrack by Matisyahu. And although it seems like it at times, I did not synchronize my camera movements to the songs, it just worked out that way.
