Yet again I’m showcasing a Horror Punk band, but believe me The Rosedales deserve all the attention they get!

Their sound is hard to describe. It’s a mix between The Misfits and The Beach Boys. The harmonies on their songs are amazing and will have you singing along in no time. Their subject matter is typical Horror Punk themes, but it’s all presented with no cussing, a rarity in the genre. So if you’re a fan of punk, horror punk, or even surf music give them a listen.

In The Dark from their Album Raise Your Spirits

Some of you purchasing Guitar Hero 3 may find when you go to play it that your memory card will not load.

The Max 16mb Memory Card, which requires a boot disc prior to game launch, is not compatible with Guitar Hero 3.  According to the manufacturer an alternate boot method can be used for troublesome games, but even this will not setup the memory card for use with Guitar Hero 3.  It appears that the game itself has some sort of coding that prevents it from use.

The odd thing is that Guitar Hero 1,2,and 80s works perfectly with the memory card.  Why the sudden lack of support?  Does it have anything to do with Harmonix not developing the game? Is it simply sloppy coding on Neversoft’s part?

Godfrey is a classy gray WordPress theme with custom shaped content areas and dual bottom information areas that display Recent Posts, Categories, Search Bar, Blogroll, and Meta Information.

Version 1.1 now supports color pallet changes from the Admin Panel.  From the new menu you can change the theme’s accent colors.

Godfrey utilizes a top navigation for easy page access and supports short blurbs with custom stylization to set them apart from full posts.

Out of the box Godfrey is setup to use the WP Audioscrobbler plugin, but can be customized to display anything you wish.

Version: 1.1

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Although I try not to be too personal here on my site, I’d like to emphasize that this is a personal site and as such personal entries are required by law once every 30 posts. There have been 29 posts of a non-personal nature, so I am now required to post something personal about myself.

Using a highly sophisticated computer imaging program and a box of crayons I finally decided which tidbit of personal information I will share with y’all. Scary as it may be for me, I feel that these small glimpses into my life will allow you, the reader, to understand my viewpoints more and get a getter grasp on how dumb I actually am.

Okay, I’m ready to communicate with you now.

In 8 months I’m going to be a father. At this point I’ve never been so excited, scared, and hungry at the same time. I look forward to the journey God has for my family and I and I’m excited to see how being a father with shape not only my odd personality, but how my odd personality will extend my our child.

That being said, I’ve already decided to speak to the baby with a fake British accent. I want to know if it will rub off on them and they’ll not pickup our Southern draw.

My brother Jason will love this one. According to this site .999… = 1. And here’s how the prove it.

a = 0.999…
10a = 9.999…
10a - a = 9.999… - 0.999…
9a = 9
a = 1

Your thoughts?

Read a great article over at chromaSYNTHETIC regarding how to use JavaScript in a way that won’t kill your page for those viewing with JavaScript turned on. If you work with HTML and JavaScript be sure to check it out.

It’s amazing how far we’ve come with JavaScript. These days it is used under the hood of some of the most helpful and useful websites. It’s even running online applications that may one day replace our standalone computer applications. When I first started to use JavaScript in a web environment I believed it only useful for animations and browser effects. I never thought the day would come when JavaScript became useful for more than image preloading and rollovers.

The addition of JavaScript libraries, such as mootools, moo.fx, jquery, coding has never been easier. If you’ve been avoiding JavaScript because you’ve viewed it only as a fad or a gimmick, give these sites a look over and see what usefulness JavaScript is now bringing to the table. You may be surprised at how much time and energy it can save you.

Working in an office environment can be a big change for people accustomed to life “outside the cubicle.” And while there are a plethora of books, movies and tv shows that offer a glimpse into the office lifestyle, the more common and everyday tips seem to have been lost in the translation. So I’ve taken 660 seconds and compiled a list of the top 13 office life tips.

1. When in doubt, use the stall with the toilet seat in the up position.
2. On days you forget you coffee mug, remember that the extra coffee mugs around the coffee pot have been there since before you were hired at your previous job.
3. New guy’s computer equipment will always be up for grabs as long as what you replace it with is still in working order, but you can’t take more than two items from his setup before his first day.
4. Like vampires, you must be asked to sit behind someoneelse’s desk before you are allowed.
5. Pranks are always okay as long as you can take what you dish out.
6. Free food is one of the best ways to make office friends. The best way is to cover for someone.
7. Cool managers are hard to come by. Do what you can to keep them around.
8. Customers don’t care if it looks right in Firefox or on a Mac. If it’s wrong in IE6 in XP then it’s wrong to the world.
9. Make sure you always test in Firefox and on a Mac. Fight the machine even if you customer doesn’t know they are.
10. The customer is always right. Unless they want to leave, then that’s a bad decision and should rethink it.
11. Don’t be afraid to tell a customer no. Tiled kitten backgrounds simply don’t look that good.
12. Always be suspicious of free food or drink. If the person giving it out has either a smile on their face or a camera in their hand throw whatever they give you away….or give it to the new guy.
13. Be creative and insert your personality into everything you do. Unless your a cat person. Then seriously consider suicide.

Science Fiction movies are known for their cool special effects, other worldly exploits, and space wars. Unfortunately some stand out not for their plots and acting, but for the products and inventions that make their plots work with only minimal suspension of disbelief. These are the Three Worst Science Fiction Movie Inventions.

3. The Ray Gun/Laser Rifle/Blaster/Phaser
No matter what you call it in your movie, it has the same effect on your actors. It turns them from a space hero who is willing to fight for what be believes by blowing stuff into a million pieces to a space hero who wants to avoid a fight by shooting you with a beam of light that will either make you fall over as if you had a heart attack or make you vanish into thin air. The normal gun is so much cooler! It’s loud. It’s violent. It makes you bleed. The Phaser is small, girly, and makes the sound of air escaping from your butt during those times you’re trying to squeeze and hold it in.

Not to mention the fact that Sci-Fi movies have found 1000 different ways to hack the ray gun to do things that make no since for it to do. Need to drill a hole in that wall? Lets hack the ray gun to do it! Need to destroy the sun? Lets hack the ray gun to do it! Need a spermicide? Lets hack the ray gun to do it!

What movie genre should be using this technology: Mob Movies
Think about it. If you shoot someone, it leaves no hole in their chest, it doesn’t burn them, in fact the victim looks like they simply fell over. Mobsters would surely love this technology. It would make their line of work less messy.

2. Talking Computers
Have you ever surfed to a site that had that dumb fake person that wants you to type stuff into the box and it will say it back to you? Have you ever tried it and thought, “Hey, that’s amazing! I wish my computer would always talk to me like this.” Yeah, nor have I. So why do future computers always talk? In the time it takes for it to tell that that a missile is about to destroy your ship, you’ve already been hit and am watching the event unfold in the afterlife. All because you accidentally set the computer voice to “Indian tech support pretending to be American.”

The talking computer is also a cheap way to give the computer more powers than it should have. It allows for the computer to be self aware, play tic-tac-toe with you, and get you lost in space. With all the technology it must take to make the computer understand your talking and speak in return to you, you would think they could at least make it sound like a real person. The computer always sounds like a robot. No matter how sophisticated that computer technology is, the voice always sounds like William Shatner. Like it is having to think of what to say one…word…at…a…time.

What movie genre should be using this technology: Comedy Movies
You know that you’ve told your computer to say dirty words. Everyone has had a few laughs from having their computer tell you to go screw yourself. Now just imagine a movie that does this for an hour and a half. That would be comedy gold!

1. Computer interface without instructions
Imagine that you’ve never used a standard qwerty keyboard before. You may have seen others use it in the past, but not enough to know what the keys are/do. If you were to sit in from of a keyboard would you be able to type out the first 10 lines of Amazing Grace with no errors? Didn’t think so. So why can Sci-Fi people use computers with no marks indicating what the keys are with such precision? In fact they do so without them even being set to some standard. That’s hardcore! They can see 1000 different types of keyboards, button and switch boards, and command centers and instantly know which button operates the bidet built into the seat cushion.

What movie genre should be using this technology: Horror Movies
Ever notice that in Horror Movies the girls in bikinis never know how to operate the one device that can save them from the psycho maniac with the axe? If they had the knowledge to use the device then the world’s population of sexy blonds willing to do a topless scene would grow 10 fold overnight. Although they still wouldn’t want anything to do with you computer guys.

Call me crazy, but I still enjoy buying music. I enjoy the feeling of opening my newly purchased CD and having a first listen. I enjoy looking through the album liner notes to see the pictures of the band. I enjoy reading the thanks section to see who the artist felt helped enough to warrant putting their name on their album booklet. I enjoy buying music.

I image there are a lot of people like me. People out there who feel that the digital download revolution isn’t what they want. People out there who still enjoy having a actual pressed CD than a burned copy from tracks purchased on iTtunes. People out there who would rather have the best audio quality available from the beginning, and have the ability to convert it to an format needed for later use.

And here is where the first snag hits. According to the RIAA, ripping a CD you bought is illegal. They claim that you have no license to rip a CD and convert it to another format. According to them, you should purchase a legal digital download and use that. So, pay for it twice or else the artist will suffer.

This is nothing more than a blatant attempt to help their dieing business model. They see their profits falling and are scared. And instead of trying something new, they simply want to force us customers to pay more for the same old thing. An example, I went to FYE the other day and was looking around. I found the newest Interpol CD and my jaw dropped. They wanted $26 for the album! I would expect that price for a box set or a rare Smiths import LP, but the new Interpol CD? Are you kidding me?

In desperation for a new musical purchase I decided to look around on the internet for a good place to make some purchases. After a while I found cdbaby.com. WOW! This is how buying music should be! RIAA, take a note. When you guys are dead and buried, cdbaby will still be around. It put the fun back in to buying music, something y’all have tried to kill for a while now. They also got money from me, something I’ve tried to kill for a while now.

I just read a great article from the NY Times about a High School teacher who requires parents to complete homework along with their children. What a great idea! Not only does this require the parents to take a more active role in their child’s education, but it also forces the parents to dedicate time and effort into their children, something that a lot of parents these days need.

It seems that all too often parents view school as a babysitter for their kids and for the most part have the kids on “auto pilot.” This idea will allow kids and parents to discuss issues and ideas with each other and possibly see things from new and different perspectives.

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