Weird

So three days without caffein, and now I can't sleep

Political rant to follow

Ok... as mentioned before, I need to learn to use "jumps" or "breaks" to limit clutter on my front page. To do so, I'm deciding to post my newest political rant after the break...

Who is this guy...

I write like
Cory Doctorow

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A start...

Ok... the amp will be designed around National Semiconductor's LM1875 audio amp. This, from all reviews and opinions I've gathered, is a decient enough chip at a good price...

So as this is probably now becoming more of a design/build blog, I need to learn how to create breaks, as I don't want to clutter the main page with long, drawn out technical discussions and drawings/photos....

We're going to do this now...

Ok... I've decided on a pretty basic amplifier... im pretty unhappy with the portable amp/speaker combo sound, so this is a good reason to do this... unfortunately, the AMP will run me <$50, but speakers not so much... so new mission. Need to find a good set of portable speakers on the cheap.

good luck to me :)

Ok... lets do this

After much deliberation, I've decided I need to go back to making SOMETHING. I have several constraints to this project, listed below.

• Must be CHEAP. I'm thinking <$50 US.
• Has to do SOMETHING. (Light up and make noise do not count)
• Must be able to be made with tools I have on hand. (I.E. no special fabrication)
• Parts must be able to be ordered independently (Not usually a problem, but still a limitation)

So there you have it kids... Not sure WHAT I'll be building, but when I figure it out, I'll let you know.

YAY fun...

So I enabled ads on this to see what they decide to advertise here... Post comments if you find anything particularly amusing/disturbing...

My first randomness

Innovation makes everything lemony-fresh. Familiarity breeds contempt. This is why I am kind of upset as to the current direction of gaming. Fallout 3 took the series to a FPS/RPG hybrid instead of a turn-based strategy game. It added a new feel to the game, but it added a new feel to the game. It turned the franchise from what it was into something I thought felt like a futuristic elder scrolls game. This is not to say it's a bad game. I just can't play it for more than 30 minutes without thinking of the similarities between it and the elder scrolls. Then the contempt comes in and I have to put it down.

This isn't to say games can't or shouldn't add new features or other innovations. Mario brothers have been doing it for years... they've come a long way from their 8 bit roots, adding new things and even revamping the game to a completely different feel of gameplay (mario galaxy and paper mario come to mind) which were genuinely fun to play, and didn't breed any of the contempt I feel being familiar to other games.

This is what worries me though. With the continuation of so many series and the re-hash of other older games (Gauntlet, Alien Syndrome, and Wolfenstein come to mind, there are many, many more), innovations are being thrown in to make it more "modern" and end up leaving the games feeling gimicky... some even to pull off a mediocre game from their "innovations". Most end up being put on my shelf as "just another FPS/Brawler/RPG" rather than the games I loved for their stories or gameplay.

Hello World

Just a quick post to say hello. I don't expect many people to be reading this, but this is something I've been meaning to to for a while... Also, don't expect to find useful information here, excepting very infrequently...