Scott inherited the genetic gift of quantum leaping at an early age. You may know him from his feature role in a documentary series where he spent one leap day every four years in someone else's life. Since he only exists for one 1/4 days a year, scientists put his birth date somewhere between the Mesozoic era and the Age of Enlightenment. The latter is currently held in higher regard as it is believed that the birth of Bakula was directly responsible for the subsequent period of intellectualism.
It is said that he achieved omnipotence through a telepathic bond with his cell phone Ziggy. Few have survived direct encounters with Sam but many claim to have "felt" his presence in common household objects.
No one knows what happened to the hunk and part time actor, but many believe that he comes out every leap day to feed on the employed. Others speculate that he last left Earth on a rocket ship, shot off as if from an archer, into the cosmos.
Bakula is the tinkle in your eye and the pie in the sky. Next time you see a shooting star, just remember that it's Scott sending you a special message from space.
When everyone else has abandoned you in life, he will be there. Just remember, when you get down on your knees to count your blessings, be sure to Count Bakula.
Earlier this month, a Virginia Tech student created a floor lamp that generated light through the power of gravity. The student produced the concept for the lamp, named "Gravia," for a competition led by the Greener Gadgets Conference. Somehow, he only took second place. This is probably due to the fact that his lamp is currently theoretical and works based on the assumption of what future LED innovation will bring.
The inventor estimates that the current design would produce the equivalent of a 40 watt bulb and stay on for four hours at a time. Oh yeah, and the lamp is powered by a two ton falling weight (that you lift). The upside is that the hardware of the lamp is projected to last 200 years if used 24 hours a day every day.
Obviously, due to the technical limitations, we aren't going to see this in Walmart any time soon. However, the foudation has been laid for an intriguing technology based on an unlimited source of energy.
Plus... it looks fuckin cool right? I want one but I'm not sure it offsets the forklift needed to start it.
An already troubled Toshiba announced today that it will officially abandon the manufacturing and marketing of it's HD DVD format. This comes as no surprise to informed buyers as the data medium had been lagging behind Sony's Blu-Ray format for some time.
Major turning points in the format war included the adoption of Blu-Ray by Blockbuster (June 2007) and Netflix (February 2008). The industry giants brought an installed user base that overwhelmed the already struggling competition. In the end, it was too much for Toshiba to resist.
Away from the movie industry, the demise of HD DVD raises questions regarding video game consoles. Most of us are aware that Microsoft's Xbox 360 currently uses HD DVD while Sony's PS3 uses their in house Blu-Ray format. Now that Sony has won, it will be interesting to see what affect this has on the ongoing console war. Sony still has a sizable distance to close in their library of games, but it's built in Blu-Ray player is looking more and more like a good investment.
Since Microsoft doesn't actually use HD DVD for games, we will wait and see if they can eat crow and include a dongle for Blu-Ray support. One can only imagine the difficulties they'd face if games suddenly become so large as to require data storage greater than that of a single DVD. Either way, continued support and use of the HD DVD format by Microsoft would seem to hurt 360 owners*, IMHO.
*If nothing else, it would cost 360 owners more since you have to purchase the external HD DVD drive for $129.99
Tired of an inaccurate kill-cam, host-quits, and a plethora of other fuck-ups and bugs in Call of Duty 4? Well ache no more, for a patch is on the way!
From N4G.com:
"The new feature patch fourzerotwo talked about last week (with new Kill Cams, Host Migration, and other new features) for the Xbox 360 has finished it’s internal testing and development and has officially been sent off to Microsoft for Certification. It’s only a matter of Microsoft putting it through the certification paces and it will be available for download for all Xbox 360 players."
Hopefully the download should be available soon.
2:00 PM Update, Exclusively from Maida:
The Update will include:
1) More Kill-Cams (like viewing your untimely demise from the aerial perspective of a bomb dropped from an airstrike
2) Host Migration to preserve games when a host quits
3) The ability to quickly mute an annoying player within the game (instead of having to mull through the Dashboard)
4) Improved Sniper/ACOG accuracy ... not sure how I feel about this one
5) Much better spectator view, including full 360 view while in 3rd person mode, and the ability to switch to a 1st person view
I have no idea if this will show up as pictures or just crazy text. I am only medium computer savvy, not all like Bear and stuff. Luckily I have a sincere lack of interest in the outcome which gives me the confidence to go forward.
Also, Bear, this thing won't let me upload photos saved on the harddrive. Fix that now. how the hell do computers work anyway? can somebody tell me? it's really just magic, screw you, science.
Some days there are 10,000 phonecalls, a million kids with infections who all want my attention, and tons of "real" work to do. Some days there are lolcatz
Most of you out there reading this - perhaps all of you out there, in fact - know me as one hell of a lazy mother-fucker. Call it malformed genetic execution within the womb, call it an egregious environmental background. Whatever you want to chalk it up to, the empirical result is the same: I sleep 14 hours a day.
Anyways, like most people, I clamor for tidbits of self-validation every so often to keep the engine purring and the transmission, well, transmitting. If anyone feels the same as I, then avail yourself to two fabulous links:
God, what a miserable title. Almost as miserable as the movie "Jumper," staring emotionally flat (how does he get work? Actually, how the fuck did he land the role of Anakin Skywalker? Oh, wait...) Hayden Christensen and a slowly-decaying-as-a-worthwhile-actor Samuel L. Jackson. Anyways, I digress.
A few things I'd like to talk about today.
Number one, I've purchased a book by Todd Perkins, called Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. I'd like to get proficient, or at least somewhat useful, with Flash and ActionScript in order to provide all you readers out there with some interesting multimedia content. Right now I'd be happy with a working button, but as it stands I have a beautifully shaded (thank you, gradient tool!) circle and nothing else.
Secondly, iTunes 7.6 has been on my proverbial nerves. The latest edition has brought even more bugs into an already-slow application. I've always noticed that the sound-quality on iTunes lagged behind Winamp, at least on my system, and today I switched back over to Winamp. The latest version, build 5.52, runs smoothly, and sound reproduction is superb - far better than iTunes, and I'm not sure why. How come iTunes lacks the beauty and elegant functionality of the iPod and iPhone? Can't say I'll be switching for good; I don't trust 3rd party applications with my iPod.
I feel like a poor man's Andy Rooney right now.
Finally (and the reason behind this post), I stumbled upon a fantastic physics-based game, reminiscent of the "falling sand" and "crayon" games I've played in the past. It's not really a game, per se, since the only goals are those you set for yourself. I wouldn't say it's as addictive as SimCity or Counter-Strike, but it is, well, phun.
Please buy me a PS3, 12 gunblades, and a pre-ordered FFXIII for Valentines day. I need to kick imperial ass and protect my magical crystals on a daily basis both fantastically and realistically.
At approximately 10:15 this morning, soon after a relaxing hour spent learning the intricacies of "poor girls" porn, I discovered that I too had become a victim of the all-too-famous phenomenon known as ... Identity Theft (for those who play cymbals, please crash them now). Sure enough, someone out there made the decision that they really liked my name and, especially, debit card, and yesterday afternoon they began to make use of both of these. As it is part of my morning Jew routine (Jew-tine, if you will) to check my bank balance and cackle with glee over my hoarded wealth, I saw that I was being charged a sizable amount from a nationwide retailer of car stereos and accessories. As I am prone to forgetting rather lengthy periods of time, I had to think hard for an instance where I had made such a charge. After much deliberation, I reasoned that I would not have EVER purchased an accessory of any kind for my vehicle (Exhibit A - Price of a new tag light on car = $3.99 to 5.99. My alternative = leave broken tag light in place for over 2 years.) So, over the next hour, I canceled the order with the retailer, closed my account at the bank, and attempted to contact local law enforcement.
The day continued much as you would expect and I soon found myself bound with twenty yards of rope to the outside of the utility shed (thank you Mistress). My thoughts wandered and I was soon thinking of the upcoming tax season. With some quick mental math I determined that I will be forced to pay the federal government over one hundred times as much money as was stolen from my checking account. I don't want to do it. When I was in trouble when my debit card was stolen, I had someone to call (local authorities). When I have the federal government stealing money from me, who can I call on to help? It's too late to avoid the disaster coming this April 15th, but I've made the decision that as a big "fuck you" to the IRS, I will earn no money in 2008 and therefore have zero taxable income. Anybody with me?
I write this post both as a site update and as a celebration of Poppy's first post. This is a wonderful day for those of you that have long lamented the lack of monkey media. We are sure to be in for a treat.
As for the site, I have finally completed the transition from the previous design. I'll continue to expand the available sections of bigevilrobot including (but not limited to) interesting links, photos, and tunes. There have been some murmurings about the plainness or "over minimalism" of the design so I'll also be tweaking things as we go along. Hopefully we'll be getting some good concept art from Maida that we can display somewhere.
As Chris requested three and one-third minutes ago, I have upgraded the threat level of the "Author a Post" page to orange. You can expect to enjoy better image uploading, text styling, and all around quality of life. Most of you should recognize the toolbar buttons due to their similarity with MS Office. If anyone is having trouble I will post a small tutorial explaining how to perform simple tasks.
Due to backend changes, I will need everyone to logout once before you use any of the comment or posting features. If you don't, you won't be able to use anything.
I would like to thank Mark James for his free web icons over at famfamfam.com. They serve as a nice accompanyment to the different sections of the site.
Well, ladies and germs, this is it. My first real, official post. Bear has been trying for some time to get me to contribute, which I have flatly refused to do. My job is to inspire behind the scenes. Whenever you see a great new page design or a hilarious post, you can rest assured that it all began with me.
Monty, I tried to upload a photo with this, but it didn't work. I went back and tried to edit it, but I can't find any place to edit the photo options. (See, I have just inspired him to improve the admin interface.)
I've shown this around in the past but I recently dredged it up for a few front and backend improvements. I came up with this baby back when I started learning a bit of Javascript. Play around with it and tell me if you think we should incorporate it into this site.
Some features to play with: (1) navigate through the images by using the left and right arrow keys, (2) going left on the first image takes you to the last and going right on the last image takes you to the first, (3) clicking the large image will take you to the original image file for downloading or bookmarking, and (4) in order to leave the gallery you simply slick the back button once. Suck it down Facebook.
As many of you readers out there know, we've been working long and hard on a new logo for Bigevilrobot. Something catchy. Something beautiful. Mostly, something totally fucking sweet. As the Lead Art Director of this site, let me promise you that we've dedicated over 100 hours to this project, and you shan't be disappointed.
What shall our new logo be? Stay tuned to find out ...
Earlier this month, social networking giant, MySpace, deleted the 35,000 member, "Atheist and Agnostic Group," for the second time since November 2007. What's especially interesting about this group is that it was the largest collection of Atheists and Agnostics in the world. It even has its own Wikipedia page. The group was awarded the "Excellence in Humanist Communication Award" in 2007 from Harvard University.
MySpace admits that the group was not in violation of the Terms of Service but that other users found Atheism, in general, to be offensive. Unfortunately, the minor trim ended up being more of a clear cutting. One affected user writes:
“My personal profile was deleted as well, and despite weeks of emails to customer service, plus a petition signed by 500 group members, MySpace won’t budge."
It remains to be seen whether the group will reorganize for a third time. Either way, it's a shame that a mainstream media outlet like News Corp would display such intolerance of the millions of godless Americans.
Apple Unveils New Product Unveiling Product! The Apple God in the Sky, Steve Jobs, recently unveiled a new "product unveiling product," which should revolutionize how products are unveiled. I'm excited. Are you?
Scott Bakula, man or myth?
