Final Fantasy...The Symphony

This story makes me smile. I'm at once happy, sad, shocked, unsurprised and encouraged. Strange.
The Chicagoland Pops Orchestra recently performed a show entitled "Dear Friends, The Music of Final Fantasy". Even better, the show sold out to mostly young people dressed in everything from tuxes and gowns to jeans and t-shirts. Images from the video game were played above the stage and the show was received with several standing ovations.
Here's the link to the MSNBC story.

Turn your old PC into a music server

I saw this on "Call for Help" the other day. I've seen it before (even used it), but these are nice step-by-step instructions on how to make use of an old computer tower as a network-wide Music Server. Pretty slick, and perfect for university houses. Don't we all have an old computer kicking around downstairs?
This system will allow you to store all the music on one computer that becomes accessible to every user on the network. You can all combine your music libraries and brag about the resulting massive music collection.
Turn your old PC into a music server

How to Destroy the Earth

via The Gravity Lens Weblog.
This site is aimed at those for whom merely taking over the world has become somewhat passe. Now, with the help of Sam's Archive, we are able to flat out destroy the world. Carefully thought out strategies include:
-Waiting for the all the atoms that compose Earth to suddenly, simultaneously and spontaneously cease to exist. Odds of this happening are somewhere north of a googoplex (see site for details), but it requires no real effort on your part. Bonus.
-Existence negated via time travel. Simply go back in time with explosives to blow up any patch of material that might someday form a planet the size and composition of Earth. Simple, yet effective.
Lots more at Sam's Archive.

Voodoo Blogging

I came across this site the other day and immediately read through the entire thing...including the archives. It's a blog that lists reasons why the author hates his/her flatmate. Fairly anonymous, totally hilarious, fun for the whole family. Well, not the whole family. This one has some pretty colourful language. Otherwise all good clean fun. No voodoo. Sorry.
Things I hate about my Flatmate

My Favourite Firefox Extension

From the "Yet another reason to switch to Firefox" category...

The BlogThis Extension. This is my new favourite add-on to Firefox. I can now right-click from any page on the web and a pop-up window appears which allows me to update my blog. It is seamless, clever and very useful. I don't have to worry about loading my blog editing screen or opening multiple tabs...it's all right here. Plus, it already has the hyperlink recorded for the page I'm blogging. That's good pizza.

Blog Hopping

A new game I like to play when I have free moments on the internet is one I call Blog Hopping. As a Blogger member I put a wee bar at the top of my blog. On this bar (as you can see at the top of my site) there is a button called "Next Blog". Usually, after a few doses of languages not my own, I find something interesting.

For example...
PowerBlog!
This blog has something to do with a radio show. Scroll down far enough and there is an interesting read about the concept of purgatory.
Here's the link to that article.

Happy hopping!

Star Wars Arcade Game

I was sitting in Gatwick Airport in London, minding my own business, waiting for my delayed flight to board, not expecting to see anything cool. Then it happened. I looked over my shoulder and saw the Star Wars Trilogy Arcade. I decided that 50p was a good investment, grabbed the single control stick and attempted to use my X-Wing to take down the Death Star. Life was good.

Here's the site I found with more information.

Inspiration

I was recently reading Scott Moschella's Plastic Bugs and it inspired me. Moschella has already created a word (WarTuning...check wikipedia, Oxford English hasn't caught-up yet) and now he is attempting to create a phrase. "Skipping the Monkeys" is, basically, skipping the bad parts to get to the good. Here's the link to this.

In response, I have decided to share the phrase I first heard in Norway. My Girl and I came up with the phrase "that's good pizza" to describe anything good. The beauty of this phrase is its ambiguity. Good Pizza can be used both sincerely or sarcastically. It's all in the delivery. So I release my new phrase into the untamed wild. Creating new metaphors is definitely good pizza.

New Blog

This blog has become too stale and tired for me. I'm off to a new adventure. My new blog is music centered and is called audiophiles. Check it out.

As an obituary for semperlepidus, I did have some cool posts. I read through my archives today and I was impressed by the coolness factor of some of the posts.

Thanks for visiting. Try the new site if you are so inclined. Over and out.

In a Nutshell

Here's all the updates I can think of at this early hour.
- Great Big Sea concert last night at Massey Hall was ubba-awesome. GBS shouldn't sell seats...just spaces to stand and jump and clap and sing and have a good time. Two encores and close to two hours of music. Nice. Opening act Liam Titcomb was pretty good too...especially Jericho Rose.
- The Screen Savers has once again been ravaged and destroyed. All of the cast (save two) were given half a day's notice to be gone from the building. Pretty crappy. Granted, this incarnation was fairly high on the suck meter, but the trend in these continuing "improvements" brought to us by G4 is towards more sucky rather than less. TV just got even worse for me, no hockey, no geekTV...I'll have to start blogging again.
- I bought my plane ticket for January. I leave the 18th on an international mission of aid to my ailing heart and my lovely girlfriend.
- I'm working a new job now that Adventureworks! has slowed down. I work at the Nobleton Feel Mill. It's brutal work, but I'm financing the trip mentioned above.

I'm still debating the direction of this blog. The inspiration to add to it is inconsistent. Life, however, is good.

Over and out.