Eric Mesa | January 30, 2007
According to “Power Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life” (p17) Steve Jobs created Breakout! That’s right, that wonderfully addictive game, second only to Tetris for most, was created by the man who created Apple, NextStep, Pixar (via financing), and the iPod. Is there anything the black turtle-neck [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 30, 2007
DO NOT UPGRADE! There are many reasons, but here are the most important ones – Norton Antivirus does NOT work with Vista as of now. It will make some graphics and sounds cards work at reduced capacity. Finally, they are ALREADY talking about a Service Pack 1 – meaning there are flaws [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 30, 2007
Existential Ponderings on Vimeo
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Eric Mesa | January 27, 2007
DRM and why it’s evil…..
DRM on Vimeo
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Eric Mesa | January 27, 2007
Had a small outage last night after I switched to a new router. Took some time for the DNS tables to catch up.
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Eric Mesa | January 25, 2007
First they release news that Barack Obama went to school in a madrassa in Indonesia. When CNN decides to do some research and proves that it’s just a public school, Fox comes out and shows their anti-muslim racism outright.
From ThinkProgress.org we get this transcript:
GIBSON [W]hat did they see when they went to the madrassa [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 25, 2007
I’ve been too busy to write recently; even though I have so much to write about. It’s quite annoying.
There’s a lip dubbing challenge going on at Vimeo.com. I would have called it a fan video – basically people are making music videos to their favorite songs and, instead of attacking us [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 24, 2007
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Eric Mesa | January 23, 2007
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Eric Mesa | January 22, 2007
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Eric Mesa | January 21, 2007
Ah, it’s so fun looking back at Cornell now that I no longer have to deal with all the BS.
Professor Delchamps Plays The Cornell Alma Mater (First Few Notes) on a Moog Synthesizer on Vimeo
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Eric Mesa | January 20, 2007
I’ve written before about how my interests tend to go in cycles. I haven’t played Sims 2 or Civ 4 in ages. In fact, since getting to work after Christmas Break I haven’t really taken many photos either. I became consumed with Blender and getting my animations done. Then Vimeo raised [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 20, 2007
If there’s one thing those of us who have been creating websites for a long time know – it’s that inlining images is not to be tolerated. It’s considered very rude to waste someone else’s bandwidth – especially since they are probably paying per mb. What’s inlining you say? It’s displaying an [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 17, 2007
I don’t know if it’s Global Warming or El NiƱo, but 2 weeks ago in the Baltimore-DC area it was 70 degrees and outside in a tank top in January. This week, in fact, yesterday or so, it’s snowing in Dallas, Texas! I’m hearing this has ruined orange, lemon, and avocado crops. [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 15, 2007
Here it finally is:
Aida’s Life: The Interview on Vimeo
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