Eric Mesa | April 16, 2013
The slippery slope rebuttal can be pretty annoying depending on how dumb the person using the argument wants to be. For example, many people say all the surveillance cameras we have everywhere are a slippery slope towards totalitarian governments. While I think we still have a few tricks up our sleeves before we have to [...]
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Tags: gay marriage, marriage, polygamy
Eric Mesa | April 6, 2013
I first played Cities XL in May of 2011. I last played a year ago in April 2012. At the time I said I couldn’t wait until Sim City came out. However, we know what a fiasco that has become. So, discouraged about playing Sim City I decided to load up Cities XL. This is [...]
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Eric Mesa | January 17, 2013
The thing I like the most about Twitter is the ability to interact with creatives in real time. In the past you had to write a letter to a writer, artist, musician, etc and hope that, maybe, they’d actually read it and that, maybe, they’d feel compelled to reply with something more than boilerplate. I [...]
Category: Computers, Geek Love, General, Internet |
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Tags: comics, Paolo Rivera, social media, Twitter
Eric Mesa | December 10, 2012
Yesterday we took a look at the most interesting, now let’s look at the most viewed! Two photos of Nam that I took with my holga have really been taking off.
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Eric Mesa | December 9, 2012
The last time I could quickly find where I did this was last January. While there are some photos that are similar, there’s been quick a shake-up on the Most Interesting Photos (as determined by flickr’s algorithms).
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Eric Mesa | November 3, 2012
The Walking Dead (14 hours) – I played the latest episode of The Walking Dead. Because you can’t just save wherever you want, I ended up with 14 hours of playtime. I still haven’t finished episode 4.
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Eric Mesa | October 31, 2012
Earlier this year I wrote about using xbmc to create your own private Netflix. I thought I’d update my readers on how I like it. Here’s what the current version looks like with the default skin: I have linked it up with trakt.tv to track my tv and movie watching (just like music scrobbling with [...]
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Eric Mesa | February 25, 2012
Two years ago I reviewed Arch Linux. My conclusion at the time – great if you have to control every aspect of your system, but it’s not for me. I later used it on my Pogo Plug to set up a file and print server and it definitely has its merits. I know, generally speaking, [...]
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Tags: Arch Linux, Archbang, Archbang Linux
Eric Mesa | February 12, 2012
The #9 photo was: and now it is: which used to be #7
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Tags: Cornell, mole, Pope John Mole
Eric Mesa | October 5, 2011
Sorry I took so long to get to this. My last post had me finding out that the Reapers were actually the most ancient species I’ve heard about until now. And after my face off with Saren on Virmire, I thought I’d have to chase him to Ilos to finish the game. But, nope, [...]
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Tags: Mass Effect
Eric Mesa | May 30, 2011
This Photojojo consists solely of 365 Project photos.
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Eric Mesa | November 21, 2010
So I’ve used KDE for about a work week. During that time I’ve pretty much gone to using the KDE versions of all my programs except Konqueror. I’m not sure if the Fedora 14 version of Konqueror is the one with Webkit, but last time I used Konqueror with KHTML it was mucking up a [...]
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Tags: Amarok, Chokoq, Chrome, Gwibber, KDE 4, KDE 4.5, Konqueror, Kontact, Konversation, Kopete, KSnapshot, nepomuk, strigi, xchat-gnome
Eric Mesa | November 18, 2010
I love to write so when I started the 2010 NanoWrimo competition 9 days late I thought it would be no big deal to get caught up. I really under-estimated the effort behind writing over two thousand words a day. I think I probably could have made it if I had an idea ahead of [...]
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Eric Mesa | November 8, 2010
Here’s my latest Photojojo time capsule with my most “interesting” photos from late October to early November 2009.
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Eric Mesa | November 2, 2010
While listening to a recent podcast of This American Life (TAL) it made me realize the troubles that the disabled have to go through in this country. I don’t mean the way others treat them differently, although that certainly is an issue, but rather the little things we take for granted. The sad thing is [...]
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Tags: disability, NPR, This American Life