Blog De Dred

I shot and edited this video together to show what went down at this year's AIM IT Futures Forum. We brought in David Pogue, who is a personal technology columnist for the New York Times, and a bit of an internet celebrity.

Found at Virus Comix - Subnormality

Click this picture to hear Trotter's Epic!

A dude I play World of Warcraft with told this story a few times over ventrillo. I had him tell it a 3rd and final time, but this time I actually recorded it... and then I remixed it to the beat from the video in the previous post. I think its pretty funny, but it seems to be hit or miss with the people I show it to... at any rate, its not meant to be derogatory towards anyone's race or culture - its just a true story that occurred as told by an eye witness - with a sick beat. :)

Note - click the picture/link above and it will take you to the site that is hosting the file. You can stream it from there, download the .mp3, or download it as a ringtone... why you would want to download it as a ringtone, I don't know, but the option is there.

This is an Italian actor/musician from 1972. This song is supposed to simulate what English sounds like to people who do not speak English.

The beat is universally sick tho :D

I was helping my girlfriend do a powerpoint for her sociology class and this was in her text book... I had to screenshot it from the .pdf file and upload it... I love when textbook authors try to be real...



My reflection would be short -

"Pedantic authors of college textbooks should leave slang and attempts at demonstrating real life conversations out of their work."

My front yard this morning was shrouded in leaves.

This dude was driving in front of me when I was on my way into work the other day, so I reached into my backseat and grabbed my XTi.

I was bored and had this random footage on my hard drive...interesting mock tv show preview.

**note - I corrected Youtube's clipping issues. This version is as it was originally meant to be seen.**

***anothernote - Youtube's version never played properly either... Trying Viddler :D***

A screenshot I took has been featured on www.wow.com!



Click the picture to see the actual page.

Pictured in the screenshot is my level 80 Mage, Plavalaguna on the Executus realm. I am the guild leader of a guild called "Light up the Darkness".

although my normal response would be "np"

Remember back in high school when teachers made you make brochures about obscure topics one wouldn't normally make a brochure for? Well my brother had one of these asinine projects assigned to him a week or two ago. His topic was Queen Elizabeth I...who the hell makes a brochure about a person? Anyway...he asked for help on it and I agreed to help him blow this pointless project out of the water.

First Part


Second Part


When printed and assembled properly, it folds like a three way brochure would. Needless to say, we got an A and the teacher's request to "utilize the project for examples in future classes"

Dear Teachers,

Plz stop assigning dumb projects.

kthxbai

This is my 2nd level 80 (the one in the middle). Arcane Mage named Plavalaguna... She is named after the Opera singer who got pwned in the 5th Element. The surrounding people are members of my guild who do chain heroics with me all the time. Thanks for helping to gear me out guys!

Nightdred - Level 80 Hunter - WOW Armory


Plavalaguna - Level 80 Mage - WOW Armory

Found this over at Teophoto's DeviantART page

About a year or more ago, I had Dan perform his Pink Floyd tribute to Richard Wright who had recently passed away. This was set to be in the second episode of my Controlled Chaos podcast, which I scrapped due to content. This is one of the best things that came out of doing the podcast, and I felt it was a shame no one got the chance to view it. Here it is, more than a year later, for your viewing pleasure. Hope you enjoy.



Youtube made his introduction a little hard to hear.

In the first part he says "This is an imitation of every Pink Floyd song ever done".

In the second part he says "This is Kermit the frog singing Wish You Were Here".

This afternoon I met up with a friend of mine named Dan who plays guitar, flute, and sings. He has another friend named Ken who is a ninja/guitar player who also showed up. They performed on the street corner with vocals, flute, guitar and nunchakas...yes, you read that right...nunchakas. Stationed in between Spaghetti Works & Vivace in downtown Omaha and I was there to videotape the event. Below are the videos gleaned from today's activities.

An Introduction to the Madness...


"Lets see if we can wake up the people in the next county!"


A "Shrouded Day" original song called "Lost Your Way"


A cover of America's "Horse With No Name"


Flute & Guitar harmonizing..wait..what?


This is a decent song, but it is very slow.

Pretty epic, hope it works out for you Tony!

Picked up some Skullcandy Ink'd earbuds for $20 at Best Buy over the weekend. They sound amazing and come with several caps so you can use the ones that actually fit your ear!



My old earphones were the ones that came with my ipod...Apple Earbuds...I don't think they actually fit any human's ear.

He had his staples taken out yesterday.

"That's all I can stands, and I can't stands no more!"

Wow I've been neglecting my blog for far too long...I suppose it is time to post an update and make that age old promise of "updating more often" so here I am saying...sorry for the recent lack of updates...and I'm back!

My cousin Adam was in a freak wakeboarding accident (I've had to ensure that I call it WAKEboarding and not WATERboarding in the "wake" (pardon the pun) of the recent ethical topic of waterboarding as it relates to times of war and terrorism...) and he broke his femur basically in two.

As many of you may recall from your 8th grade anatomy unit, the femur doesn't just break. It is the strongest bone in your body, stronger than concrete! Adam somehow managed to twist his femur just enough that the stress of being lifted out of the water combined with the twisting torque caused what I have dubbed "immaculate pain" in the form of bone severation.

I created a card for Adam with my trusty Macbook Pro and Photoshop CS4. I have uploaded it for all the denizens of the blogosphere to enjoy.





Adam is doing much better now...even managed to drive to my house from his apartment!

***note***
Above, I used parentheses within parentheses - to those who know the reference - (In Parentheses)

The movie was actually pretty good although I was a bit upset that they changed the ending.

I got some really great photos of the fireworks that were shot off this year for the 4th of July and thought I would share a few of the best ones. I also have wallpaper-sized if anyone is interested.

Sorry its been so long since post, been kinda busy lately with two cousins moving in and one moving out. Updates will happen more frequently now that things are settling.

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This flickr user has made the point that video games have always been violent...and has illustrated how he viewed kills from early video games. He notes in his description that while Mortal Kombat was the first graphic representation of murder or death, the idea has long been a main theme in videogames.

My cousin Zach made the Cutters team as a sophomore this year, and they went on to win this year's Little 500, which is a 200 lap bike race. This marked the first time that any team has one 3 years in a row.


Zach getting ready to mount the bike

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Zach on the bike


Around the bend


Chasing down the dude ahead of him


Leading the pack


One of the seniors came back from a 30 second penalty (which was bullshit) with 18 laps left to cross the finish line for the win!


Victory!


Winner's Circle


The Bike


The Trophy

Hey everyone...its been nearly a month since my last post...I had a major video project I was working on and then ended up with Pneumonia. Sorry for the absence. I came across this the other day, and I think it might be the most epic thing I've ever seen.



Mike Patton is the lead singer...he also lead Faith No More, but I think this is probably the coolest thing he's ever done.

Notice he creates the effect at the beginning by wearing a gas mask...later creates distortion by exerting air as he sings in the mic and also creates an echo/reverb effect by using two mics with different compressions. Epic and genius. Hope you enjoy.

Adam got an e-mail from our cousin Carson, who is 10 or so today, and he wanted to know what was going on and if we had been watching any Tom & Jerry lately. We decided to put together this video response for him.

This is a commercial I shot and edited with a few friends of mine for the E-Fair, which is a jobs fair. It is insanely cheesy, but it kind of is by nature. Either way, I think its hilarious.

These come out this summer. Looks like I will be drinking a good bit of blue Mountain Dew!

Also, my guild in WOW (Care Bears) now has a website - Care Bears

I created our logo, which I am very proud of!

Tricky with Dirty Little Rabbits
Sunday March 15 - Slowdown - $20

The Whopper Bar!

In my opinion, this will ONLY work if they serve actual burgers...not the cheap shit they serve at every Burger King restaurant ever. What do you think?

found at: Inquisitr.com

Found over at Cinematical.com

This is, in my opinion, the coolest thing about the new Safari BETA aside from the speed increase. I have all my most frequented sites arranged on one page as a thumbnail thanks to the feature called "top sites."

The way it works currently is to monitor which sites you use most frequently and then populate thumbnails of those sites on the top sites tab. I don't like this as it is since I am all about customization so I developed a workaround.

Clear all the sites from your top site tab and then go to the site you want to add and switch back to the top sites tab. Repeat this two or three times until the site gets added. At this point you can click the edit button in the bottom left corner and "pin" it so it won't ever move or get replaced.

As a side note - I made this post through firefox, I hope someone makes a mac compatible firefox addon that does this because I really like firefox better than Safari.

This actually happened to me! (I would be the dude on the right).

We were sitting around at the gates of Stormwind creating the raiding graduation guild for Lights Honor, which is called Care Bears -- A few of us took part in some RP out of boredom and I felt compelled to take this screenshot.

(we play on Executus, which is not an RP (Role Playing) server, but a PVP (Player vs. Player) server.)

I've been pretty interested in this ever since I saw one of the Mission: Impossible movies with Tom Cruise. In the beginning of the second or third movie he talks about traffic working as a living organism to further his cover as a traffic analyst (rather than IMF agent).

This dude cut in front of me today after I refused to let him merge into the right lane to get off on the same exit as me because I wouldn't have had enough time to stop and I had to swerve to avoid hitting him. At a slow speed (well under the speed limit) my truck careened into the guard rail. This is the result. (BTW I'm fine, it was so slow that my airbags didn't even deploy.)

So I shot a 9mm pistol at the Bullet Hole today, which is a local gun range. I was pretty deadly for my first time with a handgun, as you can see from the poor assailant pictured below.

Gunaxin.com Asked the question "What if our favorite comic book and super hero characters were female?" As a response, they have 4 pages of femaleified (yes I just made that word up) super heros/comic book characters. Here's my selection of the best.


Space Ghost


The Punisher


Nightcrawler


The Mad Hatter


The Joker


Hellboy


Gambit


Boba Fett


Batman (Or...how Batgirl should have been...I'm looking at you Alicia Silverstone)

Who would you have liked to see femaleified? - let me know in the comments!

We 5-manned Onyxia, which used to be a 40 man 60 raid back in the day.

They mounted her head on the gates of Stormwind and some little kid painted a picture of it in crayon (below)