I am sure some of you know that I shoot rifles competitively. If you have no idea check out my user picture and this video (blue jacket and black hat is me), currently the video for what I am about to talk about is not up but should be soon.

Last weekend, the 24th and 25th of October, was the Texas State Service Rifle Championship help at Camp Swift which is between Elgin and Bastrop. All you BBQ lovers in Texas should know where these cities are and if you do not for shame. There...

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This really was not a road trip because I spent less than one hour in the car both ways.

This edition is rather late considering this years QuakeCon ended on the 16th of August, however, I crammed enough party into 3 days that once I returned I had an ear infection that only a shot in the butt and some nasty medicine could fix. Those of you who do not know, QuakeCon is the largest LAN party in North American where several thousand gamers from around the world come together to hangout,...

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Takashi Miike, a name that turns heads if you know who he is. For the uneducated he is a prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker, directing 70 films/videos/TV episodes. I fell into the category of the uneducated up until a few months ago when after being told to watch Oldboy was told the next movie to watch in the progression of foreign demented films was Ichi The Killer.

Ichi The Killer is insane, violent, and absurd.

A quick back story: I have a love for cheap...

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Disclaimer: This edition of the Great American Road Trip involves mostly shens and the Icrontic LAN/EXPO of ought 9.

As the sun starts to slowly poke its burning head over the horizon our lonely road warrior throws the last LAN cable in the car before turning to wave good bye at the start of this pilgrimage to the hall of heroes. With the burning of the mist from the highways and byways so does _k’s vehicle burn the spirits of creatures past in his mad dash from Plano, Texas to Spottsville,...

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The London Bridge, I have no idea how many times I have do the actions with the rhyme “the London Bridge is falling down”. This time since the London Bridge has not fallen all the way I felt it was something that every person should see once in their life time. Since it might not be obvious the London Bridge is not in England but in fact in Lake Havasu Arizona. The London Bridge edition is a continuation of The Great American Road Trip: Grand Canyon Edition.

The Approach:
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As with most young men they feel the need for a right of passage that is the road trip across America’s great south west, but few have the courage to make the trip with their mother. One problem with the start of this trip was the fact it was planned; nay to the idea of throwing caution to the wind and journeying out into the world with a dream in your heart and $5 in your pocket.

The Plan:
The itinerary for this leg of the trip is to leave Plano, TX ASAP after work on Friday,...

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Pretty amazing game.

Everyone who has spent more than 5 seconds playing FEAR, the first one, knows the pants peeing effect it has on everyone. FEAR 2 brings the same ideas and concepts back to the table. Reading a few reviews of FEAR 2: Project Origin pointed out that a lot of people feel that the full sequel is not as scary as the first. If you take an objective look at it it is equally as scary for someone who has never played either game but seeing as a lot of people who have...

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I have been kind of getting into folding at home pretty seriously, as in dropping roughly $900 into parts to have more video cards folding and quad core processors.

I just recently got an AMD 9600 up and folding under Windows and FahMon is reporting ~~1700 ppd for it, this is at stock 2.3GHz. I have an old 939 X2 4200+ that is at ~~600 ppd. But to top it all off my main rig runs a Q9450 at 3.55GHz and outputs anywhere from 2,200-3,000 ppd, depending on WUs that it is assigned. ...

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So I have been looking for a new job cause I hate my current one, though it looks like I have found a replacement. Currently I am working at Fry's Electronics selling computer hardware, which as a job is pretty nice if you love long nights and a sales job where you are commission based. But I have been working there for almost 3 years now, 2 years and 10 months almost exactly, and its so time for a change. I have seen all of the managers in the quit for better jobs as well as most of the other...

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This is part one of a three step plan. Step 1: Dead Space Step 2: Far Cry 2 Step 3: Fall Out. This would be a four step plan but Red Alert is not a step just part of my life. Enough with that---->

Dead Space the new F.E.A.R., I think not. This is a point I would like to make before I get into the game. Dead Space was meant to be a game with the concept of "In space no one can hear you scream" added to a fairly standard horror adventure/puzzle FPS formula. There are a lot of parts...

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I think most of us know the IC byte complaining about how a bright monitor is making someone go blind while someone else says they will never go blind from that, is that reference to masturbation...I thought thats why Prime had Keebs.

But anywho, just bought a new monitor, Acer x223wb, and just got done setting it up. Its replacing an older NEC 70Gx^2 opticlear, which was nice but 1280x1024 and some horrible response but over all an extremely nice monitor. This was done on the cheap...

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So I had this great idea after talking with some people about a possible job change, oh please I hate where I work, and they said that I was lacking a little in the area of "servers" that they were doing.

Long story short I met them while I was working and they came in looking for some fiber ready switches to replace dead ones. They didn't know what kind of fiber ports they needed and when asked they said "what does it look like"....uh. So they bragged a little and talked to me...

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So I thought I had lost this creepy customer I had built a computer for.......but just like Jason he keeps coming back. I had done enough work on the job and left him with some things to fix his own problems but he just called me to come install a harddrive in his computer..........this guy used to be a coder...................I don't want to but its easy money and he has some really good green tea. Oh did I mention he is a Scientologist. Ya.

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