Royksopp - Remind Me

Awesome music video. Maybe Youtube posting will work this time…

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I do love me some video games. One of the things I am particularly excited about is Valve’s upcoming Orange Box. The Orange Box looks to be one of the best deals in gaming, plus just amazing, all in a box, that is a sexy shade of orange.

Gametrailers.com has provided many a enjoyable trailer for the gamers delight, and Valve has released many trailers for the upcoming Orange Box, including the game I am most anticipating, Portals.

And while I am looking forward to Portals a lot, I am enjoying the trailers that Valve has been releasing for Team Fortress 2. Team Fortress was always a lot of fun when I was younger. I love playing the engineer, mainly because of the fact that you could build these gigantic turrets. Well Valve has finally released the Engineer movie, and it is hilarious. So if you have time, go watch the Engineer movie, and go read up on the Orange box, which will be amazing.

Enjoy,
/Nat

p.s. it’s Programmers Day. Give your favorite programmer a hug ;)

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So excited, and I just can’t hide it.

The Merchant of Death. Awesome. Check out the trailer page, and the Ironman wikipedia page. So a few comments on this film trailer. First, I think the Robert Downey Jr. was a great choice for the role, at least it seems so in this trailer. I’m hoping that he can play the cocky bastard / genius / superhero role well. It looks like he definitely has Stark’s pre-Ironman image down pat. On top of this, it seems like the suit does a great job looking like the Iroman costume from the modern comic books, such as Civil War.Finally I am happy that the movie is located all in California, even though the comic is based in New York. Why? Because California doesn’t get enough love from Marvel :p
Hasta,
/Nat

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You are most like Matt Mullenweg!

You are most like Matt Mullenweg. Though you recognize your authority, you do not relish the idea of using your power too aggressively. Instead, you rely on peers a lot. You do participate in the social media world, but it is not something that occupies a lot of time. You most likely devote yourself to projects that you feel passionate about and tend to evangelize those things quite a bit.


Heh, Maybe they got my name wrong? Matt, Nat, they sound the same… and i do kinda look like him… but I don’t think I ever created Wordpress. Unless I’m a schizo, which is probably not going to end well…

Take the test here.

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I love the internet. If possible I want to be able to touch it all times. I want to be able to see a billboard, find it interesting, and plug the company’s website into a hand held device and find out about them. I want to walk past a cool t-shirt, or other product and place an order right there, or at least post information about it to either an online to-do list or twitter or something. I want information at my fingertips 24/7. This doesn’t mean I’ll be using this information at all times, but the possibility so that when something comes up I can know the answer to what glycyrrhizin is. This is the information age after all. (more…)

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So I’ve been a little slow to write this, mainly due to the fact that I’ve been having trouble catching up on sleep. But two weekends ago, I had an amazing weekend, because I spent the weekend at PAX in Seattle. Now I should have cool and interesting reveiw of PAX, but now two weeks later it doesnt look like it’s gonna happen. Why? because I have NADD.

here are some good reviews though:

PAX at Slashdot

Tycho + Gabe on PAX

Ars Technica’s Post 

I’ll post some pictures eventually too.

Hasta

/Nat

p.s. read the article I linked to on Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder (NADD). It describes me so well it’s scary.

updated 8pm 9/6/07

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… a friend just sent me this. So excited.

…hmm… Wordpress and embedded youtube are not working together. Here is the link, you should watch it.

Also, this Fedex commercial makes me laugh

Anyways, I loved Heroes last season, it was the only TV show I actually watched. And seeing as how I tend not to watch TV, that’s saying something./Nat

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I attended BarCampBlock this weekend. I only attended on Saturday, and for what I attended, it was amazing.

For those of you who are lost on what BarCampBlock is, I’ll give you a quick once over. BCB is a BarCamp, which came in response to FooCamp, an invite only event held at O’Reilly’s Sebastopol offices. The concept of both conferences is basically take a normal conference and cover it in web2.0 and chaos. The web2.0 because the attendees are the ones giving speeches. Everyone is expected to give some sort of talk, or at least contribute to the discussions. The chaos comes from the fact that the schedule is as the attendees make it. You show up, put your topic in a time period and go. But somehow it all works out, and everyone learns a lot. As Tara Hunt said at the opening of BarCampBlock, BarCamps are what you make them.

So, what did I do at this little shindig with over 900 people in a little corner of Palo Alto? Well I showed up around nine am on Saturday with Andrew Yates, originally planning on helping out at the front desk. The help didn’t seem to be needed, so we grabbed a cup of coffee and then helped put the infamous grid together.

Then there was a little opening ceremony and the gates were figuratively opened and the grid was bum rushed as people went to get their topics up on the gird. Mass chaos ensued. It was awesome. :) (more…)

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So today was kind of crazy, but it had a few highlights.

1. Meeting two employees I had seen on the net, in person
I met Dominic and Ken in person at Dreamweaver’s Frumpy Friday. Dom I had been following on twitter, and Ken I had found on Flickr.

2. Read a good review of one of my favorite companies.
I love Timbuk2. They make amazing bags, and their new Hacker bag looks pretty schweet. Laughing Squid has a great review of the Bag. And I think that this bag will sell very well of the SF based company. (more…)

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A blog that I am currently loving is Serif. Serif provides interesting designs that usually center around typography. Serif also talks about innovations in type and other news in the design world.

One neat thing that Serif does is hold these things called “revisions.” Revisions allow for readers to send in their versions of current designs. The current revision, revision 4, ends today. Revision 4 asked readers to design covers for their favorite books. I am very sad that I stumbled across this so late, because I would have loved to make a cover for my favorite book, Neuromancer.

So head on over to Serif and check out some of the designs people have submitted. They are all very good.

In other news:

• Crazy EA employee going through wikipedia and changing history. - This just pisses me off
•  Some high schools forcing students to specialize. - I am a strong believer that students should spend HS figuring out what they want to do. I even think that requiring students to declare a major upon entering college is ridiculous. The current mindset in parenting is to push kids into maturity at a younger age, and this in my mind is what is causing all of the problems we have in education, especially here in California.
• If you haven’t played with Pandora yet, you should. And if you have and want to save what you listen to Last.Fm, check out PandoraFM

Hasta

/Nat

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