I think Jerry introduced me to this program a long time ago. It's called Everything. It's really just indexes your whole computer and let's you search for anything really easily. Now you might say, "Windows can already do that!" Well that's true... but this is just better. It will show you any file of any type from your search parameters so you don't even need to know the whole name of something and it's really fast. It's basically destroyed a lot of my digital sense of organization (although I'm still pretty OCD about some folders). I don't really need to know where anything is when I can search for it. It's also helpful for clearing up space because instead of searching for anything you can sort everything on the computer by size.
Alright enough of me talking about it. You can download it here and everyone should.
http://www.voidtools.com/
So I finally bought Minecraft the other day and I am LOVING it! Theres sooo much to do and the world I spawned in has so many mountains and minerals, I'm working on building a giant castle with an underground part.
Basically you can get 5 great games and donate to 2 charities all at once and you can pay as much or as little as you'd like for it. It's pretty much just a donation and you get to choose how your money is split between the charities and game developers. Also Notch paid $2,000 for it making him the top contributer so that's kind of cool. It almost makes me feel bad for giving $5.
The games are Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans.
Minecraft Beta
So I haven't gotten the results yet for this challenge but it's been so long since I posted anything that I figured I should. The challenge was to zoom while taking a picture, which is surprisingly easy to do and requires very little coordination (it probably happens by accident often enough). Well if you can't tell, this is just a photo of Griffin's Christmas tree, with the lights all crazy and zoom-y. If I happen to win I'll post those results laterrrrrrr.
see more The Art of Trolling
So I've neglected the internet and the blog for far too long. College stuff has kept me busy buuuuut thats all over now so I'm back. Art of Trolling is a hilarious website dedicated to people trolling all over the internet, including Chatroulette. This particular one reminded me of Jerry ;D
Check out the full site for hours of entertainment (literally)
I think they just want publicity for the new service and this is a good way to do it. While you're spending your dime feel free to look around the site. It's brand new and navigating their catalog can be tough but overall it's pretty nice. Anyway, here's the link: http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Games/AgeofEmpiresIII/
I just stumbled on these pretty neat pictures, besides the bunnies being in blood and all they're thematically nifty.
For all the random people who happen to stumble across our blog, do us a favor and vote here for North Haven High Schoooool.
This video was made by Per Findahl. He was the F1A World Champion a couple years ago and I think he still is but I can't remember. This guy is amazingly athletic. In Ukraine we watched him retrieve his son's plane by running straight after it through thick grass which was about 4 feet tall. We never even saw him break stride.
Well anyway he made this video and it does a really good job of explaining the basics of the sport. It's often really hard to explain just in words, so from now on whenever anyone asks me about it I will refer them to this video. Unless it's a more detailed question in which case I'd probably have to go into more depth.
Someone on reddit took this video and un-swirled it, so it's just a chick laughing hysterically and making faces. I like that one better.
Reddit
This video has nothing to do with the update cause it's not actually biomes, but it's cool and I needed an excuse to post it. Anyway the Minecraft Halloween update is out. It's fun and buggy.
Minecraft
I love Adult Swim flash games. Though I didn't think this one was as good as the others we've posted about, it was still pretty fun. And hell mode was hellish.
Corporate Climber
This was probably the most Photoshopped picture we've ever done for a Shooting Challenge, which makes the story behind it less great. Basically it was late on Sunday night, we searched my house for inspirational items to photograph, and came up with this. It's a mask thing... that also looks like a mask thing. That's where we failed, it doesn't really look like anything else besides two masks put together. But the shape was neat and we didn't realize our fault at the time, and we had fun doing it. I didn't really like the winners, this challenge didn't have much opportunity for diversity.
The 21st century guide to platform trolling: Apple edition
If you are angered that I'm showing a bias here, I will attempt to alleviate some of the anger by linking to the guide to Windows problems as well. However most of the Windows problems are either not relevant to most users or not really problems at all.
The 21st century guide to platform trolling: Windows edition
So this week's Shooting Challenge was sorta spur of the moment. At Eli's house we decided to try it, and we asked an asian friend for asian incense and then used color-changing show lights. We tried using the fastest shutter speed possible without using the flash, but the smoke still came out blurry since we didn't use a tripod. This was one of our best shots, but we submitted this one instead. I didn't think the winners were that great, but a lot of really good entries were submitted. Tough challenge, but it was a really fun experience.
So guys... I made a tumblr. For anyone who's interested anyways. I'm not really sure what I want to post and I'm not really sure how often I want to post things, but I feel like co-writing this blog means I can't take over and post dumb things, and I want a place to do that. So I made my own. I'll still post Shooting Challenges here and all, I'll just be posting more things there.
This is really exciting news for The Lunch Box, last week Bradley and I were honorably mentioned in a Shooting Challenge! It's ironic because this shot is pretty basic. I wasn't there for the set-up (or the actual shot), but Brad hung a sheet in the window behind this model boat and then took a picture. I edited, making it monochromatic and the black-white contrast a little more defining, and voila. Our masterpiece. Here's the gallery we're in. I guessed there would be lots of sunset pictures and yep there were, that's where our diversity came in handy. I particularly like the lead shot with hot air balloons and the spider web one.
