Cool!
By defkhan1 | July 8, 2008
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Saw Iron Man…My Take
By defkhan1 | May 2, 2008
Took their time to develop the key characters, which really paid off when the doo-doo flew. Armor was incredible and the effects were spectacular. The origin was updated from the classic story but in a very topical and believable way. As a long time reader of the comic, who knows the story line and characters very intimately, this was VERY well done. Kudos to Favreau and Downey for keeping it pretty darned faithful to the real deal. One or both of them must be an IM fan from way back…on top of everything else, the movie kept my attention throughout and was punctuated by an awesome score. Excitement reigned in the theater on Saturday afternoon…
ADDENDUM: Iron Man 2 now slated for 4/30/2010!
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Nostalgia Strikes…
By defkhan1 | March 5, 2008
Found this gem on the Threesome soundtrack in the 90’s…
Frente! - Bizarre Love Triangle
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Online Bass & Guitar Tuner
By defkhan1 | February 9, 2008
Pretty Slick!
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More…
By defkhan1 | January 8, 2008
Untitled 1
Untitled 2
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Melancholy
By defkhan1 | January 7, 2008
A taste of something I’ve been meaning to record for a while. Once I get down with using Audacity and tweaking the sound, I’ll post a finished product…
Take 1
Cleaner
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My Future Bass!
By defkhan1 | January 6, 2008
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Saved My Motherboard
By defkhan1 | December 9, 2007
After my computer starting puking up BSOD’s, I checked and found a burst capacitor. I ordered the parts online and rescued said motherboard, although it did take one of my RAM sticks with it. So now I’m stuck at 512MB again, but soon I will order 2 1GB sticks and come out a little better for the experience.
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Iron Man Movie Trailer
By defkhan1 | October 28, 2007
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Rain…
By defkhan1 | October 27, 2007
It’s been raining for a week. I generally like grey days, but this is getting a bit long in the tooth.
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Duran Duran - Skin Divers
By defkhan1 | September 5, 2007
A taste of the upcoming Duran album. Can’t help it. Favorite band.
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Killing Us Softly With Imports?
By defkhan1 | August 18, 2007
In light of the recent recalls by Mattell over lead paint on many of their products, it made my wife and I wonder just how many products in our house came from China.   The answer? A LOT. Almost every single one of my child’s toys was made in China. The apple juice she drinks contains concentrate from China. it is not reasonable to eliminate China from our house in one fell swoop, so what do we do? We can’t realistically get rid of everything in the house that was made in China, can we? What do YOU think?
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Being A Bass Player…
By defkhan1 | July 19, 2007
I will play this with 20 other bass players before I am dead…
 Live Earth : Spinal Tap : BIG BOTTOM
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I May Never Use Windows Vista
By defkhan1 | July 8, 2007
Way too little way too late, I say. There is nothing of any import in Microsoft’s latest cash cow that makes me want to upgrade. Hardware sound is seriously limited. Drivers are immature to say the least. I won’t mention UAC, which most everyone will disable, making Vista’s attempts at improved security pretty much a moot point. I just see nothing at this point that makes it worthwhile. Sure there’s DirectX 10. Yay. Too bad I’d have to buy an entirely new PC to be able to make Vista even usable, let alone fast. The hardware requirements are unbelievable to say the least. I’m going to skip Vista for now. Maybe sometime in the future there will be a conjunction of variables that makes it a worthwhile option.
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Save the Climate & Save Money Too?
By defkhan1 | July 8, 2007
Did you know that compact fluorescent lightbulbs not only last longer, but can save you hundreds of dollars a year in utility costs. They are also claimed to save 2000 times their own weight in greenhouse gases. The only drawback I see is that they require special recycling attention…<HERE>
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Iron Man Movie
By defkhan1 | July 8, 2007
I’ve been waiting 11 years for this flick. As much as I wanted the movie back then, though, I am glad it has taken this long, because now ILM can CGI the heck out of this thing.
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Can I Please Get A Reason To Switch?
By defkhan1 | July 7, 2007
Like many of us, I long to switch to Ubuntu as my primary operating system. Alas, I still get no love. I would like to be able to use this fine distribution on my PC as it is configured already. Unfortunately, since it takes a 20 page tutorial, or a kernel recompile, or being willing to lose my XP installation, I cannot. All I want to do is install it to a partition on my existing RAID array without breaking the stripe. Hopefully one day Linux will cater to some us who really want to make a stride towards switching, but are impeded by lack of support for technologies that are, to my knowledge, viewed as inferior. Yes I am running ‘fake’ RAID. So what? Does Linux actually want market share or not?
Maybe some of you have encountered some seemingly insurmountable hurdles with regards to using Linux…share your frustrations here…let us know what hitches keep you from using Linux…heck, let us know if you’ve made the switch already.
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Caffeine…Oh where art thou?
By defkhan1 | March 12, 2007
I have a problem…
I need caffeine on a daily basis. Unfortunately, there is no energy drink, coffee drink, or even pure form that can wake me up on a regular basis.
I’m sad now.
I miss being extra alert.
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The World Has a Headache…
By defkhan1 | March 3, 2007
Damn…Never had a worse headache in my life than the one I developed this morning.
Was fine when I woke up. Soon after my neck seemed stiff. Another hour later, WHAMMO, neck started to spasm, triggering a migraine. Was very quickly nauseous and in excruciating pain.
Bugger’s gone now.
World seems WAY better off now, in comparison, than I would’ve told you yesterday, which makes me wonder, are pessimism and optimism directly related to how we feel at any given moment? Are people happy because they’re optimistic or vice versa? Sad because they’re pessimistic, or the reverse?
So, if a majority of this planet’s people would just cheer up, could the world ACTUALLY be a better place?
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Fake Food
By defkhan1 | February 19, 2007
My daughter is playing with her toy food right now. Isn’t toy food kind of creepy? I think so. The burgers don’t fit on the buns, the ice cream cones look almost too real, and the cookies have simulated uncooked flour bits. Yikes!
Don’t know about the rest of you, but remember when toy food looked absolutely nothing like food at all, in appearance OR proportion?
Back when toy money looked nothing like real money, and you couldn’t spend an Alfred E. Neuman in a dark bar.
Back when scratch and sniff stickers only came in GOOD scents?
Back in the day…when people still said “Back in the day…”
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