http://www.mental-enema.com Taking a load off our minds Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:17:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just wanted to show everybody where I'm at in Blender proficiency. I'm still an infant, but it's a powerful graphics tool if you have the time/patience to learn to use it. Unfortunately, most of the tutorials seem to be by non-native English speakers and can be a bit confusing. Essentially, ... http://www.mental-enema.com/2008/04/07/blender/ I'm definitely not the first person to write about this game but it's so good that I must post about it. It will take your breathe away and it demands to be replayed again and again. If you don't believe me then watch this trailer Prepare yourself for GLORY!!! For those less ... http://www.mental-enema.com/2008/04/06/game-of-the-year/ That's right, you get to listen to me beat it... These experiments were created with Hydrogen. Who knows, with some more time and practice (and more samples) I might make something that actually sounds good! Blessed be open source linux software that makes people look good! .... Oh by the ... http://www.mental-enema.com/2008/03/31/carleton-beats-it/ Recently I went to a concert hosted by the Regina Folk Festival Independent Music Series, the concert featured Tons Of Fun University a spoken word/music trio. I cannot even begin to explain the greatness of this performance. I am not a fan of poetry but had heard about the T.O.F.U ... http://www.mental-enema.com/2008/03/30/the-them-their-talking-about/ Cicero once commented that it was impossible for any two members of the College of Augurs to pass one another in the street without bursting into laughter. Any well educated member of the academic elite - so long as their self-aggrandising megalomania is kept in check - realizes ... http://www.mental-enema.com/2008/03/30/academia-and-scientific-pomp/ While I'm on the subject of robots, I had better mention this little guy. He drives around his environment until he finds something to drum on, then he drums on it. Like a little robot version of me. Excellent. Seriously though, this thing is awesome, it has a sampler ... http://www.mental-enema.com/2008/03/29/autonomous-robot-drummer/ Holy shit, have you guys seen this yet? Panelists sit and discuss whether robots have too much control in our lives, some concerns about the automated police force, and comments made by President Executron in his latest speech. "That's what the cavity search robot said this morning at the office" OMFG, lol http://www.mental-enema.com/2008/03/28/robots-a-vital-part-of-our-society/ I stumbled accross these a while ago and have been meaning to post about them. The models have been drenched in what appears to be blood, then the models themselves are edited out of the image. This creates some amazing imagery, of which the above picture only scrapes ... http://www.mental-enema.com/2008/03/28/some-bloody-amazing-pictures/ There is no shortage of war songs in our time. Since the Vietnam War, artists have written about war in one way or another and we have gotten some great songs and some supremely crappy ones. For me, a key element of a war song is how timeless it is. ... http://www.mental-enema.com/2008/03/28/brothers-brand-new/ Only just over a century ago 'doctors' used to inject mercury into the urethras of sailors with a large metal syringe to treat VD (venereal disease). Today we inject various tissues with radioactive material to treat cancer. In both cases the level of understanding regarding the condition was in flux ... http://www.mental-enema.com/2008/03/27/modern-medicine-scientific-pomp/