http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades Just another Midatlantichorror.org weblog Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:31:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This contains spoilers. Lots of them. so please, pretty please, don't read this unless you are up to date on Lost. I have a theory about the "Parallel Universe" It isn't a parallel universe. It is now. the Now Now. Ok, so it goes like this, the one group bounces around time, ends ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2010/03/07/theory-on-final-season-of-lost/ Marines: Modern Urban Combat Let’s just get one thing out in the open: I pre-ordered this game. I half wonder if I was the only one in the world to do so. I was on amazon ordering Modern Warfare 2 Mobilized when this game, called Marines, came up. The game, listed ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2010/01/28/marine-a-video-game-review/ I’ve had a long journey with text file formats. First there was... uh... whatever MS works saves files as. That was back in the Windows 3.1 era. That sucked. Then we went to Word... MS Word, and MS Word would not open MS Works files. Go figure. So there was ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2009/12/15/file-format-hell/ Ok, so in that previous post I talked how I was dealing with storing information. Because let’s face it, even if I wasn’t a writer, there is a lot of it out there. And usually isn’t very well organized. But what of these programs for writers? You’ve seen them in ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2009/11/11/life-after-the-word-processor-part-two/ Constance, There is something I have been thinking about, and wanted to share with you. In class we talked about your piece, "Good hair, bad hair - thank you Toni Morrison!". Its not so much the piece that I have thought much about, although it was very well written, and has ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2009/10/26/letter-to-a-writer/ This is a paper to discuss an idea for a distributed cloud computing system. This system would use nodes to distribute and hold the data that are non co-located. From the front end, the system would be identical to any other cloud computing solution. The user could make calls to retrieve ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2009/10/05/bittorrent-file-system/ I have a blackberry. I pay $30 for a data plan that will let me send as many emails as I want. Full emails. Long emails. Emails with content, pictures, punctuation and correctly spelled words even. This data plan does not cover SMS though. For that I have to pay ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2009/09/29/how-twitter-could-kill-sms-and-save-us-all/ (oops! this was supposed to be posted a while ago. sorry!) When I first found out about In This Moment I thought I had found a small slice of heaven here on this Earth. A metal band with a chick singer. And not just a chick singer, but an “I’M GONNA ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2009/09/22/the-new-in-this-moment-album/ This is a response to this blog post: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/05/26/lonewolf-diaries-all-christians-are-serial-killers/#idc-ctools I call shenanigans. Let’s start from the beginning. First let’s look at the TWO examples given by the author: Carrie and South Park. I don’t really see either as being representative of either 1. society or 2. Hollywood. In fact, South Park is ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2009/08/22/reply-to-all-christains-are-serial-killers/ So once upon a time, after seeing the awesome that was Pirates of the Caribbean, I had a thought. It was a simple one: crossover movie. So this was my idea for that movie i put together all those years ago. Since then, Pirates 2 (&3), Mummy 3 and Indy ... http://midatlantichorror.org/blogs/jakeofalltrades/2009/06/06/pirates-2-mummy-3-and-indy-4-a-proposal/