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Archive for June, 2008

July 2008 Releases

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

New Blu-ray, CD, DVD, and PS3 releases for the month of July that seem interesting to me for one or more reasons.

July 1

Blu-ray

CDs

DVDs

Evie Carrano was a beautiful person. She started with us as a merch girl and became our assistant tour manager and band assistant. Not only did she work for the band, but she was a dear friend to all of us….a sassy sister amongst the dirt bag brothers. She went to the doctor because she had a nagging ache in her shoulder and was diagnosed with Leukemia. It was a total shock to her and everyone around her. She was diagnosed on a Monday and by Tuesday of the following week she was gone. We all loved her and miss her dearly.

July 8

Blu-ray

CDs

PS3

July 15

Blu-ray

CDs

PS3

July 27

PS3

July 22

Blu-ray

CDs

July 22

PS3

July 29

Blu-ray

CDs

PS3

July 31

PS3

_josh

New Soulfly Track Available

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Roadrunner has the first single off the next Soulfly album available for download here. It’s badass, I can’t wait for the album.

_josh

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Sears/UPS rant

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

June 29, 2000 was the birthday of my eldest niece, Triniti. In celebration of her octennial birthday, a new game in the Guitar Hero series will be released on a Sunday instead of a Tuesday like everything else. Guitar Hero: Aerosmith follows the thirty-plus-year career of famous-for-a-long-time-now-but-their-newer-stuff-is-so-fucking-gay band Aerosmith from when they were an opening band in high school to geriatrics. Basically, you’ll start out playing their best songs and by the time you get towards their current songs at the end, you’ll already be tired of the game or another game will come out and take you attention. Sounds fucking great to me. Well, that’s not quite how it will be. There are some of their older/good songs later in the game so you can’t get off that easily. Interestingly enough, there are songs by other bands in the game too. Wikipedia has a nice list of the songs.

My PS3 should arrive in the next day or so with MGS4. I’ve had GTA IV sitting here for a week now while Sears and/or UPS stop playing with their dicks and get my shit shipped out. I’m going camping this weekend so I won’t get much time in on either of those before this game comes out. Short workweeks this week and next should give me time to catch up.

INT. SHIPPING WAREHOUSE – SUNRISE
UPS enters the Sears warehouse to pick up JOSH G’s MGS4 PS3 bundle and notices SEARS sitting at the edge of a desk with a mega-huge erection.
SEARS
Get my dick out. Get yours out too.
UPS
Auh?
SEARS
Don’t be a pussy, scro. Beats jail, don’t it?
UPS
I like money though.
INT. OFFICE – MIDDAY
JOSH checks UPS’s website to track his order only to find that it is now past the scheduled delivery date and the status hasn’t been updated.
JOSH G
Fuck my life.

Firefox 3 Released!

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Mozilla released Firefox 3 today. Of course, I’ve been running Minefield nightly builds for several months on several machines. I can’t even remember what the new features are because they aren’t new to me anymore. I’ll run the official version 3 for a while before I start running nightly builds again.

Download
Press Release
Release Notes

The main Addons I use are:

The release of Firefox 3 kicks off Download Day, the Mozilla community’s grassroots campaign to set a brand new Guinness World Record for the greatest number of software downloads in 24 hours. The worldwide community effort begins the minute Firefox 3 is released and will continue for a full day.

Firefox 3

_josh

Interesting message on Vampires! The Dark Alleyway

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Just went on Vampires! The Dark Alleyway and got this message:

Apologies for the downtime – there was an explosion in the server farm, taking down both my servers (as well as thousands of others). They are working on getting everything back up – unfortunately, my secondary server is up while the primary is not. Hopefully it will all be working again in the next 24 hours. All Vampires quests will be extended appropriately, Warlocks will probably just have to deal, and if you were looking for my blog or something, please come back tomorrow.

No data was lost, everything should be back to normal once they have restored power. Nobody was injured by the explosion, though three walls were knocked down.

An actual explosion. Pretty strange.

_josh

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