Coldplay is MY Band.

You might like Linkin Park. You may enjoy Prince. A glass of Ice-T might be your style or you could love that Kenny G.

And I love Coldplay.

And I'm proud of it.

Coldplay's inspirational to me. They're a great band that got off to a rocky start, but you can feel the emotions in their music. You can sing to it easily. The tunes are memorable and lovable to the listener and annoying to the innocent bystander. Coldplay is my band, and a band that I'm truly excited about. Sure, they've got some questionable songs out there -- no band is perfect, but still. They make you feel as if the song was written for you and your troubles. A deep, mourning riff overlaid by soothing lyrics. A band for any occasion.

Coldplay is my band. Nobody will ever tell me otherwise.

You know Change has come to America when...

As a seventeen year-old liberal, you recognize the significance of suddenly being proud of calling American cheese American.

Open up your mind.

You could have a problem if...

You start naming your shirts while getting ready for church.

Yellow

A girlfriend of a friend of mine did an awesome cover of this at a party that I've recently covered in I/O Nightly. Here's the real song.

Morning Edition

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to I/O Nightly: Morning Edition.

Everything I know about Starcraft is horribly, horribly wrong.

I spent months trying to do well. It was all erased in one hour. Everything I had taught myself from scratch. Everything, lost. I played well, for not having played, but my strategies were always counteracted, always outmaneuvered, and always, always, wrong.

Don't. Do. It.

Voting.

It's just dumb.

Oh Yeah, There it is.

I applied to Georgetown U today.

I'm officially done with the applying part of the college application process.

I'm also done with transcripts sent to colleges, and I also happen to be starting on scholarships.

I hate this process.

I need a week off.

9/10th's Law.

If you're going to say "nine times out of ten", just say 9/10th's.

It's so much easier.

Might need this later.

The cake is a lie.

Sudanese Comet.

A comet will be disintegrating with the force of a 1-kiloton bomb over Sudan this evening. Hopefully (this is a long shot) nobody will get hurt.

The CNN story.

CNN, the most trusted name in MASS HYSTERIA!

FS2_Failure

Well, apparently you need to buy FS2 now.

Damn you, BtRL.

Damn you.

I still would have had those vp's I needed. Six bucks is great, but I don't have a credit card yet.

FS2_Open

Did I do this one yet?

If I didn't, here's the site: http://www.hard-light.net/

And the installer: http://www.fsoinstaller.com/

Hooray for old-games-turned-open-source!

Paradoxical Finances

If everyone loses money at the same time, isn't it just like before, only with a little less?

Global economies don't change, the numbers just get bigger and smaller depending on how stupid we are.

YouTopia, Continued

Well, I assimilated with the machine.

Might post something if I can figure out how to fix it up correctly.

http://www.youtube.com/user/KhronosTheory

Drool.

RRROCKET DOCK

Rocket dock is a dock post from Mac OS to Windows. It's pretty customizable, and slightly more versatile than the Mac's. However, that may not be accurate, considering I've only used up to OS 10.3.

http://rocketdock.com/

Have a go. I'm having a lot of fun just tweaking the settings. I haven't even launched an app yet. :-P

This is why I bought Garry's Mod 10.

Well, there you go. Garry's Mod 10.

I deem it totally awesome, not that I've played in a few months.

But I support the indie devs if I think they deserve it. Turned me on to sandbox games, so a hearty +$10 to Garry Newman!

Mood Swings!

Watch it a little ways in -- it gets better after the French titling.

SMOD: Outbreak

Great mod for Half-Life 2. Really system-intensive. Have a look. It's a cross between Left4Dead, Counter-Strike: Source, Call of Duty 4, and a few other games.



Have a go at it!

Hate that feeling.

Ew. I can't stand the feeling of sweaty balls.

Best skit ever. Alec Baldwin did a great job with this. Takes some serious(ly?) (sweaty?) balls to not laugh. Similar to the Sean Connery impressions SNL does.

What is Love?

What is love?

Reminiscent of "Who was phone?"

What was phone?

Typography, aluminum tubes, et cetera.

"Do I need to tell you...what the fuck you can do with aluminum tubes? ALUMINUM!"

HUMANITY, OH THE --

That is all. Fun acid trip, that video is.

Achievements for Life.

I finished reading "A Prayer for Owen Meany" tonight. Touching book.

SPOILERS: Kid dies, saves other kids, shit blows up, the end.

But it touched me. What if we could do that in games? Save others by sacrificing ourselves at the climax? How interesting.

Either way, it'd be worth an achievement. (I'm a huge fan of how they mean something to PC gamers -- they'll actually earn you neat-o in-game stuff.)



Requirements: Play and beat the game on hard, first run through.

I'm going to get that one, next game I buy.

Jekkyll Jekkyll Hyde Jekyll Hyde Hyde Jekyll

Can't beat the classics.

Ew, Ugly.

Yeah, yeah, I know the sidebar's ugly. I can't get a selective Wikiquote gadget, so this'll do.

Hopefully.

I'd really just like a few games on there and maybe a movie or two.

"Nothin' too fancy." -- Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Train of Thought?

I had something here that had to do with games.

And then I lost it.

No wonder this is sort of like Twitter. "I HAD A THOT AND THEN I LOSTED IT".

Trendy.

I play video games in trends.

I'll play one for a few weeks to death, get bored, and move on.

Thing is, now I'm debating on finishing KotoR 2: The Sith Lords, which I started in late June, or play Rise of Nations.

I'm voting Rise of Nations. Time for a test on my HDD.

And it's Friday tomorrow.

Hooray.

Consistency.

I'm learning or am reinforcing the fact that I'm not great with keeping PC's alive.

That being said, my HDD is really, really loud. I'm working on the problem.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, but my blogs and blogging in general is just millions of people talking into brick walls.

So I'll never get a comment, never get more than a view a day by Google crawling, and never figure out how, for the life of me, to fix my own computer's hardware.

Software, I'm great, but once something sounds funky, I'm out of luck almost every time.

When will I learn?

Lead on, Freeman!

Because everyone needs a hero. Gordon Freeman does not lead, he just does. It's how it goes.

But if every one of your followers (NPC's, in game) dies within five minutes of you getting an actual squadron together, what's the point?

To get to the end of the game intact. To say that you were the lone man or woman who conquered over thousands of obstacles.

To lead on.

One.

So I've been having trouble with my HDD latey, and I downloaded this tool from the OEM, Western Digital.

It's got a "write-zeros" function, which erases the disk, turning ones into zeros and zeros into zeros. Very intriguing.

Ones, it seems, are what make a hard drive, and a computer, unique. If everything was one way or the other, it'd be using the same computer over and over.

But it's the combination of billions and trillions of ones and zeros that make hard drives unique.

And they make users unique.

A Quick Intro

Welcome to Dropped Packets, my second-ever Blog! My first Blog, I/O Nightly News, can be found here: http://io-nightly.blogspot.com/

I'm using this as a more sophisticated form of Twitter and Facebook. Whenever I'm developing a concept for an essay, playing a new game, crawling for a good tool, or just generally traversing the internet, it could end up here.

Feel free to drop me a line or follow me. I also respond to E-Mails, so if you like what I'm doing, or think I could use improvement in some aspect, tell me! I'll be glad to respond!