http://www.darknote.org thoughts of a darknote nature Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:23:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i know this is more of a life thing than a thought thing so it really belongs on oscillate, but it's been a while since i've written on resonate, and my brain is still in this state of analysis about everything that happened, so i thought i'd mix it up ... http://www.darknote.org/2010/02/27/teeth-extraction/ for various reasons, something started taking shape for me since i moved to new orleans regarding travel. when i lived in eugene i didn't travel that much. usually any travel were road trips related to DDR tournaments in either seattle or san fran which would occupy a weekend or four ... http://www.darknote.org/2009/11/09/shift-in-financial-priorities/ Activision has just released the newest US mimic of japanese bemani that has been a popular video game trend ever since Guitar Hero made it big. But unlike Guitar Hero's japanese predecessor which sports pretty much the exact same control scheme and gameplay paradigm as Guitar Hero except with ... http://www.darknote.org/2009/11/03/dj-hero-vs-beatmania-iidx/ This is more for my own personal historical archive than anything else, but i thought i'd post it on my blog in the event that anyone else was interested. The idea to make a video of me playing chain factor came as a result of me not finding any online videos ... http://www.darknote.org/2009/10/14/chain-factor-the-video/ Very recently i've come to more conclusions about the use of facebook, both my usage of it and the site overall. When i first joined, i had a healthy degree of skepticism as to what it was all about and what sort of people i wanted to have access to the ... http://www.darknote.org/2009/09/28/more-facebook-thoughts-part-one/ Read Part 1 -- Given those sorts of struggles on top of other small or big struggles that they face, questions arise: should they have stayed in open class? should they have reached for a longer term goal of becoming world class but with more of a full tour model? ... http://www.darknote.org/2009/07/20/jerseysurfpart2/ The Jersey Surf Drum and Bugle Corps are in their cinderella year in World Class this year, and as an individual who has some personal investment in the corps as a former staff member and the mentor of one of the current staff members who likes to chat it up ... http://www.darknote.org/2009/07/20/jerseysurfpart1/ last night when i went to the casino to play poker i ended up winning a pretty big pot by rivering quad queens over my opponent who had turned the nut flush, and as i replay the hand in my head it further enforces how slow-playing a strong hand is ... http://www.darknote.org/2009/07/04/maximizing-value/ verizon has been sending me emails saying that i now qualify for my "new every two". i upgraded my work iPhone's OS to 3.0. neither of these things exicted me, and from this i think i've discovered that i'm pretty much over the newest mobile phone trend. i like ... http://www.darknote.org/2009/07/01/bored-with-mobile-phones/ when i was renewing my car insurance, the rep over the phone clued me in to a new service that they're offering called "MyRate". it works like this: you sign up for the MyRate plan. They send you a piece of hardware that you plug into your OBD-II port. ... http://www.darknote.org/2009/06/11/myrate-by-progressive/