blog.andrelareau.com http://blog.andrelareau.com/ en Copyright 2011 Wed, 14 May 2008 15:47:13 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Andy Summers fucking rules.

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2008/05/andy_summers_fucking_rules.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2008/05/andy_summers_fucking_rules.html Fanboy Wed, 14 May 2008 15:47:13 -0600 Perfect Girlfriend

YouTube - How to be the Perfect Girlfriend

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/08/perfect_girlfriend.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/08/perfect_girlfriend.html Interweb Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:42:31 -0600 King of Pain I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

Two weeks later, still obsessed with The Police.

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/08/king_of_pain.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/08/king_of_pain.html Ruminations Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:51:58 -0600 Wisdom Some may say
Im wishing my days away
No way
And if its the price I pay
Some say
Tomorrows another day
You stay
I may as well play

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/07/wisdom.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/07/wisdom.html Interweb Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:52:19 -0600 Warped Tour sucks this year Here's the list of bands:
A Static Lullaby, Alkaline Trio, All Time Low, The Almost, Amber Pacific, Bad Religion, Bayside, Biffy Clyro, Big D and the Kids Table, Bleed The Dream, Bless the Fall, Boys Like Girls, Chiodos, Cinematic Sunrise, Circa Survive, Coheed and Cambria, The Confession, Cute is What We Aim For, Escape the Fate, Evaline, The Fabulous Rudies, Funeral For A Friend, Gallows, The Graduate, Hawthorne Heights, Hot Rod Circuit, It Dies Today, Kaddisfly, Killswitch Engage, K-OS, Mayday Parade, The Matches, Meg and Dia, Montie Are I, My American Heart, New Found Glory, Paramore, Parkway Drive, Pepper, P.O.S, Poison The Well, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Revolution Mother, Rocket Summer, Spill Canvas, So They Say, The Starting Line, Straylight Run, Street Drum Corps, Throwdown, Tiger Army, The Toasters, Underoath, The Unseen, Valencia, The Vincent Black Shadow

On that list, there are two or three bands that I don't like at all, one that my friends like but I don't particularly care for, five or six that I've heard from but never been impressed with, and ONE BAND that I absolutely love. The rest I've never heard of.

36 bucks for 25 minutes of Bad Religion. 4 hours in driving time. A sea of annoying people. Surrounded by music that I would turn off if it came on the radio. Plus, I don't even know BR's new album that well, since I've been obsessed with the Police recently.

I think I'm going to skip it. Bad Religion usually tours in the fall anyway, so hopefully I'll see them then.

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/07/warped_tour_sucks_this_year.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/07/warped_tour_sucks_this_year.html Arrgh. Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:21:46 -0600 Yow!

In other YouTubery, check this one out too.

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/07/yow_1.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/07/yow_1.html Interweb Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:32:25 -0600 I Guess I'm Not Too Old For Rock N' Roll Part II According to Wikipedia, Andy Summers didn't join The Police until he was 34.

Previously.

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/07/i_guess_im_not_too_old_for_roc_1.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/07/i_guess_im_not_too_old_for_roc_1.html Interweb Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:50:12 -0600 What Kind Of Airplane Am I?
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]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/07/what_kind_of_airplane_am_i.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/07/what_kind_of_airplane_am_i.html Interweb Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:28:53 -0600 I Talk American
What American accent do you have? (Best version so far)

Midland

("Midland" is not necessarily the same thing as "Midwest") The default, lowest-common-denominator American accent that newscasters try to imitate. Since it's a neutral accent, just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from the Midland.

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]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/06/i_talk_american.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/06/i_talk_american.html Interweb Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:58:17 -0600 My Work Is Cut Out For Me... As Usual. So, the new maps for Resistance: Fall of Man supposedly come out today. The Resistance forums are down right now because everyone's annoyed that they're not out yet. Latest news: they're not coming out because they just found some new bug. I hate that I love you, Sony.

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/06/my_work_is_cut_out_for_me_as_u.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/06/my_work_is_cut_out_for_me_as_u.html Ruminations Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:33:19 -0600 PS3 DVD Upconversion So, last Thursday Sony came out with another firmware update for the PS3. This one made it so that DVDs and standard-definition PS and PS2 games are "upconverted" to whatever resolution your PS3 is set to. In my case, that's 1080i output for the computer monitor that I'm using for my PS3 display. I heard about this update and was sort of like, meh... I didn't really think it would make much difference.

I have to say... WOW. Before, things looked really blocky and pixellated, and now... holy crap. I've never seen a regular DVD look so good. I have yet to try a PS2 game, but I'm still working on Shadow of the Colossus, so I'll post back once I play it again.

Good job Sony!

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/05/ps3_dvd_upconversion.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/05/ps3_dvd_upconversion.html Worship Not These False Idols Wed, 30 May 2007 11:03:24 -0600 Oh yeah... In writing the last post I found a great link:

HTML Ampersand Codes

Oh and two posts ago when I was talking about the CAPS LOCK key? Yeah I was fried from finals. But it's cool, I got straight A's! Wheee! I was never a good student in high school, and even my college grades aren't all that great. I hated math and it always pulled my grades down. I always got As and Bs in English though. I don't know why it took me 10 years to figure out that it would be fun to major in it.

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/05/oh_yeah.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/05/oh_yeah.html Interweb Tue, 22 May 2007 14:35:13 -0600 Getting Things Done So I'm about ¾ of the way through a book called Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen. You hear about this book all over the place, from Digg to Slashdot to people's blogs -- hell there's an entire website called 43 Folders inspired by concepts in this book. So with all that hype, I finally go so curious that I went and picked it up. And when I got to Borders, it was the last copy on the endcap!

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/05/getting_things_done.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/05/getting_things_done.html Reviews Tue, 22 May 2007 11:06:53 -0600 CAPS LOCK You know, sometimes when I'm at home on my Mac I just hit CAPS LOCK over and over, just to see the little green light go on and off inside the key. It's pretty magical. It's not quite the same on a PC because the little light is all the way over on the other side on a PC keyboard.

Some people call this procrastination. I call this enjoying the finer things in life.

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/05/caps_lock.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/05/caps_lock.html Geekery Sat, 12 May 2007 09:57:12 -0600 I Feel Great!

From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6rE0EakhG8

]]> http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/05/i_feel_great.html http://blog.andrelareau.com/2007/05/i_feel_great.html Interweb Sat, 05 May 2007 05:08:54 -0600