Aspirations, thoughts, and Operator overloading

I laughed so hard I was in tears. My cats were completely perplexed …

I logged onto Steam this morning to make good of the last few hours I would have left from the free weekend deal and was surprised to see that I had a gift waiting for me.

I’m new to Steam, and maybe I was still asleep, but I first thought the free gift was for three guest passes.

Odd.

I figured I must have read it wrong so I went to add TF2 to my cart and it told me I already owned the game. Yipee!

This is a case where I don’t have to decide whether I really want to get the game or not, it was sitting there waiting for me.

It’s been an interesting enough week and I’m sure I could ramble about something half-way interesting, but I’m going to ramble on about Steam and other digital download options instead.

I’ve a friend at work who occasionally brings up Team Fortress 2 and part of me always cringes, as the requirement for me to play would mean that I would have to finally bite the bullet and get a Steam account. That or camp out as his house for weeks on end.

I think the former would work out better.

Steam in itself isn’t evil, and buying something off of Steam isn’t akin to throwing away your money, but it just hasn’t made a lot of sense to me to get an account and purchase any games from them.

As I mentioned back in Oct 2008, I’m a fan of hard media for games. This is/was for two reasons:

1. I want to be able to install/reinstall without limitations.
2. I support the right to resale/trade/give away used goods.

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… and the winner is:

Unfortunately my Mom wasn’t as lucky. She lost by 90 votes.

Voting is now closed. We’ll know who won tonight @ 7 PM ET.

Scratch notes …

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10175

http://www.tweakguides.com/Graphics_7.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate

http://dvcreators.net/discuss/showthread.php?t=17955

http://www.google.com/search?q=fps+vs+frequency

http://www.daniele.ch/school/30vs60/30vs60_1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch

http://www.raydreams.com/docs/dpi.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=dvd+fps

My Mom (Cindy Eller) and her fiance (Kevin O’Hara) have decided to get married in a very interesting way:

A local radio station (Kissin’ 99.3) is offering as a prize the opportunity to get married at this year’s BamaJam Music Festival (on stage) to the couple with the most votes.

Please go to this link to vote (They’re couple #2)
http://ilovekissin.com/pages/4340267.php

You can click on their photo to watch a short video. To vote, scroll to the very bottom.

The rules:

1. One vote per day
2. One vote per computer
3. The contest ends May 14, 2009

BamaJam Music Festival homepage:
http://www.bamajammusicfestival.com/

Thanks for reading this (and hopefully for your vote too)!

The last few months I’ve come across a lot of free music, much of it game soundtracks.

Yesterday it was the Dawn of War 2 soundtrack.

Others:

• World of Goo
  • Main soundtrack page
  • blog entry
• Original Tomb Raider Soundtrack – Music from the entire Lara Croft series

The Dawn of War 2 soundtrack is really good. The others I haven’t listened to enough to really given an opinion.