X-Cop Fly Company

Stone Temple Pilots: Yet Another Victim of Classic Rock Radio

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

I’ve mentioned previously on this blog the treatment of the band Bush based entirely upon their radio hits. Now it appears the same thing is occurring with STP. This band has existed since 1992 (1991 if you count the non-grunge Mighty Joe Young demo material) Stone Temple Pilots – Fast As I Can (Mighty Joe [...]

RIP, Paul Gray

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Slipknot – Wait and Bleed Slipknot – My Plague Slipknot – New Abortion Slipknot – Left Behind Slipknot – (Sic) Slipknot – Liberate

Two new games added to “Download Library”

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

I have added two freeware games to the Download Library section above, ScopaFree (an implementation of the Italian card game Scopa) and TrackWords (a Boggle-style game). The developer’s home page was hosted on Geocities and the files were hosted on Winsite, both of which have shut down. Go to the “Download Library” tab above and [...]

dammit man i knew it was a mistake…

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

At the suggestion of Computing Minimalists, I’ve been getting used to using the keyboard instead of the mouse in most cases. I was always a Vim person, and started using Vimperator today, and have been using MouseKeys (PDF link) and Windows XP’s shortcuts for a week or two. As you get used to using the [...]

Dr-Evil-Like Volcano Lair For Sale

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Sited upon small volcanic cone in the high desert midway between Las Vegas & Los Angeles, this 60-acre retreat seems to cap the mountain top with its dome-like roof: Concrete and truss beams form its dome allowing the interior to embrace 360 degrees of stark, strong almost lunar landscape. Main house of two bedrooms, 2 [...]

Breathe…

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

There’s a song I like to listen to called “Please” by Nine Inch Nails. The chorus comes in with a sharp buzz (including his screechy voice), like a surge of electricity. Every time I hear it, I can feel that I’m inhaling my second wind on a day in high school when I was heavily [...]