Monthly Archives: January 2008

Inspiration in Video

Posted on 01/25/2008 by Paul

The TED foundation (Technolgy, Entertaiment, Design) brings together prominent speakers from all walks of life to provide 15 minute presentations on their ideas. The majority of those talks are available for download through iTunes or directly from ted.com. For every … Continue reading →

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Busy Week

Posted on 01/21/2008 by Paul

I spent the majority of last week in class studying to retake my certification test this upcoming Sunday. I had a nice weekend. I finally got past the synth solo in Rock Band on “The Hand that Feeds” on hard … Continue reading →

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I am Ready to Rock

Posted on 01/15/2008 by Paul

Second time was the charm. My second Rock Band Stratocaster works very well. I’ve begun a solo tour on Hard difficulty for guitar but I can’t get past the “solo” in The Hand That Feeds. I’ve dropped into practice mode … Continue reading →

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Paul’s (Almost) Surfing Adventure

Posted on 01/14/2008 by Amy

For those of you who’ve been wondering at what point the strange califronia lifestyle will start to corrupt our hardy midwestern roots, the event horizon may be in sight. Sunday morning bright and early Paul zipped himself into a full … Continue reading →

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Ragged Edge

Posted on 01/12/2008 by Paul

I don’t know if I mentioned it, but when I built a new computer I decided to put Vista on it. I really haven’t had many problems with it. I found a little instability from a memory management problem with … Continue reading →

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Time to Fire the Roadies

Posted on 01/11/2008 by Paul

I really prefer the Rock Band Stratocaster fret buttons to the other Guitar Hero guitars that have come before. It’s much easier to slide my fingers up and down the neck when I’m playing on hard difficulty to hit that … Continue reading →

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Game Night Online – Soon

Posted on 01/08/2008 by Paul

Thanks everyone for the responses about GNO. If you’ve got any online friends that aren’t dicks feel free to invite them. I’ve got some friends here locally interested and there’s the brothers that will be in on it as well so we’re … Continue reading →

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Game Night (Online) 2008

Posted on 01/05/2008 by Paul

We had a pretty good thing going last year where my two brothers, Matt, and I would conference call on Skype on a weekday evening and then proceed to play a PC game for a few hours. Ususally we played … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Rockin’ Day

Posted on 01/02/2008 by Paul

With all the travel over Christmas we had a nice relaxing new year at home. We watched Live Free or Die Hard on pay-per-view and fell asleep right around midnight. The next day I made a big batch of yellow … Continue reading →

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