Rip’s Domain

For those of you who didn’t get the see the advanced screening of Ironman last night at your local Muvico, I thought I should inform you about two things…

1) Get there early…The new trailer for The Dark Knight will be played. Yes, it kicks ass and will make you wish July was hear already. It is re-confirmed that Heath kicks Jack’s ass as the best Joker. I don’t want to tell you too much, so get there.

2) Stay late…like til after the last credit roles. I feel sorry for the people who left right after the movie, because they missed the biggest surprise of all. Don’t leave til the very, very, very end of the movie. You won’t be disappointed.

As for the movie itself, Robert Downey Jr. did a great job. The movie was funny, cool, action-packed and just kicked loads of ass. 2 hours seems to just pass by because we were having so much fun. You are going to love this movie and wish it wouldn’t end. Oh, the graphics kicked ass and the Ironman suit looks as real as real can get.

WARNING: There will be a bunch of kids at this movie, so I would go to a later showing if possible unless you want to be sitting with a bunch of little kids. There were kids as young as 4 in the movie with us.

Oh, don’t forget to visit my brother’s blog today for some laughs. Here is the link:

http://myjunkmail.blogspot.com

This weeks comedic conversations come from a different source then bash. Can’t tell you the name of the site because it’s very racy and isn’t SFW. However if you’ve been around the net, you probably know the site. Just to let you know, I didn’t participate in any of these conversations. It’s just fun to see these people at work.

Mr. T brought boy out of coma

First thing is you have to read the story to get the full effect: Mr. T brought boy out of coma

Demonic_Chronic: On a side note this is only the second best thing Mr. T has done. The first? While being interviewed on the street by a Canadian comedy show, he was being annoyed by a bee. As the interview continued he bit the fucking bee out of the air, chomped a few times and spat it to the ground yelling “T one, Bee zero!!”

Madprofessor13: No fucking way… I want to see that.

Why Baseball IS Fun to Watch

me: AH! This happened to me when I was 11! Except in this video the ball didn’t get to accelerate to its top speed… in my case, I was waiting at 2nd base and the ball hit my young beautiful face (that day, it was parents vs kids… one of the fat parents pretty much owned that ball) no stitches, but do have a smaller nostril. Wish parents would’ve filmed it for me to win money at America’s Funniest Home Videos… or win bride on Blogwars…

ScreamAtAMonkey: the ball stops accelerating when it leaves the bat

cybernigel:

Astigos: Well said. PICK UP A FUCKIN PHYSICS BOOK ‘ME’.

getdafuckout: it actually keeps accelerating vertically down

me: Ummm… I would understand that the ball would decelerate if it hit the bat itself, or the wall… but since the batter is giving extra energy, wouldn’t the ball accelerate until it reaches terminal speed, and then decelerate? How can tennis players play if the ball keeps on decelerating?

Everytime I hear about CSS3 allowing the use of variables, I cringe. I can tell right off the bat that this is an extremely bad idea and will be abused beyond belief.

One of the ways I propose replacing this up and coming feature is by just allowing us to call other selectors within a selector. I’ll demonstrate:

<style type=”text/css”>
.bold {font-weight:bold;}
.blue {color:blue;}
.testingagain {selectors:.bold, .blue;}
</style>
<p class=”testingagain”>testing this out</p>

In the above code block the testingagain class would inherit the properties of both the bold and the blue selectors. Further more you could overwrite them, just as you do now.

<style type=”text/css”>
.bold {font-weight:bold;}
.blue {color:blue;}
.testingagain
{
selectors:.bold, .blue;
font-weight:normal;
}
</style>
<p class=”testingagain”>testing this out</p>

Hell, let’s get jiggy with it:

<style type=”text/css”>
.cool {font-weight:bold;color:blue;}
.shout{background-color:red;text-align:center;text-decoration:underline;}
.testingagain
{
selectors:.cool, .shout;
font-weight:normal;
text-decoration:none;
background-color:yellow;
}
</style>
<p class=”testingagain”>testing this out</p>

Why I like this method

Because you can already do it now! You have to do it in the HTML like so

<style type=”text/css”>
.bold {font-weight:bold;}
.blue {color:blue;}
</style>
<p class=”bold blue”>testing this out</p>

With my proposed method it moves this into the css file for easier maintenance and readbility.

So what do you think?

I’m upset since there are no new BASHES in the queue this week

To compensate, I’m going to dig into the archives.

Before BASH gets started, I just wanted to say:

Charles…. I finally found a GH3 Through The Fires and the Flames video that shows the person playing and not just the screen!

This fucker is good!

http://www.bash.org/?3076
http://www.bash.org/?3200
http://www.bash.org/?22211
http://www.bash.org/?3928
http://www.bash.org/?31759
http://www.bash.org/?36613
http://www.bash.org/?64184
http://www.bash.org/?81206
http://www.bash.org/?155324
http://www.bash.org/?337156
http://www.bash.org/?609240
http://www.bash.org/?729896
http://www.bash.org/?773975

Seems everyone has Ron Paul on their mind: Huckabee supports Ron Paul! (by accident)

Only in America. I’m casting my vote for this guy to be the next president.

If there ever was a magazine that was more despised by the community it was targeted at, it was the ColdFusion Developer’s Journal (CFDJ). What started out as a good resource for CF people has dramatically gone to shit. In the beginning of it’s life, you could find good, quality articles, but now, with the advent of blogs, the magazine just reprints whatever it could find on the net to keep itself alive.

Personally I feel sorry for the Silverlight community out there, since the pain is now being transfered over to you. Let us know if you feel the same as we do in 6 months.

Anywho, thank God CFDJ is dead. If there were ways to comment on their stories without registering, I’m sure the feeling around the community would be the same.

Update: Send a friendly message to the Editors knowing how much we’ll miss CFDJ and what a positive impact their magazine has been to the ColdFusion community…… God I feel sick.

A while ago, I blogged about my obsession with Guitar Hero (GH). I really just can’t get enough of that game, but the lack of owning an XBOX 360 has hindered my playing to about once a month when I go over to my friend’s house.

I’ve been wanting to go out and purchase my own XBOX 360, but the fact that I’m constantly hearing horror stories about the “red ring of death” is scaring me off. What am I suppose to do at this point?!? I need something to cure my addiction while Microsoft works out the kinks (if they ever do work them out). My only alternative was to find another way to play GH without having to get an XBOX 360 for the moment.

This is when my geekiness kicked in: “Hey dumbass…. you’re probably not the only one wanting to play GH. How much you want to bet someone has created an open source clone.” God I love it when I have these moments! With that I quickly Googled “guitar hero clones” and found the answer: Frets on Fire!

If you’ve never heard of Frets on Fire (FOF), allow me to tell you about it. It’s a GH clone written in Python by some really creative people. You use you keyboard to play by holding it upside-down and mimicking a guitar. Just like GH, you pick a song to play and you strum along when the little blocks tell you to.

Some of really nice features of FOF is that you can import songs from GH directly into it (in the spirit of the internet there is a torrent available on thePirateBay for the songs). You can also hook up a GH guitar and use that if you don’t want to use your keyboard (although using the keyboard isn’t all that bad, it just looks dumb). There is also a tutorial that show you how to play the game for the first time and how to hold the keyboard correctly.

To add props to the game, I will say that it look extremely professional. I personally think that it look better then GH itself and you can tell that the developers really took their time with the interface. The songs that come with the game are really good and as I’m typing this I still have Bang Bang, Mystery Man in my head.

To say the least I was up until 3 a.m. this morning with my wife playing this thing and I’m just counting down the hours until I can get out of work. I can’t wait to get out of here so I can go purchase the GH guitar and hook it up!