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Hello. My name is Ryan. This is my web page. It's not really about anything. I put here all the things that I think the world should see. If you want to know more, you can read the about page. You'll probably want to check out the design gallery. And if you're really adventurous I think my audio files are worth a listen.

Feigning Interest Gets You Brownie Points

You know I had forgotten why I read the non-adventures of Wonderella

It's an incredibly bad comic and isn't really at all funny. But then this really good news post pops up.

Michael Jackson is Dead

"Since this has happened, I have not seen any news about the brutal post-election violence in Iran, the intense bombings in Baghdad or the Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan.

"Thank you Michael Jackson, for finally bringing peace to the Mideast."

I suppose it's not part of the comic at all and really doesn't explain why I still read it.

Posted by Aquatakat on the 28th of June with 0 comments.

I successfully put Shiro to sleep with this song

It's boring and enjoyable.

Posted by Aquatakat on the 25th of June with 1 comments.

I wonder what the difference between the Windows 7 RC and the RTM will be

It can't be stability because my uptime on this averages around 14 days (the interval where they push a test update requiring a restart fdsa).

I bet EVERYTHING will get a ribbon UI. Including Notepad and the calculator.

Posted by Aquatakat on the 19th of June with 4 comments.

I just ordered the Daisy Owl bee shirt

I'm not sure if I posted this here. I don't think I did because I found Daisy Owl from Cracked and I'm slightly ashamed that I read that site sometimes. It's a webcomic that probably belongs in newspapers.

But it's the most awesome shirt in the world:

The comic is completely pointless and sometimes amusing.

Posted by Aquatakat on the 9th of June with 2 comments.

Canada will always do good because of trees and rivers

Just FYI.

You people in Connecticut probably get your electricity from Ontario hydro companies.

Also I keep finding really bad lists on Wikipedia.

Posted by Aquatakat on the 8th of June with 0 comments.

I AM GOING TO EAT A TURKEY BURGER

WITH LETTUCE AND TOMATO.

YOUR QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED IN THE ORDER THEY ARE RECEIVED.

Posted by Aquatakat on the 4th of June with 2 comments.

On Microsoft software

Useful, reliable, fast: pick two

Posted by Aquatakat on the 16th of May with 1 comments.

It's the 12th of May 2009

And it's snowing outside.

Snowing.

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING!?

Posted by Aquatakat on the 12th of May with 8 comments.

The original The Day the Earth Stood Still is wicked

I watched the new one a few weeks ago because one of the persons that lives with me downloaded it. I was mostly infuriated with it because of Keanu Reeves. Look at how dumb he looks.

But the old one had a bunch of things that the old one didn't, despite being fifty years old and in monochrome:

- A plot that makes sense
- No Keanu Reeves
- Guys in horrible suits
- No Keanu Reeves
- Likeable characters
- No Keanu Reeves
- No Keanu Reeves
- No Keanu Reeves
- Toy trains
- No Keanu Reeves

The most enjoyable part, IMO, was the little glimpse into 1950's culture. It has more guys in robot suits than I thought.

OH SHI- I just realised I'm going to be here for 2050 and it's probably going to have actual robots that are just guys in awesome suits or something. Oh wait that's already happened.

Posted by Aquatakat on the 30th of April with 2 comments.

I finished GTA IV for the PC the other day

I bought a new processor that lists four lines in the device manager in order to play it properly.

It has bad graphics. The plot gets all confused because at some points you can choose to do missions for up to five different people at a time. Once you're on the fifth person you've forgotten why you know them and are doing things for them.

Cover shooting and targeting system is amazing. I played with an Xbox 360 controller and actually felt that aiming with a mouse would be worse.

At some points you get to make some various choices, mostly near the end of the game. I imagine they dramatically affect the way the ending is told so I think I might play through the game again just to have different choices.

Game ran like crap and I had to turn shadows off. Core 2 Quad Q9400, Radeon HD 4870, RAID 0 hard disks.

8/10

Posted by Aquatakat on the 23rd of April with 2 comments.