Category Archives: Geeky Technical Stuff

Any time I go off on a rant about geeky, technical subjects I’ll try and warn you by labelling it appropriately.

XBOX 360 Red Dead Redemption Lockup

So I was trying to play the last Armadillo mission when the action suddenly froze, but my controller kept rumbling and the game sounds continued.

June 10th, 2010 – 12:11 am | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings, Geeky Technical Stuff, Rant, Video Games, Video of the Day | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Gyration GYM1100NA – The Best thing ever to happen to FPS Gaming, Seriously

What is it? Well it’s an “air mouse” or “space mouse” or one of the many other monikers this new class of devices goes by. What it boils down to is that this mouse uses accelerometers instead of a mouse ball, CCDs or lasers. I bet you can think of another device that works this …

February 17th, 2009 – 11:11 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings, Geeky Technical Stuff | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Anime North 2008

Anime North was even bigger this year than last if you can believe it. There were people from all over there and because I wore a Trent U t-shirt I met a few fellow Trent students there as well. I was also able to run into a few of the artists I’d seen on deviantArt …

May 27th, 2008 – 10:23 am | By Ean | Posted in Anime (???), Daily Musings, Geeky Technical Stuff, Notable Days, Video Games | Tagged | Comments (5)

Lucasfilm releases details of new advanced CGI techniques

Well in those days computers were apparently 1-4Mhz on the server end of things. Doing wireframe perspective matrix transformations quick enough to rotate things in real time was a big deal. I mean… I wasn’t born yet – but the literature clearly indicates there were parties in the streets. LOL Is this kind-of like a …

April 21st, 2008 – 12:48 pm | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings, Geeky Technical Stuff, Space, Video of the Day | Tagged | Comments (0)

Edward Lorenz dead at 90

Who is Edward Lorenz? Well he’s known in scientific circles as the father of chaos theory. Chaos theory explores the relatioships between tiny changes in a dynamic system and the vast impacts these changes can have. For me this is a somber day as I fondly remember reading about chaos theory in my school library …

April 17th, 2008 – 9:33 am | By Ean | Posted in Daily Musings, Death, Geeky Technical Stuff, Notable Days, Space | Tagged | Comments (0)