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Two more from 4chan

3 September, 2008 (16:08) | Computers | No comments

From /wg/ on 4chan.

Available over at /wallpaper

Six more wallpaper

3 September, 2008 (14:45) | Computers | No comments

From /wg/ on 4chan.

Available over at /wallpaper

I hate EA

3 September, 2008 (11:16) | Computers | No comments

A few weeks (months?) ago, EA released the Spore Creature Creator demo for the Mac and the PC. Life was grand as people created funny little creatures left and right.

I joined in the fun and downloaded the Mac version.

Since there were spots for more creature parts, I went shopping on EA’s website and found that if I pre-registered for Spore, I could download the full creature creator right-then. Sweet! I pre-registered, gave them credit card info, and got all set to download only to find that they don’t have downloads for the Mac.

“Weak,” I thought, “I’ll just download the full version later.” With that all thoughts of Spore left my head.

On August 28th, I received two email from EA that I hadn’t expected!

Thank you for your recent pre-order purchase of Spore from EA Store.
As you are probably aware, Spore is due to be released on September 7th. However, we’ve just made it easier for you to get in the game faster by making Spore available to pre-load from the 28th August!

Followed by another one:

Thank you for ordering on EA Store (US). The product that you pre-ordered is now available for either preload or release. The EA Download Manager indicates the release date and time of your purchase. The preload is a convenience to get you into the game faster when the release date arrives.

Order ID: xxxxxxxxxx
Product ID: xxxxxxxx
Product Name: Spore™>

“Yay!” I thought, “Spore will soon be mine!”

But that was not to be the case. I searched the EA site high and low, but couldn’t figure out where I could download Spore. Giving up, I decided to ask the Customer Service people for some help. This was my first mistake. Their contact form simply doesn’t work. I couldn’t get the combination of “Macintosh”, “Spore”, and “Install” to work because their JavaScript menus kept eliminating options when I would change one of those fields. Eventually I settled for saying it was “Battlefield 2142″ I needed help with, and letting the text of my message do the talking.

My message wasn’t the kindest so I’ll get to the meat of it:

How the heck do I download Spore for the Mac? The email I got today about pre-downloading isn’t very clear. This is very frustrating.

Two days later (August 30th) I got a reply from “EARep Seanna” (Sonika Singh):

Thank you for contacting us.

For more information on the SPORE Creature Creator full download for the Mac, please keep updated on the Game Tree Online website.

http://www.gametreeonline.com/ea/sporeIf you have any questions about this material or have any additional questions about your issue, please let us know.

Thinking I’d finally be free, I went to the link and started browsing around. Finding the links for Spore I tried to login using my EA account information.

No dice.

I tried different information from my account.

No dice.

Defeated I updated my request with EA:

That doesn’t really help; my EA login info doesn’t work at gametree.com. That makes it seem like I’d have to buy/pre-register for the game *twice*. I don’t want to pay for this game twice. Please refund or cancel my pre-order; whichever makes more sense. I’ll just pick up a DVD when the game comes out, this is too much of a hassle.

Today (September 3rd) I got a reply from “EARep Anna”:

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts.

If you have the trial version of the SPORE Creature Creator, and you have purchased the full version of the Creature Creator, you must uninstall the trial version. To do this:

1. Click on the Start button.
2. Click Programs, or All Programs.

[More Windows instructions that don't apply to a Mac in any way shape or form.]

Now I’ll be honest, the first thought that entered my head was “Are you high?” My second thought was “Clearly, they’ve become very confused” and so I replied:

What are you talking about? I don’t have a Start button, this is a Mac!
I downloaded the spore creature creator trial, then tried to buy the full version for the Mac.
Apparently that was too complicated for EA since nobody’s been able to tell me how to download the full version.
SO. Please cancel my preregistration and reverse any charges that have been made. I have not been able to download anything.

I think I’m truly stuck now. I have no way of reaching anybody at EA over the phone and they have my credit card information. Obviously their customer support leaves something to be desired. If I had the option, I’d take a gun to the EA office. Unfortunately they’re all the way up in San Jose.

Five more wallpaper

13 August, 2008 (16:48) | Computers | No comments

From /wg/ on 4chan.

Available over at /wallpaper

vf fire!

4 August, 2008 (10:43) | Computers | No comments

From /wg/ on 4chan.

Available over at /wallpaper

Ice cream and nazi panthers

30 July, 2008 (20:18) | Computers | No comments

From /wg/ on 4chan.

Available over at /wallpaper

Homer and Flaming Zombies

28 July, 2008 (15:19) | Computers | No comments

From /wg/ on 4chan.

Available over at /wallpaper

Wallpaper

21 July, 2008 (16:17) | Computers | No comments

For the last few weeks I’ve been collecting wallpaper from around the internets. I’ve finally put together a separate page with them all collected together, newest ones at the top. Right now there are 78 of them. I should probably add some kind of pagination now that it’s grown so much.

Every image should be available in both 1440×900 and 1920×1200 resolutions. I picked these two because they’re the resolutions I use. If you’d like to see something in a different aspect ratio, feel free to download and hack them up. In Windows you can use paint.net, a very cool free image editor. If you’ve got a Mac you can use Preview, which is built-in. If you’ve got Linux, well, I guess you can use The Gimp if you really need to.

None of these images are my original creation; I take no credit for them. I’ve left in signatures and such wherever I could. My sources have mainly been /wg/ on 4chan (probably NSFW) and threadless.com. I’ve also recently found a few by going to artists that I like and seeing what they like, looking for sketches and such. I also got a few from a friend of a friend.

So that’s part of what I’ve been up to lately. If you like what you see, comment! If you have something you’d like me to put up, or think I might like, comment! I think I’ll keep up-to-date with additions, as they happen.

What could I stimulate?

8 July, 2008 (11:52) | General | No comments

Somehow I managed to squeek under the maximum taxable income allowed to get an Economic Stimulus Check.

Yay! $600! Take that future generations!

So how should I use this to stimulate the economy?

64 GB of USB drives (eight 8GB SanDisk Contours) - $579.47, shipped!
A Dell 24″ monitor - $416.38, shipped!
A new regulator - $427.40, shipped!
9 sets of my favorite shaving cream & lotion - $566.55, shipped!
40% of this awesome looking Sony HDR-SR12 HD cam corder - $1,407.34, shipped
A day in San Francisco (SAN → SFO, plus hotel) for two - $439, from orbitz
3 TB of storage - $579.12, shipped!
11 to 12 console video games (roughly $50 each)
60 albums from iTunes
About 13 seconds of Paris Hilton’s time (£70k for 50 minutes earlier this year = $2,758.28/min)

If you get any other bright ideas, please post them!

Grand Cayman Video

10 June, 2008 (00:45) | Diving, Travel | No comments

Grand Cayman Diving from David Olbersen on Vimeo.

NOTE: There’s also a 15 MB QuickTime version available that is full resolution and looks FANTASTIC. You might need to download QuickTime or VLC to play the full-res version.

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