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My Top Song Covers

Just cause I feel like it. These are not in any particular order though.

• Disturbed -- Land of Confusion
• Nightwish -- High Hopes
• Gary Jules ft. Michael Andrews -- Mad World (alternate mix)
• Van Halen -- You Really Got Me Now
• Marilyn Manson -- This Is Halloween
• Jimi Hendrix -- All Along the Watchtower
• Blue Man Group -- Baba O'Riley (but all live versions suck, get the album one)
• Blue Man Group ft. Venus Hum -- I Feel Love
• Anything by Richard Cheese
• Rachid Taha -- Rock the Casbah

"Eighty Percent" Projects

Chances are that if you’ve ever done a semester long project, especially a game, you have an “eighty percent” project sitting around. Maybe more than once. I believe I have at least three, maybe more. I regret leaving them as eighty percent projects, and I would like to go back and spend the effort to fix them up properly next year.

Napster: Now with just a hint of scam

I just want to point out two things with Napster.

• If you sign up for their free trial, they will automatically start billing you when it ends unless you cancel before that.
• You have to call them to cancel; there is no online option to unsubscribe.

PSA: Sonic File Finder

I’m not as big a fan of Visual Assist X as some people. It’s a great tool, but there are really only a handful of features that matter to me. Probably the biggest one is that it has a dialog that lists ALL the files in your solution in a flat alphabetically sorted list, with progressive search (like iTunes). That dialog is godly, and so I was thrilled to discover the Sonic File Finder add-in for Visual Studio. It adds that dialog, and works gloriously.

Cardboard!

It turns out that for the enclosure size I’m using, a toilet paper tube is exactly the right size to create a port tuned to 62 hz, and my speakers have a frequency response down to 55 hz. In other words, I jammed a toilet paper tube into my box and now I have a beautifully clear, open bass response. Cool, eh? P.S. This is called a bass reflex system.