http://www.sk8dork.com the blog of ron g Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:57:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i love os x, and now that i have it running well on my acer aspire one i've been sorting out the little things. the biggest little thing for me is being able to lock the screen quickly and easily. for some reason, even though i have the screensaver set ... http://www.sk8dork.com/2009/01/lock-screen-in-os-x/ i was recently "commissioned" to do a design for a t-shirt based on a particular image of wonder woman from the classic TV show. the image dons the lolcat-style caption "oh no you didn't!" - making it infinitely funnier than without. the shirt was created specifically for a friend's birthday, ... http://www.sk8dork.com/2009/01/oh-no-you-didnt/ i'm using an m-audio sustain pedal, made for keyboards, connected via a stereo 1/4" to 1/8" adapter. it works great, and the pedal is WAY sturdier than the included rock band pedal. in the video i have it hooked up through a headphone splitter, and that works for double pedal ... http://www.sk8dork.com/2008/07/rock-band-wii-drums-with-sustain-pedal/ i hooked up my new rock band wii drum set to my laptop via usb and mapped it to keys with joytokey and then set those to trigger the FPC in FLStudio 8. no drivers were required, all i did was plug it in, it was recognized as the Harmonix Drum ... http://www.sk8dork.com/2008/06/rock-band-wii-drum-set-pc-test/ here's the second version of my colowar2008 nerd rap battle remix! i like this one much better. added a new rapper, rearranged things, and things and stuff. listen to it now! edit: i uploaded to boomp3 since houndbite was becoming unreliable. boomp3.com edit: houndbite came back online, here is their embed, just in ... http://www.sk8dork.com/2008/04/colorwars-nerd-rap-battle-remix-v2/ so another colorwar2008 event was the nerd rap battle. nerds (anyone on twitter) wrote a short rap and then called it in to a phone recording service that later would show up on the web for people to listen to. after the thrilling conclusion of the rap battle a new ... http://www.sk8dork.com/2008/04/colorwars-nerd-rap-battle-remix/ this is my submission for the youngme - nowme contest for colorwars 2008. that was fun to do. the deadline is stated as sunday april 20, and i submitted at 11pm tonight (sunday) so i hope i made it. if not, oh well, was still fun. check out the gallery of everyone ... http://www.sk8dork.com/2008/04/youngme-nowme-cw08/