Carterpants

In 2012 I will make pancakes

Mind vomit

Categories: Ramblings

Tags: detroit red wings, gaming, lovesac, nfl, party, SW:TOR

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Published on: January 18, 2012

Oh how lazy I’ve been. We’ve definitely taken advantage of the quiet weekends that typically follow the holiday bustle, and caught up on a few things around the house. “Things” aren’t always just chores they can be fun things.. well like gaming, gaming, and some more gaming. I’m still loving the SWTOR but Final Fantasy XIII-2 is looming and Skyrim still has some unfinished business to attend to, so my outlook for the coming weeks consists mostly of “things” as we’ve defined.

Not much to catch you up on really. Been watching the NFL playoffs sans Cowboys which isn’t really a shocker anymore. Was nice to see Tim Tebow finally get some humble pie crammed down his holier than thou preach-canon (mouth), even if it was the Pats who had to do it.

The Red Wings have been absolutely on fire lately! I’ve managed to catch a few games on TV and damn are they looking good. If they keep this up… Cup time baby!

Well really that’s all I got for right now. Actually there’s quite a bit I could talk about but my mind went to bed about twenty minutes ago. Perhaps tomorrow.

Now, I flop on the Lovesac. Heh, sac.

SWTOR Game footage

by Carterpants

Categories: hardware/software

Tags: carterpants, games, keller's void, mmorpg, saucypantz, star wars, SW:TOR, video

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Published on: January 8, 2012

Run Jedi, Run!

So Kdenlive had some amazing updates over the last few months and I’ve not had much footage to run through it. I decided to grab Fraps and capture some Star Wars: The Old Republic vids, then slap them all together. Here is the mutated afterbirth of said events.

Install Ruby on Rails in Fedora

by Carterpants

Categories: Ramblings

Tags: Fedora, install, Linux, rails, ror, Ruby, ruby on rails

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Published on: January 4, 2012

I figured I would start out the new year with a helpful post. Today I’ll cover installing Ruby on Rails (RoR) in Fedora.

First let’s get the necessary packages installed via yum. This will install ruby, rubygems and the development packages needed by gems, and mysql.

sudo yum install ruby ruby-devel rubygems mysql mysql-server mysql-administrator sqlite-devel

Once that is complete let’s get rails via gem (the include part is dash dash include dash dependencies)

sudo gem install rails –include-dependencies

Now let’s fire up MySQL and make sure it starts successfully

sudo service mysqld start; sudo service mysqld status | grep active

You should see some output with “active” and the time the service was started.

Now run this command and verify the version notation spits out for both Ruby and Rails:

ruby -v; rails -v

If everything looks good, you can start your RoR development in the IDE of your choosing. You can download Eclipse and use the Aptana plugin or just use the Aptana Studio entirely.

More Christmas than you can shake a candy cane at

by Carterpants

Categories: Friends/Family

Tags: balls, christmas, Evil Santa, food, games, kangaroo, SW:TOR

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Published on: December 26, 2011

..because shaking things at other things is a great determination of quantity. I’ve always had issues with that phrase, but my neurosis aside..

Merry (day after) Christmas!

I hope you were all good boys and girls this year, cause I would hate to hear about how Santa dropped a duce in your stocking. Yup, Santa has graduated from coal and now he’s really driving the point home this time. Be good or I’ll stink pickle that fireplace thigh-high, don’t test me damnit! Heh silly drunken Santa. Wait I thought we put my neurosis aside, let’s try that again.

I trust you all had a wonderful Christmas with your friends and family, because really that’s what this time of year is all about. Presents and mass quantities of food/drink are always a plus, but the reason for the season is all about togetherness. We spent the last few days with all of the families and have plenty of pics to prove it.

Friday: Dad and Tammy visited for a finger food feast, gifts, hot apple cider, and a lesson in fire safety

Saturday: The Roberts gathered for games, oyster stew and pizza, and more games (I am the Bingo King, btw) with fabulous prizes!

Sunday: An Italian Christmas feast over at Dale and Margy’s, complete with log cabins and plenty of wine <- don't ask, heh.

Today: Mom is visiting for a Harry Potter viewing and homage to The Christmas Story, aka delivered Chinese.

For now I plan to cuddle up in my new Lovesac (CitySac) and/or fire up some SWTOR, and I leave you with a pic of Bryan’s Christmas present to me.

Yup, that's a Kangaroo nutsack

The Carter Christmas 2011

by Carterpants

Categories: Console gaming, Friends/Family

Tags: christmas, pics, SW:TOR, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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Published on: December 19, 2011

Another great party hosted by Rob and Joy is in the books. Carter Christmas 2011 featured a smattering of great food, fun gifts, and plenty of dancing. No really we played Dance Dance Revolution for hours, and I think most everyone was sober to boot. I had some great video of the expert dance moves (I use the term loosely) however my memory card sold the farm during transfer. I’m starting to believe I’m technologically cursed these past few days.. if the microwave blows up in my face in the next 24 hours I’m going back to the damned stone age.

While I couldn’t salvage the video, I did manage to get the pictures off prior to memory card assplosion. They’re in the Dec2011 gallery so go take a peek.

In gaming news..

I finally finished the main quest line in Skyrim! What an excellent game all around, seriously. This game truly had it all and lived up to every single expectation imaginable. Don’t take my word for it though, Spike’s VGA seems to agree, granting it top honors with Game of the Year. Further proving that anything Bethesda Game Studios comes out with is almost guaranteed to be gold.

While I’ve chewed through the main story of Skyrim there are plenty of side stories to keep me entertained for weeks to come. I’m only at 60% of the available trophies right now and I fully intend to make Skyrim my second Platinum game. Aim high, am I right!? There’s only one snag in this little plan though… SW:TOR fires up tomorrow. To make matters worse, I obtained early access to the game three days ago and I’m already hooked.

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