when i was young, bored, at tandou, my families little shack in the middle of the bush.
i was sitting in the car, and i found a tape of my fathers. a greatest hits of the 60s. most of it was terrible, but i remember hearing one song i still like today. maybe it was the guitar. i really cant tell. but its still a classic.
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May I introduce to you, the one and only Heath (middle name pending) O’Fee
I know I’ve mainly only posted on FB (I know, I feel so dirty) but I thought i’d make an official posting here on my blog as well.
Born on the 13th of February, at 2 am. I am a bad bad person, don’t know the weight and whatnot. He’s doing fine. Day two and he’s discovered crying. I feel bad for Grace. Hah.
Thank you everyone on the various social medias for the well wishes. I of course will keep you updated with pics and videos when I have some cool stuff.
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I’ve recently been spending a lot of my spare time (what of it), thinking and designing stuff for my two raspberry pis.
Cheap still is cheap, even in Australia. It costs a little more (50 bucks) but it’s still worth it – so far I’ve managed to hook up a house wide ad-blocker, a retro games system with controller, and just for shits and giggles once the parts come in, I’m going to try my hand with a pirate box, and a little fm transmitter. Two things I really don’t especially need for the house (hello sonos and NAS) but handy if I do go traveling soon.
My laptop is finally dying a horrible death and I’ve been using the iPad more and more (how do you think I’m writing this??) so I might set one up at work and get an iOS printer unit set up. Dad still uses his ancient iPad 1 and would make things a hell of a lot easier for him.
Speaking of dad, he asked to look into a unit where he could get an email sent when somebody say, presses a button. Used for when parts arrive etc. The hardware side is fine for me, I’ve no problems there. The programming side confused me a little. I should spend less time messing around with MMOs and maybe start to learn Python. I probably won’t be able to figure dads problem out by the time he needs it (I found ring.com seems to do a similar thing, once it comes to Australia) but it will be handy to have that knowledge later on down the track. I’ve gotten lazy not learning anything lately.
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okay…
I LOVE dragon age 3. i really do. although i enjoyed the dragon age 2 story, this is a much much better game.
however, something that bothers me is the way they want you to think “oh hey, we can be like skyrim! look at all this world and adventures!” but if you’re stupid enough to go in that area without learning beforehand that its five levels above what you’re currently at, “you’re gonna have a bad time!”
i just think bethesda do it better when it comes to stuff like that. i hate seeing a quest open and getting my arse kicked because even though i’ve opened that part of the game up, doesnt mean i can complete it yet… bleh.
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where the movie can be an experience, the book can take longer.
sometimes this can be frustrating.
in between gaming, TV and life in general, I’m reading Gone Girl. I’m really enjoying it. The author has a wonderful way of hitting some great end of chapter cliffhangers, and going back and forth between the past, what everything is building up to and the aftermath.
the thing is, i REALLY want to see the film.
It ticks all my boxes, David Fincher, music by Trent and Atticus. The Image teases me every time I open Popcorn Time, but I hold myself back. I havent seen or read any spoilers, either. This is all happening as I read. Its interesting – It’s the first time In a while I havent re-read something or being shocked and surprised as I’m reading a book as well.
After this I’ve also got the new William Gibson book as well.
You can tell I got a new kindle touch for xmas, cant you?? 
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it’s funny how music works.
This song sounds NOTHING like the original. hell, i’d barely call it a remix. it’s almost a completely new song. if it wasn’t for this mix, i don’t know how well the band would be known…
saying that. the band is GOOD, but its on another level.
This is one of the very first CDs i ever bought. i remember buying it for a terrible cheesy 90s dance track, but the rest of the soundtrack (the original mortal kombat film) was full of electronica and industrial metal.
Even today, i can turn the lights off and just drift to this song…..
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Incredibly relaxed. Things are going well. Decent work, lovely gf, interesting games to keep me occupied.
Speaking of, dragon age 3 nails it. As usual, the map could of been better designed, but the side quests and stuff almost eclipse skyrim for amount of content. Plus being set in thedas makes it perfect. I’m willing to bet that it gets the game of the year on good game next week on their year wrap up epsiode. I can’t remember any other perfect score for the year….
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Now that Sunday nights tends to be date night, the GF and i catch up with whatevers new on popcorn time. I have a whole post about that one day, my god does that thing just work (but for how long?)
So far last night we watched the Lego movie. It was Cute, fun and full of little in jokes. It had the same Kind of heart that the pixar films do.
Also the Mrs browns boys film. It wasn’t bad, but lack of laugh track and spontaneous way of the show was missing. There’s a few moments in the film where they have a couple of “mistakes” but Honestly, it kind of felt like even the mistakes were scripted. And the story wasn’t too original. Personally I think I like the cheesiness of the tv show.
Also what about Dr who? Probably the darkest season of the new show I’ve seen. I hope they find gallifrey. I want clara to have her own tardis 
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does that make me a bad person??
if you havent heard, it’s leaked online early. and when i say early, i mean early. It’s missing CGI, it’s in black and white, there’s text all over the screen where effects are meant to go and the music is just stuffed ripped from other movies.
it’s quite interesting to see something that early in production, even with the rose leak it was pretty much all done, save a few effects/sound bits. (god i wish i still had that copy). this one even has the opening titles from matt smith’s era!! i can understand why the BBC would be furious, though. on the other hand regardless on how bad it looks (remember this is dr who fans you are talking about) it’s i think hyping up the new series as well. the story is GOOD, the new doctor is fantastic, and clara finally is no longer the impossible girl and grows as a character.
i won’t spoil anything, but the tone and the style is different again. i cant say it’s a brand new show like the end of russell’s era, because there are a lot of callbacks to old episodes, but they’ve realised they cant do the same old thing with a new actor, plus there’s a few sly mentions to the fans in this regard as well.
i think i’ll leave it there, though. its going to go down well, i think. the first five scripts have been leaked as well. im not too exactly sure whether i’ll read them or not. let’s see if my will holds up in the next few weeks 
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the last few months i’ve been in a tinkering phase with my computers. discovering that the latest and greatest does not need to run quickly..
my second computer, an old athlon (i think) single core machine with 1 gig of RAM had been gathering dust in my shed. i bought this in wagga when my first built computer at 19 finally bit the dust in an emergency. my athlon at the time cost me a pretty penny, but did its job with good old windows XP. it was starting to struggle at the end, then one day, it just stopped. the fan would spin, everything would light up, just no boot.
i didnt have the heart to throw it out, but that day i decided the time to go into the mac world. i bought myself an imac, and well, my pc gaming hobby didnt pick up any time soon 
anyways, a few months back i though “what if its NOT the motherboard??” i went to a local computer store, bought a decent power supply, and shock horror – it was alive again. okay, i say alive, incredibly slow. i could of reinstalled windows on it from scratch, but even so, what was the point? the operating system had JUST been retired and there was no way in hell i was going to install vista. what about linux??
i played around with ubuntu back in the early days. throughout the years of my athlon, it got a lot of different bits and pieces to get it running still. that had probably something to do with it, but even if it was original, i could never get it working properly. my girlfriend has ubuntu running on her tiny netbook and it was working fine, no issues at all. i downloaded the latest version, wiped the old data and tried again.
wow, it worked. sluggish, but worked.
i did a little research, and discovered a bare bones version called lubuntu. to be honest, this suited me more regardless. with a couple of clicks here and there, you can almost make it look like a windows machine. and that’s what i did. a google search here and there, and all of a sudden i have a 2004/5 era machine that works flawlessly. its not speedy, and HD streaming video stutters, but it browses the web perfectly, plays videos fine, even bittorrents without a hitch. lubuntu, the version i run is a LITTLE fiddly compared to the original ubuntu but its nothing i couldnt fix. we’re talking windows level fixes.
i did the same with another old laptop. this thing is a core 2 duo that i bought for work long long ago running vista. now, its working like a charm and is my work machine instead of trying to tap along on the ipad. even my macbook air – i enclusively console game these days, so i removed the last of my space on my macbook air and installed lubuntu on here too. there’s moments when i DO need to jump back into normal mac OS (airview) but 99% of the time im in the linux side. it’s been quite interesting, wonderful and relitively easy how well this is all going.
so much so i bought myself a cheap little tablet today. an 80 dollar 7 inch tablet. i thought i’d use it for work web things, and just hotspot my phone. but im discovering how well this little thing goes. i’ve already installed a few apps and this little sluggish but capable tablet works a dream!! ive been reading my instapaper through this 
just wish i had the cash for a new phone 
the iphone 4s will have to do for quite some time
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Dragging every little bit out of the vaults for the 20th Anniversary (jesus christ, 20 years??) they’ve released a 3 disc deluxe version. Some of it I’ve already heard, but the new stuff is interesting…
the 2013 mix is probably the interesting bit – steve albini vs. the record labels is well known if you’re a nirvana fan. the higher ups (and eventually the band themselves) didn’t like how rough the album sounded, so the band cleaned it up and scott litt remixed the two singles. a couple of tracks from steve’s version appear on here and i own the albini mix – even that he’s cleaned up a lot as well.
the new version of the album is steve albini and kris 20 years later – hearing little bits deep in the mix that you couldn’t before, some double tracking the vocals on heart shaped box, dumb is missing the cello completely, serve the servants is almost brutal sounding now. much like my love of butch vig’s mix of nevermind – i think im going to love this version much more than the original. give it time for me to grow.
the rest is the typical rough demos. what IS interesting, though, is dave grohl’s original version of marigold. he did a demo for a cassette called “pocketwatch” (throughout the years he’s re-recorded most of the tracks). for the first time, we’re hearing the clean, no badly dubbed cassette version of the demo. it sounds beautiful, and worth the purchase for that track alone…..
there’s also the live and loud concert they did with pat. it’ll be good to get a proper clean copy of that concert…. (you can tell i’m a fan, yes? 
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got a drive home tomorrow, give this a proper listen then. it’s on spotify if you want to check it out yourself…
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These are my links for August 7th through August 20th:
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This is half way between my home and my home town. We’re talking a three hour drive, here. Nothing over the top.
Whenever I stop here for a break, there’s always caravans here camping for the night. I don’t get it. Maybe it’s easier, but I’d rather go off the beaten track a little, make it a proper adventure. Not somewhere where you can hear traffic all night on a major highway. There’s so much beautiful country out this way, make it a proper adventure!!
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These are my links for March 3rd through August 7th:
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It’s been a few years since i’ve done one of these. I almost forgot about the original, so I thought “why the hell not?”
The equipment I’m using is very primitive, the good old headset I’ve had for years is cactus. So apologies for the audio quality. I hope to do more of these as well…
Terry’s Mixtape 02
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Playlist
Amy McDonald – This Is The Life
Liquido – Play Some Rock
The Living End – Hot Potato
Amanda Palmer – Want It Back
Mindless Self Indulgence – Shut Me Up
Peeping Tom – Mojo
Puscifier – Queen B
Nine Inch Nails – The Perfect Drug
Love Spit Love – Am I Wrong (Angus Mix)
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discovered this song yesterday thanks to a podcast / radio show (thanks alchemist in the evening)
no official release yet, but i really like it…
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cute little mini-documentary on warcraft addiction. It’s nothing hardcore, but interesting nonetheless .
i recently have given up again. not because of anything like that, just the whole “end game” content becomes more work than enjoyment. Grinding and grinding dailies so you can buy more gear. I recently was kicked from a LFR because my DPS wasn’t high enough and i thought “fuck it, there’s too many fun things to do on the 360 during my down time”, and also my social life has picked up quite a bit lately as well. Life’s too short.
I can totally understand why they do it, hell, it keeps the players playing. But it’s just not for me anymore. 
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These are my links for February 28th through March 3rd:
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