Shy Ruparel

Inspirational things I’ve learned in the last three...

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:12:24 -0400

Inspirational things I’ve learned in the last three months.

Today I found out I’m a clone that Rob made and only have...

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:44:33 -0400

Today I found out I’m a clone that Rob made and only have 4 weeks to live. This is what I’m going to do with those 4 weeks.

Items on my Desk Explained.

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:50:39 -0500

Items on my Desk Explained.

Reasons to Tri-boot.

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:11:46 -0500

Reasons to Tri-boot.

Reasons to Destroy the Earth.

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:03:18 -0500

Reasons to Destroy the Earth.

Apocalypse Scale

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:37:04 -0500

Apocalypse Scale

Potential Solutions to my Complacency.

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:57:51 -0500

Potential Solutions to my Complacency.

Issue with Human Nature

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:55:55 -0500

I hate that everyone including myself is flawed.

Steam Purchases

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:50:00 -0500

With the Thanksgiving Sales being over I figured I’d recap my what I got.

The Indie Pulse Pack. I really wanted a copy of Bit Trip. The fact that it came with 3 other games I don’t own was just a cool bonus. I’m enjoying the Polynomial quite a bit.

Batman GOTY. It was cheap and I’d heard good things about it. Story is quite interesting.

Air Indie Pack. Bought this for Flotilla. Getting 3 games that I didn’t own yet was also a nice bonus.

Tropico Gold. The price was just right. I’m enjoying the game quite a bit thus far. It makes me feel warm in the cold snow climate that I’m currently experiencing.

GTA IV - Episodes. I enjoyed the base GTA Game which I got in the last sale. The DLC is just another trip back. I beat the lost and the dammed and I’m interested to try the second DLC as soon as Finals week ends.

Supreme Commander 2 was really cheep and I have friends that play it so I figured I might as well join in the multi-player action.

Winter Quarter Schedule

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:33:00 -0400

Winter Quarter Schedule

My New PGP Public Key

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:09:22 -0400

My New PGP Public Key

Fall Schedule.

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:15:17 -0400

Fall Schedule.

This Made me Lol.

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:08:19 -0400

This Made me Lol.

Steam Sales

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:07:23 -0400

The forth of July Steam Sales just ended and I figured I’d go over the games I got.

Summer indie Action Pack (AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, Starscape, Zombie Driver, Metal Drift and Grid Runner Revolution.) - I mainly bought that for Gravity and Starscape, which are both fantastic games. I’ve played a bit of Zombie Driver and it’s mindless fun. Reminds me of the Java games you get on brand new computers.

Borderlands - My fraternity brother Josh got this one for me. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve played with him so far, but it seems mainly like fetch quests and go here kill person xyz. Doubt I’ll play this unless I’m with Josh though.

GTA IV - Was $5. Spent eight hours playing so far and I’m really enjoying it. The only major issue I have besides lackluster performance on my machine is the whole games for window’s live service. I’m fine with DRM if it provides me a service like steam does, but windows live just gets in the way, takes a long time to log in and is downright inconvenient. I’m already running steam, so an additional layer of DRM just seems excessive.

Red Faction Guerrilla - Only $5 and I’d heard good things about it. Haven’t played it yet. Comes with awful games for window’s live.

Introversion Complete Pack (Defcon, Uplink, Darwinia and Multidarwinia) - I played Defcon and Uplink a while ago and really enjoyed them. At $5 the pack was a steal. hopefully more people bought it so I can play Defcon with some friends.

NeoTokyo - On a Side note I re-downloaded my favorite half life mod. Community is a bit dead and usually I can only find people playing after five, but the game is still fantastic. I wish Steam would make it an official mod so more people would play.

I am amused by Korea

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:54:36 -0400

I am amused by Korea

"The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn’t anyone ever tell you? There’s one thing..."

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:00:00 -0400

“The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn’t anyone ever tell you? There’s one thing you never put in a trap if you’re smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there’s one thing you never, ever put in a trap.
Angel Bob: And what would that be, sir?
The Doctor: Me. [fires]”

- Doctor Who

I'm in the school paper again.

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:55:35 -0400

I'm in the school paper again.

Pumped for the Scott Pilgram movie.

Mon, 31 May 2010 23:26:57 -0400

Pumped for the Scott Pilgram movie.

Swearing off Windows.

Wed, 26 May 2010 22:56:22 -0400

Yesterday I resized my hard drive. Previously I ran Windows 7 Pro with 300gb and Fedora 12 with 120gb. With Fedora 13 coming out I figured I’d upgrade. I started with upgrading to Windows 7 Ultimate giving it 225 gigs and then started with Fedora 13 at the rest of my 500Gb hard drive.

Things I’ve learned from Fedora. Zero Day releases for graphics cards don’t happen. Ever. So with that in mind I gave up on F13 and decided to Try Ubuntu 10. So far it’s really clean and fast. I haven’t tried and development stuff yet but I’m going to soon. In a few months I’ll think about switching back to F13 after it’s stable. So far I’m happy though and I haven’t booted into windows once.

I'm in the Paper.

Thu, 20 May 2010 12:27:55 -0400

I'm in the Paper.