Vice's Manga Censorship Push – Ignorance on Display

A reporter from Vice thinks manga creators and fans are full of pedophiles. She's wrong.

Blog Programming Note - No Giro Jot Feature This Year

Pretty much sums up how I feel about watching the 2017 Giro in North America.

Finds from the Grind - Where's Dogmeat?

Where was I? I've been waiting for you to break into Fort Hagen for days!

If you've been playing Fallout 4 and wondered why Dogmeat wasn't at the Red Rocket gas station like he's supposed to be, here's the quest glitch that explains why. You have to be in the middle of the main storyline quest "Reunion" after you've followed Dogmeat's nose to Fort Hagen.

If you decide not to go in there with him and dismiss him to use another companion to do some other quests, even though the game says he's returning to the Red Rocket gas station near Concord, he doesn't go there. He goes right back to the blocked front entrance of Fort Hagen. To clear the glitch, clear the quest and then he'll go back to the place you dismiss him to afterwards.

Finding him in that place has its own problems, but at least you'll know he's somewhere in that settlement.

Finds from the Grind - Cow on a hot tin roof

In Fallout 4, sometimes two headed cows from a caravan just find themselves on roofs after fast traveling. It must be because of how the game engine just drops things out of the sky. Not seen, crazy old lady in the attic because that's where her chair was built in the workshop interface.

Finds from the Grind - Following Spencer's Wheel



I latched on to the back wheel of this nice young man climbing Chevy Chase and Linda Vista for the first time. He didn't know where he was going because he just moved down from Oregon three weeks prior but he wanted to make a loop of some sort back to downtown LA. I extorted, uh, promised him some directions from the bottom of Lida if he let me suck on his wheel up this nice climb.

 

As you can see from the watermark, I also tried out Microsoft's new Hyperlapse time lapse video tool. Compared to how my videos usually look when I speed them up, this is way smoother.

Hey, Kids! Take my "advize" and "chooze" to spell "looose" with three O's.

I'm sure you've seen it, maybe you've even done it yourself. Someone wrote on the internet that they were about to "loose" their mind. As if their brain was held in their head by a belt or only a closed spigot kept things from leaking out. Obviously, they meant "lose." Why does this happen so often? I posit that it's an over reliance on spell check.

Loose and lose can be spelled correctly, but in different contexts they mean very different things. My suggestion - just spell both of them with 3 O's "looose." Why would I suggest such a thing? Internet texting and social media posts reward creatively misspelling words as a way to convey enthusiasm, silliness, or just plain fun. I'm totally looosing my mind over this!

Even better, spellcheck is triggered no matter what device you're tapping that amazeballs comment into. Better yet, if you make this a habit, when you need to spell "lose" or "loose" correctly so as not to signify to the recipient that you're lazy, then the spellcheck trigger will force you to figure out the appropriate word you want to put in your email or text. "Loosing a client" sounds way dumber than "shaking lose some sales leads," but you shouldn't type either of them.

So, kids, just misspell "looose" with three O's no matter what and people will never think you're dumb and lazy. You're just a fun person!

Try this with "advize" too. The advise - advice thing is another word pair that doesn't trigger spellcheck. But if you spell both words "advize" all the time, you will have a "nizer" time. See what a fun guy I am!

"Chooze" is another fun spelling to show your neato wit. No one likes having others think you mixed up a past tense chose with choose because you're too lazy to correct the autosuggest on your phone. "Chooze" to be that wild and crazy text typist!

Sadly, I have no help to offer on "your dumb." That's all on you. Try harder, or just go the safe route with "ur dumb." You still look lazy, but at least you don't look dumb.

If you have other word pairs that need to be misspelled spectacularly, leave them in the comments below. I'll take your advize!

Updated - Blogger's New Content Policy

Update: I guess Google worried about the future Tumblr exodus of 2015, and decided to actually use their big googly searchy thing to, you know, find actual porn sites being run on Blogger. So, nothing changes here, and no worries about the dreaded review process (please, please Mr. Google, I only have man nipples on my site now!) Original post below.

#WaifuWars

Can't we all just get along? #nisekoi #waifuwars http://t.co/A6jUo9TRvO pic.twitter.com/4tSZG34pxY
— Joe Morris (@joeschmo1of3) February 19, 2015



Yowamushi Pedal - High Cadence - Game 1

Yowamushi Pedal - High Cadence - Game 1



Well, now I know why the second season of Yowamushi Pedal is only 2 cours instead of 3 cours like last season.

3D Latte Foam Art Hits the Mainstream



Now you can make cute latte foam kitties at home... if you're into that kind of thing.

I find it interesting that after @joebelfiore's tweet, the Windows Phone community at @VZWSupport has grown quiet.

Q's on update: yes we're working to get WP8.1/Cyan updates out. T-Mo 925 is done and 521 coming soon. Verizon work underway but farther off
— joebelfiore (@joebelfiore) October 30, 2014



All we needed was some official word on progress. That's it. Too bad this word didn't come months earlier from Verizon itself, instead of Microsoft's hardware guy.

Update

After this story, the forums are no longer quiet. What a surprise...

The Bro handled my camera...

The bro accidentally took an action sequence with my camera. http://t.co/140NXl17nx
— Joe Morris (@joeschmo1of3) September 26, 2014



...and he said, "What's this button do?"

Finds from the Grind - Fun with GPS Overlays

Fun with GPS Overlays



GPS data overlays make my daily ride look a video game. I finally played around with my camera's video editing software (it still doesn't compress worth a damn, but I have my own software for that) and imported the corresponding GPS data file. After some time adjustments, you can see what one of the overlay templates look like. As you watch the video, you can also see why I prefer to use a normal cycle computer for my speedometer.

Omake Gif Anime - Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun - Episode 4 - True Galge Experience

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun - Episode 4 - True Galge Experience



Oh, Mikorin. If you think 2D girls are that infuriating, you're a thousand years too early to talk to 3D girls.

Facebook bought Oculus Rift. So what now, for Virtual Reality?

What Games Are: Virtual Reality, We Hardly Knew You | TechCrunch

My quick reaction to Tadhg Kelly's piece is that Virtual Reality is a dog for all the reasons listed, but the one thing Facebook will probably get right in its basic research is the interface. As long as VR requires you to strap a monitor to your head, it will never be popular. Same with Google Glass. Same reason 3D TV's died another quick death. People don't want to wear stuff on their face if they don't have to.

Facebook is already doing original stuff with their server farms to optimize processing power, the product of their own research and development, so I figure they're looking at VR tech to further their push into mobile devices and Augmented Reality. There's only so much real estate for a smart phone to emulate buttons for a keyboard, and if the new displays of the future enhance depth perception, poking your finger through the images won't be optimal. I see this as a play for a gui beyond the touch screen. Sorry to disappoint, but stereographic VR will never be mainstream.

Omake Gif Anime - Mikakunin de Shinkoukei - Episode 7 - Bright Idea

Mikakunin de Shinkoukei - Episode 7 - Bright Idea

You and your bright ideas, Mashiro-tan!

Also noted, Japan is over the CFL boondoggle. Onward to LED's!

Finds from the Grind - Slow Down

Slow Down

That digital speed limit sign is pretty accurate. I was going 18 mph, when a car behind me tripped the 25 mph alert. Flashing Slow Down. I'm still trying to trip that alert myself without ramping up a sprint. Maybe this year.

Finds from the Grind - Beer Jersey, Beer Belly

Beer Jersey, Beer Belly

That wide angle lens can really pooch out my gut, right? Right...?

To see how that lens transforms the visual area of a larger area, check out this intersection.

Omake Gif Real Life - Time Lapse Making Coffee

I got a new camera, and the mount I want to use with it comes in next week, but I just had to test it out. So, here I am, makin' coffee, using the time lapse setting on the camera. Then I made an animated gif out of the series. Each picture is taken at 30 second intervals, which means I set up the coffee pot for tomorrow morning in about 5 minutes. Whew, exciting...

And what about measuring perfect form on smashing this racket?

Nicole Lee bellowed "You can not be serious!?" during this report.

Heh.

Here's a smart tennis racquet that'll improve your swing

Unless you're Novak Djokovic or John McEnroe, then it's highly unlikely that you're able to take advantage of the computer-assisted coaching used by...