The Kitchen Sink

Author: tekton

  • Football, Drones, and Walls: A Weekend Review

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    Given my teams that I hope to win things, I’m down to just the 49ers in the hunt to the Super Bowl. I was quite hoping for a Broncos-49ers Super Bowl in New Orleans; Manning against an upstart defensive team, would have been entertaining! Of all the things that I saw covered at CES the…

  • Django – Insensitive Case

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    When using Django in Python there’s these awesome things called QuerySets that are a full blown ORM to make it so I don’t have to think in SQL to get things in and out of a database! One of the things I didn’t find documented very well was case sensitivity vs insensitivity. If you’re using…

  • Pokemon X/Y – Why?!

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    I saw this announcement the other day and promptly showed everyone in my office. I’ve been playing Pokemon games since the Red Blue days, and the halcyon days of Silver and Crystal. After that I got a little less interested for a while, but still picked things up and have “beat” every game since. Pokemon…

  • “Superior” Spider-Man #1

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    Spoilers warning: this article contains spoilers for Superior Spider-Man. If I wanted a dark, edgy, action Spider-Man I’d go back to buying Venom…that said, lets look at this a little bit. Otto is, seemingly, fully in control of Parker’s body; he’s even finally giving back in to his relationship with MJ (finally). As we see…

  • Bastion: Play through In Review

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    I completed my play through of Bastion in about 6 hours of playtime that included leaving some idols on, doing a couple proving grounds, and experiencing the awesomeness of “Who Knows Where” a couple times. I will note that this article contains spoilers; you’ve been warned. The soundtrack was amazing, the voice overs hauntingly intriguing,…

  • Comics in review

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    Next month I’ll be doing a full posting on my current pull list and some more on the reasons for those books; while it’s still January, another retrospective piece on how things got to now for me in the world of graphical goodies. DC New 52 Fun in Review Flashpoint got me back in to…

  • Weekend Update – 2013.01.06

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    For the first time in months I got a weekend off. We took an impromptu trip to visit some family members and just relax; no alarm clocks, no animals, no distractions. Had a nice drive down in and around some mountains (actually got to use my V8 a bit). Today, watched the weather go from…

  • 2013 Gaming Backlog

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    As any good gamer who spends some money helping out people that are willing to be in the Steam Holiday Sale I have a large backlog of computer, console, and (not related to Steam) board games. For the last couple years I’ve been putting things like playing music, leaving the house, spending time with my…

  • Writing Template

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    I’ve been using a modified writing template form a few sources, but the Evernote section comes from here. I would venture that a lot of writers follow similar steps; especially those that have been using blogging software for a long time (I used to use MarsEdit, too). But the straight up template and my variations…

  • Django: Basic Template Tags

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    One of things I had the hardest time finding was a good example of Template Tags in Django; so here is my basic template tags file I add to every new project (GPLv2). A lot of people have their own, and I’m sure in the future I’ll add on to my basics; but for now…