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Hipster Zombies

If you love shooting zombies and poking fun at hipster culture, there is one way to satisfy both of your cravings.  Hipster Zombies is a fun light hearted game for Android (and iOS, but ehh) in which you fight off undead hipsters armed with what else but a gun that fires cans of PBR and other hipster paraphernalia. As you kill the undead you gain coins which you can use to upgrade weapons or buy new ones such as vinyl records and mason jars.  You can also purchase coins from the game store. Occasionally you gain extra coins for "ironic kills" destroying the brain munching scenesters with a taste of there own medicine, pipe smoking hipsters with tobacco pipes, biking hipsters with a "fixie fork", etc. You unlock different location to defend the more zombies you kill.  These locations become more and more difficult to defend as you go along.  The area you need to defend grows larger giving the zombies more points of attack. In the most recent update ...

Great Novels: Ender's Game

Ender's Game follows Andrew "Ender" Wiggin and his two siblings Peter and Valentine, though you may be able to guess from the title primarily Ender. Ender is a child prodigy in warfare who is brought to an academy for children to learn to be soldiers.  Its  required reading in a lot o of schools but I don't recall it being in mThis is partine, though i can't say i would u have read it if it were. Ender's Game is set in a future in which a united earth has narrowly repelled an invasion by an insect like race of aliens known as the buggers.  Earth has spent the last several years preparing for the next invasion. Ender is put through a series of lessons/tests by his "teachers" all in the form of games.  Starting with video games and progressing to a zero gravity competition between different "armies" of children.  Ender is quickly made a commander one of these armies pitting him against much older kids.  Things are unfairly stacked again...

Three Books for Novice Investors

    I have only been seriously investing for about sixth months now.  I say "seriously" because I have attempted to invest for about 5 years but it looked a lot like this ...  So my only successes have been in investing in index funds.  Which If you don't have the time or energy to pick your own investments is the best way to go, in my opinion.       Almost all of my "education" has come through reading a handful of books. The Richest Man In Babylon     The Richest Man in Babylon comes all the way from the deep dark past of 1920's America.  It is series of stories and parables set in ancient Babylon and designed to teach financial wisdom.  The book stresses discipline and prudence, consistently saving, avoiding debt, not investing in risky ventures etc.  I have to wonder if people in the 1920's had taken his advice if the whole financial mess that followed wouldn't have happe...

Arch Linux: a Ubuntu user's perspective

Installation     Installing +Arch Linux  was honestly a little more work than I was expecting.  I for some reason was under the impression that Arch LInux was a works out of the box sort of distro.  I was sorely mistaken, installing Arch was a lot more like fighting balrogs; trying to get Gentoo working.  Not the simple insert cd come back in 25 minutes and your done kind of install that I am accustomed to with  +Ubuntu .     I had to try and try again to get grub2 to actually work, mostly because I wasn't very good at following directions... Though in my defense I believe that the installation guide for Arch could use a little clarifying.     I was somewhat suprised that after initial install Arch Linux has no network up by default.  So after getting that worked out it was just a matter of installing the correct drivers for my wireless card, which I have to do in Ubuntu actually though the process much simpler, still not...

Pacman For Apt Users

    Pacman is the package manager for Arch Linux.  If you regularly use Debian or Ubun,tu like me, you are probably much more familiar with Apt.  If you are new to Arch Linux it may be easier to think of Pacman commands in relation to similar Apt commands.  Here is a list of the most common Apt commands (that I can think of at least) and their Pacman equivalents. apt command pacman command apt-get update pacman -Sy apt-get install pacman -S apt-get upgrade pacman -Syu apt-cache search pacman -Ss

I think its time to start seeing other distributions...

     I have used Ubuntu for nearly 5 years now and it has been my primary desktop OS sense then.  Ubuntu was my first taste of GNU/Linux so I suppose it will always be my first love in the world of open source operating systems.        I have never used another GNU/Linux based operating system as a desktop for a long enough period of time to really get a good feel for it.  I have used Debian a few times for servers and have used Fedora enough to be familiar with it.  I got a Gentoo desktop up and running ; I was feeling particularly masochistic one month.        I have no major complaints with Ubuntu.  I mean it has been several releases now and I am still not totally used to the Unity desktop environment.  However, that is only an occasional annoyance and its not like you are stuck with Unity if you use Ubuntu.  But now, I do feel it is time to explore other options for a prim...

Open Source Games: OpenTTD

    If you're like me you occasional fantasize about owning your own multi-million dollar transportation company.     OpenTTD is a game that I have started to play several different time but have always been turned off by the outdated graphics and controls.  Once I got passed that I found OpenTTD is a really fun and extremely addicting game.  It is one of the best simulators I have ever played and is probably the best tycoon style games I've played.  It is like the old Railroad Tycoon  but on steroids.  You're goal is to transport anything you can by road, rail, sea or air and make as much cash as possible in the process. Gameplay     Most of the game is spent building roads and railroads and buying various vehicles, giving them routes, oh and spending and making loads and loads of money.      Time progresses in this game so depending on what year you start you will have limited technology (buildin...