First of all, I had been wanting to make the text in Recount be class colored with dark bars (or no visible bars even), but couldn’t figure out how to do so. I’ve seen that people had their Skada set up that way, but I jnsu couldn’t get used to Skada.

While on a hare last night, I Google’d to see if others managed to get it to work with hopefully useful lua information. I instead saw code changes stating that it is a built-in feature to have bars and text colors being reversed, which allows text to be class colored.

I then removed all the top bar items from being visible, set the bars themselves to be invisible and left the text class colored. I then put a kgpanels panel anchored and childed to the recount window. I now have what I wanted, a clean recount window with enough color to tell class without it overriding the system.

I also got Love Fool, so I just have Lunar Festival this weekend and the Violet Proto-Drake mount will be mine.

How am I doing it? I’m using a combination of addons. The most important one is called Everyquest and its companion addon Everyquest_questgivers. Everyquest will poll the server for any quests you haven’t completed and display them for you. The questgivers addon will put an ! On the map and minimap where some is that can give you that quest. Of course, quest requirements apply.

Those are the big two but the loremaster addon will be helpful to mark whether a given quest qualifies for the achievement or not. I also use an addon called quest router lite which will point to the nearest Blizzard provided POI using TomTom.

A lot of things happened, but they were mostly setup, rather than answering questions. New episode tonight and we’ll see if the promise of finding out more about Mohinder’s “power” is delayed again.

Since it has been a long time since the previous season (December to September was hiatus), there was a 3 hour premiere. The first hour was a gala celebration with scenes from future episodes (most of which were from the episodes that aired that day), as well as important scenes for important characters. Very near the end, it showed the final scene from season 2: Nathan being shot.

The second hour was the first episode of the new season, The Second Coming. We got to see lots of bits of information, and one bit of speculation was put to rest by a simple 2 line dialogue:

“Are you gonna eat it?”
“Eat your brain? Claire, that’s disgusting.”
— Claire, Sylar

The second hour of the premiere was The Butterfly Effect. Most of the major events was more politically inclined, rather than news of the various people.

Of course, there’s more questions raised as well. For one, where did future!Peter get that lovely scar across his face? For some reason, I want to say that we knew, but its not showing up in the Heroes wiki on first glance (and of course, that’s when I find a reference to it).

Also, Mohinder is an utter and complete idiot. Peter needs to learn that if someone is telling him to not do something, that maybe that person is right.

Also, Maya’s powers kick in when her adrenaline is high? That makes for some interesting issues. Such as allergies (EpiPen anyone?). Or as others have mentioned, hopefully she doesn’t become an adrenaline junkie if she survives the series. Bungee jumping just would be kinda not so good. Or heck, birth and the whole process leading up to birth? Plus, granted that her ability is handy in a fight-or-flight type situation, but it also leaves her by herself if she was ever put into that situation (ie: can’t save comrades).

Linderman’s invisible (some might speculate, ghostly?) reappearance also derails any chance of speculation about how Nathan is healed. Though, is it possible for a ghost to heal? Until he was shown, I was half wondering why Peter didn’t hand over some of his blood to Nathan. Then, I remembered that Peter has the ability to heal, but his wouldn’t heal blood can’t heal anyone else. Also, that was future!Peter with Nathan, and his whole goal was to kill Nathan, not heal him.

Ah well, the series continues and questions will be raised and answered for quite awhile.

Basically, its an experiment at improving audio quality and also how we perceive audio in general. In very layman’s terms: a dummy human head has very sensitive microphones in the locations of the ears. Those microphones then record whatever and complicated computer work synchronizes those 2 audio streams into being just one, that still plays in the stereo affect (ie: both ears simultaneously). This lets you get a “virtual” haircut.

If you want to read the full nitty-gritty details, the Wiki article appears fairly comprehensive in a quick scan. There’s also one that’s more specific to these recordings. Both have links to further recordings.

As a brief explanation, it is basically a video blog done by Dr. Horrible (played by Neil Patrick Harris), who wishes to join the Evil League of Evil. He ends up having complications (love interest, rival) on the way, shockingly of course. As probably also rather obvious, Dr. Horrible is a mad scientist.

Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought it was an interesting storyline and I thoroughly fell in love with the music. Doogie Howser sings!

Actual links: to watch and official site.

I nearly ran into one of those people who ignored road laws on my way into work today. I was going down a road that is less traveled than the ones that it parallels (both are major roads) but it is also behind many stores (some of which is arranged strip-mall fashion). There are only a few ways to go from the front of those stores to this road, and the most common is to go between Circuit City and a buffet-style restaurant that changes names and owners every couple of years. There’s also a bit of an incline involved, and some bad landscaping choices (partially maybe a building as well?) make it necessary to actually be at the road before deciding to make a turn. Google Maps is a little off on the location of the Circuit City, but that is the intersection involved. As you can see, its going from a parking lot to a road, meaning people on the road have full right of way.

Well, as I said, I was going down this road, and someone was leaving that parking lot to make a right onto the road I was on (and thus, going the same direction I was). I noticed that they were stopped for a bit towards the top of this incline and I guess thats where they checked both directions? The person in front of me had no problems and then I see this car start heading down the incline and directly into traffic, without stopping at the bottom to see if it was safe.  I hit my brakes and my horn, and am close enough to see her stare at me in complete shock.  If she was going faster around the corner, she might have been fine, but she was taking her time. Plus, contrary to many people’s thoughts (I say this due to the sheer number of people I get behind that drive 30 MPH or lower), that road has a speed limit of 35 MPH and I’ve seen people drive much faster.

No actual accident resulted, but argh! That was annoying and not the first time that no one’s seen my car. Heck, I was originally going to buy a dark green Mini Cooper before I fell in love with the Scion tCs and my mom was trying to convince me that dark green wouldn’t be very visible against trees and the like. I’d have thought dark red (red being a color that we see easily, same with yellow) would stand out more than it apparently does. *sigh*