Graphics card benchmarks

Sawsheezle and I purchased the same graphics card (and I mean exact same graphics card) back in August. His has served him well but he was thinking of selling it. RyDub, on the other hand, was thinking of possibly upgrading in a couple months. Sawsheezle made the proposition of a "try and buy" (not to be confused with the vastly different "hang and bang"). RyDub would pay $20 (basically shipping) to test out the card and see if he then wanted to purchase it in a couple months. This was very intriguing to RyDub so he accepted. The card came in the mail today so of course I ran some benchmarks both before and after installing the card. Here are the results:

Single 660 ti Heaven benchmark:

Dual 660 ti Heaven benchmark:

Single 660 ti Valley benchmark:

Dual 660 ti Valley benchmark:


As you can see, frame rates almost doubled. This was better than I expected. I only expected a 75% performance increase, at best. What I got was about an 87% increase in performance. Not bad. Now to make Sawsheezle an offer he can not refuse...

Guy Fieri Restaurant Menu

Awesome parody menu.



http://guysamericankitchenandbar.com/

If you haven't had enough Dave Grohl in your diet

If you haven't seen this movie/documentary yet, I highly suggest you obtain a copy and watch it. It's about Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, CA. Everyone from Fleetwood Mac to Nirvana and Neil Young to Rage Against The Machine recorded there. A lot of people attribute the custom Neve 8028 Console for the sound that they were able to get while recording there. Drummers also love the sound that the studio seems to produce. Here's a quote from the Sound City wikipedia page, "Producer Greg Fidelman recorded the sound of a bass drum from each of the big recording studios in the Los Angeles area, subsequently playing the sample for Metallica without divulging from which studio the sound had originated. Based upon this sample, the band chose Sound City Studios to record Death Magnetic." When everyone else was going to all digital, Sound City stuck to analog tape recording. About 2/3 of the movie is about the recording studio and then the last 1/3 is Dave Grohl recording music with a plethora of people who've also recorded and love Sound City. If you're a music fan, you owe it to yourself to watch this movie. You can purchase it here for $12.99 OR you can "gift" it to someone for only $10. Create another email address and send it to yourself. I think it's only on sale for this week.


Another good music documentary (if you like the Foo Fighters that is) I finally decided to watch is Foo Fighters: Back And Forth. It's all about the Foo. Starting with a little bit of Nirvana, obviously, it tracks their entire history right up through their newest album, Wasting Light. This movie definitely reinforces my opinion that Dave Grohl is one of the coolest guys in the music business. He comes off a little like an ass sometimes, but he really is doing what's best for the band. One interesting fact is that Dave almost became the drummer for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Weird. This documentary does a great job of interviewing past members and people from other bands that members of the Foo have been in. It really is an entire history of the band. The Foo Fighters seem to have such an amazing time playing. These are the kinds of bands that I just love. There's a reason that whenever I list favorite bands, they're always high up on the list. After watching this movie, they may take the number one spot. You'll have to "obtain a copy" somehow because I don't believe it's streaming on Netflix or any other service.

ISU heartbreak makes Yahoo! news

Saw this live on ESPNU last night. Haunts me to this day. Can't wait to cancel cable on April 9th (day after basketball championship game)...

More great Key And Peele

Why do people do this? If you buy a hat, TAKE THE TAGS OFF!

Booger's Burp

Watch this video to see how they did the sound for Booger's classic burp in Revenge of the Nerds. We all love the movie. Times were simpler back then. It was actually filmed on the University of Arizona campus so it is cool to see things how they used to be.

Keepin' it classy with Jay Cutler

He mailed his fiancee her ring. 2nd time's the charm right?

Poor Joe Schmo

I don't know if you guys have ever heard of The Joe Schmo Show. It started in 2003 on Spike. Basically it's a "reality" show where only one person thinks it's real. Everyone else on the "show" is an actor. The first season's fake reality show within the show was called Lap Of Luxury. Each actor has an archetype such as "the gay guy," "the rich bitch," etc. One the actors is "the buddy" who makes friends and tries to softly guide The Joe towards certain decisions. They compete in challenges just like Survivor or whatever. They do little interviews during the course of the show. The Joe just always takes everything so seriously and is really trying to play while the actors just discuss how they've messed up or how they can't believe they're doing this. At the end of each show, one person is sent home but the actors just write ridiculous things on the papers to cast their vote since it's all staged. It was great. The Joe was a guy named Matt Kennedy Gould and it's just so funny to see how far they can push this guy without giving themselves up. They slip up a couple times and when they finally reveal what's been going on, he kinda freaks out but ends up being a good sport about it. Here's a clip:

Kristen Wiig was actually one of the actors in the first season as was David Hornsby from It's Always Sunny and Unsupervised.

The second season premiered the next year. It's show within the show was called Last Chance For Love and it was kind of a play on The Bachelor. This time they had two "Joes"; one male and one female. The female actually figured out what was going on separately from the male almost right away. The producers make her offer to stay and if she agrees not to reveal the secret then she will also receive the prize money at the end. To be honest, I didn't watch all of the second season so I can't comment on it too much.

The third season just started a couple weeks ago. This season, the fake reality show is The Full Bounty where "everyone" is competing to become a bounty hunter. If you haven't ever checked it out before, I highly suggest it. One of the actors is "deaf" (I guess it's funny but that would be so difficult to keep up constantly, I would think) and she has a ventriloquist dummy that she brings on the show as her "comfort from home." Lorenzo Lamas is also on this season. One of the cops from the local police dept from Super Troopers is also in it. It airs on Tuesdays on Spike at 9pm Central Time.

Super Bowl Commercials

Which was your favorite one? Here is a link to all of the commercials, but I don't believe I saw even 60% of these. Any you didn't see? Couldn't believe how many local commercials I saw last night... easily 12-20.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1514409-super-bowl-commercials-2013-grading-the-best-worst-ads/page/1

Comment on which one was your favorite!

This Week in Unnecessary Censorship

I thought this was a good one. Love it.

Perfect nachos for Sawsheezle

Here ya go buddy.

Well look at that

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