It was waaay back in February this year (2012) that I participated in my first Eve Online ‘Blog Banter’. As anyone that has read or actively visits the blog will know, I’m not exactly a frequent poster (not by the standards of other Eve Online bloggers anyway!). However I do like to participate in these sorts of community activities when I believe I have something to offer.

A gaming universe as vast and unique as EVE Online is constantly evolving and the experience is different for every participant. Conventional games review techniques cannot possibly hope to provide an accurate measure of every aspect of EVE’s gameplay. However, with a community initiative like the Blog Banters, we have the resources to deliver the most thorough and up-to-date review ever.

The other day I hit the googles to try to find a ship fitting that I could use to run anomalies in a class 3 wormhole by myself. I also wanted something that cost less than a Legion, which although great, is an expensive ship to be tooling around w-space in. After a bit of research I stumbled upon RiotRick’s Zealot fitting.

(click to enlarge)

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So here’s the situation. I have just gotten home from work and only had a few hours before running all the way back uptown to catch the midnight (actually the 12:05, damn 12:01 was sold out) viewing of The Hobbit (it was awesome by the way, although to be fair I’m heavily bias towards rowdy dwarves). I’m convinced though to make the most of my time in-game and immediately get to work.

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Another milestone has been reached in my Eve career. Today my friends, Vultirnus had the first bounty placed on his head. That’s right, old Vult is now a wanted criminal. All because he blew up a Heron, can you believe it!? The bounty is probably more than the cost of the ship. Seems like I picked on someone who’s a little touchy about getting their frigates blown up.

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This post is here because I was looking at the Landsat 8 information and when it would launch. It will launch on February 11, 2013. Landsat 7 is up in space now. Landsat 7 is used to get images of the Earth. When I do a post on Landsat 8, I’ll explain.

For now, here is a satellite picture from Landsat 7.

As Washingtonians, we have grown up in the great Smithsonian Institute museums and they are a large part of our photography life.  We love photographing in Washington DC for events and pleasure.  It is one of the most beautiful cities in the United States and the architecture and museums offer visitors such a plethora of subjects to study and for photogs, to photograph. 

It’s time to take a shower… or rather to take in a shower that will prove to be a tremendously fascinating light show in the skies.

The Geminid meteor shower peaks Thursday night and in Southeast Texas, viewing conditions are expected to be optimum for sky gazing. The Geminid shower, under dark and empty skies, can produce over 120 meteors per hour.

Finish this sentence, “10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…”

Did you say, “Blast Off!” My wife and I both do. But, I suspect that our children won’t, because they will not grow up in an era heavily influenced by space shuttle launches.

I am an advocate for space exploration, but not necessarily manned space exploration. Still, this made me a little sad or nostalgic or it just made me feel old.

I never cease to be amazed by the pictures sent back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS).  The sights the crew get to see are simply unparalleled.  For one, while we get to see the majesty of a sunrise only once every 24 hours, they get to witness one every 90 minutes!  When combined with just awe-inspiring and jaw-dropping views of the auroras (Borealis in the North and Australis in the South), there is just no topping it.

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Kepler Mission Manager Update, May 1, 2009

NASA’s SDO Satellite Captures 2012 Venus Transit by NASA Goddard Photo and VideoLicense (according to Flickr): Attribution License

Excerpt:

Kepler’s calibration data collection is drawing to a close. Several hundred data sets have been acquired to characterize and map the optical and noise performance of the telescope and the electronics for the focal plane array (the area where light is focused).

Photo: ASA, ESA, R. Ellis (Caltech), UDF 2012 Team

There are two things happening when you’re observing distant stars or galaxies. You’re looking through space, measured as a physical distance, but you’re also looking through time. These celestial bodies are so far away, that it takes millions and billions of years for their light to travel to Earth.

Now, the Hubble Space Telescope is seeing the farthest away and deepest in time it’s ever observed.

Winganon, Oklahoma: “A cement mixer from a 1959 wreck lies along the road, and is periodically transformed by prankster artists. Currently it resembles a crashed NASA spaceship or capsule.”

(from RoadsideAmerica.com)

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Friday afternoon, December 14th, the ISS will fly high above the National Capital (DC) area, likely becoming the brightest object in the sky. The space station should be easily seen with the naked eye, even if there’s light cloud cover. ISS will appear as a bright moving point, perhaps similar in appearance to a distant airliner. Very distant, as she will come no closer than 318 miles, and will be moving 5 miles per second.

Planetary map | NASA | 1971-1998

This Planetary Map shows the moon’s dark side, with colors correlating to geological materials and phenomena. It is one of a series produced in partnership with NASA between 1971 and 1998.

source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/the-most-beauti/

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This video covers the science and engineering that made something very hard and very important possible.

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Today’s episode of Nintendo Direct gave players more Pikmin 3 footage to feast their eyes upon.

Kasumi was confirmed to be the next free playable DLC character for Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge during today’s Nintendo Direct. Team Ninja is supposed to release 5 free playable DLC characters for Razor’s Edge; Kasumi is the second after Momiji.

UPDATE – Kasumi screens have been released via the official website.

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Above you can see the North American Boxart for the highly anticipated Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon for 3DS. There is, unfortunately no solid release date for the game currently.

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Street Fighter has long been considered the holy grail of fighting games for its unique mix of style and strategy, and its challenging battle system. However, even though it seems Street Fighter has been around forever, this series actually had meager beginnings. Our story begins with an arcade cabinet in 1987…

The original Street Fighter was a minimalist game, unleashed on arcades nearly two decades ago.

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When’s the last time YOU had a Tetris Attack?

Receiving this game as a kid had me puzzled… you get it… PUZZLED… In all seriousness, puzzle games were not what I was into at the time. Only being into action-type platformers, this gift threw me for a loop. But Tetris Attack being a video game, I had to try it. Now from the front box art, you would have never guessed that this was a Yoshi’s Island themed game.

Nintendo UK has announced that Rayman Legends which is exclusive to the Wii U will be released in Europe on February 28th. The game was originally expected to launch alongside Wii U on November 18th, but was pushed back to give the game some more development time.

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Last night I was going through my drawers looking for something. I can’t even recall what I was searching for because I got distracted by my past.

I felt like I discovered treasures when I found them all!

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Hablar de Super Metroid es hablar de palabras mayores. Lo irónico es que yo jamás lo tuve de pequeño, por lo tanto la nostalgia no es un factor añadido a mi amor por este juego. Super Metroid es un juego que no necesita presentación; todo el mundo conoce a Samus y su aventura en el Planeta Zebes en busca de la última larva de Metroid.

I modeled and surfaced the Quick Beetle item from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. I have modeled the rest of the items from Skyward Sword just working on the textures and renders of each now.

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Want to know what the difference in a GPU and a GPGPU actually is? We’ve got just the information you need to gain a better understanding of what makes the Wii U tick, and bring it to you in such a way that makes it simple to understand by all.

In our recent article, Is the Wii U Powerful enough?

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No todo el mundo tuvimos la suerte de nacer en los 80. A mi me hubiese gustado haber crecido con una NES y una Master System, pero no tuve esa suerte. En cambio, nací y crecí con una SNES y una GB debajo del brazo, lo cual no está nada mal. No es un misterio que la gran mayoría de nosotros somos los gamers que somos gracias principalmente a una saga de videojuegos, y esa es Mario.

I modeled and surfaced the Bomb item from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

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Castlevania Lords Of Shadow – Mirror Of Fate launches exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS on March 5th, 2013 in North America and March 8th, 2013 in Europe.

The uppermost picture above is the European box art of Konami’s upcoming platformer, whereas the lower picture is the box art for North American consumers… Which one do you prefer?

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