The Drunken Tech Blog

Apparently in the UK and Australia, the developers of Dead Island:Riptide have a somewhat unique promo going on for the release. The special edition will include a mutilated female torso statue. And apparently many people are none-to-happy with this idea, even going as far a calling it disgusting and disturbing. Here's a picture of the special edition torso from Amazon: Maybe it's me, but I find this to be quite a sweet inclusion in the special edition package. Let me just go on the record to say Drunken Tech Blog has absolutely no problem with this torso statue, not in the least. And really; where were all these people bitching and moaning about how grotesque the packaging was for the special edition of The Walking Dead Season 2 on Blu-ray? Seriously? It was a mutilated zombie head with a screwdriver jammed in one of it's eyes! It was friggin' brilliant!  These kind of things are designed for a mature market and reflect the content in the games/movies/

So, Maybe I'm really late to the game here, but I just stumbled across a little app called Subsonic ( link ) that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. On a very basic level, you install it on your machine, point it to the folders that hold your music and movies, and then you can access that media from any device on your network. And with a bit of port forwarding, you can also access it anywhere in the world over the interwebs. Once installed, you just point your browser to the IP of the machine you installed it on and log in with the default admin info. Then you change the admin password configure everything how you want it. This webpage acts as a frontend for all your media pleasure. BUT WAIT! There's more.  You can also set up multiple user account for your bros. You can control what type of access rights they have (stream, stream/download, stream/download/upload) and then they can enjoy your media as well! And yes, that does say upload! Through the web interface, you ca

Maybe I'm the only one reading this who is old enough to remember the good old days when the WWF was more that some wildlife organization. Does anybody remember the World Wrestling Federation?? Do any of you remember back when Hulk Hogan was a "good guy" and wore yellow. Okay, there are a few of you who are cool, then. Those were the good old days. Speaking of good old days, who remembers Mega Man?  That was (and still is) one of the hardest games I have played. But in spite of the frustration, it's still one of my favorites of all time. So when I saw Gimmick Tees is selling a mash-up shirt combining two things from the good old days gone by, I had to share. You know you want one! Only 6 days left! http://www.gimmicktees.com/2013/01/mega-powers.html

Ok, folks. It's been a few minutes (or months) since we've really done anything with this blog. Partly because we're lazy drunkards, partly because our old WordPress site got a theme php file hijacked by malicious code and was all but completely blocked by Google. Since then, that site has been completely removed and the salvageable posts have been moved over to this Blogger blog. Hopefully we'll have better luck here, and the Google integration is nice. So without further adieu, enjoy going through the old posts and reliving some of the great memories we've had. And if you're a newcomer, you're in luck! You get to experience it all for the first time! We'll be doing our best to keep you up-to-date on all things tech, geek, nerd, and drinking related (or at least the things we actually find interesting enough to talk about) -James

Hello readers! I promise, we will be coming out of hibernation soon. In the meantime, here's a tidbit that many of you may already know, but I'd bet many are oblivious to: BY DEFAULT, ANY CONTENT YOU POST ON FACEBOOK IS NOT LONGER YOURS. That's right, under default privacy and application settings, any content you post, including photography or other Intellectual Property , becomes the property of Facebook, to do with as they please. See Sections 1 and 2 from Article 2 of their ToS below. Basically, unless you specifically modify your settings to say otherwise, you are giving Facebook the right to use your content, ROYALTY FREE, and even sub-license that content to others! Really?? I don't want to begin to think about those implications.