09
Jun 07

Heavy Mental II

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Heavy Mental II
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 07 22:19:21 GMT

Another music example. Other two of my favorite bands
of all time…

Heavy: Kiss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oWriOMGj_E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSghlgQ7rsM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lcwROZBI9Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvjVy2ETJz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzmqgLmCzNQ

Mental: Saga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RQ2MrlIKD0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaNlc_8fvlw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUJhCxFbFEo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=redbX2364Rc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oricZ9XbHlM

— MV


09
Jun 07

Heavy Mental I

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Heavy Mental I
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 07 22:19:21 GMT

Why is this blog heavy mental? Because it belongs to
a freak of nature, a heavy metal fan that likes philosophy,
a hacker that plays with corporate rules, an MBA that goes
to rock shows, a diehard headbanger that likes emotional
lyrics.

Lets take music as an example. Two of my favorite bands
of all time…

Heavy: Dan Reed Network

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isZxL_uh3pw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiDMoK-WABQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGfV1MrSAc8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzS5lZLxyY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuxO5SYagAM

Mental: Rush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGBN48CPTUs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylViJpX1KBs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBlqMHpeErg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tCUeAAK9fg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C66mqA1gSrQ

— MV


09
Jun 07

Heavy Mental Visualization

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Heavy Mental Visualization
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 07 19:42:21 GMT

The heavy mental duality in images…

Heavy:

http://www.minhocampusparty.com/mcp03.php
http://www.minhocampusparty.com/fotos/mcp2003/7g.jpg
http://www.aiminho.pt/aiminhoftp/conteudos/public/revista/futuro_mcp.pdf#page=35
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22mario+valente%22+tshirt+asterisco&btnG=Search+Images
http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/366/photos/112857/840421/

Mental:

http://www.fcee.lisboa.ucp.pt/resources/documents/marketing/EI01062006_13956317.pdf
http://www.i-gov.org/index.php?article=3088&visual=2&id=108&subject=197
http://www.solicitador.net/fichaArquivo.asp?newsID=2384
http://www.solicitador.net/fichaArquivo.asp?newsID=2366

— MV


09
Jun 07

Found It: Dystopia, Jack In, Kick Ass

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Found It: Dystopia, Jack In, Kick Ass
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 07 17:19:21 GMT

In my last post about the need to find a new game
to play in my spare time, I referred several games.

Well, none of them was the chosen one :-). I dont
know how it got through my radar (perhaps the fact
that it was released just last February), but I have
started to play Dystopia.

http://dystopia-game.com/

With the motto of “Jack In, Kick Ass”, its just as
close as it could come to a cyberpunk themed FPS.
There’s realtime/reallife battles going on, in a
“regular” 3D environment; but there’s also a second
level to the game which involves “jacking” into the
computer network of each level and hacking away at
servers (either to help complete the level, like
opening doors or disabling turrets, or to complete
the level itself, like destroying the data core)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia_(computer_game)
http://planethalflife.gamespy.com/View.php?view=HLMotw.Detail&id=9

Its a pretty cool game. Still very few servers and players; and
I still have to learn all the subtleties of classes, weapons and
objectives. I’m still going into WET a couple of times, but I’m
putting in some mind time into Dystopia; I even went so far as to
pay $9.95 for the HalfLife2 pack that allows me to run the
Dystopia mod.

Here’s some oficial and amateur footage of ingame ongoing
action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ez9-fGdS0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EwhO7aQguQ

Send me an email with your nickname if you also decided
to jack in…

— MV


09
Jun 07

Asterisco.PT.2

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Asterisco.PT.2
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 07 17:18:21 GMT

Issue nr 2 of *.pt is out. Couldnt do it last
week because I was out of the country, so this
week’s issue has news spanning two weeks.

http://www.asterisco.pt/

There’s an archive now and hopefully an RSS
feed during the weekend (as promised)

— MV

PS – Its there already…