Josh Babetski : Quixotic Bravado

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• A List Apart: Articles: Conflicting Absolute Positions
• Sketch paper for the mobile designer | labs.boulevart
• plainview : software : the barbarian group Plainview is a full-screen web browser.

• @aprilrox statements like “woke up to snow flurries” (in June) is one of the reasons getting me to move to Denver is challenging.
• @hirh what happened to your pillow? Did @Icelander dream of eating a large marshmallow?
• Why yes, I do have an easy way to get the “One Man Army” achievement in GTA IV: http://tinyurl.com/3pjxwl

If you’re playing Grand Theft Auto 4 on Xbox 360, here’s an easy how-to for getting the “One Man Army” Xbox 360 Achievement.

This achievement is accomplished when you’ve “survived a 6 star wanted level for a full 5 minutes.” This might be easy to do later in the game, but I’m a casual player and haven’t event unlocked the other islands yet. Of this writing, I’ve just finished the mission “Roman’s Sorrow” and stumbled upon this method by accident.

Since I haven’t unlocked the other islands, the bridges leading to them are still barricaded by the police. Here’s my quick “One Man Army” walk through:

1. Starting from Roman’s Place in Hove beach, walk north up Mohawk Ave a bit
2. Once you are under the Broker Bridge, navigate your way west between some buildings until you reach a support for the bridge
3. On the support, there are stairs leading up to a pedestrian walkway above the road and across the bridge
4. Go up the stairs and go about a 1/3 of the way over the bridge. You walk WAY beyond the police barricade set-up below you
5. I’m sure it’ll happen at some point across the bridge, but shooting a pedestrian worked for me to trigger the 6-star wanted rating.
6. Run back the way you came. Avoid getting shot.
7. Once you get back to the stairwell, go half-way down and position yourself in a corner to cover both the stairs coming up and going down
8. This will give you plenty of cover from cop cars and the helicopters; the position also seems difficult for the cops on foot to navigate. I only wound up shooting 4.
9. Survive for 5 minutes until you get the toast pop-up telling you the “One Man Army” achievement is bagged.
10. Run for it!

Not sexy, but an effective way to survive long enough to get the achievement. Hope it helps.

• @ryancarson The Zappos Culture Book is worth tracking down. @zappos @zappos_McLovin @zapposwarehouse : Can someone hook Ryan up?
• @aprilrox that’s crazy talk lady. Plans, understanding market — doomed I say! But do they understand parking lot security?

• Mocking @icelander. He made the mistake of telling us he pulled a muscle using the wii fit? Seriously… how’s THAT happen?!
• One of our devs is leaving. Got him into a room to spring a going away video by scheduling a meeting called “FishQuest.” Suspected nothing!
• @tlberglund Yeah, I’m mysterious that way.

• Everyone I talk to today has severe weather issues! I should have taken that meeting w/that mad scientist and his weather start-up idea.

• @dweakl01 “Twitter me a lifeboat.”
• We now have “the Product Whip!” Made a lunchtime trip to pick up some amish buggy whips, then swung into Sonic for some lunch.

• @gruber I found this Git article helpful for using remote and centralized repositories: http://tinyurl.com/2kg4f6.
• Went overboard on content for “Identification of Need” slide for a PPT I’m working on with @antthelimey. Turns out there was a lot of need.

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• VirtualBox VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use.
• Version Control for Designers Best getting started with Git article so far.
• Design Stencils – Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
• GitFaq – GitWiki

• @kplawver Have Passenger running on the MBP for about a week now. Only issue so far is apache process pins after a few days; needs restart.
• Yum! @tracibabe and I are making my custom polish tex-mex creation tonight: Pieracos! http://tinyurl.com/3p2f9e Haven’t made them in awhile.