kage’s posterous

Jim Lee Sketching

Google art work by Jim Lee

Extra love for House MD

“They described House to me as a brilliant diagnostician who was irritable and didn’t like people very much. I thought: how’s that going to work? I’d better get on this Hollywood gravy train early because it’s not going to be around long,” she laughs. “Fortunately, I was wrong. I think because the writing is so good — and Hugh Laurie, obviously.”

She adores Laurie — “he’s so lovely!” — and he’s clearly fond of her, partly as they have something in common (off screen, at least). “His father was a general practitioner who became a doctor as a second career. I think he’s incredibly smart and kind. When I was in California, when my book was first in galleys, I saw Hugh on the set and he said, ‘I’m so enjoying your book.’ I thought: you’re actually reading it! I thought it was pretty unlikely he’d have taken the time.”

Read the full gold interview with her at the times online website.

Wise words from Mark Cuban for Entrepreneurs

If you are an entrepreneur who is looking for capital and is sending letters or emails of introduction, leave out the Bullshit.  Say who you are. What you have. What makes it different than the competition. What you want to accomplish. How you plan on getting there and how I can help. Everything else will usually hurt more than it will help.

Guess which street fighter character was born on my bday?

Strangely, the height, bdate are just about right. Prolly the weight too..

Unlocking characters in Street Fighter 4 (PC)

Sometimes it pays to read comments on obscure posts. You never know when you discover a gem.
Here it is.

There are a total of nine unlockable characters, and there are a few requirements necessary to unlock them.
The easiest and fastest way to unlock them is to set the difficulty level to Easiest and set the number of rounds to 1. Then meet the requirements for each character.

Sakura: To unlock Sakura, you have to beat Arcade Mode on any difficulty and with any settings, using Ryu.

Dan: You must have Sakura unlocked.
To unlock Dan, you have to beat Arcade Mode on any difficulty and with any settings, using Sakura.

Gen: To unlock Gen, you have to beat Arcade Mode on any difficulty and with any settings, using Chun Li.

Cammy: To unlock Cammy, you have to beat Arcade Mode on any difficulty and with any settings, using Crimson Viper.

Rose: To unlock Rose, you have to beat Arcade Mode on any difficulty and with any settings, using M. Bison.

Fei-Long: To unlock Fei-Long, you have to beat Arcade Mode on any difficulty and with any settings, using Abel.

Akuma: You must have Sakura, Dan, Gen, Cammy, Rose, and Fei-Long unlocked.
Beat Arcade Mode on any difficulty and with any settings, using any character.
Must have at least 2 Pefect Rounds before defeating Seth.
Cannot lose any matches and use a continue.
Defeat Akuma.
I used Bison had one Perfect round and yet Akuma appeared.(I have defeated him)

Gouken: Here is a quote from Capcom:
1. Complete Arcade Mode playing as Akuma and watch (not necessary to watch everything) an ending.
2. Then, unlock Gouken as an opponent, and defeat him.

Necessary conditions to unlock Gouken as an opponent:
- Play with any characters with which you watched the ending once (so play using a character you have already beaten the game with)
- Do not continue at all.
- Do not lose at all. Not even one round (easier if you only play 1-round matches)
- Achieve certain number (or more) of ?Perfect? rounds. The number of Perfect Win you need to achieve are:

If you play on
- 1 round match: 1 time or more
- 3 round match: 2 times or more
- 5 round match: 3 times or more
- 7 round match: 4 times or more

- Achieve certain number (or more) of Super Combo -OR- Ultra Combo Finishes. Super and Ultra finishes both count toward this number. The number of Combo Finishes you need to achieve are:

If you play on
- 1 round match: 3 times or more
- 3 round match: 5 times or more
- 5 round match: 7 times or more
- 7 round match: 9 times or more
- Achieve certain number (or more) of First Attack (this means you must score the first strike in a match?the screen gives you the ?First Attack? message, and you can mostly do this without even noticing):

The number of First Attack you need to achieve are:

If you play on
- 1 round match: 5 time or more
- 3 round match: 10 times or more
- 5 round match: 15 times or more
- 7 round match: 20 times or more
- Then Gouken will appear. Kick his butt to unlock him!

Seth: You must have Gouken unlocked.
Beat Arcade Mode on any difficulty and with any settings, with all other characters.

Social Media

I love the rules put forward by Rohit Bhargava (whose book I'm planning on getting soon) on Social Media Optimisation.
There are 17 rules, but weren't put together in one place, but some of them are repeated, so I chose the ones that I see
as a best strategy

  1. Increase your linkability
  2. Make tagging and bookmarking easy
  3. Reward inbound links
  4. Help your content travel
  5. Encourage the mashup - let users use your content everywhere.
  6. Be a User Resource, even if it doesn't help you
  7. Reward helpful and valuable users
  8. Participate
  9. Know how to target your audience
 10. Create content
 11. Be real
 12. Don't forget your roots, be humble
 13. Don't be afraid to try new things, stay fresh
 14. Develop a SMO strategy
 15. Choose your SMO tactics wisely
 16. Make SMO part of your process and best practices

What CEO's really want.

Life lessons from Ryan Reynolds.

I think Ryan Reynolds is a great actor. He's not only very smart, he's got his head right.
And he is married to the hottest actress in the world - Scarlett Johannson. If that's not saying
enough he's got a body to die for.  Here's his advice on life.

Whether he's talking about inhabiting characters or running races, there's a theme that arises frequently in Reynolds's conversations: goals versus expectations. He has plenty of goals, both professional and personal, but as much as he can, he tries to avoid having expectations -- simply assuming that something is going to happen without doing the work. "When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment," Reynolds says. "I didn't expect to finish the marathon; I trained to finish it."

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