January 2008
63 posts
what the hell am I trying to get myself into? →
Lua: about:Lua is simple and powerful - A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in the language. For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and inheritance. Lua’s meta-mechanisms bring an economy of...
paul anka covers 'smells like teen spirit' →
My brain hurts now. [via apocalinks]
Excellent Machinima of a Very Bad HL2 Fan Fiction →
I posted it over at gamers: http://community.livejournal.com/gamers/2440261.html
someone else's quote, via benchilada →
First Blood Rambo: First Blood Part 2 Rambo 3 Rambo That is worse than the titling sequence that a child might make. Boo. What will the next one be called? Rambo 2: First Blood Part 5? Man, I hope so.
f*ck planet earth →
Warning: NSFW audio
BIOSHOCKED →
I played Bioshock last night; I’m only about an hour in, and I’m going pretty slow — still in the Medical Pavilion, looking for my 2nd plasmid. Last night I entered a room when the enemy turned out the lights and a series of filthy, psychotic, knife-wielding nurses charged at me from the shadows; at which point, alone in the dark, retreating and wildly disoriented, I realized my...
T-2.5 →
Not bad, but not good; Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is not shaping up quickly enough for me. The idea that a serialized Terminator TV show could be made is a good one. I mean, there’s a lot of potential in the world for further storytelling, and the characters they’ve selected for the core ensemble are intriguing. But the show could deal with a lot more “24” and...
— Jonathan Coulton, via Twitter
Warning: NSFW audio, likely to cause explosive laughter. (thanks, Tim)
hahahahahha →
Since his announcement two days ago, Clinton has raised a staggering $550 million. He has also surged in national polls, rising from a mere 2 percent prior to his candidacy to a commanding 94 percent, ahead of former front-runners Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who are now tied with 3 percent each. John Edwards withdrew from the race Tuesday, saying only, “I am not worthy.” Although...
BOLO: psycho IT worker →
People make bad decisions when threatened, sure. But feeling threatened also needs to have a reasonable venue for being aired. This is why communication in the workplace is important. (from in-thread at spasmsproject)
(thanks, Kevin!)
poking fun at the operating thetan →
Jonathan Coulton:Tom Cruise is so in love with Katie At least all his people tell him so And while he thinks that she’s a very special lady It’s probably not the way he’d choose to go And a lifetime of longing looks would cause too much distraction Good thing that he’s not gay anymore Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise crazy Just be glad it’s him not you If you had Tom Cruise’s troubles You might be Tom...
bring out the hyperdimensional 20t hammer →
Wired News - AP News: (via chernobylred ) Terry Hartle, vice president of the American Council on Education, which represents higher education in Washington, said the mistakes showed the entertainment industry has unfairly targeted college campuses. “Illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing is a society-wide problem. Some of it occurs at college s and universities but it is a small portion of the...
SKYPE'D!</strongbad> →
Sony delays PSP Skype in Japan // GamesIndustry.biz:Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has delayed the launch of the Skype service for PSP users just 24 hours before it was due to launch. The company had prepared two first-party microphone packages for launch day, but neither of these has met specifications defined by Skype. Huh? How does Skype’s parent company not know that the microphone is...
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People say I look young; no-one believes that I’m 40. What I don’t tell them is that when I came into this world, I accidentally checked the box for “dog years.”
The subtle pleasures of wasting time →
One of the broken-record themes of my blog — and my video-games journalism — is how badly our culture understands the meaning of play and games. This is partly because the philosophy of play, ludology, isn’t taught at any level of school; it’s also been almost completely ignored by philosophers both ancient and modern. Small children love to dream up weird...
emot-o-cats （´∀｀） and （ ´Д｀ ） These guys are called モナー (monar), and I am assuming the origin of this word comes from 「お前もな」. There’s a lot of 2 chan lingo, and 「お前もな」 is just one of them. Another 2 chan lingo that I know is 厨房 (chu bo), which means kitchen, but it actually means 中坊 (chu bo), a middle school boy (beginner). A lot of Japanese engineers and otaku’s are VERY familiar with...
フックアップ →
Just got a progress report which claimed something had been フックアップ. It took me a moment to realize that it wasn’t “fucked up” but rather “hooked up.”
game queue →
There are more games in my queue than I’ve got time to play. Seriously, there are so many good games already out, and more on the horizon, I’ve got no chance to catch up. On top of that, I’ve been realizing that 6 hours sleep a night is just not conducive to constructive thinking or language absorption, so I’m going to bed earlier. I’ve known it for awhile, as I add...
Japan has similar “mac vs pc” advertisements, but instead of John Hodgman and the geek from Dodgeball, we get The Rahmens and Miki Nakatani.
365 day seventeen: tests →
365 day seventeen: tests, originally uploaded by Foxtongue.
One for benchilada, who thinks LEDs are teh pr0nz. I, for one, welcome our luminescent redhead überladiez.
sexy, sexy English →
For six years I’ve been using MS Office in Japanese. I’ve hated it the whole time. Today I finally got a US-English version of MS Office 2003 installed. I cannot describe how nice it is to have the user interface AND HELP FILES in my native tongue. Good christ.
hardware as service, accounting as obstacle →
Wired Gadgets: Macworld Confirms Growing Trend of ‘Hardware as a Service’:Apple’s iPhone update revamps the Google Maps application to give it a GPS-like “Where am I?” feature that uses cell towers and WiFi hotspots to triangulate the phone’s location. It also includes the ability to add custom icons to the phone’s “home” screen. Apple is...
— Josh Billings
tee vee →
Guilty Pleasures, or “Ways that the Writers’ Strike is Making My Non-Complainably Brief Commute More Boring”
Life - professormass is the cat what hepped me to this series, and I thank him. A beat cop who was framed and spent 12 years in prison returns to work as a detective, equipped with a tweaked spiritual outlook, an affection for fresh fruit, and an undisclosed settlement...
—Ernest Hemingway
CHOLESTEROL FEARS ME →
Professor, what’s another word for ‘pirate treasure’? Why, I think it’s ‘bootie’!
I ended up not minding being at work today, though it’s a national holiday. Today’s the day all the 20 year olds celebrate turning into legal adults; the newly-grown-up people get dressed up and go out on the town to be seen. Women get their hair immaculately coiffed,...
(kd’s comic blog)
you never know when this shit is going to be... →
When I was in college, in 1989 I took a class on bookmaking in the digital age. This seemed like it was going to be an easy “A” for me (though my school had no grades…) because I’d been working in pre-press using QuarkExpress and PageMaker for ages, and was a fair hand at various versions of MS Word, going back to the DOS version. Mainly I wanted to know the proper,...
HEADACHE →
Killer headache this morning. Thankfully I have GIGANTIC painkillers from teh USAs, which mostly blanketed the problem. Man, I get weather-pressure headaches quickly. I’m actually a little worried that I’m catching a cold, since I can’t stop clearing my throat, and swallowing stuff is scratchy. Swallowing toast is actually painful. Apparently Darth Vader and Yoda will be...
just a heads-up on dork activity →
Engadget is home to the dorkiest article title I have seen in years: OLPC hacked to run Amiga OS. And, no, it’s not a “geeky” title, it’s dorky. BeOS would be “geeky.”
Pixel: Photoshop for the Linux Crowd | Compiler from Wired.com: “Linux users unhappy with the GIMP image editor may want to take a look at Pixel, a cross platform image editing application, which more closely mirrors the behavior of Adobe Photoshop. Although Pixel isn’t free in either sense of the word — a licensed copy will set you back $38 USD and the source is not available — in...
number two, indeed →
Manhunt 2 is as irrelevant and boring to an inverse degree that the rest of the world was upset about it. Talk about a flubbed sequel; nothing is advanced from the original; it feels less harrowing and suspenseful, and the story is like a comic book, compared to the cult-film/exploitation style of the original. I think I’m about to finish it, so I may update this with a changed opinion...
crap! →
I forgot to look for a copy of Sid Meier’s Pirates! for PSP while I was in the USA. Though I have to say all the GameStops and Targets I visited were pretty well picked bare when I was in them. They didn’t even have GTA: Vice City Stories for PSP, though the game has been out for a while and still very popular… Still. CRAP!
"californio" is a funny word →
Californio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:The Californios were Spanish-speaking inhabitants of Alta California, first a part of New Spain, later of Mexico. This area was later annexed in 1848 by the United States following the Mexican-American War. Californios included both the descendants of European settlers from Spain and Mexico, and also included other European settlers, Mestizos, and...
(wtf-japan)
build a better mousetrap →
This:
$500K Prize for Better Hijacker Trap: The nation’s dreaded airport security lines are set to get the X-Prize treatment on Tuesday with the announcement of a $500,000 prize for any technology that will speed travelers through the security gauntlet.Reminded me of this:
densha, puu-puuu →
Wow. Check out this child-friendly train, effectively an installation piece in Japan. [thanks, super_nyanko]
Link →
Victor Bout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (born January 13, 1967) is a Russian former KGB major and arms dealer [1], nicknamed “the Merchant of Death”.[2] According to Lee S. Wolosky, he is “the most powerful player in the trafficking of illegal arms” [1]. He is the subject of a book by that name written by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun[3]...
This is a band-aid fix, using a gadget to put my Google Reader’s Shared Items directly into my page layout. Blogger’s in-browser tool does not make it immediate apparent how to relegate it to the sidebar, so expect this layout to change again soon. Or I might get used to this layout.
Breaking: Bill Gates Loses Mind, Plays Guitar Hero... →
Seriously, you need to be watching Bill Gates’ farewell speech at CES. I’m sure news is coming, but that picture up there, that’s all you need. If you want actual news out of the speech make sure to check out Mike’s Liveblogging here. Gates Speech [Microsoft]
Sony: Skype Hits PSP Late January [Skype] →
As we reported earlier this week, Skype is coming to the PSP and now Sony has made it official with a press release. The service will be available only to owners of the PSP slim (sorry old school PSPers) and will have a number of features at your disposal including: • Free voice calls between Skype users
• Skype contact list management (view existing contacts, add new ones)
• Skype presence (see...
i am legend →
If the recent Will Smith movie wasn’t your thing, or even if you just want a comparison, try Vincent Price in the adaptation of “I Am Legend” called “The Last Man on Earth” - it’s up for grabs in the public domain at The Internet Archive. [waxy.org]
Not Safe For Work →
Not Safe For Work, originally uploaded by scottmw1971.
win!
