I have installed a FLV video player on this blag. I was noticing that some of my older video links have died/expired and I do not like that. I will be hosting all of my video links locally on the blag from now on. This will also help with individuals who are behind a firewall and can see the blag but not YouTube. I hope you enjoy my first post using this method.
This video has been one of my favorites since at least 100 years ago. Another reason I posted it as my first hosted video is that this particular short appears and disappears from YouTube all the time. It’s a dice roll if you’re going to get to see it. Not anymore, friends, not anymore.
Washington
Washington
6 foot 8 weighs a fucking ton
Opponents beware
Opponents beware
He’s coming
He’s coming
He’s coming
Let me lay it on line he had two on the vine
I mean two sets of testicles so divine
On a horse made of crystal he patrolled the land
With the mason ring and schnauzer with his perfect hands
Here comes George in control
Women dug his snuff and his gallant stroll
Ate opponents brains and invented cocaine
He’s coming
He’s coming
He’s coming
Washington
Washington
Six foot twenty fucking killing for fun
Spread Spread Delaware
He’s coming
He’s coming
He’s coming
Sue me if I go to fast but the sons of his opponents wish he was their dad
Got a wig for his wig got a brain for his heart
He’ll kick you apart
He’ll kick you apart
He’ll save children but not the British children
He’ll save children but not the British children
He’ll save children but not the British children
He’ll save children but not the British children
He had a pocket full of horses fucked the shit out of bears
He threw a knife into heaven
And could kill with a stair
He made love like an eagle falling out of the sky
Killed his sensei in a duel and he never said why
Washington
Washington
Twelve stories high made of radiation
The present beware
The future beware
He’s coming
He’s coming
He’s coming
Did I mention his four nuts
Well he also had four dicks
If you took of his boot you’d see the dicks growing of his feet
I heard that motherfucker had like thirty goddamn dicks
He once held the hand of one of his opponent’s wife’s hand in a jar of acid at a party
Pretty slick, eh? I haven’t found myself on there yet. It looks like it was probably taken in January or February of 2008. You can tell it’s after the new year because of all the storm damage to the trees and whatnot.
This is undoubtedly a trailer for Beyond Good and Evil 2. The first Beyond Good and Evil is one of the best adventure games I have had the privilege to play. I guess I’ll have to play it again before the sequel comes out. Darn.
I just purchased the new Roku Netflix Player. It was mainly an impulse purchase, but I got a sweet $150 bonus at work last week (I call it the ’spit in the face bonus’) and so I’m buying technology with it. My friend at work reads Gizmodo very regularly and linked me an article about it. Apparently this fancy box was released today making me an early adopter, hooray!
This bad boy hooks into my Netflix account and into my television providing me with delicious streaming television. It’s like an AppleTV but way cheaper and a large free library of great movies. Sure, it doesn’t let me do the YouTubes, podcasts, music or photos but hey, I wasn’t going to do any of that anyway. Ok, I’ll miss out on the YouTubin’ but whatevs.
Movies and TV episodes in your Netflix Instant Queue appear right on your TV screen. Use the included remote control to browse through the items you’ve added to your Instant Queue and pick something to watch — whenever you want. You can even read descriptions and rate movies, right from the comfort of your couch.
The Netflix Player lets you explore even more possibilities from the world’s largest online movie rental service. Access a growing library of over 10,000 instant movies and TV episodes. Watch as many as you like, as often as you want—with no additional fees. You’re in control with the power to play anytime and finish watching whenever you like.
I’m also pretty certain that two awesome things will happen with this guy too. I’m certain that I can transport this from house to house and movie enjoyment will follow me wherever I choose to go. I’ll be like the Pied Piper of movies with a lot less children drowning! Secondly I bet (but am not certain) there will be a sizable hacking community built up around this item. Hopefully these masters of hack, lords of zeros and ones and divas of databases can conjure up some magicsauce. Then I’ll be YouTubin’ all day long mofuggah!
The corporation that I work for has locked down the internet. I can no longer check my gmail accounts and until moments ago I could not even SEE this blog. I cannot view youtube or google video and most of my webcomics are verboten. Thankfully XKCD and Dinosaur Comics are still kicking. I can take solace knowing that Big Brother loves me.
click me.
Fitter Happier
More productive
Comfortable
Not drinking too much
Regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
At ease
Eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
A patient better driver
A safer car (baby smiling in back seat)
Sleeping well (no bad dreams)
No paranoia
Careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole)
Keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then)
Will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall)
Favours for favours
Fond but not in love
Charity standing orders
On sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)
Car wash (also on sundays)
No longer afraid of the dark
Or midday shadows
Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
Nothing so childish
At a better pace
Slower and more calculated
No chance of escape
Now self-employed
Concerned (but powerless)
An empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)
Will not cry in public
Less chance of illness
Tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat)
A good memory
Still cries at a good film
Still kisses with saliva
No longer empty and frantic
Like a cat
Tied to a stick
That’s driven into
Frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
Calm
Fitter, healthier and more productive
A pig
In a cage
On antibiotics
I can see what you see not
vision milky then eyes rot
When you turn they will be gone
whispering their hidden song
Then you see what cannot be
Shadows move where light should be
Out of darkness out of mind
Cast down into the halls of the blind
–The Halls of the Blind
Khandaras has fallen into chaos! Random Diablo post FTW!
DoctorM64 is a sound technician living in Buenos Aires. He has found time over the last few years to create a remake of this great game. It is heavily influenced by Metroid: Zero Mission applying those great advanced backwards on a fantastic and important part of the Metroid timeline. The tech demo can be found here and I encourage everyone to play it, even at work. He is also posting about the development of the title on his game blog. Yeah, it’s amazing. I’m still surprised you guys didn’t tell me about it though.
This reminds me of another great remake project. The late great Chrono Trigger: Resurrection. Thanks for reminding me of the sadness I felt when this project died Derek. It felt good to reminisce. Here is a link to a video of Chrono Trigger: Resurrection.
With the XNA toolset (which stands for XNA’s Not an Acronym) finally getting its day in the sun there has never been a more appropriate time to talk about recursive acronyms than now. This is a very important subject and I hope you take this lesson to heart; it might one day save your life.
A recursive acronym is an abbreviation that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands. One of the most prominent recursive acronyms is for the PNG file-type. PNG stands for PNG’s Not GIF (although officially it stands for Portable Network Graphic). This is an especially witty name once you know a bit about the history of the file-type. Regardless of boring file-type wars the recursive acronym PNG uses the acronym PNG inside itself. Talk about clever.
There are other wonderful examples of this, here are a few taken from Wikipedia:
PHP — PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Wine — Wine Is Not an Emulator Zombie — Zombie-Oriented Machine-Being Interface Engine
Bob — Beware of Bob (from Twin Peaks) VISA — Visa International Service Association Mung — Mung Until No Good LAME — LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder
It gets stranger still. A backronym is an acronym that was created ‘after-the-fact’. In other words you create a word and then acronym it later (e.g. iPood could stand for Isolated Programmer On Over-Dose). There are several types of backronyms.
Pure backronyms works like the example above and are added after the fact to change the meaning of a word. Replacement backronyms are acronyms that replace previous acronyms. Spam, which is a combination of Spiced and Ham has been replacement backronymed to sometimes mean Spare Parts Posing as Meat or Slime Posing As Meat.
Mnemonic backronyms are used to help with remembering tricky groups of items. An example of this would be HOMES for the names of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior).
Anacronym are backacronym that have either been replaced with another meaning or removed altogether. The SAT Test (which is an example of RAS Syndrome, more on that later) is a perfect example of one of these. SAT originally stood for Scholastic Achievement Test then Scholastic Aptitude Test. It was then changed in 1990 to the Scholastic Assessment Test. Finally, in 1994 the test was renamed once again to the SAT with SAT having no acronym at all.
The last type of backacronym is the false backacronym, these are acronyms that are falsely believed to mean something when they mean something else. The catch is that the meaning remains the same but the words differ from the original acronym. A fine example of this is R.I.P. Anyone who took latin in high school knows that R.I.P. stands for Requiescat in pace. Anyone who’s school couldn’t afford latin classes (like the good people at Noble America) might think that it stands for Rest in Peace. The interesting part of this is that they both convey the same meaning regardless of the naïve misunderstanding.
One final interesting acronym related top is RAS Syndrome. RAS Syndrome stands for Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome. This is a quite common occurance. Examples include ATM Machine (where ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine), PIN Number (Personal Identification Number), HIV Virus (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). In each of these phrases a term is used twice. Ha! Languages are crazy!
This is a mean post and I’m not sorry one damn bit.
The Zelda Tattoo Homepage. The Zelda Tattoo Homepage (I just HAD to type that twice). I found this webpage while surfing for way awesome pictures of Link for a picture project I’m working on. I will say that while his page is ugly and boring, it is cross-browser compliant. It even looks bad in Safari.
I know ripping on the guy isn’t nice but along with the site is an ugly tattoo. Link’s sword isn’t even straight, neither is that column of liquid awesome coming from the Ocarina of Time. Well, it was awesome in the original image. He also paid $750 for that. You could get a lot better tattoos for that. OMG this tattoo is awesome.
My primary goal is to make a website with good functionality and some common features (guestbook) based on a popular topic look great. I will use my skills and education as a web designer to make this happen using only CSS, HTML and PHP. This website is also designed to help Robots/Spiders like the Googlebot, MSNbot and Inktomi Slurp search the web and give higher hit counts for people who use it.
I think I wasted a good hour or two messing with this 909 simulator. The trick is that the orange words along the top are clickable. I didn’t notice that for a while. This guy’s webpage is actually pretty cool. He has made a bunch of flash applications that are well beyond any programming ability I ever hope to possess.
Engadget has a post about another beat related project called BeatBearing. There is a ton of other projects on there that make me stupid jealous as well. When am I going to take that microcontrollers/microelectronics class?
