Everything that doesn’t fit into any other category.
Warning: This post probably won’t make sense to people who aren’t graphics programmers.
I came across this interesting blog post today: Canvas 3D: GL power, web-style
Could this lead to native GL support in Firefox? That would be awesome. Although looking at the source code of the example pages is crazy… it’s like GL sample code crashed into a Javascript tutorial. How crazy could it get? Could you use AJAX and COLLADA to create a live multi-user modelling program? That’s crazy!
Yay! I have internet access at home again!
We moved houses around 2 weeks ago now, but the telephone line wasn’t disconnected by the previous tenant so our telephone connection, hence our ADSL connection, was delayed.
Unfortunately internet access here is slower than our last place. Stil internet is better than no internet (and it’s still >6Mb… just).
I made a Scorpion out of watermelon seeds left in my bowl after dessert.
I declare it awesome!
The watermelon seeds all sort of stuck together (due to hydrogen bonds?) and it was really easy to create pictures. I also made a ring, and the number eight (it was a “magic eight bowl”; har har), and the letter A (which I was ridiculed for since it wasn’t as awesome as the ring or number eight; that ridicule led me to the awesomeness above).
Update: The stinger is a bit of strawberry calyx that was also in the bowl.
Larry Carlson‘s North Vale Interactive Pictures are very weird and strangley entertaining. They remind me of Dali, 80’s videographics, and the Amiga days.
Here’s a still from “Goosela Meadow“:
Found via Reddit.
That’s some mighty fine moves:
Via: jwalk blog and somewhere else… a while ago…
Things keep getting better: after getting engaged to Heidi, I got a promotion at work, and found a new place to live (a rental house near work; we sign the lease tomorrow morning). Also, I finally somehow managed to find some free time to post to my blog. Yay!
Note: No engagement photos yet; the ring is being resized and I just wanted to post a picture of it on Heidi’s hand.
I asked Heidi to marry me. She said “Yes”. We went out to dinner. It was fantastic!
I’ll post more details (and non-mobile-phone pictures) on the weekend.
I’m thinking that this needs to go on a t-shirt:
I’ll probably tidy it up a bit; add a bit more detail to make the chicken match the jelly fish.
Here’s another take on the same concept:
Although that’s a chicken in a jelly-fish, not a chicken/jelly-fish.
References: Clipart ETC, Chicken Hill Tribe, Easter Joy.
While organising my games collection, I’ve been removing titles that I don’t think are worth keeping. There are quite a few wild cards (games I never really got into), and God Hand was one of them. I’d tentatively put it in the “get rid of pile”, but then I saw this video of the ending credits (found via GameSetWatch):
The lyrics are awesomely naff. For example:
Lead vocals: Dragon kick your ass into the Milky Way!
Backup vocals (high-pitched): Milky Way!
and:
Lead vocals: Hyper-active fighting styles so slick they’ll make you drool!
While trying to find the lyrics, I found this glowing review and game summary at Hardcore Gaming 101. I was reminded of why this game was on my purchase list in the first place:
God Hand is like a mid 80s arcade game brought up to vaguely current standards, except it’s actually somewhat self conscious of how ridiculous the whole concept is. The result is one of the freshest video games released in a long time, which was essentially the point of the now-defunct Clover Studios.
I see a God Hand games night in the not-too-distant future.
I’m imagining in response to high-profile director Francis Ford Coppola’s loss of 15 years worth of data, Jamie Zawinski has made a public service announcement blog post on backing up your data.
Choice quote:
If you are using a Mac, the command you use to back up is this:
sudo rsync -vaxE --delete --ignore-errors / /Volumes/Backup/If you’re using Linux, it’s something a lot like that. If you’re using Windows, go fuck yourself.
I wasn’t really expecting that last sentence. It made me LOL.