Everything that doesn’t fit into any other category.
Heidi and I were at Morning Glory in Chinatown a few days ago and these novelty waste paper bins caught our eye:
Not really because they stood out from the other novelty items in the store, but more due to the description on the packaging:
Much like many other slogans we’ve seen (such as a character called “Sodomi”… printed on the back of cute underwear), this seems a little too convenient.
http://www.cybermoonstudios.com/8bitDandD.html
Has anyone seen this flash animation and had a sinking feeling that they’d seen it all before?
The audio was ripped from a first-gen Playstation2 game called “Summoner”. I remember in my honours year, Ben brought in his (brand new!) PS2 and showed it to us. Yes, it was funnier the first time.
Update: According to milkandcookies, both use audio by “the Dead Alewives, a Wisconsin-based comedy troupe.”
The Internet is a great thing and useful in many ways, but is it really the cure all (for our social and personal problems) that many hoped it would become?
I’ve always been optimistic about the possible impact of the Internet on the world at large. How could you ignore starving children when the Internet brings them to your doorstep? If nobody understands you in your neighbourhood, maybe someone on the Internet will?
I’m not quite sure what happened. Misinformation is rampant. Racists find justification for their wack ideas. People still use AOL. Advertising still rules. Independent product reviews are modified by the website they are submited to as to not upset their sponsors. Fox just bought millions in Internet stock. IGN is going public. What is going on?
Anyhow, rather than give up all hope. I figured that I’d try a simple test. We’ve all heard stories, but can you find love on the Internet? First stop: google. First hit: “the love calculator”. Hmmm… I put in my name… and my girlfriend’s name… 13%. Crap. Okay, what about first and last names… 95%. Pretty good.
Still at the website… I’m a gamer geek, so I have to try this… my name… “Nintendo DS”… 99%.
OMG. I’m not sure what to draw from this. Does it restore my faith in the Internet? Somewhat. It reminds me of all the stupid things that are on the Internet because someone wanted it there. I suppose that alone is good enough for me. The world will have to take care of itself.
http://www.totalvideogame…8070_4897_0.htm
SCEE has announced “SingStar ’80s”. Yay!
I’ve had some weird sleeping patterns recently. After working on the weekend, stressing out and not sleeping properly for days, I fell asleep watching tv with Heidi at 8:30pm Monday night and didn’t wake until almost 9am this morning. I figured that my body was telling me something and decided to take it easy for a little bit.
The other odd thing this morning was that I got a call from Phil. He and Ryan are attending some Apple developer workshop/conference in Sydney. I met up with him for lunch and then again for dinner. He also stopped by and had a look around ViSLAB. I showed him how we have a bar fridge full of coke and easy access to Daytona and frozen coke. He was suitably impressed. 🙂
http://news.yahoo.com/new…offforchipmaker
I’d almost feel bad for the guy if he didn’t have, like, a bamazillion dollars.
I’ve been working on the design of a mech game at work. I don’t usually cross-post stuff, but I like this image.
Yeah… I don’t really know what it’s shooting at… rabbits?
I got these headphones from a second hand record store. They were only five bucks so I wasn’t sure if they would work. They have a large stereo plug and included in the box was a stereo to mono plug (to connect it to consumer audio equipment). Using this plug sound only came out one earpiece. I wonder if this why someone got rid of them. Anyhow, I went to Dick Smith’s and got a stereo to stereo plug and they work fine (and look cool to boot). Yay!
I drew some weird greeting cards for Heidi:
I should mention that she insisted on the rock hard abs for the monkey.
http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~jamess/mountain/
I was working on plans for the game project at ViSLAB and dug up the old “Get Off My Mountain!” code. It didn’t work… so I made it work. That said, a lot of code is still pretty bad. Some of it is tied to clock speed: the thermometer never goes up on my machine because it’s too fast. Other bits are quite messy: why no enum or #defines for menu state and game state? (ints? ints!?!)
Anyhow, the important thing is that it compiles and runs. I even put a video on the wiki to prove it! (Jim: I hope it isn’t too big!) No sound unfortunately; Anyone want to try capturing sound? Check it out of CVS and have a hack around 🙂
