There's a crazy solar storm heading this way. I hope it's as cool as a solar eclipse.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
better late than never... probably
I planned on returning from my blog hiatus with a fun game for you to play, but I couldn't pull it off. My ActionScript and JavaScript abilities were too rusty to track the score. So here's a free game idea for you Developers.
I was going to call it; "Drunk, Diseased or John Wayne"
The basic concept was this — you would listen to a slurry, sleepy audio clip of a male voice saying a short phrase. Then, you'd decide if the voice you just heard was that of a drunkard, a motor neuron-diseased person, or actor John Wayne.
John Wayne sound clips are easy to find. Recording my own slow speech is easy. Getting a few of my friends loaded and recording them would have been the easiest task, given the massive quantity of Russian Imperial Stout in my fridge. The hard part was that I wanted the game to be 10-15 'questions' long, but I couldn't remember how the scoring worked.
Oh well. I have a feeling "Drunk, Diseased or John Wayne" wouldn't be burning up the iTunes store.
I was going to call it; "Drunk, Diseased or John Wayne"
The basic concept was this — you would listen to a slurry, sleepy audio clip of a male voice saying a short phrase. Then, you'd decide if the voice you just heard was that of a drunkard, a motor neuron-diseased person, or actor John Wayne.
John Wayne sound clips are easy to find. Recording my own slow speech is easy. Getting a few of my friends loaded and recording them would have been the easiest task, given the massive quantity of Russian Imperial Stout in my fridge. The hard part was that I wanted the game to be 10-15 'questions' long, but I couldn't remember how the scoring worked.
Oh well. I have a feeling "Drunk, Diseased or John Wayne" wouldn't be burning up the iTunes store.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
I watched The Empire Strikes Back last night for the billionth time. I noticed something new during this viewing... actually, I noticed two things.
First, Leia on Hoth is arguably hotter than Slave Leia in Jedi. Granted, I live in Minnesota so my perspective on such matters might be skewed. Most guys don't find wool scarves & mittens sexy — I am not most guys. I'd love to get her alone in the South passage, if you know what I mean.1 I'm just saying that I'll take ski bunny Leia over steel bikini Leia any day.
She can fire my ion cannon any time.2
The second thing I noticed is R2D2 goes every place people go (except inside Yoda's house) under his own power. He follows people around on multiple planets and space ships. He travels by rolling. Which means...
THE ENTIRE STAR WARS UNIVERSE IS WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE!!!
Both the rebels and the Empire put ramps and elevators in every damn thing they built. Even the Death Star is easy for R2 to navigate. We never hear C3PO ask Han, "Excuse me, Captain Solo, would help me carry R2 down these stairs?" Han Solo doesn't have time to carry R2 anywhere! He'd probably shoot C3PO just for asking — which would have made the whole trilogy more watchable.
Oddly enough, we don't see anyone zipping around the background in a quasi-futuristic wheelchair. I suppose they have medical regenerative technology that makes wheelchairs obsolete. It worked for Vader...
1. If you know what I mean, you are a geek. And I'm a scruffy looking nerf herder.
2. Get your mind out of the gutter.
First, Leia on Hoth is arguably hotter than Slave Leia in Jedi. Granted, I live in Minnesota so my perspective on such matters might be skewed. Most guys don't find wool scarves & mittens sexy — I am not most guys. I'd love to get her alone in the South passage, if you know what I mean.1 I'm just saying that I'll take ski bunny Leia over steel bikini Leia any day.
The second thing I noticed is R2D2 goes every place people go (except inside Yoda's house) under his own power. He follows people around on multiple planets and space ships. He travels by rolling. Which means...
THE ENTIRE STAR WARS UNIVERSE IS WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE!!!
Both the rebels and the Empire put ramps and elevators in every damn thing they built. Even the Death Star is easy for R2 to navigate. We never hear C3PO ask Han, "Excuse me, Captain Solo, would help me carry R2 down these stairs?" Han Solo doesn't have time to carry R2 anywhere! He'd probably shoot C3PO just for asking — which would have made the whole trilogy more watchable.
Oddly enough, we don't see anyone zipping around the background in a quasi-futuristic wheelchair. I suppose they have medical regenerative technology that makes wheelchairs obsolete. It worked for Vader...
1. If you know what I mean, you are a geek. And I'm a scruffy looking nerf herder.
2. Get your mind out of the gutter.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
i made a funny
A few days ago, my sister sent me a photo of a bike shop in her town, Nantes, France. It's called Assbike.
Yep, Assbike.
The first thing I thought was, "I want that on a t-shirt!" The second thing I thought was, "More people need to know about this awesomeness."
So, I fired it off to Stevil at All Hail the Black Market and he put it up on today's post.
Spread the word, the Assbike has arrived.
Yep, Assbike.
The first thing I thought was, "I want that on a t-shirt!" The second thing I thought was, "More people need to know about this awesomeness."
So, I fired it off to Stevil at All Hail the Black Market and he put it up on today's post.
Spread the word, the Assbike has arrived.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
comical
Have you ever wondered what's the worst thing about being in a fancy power wheel chair?
It isn't the inability to go most places, or spending the whole day sitting, or that it sometimes breaks unexpectedly. No, the worst part is this;
My chair's menu uses the font Comic Sans.
Comic f*#king Sans.
Someone actually made the conscious decision to program my display with a font for children. I spent the last four and a half years of my career on an IT team, and they never used Comic Sans. The Developers I worked with used Arial only, excepting the time one guy used the font Trebuchet in all caps. The other IT boys thought it was awesome.
You may be saying to yourself, "Hey, I like Comic Sans. It's fun and kinda cooky!" Well, I have two things to say to you...
1) There is a time and place for 'fun' fonts.
2) Bite me.
Let me illustrate my point. Which warning below would you most likely heed?
I rest my case.
It isn't the inability to go most places, or spending the whole day sitting, or that it sometimes breaks unexpectedly. No, the worst part is this;
My chair's menu uses the font Comic Sans.
Comic f*#king Sans.
Someone actually made the conscious decision to program my display with a font for children. I spent the last four and a half years of my career on an IT team, and they never used Comic Sans. The Developers I worked with used Arial only, excepting the time one guy used the font Trebuchet in all caps. The other IT boys thought it was awesome.
You may be saying to yourself, "Hey, I like Comic Sans. It's fun and kinda cooky!" Well, I have two things to say to you...
1) There is a time and place for 'fun' fonts.
2) Bite me.
Let me illustrate my point. Which warning below would you most likely heed?
I rest my case.
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