Apparently "center" is incorrect. Only "centre" is acceptable to Lord FireFoxWorthington here!

I'm not sure about you guys, but I am psyched for the new MMO from Lucas and Bioware.. this trailer sealed the deal for me.

I think that instead of the caps lock key, there should be a left-hand backspace key. I think it would make correcting typos quicker.

Gizmodo - Ask Wolfram Alpha: Are You Skynet? - Wolfram Alpha

Made me lol many times.

Destructoid - E3 09: Bayonetta Cosplay

Yeah, that third picture, with the cleavage? I was drooling over the steampunky mechanical clock on her chest...

Seriously, I think I have some issues to work through.

Gizmodo - 'Hello, Phone Sex Operator? I'm Into Unemotional Robots.' - Gil ozeri

Hm... I'm not sure this is real.. how would a phone sex operator know to make a reference to Data from Star Trek?

Gizmodo - Acer's Android Netbook Will Come With Windows, Fail at Being an "Android Netbook" - Acer android netbook


I have a feeling these companies aren't going to give Android a chance until they know consumers will accept it.. Problem is, if they don't put out devices with Android, how the fuck will they know if consumers will accept it?

Retro Thing: The Ultimate Pizza Box Is Finally Delivered

Wow!

I think I have a thing for long gloves, of the type classy ladies wear to the opera. Is this unusual, in anyone's estimation?

io9 - He'll Be Back... With Guitars - terminator

This is easily a billion times better than anything, ever.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/05/ekranoplans-showcase.html

I loves them! Agh!

I went to Maker Faire once. For those of you who don't know, that's a biannual event held in various places to celebrate the DIY craft, and ostensibly to let your get your solder on with others of a similar bent. In my experience though, it was just a huge, hot place with expensive food and smelly hipsters who think they're all that because they wove their own smelly shirt out of hemp.

There were very few places where any actual tinkering with projects could occur, possibly for liability reasons, and those that existed were lackluster, expensive and filled with the aforementioned hippies. Naturally those who weren't smelly were just there because it was something to do. Even the exhibitors discouraged touching, which completely goes against the spirit of the event, in my estimation.

In short, I was looking for an intimate event with maybe a couple hundred people who love to make shit and blow shit up, but was presented with a horde of some 50,000 idiots, poseurs and hipsters of the worst kind. Attend at your own risk.

Machine Keeps Heart Beating Outside of Body - Neatorama

Yeah, there's a video...
Not for the weak of constitution.

Everyone knows that if you're smoking pot, that's smoking out. BUT, if you're doing it inside, while STAYING IN, is that smoking IN? Like, if a stoner were to be propositioned by his fellow marijuana people, like "Dude, let's smoke out, brah," would he be remiss in saying "Nah man, I'm just gonna smoke in tonight, I'm not feelin' too good..."?

I dreamt last night that we went to Cardzilla, and it was boarded up, saying "In order to comply with new censorship laws, we no longer sell:" and then a huge list of everything they sold. Magic cards was at the top.

This is awesome, check it out!

um... yeah..

Awesome

I've been spending kind of a lot lately, but I think that's ok. I've been making considerably more money since I started working nearly full-time, and I haven't gone into debt at all. Naturally, it kind of puts a damper on the long-term savings I really should be doing. But come on, I'm only going to a state school, and financial aid will almost certainly be generous. What do you guys think? I know that most of you must be undergoing some financial woes, at the very least.

Sometimes I start thinking that my failings embarass and disgrace those around me, but when I think about it, the failings of others don't embarass me in the slightest. Even in that last sentence, I wondered if I used too many personal pronouns. I feel many things have changed about me in the past few months, since moving out of my Aunt's house and out fron under my parents' influence, but lingering, layered doubts about my own status, consideration for others, and myriad other non-sequitur remain. It's what keeps me relatively polite, and what allows me to make a good first impression (when I'm not throwing up on peoples' cars), but I sense it may hurt me later in life. Interesting that frank, positive self-evaluation is almost beyond my reach even now. I feel bad for mentioning any good traits I have, as though I'm denying I have any bad ones. Then I feel bad about feeling bad. But it's all an academic exercise, really, and nothing quite comes of it. That's going to change. From now on, I'm not going to care so damn much.

Yeah, I'm spending a lot of money these days. You know what? I can afford it right now. If you think I shouldn't because of your poor state of affairs, you can go ahead and shove it. (not you guys, but people in general)

Brooke just left, and I'm feeling too wide awake to sleep, so I'm just working on some translating here, and figured I'd watch a movie while I do so. It's something I do often, as I enjoy the act of translating, and having words said in the background seems to boost my vocabulary. It's almost like I take on the timbre of the characters in question, so I tailor my viewing around the subject at hand. Anyway, I put on this Winston Churchill documentary, and find that it's not in its correct folder. Now this starts off a whole cascade of distractions and google searches and new torrents added to my queue. Of course, these are all things that I normally enjoy, but simultaneously trying to work has put me in rather a foul temper. I realize now that to be a database programmer would be really terrible, just because keeping a lot of information organized is one of the most stressful things you can do. Perhaps it's just my male mind at war with my frenetic personality. I want to do five things at once, but my brain just wasn't really equipped for multi-tasking. Indeed, I usually strike a fine balance, but this really tipped the scales. I found myself hunched over, back aching (My back never aches except when I'm under extreme stress), eyes bleary after only ten or so minutes!

Like I say, none of these tasks by themselves are any real work at all, indeed most of them are things I do for fun. What odd stressers do you guys have? Another one for me is untying knots. Egad, I hate untying knots. I never was a boy scout, and I think I'd make a terrible one, just because of the god damn knots. I would also likely make a terrible mathematician for that same reason. Jeez, I can't even imagine all those surfaces and hyperbolic whatsits in however many dozens of dimensions... Egad!

According to engadget, Microsoft is going to start selling games over the net.. renting games won't be far behind.. looks like physical media is going to fall even quicker still.. man, I love progress!

I just got up after sleeping since 9:30am.. Man, do I feel volumes better then I did this morning! lol

Alright Sam, your past 36 hours sounded pretty nuts, but I had a pretty crazy weekend as well. It all started on thus morning at 11am when I woke up. I knew it was going to suck, because I had a midterm scheduled for Friday, who has a midterm week 9? anyways I did not start studying till 5pm on thurs, so I stayed up all night drank 2 moster javas, and studied with a few breaks for meals. Took my midterm, and got back in the dorms just in time for magic. I went to the draft, took second place with a really fun esper artifact deck. Went to dinner and came back to the droms. I called my friend maria, to see what she was doing, she wanted me to go over to oaks (way on the other side of campus) i declined, i dont need to get drunk with a bunch of 18 year old strangers. She calls me like 2 hours later, asking for a ride, because their friend is too drunk, you guys know me, of course i said yes. I went over to oakes, and put 5 girls in my tiny car. drove them back to crown and hung out with them until 4am. I went back to my room and sorted my cards till 5. that was 42 hours with no sleep at all. I woke up on Sat at like 1pm, and relaxed, I was so tired after the midterm. Sat night I went on a night hike with maria and some friends. We went to "cat graveyard" where all these crazy hippies bury there cats, and have this weird pentagram on the ground with the 5 points being earth, wind, water, air and cat.. lol. Then we hiked to tree 9, which is this really tall climbing tree with at rope swing. At 2am we went for taco bell, there is a 24 tb by the bus station. we waited in the drive-thru for about 45 min. Came back ate and went to bed. I woke up on Sunday at 3pm, pissed at myself because I had a bunch of homework to do. I played magic, watched how i met your mother, and procrastinated till dinner time at 5. At dinner we met up with some friends that wanted to go to kresgie swing, which is a rope swing on the other side of campus. I was down, mostly cuse i did not want to do my writing homework. the swing took abotu 45 min to hike to and it was crazy. Its a rope swing on on a really steep hill, and the rope is 25 - 30ft long, and the hill is slanted close to 45 degrees. when your at the apex on the far side of the swing, your like a good 45 50 ft above the ground. we hung out there for a few hours. then we hiked back to kresgie, where they were having karaoke. again you guys know me... I got up on stage with my friend skyla, and we sang....wait for it ......wannabe by the spice girls. except skyla did not really sing. so I sang wannabe to a bunch of strangers, I even did the rap in the middle, and the whole room started cheering. It was defiantly the high point of the weekend. then we hiked back. I went into town to get dinner. i did not write my essay so I had to wake up early this morning to do it :( but its done and I'm just hanging out. get some sleep sam...

have been crazy. Alright let's start yesterday. After taking Tiffany to her friends house, I decide to walk to work. I have like 10-15min before my shift starts, but I'm like, "Fuck it, I'll just tell them my car broke." So I walk to work and felt pretty good. It was only .8 miles but uphill, so I'm pretty proud of myself. I wasn't too tired, but I was sweaty when I walked in because of the change in temperature (Ben knows what I'm talking about, remember chemistry over the summer?)

So I got in late and told everyone that my car broke down. So I worked my shift and inquired about my schedule for this week. My boss asked me if I wanted to work some 4am shifts. I hesitated until he told me that I'd have Sunday (today/yesterday) off. So I agreed to Mon-Wed of 4am-8am instead of Tue-Thr; I'm always in favor of just doing things to get through them. I take my lunch and Mr. Heckeroth gives me a call. He wants to know if me and Jake want to come over and play Magic with him and Ara. So I agree not knowing my fate. So I get off at 8pm and walk home.

I get there around 8:30p and pack for the night and head over to Jake's house. Around 9p or so we start heading out to Irvine. We get to Irvine and stop off at Albertsons for some booze, and del tizzle for some eats. Believe it or not, we spend almost 30min trying to find parking. It was horrible. It seemed that everyone and their mothers were visiting Irvine. We ended up parking all the way where Ken and Ara used to live and traipsed back to their current location. Carrying gear and booze mind you. So we get there and meet a new person: Vivian. She was pretty cool, adjusting very quickly to the increase of personnel, eccentric at that. So we all (five of us) play Magic until around 2-2:30a when Vivian had to go home. Jake and I walk her to her car and go back to more Magic. We wind up going to sleep around 4:30ish.

I wake up at 11:30a to threats of ass-ramming by Jake (or was it the prospect of Dim Sum? Can't remember). I get dressed, drink some coffee and we all go to Dim Sum. It was Legen... wait for it... keep waiting... don't get blue balls... DARY!!! Seriously, it was delicious. I can imagine it being a great hangover food. Afterward, we go to the market next door and Ara picks up some Lotus root and various other food stuffs. We head back home, but not before stopping off at the local comic/magic shop to pick up some cards. More fucking moths for Ken and some booster packs.

We get home at around 1:30p or so and start a marathon of Magic. Seriously, 9 hours later we realize we are hungry and break for Ara's DELICIOUS cooking. We eat, a lot. And play some more Magic. By the end of it Jake is begging us to finish the game. Poor guy.. Honestly, I'm pretty burned out of Magic for now. I think Ken put it perfectly when he said, "I feel like I've been grinding on Everquest for 16 hours." Exactly.

So here I am, it's 1:34am. I'm waiting for the clock to hit 3:30a so I can head out, grab something to eat and work for 4 hours, then take Tiffany to work, and pass the fuck out for 8 hours.

YesButNoButYes: Infectious Moves

This just made my night. Be sure to watch at least until 1:30, it gets big FAST. Just, this gives me hope for humanity.

--Sam

This is what Ken does everyday

So I was walking around the house with my glasses off and ken was sitting on the couch. I thought he was studying because he was as quiet as a mouse - full concentration I might add. Then, I sat next to him to see what he was reading. As I look over, I discover that he was not even doing his homework but he was shifting through his new collection of magic cards... You guys created another monster, LOL. It's all good that means you guys can come over more often to play some cards.

is because he's always yelling! At the end of every sentence is a "!"! It's great, I say!

Gizmodo - Canon Employees Are Forbidden to Sit Down, Walk at Normal Pace - Canon

You know, I would feel worse about this if I didn't have to stand at my current job. Sometimes I'd be standing on my breaks too.. furthermore, I'm often walking briskly because, honestly, it does waste time.. I understand what they are getting at, but I also understand the other side of it.

Well the day finally came. I bought Tiffany her own computer for her birthday. It's one of those fangled Sony Vaio's with a Core 2 and some 3GB of ram and some type of SATA hard dealy.. But what now? Well, I'm glad you asked. Now I get started with the greuling task of creating an image of my current windows install. Why not just copy over what I need and leave the rest alone? I'll tell you why: I want to preserve this image. This has been a good image, and if shit hits the fan, I want to be able to come back to it at the drop of a hat. Eventually, I'm going to place this image on another hard drive, or possibly this current one. That didn't make sense, so let me lay it all out for you:

I currently have three drives: 160GB, 300GB, and 1TB, or 1000GB (sounds much larger :p).
160GB: Currently houses my operating system and all of my worldly programs.
300GB: Holds all of my music, random internet downloads, and pending/yet-to-be-sorted torrents.
1000GB: All of my movies, shows, and large applications.

What's clear is that I am going to be making an image of the 160GB and storing that away. I am ashamed to admit that I am going to be putting the image on DVD's (waits for Ben to make a comment...) I have a very good reason for that: I have no space on any of my drives. If I had (and could) dedicate a 1TB or 2TB strictly for backing up, I wouldn't even think about using optical media, but alas, I do not. So for that reason I am succumbing to optical media.

So after I make the image, I am going to format the drive and install both linux and a clean install of windows. Then after I gather up the resources to purchase a new fangled 1TB, I am going to move everything up one, the 160GB will remain my linux install, and the 300GB will be my new vista and every-game-possible install. The now 1TB will be used for accessory storage of movies and shows. I can't wait until I get a free day, me and Jake are going to tear it up Ubuntu style!

Gizmodo - Pixel Qi's Magical Hybrid E-Paper LCD Coming This Fall - Pixel qi qi3

Very promising indeed...

I found out today that you can have the screen orient according to how you are holding it. Also that my icons came back on my desktop; I just had to restart the phone.

--Sam

I think that the smell center of my brain is growing stronger, or something of that nature. These days, when I see things, I can SMELL them, like they're there. Thankfully it's usually restricted to pleasant things, or those I have strong memories of, but when I think of that night when I threw up in Sam's car, it's as though I can feel the bile rising in my throat, feel the acrid sting in my nostrils. The smell of oil and metal comes to mind especially often. I think it's a sign that I miss having a bike. Yeah, that smell really does hold a lot of good memories for me.

Craftzine.com blog : Swap-O-Rama-Rama Remake Fashion Show at Maker Faire

Lulz

--Sam

Android apps coming to Ubuntu - Boing Boing

What what in the butt? What really gets me excited about this if it goes the other way around! Frankly, I can't imagine it being that difficult to whip up a custom package for Android once basic compatibility is established. Just imagine, Keepass on your G1, Fennec given instant and easy compatibility with Android in time for its first release, custom codecs to play more varied video formats. Mplayer and Songbird, for God's sake! Not to mention simple and easy Japanese input through the standard IME. Beyond that, Wine! Windows apps on your mobile phone, customized for awesomeness on a tiny screen! PICASA MOBILE! HOLY SHIT THE ORGANIZATION!! Evernote, too! Egad!

I downloaded and installed cupcake!!

Just get the one that says google download at here

rename it to update.zip and put it on the root of the sd card.

then turn off your phone, and turn it on by holding home + end

then when it turns on you'll get a weird picture, hit alt + s, and then update!!

It's just that simple!

I just did it, so stay tuned for updates of horrific things.

As I sit in the loo recalling how fun my weekend was. I can't help but laugh at you guys, not in a bad way of course. Most men have poker night and game night watching sports, but you guys break the mold... you guys have boys night that includes twenty sided dices and Magical cards. I can imagine you guys ten years from now sitting in the "game room" with cigars and beer sitting around a poker table... minus the traditional ace and suits card deck. I love it because good friends are hard to find!

This is the chick that the chick in Terminator: Salvation reminded me of.

She was in the Wayne's World movies and starred in the show "Relic Hunter."

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000119/

Elephant Bottle Opener | Boing Boing Gadgets

If that's not just the most adorable thing...

Right here!

PC Connection - 42" 42PM4M HD-Capable Plasma Display

$500 for a 42" 1080P monitor? Yeah, that's gotta be a misprint...

It's a tie!

You are part Jasmine. You are loyal and would visit the ends of the earth for what you believe. You would never let obstacles stand in the way of true love.

You are part Pocahontas. You defy convention and sometimes do what is considered taboo. Unfortunately, others do not always appreciate your differences, so its good that you are so strong-willed. You are loyal and you believe in fate. Your true love will find you one day.

So I was daydreaming just now, and thought about how I would explain computers, the internet, and all that to someone from the middle ages, and not to sound patronizing to someone who may be smarter than you are, in spite of the time difference. I kind of got caught up with it, and here's what I came up with:

In the future, we discover a property known as electricity, a sort of miniature lightning, a spark which persists in metal and can be transmitted through drawn wire. Using these sparks, and their absence, we can create a system to codify information, like a grid of candles which, when snuffed in the right order, can spell out a word or make a simple picture. This binary code, named for the two simple states which can be occupied at any one time, has been standardised over the years, resulting in a complex mathematical method for encoding and transmitting any sort of information, using organizational tables and pre-approved registers to translate the pulses of sparks into whatever they might represent. Using a device called a transistor, we can create systems to approximate logical actions and decision-making in order both to store these tables in vast quantities and reference them very quickly. We call these machines computers.

The internet is simply a system of many such computers which use copper wire to send pulses to one another, enabling information to pass from one area to another quickly and efficiently, without any message being physically transported. By transmitting many images with small differences and displaying them one after the other, we can trick the eye into seeing fluid motion on what appears to be a moving picture. This process is freely and easily available to anyone and, like any trade, transmitting moving pictures attracts many competitors. The best-known and most widely used is called YouTube.

And we use it to watch cats jacking off.

Awesome.

YouTube - Cencoroll 2nd Trailer 2009

This looks so cool. Holy cow, it looks like FLCL done right. Bad. Ass.

You've been there!

Hear me out here: I'm not one of those weirdos who think that the world's gonna end any day, or even one of those weirdos who think that nuclear proliferation is bad (we can talk about that later). I just think that it would be a cool place to hang out, like a really deep basement/rec room with integrated cooking and bathroom facilities. Maybe I really just want a full-sized basement with a kitchen and bathroom attached...

Which Disney Princess Are You?

You are Belle. You are strong, deep, and you are not a slave to petty superficial things. You are independent and allow yourself to see inner beauty without sacrificing your values. You are almost too good of a person.

I can't believe we (at least I) didn't know about this!

An Engineer's Guide to Cats

Just wow...

I love buying things off the interwebz. It's much cheaper than real life, I don't have to go anywhere, and best of all? I don't have to talk to a single person. The only drawback is shipping. To start off, there seems to be a base price of about $5, which is fine for most things, but when the thing you are trying to buy is a few dollars, it makes it seem like an exuberant amount. The other problem is, if the item you are trying to buy is too small to send UPS, it takes much longer to get. The pros do outweigh the cons, but I'm not sure enough. I guess there are some things that just make more sense to go out and purchase, as opposed to buy from home.

Which Disney Princess Are You?
	You are Pocahontas. You defy convention and sometimes do what is considered taboo. Unfortunately, others do not always appreciate your differences, so it's good that you are so strong-willed. You are loyal and you believe in fate. Your true love will find you one day.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

BrainFall.com - Result - Which Disney Princess Are You?

Modern Pied Piper Cheats Death - CBS News

Wait, didn't the Pied Piper KIDNAP the children?

The Subway Dogs of Moscow - Neatorama

That's right, this is so cute it made me use a Japanese emoticon. And I HATE Japanese emoticons.

I'm at dennys, and there out of milk, letuce, waffles, milkshakes, how can they consduct business

Someone shoot me please... I don't know why people even consider putting this on the news... why even give this a two second fame on national tv that it doesn't deserve.

Chesus or upside down penis? (previous)

Chesus or Fail? (today's news)

Yup. Earthquake. I tried to send a text message literally right after it happened, but the cell network was too jammed.

Afghanistan's only pig in quarantine - Boing Boing

One pig?! How can you have ONE pig?! Man, China gives really crappy gifts.

I've been thinking a lot about writing a book, and I have a few good ideas, but I think it would be better to get a graduate degree, before I try to publish, for credibility purposes. Does anybody know anything about the process of getting a book published? Also how many "pages" on MS word would be equivalent to a 250-300 page book? What do you guys think? As Sheldon put it, "Pleased to meet you Dr. Gablehoueser, how fortunate for you that the university has chosen to hire you despite the fact that you have done no original research in 25 years, and instead have written a series of popular books that have reduced the great concepts of science to a series of anecdotes each one dumbed down to accommodate the duration of the average bowel movement. Ma-halo"

Hitachi aiming for 5TB hdd by 2010

--Sam

I think this is what their kid will look like.

I was looking for material to present in class regarding Phonology and language acquisition. I thought this was the best way to learn English/Japanese, hee hee hee.

Thank you Gizmodo!

So I went out to White's Point earlier today, and there were like ten dolphins right off the shore! Isn't that awesome? It's pretty cool how many of them there are around here. One time I actually touched one while swimming off Torrance Beach.

Ben... Ken wants to borrow and watch Star Trek the next generation. He also wants me to watch it with him.

Yeah, internet is back, and crippling emo shit depression is mostly gone, so here I be! Expect a rash of comments as I catch up on the 100+ blog posts I have yet to read. New place, new attitude, new Jake! Everything's coming up Milhouse!

So walking to my dorm, this guy asks me for directions to the bookstore. I yell him I'm going that way and we starrt to chat. He's visiting from ucsb, ok weird. We continue to chat turns out he's from palos verdes! Isn't that strange?

I got a 104% on my astro midterm!

UMD-less PSP game. Thanks to steam, and now sony (if this goes well) we can be rid of optical media! Huzzah!

http://failblog.org/

You guys probably know about this site already but some of the stuff in here just crack me up so bad.

But I want this.

Haa haa, I found it funny that in the original Starwars movie Carrie Fisher was forced not to wear undergarments in the film because George said, "They do not wear underwear in space."

shazam....

Cause T-Rex reminds me of myself, more and more...

Cause T-Rex reminds me of myself, more and more...

--Sam

--Sam

Red, I remember you complaining about wanting to write a few weeks back. Do it I'm taking a writing class, and its so hard to get back into the proper groove. Do it!! Do it Now!

Sorry Lack of Sleep and an excess of research

Penguins

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

I think they just stab themselves from the frustration of using right handed scissors.

Ok so I downloaded the Rosetta Stone and the Japanese Language Kits, and I realized what it's all about. It throws vocab at you so you can get the gist of what's going on, instead of teaching you the grammer and other aspects of the language. It has no english translation and is difficult to understand which word means what. It seems good as a supplement but not as a primary source.

I was really excited for a second, until I read the caption. :(

 

 

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But He'd Really Prefer a Red Velvet Cupcake [Caption This]

via Gizmodo by matt buchanan on 4/21/09

Android's Cupcake has arrived at the Google campus—sadly not the software update, yet. [crazybob via Phandroid]

 

 

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

pictures for sad children

Yeah, that... That just about sums it up...

 

 

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Ugobe files for bankruptcy, Pleo facing extinction

via Engadget by Nilay Patel on 4/20/09

Looks like Pleo couldn't dodge that meteor -- everyone's favorite lovable robot dinosaur company Ugobe has laid off all its employees and filed for bankruptcy. That confirms a month of speculation that things were on the brink -- Ugobe's website has been up and down for a while, and a major supplier filed suit a couple weeks ago for nonpayment. There's a chance that some other toymaker will swoop in and pick up the pieces during the liquidation, but we wouldn't hold our breath -- Pleo owners, feel free to commiserate in the comments.

Painful bonus: Link your pics of the Pleo going extinct on our comment form here and we'll make a gallery. C'mon. You know you want to do it.

Gallery: Images of Pleo's extinction

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