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I cannot comprehend how the spoken word can be so dreadfully restrained in my throat while the virtual pen-and-ink of the keyboard can flow so freely.
More links, and then I think I'm done!
Happy Superbowl Day, for anyone who watches it. I honestly don't care about the sports, and I ain't sitting around, drinking beer and eating chips. Okay, I'm sitting around, on my computer, watching strange YouTube videos, eating beefsteak pies and drinking tea (and a little Dooley's a thank-you from my co-worker for working this last weekend). But there's a difference. :P
By the way, Beefsteak pies - I just realized something, packaging-wise. They come in a set of 6 in a flimsy plastic holder, and each individual pie is in a metal tin, but regardless of the method you use to cook them (microwave or oven) you remove the foil container. Isn't that just wasteful? I understand taking the metal out for the microwave, but why for the oven? (I'm also concerned that the pie will burst, spilling its goodness all over the cookiesheet, but I digress.)
- Yotsuba& a ball. I can't stop laughing, and the expression is priceless.
- Pumpkinhead advertising Raisin Bran. Brilliant XD
- Fan Video of Final Fantasy VI in anime form done in Full Metal Alchemist's style, even using "Ready Steady Go". S'alright.
- I much prefer seeing a Vocaloid perform the opera scene from FFVI. Sounds beautiful. (Yes, that's a computer.) :D
- The worst products from the Consumer Electronics Show, 2010. Check out the video of the "unbreakable" phone which gets a mention on the list here.
- First-Person Tetris is a great execution. Kinda feels like a Retro Sabotage. I got dizzy, though.
- Another game I enjoyed but couldn't finish was Tuper Tario Tros, a mash-up of Tetris and Super Mario Bros. It's a crazy execution but they make it work.
- Walkie Tonky, I really like for the art aesthetic. It's a simple grab-and-throw type game with a lumbering robot (which I likened to the Iron Giant) while everything around you is trying to take you down. It's fun :D
- Flood the Chamber is a bit infuriating. But I like the concept of being able to see everything laid out in front of you. I also like that you can "QuickPlay" the game right on GameJolt without having to download, unzip, and run the program itself.
- Projecting a 3D image onto a building to give the illusion of something not physically there, or even in some cases to give the illusion of the building moving. I like this! The technology behind it looks great :D
- The Case of the 500-Mile email. This will be amusing to IT techs. ^^
- Ever heard of the Something Store? For $10 (and yes, they ship to Canada) they'll send you something. What that something is, who knows? (Though, I do notice that they haven't updated their blog for a couple of weeks.)
- Wondering how Google scans their books, and with such speed and precision? here's an article on the process, as well as a few other processes that are being used. It still requires turning pages, sadly ;)
- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. That's apparently a real sentence. The English language is weird.
- If you've got a Canon camera, you can upgrade it with a soft hack to ake it even more powerful. I've got a FujiFilm, but I wanted to pass this along.
- I feel like I've mentioned this before. A printer that uses your used coffee grounds as "printer ink" - and you do the back-and-forth as well to save even more energy. Neat concept, but I wonder if it'll ever make it to market?
- Oh Gawd. This can't be real. Did someone really get a Tattoo like the one referenced in The Whitest Kids You Know?
- You know what's started to irk me? When swordplay in a movie draws a blade across a body and there's the sound like it was hitting Wolverine's Adamantium frame rather than bone. Granted, it'd probably squick people more if it was a wet, squishy noise, but bone does not sound like metal. You'd think there would be a better alternative.
- Speaking of Squick, I found out through TV Tropes that it may have originated in the Whedonverse.
- This is a pretty old piece, but check out this article - or namely, the comments - on this Cheezus Christ.
- New XBox 360 Ads in Japan. It's like the robots are taking over.
- Skittles Vodka? Tempting!
I also got an interesting comment recently - "You're weird, but your weirdness brings deliciousness" :D I like it! I need a slogan at some point...
More links, and then I think I'm done!
Happy Superbowl Day, for anyone who watches it. I honestly don't care about the sports, and I ain't sitting around, drinking beer and eating chips. Okay, I'm sitting around, on my computer, watching strange YouTube videos, eating beefsteak pies and drinking tea (and a little Dooley's a thank-you from my co-worker for working this last weekend). But there's a difference. :P
By the way, Beefsteak pies - I just realized something, packaging-wise. They come in a set of 6 in a flimsy plastic holder, and each individual pie is in a metal tin, but regardless of the method you use to cook them (microwave or oven) you remove the foil container. Isn't that just wasteful? I understand taking the metal out for the microwave, but why for the oven? (I'm also concerned that the pie will burst, spilling its goodness all over the cookiesheet, but I digress.)
- Yotsuba& a ball. I can't stop laughing, and the expression is priceless.
- Pumpkinhead advertising Raisin Bran. Brilliant XD
- Fan Video of Final Fantasy VI in anime form done in Full Metal Alchemist's style, even using "Ready Steady Go". S'alright.
- I much prefer seeing a Vocaloid perform the opera scene from FFVI. Sounds beautiful. (Yes, that's a computer.) :D
- The worst products from the Consumer Electronics Show, 2010. Check out the video of the "unbreakable" phone which gets a mention on the list here.
- First-Person Tetris is a great execution. Kinda feels like a Retro Sabotage. I got dizzy, though.
- Another game I enjoyed but couldn't finish was Tuper Tario Tros, a mash-up of Tetris and Super Mario Bros. It's a crazy execution but they make it work.
- Walkie Tonky, I really like for the art aesthetic. It's a simple grab-and-throw type game with a lumbering robot (which I likened to the Iron Giant) while everything around you is trying to take you down. It's fun :D
- Flood the Chamber is a bit infuriating. But I like the concept of being able to see everything laid out in front of you. I also like that you can "QuickPlay" the game right on GameJolt without having to download, unzip, and run the program itself.
- Projecting a 3D image onto a building to give the illusion of something not physically there, or even in some cases to give the illusion of the building moving. I like this! The technology behind it looks great :D
- The Case of the 500-Mile email. This will be amusing to IT techs. ^^
- Ever heard of the Something Store? For $10 (and yes, they ship to Canada) they'll send you something. What that something is, who knows? (Though, I do notice that they haven't updated their blog for a couple of weeks.)
- Wondering how Google scans their books, and with such speed and precision? here's an article on the process, as well as a few other processes that are being used. It still requires turning pages, sadly ;)
- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. That's apparently a real sentence. The English language is weird.
- If you've got a Canon camera, you can upgrade it with a soft hack to ake it even more powerful. I've got a FujiFilm, but I wanted to pass this along.
- I feel like I've mentioned this before. A printer that uses your used coffee grounds as "printer ink" - and you do the back-and-forth as well to save even more energy. Neat concept, but I wonder if it'll ever make it to market?
- Oh Gawd. This can't be real. Did someone really get a Tattoo like the one referenced in The Whitest Kids You Know?
- You know what's started to irk me? When swordplay in a movie draws a blade across a body and there's the sound like it was hitting Wolverine's Adamantium frame rather than bone. Granted, it'd probably squick people more if it was a wet, squishy noise, but bone does not sound like metal. You'd think there would be a better alternative.
- Speaking of Squick, I found out through TV Tropes that it may have originated in the Whedonverse.
- This is a pretty old piece, but check out this article - or namely, the comments - on this Cheezus Christ.
- New XBox 360 Ads in Japan. It's like the robots are taking over.
- Skittles Vodka? Tempting!
I also got an interesting comment recently - "You're weird, but your weirdness brings deliciousness" :D I like it! I need a slogan at some point...
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Tell me more about this fascinating thought. :X
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My speech patterns, on the other hand, are simple. I don't really speak that eloquently and I would never use "eloquently" in conversation except when I'm typing. In a similar vein, I find that I can't describe things verbally without some kind of visual aid, whether it be a diagram or something on a computer screen.
There was a time that ICQ did "realtime chatting" where you could see everything the person wrote in realime - actually, that's very similar to watching a person write in Google Wave/Google Docs. It was kinda mesemerizing, since you could see their every pause and correction.
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I think a lot of people are more comfortable communicating online, because the social and temporal pressures are both off.... But what made the thought occur to you?
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I'm not exactly sure what brought it about - I found it in one of my many e-mails to myself and I only dropped it into one of my posts recently. The only thing that can think is that I must have had a time at work when I had to pull out a sheet of paper to describe how our servers operate. I thought it was simple enough to describe alone, but it's obviously more complex than it looks...
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