Monday, December 31, 2007
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It...
Due to the nature of the content of this site, I feel I should help get this known.
Friday, December 28, 2007
The Universe
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Jack Bauer
Personally not a big fan of 24, but still funny
1. Jack doesn't believe in Murphy's Law, only Bauer's Law: "Whatever CAN go wrong, WILL be resolved in a period of 24 hours."
2. If everyone on "24" followed Jack Bauer's instructions, it would be called "12".
3. Jack Bauer could strangle you with a cordless phone.
4. Someone tried to tell Jack Bauer a "knock knock" joke. Jack Bauer found out who was there, who they worked for, and where the damn bomb was.
5. Killing Jack Bauer doesn't make him dead. It just makes him angry.
6. Upon hearing that he was played by Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauer killed Sutherland. Jack Bauer gets played by no man.
7. "You don't know Jack!" is a blessing among terrorists.
8. Jack Bauer sleeps with a pillow under his gun.
9. Jack Bauer once took a whole vial of sleeping pills. It made him blink.
10. When someone asks him how his day is going, Jack replies, "Previously, on 24..."
11. In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What the hell have you done with your life?
12. Jack Bauer never retreats, he just attacks in the opposite direction.
Source: Wiki Man Code
1. Jack doesn't believe in Murphy's Law, only Bauer's Law: "Whatever CAN go wrong, WILL be resolved in a period of 24 hours."
2. If everyone on "24" followed Jack Bauer's instructions, it would be called "12".
3. Jack Bauer could strangle you with a cordless phone.
4. Someone tried to tell Jack Bauer a "knock knock" joke. Jack Bauer found out who was there, who they worked for, and where the damn bomb was.
5. Killing Jack Bauer doesn't make him dead. It just makes him angry.
6. Upon hearing that he was played by Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauer killed Sutherland. Jack Bauer gets played by no man.
7. "You don't know Jack!" is a blessing among terrorists.
8. Jack Bauer sleeps with a pillow under his gun.
9. Jack Bauer once took a whole vial of sleeping pills. It made him blink.
10. When someone asks him how his day is going, Jack replies, "Previously, on 24..."
11. In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What the hell have you done with your life?
12. Jack Bauer never retreats, he just attacks in the opposite direction.
Source: Wiki Man Code
Children are the future
Well... Children and the race of talking apes that will have come forth and enslaved them...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Saturday, December 22, 2007
What DnD character are you?
I've done a lot of these, but I've never found that calculated ability scores and level like this one.
I Am A: Lawful Good Human Sorcerer (3rd Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-11
Dexterity-13
Constitution-12
Intelligence-16
Wisdom-14
Charisma-12
For some reason I'm always Lawful Good in these things. But on top of that I'm a crappy sorcerer. (Cha 12? That's great... So I can cast lvl 2 spells? good that I'm only lvl 3 then...)
Take the test here
If you do take it, post your results in the comments. I'm curious to see what other people get out of this thing.
I Am A: Lawful Good Human Sorcerer (3rd Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-11
Dexterity-13
Constitution-12
Intelligence-16
Wisdom-14
Charisma-12
For some reason I'm always Lawful Good in these things. But on top of that I'm a crappy sorcerer. (Cha 12? That's great... So I can cast lvl 2 spells? good that I'm only lvl 3 then...)
Take the test here
If you do take it, post your results in the comments. I'm curious to see what other people get out of this thing.
SequentialArt
I discovered this comic through Thread of balance. (I've added this link to a new links section on the right, it's a blog owned by a friend of mine)And it's definitely worth a read. I haven't gotten too far in the archives yet but there's some funny stuff in there. High cuteness and furry-factor though. So stop wasting your time here and go read it!
Friday, December 21, 2007
Programming comments
For those of you who are not all to familair with programming, when you write a program, a script,... you can add comment lines that don't count towards the program. These comment lines help people understand your program.
For example:
#This is where this program connects to the database
or
#This is where the user inputs data
When you use programs you'll never see any of these comments, they are well hidden deep inside a script.
That was untill google started crawling through source code and the end result was this.
For example:
#This is where this program connects to the database
or
#This is where the user inputs data
When you use programs you'll never see any of these comments, they are well hidden deep inside a script.
That was untill google started crawling through source code and the end result was this.
Speed up your Firefox
I just found this while stumbling around and I must say I can tell the difference. According to this site. Firefox is optimized for Dail-Up. But it includes a pipelining feature, which is disabled by default. If you activate it firefox will load in several things at once, instead of picture per picture. This puts a bit more strain on your connection but if you're on broadband it should be much different. (I'm not an expert on this field, just saying what the site says)
This is how you activate it:
* Type “about:config” into the adress bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
* Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
* Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
* Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
* Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0? (I think this is just a zero, the ? is probably a typo). This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
I'm still trying it out, seeing if my pc doesn't explode or something. But I have noticed that Firefox does indeed load pages faster.
Again: not me, got it from here.
This is how you activate it:
* Type “about:config” into the adress bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
* Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
* Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
* Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
* Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0? (I think this is just a zero, the ? is probably a typo). This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
I'm still trying it out, seeing if my pc doesn't explode or something. But I have noticed that Firefox does indeed load pages faster.
Again: not me, got it from here.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Cloverfield
I think if I could only see one movie in 2008, it would be this one. Just to see if it lived up to the hype that it's been building, and the trailers are spectacular to say the least.
Apple has the teaser and the new trailer, if you haven't seen anything yet I suggest you start with the teaser...
Apple has the teaser and the new trailer, if you haven't seen anything yet I suggest you start with the teaser...
Two superhero movies I hadn't heard of yet
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Technology/Science
It is never wise to let a piece of electronic equipment know that you are in a hurry.
The repairman will have never seen a model quite like yours before
To error is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The more knowledge you gained, the less certain you are of it.
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of temperature, humidity, pressure, etc., the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Given any system n linear equations, there will be n+1 unknowns
The repairman will have never seen a model quite like yours before
To error is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The more knowledge you gained, the less certain you are of it.
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of temperature, humidity, pressure, etc., the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Given any system n linear equations, there will be n+1 unknowns
Friday, December 14, 2007
Joke
A new teacher was trying to make use of her psychology courses. She started her class by saying, "Everyone who thinks you're stupid, stand up!"
After a few seconds, Little Johnny stood up. The teacher said, "Do you think you're stupid, Little Johnny?"
"No, ma'am, but I hate to see you standing there all by yourself!"
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Demon Gates
Yesterday my roleplay group continued with an ongoing campaign in which we, valiant adventurers, have to travel across the land to close demon gates. It's your standard dnd campaign but it's one of my favourite campaigns.
I think this campaign is one of the few times were I, as a player, was actually stunned by certain events. In the near future I may plan to post the background of my character.
The thing is that my character is trying to figure out what is going on, because we have very little information about these gates, or the history to our world.
In the interest of me trying to figure it out, and not forget any of the clues that I've managed to find, I'm going to put down some of them here:
Long ago there were multiple gods in the world, now there's only one left.
At some point in time, a request was made to the wizard Ishtara, to help with the conflict against the orcs. But Ishtara betrayed them and they tried to kill her.
Ishtara at some point opened some, if not all of the demon gates.
Ishtara is the last of her race, her people once fought with the people of this world and against the gods of this world. Her race looks very similar to elfs, but with different ears.
Ishtara is now known as Lydia. She hasn't aged a bit for a few thousand of years. She is helping the party to, at the moment, close the demon gates. The armor she has given the party looks like the same armor that her people used to wear. Despite the fact that she is evil, none of her actions have confirmed it (other than her sometimes violent temper and the fact she rides a nightmare). She's extremely powerful but will not directly help the party unless we do something for her.
Demons are now using the demon gates to come into the world. And that's why we're closing them.
This is everything that I've been able to scrape together over an amount of sessions. My character has now had to make several promises that he would not continue his investigation into Ishtara.
I think this campaign is one of the few times were I, as a player, was actually stunned by certain events. In the near future I may plan to post the background of my character.
The thing is that my character is trying to figure out what is going on, because we have very little information about these gates, or the history to our world.
In the interest of me trying to figure it out, and not forget any of the clues that I've managed to find, I'm going to put down some of them here:
Long ago there were multiple gods in the world, now there's only one left.
At some point in time, a request was made to the wizard Ishtara, to help with the conflict against the orcs. But Ishtara betrayed them and they tried to kill her.
Ishtara at some point opened some, if not all of the demon gates.
Ishtara is the last of her race, her people once fought with the people of this world and against the gods of this world. Her race looks very similar to elfs, but with different ears.
Ishtara is now known as Lydia. She hasn't aged a bit for a few thousand of years. She is helping the party to, at the moment, close the demon gates. The armor she has given the party looks like the same armor that her people used to wear. Despite the fact that she is evil, none of her actions have confirmed it (other than her sometimes violent temper and the fact she rides a nightmare). She's extremely powerful but will not directly help the party unless we do something for her.
Demons are now using the demon gates to come into the world. And that's why we're closing them.
This is everything that I've been able to scrape together over an amount of sessions. My character has now had to make several promises that he would not continue his investigation into Ishtara.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The Last Question
I found this short story online by Isaac Asimov, I'd already read it a few years ago but felt like reading it again. After reading the ending, I remembered why I liked Isaac Asimov's stories. So definitely worth a read, even if you've already read it.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Saturday, December 1, 2007
The campaign continues
Yesterday was the second session of my new D&D campaign.
The heroes had just found a lost city of giants , living in solitude underground for several thousands of years. They are taken to the giant king, who explains that his people have hidden themselves, awaiting prophecy and the one they call the 'world shaper'. But they might soon become discovered. Some of their youths went on a coming of age quest to the nearby temple of Maitri and they still haven't returned.
Determined that these youths are the ogres attacking the village, the heroes set out to stop them. They journey to the temple and confront the ogres in combat. They kill them but are now themselves trapped in the ceremony, unable to leave it until it is complete. They journey through caves to find the guardian who must part words of wisdom to complete the ceremony. But they find the guardian missing and an evil looking frost salamander in his place. They manage to defeat it and find a gem hidden in the carcass. The gem has strange magical properties.
The heroes head back to the giants to tell them of the unfortunate fates of their youths. For some reason the dwarven cleric accompanying them has vanished while they slept in the giant stronghold. They move on to the village of Smallbank to sell their spoils of war. After selling the mysterious gem to the local magic shop, they receive a new companion, a favored soul to compensate for the loss of their cleric. A loud bang is heard and when the heroes rush to the scene, the magic shop is destroyed and the frost salamander has returned. They defeat it yet again and again find the gem hidden in its body. They decide to take the gem back to the temple and seal it in. After that they move on, making a promise to the mayor of Smallbank to investigate a missing caravan due from Stonedelve.
Arriving in Stonedelve, they learn that their mine has been taken over by formains and this has stopped production. Without further inquiry, they head to the mine to find the formians. While meeting with the guards, trying to speak to their leader, they are attacked by a hidden sniper. The formains attack and combat ensues. They kill the sniper and calm the formains down. They are then taken to the queen. The queen accuses them of being fools. No dwarf has entered this mine in over 500 years. They've been tricked and played. The queen also imparts a dire warning in the form of a prophecy.
Meanwhile the dilettante follows the snipers tracks and finds a bandit camp, who have captured the children of Stonedelve. The heroes return to the village, demanding an explanation. The major tells them that the bandits have taken their children and they were told to get rid of the heroes. The bandits have raided the village of everything and are forcing the dwarfs to make a large quantity of tools. The tools are then shipped north. The heroes leave to village and attack the bandit camp night. They manage to rescue the children, but find no trace of the village wealth. The only clue they do find is a letter...
Unanswered questions:
Why is part of the woods near Treeshine and Stonedelve evil?
What happened to the guardian of the temple of Maitri?
Why did the giant's youths turn into ogres?
What is the mysterious gem and how is it linked to the salamander and the rest of the plot?
Who was the false witness plotting the villages against each other? And for what reason?
Why is it so important that the giants remain hidden?
What was the great war that the giants talked about?
What happened to the dwarven cleric?
Why does everyone in the party dream of the sound of war drums every night?
Why were the bandits near Stonedelve shipping tools north?
Who were they working for?
What is in the letter that the heroes found?
What does the prophecy mean given to the heroes by the formian queen?
What is the obsession that the giants have with gelatinous cubes?
Why are my PC's so content with bypassing any and all plot points? (sigh)
The heroes had just found a lost city of giants , living in solitude underground for several thousands of years. They are taken to the giant king, who explains that his people have hidden themselves, awaiting prophecy and the one they call the 'world shaper'. But they might soon become discovered. Some of their youths went on a coming of age quest to the nearby temple of Maitri and they still haven't returned.
Determined that these youths are the ogres attacking the village, the heroes set out to stop them. They journey to the temple and confront the ogres in combat. They kill them but are now themselves trapped in the ceremony, unable to leave it until it is complete. They journey through caves to find the guardian who must part words of wisdom to complete the ceremony. But they find the guardian missing and an evil looking frost salamander in his place. They manage to defeat it and find a gem hidden in the carcass. The gem has strange magical properties.
The heroes head back to the giants to tell them of the unfortunate fates of their youths. For some reason the dwarven cleric accompanying them has vanished while they slept in the giant stronghold. They move on to the village of Smallbank to sell their spoils of war. After selling the mysterious gem to the local magic shop, they receive a new companion, a favored soul to compensate for the loss of their cleric. A loud bang is heard and when the heroes rush to the scene, the magic shop is destroyed and the frost salamander has returned. They defeat it yet again and again find the gem hidden in its body. They decide to take the gem back to the temple and seal it in. After that they move on, making a promise to the mayor of Smallbank to investigate a missing caravan due from Stonedelve.
Arriving in Stonedelve, they learn that their mine has been taken over by formains and this has stopped production. Without further inquiry, they head to the mine to find the formians. While meeting with the guards, trying to speak to their leader, they are attacked by a hidden sniper. The formains attack and combat ensues. They kill the sniper and calm the formains down. They are then taken to the queen. The queen accuses them of being fools. No dwarf has entered this mine in over 500 years. They've been tricked and played. The queen also imparts a dire warning in the form of a prophecy.
Meanwhile the dilettante follows the snipers tracks and finds a bandit camp, who have captured the children of Stonedelve. The heroes return to the village, demanding an explanation. The major tells them that the bandits have taken their children and they were told to get rid of the heroes. The bandits have raided the village of everything and are forcing the dwarfs to make a large quantity of tools. The tools are then shipped north. The heroes leave to village and attack the bandit camp night. They manage to rescue the children, but find no trace of the village wealth. The only clue they do find is a letter...
Unanswered questions:
Why is part of the woods near Treeshine and Stonedelve evil?
What happened to the guardian of the temple of Maitri?
Why did the giant's youths turn into ogres?
What is the mysterious gem and how is it linked to the salamander and the rest of the plot?
Who was the false witness plotting the villages against each other? And for what reason?
Why is it so important that the giants remain hidden?
What was the great war that the giants talked about?
What happened to the dwarven cleric?
Why does everyone in the party dream of the sound of war drums every night?
Why were the bandits near Stonedelve shipping tools north?
Who were they working for?
What is in the letter that the heroes found?
What does the prophecy mean given to the heroes by the formian queen?
What is the obsession that the giants have with gelatinous cubes?
Why are my PC's so content with bypassing any and all plot points? (sigh)
Thursday, November 29, 2007
AvP: Requiem
Just found out that there's a sequel to AvP.
Saw a few trailers:
Two here
One here
I enjoyed the last one, which is probably better than the movie itself (I like the counting).
It seems that this movie is going to be quite loyal to the video game. (despite the fact that it occurs in the present day). And will probably be very violent is you believe the trailer.
Saw a few trailers:
Two here
One here
I enjoyed the last one, which is probably better than the movie itself (I like the counting).
It seems that this movie is going to be quite loyal to the video game. (despite the fact that it occurs in the present day). And will probably be very violent is you believe the trailer.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
Joke: The Programmer's game
A Programmer and an Engineer are sitting next to each other on a long flight from LA to NY. The Programmer leans over to the Engineer and asks if he would like to play a fun game. The Engineer just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks. The Programmer persists and explains that the game is real easy and a lotta fun.
He explains "I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5. Then you ask me a question, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay you $5". Again, the Engineer politely declines and tries to get to sleep.
The Programmer, now somewhat agitated, says, "OK, if you don't know the answer you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay you $50!".
This catches the Engineer's attention, and he sees no end to this torment unless he plays, so he agrees to the game. The Programmer asks the first question "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?"
The Engineer doesn't say a word, but reaches into his wallet, pulls out a five dollar bill and hands it to the Programmer.
Now, it's the Engineer's turn. He asks the Programmer "What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down on four?"
The Programmer looks up at him with a puzzled look He takes out his laptop computer and searches all of his references. He taps into the Airphone with his modem and searches the net and the Library of Congress.
Frustrated, he sends e-mail to his co-workers -- all to no avail. After about an hour, he wakes the Engineer and hands him $50.
The Engineer politely takes the $50 and turns away to try to get back to sleep. The Programmer, more than a little miffed, shakes the Engineer and asks "Well, so what's the answer?"
Without a word, the Engineer reaches into his wallet, hands the Programmer $5, and turns away to get back to sleep.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Nova, string theory
If you ever wondered one of the following questions:
What is string theory?
Who would win in a fight between gravity and a magnet?
What is the fourth dimension?
Are wormholes real or fiction?
Does God play dice?
Then you should watch this
What is string theory?
Who would win in a fight between gravity and a magnet?
What is the fourth dimension?
Are wormholes real or fiction?
Does God play dice?
Then you should watch this
Quotes can be scary
The world has scores of superpowerful particle accelerators. Last
year, a fireball created at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in
Upton, New York, had the characteristics of a black hole. Physicists
are reasonably sure that no such black holes could escape and consume
Earth
Reasonably.
year, a fireball created at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in
Upton, New York, had the characteristics of a black hole. Physicists
are reasonably sure that no such black holes could escape and consume
Earth
Reasonably.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
WereGeek
There's a lot of webcomics out there, not all of them good. I've got maybe twenty or so bookmarked, of which about five that I actually enjoy reading from time to time. (Rest is for when I get bored, or ones that I haven't deleted).
I accidently stumbled across Weregeek the other day and I must say, I'm enjoying it. I've always enjoyed dnd-based comics (Order of the Stick, Dm of the Rings, Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic,...). Weregeek is probably newer than most of these (not by much though), but I'm enjoying reading through the archives so far.
I accidently stumbled across Weregeek the other day and I must say, I'm enjoying it. I've always enjoyed dnd-based comics (Order of the Stick, Dm of the Rings, Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic,...). Weregeek is probably newer than most of these (not by much though), but I'm enjoying reading through the archives so far.
Friday, November 16, 2007
New Quote
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
- No idea
- No idea
The new Star Trek movie
Usually I won't do rants like these, I find it kind of a waste of space (as if anyone wants to hear my opinion about something) but I'm gonna make an exception here.
Contains minor spoilers, read at your own risk.
Today I stumbled upon a short spoiler summary of what the new Star Trek movie is going to be about.
I had mixed feelings about this movie. On the one hand you have an amazing cast like Simon Pegg, etc. On the other hand Star Trek movies & prequels have a tendencies to be kinda bad or mediocre at best. (The exceptional few movies has been really good, but none in the past 10 years). But then you have JJ Abrams there, so that increases the odds of it being good (or so I thought).
I was hoping that they learned their lesson from Enterprise when it comes to prequels (especially the first few seasons). Then I read online that the plot of the new movie was going to contain... time travel. I was stunned, I had expected much better from the people behind this movie. The plot I understand it is going to be someone in the future coming back to change the past. Wow, that's never been done before... especially in star trek movies or attempted prequels (in my mind prequels don't include time travel, the only purpose being that you can include a bunch of stuff that still has to happen, which kinda defeats the point, aka Enterprise...).
I hope there's a twist or something to make it good. Time travel is a hard thing to pull off, very hard. You're more likely to screw it up.
No good plot line has ever come from someone going back in time to stop something, there has to be much more to it. The best ones deal with how you can't change the past. Or you use time travel as a gimick (the best example I can think off right now is the episode 'Blink' of Doctor Who, absolutely brilliant use of time travel).
I hope the spoiler I read was wrong, because I'm not even sure I want to see this movie. It's probably gonna be a predictable been done a hunderd times time travel story line, and then there's gonna be a few obscure references to things which only the die hard star trek fan will understand. The great line of actors will be caught in their rolls, no chance to add something new or unique because most of them (except the two or three main characters) won't appear for more than two minutes.
Sorry for the rant, won't do it again
Contains minor spoilers, read at your own risk.
Today I stumbled upon a short spoiler summary of what the new Star Trek movie is going to be about.
I had mixed feelings about this movie. On the one hand you have an amazing cast like Simon Pegg, etc. On the other hand Star Trek movies & prequels have a tendencies to be kinda bad or mediocre at best. (The exceptional few movies has been really good, but none in the past 10 years). But then you have JJ Abrams there, so that increases the odds of it being good (or so I thought).
I was hoping that they learned their lesson from Enterprise when it comes to prequels (especially the first few seasons). Then I read online that the plot of the new movie was going to contain... time travel. I was stunned, I had expected much better from the people behind this movie. The plot I understand it is going to be someone in the future coming back to change the past. Wow, that's never been done before... especially in star trek movies or attempted prequels (in my mind prequels don't include time travel, the only purpose being that you can include a bunch of stuff that still has to happen, which kinda defeats the point, aka Enterprise...).
I hope there's a twist or something to make it good. Time travel is a hard thing to pull off, very hard. You're more likely to screw it up.
No good plot line has ever come from someone going back in time to stop something, there has to be much more to it. The best ones deal with how you can't change the past. Or you use time travel as a gimick (the best example I can think off right now is the episode 'Blink' of Doctor Who, absolutely brilliant use of time travel).
I hope the spoiler I read was wrong, because I'm not even sure I want to see this movie. It's probably gonna be a predictable been done a hunderd times time travel story line, and then there's gonna be a few obscure references to things which only the die hard star trek fan will understand. The great line of actors will be caught in their rolls, no chance to add something new or unique because most of them (except the two or three main characters) won't appear for more than two minutes.
Sorry for the rant, won't do it again
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Illusion
Look at this picture here
First look at the picture in general, you'll see a green dot moving
Then look at the moving dot, it will disappear
The look at the cross in the center, now everything is gone except the moving green dot.
Strange, isn't it?
Source: Newscientist
More: Wikipedia, seriously what isn't wikipedia good for?
First look at the picture in general, you'll see a green dot moving
Then look at the moving dot, it will disappear
The look at the cross in the center, now everything is gone except the moving green dot.
Strange, isn't it?
Source: Newscientist
More: Wikipedia, seriously what isn't wikipedia good for?
Saturday, November 3, 2007
New campaign
Yesterday was the first session of a new dnd campaign that I'm running.
Everybody seems to have made a sport of playing the strangest character classes which they could find and now we're lacking an (decent) arcane caster. We have a swashbucling pirate, a very specialized shapeshifting druid, a dilletant (whose key asset at the moment is his saves), a duskblade speciallizing in geography, then a cleric and a rogue.
The world that they're playing on is home grown. I still have to come up with a name for it. It's basicly a world where evil has been erradicated long ago. At first there was the great nation of Devalon which covered a significant part of the world. But after the king dissappeared, some of the more distant cities severed all ties, forming the nation of Katarna. Since then tensions has been rising between the two great nations.
Our heroes began on various different places but all met with an untimely death in the first few moments of the session. However shortly after they woke up again near the towns of Smallbank and Treeshine on the border between Devalon and Katarna. They soon find out that strange things have been happening in this area and random attacks are taking place on nearby farms. When a witness steps forward in Smallbank who claims to have witnessed that the elves of Treeshine are behind the attacks, the town starts gathering weapons. Determined to stop a war, the heroes set out to investigate. After finding some strange ruins in the area, they head out to Treeshine. In Treeshine they discover that a witness there has claimed that the people of Smallbank are behind the atrocities and that there too they are readying for war. Now our heroes are sure that a third party is involved, whose bent on starting a war in this area. This all coincides with the discovery of an area of forest where everything has turned evil, a sight unseen for thousands of years. The session ended with the investigation of ancient crypts. Legends surround these abandoned crypts, and some claim that the recent events can be traced back to them. After navigating several traps and discovering an unorthodox transportation system, the heroes find themselves in a hidden underground giant city, a race unseen for millennia.
Everybody seems to have made a sport of playing the strangest character classes which they could find and now we're lacking an (decent) arcane caster. We have a swashbucling pirate, a very specialized shapeshifting druid, a dilletant (whose key asset at the moment is his saves), a duskblade speciallizing in geography, then a cleric and a rogue.
The world that they're playing on is home grown. I still have to come up with a name for it. It's basicly a world where evil has been erradicated long ago. At first there was the great nation of Devalon which covered a significant part of the world. But after the king dissappeared, some of the more distant cities severed all ties, forming the nation of Katarna. Since then tensions has been rising between the two great nations.
Our heroes began on various different places but all met with an untimely death in the first few moments of the session. However shortly after they woke up again near the towns of Smallbank and Treeshine on the border between Devalon and Katarna. They soon find out that strange things have been happening in this area and random attacks are taking place on nearby farms. When a witness steps forward in Smallbank who claims to have witnessed that the elves of Treeshine are behind the attacks, the town starts gathering weapons. Determined to stop a war, the heroes set out to investigate. After finding some strange ruins in the area, they head out to Treeshine. In Treeshine they discover that a witness there has claimed that the people of Smallbank are behind the atrocities and that there too they are readying for war. Now our heroes are sure that a third party is involved, whose bent on starting a war in this area. This all coincides with the discovery of an area of forest where everything has turned evil, a sight unseen for thousands of years. The session ended with the investigation of ancient crypts. Legends surround these abandoned crypts, and some claim that the recent events can be traced back to them. After navigating several traps and discovering an unorthodox transportation system, the heroes find themselves in a hidden underground giant city, a race unseen for millennia.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Full Frontal Nerdity
I smiled at this weeks Full Frontal Nerdity, I liked the Saw reference they used as a halloween comic.
I kinda liked the Saw movies, I liked the concept and the twist at the end. (I've only seen the first two though)
View comic here
I kinda liked the Saw movies, I liked the concept and the twist at the end. (I've only seen the first two though)
View comic here
I'm a believer
I visit quite a few sites regulary and some of them include cool links that they found online. One of them is the main site of Nodwick dot com. Most people I know just skip to the comics, but sometimes they miss out on some of the gems that these links hold.
Here's a link to a remix video of the song 'I'm a believer' which caught my eye. It has a great style and some nice artwork to accompany it.
You can see it on Yahoo video here
Here's a link to a remix video of the song 'I'm a believer' which caught my eye. It has a great style and some nice artwork to accompany it.
You can see it on Yahoo video here
Monday, October 29, 2007
Link of the *insert random time unit*
One of my many daily do's is checking up on the list of webcomics I've amased. Some are good, some are funny, some I wonder why I keep reading.
A while ago I stumbled upon Looking For Group. The creative team behind this comic is better known from the webcomic Least I Could Do. I had been following LICD for about a year now nad I must admit I was pleasantly uprised by it. At first glance it seems like your standard Gag-A-Day comic. But after reading it for a while, you notice that the characters actually have more depth than first expected. One of the boldest moves lately in LICD was announcing that they were going to let the chracters age and develop.
So I went into LFG with pretty high expectations and I wasn't let down. I can't really say anything about the plot as it's still devolping but some very memorable things have happened. The characters seem well-fleshed out, best examples being Cal, the good elf dealing with the fact that he should be evil en Richard, who is the origin of several one-liners such as, 'For Pony'.
Add this to the fact that they keep making references to some of my favourite fantasy books (such as wheel of time and sword of truth) and you get a pretty good comic.
The only downside is that they only update twice a week (which i can't blame them for it, a full page in colour takes time), this sometimes makes me forget what was happening.
Link:
http://www.lfgcomic.com/
A while ago I stumbled upon Looking For Group. The creative team behind this comic is better known from the webcomic Least I Could Do. I had been following LICD for about a year now nad I must admit I was pleasantly uprised by it. At first glance it seems like your standard Gag-A-Day comic. But after reading it for a while, you notice that the characters actually have more depth than first expected. One of the boldest moves lately in LICD was announcing that they were going to let the chracters age and develop.
So I went into LFG with pretty high expectations and I wasn't let down. I can't really say anything about the plot as it's still devolping but some very memorable things have happened. The characters seem well-fleshed out, best examples being Cal, the good elf dealing with the fact that he should be evil en Richard, who is the origin of several one-liners such as, 'For Pony'.
Add this to the fact that they keep making references to some of my favourite fantasy books (such as wheel of time and sword of truth) and you get a pretty good comic.
The only downside is that they only update twice a week (which i can't blame them for it, a full page in colour takes time), this sometimes makes me forget what was happening.
Link:
http://www.lfgcomic.com/
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Introduction
Welcome to the first post on my little blog-thingy-ish thing.
What can you expect from this blog:
Roleplay comments, everything from my latest campaign to how cool my newest character is.
Spelling mistakes, they be many and fruitful.
Interresting links, not all may be healthy for your sanity.
Stories, pen is mightier than the sword, in my case I don't stand a chance with either.
The art of the posting of pictures, I'm probably going to spare you the agony of my own drawings and just post some of other people and neglect to mention that they're not mine.
Various other stuffs, pretty much anything that strikes my fancy, which could in theory be a two week long lecture on the complex technique with which I flick rubber bands.
This is not my first blog, I used to have another one which died for two main reasons:
- Me being lazy and not feeling like posting.
- Me getting annoyed with the providor behind my blog, which kept changing the way it always the adding of pictures on a daily basis, forced me to post in Dutch and for some reason deleted some of my posts on a regular basis for some obscure censoring reason.
But I'm going to try to keep this one alive as long as possible, but there's a chance this blog is doomed for a slow and excruciating death.
What can you expect from this blog:
Roleplay comments, everything from my latest campaign to how cool my newest character is.
Spelling mistakes, they be many and fruitful.
Interresting links, not all may be healthy for your sanity.
Stories, pen is mightier than the sword, in my case I don't stand a chance with either.
The art of the posting of pictures, I'm probably going to spare you the agony of my own drawings and just post some of other people and neglect to mention that they're not mine.
Various other stuffs, pretty much anything that strikes my fancy, which could in theory be a two week long lecture on the complex technique with which I flick rubber bands.
This is not my first blog, I used to have another one which died for two main reasons:
- Me being lazy and not feeling like posting.
- Me getting annoyed with the providor behind my blog, which kept changing the way it always the adding of pictures on a daily basis, forced me to post in Dutch and for some reason deleted some of my posts on a regular basis for some obscure censoring reason.
But I'm going to try to keep this one alive as long as possible, but there's a chance this blog is doomed for a slow and excruciating death.
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