Monday, December 31, 2007

Hardest Game ever



A complete Mario-ripoff...
If you want you can download the game here

Source: Snotr

Wedding Invitation

Jerusalem

Stuff You Didn't Know

For those into trivia...

And even more fun facts...

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)

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

Children are the future



Well... Children and the race of talking apes that will have come forth and enslaved them...

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Why we believe Americans are stupid.


I know these are exteme cases, but it's still kinda sad...

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.

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.

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.

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...

Two superhero movies I hadn't heard of yet

The first one, a parody featuring Will Smith, Hancock

The second one, Jumper. I didn't know what it was untill I saw the trailer, now I want to see it... My only fear is that it might be lacking on the story front, but it's got Samuel L. Jackson in it so that kinda compensates.

Garfield minus Garfield

Kinda sad...

The little PC that could...

An inventive way to fix a server

Should you upgrade to Vista?


This chart should help...

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

New Math

A video by Tom Lehrer, nice to recap substractions

Largest star

If you had any doubts about how insignificant our planet is, consider them gone

Monday, December 17, 2007

Dark Dungeons

For real?

On the one hand this seems extreme to be true, but then again...

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

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

The Dandelion Girl

This is one of my favourite short stories.
You can find it here

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.

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

15 Unfortunately Placed Ads

Here
Rest of the blog has some good stuff as well.

Pearls of wisdom

by Dave Barry

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)