Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Just a quick article to tell you all you teenagers thinking… soon soon the torture of pimples will be gone – nope! They still like to raise there ugly head now and then well after puberty – either that or I’m going through a very long voice break process :\
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone’s probably already seen this trailer by now, but I’m looking forward to this movie and hoping it really doesn’t suck. Is it just me, or does it seem like Pirates of the Caribbean…in PERSIA!! ?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, career, cynical, job, Media, work on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is the height of cynicism!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged left 4 dead, twitter on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you’ve ever played Left 4 Dead, you’ll know about one of the protagonists, Francis. Well, now he’s on Twitter. And he hates EVERYTHING. Except vests. Go fig.
[Link: I hate Vans]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cat, lolcat, ninja, scary, stealthy on May 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So the Darling Wife handed me the first challenge last night. After we’d put the little ones to bed, she gave me an envelope with the challenge card in it. I was nervous. I opened the envelope and read the challenge out loud. “Some say that when you were younger, you used to be a halfway decent artist with your medium of choice: colored pencil. Some say that when gaming took up more time than you actually had available, this talent got lost in the megabiscuits and kilohorsefeathers that run through your console. Now’s your chance to prove whether gaming has had an effect on that particular talent or not. You have the rest of the evening until bed time to compose and color a picture. Finishing the picture doesn’t matter, what we’re looking for here is a comparison to see whether your skills with the pencils has deteriorated. You get points deducted for not coming up with something suitably imaginative.”
I received my pencils, paper, and sharpener, and left to my own devices. It actually took me a while to think of what to draw, and after the first hour, I barely had much on the page. But eventually I actually got into the swing of it and started to enjoy the process. I hadn’t enjoyed creating a drawing like this in years! I didn’t finish the drawing, but for comparison’s sake, here’s the unfinished drawing I did last night compared to one I did back in 1993 when I was at the height of my skill.
Back to the topic of addiction, a study has been released by the National Institute on Media in San Francisco about gaming addiction, and they compare video game addiction to compulsive gambling.
“The present study was designed to demonstrate whether pathological gaming is an issue that merits further attention,” Institute director and assistant professor of psychology Douglas Gentile wrote in the report.
“With almost one out of 10 youth gamers demonstrating real-world problems because of their gaming, we can conclude that it does.”
What’s particularly worrying is the kinds of behavior that the kids will indulge in just to get a gaming fix.
The most typical symptom was children skipping household chores in order to play videogames, the report indicates. [...] Girls were more likely than boys to try to cut back on videogame play to refocus on their home or school responsibilities, according to the research.
Some of the children said they lied to friends or family about how much they play videogames and a few even said they stole to get games or the money to buy them.
According to rumor, in Japan they’ve actually got a law in effect that forbids certain video games from being released on a weekday because of the dip it causes in work and school attendance (can anyone verify this??). Is this a sign of the times? Maybe Marx needs updating: video games is the new opiate of the masses.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby names, funny names, strange names, weird names on February 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Oh. My. God. This one had me *literally* laughing out loud. Seriously!
BBC has an article on The Most Unfortunate Names and it is hilarious. Imagine going through life with a name like Terry Bull or Paige Turner.
The comments section is half the fun. There’s people there named Daisy Picking, Albert Hall and Esther Mundey.
[Link: BBC.co.uk - 'Most unfortunate names' revealed but if you haven't had your fill of bad names, check this out: Baby's named a bad bad thing - the worst baby names ever!]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bill Compton, Charlainne Harris, Sookie Stackhouse, Southern Vampire Mysteries, True Blood on February 12, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s a bit odd when science tries to get involved in popular culture, because occasionally you’ll end up with this: an attempt to create an mp3 of the worst song ever. The song was engineered by Vitaly Komar, Aelx Melamid, and David Soldier to be as annoying to the majority of the population as can possibly be. How?
After gathering data about people’s least favorite music and lyrical subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to the maximum percentage of listeners. [...] (The) list of undesirable elements included holiday music, bagpipes, pipe organ, a children’s chorus and the concept of children in general (really?), Wal-Mart, cowboys, political jingoism, George Stephanopoulos, Coca Cola, bossanova synths, banjo ferocity, harp glissandos, oompah-ing tubas and much, much more.
I listened to it, and they were right. It’s repulsive. Fascinating, but definitely repulsive.
[Link: Wired blog - Scientific Attempt to Create Most Annoying Song Ever]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Surveys suggest functioning ovaries are fairly common in the
intersexed; pregnancy and birth don’t happen often, but they happen.
Functioning testes are rarer, but again not completely unknown.
Functioning ovaries and functioning testes, however, plus
functioning everything else — well, I suppose I can propose one
far-fetched scenario where it could possibly happen. But as a practical
matter: get out. Remember, the idea in intersexuality typically is that
you get a mix of male and female pieces. You don’t get two complete
sets.
He eventually comes to a scenario considering how a single person can impregnate themselves. Check it out…it’s weird.
[Link: The Straight Dope - Can hermaphrodites get themselves pregnant?]
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