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06:52 pm
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I am the sheep-rus, coo coo ca joo?
Bleat.
Opening Credits: Oomph! - Tief In Dir ( I lose myself deep inside you / Let me never be away from here / When you destroy my world? / There is nothing that keeps me still)
First Day At School: Ella Fitzgerald - Whatever Lola Wants ( Whatever Lola wants / Lola gets / And little man, little Lola / Wants you / Make up your mind to have / No regrets / Recline yourself, resign yourself / You're through) Appropriate.
Breaking Up: U2 - Freedom for my People ( Every other mother / needs some freedom / freedom for my people / I want them free yeah ) Amusing.
Prom: Ragnarok Online theme music - Divine Grace
Sex scene: E Nomine - Das Böse (I'm so dark and ugly - vulgar - common / pry in your soul deep inside / enjoy tormenting you by blood, and your cries / thy evil because I am a torturer / have no fear, I'm brutal, frightened at nothing / Seeding violence where peace is ) ... I'm not sure this is a "Sex" scene...
Life's Ok: White Zombie - Descent into Cerberon (instramental, from the Quake II soundtrack) Probably the opposite of OK.
Mental: Marilyn Manson - User Friendly ( User friendly / fucking dope star obscene / You never die when you're high / you never die just for me)
Flashback: E Nomine - Pontius Pilatus ( entire song text: Pontius Pilate asked Jesus of Nazareth: "Are you really the Son of God? " And Jesus replied: "You say it. ") That's one hell of a flashback.
Getting Back Together: U2 - Even better than the real thing ( Well my heart is where its always been / My head is somewhere in between / Give me one more chance / Let me be your lover tonight) Appropriate!
Wedding Scene: Korn feat. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby (Stop! Collaborate and listen / Ice is back I've got a brand new edition) Ow my BRAIN.
Birth of Child: Johnny Clegg and Juluka - Izinhlobo Nezinhlobo Zabantu (all people love to differentiate themselves, but they are taking chances / because we are all the same, you my brother, when it comes to drinking tea and eating buns )
Falling In Love: Gary Jules - Mad World (And I find it kinda funny / I find it kinda sad / The dreams in which I'm dying / Are the best I've ever had) A tragic love never to be because one party is a fatalistic depressive.
Final Battle: Megaherz - Kopfschuss (Bang bang headshot / Like the Phoenix from the ashes / I will rise again) Pretty decent Final Battle music if you ask me.
Death Scene: The Tea Party - Gyroscope (Soul searching breaks you down / You'll never learn / Annihilate yourself / All things must burn / Inside out you can't cope / My gyroscope) Eek.
Funeral Scene: Marilyn Manson - Apple of Sodom (I drained my heart and burn my soul / I trained the core to stop my growth / I pray to die in space / to cover me in snow / I'm dying, I hope you're dying too) Also eek.
End Credits: Audioslave - I am the Highway (Pearls that swim the rift of me / Long and weary my road has been / I was lost in the cities / Alone in the hills / No sorrow I feel / For anything I feel )
Tags: meme, sheep
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03:40 pm
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A revelation
I've finally figured out how to express the mixture of horror and admiration I have for my predecessors home-brewed programming language, and the things he produced in it that actually work (usually, as long as you don't have to count over 126, have a line longer than 253 characters, or want it done quickly).
The internet is full of arts-and-crafty people and hobbyists. Sometimes you find a crafty person with an obsessive interest in a particular field, and then you find out that he's hand built an entire document safe with a working mechanical combination lock... out of nothing but Legos.
It's that same combination of 'Holy hell that must have been hard, and it works? COOL.' and 'But... it's a safe made out of Legos. If I kick it hard, it falls apart and I can steal your stuff.'
Tags: programmingwtf
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12:19 pm
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Blackwater guards finally to be charged for shooting 17 Iraqi civilians
"Five employees of the US security firm Blackwater have been indicted over the 2007 fatal shooting of 17 Iraqis, after surrendering to US authorities in Utah." Story care of the BBC
About freeking time.
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10:26 am
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Holiday decorations!
Why is it that I think Cthulhu's just about to jamn that squid in the kids mouth?
Click for more angles, and the auction for this item on EBay.
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08:17 am
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Cane todes evolve too rapidly
The notorious Cane toads, an introduced pest in northern Australia may have <a href="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24734217-5005961,00.html>evolved too quickly</a> in their 70-year stay on the island continent. Normal Cane toads can only travel about 10 meters a night, but the Australian strain have been spawning bigger and bigger generations with stronger and longer legs, and now typically move 1 km every night (100x as far, for you Americans), making them one of the fastest long-distance-travelling amphibians around.
However these huge super-toads have also achieved another first for amphibians - spinal arthritis.
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02:49 pm
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In honour of todays weather
I bring you LOLCAT.
( graphic behind the cut for the lolcat adverse )
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10:57 pm
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Do you have the brain-worms?
Rosemary Alvarez did!
Ms Alvarez is back to playing sports in her backyard with her family and only has three words of advice for others: “Wash your hands."
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07:32 pm
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Slice of Life (more WTF)
I sometimes explain my job to other programmers, to get sympathy. Or at least share the headaches.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ungratefulninja: so lemme see if I can divine what that code is doing in context
ungratefulninja: somewhere, there is a lookup table that turns certain characters into 0s, 1s, 2s, etc in the input stream
ungratefulninja: This code decides which character we saw, and the clever "branch on bits" thing is just a shitty means of getting there
ungratefulninja: (I'm guessing from the label names)
jerril: Yeah. It's brainhurty.
jerril: The lookup table is terrible, too.
jerril: But "char" is a HEAVILY overused variable name.
jerril: Because the language can only handle 64 variables, total, and like 10 of them are actually already predefined in the system so the practical limit is actually in the 50s...
jerril: so FYI, "Char" means "this variable contains a single byte of data"
jerril: because that's what he puts in char all the time.
ungratefulninja: ok
ungratefulninja: that's not completely insane, if you believe all the world is 1-byte characters :)
jerril: :D
jerril: I had my boss come staggering out of his office this afternoon looking for an asprin and asking me "Is there a hard limit on array lengths?"
Me: "Oh dear, yes."
ungratefulninja: haha
ungratefulninja: is it 64?
jerril: 127
ungratefulninja: that's somehow worse
ungratefulninja: it's just long enough to be useful
ungratefulninja: without being long enough to be really useful
jerril: and, by the way, ALL arrays are 127 elements long, but the first element is used by ninjas so it's practically 126
jerril: All strings are arrays.
ungratefulninja: oh and now that makes sense
jerril: No.
jerril: Not like that.
ungratefulninja: he used char to implement it
ungratefulninja: no, bear with me
ungratefulninja: THEN tell me I'm wrong
ungratefulninja: :)
jerril: Ehehehe
ungratefulninja: he used char, and his system happens to use signed chars
ungratefulninja: and he uses the first element to store string lengths
ungratefulninja: so the longest possible string is 127
ungratefulninja: so obviously the longest possible array is 127, too
ungratefulninja: because char[] = string right
ungratefulninja: fucking moron :)
jerril: strings are 255 chars long :D
ungratefulninja: goddammit
jerril: by 127
ungratefulninja: :)
jerril: they're an array of 255 character strings, by 127 array elements.
ungratefulninja: oof
jerril: Half a page.
ungratefulninja: ok
ungratefulninja: I kind of want to meet this guy.
ungratefulninja: I may or may not bring a tazer with me.
jerril: Arrays are strings, strings are arrays, fixed dimentions.
jerril: Arrays/strings are also stacks.
ungratefulninja: of course
ungratefulninja: you just increment a pointer
jerril: and have mysterious pointers to random elements in the array.
jerril: yes.
ungratefulninja: no
ungratefulninja: >_<
jerril: Array [] (with no index) is the "whatever the pointer is pointing to". It's incremented and decremented by various mysterious actions, or possibly by the phase of the moon.
Tags: programmingwtf
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03:51 pm
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Programming WTF
My predecessor at my company designed his own programming language, and wrote all of the companies software in it. He wrote a small pamphlet of documentation on it, and screamed and threw things whenever the company tried to hire another programmer.
He is, of course, no longer with the company, and all us new programmers have been migrating everything to known, documented languages as quickly as possible. After two years, we still keep discovering new, crazy "features" of his language.
Like today.
Today, we discovered that he actually had a sort of "case" structure buried in his language. I found it used in one file so far, who knows where else it lurks.
Here's where we found it lurking (irrelevancies deleted).
: proc_brl-eng
set brl [1] = 1 shl char
ifcase brl [1]
brl-eng(=*)
brl-eng(,:/)
brl-eng(#$)
brl-eng(.)
brl-eng(")
brl-eng(')
brl-eng(-)
stop
endif
return
This led to a lot of headscratching, but we've figured out how the hell it works.
1) brl [1] is set to equal 1, and then bit shifted left char bits. So 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64.
2) the ifcase tests brl [1], looking for the bit.
If the bit is in the "1" position, it jumps to the label brl-eng(=*).
If the bit is in the "2" position, it jumps to the label brl-eng(,:/).
If the bit is in the "4" position, it jumps to the label brl-eng(#$).
And so on.
This may be a "call and return" rather than a hard jump. We're not sure. We're also not sure what happens if more than one bit is toggled in brl [1], and we're a little afraid to find out.
Current Mood:  frustrated
Tags: programmingwtf
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09:47 am
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US Vice-Presidend Dick Chene charged for prisoner abuse
Care of the BBC:
A Texas grand jury has charged US Vice-President Dick Cheney for "organised criminal activity" related to alleged abuse of private prison inmates.
ZOMG. I never thought I'd live to see the day. This is private jails in the USA, not the military prisoner abuses, but hey, get him on what we can!
Tags: news
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02:53 pm
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BBC reporter discovers the seedy world of Second Life
... and promptly writes an article explaining how avatars in SL have netsex.
Current Mood:  amused
Tags: news
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02:25 pm
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Convict mails himself to freedom
"A manhunt is under way in western Germany for a convicted drug dealer who escaped by mailing himself out of jail."
You just can't make this stuff up, folks.
Current Mood: amused
Tags: news
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12:52 pm
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Another in the series "If you don't speak WoW, this will be meaningless"
Tags: gamer, gaming, wow
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08:22 pm
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If you don't speak WoW, this will be meaningless
I just spent half an hour running around in Shattrath, puking on Blood Elves.
Go go Echos of Doom!
Tags: gamer, gaming, wow
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03:29 pm
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Apropos for this time of year...
Archaeology is a real magazine.
This article from last years November issue... well, it's a real article too!
It's nice to see a learned article from a real source that you can hand out to players as-is :D
Tags: gamer, gaming, news
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02:12 pm
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Why you should never rely on the minotaur for important information
Specifically, this minotaur.
This is Mrugnak. He's... a little thick. He doesn't speak the trade tongue very well, and to be frank, his vocabulary in his native language isn't very good to begin with. There are very many concepts that are beyond him.
My GM emailed me an enormous list rumours that Mrugnak had picked up over two months of hanging around in the bar, drinking himself silly with whoever was his New Best Friend for the day, along with an invitation to discuss them with the rest of the group.
EDIT for missing paragraph
This is what I sent out to the mailing list.
- Dere's dis guy, Meeng Loo, he sell dat nice cloth wot cost lotta gold, but den dese other guys at der Sad Swamp tooks it when he takin' it by dem and now he got no gold and no cloth an' he drinking lots.
( There's plenty MORE behind the cut... )
Quoth the GM:
+2 CP for Mrugnak!
That was cool, if incomprehensible.
Current Mood:  nerdy
Tags: gamer, gaming
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12:17 pm
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Nebraska senator sues God
He sought a permanent injunction to prevent the "death, destruction and terrorisation" caused by God.
The court rejects the suit because they can't deliver the papers to God.
The Senator argues that you don't have to deliver the papers to God because he's Omniscient and therefore aware of the suit.
I'm not making this up.
Tags: news
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05:45 pm
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Everybody else is doing it . . .
If Sean Punch (dr_kromm) and Phil Reed (philreed) are doing it, it MUST be cool.
The Blogalyser reveals... Your blog/web page text has an overall readability index of 12. This suggests that your writing style is conventional
(to communicate well you should aim for a figure between 10 and 20).Your blog has 12 sentences per entry, which suggests your general message is distinguished by complexity
(writing for the web should be concise).
CHARACTER MATRIX | male |   | female |
| self |    | world |
| past |    | future |
Your text shows characteristics which are 61% male and 39% female
(for more information see the Gender Genie).
Looking at pronoun indicators, you write mainly about yourself, then the world in general and finally your social circle. Also, your writing focuses primarily on the present, next the past and lastly the future.
Find out what your blogging style is like!
Tags: fandom
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01:52 pm
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Quantum Physics makes my head hurt
I just tried to read the Wikipedia entry on Color Superconductors.
I wish I hadn't.
The fact that a Cooper pair of quarks carries a net color charge, as well as a net electric charge, means that the gluons (which mediate the strong interaction just as photons mediate electromagnetism) become massive in a phase with a condensate of quark Cooper pairs, so such a phase is called a "color superconductor".
I still haven't figured out what the quantum physicists mean when they say "color" but I'm quite sure it's not "a given wavelength of light".
EDIT: AHA! "Color charge" IS a totally different concept!
The "color" of quarks and gluons has nothing to do with visual perception of color; rather, it is a whimsical name for a property which has almost no manifestation at distances above the size of an atomic nucleus. The term "color" itself is simply derived from the fact that the property it describes has three aspects (analogous to the three primary colors), as opposed to the single "aspect" of electromagnetic charge.
I think I hate quantum physics.
Tags: science
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07:09 pm
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I heart machine translation
... because it's good for a laugh.
The original line is "Klopf klopf, lass mich rein" aka "Knock knock, let me in". It's from the song Labyrinth by Oomph!, and it's good.
Google says: "Knock knocks, let me clean." First part's mostly right, and they got "rein" wrong, but close. A B-: as an English speaker, familiar with the idiom, I can figure out what they're saying. (my expectations for machine translation are low, for reference)
Babelfish says: "Knock knock, leave me pure." First part is spot on, second part is screwed up. I'd give it a C.
Intertran says: "palpitations palpitations , let me incorrupt." (capitalization and weird spacing and everything). F.
(Google said "knocking knocking, let me clean" earlier, but apparently they've updated something.)
Tags: fandom
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