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INTERIOR: BEDROOM, EARLY MORNING
ICE CUBE sits in the edge of the bed, holding a NOTEBOOK and a PEN. Behind him, facing away from camera, a BLONDE FIGURE lies on the bed.
CLOSE-UP ON NOTEBOOK, showing Ice Cube crossing out the name "Andy Summers". Above it, the name "Sting" is already crossed out, and below it the name "Stuart Copeland" is not yet crossed out.
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His sign says "ANYTHING HELPS GOD BLESS" followed by a QR code.
I scan it with my phone out my car window, and transfer a dollar (minus a small processing fee) straight to his pre-paid Visa. The confirmation email includes a link to view his Visa statement, in case I want to know what he spent my dollar on. If I was a Premium Patron, I could check his past purchases and balance before making the transaction. I ( Read more... ) -
Actionscript 3: An analogy
As a lot of people know, I really enjoy making analogies. Sometimes they're not very good analogies, but they're fun to make anyway. This is an analogy for why I don't like Actionscript 3. In the future, whenever someone asks me what I think of AS3, I will direct them here ( Read more... ) -
reccr
I don't know if there's anyone who reads my LJ but not my Facebook any more, but just in case I figured I'd mention this here as well as FB:
My new project is reccr, an automated video game recommender. You rate the games you've played, and it'll tell you what other games you'll like. It's currently in beta, and it could really use as much input ( Read more... ) -
WIKIPEDIA IS NOT GOOD FOR LEARNING MATH.
I've gone to Wikipedia several times to try to learn new math concepts, and been completely bamboozled every time. I recently noticed that even the Wikipedia articles on math concepts that I do know pretty well are really confusing, so I decided to look up the most basic mathematical concept of all: Addition. This is the result. -
darling it's better down where it's wetter
OK, duders. As a big fan of the original Bioshock, I was obligated to play Bioshock 2, and I finished it last night ( Read more... ) -
busman's holiday for pathologists
xuer and I played Pandemic for the first time last night. We played the "introductory" difficulty level, and thought we were totally kicking ass but actually ended up BARELY winning (we won when there was ONE card left in the player draw pile, and if you draw the last card in the player draw pile as part of your mandatory "draw two cards at the end of ( Read more... ) -
videos that I wish were on the internets
There are many videos on the internets. But there are some that are not. Here are three videos that are not on the internets (or anywhere else that I can find, for that matter) that I wish were:- The "60 Minutes" segment from the late 1970s on the negative effect that video games have on the minds of impressionable youngsters. I saw this once on a ( Read more... )
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who knocks off the knock offs?
Pop quiz, hotshot!
Your rival movie studio has just released a movie called Yo-Yo Girl Cop, licensed from a 30 year old manga. From the buzz it looks like their movie's gonna make a mint, so what can you possibly do to trump them??
The answer is that you smirk, crack your knuckles, and spend a weekend making ( this... )
