I haven't written in a while. So what? Do you have a research grant living under your bed making threatening smacking noises with its lips and becomes braver and braver each night in its ultimate goal of eating your very life essence? No? Then piss off.

In other news, the writers win:

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I made a trek to New Hampshire this past weekend to visit my girlfriend. I usually take it upon myself to make such easy trips into a pilgrimage of sorts which means two things: I'll be hitchhiking and riding a bus ( Read more... )

She wrote some of the most wonderful books for an awkward young man trying to come to terms with his own, let us say, quirks. In her honor, physicist David Morgan describes the four dimensional tesseract. Thus: A Four-Dimensional Tribute to the Late Madeleine L'Engle.

I'll be working, through the workstudy program, at the UMF Computer Center this semester. As such, I've been receiving a number of policy e-mails from the Computer Center's list service. One of which, from a head person in the Computer Center hierarchy, discussed an issue near and dear to my heart:

There has been a bit of misinformation afoot so I ( Read more... )

I've always wanted a proper USB game controller for when I go to my friend's place for a little emulating. For those unfamiliar with console emulation you can check this out, though the long and short of it is that I dig playing SNES via laptop ( Read more... )

It's a reference to The Tick; dig it. It's also the speed at which the entirety of the Simpsons motion picture made its way onto, of all the poor user choices, YouTubeWe're not talking a series of collected clips mangled by fair use philosophers, we're talking the whole bloody movie in a fantastic quality ( Read more... )

Sweet zombie jesus! Could this have been directed by Kim Jong-il?

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Some noted differences from the original:
-Vega was taller
-Dhalsim could stretch his arms
-Chun-li wasn’t such a wimp
-The original Street Fighter was never this cool

Seriously?

C'mon, give me a heads up that this is just a poor translation by an over eager journalist!

From MSNBC (link to main article):

In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission ( Read more... )

It’s old news, but I was both awed and disappointed by the recent “Transformers” movie. The special effects were mind blowing but, I assume, only because they dropped all of their Plot and Acting budgets into gorgeous robots. There, I said it ( Read more... )

What kind of game couldn't a substantially advanced computer complete more effectively than a human?