Not dead – just busy.
(Yes. With Minecraft. *sigh*)
Hey you, don’t watch that! Watch this!
Holy Calamity, Scream Insanity
Herp Derp Particle
The HerpDerpParticle Twitter feed is one of those things that first makes you laugh, and then makes you weep for the future of humanity. It does nothing but retweet insane twitter posts about the probable discovery of the Higgs Boson, which can mostly be categorised into three types…
1: Liberal atheist European scientists have found the God Particle, thus proving that God exists and hoisting the evil, science-worshiping, communist, agnostic, atheist, anti-American, Darwinist, liberal, gay, Muslim, perverts by their own petard.
2: Liberal atheist European scientists found the God Particle on July 4th, thus proving for all time that God loves America more than any other nation on Earth and condemning all evil, science-worshiping, communist, agnostic, atheist, Darwinist, liberal, gay, Muslim perverts to Hell for electing Barrack Obama.
3: All science is an evil, communist, agnostic, atheist, Darwinist, liberal, Anti-American, gay, Muslim, pervert plot and all the truth you ever need is in the Bible.
It’s this kind of thing that makes me reconsider living on this planet.
Later: But this cheers me right up 🙂
Lovely Spam
Enhance your Ewactwy Wo-um!
I’ve been getting quite a few spam comments on the Wyrmlog lately – which isn’t any kind of problem because my filters catch them all. I’ve usually been ignoring the contents but one today included a link to a YouTube video, which I decided to check out just for laughs (after all, what harm can a YouTube link do to your system?)
It turned out to be a video of a strongly accented man staring into the camera and talking about how great a particular brand of – shall we say – “enhancement” pills are, and how they increase “ewactwy wo-um”. Apparently other enhancement pills have all kinds of side effects, but these ones are side effect free, and have a really impressive effect on one’s ability to “ewactwate” – if that’s actually the kind of thing that particularly concerns one.
It was quite amusing, but I’m not going to reward spammy behaviour with a link.
All Hail the Higgs
All as planned!
Well, it looks like CERN has found the Higgs Boson.
Excellent. We won’t have to rewrite the Standard Model and the Large Hadron Collider has fulfilled its primary purpose. Just as planned!
Questions in Biology
Q: When one is consuming a beverage and some of it “goes down the wrong way”, is it possible to suppress the cough reflex long enough to swallow the quantity of drink already in one’s mouth before expectorating the problematic liquid from one’s windpipe?
A: NO. A thousand times NO.
That is all.
EOFY!
Hey everybody it’s the end of the financial year!!
EOFY! EOFY!
Balance sheets and tax assessment!!
EOFY! Time sure flies!
Do all your shopping!
At WAL-MART!!
On Skrillex
I actually don’t mind a bit of dubstep 🙂
I do not feel required to believe that Skrillex is a human being. My top three theories to explain the existence of such a thing are as follows…
1: Skrillex is the name of a program designed by a post-grad computer engineering student to simulate industrial workplace noise. After a night of heavy drinking said student inadvertently messed up some of the audio filters and induced a series of overlapping sound loops, then realised that the resulting cacophony might go down well at next weekend’s beer and ecstasy mixer.
2: Skrillex is an ancient fax-modem, forgotten about in a storage cupboard but still connected to the net, which has achieved sentience and a recording contract.
3: Skrillex is a member of an unknown, sapient, deep-sea dwelling species that is attempting to communicate with us by modulating its vocalisations for propagation through air rather than water. It’s not very good at it.
I’ll take my Turner Prize now please…
Waddya mean you have to be British!?
Idea for a conceptual art project…
1: Invite members of the public to write letters about important personal issues to their friends and families, and send them to you along with the address details of the people they’re meant to be delivered to.
2: Put all the letters into stamped, addressed envelopes, ready for posting.
3: Place the envelopes into an elaborate machine in an art gallery which displays them one by one and has two buttons – “Deliver” and “Destroy”. If the “Deliver” button is pressed, the envelope is dropped into a hopper, collected at the end of the day and posted. If the “Destroy” button is pressed, the envelope is put through a shredder. Allow visitors to the gallery to press the buttons at will.
4: Give the whole arrangement an incredibly wanky name like “Thoughts and Memories of Olympus Mons”
5: ???
6: Profit!
So Long George
And evolving from the sea,
Would not be too much time for me,
To walk beside you in the sun,
I read something,
About a son of a gun,
Named extinction,
–Pixies The Sad Punk
Minecraft Update II
I guess everyone who gets sucked into the trap of Minecraft ends up imagining ways to improve the game. I am of course no exception and in the hours I’ve whiled away working on my Big Project™ (or getting pushed into lava streams by skeletons) I’ve come up with a number of them – all but one of which are actually slated for the next update (great minds obviously think alike…).
My one, original idea? Lodestones!
The recipe for a lodestone is…
C = Compass
R = Redstone Dust
? = Either a Diamond, an Iron Ingot, a Gold Ingot, a piece of Coal, a unit of Lapis Lazuli Dye, an Emerald (once launched) or another pile of Redstone Dust
| ? | ||
| R | C | R |
| R |
So what the heck does a lodestone do? Simple. If you’re within 20 blocks (or maybe 15 blocks, or 10 blocks, or whatever) of ore for the particular mineral it was made with, it starts glowing and chiming.
It doesn’t tell you what direction the ore is in – you have to figure that out by moving back and forwards until it stops reacting – it just tells you the ore is nearby. It’s up to you to find it and dig it out.
So that’s my idea. You listening Notch? 😉
