On Vacation!
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
This is why people have trouble with physics
I'm doing an online problem set. The question is about a vacuum cleaner. The diagram the question refers you to is of a bicycle.
what
...Anyway, I think my favorite part of Christmas is not so much getting presents as buying presents for other people and watching them go "WOW THIS IS AWESOME" when they open it. To that end, I've been looking for Christmas presents for pretty much everybody I know and have found some awesome stuff:
1) Thinkgeek. Nuff said
2) 1TB hard drives can now be bought for <$200.
3) Desert Bus for Hope: The best charity ever, although it makes Zaheen think I'm even dumber than he thought
Let me explain #3 a bit more. A long time ago (1995 actually), Penn and Teller failed to release a video game called Smoke and Mirrors. It was completed, but the developer went under before it could be released; it then bounced around in licensing hell for years. The internet being what it is, eventually someone got ahold of it and distributed it widely among people with nothing better to do.
Smoke and Mirrors is actually a collection of minigames, the most famous of which is called Desert Bus. The aim of Desert Bus is to drive a bus through the desert. At 45mph. With no pauses. For eight hours straight. Even better, the bus lists slightly to the right, so you can't just put a book on the joystick and walk away. When you get to your destination, you get a point and the option to turn around and go back again. This continues until the bus runs off the road (where it gets towed back to its original destination, also in real time), or you hang yourself with the controller for wasting so much time. (Fun fact: this is why wireless controllers were invented. Now developers are free to make their games 300% more pointless without fear of being named pricipal defendant in a class-action lawsuit by the grieving families of people who played Assassin's Creed. RIMSHOT. Please kill me.)
Here's where the charity bit comes in. There's a "gamer" charity, Child's Play, run by Penny Arcade. Basically, the idea is that the more you donate, the longer these jokers have to play Desert Bus for. They're already up to 4 continuous days. And there are still 3 days left to donate. It's like getting to be a terrible person, but you end up doing good instead!
what
...Anyway, I think my favorite part of Christmas is not so much getting presents as buying presents for other people and watching them go "WOW THIS IS AWESOME" when they open it. To that end, I've been looking for Christmas presents for pretty much everybody I know and have found some awesome stuff:
1) Thinkgeek. Nuff said
2) 1TB hard drives can now be bought for <$200.
3) Desert Bus for Hope: The best charity ever, although it makes Zaheen think I'm even dumber than he thought
Let me explain #3 a bit more. A long time ago (1995 actually), Penn and Teller failed to release a video game called Smoke and Mirrors. It was completed, but the developer went under before it could be released; it then bounced around in licensing hell for years. The internet being what it is, eventually someone got ahold of it and distributed it widely among people with nothing better to do.
Smoke and Mirrors is actually a collection of minigames, the most famous of which is called Desert Bus. The aim of Desert Bus is to drive a bus through the desert. At 45mph. With no pauses. For eight hours straight. Even better, the bus lists slightly to the right, so you can't just put a book on the joystick and walk away. When you get to your destination, you get a point and the option to turn around and go back again. This continues until the bus runs off the road (where it gets towed back to its original destination, also in real time), or you hang yourself with the controller for wasting so much time. (Fun fact: this is why wireless controllers were invented. Now developers are free to make their games 300% more pointless without fear of being named pricipal defendant in a class-action lawsuit by the grieving families of people who played Assassin's Creed. RIMSHOT. Please kill me.)
Here's where the charity bit comes in. There's a "gamer" charity, Child's Play, run by Penny Arcade. Basically, the idea is that the more you donate, the longer these jokers have to play Desert Bus for. They're already up to 4 continuous days. And there are still 3 days left to donate. It's like getting to be a terrible person, but you end up doing good instead!
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