Like folks who have an unhealthy obsession with Sonic The Hedgehog (some of the text is not-safe-for-work).
Month: August 2009
I’ve Said It Once, and I’ll Say It Again…
…I do not control the entire Internet. Contrary to the popular belief of some of the folks I deal with on a daily basis (but don’t actually work for), if the Web site you’re trying to visit is down, and you haven’t tried visiting other Web sites, don’t blame me until you actually try some other Web sites. If you can’t get to any sites, then you can bug me. If I can get online, so can you. If I say the Web’s working fine, don’t sit there and waste more of my time (and my boss’ money) telling me it’s not.
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(Yes, I know I’ve made a similar rant before, but it doesn’t hurt to reiterate it.)
Big Ol’ Multi-Family Garage Sale Tomorrow
I’m working with my bro/sis-in-law to clean both of our houses of all of our old (but still in great shape) kid stuff. We have a ton of stuff that our kids all gently used, but have long since out-grown or quit playing with. Joggers, bike trailers, bikes, strollers, toys, clothes, pet supplies, and a whole ton of other stuff.
The sale’s in Elkhorn Estates here in Bend. E-mail or comment below and I’ll e-mail you the address. Sale starts at 8 on Saturday, 8/8, will last until whenever we feel like quitting.
Update after sale: Sold off quite a few things and walked off with a couple hundred bucks to pay bills with. Still have the baby stroller/trailer (it’s one of these) as the person who said they were going to come back and pay for it never did. We’d like $80 for it, if anybody’s interested (it’s in impeccable shape, has all the parts and instructions). We also have a guinea pig cage (basically new — will probably go to the Humane Society if nobody wants it), Ikea leaf canopy, a bunch of kids stuff left (lots of Playdoh stuff), and a bunch of other great shape toys that will probably go on craiglist here sometime (unless somebody here wants anything). We pretty much gave away all the clothes by the end of the sale, so there’s none of that left.
Taco Bell Goes Green
They’re going so green, they’re making no impact on nature at all.
Couple Time Killers For The Evening
Greg Can Jump is a very simple, but fast-paced game that gets really hard as you go on. Which is why I prefer DropSum as it’s like Tetris and basic math rolled into one — and it won’t cause you to get too angry.
Mario Bros. Played By Software
I can’t wait to see the results of the Mario AI Competition:
This competition is about learning, or otherwise developing, the best controller (agent) for a version of Super Mario Bros.
The controller’s job is to win as many levels (of increasing difficulty) as possible. Each time step (24 per second in simualated time) the controller has to decide what action to take (left, right, jump etc) in response to the environment around Mario.
Update: Looks like somebody’s been working on this, with fairly impressive results:
Monitor Your Servers With Your Phone
Does anybody know if somebody’s made an app like Pigs Can Fly Site Monitor for Windows Mobile? I can see that being stupidly handy to have on my phone. I’ll have to dig through the XDA-Dev forum, as I’m sure there’s something that some hacker has created — it just made be a pain to find.
Abstinence Education
How would you illustrate the various stages and pressures of abstaining from the dirty deed? Probably something like this.