Temple of the LW: 2005

I PASSED!!! I PASSED MUTHAFUCKAS I PASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSED. Suck it prelims!! Suck it hard! and suck it long!!

Just barely though! 68.8%! the average was 67.4%! hahahaha! above 70 is pass. below 60 is fail, in between is in between. so PHEW!

Hollly crap attack

This is just nuts, this guy has more toys than god. Warning, it'll take 30 years for the page to load, lots of big pictures. Coincidentally, that is also the amount of time it will take him to get a girl into a house that looks like that ;)

Sep 21, 2005

Lightsaber game

oh my god, coolest game ever.

Slow Motion Videos

Wow, some of these are really cool, especially anything w/ fluid dynamics. Jesus, there are equations for that stuff, so hard!

Sep 20, 2005

C+ Board Game

Okay, yes, very nerdy. But, maybe if I had played that as a kid I wouldn't suck at programming!

Sep 19, 2005

GrowCube Game

Um... err... well... yeah, I have no idea.

Run for your lives!!

hehehe

Pong Fight

Seems like I've seen this before. But it's been long enough that I think it's funny again :)

Sep 17, 2005

Oh man, awful joke

Heard this on Dawn&Drew:

What does George Bush think of Roe vs. Wade?

(highlight to see the answer)

He doesn't care how they get out of New Orleans.

"If you think stopping gays from doing it is more important than the icecaps melting, the Boogeyman is you."

Oh good, I was hoping someone would rip New Rules from Real Time, I love that last line.

Sep 16, 2005

New Nintendo Controller

Craziness!

Sep 15, 2005

New HP Trailer

Pretty cool. Thanks for the link M!

Sep 14, 2005

Potty Break

Oh man, I hope this is fake.

Two Handed Ikaruga

Holy Crap. I can barely do the pat your head rub your belly thing.

GTA vs. Jack Thompson

hehehehehe

I love it.

Go to the website they made up too, it's awesome.

Sep 13, 2005

Original Google Page

Haha.

So.... pretty...

I didn't download it, I'm not so sure my video card would like it, I dunno, maybe later, until then: pretty pictures.

Sep 12, 2005

Bush = Extraordinary!!

Well, according to him anyway.

Didn't I used to put nerdy links here?

Bye Bye Abortions

Not to be trite, but I think we have successfully voted, by proxy, to overturn Roe vs. Wade, now that there are two openings and plenty of time to fill them badly. So, yeah... good job everyone, or half of everyone anyway. It will be a state's issue, a couple years from now, so, find yourself on the list.

Sep 11, 2005

Bush's response

Two stories on Bush's response to Katrina from Newsweek and Time. Interesting from Newsweek is how much local and state response may be to blame. As much as I think Bush and "Brownie" deserve most of it, I can't help but think there was at least 24 hours there where it seems someone closer made mistakes.

Dam in Arkansas

I thought maybe this was already spread around, but just in case, this is the funniest and smartest joke of the year!

Very cool

Very well done animation about Trusted Computing. Even if you don't agree with it (which you should), they still did a really good job.

Wow

Zogby Poll. Bush has his lowest approval rating ever. He would lose an election to any president from the last 30 years if the election was today. Yet he'd still beat Kerry. Wow.

Sep 8, 2005

Seriously?!

A ruling that says you are allowed to flat out lie in campaign ads! ! .... ?! .... REALLY?! Free speech, yes, but come on! All political ads should be under oath, and if you lie, you go to jail!

Geraldo = a human being?

What do you know, journalists doing their jobs, awful and amazing.

Sep 2, 2005

:(

Before. After.

More views in a pdf.

>:|

Someone needs to punch him in the face.

Meanwhile, terrorist types are saying it was god too, which would be a lot more shocking if our own fundies hadn't said the same thing about the quake in Iran.

Etch a sketch

Dunno whether to clap, or point and laugh.

Aug 31, 2005

Cat up for adoption

Hiya folks, breaking from the dorky stuff for a moment. I am trying to find a home for my neighbor's cat, Mildred. If you know anyone looking for a kitty, send them to this link. Also, tell me if you notice any errors or have any suggestions for the page. I have no idea how to advertise a kitty, and I'd like it to look non-retarded before I send it out to a couple listservs on campus. :)

Thanks!

http://cynosure.as.arizona.edu/mildred/

Aug 30, 2005

Another Video Game Study

And this one says: no big deal (bugmenot required). One says yes, one says no, one says maybe, blah blah blah. Conclusion? Use your brains and stop listening to inconclusive and coincident (as opposed to causitive) studies paraded about by red herring flinging media morons and democrats desperate to appear to have morals.

WTF?!

Seriously! WTF?! I mean, I guess I already knew this, but seriously, 42% of people think we've always been like this, no evolution?! 64% in favor of teaching creationism w/ evolution?!! graaah! Time to grow up, Humanity In General, it's 2005, no more fairy tales and ghost stories, be an adult!

Behind Chess

Little site that shows you what the computer is "thinking" as it plans a move, sorta sweet.

Aug 29, 2005

Piracy

I'm no good at economics, but it's an interesting idea.

Aug 27, 2005

Make a South Park Character

Ok, so sorta boring, but still.

Sims 2 Contraceptives Ad

Points for creativity.

Hot Biscuit Mod

Ah Jack Thompson, you make it so easy.

Aug 26, 2005

Blog Spam

Comment from a couple posts ago:

meghanclinton3303 said... I read your blog, and i thought it was rather cool. check out My Blog

I'm confused! What's the scam here? Do people actually go buy stocks based on these blog comment spams? Really?? Some guy writes a blog on how good X3SE is, and you go buy it?! Ok well then you deserve to lose your money. Just sayin'.

Zoom In

Cool.

Aug 23, 2005

Bush vs. Nixon

An interesting graph. Even I don't trust that one year projection, that's just silly, there is much more than 10% of people who will like Bush no matter what he does or doesn't do. Still, sorta interesting to look at the first 4.5 years.

Aug 20, 2005

Teehee

Personally, I have always been partial to the Flying Pink Invisible Elephants theory, but they, that's why we should teach all of them .

Aug 19, 2005

In Need of a Hobby

Seriously.

Aug 16, 2005

The Enemy of my Enemy

This will be interesting. The book names 100 bad people, on a cultural basis as I understand it (I haven't read it), which is to say moral decay, hollywood values, educational leftism, etc. It is mostly liberals, but there are some conservatives, it might be interesting to hear this woman defend them all individually.

Flash Site

Some really cool stuff here. Some fun (probably pseudo) random walk things, neat visual effects, a isometric builder thing that's cool too. Check it.

Aug 15, 2005

Neat On-Foot Chase Scene

Cool

Aug 11, 2005

FedEx Furniture.

Heh.

Chinese Dance Video

Wow. I wanted to make fun, but this is cool. Jazz hands!

Ha

http://peteredge.orcon.net.nz/casepics.htm

Aug 8, 2005

Jack Thompson

Remember him? Yep, still stupid.

Aug 5, 2005

Hoff Soap

Dude... what the... jesus.. I mean.. oh god. BLECH

Aug 3, 2005

Tuition Breaks

UA is giving tuition breaks to same-sex couples, awesome.

Not that I believe that Likins has some noble vision, he's just trying to be like everyone else and not lose good people, but still awesome.

Aug 2, 2005

Back to the Business of Being Nerdy

Joss Whedon is cool

Jack Thompson and Hillary Clinton are not.

This game is.

So is Janet Napolitano.

But Bush is not. (Bugmenot required)

Jul 29, 2005

Thanks

Thank you to everyone who said nice things. I know it's hard to know what to say, nothing to be done, but I appreciate all your kind thoughts.

-D

Jul 26, 2005

I will miss you, Moey and Stanley

Back in April of 2001, we weren't allowed to have most animals in our apartment complex, only things that are cage confined, hamsters or fish or guinea pigs, etc. Unfortunately, I don't agree w/ buying those things at stores, because it encourages their breeding. If you've ever seen a story on those breeding centers, you understand why. Then one day, a little black guinea pig named Midnight made an appearance on one of those adopt-a-pet segments on the local news. He was so cute looking, and of course I have no problem saving a guinea pig from the pound, so off we went!

Turns out he came as a package deal with his partner Sunset, who was bigger and brown, and also very cute. We got them that day, for 5 bucks each and 10 dollars for a big cage. This would probably have cost 150 bucks at petsmart, another point for saving animals! We loved them very much, spazzy little buggers that they were. We renamed the black one Stanley (after a long lost stray I took care of named Stanley Springer), and the brown one Mo for the mohawk she sported on her back. They were already pretty old, 4 years, but they were active, especially Stanley, who would scamper around the room if let loose, pooping where ever he dang well pleased! They made me very happy, being my first animals, it was so fun to just sit and watch them run around and scarf down greens.

A year and a half later, after many heads of lettuce, bags of cedar, and piles of hay, my spazzy Stanley died. He was just fine one day, and the next day very sick. It was a weekend and by the time I got the guinea pig doctor at the emergency vet on the phone, little Stanley had died in my hands. It was the first time one of my, not the whole family's, animals had ever died in my life. Even those animals I grew up with did not die until after I had moved out, so I guess it was new for me. He was 5 and a half when he died, most guinea pigs only live until 5 or 6. It was very hard, of course, but I had a wonderful friend to help me through that day.

I missed Stanley very much, then. And as you always do, I wished I had spent more time with him. So La Puerca Aburrida got a lot of attention after that. Guinea pigs live as pairs, and after Stanley died, I was sure that Mo didn't have long. I continued to be sure of this for months and months, but she just kept going, happy as ever, inhaling her parsley like a furry little wood chipper and tribbling whenever I walked into the room with a plastic bag. Eventually I became convinced that Mo would outlive us all, she just had too sweet a deal to be done yet. Moey lived through the death of her friend, through some manner of kidney problem that was never fully understood, through a weird bald patch that appeared and disappeared completely inexplicably, through a tumor she had to have removed, she just kept going.

I got pretty used to the idea that Mo would just always be there, to be honest. I got a cat when I moved, then another, then a dog, and a couple temporary guests in between. But Moey was the first, she was sort of a constant. But for the last couple weeks, it seemed indefatigable Moey had finally begun slowing down. Old animals always get a little creaky, and she was no exception, but once she stopped being able or willing to walk around and feed herself, it was obvious something was wrong. I've been feeding her by putting food under her face, and making sure she gets water by pushing it into her mouth (and getting nibbled in the process! Ungrateful!) I'm afraid I did not accept this change very well, she had been becoming more sedentary for a long time, so it wasn't that dramatic a change to my eyes. But when I brought her to the vet, it was so sad, they looked at her as if there was no hope, they knew her fate just by looking at her. I couldn't take that, right then, and I brought her home with me anyway. I don't know if that was selfish, but I wanted a few more days with her, a few more days to make sure she wouldn't rebound yet again, a few more days before I could believe the Unsinkable Moey Brown could be leaving me.

Moey lived to be almost 8 and a half years old. The vet said she was the oldest guinea pig he's ever seen. I know I've given her as long and good a life as I could have, but today, on July 26th, Moey couldn't go any longer. She had trouble breathing yesterday, I had a final appointment at the vet for her tomorrow, but when I got home from work, she was dead. I believe she lasted as long as she could, she was still very warm and had not yet become stiff, which happened quickly w/ Stanley. I wish I had come home just 5 minutes earlier to be with her at the end. I know I did my best, I spent all my time that I wasn't sleeping or working with her the past 3 days, but I wish she didn't have to be alone. Hug your animals extra long tonight.

Here's one last picture to remember my guinea pigs by, hideous buck toothed monsters that they were, clamoring for food! I will miss you, my handsome little Stanley and beautiful little Mo.

Jul 22, 2005

Star Wars Name

What is your Star Wars name?

Take the last three letters of your first name, and reverse them, that's your first name.
Then take the name of your first car, that's your last name.
Then take the last prescription (or over the counter, in my case) drug you took, that's your home planet.

So mine would be Noh Concorde from the planet Suphedrine.

Mine isn't that good :oP What's yours?

Jul 21, 2005

Blonde Bubble Physics

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James Doohan dies

:(

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aznaS0AKCdxY&refer=us

Sure as I know anything, I know this, I aim to misbehave.

New Serenity trailer up!

http://www.cantstopthesignal.co.uk/trailer/

Jesus, there's so much good stuff in these trailers, I'm afraid there's nothing left for the movie!

Jul 20, 2005

Google Moon

hahaha, zoom in all the way!

http://moon.google.com/

Tee hee

http://aviransplace.com/index.php/archives/2005/07/18/hacker-erased-spammers-database/

Jul 18, 2005

Saberology

Well, mad props on the engineering that went into these things, there is some clever design work and problem solving that went into making them work, sort of impressive. But woah boy do people take things seriously!

http://www.saberology.com/

Jul 17, 2005

Happy Birthday M!

Jul 14, 2005

No way, dude

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html

2nd from the bottom, that looks totally fake! amazing!

Physics!

First, combining my nerd interests of video games and physics, officially making me into what doctors call "nerdtastic":
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/248844

And then this, which is just friggin' *awesome*! It's an N-body simulation! made into a game!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/250408

Jul 13, 2005

A Few Good G-Men

Hey look, another link no one cares about but me, but Machinima is pretty cool if ya think about the work that goes into it. maybe some day be it's own legitimate art form, hm?

http://www.nailbiter.net/gman/

Mario64 in 20 min

I dunno how many of you would think this is cool, or be bored enough to spend 20 minutes watching it, but holy crap is it amazing. My mouth was literally agape for most of it, and sometimes I just laughed out loud at the ridiculous crap he pulled off :)

http://www.spikedhumor.com/Article.aspx?id=238

Jul 12, 2005

Earthship

http://www.earthship.org

Do people already know about this? The guy comes across as a mad scientist, and the website comes across as buy-my-book-cult or something. But the ideas, if you ignore that crap, are actually really awesome. Maybe by the time I have enough money to actually own a house? :)

Jul 11, 2005

Cat Hunting

This is way old, back from april, but I just found out, and unless its from THIRTEEN FIFTY FUCKING THREE B.C., it's gross:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=662272&page=1

<3 Katamari

http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img100714355525nl.jpg

Jul 9, 2005

Two-Spirits

This may be old news for some, but I thought it was cool. Apparently there was some native americans that were gay and would lead the life of the opposite sex in their tribes. I'd say more, but sites can say it better:

http://www.androphile.org/preview/Culture/NativeAmerica/amerindian.htm
http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/native/dialogue_opinion_letters/pns_gay_twospirits_0305.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit

People can argue about how accepted it was or amongst which tribes, or the validity of the modern revival, but just that it existed, that it was at least accepted enough to exist in some places, that's interesting enough.

Jul 8, 2005

haha, ewww

http://img79.echo.cx/img79/1089/cokewithbacon9xr.jpg

Jul 3, 2005

Rock Lobster!

http://www.fgmma.com/Gallery/Song/

Jul 1, 2005

Neat

http://earth.google.com/

that's cool, hopefully beta opens again.

Jun 29, 2005

Sweet!

You scored as Yoda.

Yoda

56%

Darth Vader

56%

Anakin Skywalker

53%

Clone Trooper

50%

General Grievous

50%

Obi Wan Kenobi

42%

Chewbacca

42%

R2-D2

42%

Padme Amidala

39%

Mace Windu

36%

C-3PO

36%

Emperor Palpatine

31%

Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you?
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Jun 28, 2005

King Kong

I was bored for the first half of the trailer, and Jack Black being serious makes me nervous, but the digital effects don't look cheesy, and king kong vs. a dinosaur? sweet

http://www.kingkongmovie.com/ef239524432ba87f1ca8f70eed4b1fa7/en_splash.html

Jun 21, 2005

Our Greatest Fear

Minus the god stuff, this is nice. (I heard it in the movie Coach Carter, which, interestingly, cut out the god stuff, but it is by some lady named Marianne Williamson from her book A Return To Love)

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.

And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Bush = liar. That statement = duh

http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=1133

Not that we didn't know this, having it written down in one place still makes you sigh though.

Jun 17, 2005

THIS IS WHY BREEDING IS EVIL

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=856663

Jun 6, 2005

Creeeeeepy

http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/character-Skeletons

Jun 2, 2005

Harry Reid = Awesome

HAHAHA, I think I like this guy:

Exceprt from a Rolling Stone interview with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV):

RS: You've called Bush a loser.

Reid: And a liar.

RS: You apologized for the loser comment.

Reid: But never for the liar, have I?

Jun 1, 2005

Flags

Nothing here yet, just planting my flag.

"You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!"

"Do you have a flag?"