Reloading, cannon fodder enemies, and flippable vehicles, but make a good idea but have fallen afoul of the problems with cramming lots of polish. My core goal is a funny thing to me. Maybe I'm missing some major languages. Enlighten me. It's late, and I'm done! I wonder if we'll eventually replace "retarded" with "autistic". That would be nice if ( Read more... )

As I opened the month talking about this, and I keep looking into ways to handle identity well for floof, it seems appropriate to report on the current state of things as November comes to a close.

Most recently, Google started supporting Webfinger.

Webfinger is a throwback to the old-school finger protocol, which let you request information on a ( Read more... )

The Internet is truly the future of human communication. I can contact anyone, at any time, from anywhere in the first world with a reasonable population. Obviously this facilitates all manner of fascinating human discussion and advances our culture as a whole as we exchange ideas unimaginably faster than we ever thought possible before ( Read more... )

I watched through all of Stargate SG-1 recently, and I'm sad to admit I was a little disappointed. It was better than Voyager, certainly, but it still did enough handwaving to make me groan. Oddly, though, a cursory Googling didn't find me even an attempted list of plot holes and scientific incongruities. Off the top of my head ( Read more... )

Pop quiz: what does Christmas celebrate ( Read more... )

Keeping with the.. theme ( Read more... )

We have such a strange notion of "animal rights".

I mean, okay. It's generally agreed that we shouldn't go around kicking puppies. Fine, cool.

And then we go and breed entire massive populations just to kill and eat. Which is fine by me, really, because it's delicious. :9 But I'd, you know, much rather be kicked than be slaughtered to make a ( Read more... )

Today, and today only, you get two half-thoughts for the price of one full thought!

1I've long had a strange half-resentment-half-wariness towards people who only, e.g., drink and play video games. (Unfortunately, this is most of my age group. Whoops.) This has been heavily supported by PurpleKecleon, who's a little more adamant about it. I ( Read more... )

In the spirit of putting my money where my mouth is, here are some stupid terminal tricks I've done over the past however-long, taken from my zsh history.

I considered writing a general introduction to Unix-like terminals, but that's been done to death.

pngcrush everything in a directory:

mkdir _pngcrush_tmp && pngcrush -d _pngcrush_tmp -rem ( Read more... )

Everyone should have access to, and know how to use, a UNIX console. Just enough to recognize when it's useful and look up how to do simple tasks ( Read more... )