Ok, so I haven't watched TV in 15 years. Nor gone to movies for about the same time. I still laughed my ass off at this. caprine, stop_no_dont, brotherkurt, daddyevil, skyroom80, jinglechelle, do not click on this link, no matter what you do ( Read more... )

I got so annoyed at the "pop open a new window for every picture" style of official Trinity Site pictures index that I spent a fair chunk of time (maybe an hour or so?) making my own:

http://scrye.com/~tkil/trinity/pics.html

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On IRC tonight:
the eye of saraman [sic] looks a lot like an iguana's eye. i now have "it's the eye of the wizard..." stuck in my head, to the tune of "eye of the tiger" by survivor from the early 80s (and from one of the rocky sequels). damn you. damn you to hell. my work here is done
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1. The "link" option off S2 Generator doesn't have "style=mine" in the link, so it comes out bland or in destination style ( Read more... )

Noticed when I posted the silver star piece earlier tonight.

In a fine example of yak shaving, I first had to switch to Style System S2, since S1 doesn't support tags at all. Then I spent a fair bit of time trying to come up with reasonable colors; most of the preset color combinations were bletcherous one way or another. (Is this an ICEPICK IN ( Read more... )

Just to have the numbers in one place...
( fight! )

Ganked from memepool, someone has a puzzle that they intend to be solved with python. Being a geek but not python fan (I don't dislike python, just haven't found a good reason to learn it yet), I thought I'd try to solve it otherwise.
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The new car has Bluetooth. My old phone was getting pretty beat up and all I had left were aftermarket car chargers for it - not surprising, as I bought it when I moved out here three and a half years ago. So I went looking for a new phone.

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From the Online Slang Dictionary, brought to my attention by the delightful memccann:frogger v 1. to change lanes rapidly while driving in an attempt to get ahead of the traffic. Origin: in an 1980s video game of the same name, the goal was to navigate a frog safely across several lanes of heavy traffic. Often this required changing between lanes very ( Read more... )