I got a forwarded email from a family member with the subject line "The colors that only GOD can create", the body of which consisted of photographs of numerous birds, most of them with brilliantly colored plumage -- peacocks, parrots, lorikeets, mandarin ducks, flamingos, the usual crowd. (Notice how I used the word "most". I'll get back to that ( Read more... )

Someone on the Adventure Gamers forums started a thread trying to identify an old game. The description didn't ring any bells for me, but when someone replied with the game's title, I realized that I knew this game ( Read more... )

I was working on my computer (which is positioned in front of a window that looks out on our front yard), and while I'm looking at the monitor, I see a large pair of ears moving outside the window, just above the windowsill. My first thought is that there's a dog wandering through our front yard, but this wasn't the case at all...

Click.I had ( Read more... )

I haven't said much about this project at all on this journal, but I decided to make a post about it here just the same.

After more than a year and a half of work, I've finished the sequel to Adventure: The Inside Job...

Adventure: All in the GameI've made many attempts to improve on a few of the weaker parts of the original: it's less linear, ( Read more... )

I've just discovered what has to be the greatest 3D program I've ever found called Sculptris. And the best part is, it's FREE ( Read more... )

I've often found a lot of Smith Micro's 3D animal models a bit unappealing and often not nearly as realistic as they claim to be. Still, I thought many of them were passable likenesses of the animals they were modeled after.

Then I saw this "duckling" model today...

If this is what their regular duckling looks like, I shudder to think what their ( Read more... )

I found a cute little book called Unfortunate English on a shelf in a book store a few days ago, and started leafing through it, having nothing better to do at the moment. It turned out to be a book on the etymology of various words in the English language, and as the title implied, the origins of these words are either unappealing, embarrassing, ( Read more... )

You know what the horror genre needs?

Werewolves with mohawks.

(I've actually been familiar with this old engraving for some time, but I just now noticed this guy's distinctive hairstyle. It's somehow both awesome and incredibly cheesy at the same time.)

The things I run into when I'm looking for very odd things on the Internet at 2:45 AM...

I just learned that the technical term for these symbols:
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Is "guillemets".

I also discovered a very interesting piece of information about them on Wikipedia's page on guillemets which I found very amusing:
Guillemet vs. guillemotIn Adobe Systems font ( Read more... )

While I was working in the 2nd grade classroom I volunteer at on occasion, an aide was reading a story about Abraham Lincoln's life. When he reached the part in the book describing how Lincoln was elected president and his family moved into the White House, one of the girls asked the aide a question. I didn't hear the actual question, but I did ( Read more... )