Interesting Links for 30-12-2012

[andrewducker]

• Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices
  (tags: computers phones android linux )
• Apparently I have played 50.6% of my Steam games. For a total of 862 hours. How about you?
  (tags: steam games )
• Patrick Stewart Had The Most Adorable December
  (tags: twitter photos PatrickStewart )
• Matching Legend of Zelda wedding bands.
  (tags: viaCahwyguy )

Comments

[cairmen]

The "Predictions" piece is somewhat mind-blowing if you don't pay super-close attention to science news. NASA is actively working on a WARP DRIVE?

[andrewducker]

I think more "investigating the possibility" than building one.

But yeah :->

[bart_calendar]

I would never wake a sleepwalker, because, honestly, how can you be sure they are sleepwalkers and not zombies

[andrewducker]

True. Better safe than sorry!

[nancylebov]

Sitting down and getting up test is a very good predictor of longevity. Speaking of body myths, note that BMI isn't a good predictor by comparison.

[spacelem]

Wow, I didn't even realise it was possible to rise without using your hands (without some sort of Bruce Lee kick flip). The guy in the video just crosses his legs and does it. I'm quite able to get up with one hand, or spin around and get up, but I'm too stiff or too tall or something to be able to get the forward balance to get up completely unaided.

[channelpenguin]

I have 2 ways of no-hand-or-knee getup - flat back bent knee fast roll thing and a crossed leg variant - slowly by folding up on just the right ankle. My left ankle is still recovering from being twisted but I can't do a full both feet crossed cos my left hip won't rotate out [broke the leg nastily 16 years ago]. I can't *quite* manage the 1-leg "pistol squat" type getup - that's hard!

[andrewducker]

I can sit down with no hands easily enough, but I can't get myself back up without rotating onto one knee and then using that to lever myself up. I'll settle for a 9/10 for the moment. Looks like more than that would require stomach muscles I seem to be lacking.

[theweaselking]

60.33% played, 3172 hours.

That 60% is why I've had a moratorium on buying new games on Steam for more than a year, now, and I'm still not caught up yet. Even though there's a ton on there that I will *never* play - for example, I have both the PC and Mac versions of Civ 4 and 5, and I got a pile of crappy old Lucasarts movie tie-in games with metacritic scores in the 20s that I will never play, in a bundle with a pile that I wanted - I still want to get that number down to a more reasonable level.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I'm much the same. I'll buy new things if I'm going to actually play them in the next couple of weeks, but not stuff that's just "Oooh, shiny!", because I have a _lot_ of that already.

[alextfish]

Apparently, I've played 47% of my Steam games. A total of 804 hours, but allegedly 156 of those hours are playing one adventure game that'd only take about 5 hours to complete, so I think it might have got confused. Either that or we left the game open-but-minimised for, um, a week while doing other things. (Which is possible. 16 of the 137 hours it has me logged as playing FTL are explainable that way. The other 121 hours really are just me playing that game one heck of a lot.) I think the same must apply to the 4th game on my list: I think accurate playtime on that one is more like 5 hours than 52.

Of the remaining 53% of my games (59 of them) that I've never played, about 10 are in the category "I definitely want to play this, just waiting for a little time to do so", maybe 20 more that I'd like to at least try out sometime, and about 30 that I'm really not that bothered about.