March 2010
18 posts
WatchSidewalks are for people: Morgan and Eddie go talk to protesters against the proposed Sit/Lie sidewalk law in San Francisco.
Dreamhost's iPad giveaway contest →
I’m not really looking to win one, but what I like most about this contest is rule #6:
And now, the final twist… a winner will be determined ineligible (and a replacement picked) if at ANY time between now and the end of the contest they have posted ANY tweet(s) with the term “fail” in it/them (or any clever alternative spelling)! “Failure” is fine. “Sucks” is fine. “Crappy” is fine....
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“The Xbox LIVE Terms of Use and Code of Conduct are designed to create a place...”
– A Letter from Marc Whitten: Update to Xbox LIVE Code of Conduct - via Slashdot via Crystaltips/Wonderlandblog. Cheers.
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The Runner →
Interesting single-topic, short-run weblog about the game Mirror’s Edge, which is one of the few games I’ll pop in again a year after finishing it. This touches on a lot of the things I like about it. The author also recently had this article about the game’s shortcomings published, and I agree somewhat with it, too, especially regarding combat. But on that note, I agree with...
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Trap doors and hatches all around: Jeff Hull on... →
An interview with one of the producers behind that thing that I keep bringing up to you if you live in the Bay Area as something you must check out if you have any sense of play, of adventure, or a love of weirdness, whatsoever.
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(This little piggy)(9.93)(10^27)
Jason: Okay, tangent
Jason: apparently my D&D DM can't stand the word "shrimping" and the meaning thereof
Jason: which didn't stop us from turning "shrimp" into a Pee-wee's Playhouse style secret word, or from bringing it into conversation during the game last night
Heidi: wtf is shrimping
Jason: sucking on somebody's toes
Heidi: OMG OMG OMG
Heidi: that has a NAME?
Jason: uh
Jason: we are living in the era of naming everything
Heidi: wow, you maybe have ruined the act for me with that name
Heidi: be careful what you teach me obiwan!
Jason: so Scott, another player, just gave a one-word response to the list: "Shrimping"
Jason: to which I'm replying:
Jason: "Hellashrimping: That's 10^27 shrimpings."
Heidi: wow
Heidi: the sick thing is
Heidi: I am now wondering how many toes there are in the world
Heidi: or for all time
Heidi: and if that's even possible
Jason: Well
Jason: ...
Jason: wait, I don't have an appropriate response to that
Heidi: I realize it's just X*10
Heidi: which X = everyone ever
Jason: more like X*9.3, or whatever the average is
Heidi: WTF
Jason: well
Heidi: 9.3?
Jason: missing toes, extra toes
Heidi: EXTRA TOES
Heidi: WHERE ARE YOU SHRIMPING
Jason: I'm guessing it trends more towards missing
Heidi: no way it's 9.3
Jason: 9.93 then
Jason: I don't know
Heidi: I mean, I'll give you a decimal place
Heidi: I am *happy* you don't have that statistic
Heidi: because if you did I would be, um, a little weirder out. or maybe just impressed
Jason: What's giving me pause is that someone, somewhere, has this info
Heidi: you know, this conversation has unintentionally spawned way too much thought for my tastes this late in the day
Youtube playlist: client1 →
I was rather pleased listening to this playlist last night and this morning. Bands included: Client, Ladytron, Miss Kittin and the Hacker, Broadcast, Creme Blush, Fischerspooner.
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'Hella Big': Soon To Be A Scientific Measurement? →
ernie:
Unless you grew up in the church in the Bay Area when you were a kid and couldn’t say “hell.” Then, of course, you would say “hecka.” “Planet Ohsnap is 150 heckameters away.” Boom, sold.
That headline is misleading, unfortunately. What’s going on is a UC Davis physics major has started a petition to make “hella” the prefix denoting 10^27 in units of measurement, but...
