Author Topic: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread (Read 204862 times)

MLeo · « **Reply #380 on:** April 26, 2008, 05:23:07 PM »

w00t, another Pratchettarian (yeah, I already mentioned Making Money in my previous post)!

The world needs more of them. ;)

Senator · « **Reply #381 on:** April 26, 2008, 05:30:55 PM »

Hey, I am a Pretchettarian too. Let me in the club.

I also happened to have read as a kid, in translation the Truckers / Diggers / Wings series, before "rediscoveing" Pretchet as an author in discworld.

MLeo · « **Reply #382 on:** April 26, 2008, 05:34:19 PM »

I must say his Good Omens is also good, which features on Roundworld instead of Discworld.

Anyone tried Strata (or his other not so much Discworld but featuring space travelers finding a discworld, sorry, I'm a bad Pratchettarian, I forgot the title)?

Senator · « **Reply #383 on:** April 26, 2008, 09:31:23 PM »

I was trying to find some reeeeeeally old games I was playing when still in the single digits in earth sun rotations, and which, were all shareware demos and are a bit of unfinished business. (recently for example, I FINALLY played Duke Nuke 3D all the way to the end), and noticed: One of the Commander Keen games, is titled: "The Invasion of the Vorticons"

And the three legged aliens in Half Life 2 (which originally in Half Life 1 actually invade) are called: Vortigons.

I think that must be a homage/reference.

Senator · « **Reply #384 on:** April 27, 2008, 07:51:24 PM »

Teh Internet!!!!111 (a portion of it)

Mustang · « **Reply #385 on:** April 28, 2008, 10:27:38 AM »

@Senator: That picture of the internet looks suspiciously like a picture of a galaxy in space... still awesome though.

Armondikov · « **Reply #386 on:** April 28, 2008, 10:40:19 AM »

I can't help but think it'd look better in 3D. Although I'm sure modelling it wouldn't be difficult, only visualising it effectively would.

MLeo · « **Reply #387 on:** April 28, 2008, 12:55:37 PM »

Quote from: Armondikov on April 28, 2008, 10:40:19 AM

I can't help but think it'd look better in 3D. Although I'm sure modelling it wouldn't be difficult, only visualising it effectively would.

What is why they flattend it (or layed it out like that).

Maybe a Google Earth overlay would be cool as well.

Senator · « **Reply #388 on:** April 29, 2008, 12:07:13 AM »

I was sure I had seen something similar to that Jetwing

Senator · « **Reply #389 on:** April 29, 2008, 02:15:43 PM »

Mustang · « **Reply #390 on:** May 01, 2008, 10:37:44 AM »

Due to the writer's strike, Jurassic Park IV was delayed until mid to late 2009. Frakking writers.

captain_obvious · « **Reply #391 on:** May 01, 2008, 02:40:23 PM »

Quote from: Mustang on May 01, 2008, 10:37:44 AM

Due to the writer's strike, Jurassic Park IV was delayed until mid to late 2009. Frakking writers.

JP is, and always shall be...BALLS.

Ed Balls is a member of the British labour cabinet.
And is also balls.

Senator · « **Reply #392 on:** May 03, 2008, 03:21:59 PM »

So you know when you are eating spaghetti, with a very nice SPICY sauce, and you are sucking in a forkfull? And the spaghetti at the end whiplashes and spashes some sauce at your eye?

Ouch, fucking OUCH.

Once again the universe conspires against me. :argh:

limey BSc. · « **Reply #393 on:** May 03, 2008, 05:37:03 PM »

Or maybe you could just learn to eat properly

!

Senator · « **Reply #394 on:** May 03, 2008, 06:09:41 PM »

Yes mom.

Senator · « **Reply #395 on:** May 03, 2008, 06:12:50 PM »

WABOT

MLeo · « **Reply #396 on:** May 04, 2008, 07:03:27 AM »

Quote from: Senator on May 03, 2008, 03:21:59 PM

So you know when you are eating spaghetti, with a very nice SPICY sauce, and you are sucking in a forkfull? And the spaghetti at the end whiplashes and spashes some sauce at your eye?

Ouch, fucking OUCH.

Once again the universe conspires against me. :argh:

Wear glasses.

Senator · « **Reply #397 on:** May 07, 2008, 07:59:53 AM »

First, another photo:

Senator · « **Reply #398 on:** May 07, 2008, 08:29:51 AM »

Next, Books.

If interested Cory Doctorow is giving his new scifi book "Little Brother" freely online. Which is interesting because the book is about techno opposition to "Big Brother" in the first place, open source etc etc so it kind of fits the spirit.
I had it for some time in the back of my mind "I got to pick that one up in amazon before I forget it" and today I see it's up for free download. + ebook reader = yay.

That's not the first time it happens btw. Another interesting book (not a story this time), onlike if interested is "Out of Control", dealing with swarm logic etc
( http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/contents.php )

And another good book, (SciFi story this time), whose Author is part of the "new generation" of scifi authors (as opposed to the old one, Asimov, Clark etc), who have heard of Google, Computers with GUIs, Spam etc is "Accelerando"
( http://www.accelerando.org/ ), something which I found out after I bought it in paperback, hmf.

Senator · « **Reply #399 on:** May 08, 2008, 07:30:01 PM »

Here is a useful fact:

You are going to die.
I'd say that most of you have 20,000 days left to live. Tops.
And after you sleep tonight it is going to be 19,999

News:

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