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Zero72
20 Dec 2006, 10:32
Yeah, recap rooms are rather dull.Must make it slightly harder to enjoy Mega Man. :p

Zero72
22 Dec 2006, 17:40
So there's one place left that has one copy left of the GC version of Twilight Princess.
AND I BUY IT FOR SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME. STUPID CHRISTMAS!

Paul.Power
22 Dec 2006, 21:41
I dare you to find a MIDI arrangement of a computer game with more sheer BOUNCE than this one.

AndrewTaylor
23 Dec 2006, 11:49
So there's one place left that has one copy left of the GC version of Twilight Princess.
AND I BUY IT FOR SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME. STUPID CHRISTMAS!
We have a spare copy for Wii if that's any help. Though it's only spare until I win my Wii.

Slick
24 Dec 2006, 09:48
Speaking of Wii, I have to urinate. Good bye.:mad:

FutureWorm
24 Dec 2006, 18:46
I got a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate for Christmas. Does anyone have any book/DVD/whatever recommendations?

Star Worms
24 Dec 2006, 19:04
I thought that said $450 then:p. And stop opening presents early;):p

Paul.Power
24 Dec 2006, 21:27
It's a bit hard to with gift tokens, they're in the card.
Speaking of which, I just got a £10 book token from Amy (given she's just got back from Austria, she hasn't really had time for a proper shop).

Star Worms
25 Dec 2006, 11:25
There's a heron sitting on the roof of the house across the road...

MtlAngelus
26 Dec 2006, 01:56
Just saw A Scanner Darkly and Lucky # Slevin... great movies.

FutureWorm
26 Dec 2006, 18:38
Okay, question.
I remember at some point in this thread, people were finding post counts including posts inside of OD. How is that done?

MrBunsy
26 Dec 2006, 21:15
I think you could do it by viewing the source, the post count would actually be there, but not displayed, however all I get now is "<!-- post count disabled -->"

bonz
26 Dec 2006, 21:33
Yep, the postcounts have been completely removed in the source code for a few months now (previously tagged with <--! -->).
Only way to do now is by using the advanced member search options.
Posts in OD have never been countable, AFAIR.
Edit:
I'm #7 with 5701 (non-OD) posts now.

Slick
27 Dec 2006, 00:12
Only way to do now is by using the advanced member search options.
Posts in OD have never been countable, AFAIR.
Edit:
I'm #7 with 5701 (non-OD) posts now.
How exactly do you find that out? :confused:
Anyways...FLCL avatar! :D Glod I love that show.

SupSuper
27 Dec 2006, 00:39
How exactly do you find that out? :confused:
Anyways...FLCL avatar! :D Glod I love that show.You go to Members > Advanced Search and search for yourself with a postcount between X and Y until you finally narrow it down to the exact number there you have it, your postcount.
Example:
Search for SupSuper with less than 4000 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3500 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3900 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3800 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3700 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3750 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3740 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3745 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3744 postcount. Fail.
Thus my postcount is 3744.
And who doesn't love FLCL?

FutureWorm
27 Dec 2006, 03:53
Yep, the postcounts have been completely removed in the source code for a few months now (previously tagged with <--! -->).
I knew this.
Posts in OD have never been countable, AFAIR.
I thought I saw either SargeMcCluck or M3ntal figuring out a way to do it.

SupSuper
27 Dec 2006, 05:40
I thought I saw either SargeMcCluck or M3ntal figuring out a way to do it.You can Search for your Posts in OD and add up the results, but it's rather tiresome since it's limited to 500/search.

Star Worms
29 Dec 2006, 00:34
From what I remember it was reduced to 500 when vB was upgraded. They probably introduced a new default because before I remember it was possible to show all of them at once.

philby4000
29 Dec 2006, 01:44
You go to Members > Advanced Search and search for yourself with a postcount between X and Y until you finally narrow it down to the exact number there you have it, your postcount.
Example:
Search for SupSuper with less than 4000 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3500 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3900 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3800 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3700 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3750 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3740 postcount. Fail.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3745 postcount. Success.
Search for SupSuper with less than 3744 postcount. Fail.
Thus my postcount is 3744.
And who doesn't love FLCL?
3937 whee.

Paul.Power
30 Dec 2006, 17:56
6799.
Bwahaha.

MtlAngelus
31 Dec 2006, 23:22
Just saw a couple Wii's and PS3's at the black market.
$550 for the Wii and $1300 for the PS3.
Holy freakin crap. I also saw a N64 for $50, but I'll rather get a Wii when the price goes back to normal, given that it'll be able to play most of the good N64 games(or eventually, all)

bonz
1 Jan 2007, 14:29
I think we already had "hootenanny".

AndrewTaylor
1 Jan 2007, 14:31
We did, but it was too late to do "The Queen's 100% Off-Topic Message".
Edit: Better now?

MtlAngelus
2 Jan 2007, 10:51
I just found out about Saints Row. And even if it looks like a great game, I would never get around to playing it... it would feel wrong. It's like Rockstar worked hard to make GTA an awesome game, and this guys just come around and steal most of the ideas and just improve a little over them... that's like cheating, I dunno...

Slick
2 Jan 2007, 11:46
Well everything is calm here. By that, I mean uneventfull. I think it's about time to start "messing" with the forumers. But let's try this time to not look like idiots.
A hoax sounds about right to me. Anyone else?

FutureWorm
2 Jan 2007, 20:37
A hoax sounds about right to me. Anyone else?
absolutely but what should we say
we could work the borking of the Forum into this somehow

Zero72
2 Jan 2007, 23:08
*sigh* Not more of this.

Pigbuster
3 Jan 2007, 06:10
I've always wanted to do a fad in which our avatars interact with each other in a blue-ball-machine-type fashion.
Something like... this.
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9462/ballup3.gif
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9462/ballup3.gif
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9462/ballup3.gif
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9462/ballup3.gif
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9462/ballup3.gif
That might be too difficult to work out, though.
But it would be rather interesting, I think.

MtlAngelus
3 Jan 2007, 22:25
Except that the animations don't quite usually load at the same time and they will look de-synched.

AndrewTaylor
3 Jan 2007, 22:44
You could use a continuous stream of water to get around that.

Xinos
4 Jan 2007, 02:41
You write a script so all images load before they show.

MtlAngelus
4 Jan 2007, 10:25
I like AT's idea.
The script idea doesn't really works if you want other people to get the effect does it? It would have to be browser based, or perhaps applied to the forum but I doubt that happening...

MrBunsy
4 Jan 2007, 21:20
Pity that this forum doesn't support remote avs, there's a whole bundle of tricks you can do with them.

AndrewTaylor
5 Jan 2007, 10:19
Pity that this forum doesn't support remote avs, there's a whole bundle of tricks you can do with them.
I think that's why the forum doesn't support them.

SupSuper
5 Jan 2007, 22:12
Everytime I randomly tune into Fox, I'm faced with some sort of sex scene.
Simpsons was right!

Zero72
5 Jan 2007, 23:37
You could also tune into FX and be faced with some sort of sex scene where everybody swears constantly.

FutureWorm
6 Jan 2007, 01:49
You could also tune into FX and be faced with some sort of sex scene where everybody swears constantly.
And shoots each other as well.

SupSuper
6 Jan 2007, 03:09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIu3JMGxk3Q

Slick
6 Jan 2007, 04:44
That seriously is the least of our problems today.
People are dying from hunger over in- hey, hold on...I don't like these "video games " kids our playing. They teach violence, and they follow examples like that. -It's a good thing still go to war. What a nice example for us to teach our kids. You don't kill people in video games, unless they have oil that you need.

SupSuper
7 Jan 2007, 04:55
That seriously is the least of our problems today.
People are dying from hunger over in- hey, hold on...I don't like these "video games " kids our playing. They teach violence, and they follow examples like that. -It's a good thing still go to war. What a nice example for us to teach our kids. You don't kill people in video games, unless they have oil that you need.I have fun pointing out the bull****:
"What do you think will happen when a 9-year-old sits down and plays a videogame that rewards him for shooting cops?" - I think his parents are idiots since none of those games are rated for 9-year-olds.
Then again most of the people against videogame violence seem to completely ignore the fact that we already have ratings and it's not our fault if parents ignore them.
Oh and Microsoft helps terrorists with Flight Simulator. Can't ignore that.
On a much better note:
The Christmas Beard (http://movies.lionhead.com/movie/120381), the proud sequel of The Beard by Worm Mad!

Star Worms
8 Jan 2007, 15:05
Some pupils set the maths depertment at my old school on fire.

Slick
8 Jan 2007, 15:07
WOO! Go them! FIGHT THE ESTABLISHMENT! :cool:
Also, Online Orgy is over run by dipsh!ts. Just to point that out.

MrBunsy
8 Jan 2007, 16:22
Some pupils set the maths depertment at my old school on fire.
Out of an entire school they choose the maths department? The chemistry store cupboard would have been a far more interesting choice!

Star Worms
8 Jan 2007, 20:28
Chemistry is in a super-duper new block with bullet proof glass and strong doors. The maths is in the old building and all you need is to pick a lock to get in. Or smash a single pane of glass.

MrBunsy
8 Jan 2007, 21:26
Well I never.

Pigbuster
9 Jan 2007, 00:00
Also, Online Orgy is over run by dipsh!ts. Just to point that out.
Any specific example of dip?
I tend to just skip posts that look pointless in OO.

Splapp
9 Jan 2007, 00:15
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-233844812484249985&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en Woo!
Warning, contains neck-ham. :(

Pickleworm
9 Jan 2007, 03:03
Any specific example of dip?
I tend to just skip posts that look pointless in OO.
http://forum.team17.co.uk/search.php?do=finduser&u=22847

bonz
9 Jan 2007, 03:10
http://forum.team17.co.uk/search.php?do=finduser&u=22847
HAHAHA !

FutureWorm
9 Jan 2007, 05:31
http://forum.team17.co.uk/search.php?do=finduser&u=22847
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/931/emoticeburnti9.gif
IMG tags are fun :)

AndrewTaylor
9 Jan 2007, 11:29
What I intended to do last night:
Get some shopping done, do some concept sketches for my new project, finish a couple of things on RealVG that I've been meaning to do for ages, and get an early night.
What I actually did last night:
Got some shopping done, then, with the help of my housemate Adam, watched The Usual Suspects, completed the Sunday Times Mensa Test DVD with full marks, and gift wrapped everything in my other housemate's cupboard, as well as some of his refridgerated foodstuffs in shiny Christmas wrapping paper. also, attached gift tags saying "happy unbirthday", "happy January 9th", and "merry Tuesday".
Pictures to follow, assuming survival.
Edit: My favourite part was that as well as gift wrapping his box of Weetabix, I gift wrapped the individual "tubes" of Weetabixes inside it. It'll take him ages to have breakfast.

bonz
9 Jan 2007, 12:40
My favourite part was that as well as gift wrapping his box of Weetabix, I gift wrapped the individual "tubes" of Weetabixes inside it. It'll take him ages to have breakfast.
Hahaha! :D

KamikazeBananze
9 Jan 2007, 16:32
Andrew: That's just mean.
And freakin' hilarious. Good work.

Pigbuster
10 Jan 2007, 05:37
Wow. How long did that take?

AndrewTaylor
10 Jan 2007, 10:31
Not too long. We did it while the film was on.

Pigbuster
11 Jan 2007, 06:50
Is there any story about a positive mutation anywhere?
One of the things about evolution is that it's mostly common sense. If an animal has a positive mutation, then it has a greater chance of survival than it's un-advantaged kin... and so on.
I've only heard about negative mutations, though. Either we haven't observed any positive ones or I just haven't observed the observations.
Now I WANT to believe in evolution, since I think it's a nice theory that doesn't rely on extraordinary things (Intelligent Design) so if any of you could direct me to a story about something having a positive mutation (even if it's a small one), that would seal the deal for me. Possibly something other than an immunization to some disease, please.
Personally, I don't totally disbelieve the ID theory, either. Sometime, far, far into the future, our technology may advance to the point where we are able to create our own universe.
I think that could make a good movie. :p

MtlAngelus
11 Jan 2007, 07:43
I think we could create our own life-form, but I'm not sure about creating our own universe.
Also, Pigbuster, you bork'ed the forum for a sec there: http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5955/borkedrl5.jpg :p

Zero72
11 Jan 2007, 10:43
I really wish that memory recall weren't part of the subconscious mind. I think I have some distant spark of relevant memory, but it's way too far gone for me to sit here and actually remember. I'll try to keep it in mind. :p

AndrewTaylor
11 Jan 2007, 11:19
Is there any story about a positive mutation anywhere?
There are loads, yes. The thing about mutation is that if you take, say, a computer, and randomly chance bits of hardware then 99% of the time you'll make it worse, but just often enough it will be improved, just as drinking random chemicals will kill you 99% of the time, but some will make you healthier. The same is true of mutation: almost all random mutations are detrimental, but not all of them.
Setting aside all the mutations that made mankind and the other creatures, there are a few more recent cases of positive mutations, sickle-cell anaemia being a case in point: usually it's classed as a genetic disorder as it reduces your capacity to get oxygen to your muscles, but it also confers a certain degree of immunity to malaria, so in parts of Africa it is a positive mutation, and is passed on to children. Similarly, colour-blind people (paradoxically) have better perception of certain colours, and autistic people often have astonishing skills in other areas. (If autism was the norm and non-autism was uncommon then there's every chance not being autistic would be considered a disorder.)
There's very, very rarely a mutation which is unequivocally positive because so many things depend on environment; rats are pretty well evolved (i.e., lots of positive mutations), but if you put one in a desert it won't last very long.
Edit: There's a theory I heard a bit ago that's similar to what you said at the end there. it goes like this:
One day, computers will be powerful enough to simulate a whole world, right?
One day, we'll do it, right?
We'll probably do it more than once, right?
The inhabitants of this world won't know it's a simulation, right?
So logically, since there will be more simulations than there are universes, the statistical probability is that this is one of the simulations.

Paul.Power
11 Jan 2007, 18:17
We also have to look at the key difference between Darwinian natural selection and saltationism as the driving force for evolution.
Saltationism is "evolution takes massive, single step positive strides", which is what you seem to be saying.
However, the majority of mutations are tiny, and this is what evolution relies on.
Let's see if I can think of a good analogy everyone here will get. Okay, take Worms Armageddon. I think we're all agreed (certainly on these forums) that it's a good game. Worms World Party is a small modification of the Worms formula, and it is also a good game (you can go on about it being unoriginal and a wate of money if you have W:A, but it's still just as much fun to play).
Worms Blast is a very large deviation from Worms Armageddon. Opinion differs on whether it's any good, but the fact remains that, because Worms Armageddon is a good game, Worms Blast is less likely to be a good game than Worms World Party.
Something similar happens with life. Your average organism is pretty good at living. A small mutation will produce offspring that is also pretty good at living. It might be slightly better, it might be slightly worse, but the difference is small enough that it becomes a question of overall population statistics rather than whether one particular animal is more successful than another. Once you're into this territory, with a large population, natural selection can have a greater effect than random chance.
Large mutations take a good thing and turn it into... no-one knows. It may possibly be good, but it's more likely to be bad, and it's certainly more likely to bad than a small mutation would be. So large mutations tend to be weeded out. Good small mutations, however, build up: after a while, courtesy of natural selection, a good small mutation will become the norm in a population, and then the stage is set for the next good small mutation. It takes time, but we seem to have plenty of that.

Star Worms
11 Jan 2007, 19:48
Speciation only occurs when a population is split. Imagine your town is split in two and from the rest of the world. You can only breed with others on your side. For a start, you're all different to begin with. Some mutations may occur now and again on your side and different ones on the other side. Over a long period of time the two populations may become different species.
It doesn't take a large pressure to make a difference because it happens over many generations. Even just a single gene causing a slight disadvantage would be gradually removed (or thereabouts) from the gene pool.
Positive mutations do occur but it's unlikely going to be very noticeable. It will probably give a very slight advantage and that person or animal wouldn't stand out as being a mutant. Most mutations don't make a difference because they will code for the same amino acid. Those that do are far more likely than not to cause a hiderance to the organism or even death because our genes have been perfected over time through natural selection.

Paul.Power
11 Jan 2007, 19:57
Evolution only occurs when a population is split.No, that's speciation.

Star Worms
12 Jan 2007, 15:47
No, that's speciation.Damn straight. Not sure why I wrote that. *edits*

AndrewTaylor
13 Jan 2007, 17:29
This is something from a new project I'm working on.
29190
Comments?

Paul.Power
13 Jan 2007, 19:14
This is something from a new project I'm working on.
29190
Comments?
Looks rather nice, though I can't say much more because I've only seen one panel.

Star Worms
13 Jan 2007, 19:42
One damn clever parrot: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3430481.stm
Oh it's 2 years old :\

AndrewTaylor
13 Jan 2007, 20:24
Looks rather nice, though I can't say much more because I've only seen one panel.
Very well, have a couple more.
29191
29192

Paul.Power
13 Jan 2007, 20:30
Very well, have a couple more.
29191
29192Heh. Nice.

MonkeyforaHead
13 Jan 2007, 23:16
Well I finally decided, what the hey, I've got a computer I know will run it now, I'll try out the 14-day World of Warcraft trial I got in the Diablo II Battle Chest. So I spend an hour or so installing the game because it is HUEG LIEK XBOX, go through the account creation process, and find that they require a credit card for account activation.
THIS IS A F**KING JOKE. Why do they even offer the option of store-bought time cards, then? I was under the impression this was around as an alternative for those with no access to a credit card. This... just.. buh... what the crap. See if I ever try their lousy game now.

AndrewTaylor
14 Jan 2007, 00:22
Heh. Nice.
Drawing stuff like that is so much quicker and easier with a scanner, it really is. £40 it cost me, and it has a printer and two ink cartidges in it. The ink alone must cost almost that much.

MonkeyforaHead
14 Jan 2007, 03:40
The ink alone must cost almost that much.
You have no idea how right you are. My mom's developed a strategy around printers; whenever one of a decent brand comes on a good sale, she buys it and sets it aside until the present one runs out of ink, then ditches that one (read: offloads it to someone who has some sort of need of it) and sets up the new one.
Why? Because the ink costs more than a printer on a good sale around here.

AndrewTaylor
14 Jan 2007, 11:30
I know, it's ludicrous. Printers are sold for a pittance like consoles and photocopiers so they can overcharge for ink later on, and the upshot of this, basically, is that HP have stupidly subsidised my scanner on the rather bizarre assumption that I'll have to buy a lot if ink for it. And I will, in theory, but that'll come from WH Smiths inside pens.
A scanner on its own would have been double or treble the price I paid.

bonz
14 Jan 2007, 13:55
That's why I use 3rd party ink and refill myself.
But most of the time I shamelessly abuse the color laser printer at work anyway. :D

AndrewTaylor
14 Jan 2007, 14:39
These guys seem cheap: http://www.internet-ink.co.uk/

bonz
14 Jan 2007, 15:04
These guys seem cheap: http://www.internet-ink.co.uk/
And they have friendly smile.

AndrewTaylor
14 Jan 2007, 15:27
Yes, clearly they're up to something.
Here's mre of the above:
http://apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html
Comments?

bonz
14 Jan 2007, 15:38
http://apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html
Comments?
Very nice. Keep going!
I really like the spy movie spoof genre.
(That's why I like the Austin powers movies and love the No One Lives Forever games.)

Star Worms
14 Jan 2007, 20:27
Hold your wee for a wii. Someone's going to get sued badly after a woman died:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6261509.stm

MonkeyforaHead
14 Jan 2007, 22:55
Hold your wee for a wii. Someone's going to get sued badly after a woman died:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6261509.stm
Oh great Nintendo, thanks a lot your lousy naming scheme has killed someone now :mad:
I honestly didn't know you could die from drinking too much water, though. :-/

Zero72
14 Jan 2007, 23:40
I picked up an iTrip, which is a little dongle that attaches to the docking port of an iPod and broadcasts it on a local FM frequency that can be picked up by... well, anything that can pick up FM radio, such as my car radio. And, theoretically, the radio at work, but I'm not too anxious to go prancing in there with my iPod.

AndrewTaylor
15 Jan 2007, 00:34
Oh great Nintendo, thanks a lot your lousy naming scheme has killed someone now :mad:
I honestly didn't know you could die from drinking too much water, though. :-/
Too much anything kills.

SupSuper
15 Jan 2007, 03:56
Too much anything kills.Yeah but the body disposes of excess water more easily.

Star Worms
15 Jan 2007, 08:51
Yeah but the body disposes of excess water more easily.Well exactly... she wasn't.

Xinos
15 Jan 2007, 09:13
I just dreamt about this forum... not sure what, but people where posting stuff.
Oh, and did I hear someone say something down the line of XBOX IS HUEG?
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2593/1168691437348ya1.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1168691437348ya1.jpg)

bloopy
15 Jan 2007, 09:56
Oh, and did I hear someone say something down the line of XBOX IS HUEG?
Yeah probably. It's almost as big as a PS3.

AndrewTaylor
15 Jan 2007, 10:29
Oh great Nintendo, thanks a lot your lousy naming scheme has killed someone now :mad:
I hope you're joking because the alternative is that you're an idiot.

bonz
15 Jan 2007, 12:14
Yeah but the body disposes of excess water more easily.
Only a maximum of 1.5 liters per hour if you have 2 healthy kidneys.

AndrewTaylor
15 Jan 2007, 14:03
What we need, then... is more kidneys. I'm going for about six. Five would probably do, but symmetry is important.

Star Worms
15 Jan 2007, 16:44
Try looking on eBay.

worMatty
15 Jan 2007, 23:14
Paves the way quite nicely for health warnings on bottled water.

Paul.Power
15 Jan 2007, 23:59
You know, there are far less stringent safety checks on bottled water than there are on tap water...
My parents insist on buying it me in pubs though, so it doesn't look like they're freeloading.

AndrewTaylor
16 Jan 2007, 01:19
I've put another strip up at http://apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html (#4)
It's pretty paradigmatic of the sort of freedom I never really had with Apathy. I liked Apathy for that, in a way, because it made it unlike almost every webcomic there is, but it did make it harder to write for extended periods without repeating myself (which I did once or twice, I think).
This is partly why I've gone with a slightly scruffier font and variable panel size/number. I've not yet decided if I'm going to allow repeated (though probably usually implicit) physical violence against the characters to be immediately resolved in the next strip.

bonz
16 Jan 2007, 01:44
I've put another strip up at http://apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html (#4)
Very nice!
I guess I'll have to finally start reading the complete Apathy archive...

FutureWorm
16 Jan 2007, 04:30
I picked up an iTrip, which is a little dongle that attaches to the docking port of an iPod and broadcasts it on a local FM frequency that can be picked up by... well, anything that can pick up FM radio, such as my car radio. And, theoretically, the radio at work, but I'm not too anxious to go prancing in there with my iPod.
If you're thinking of overriding a ****ty radio station, you're out of luck. It's designed to not be able to override existing radio signals.

Zero72
16 Jan 2007, 09:51
Did a pretty good job of that, actually.

Star Worms
16 Jan 2007, 10:41
Oh them good ol' days with those radio thingamajigs.

MonkeyforaHead
17 Jan 2007, 02:39
You durn whippersnappers don't know how lucky you are to have radio, back in my day we had to bang really big sticks together from the mountaintops to broadcast in morse code mmrhugeuph where's my Penicillin

Zero72
17 Jan 2007, 10:07
I am SO glad I got this little thing. I also decided it was worth it to bring it into work and finally hear something other than that godawful radio station that plays almost 3 different songs all the freaking time. Problem is, it eats the iPod's battery life like nobody's business, so I can listen to it for maybe half the shift, saving a little juice for the ride home.

AndrewTaylor
17 Jan 2007, 10:31
You durn whippersnappers don't know how lucky you are to have radio, back in my day we had to bang really big sticks together from the mountaintops to broadcast in morse code mmrhugeuph where's my Penicillin
You got Penicillin? We had to make do with brown bread!
And it was mouldy!

Worm-Nut
17 Jan 2007, 12:02
Well I finally decided, what the hey, I've got a computer I know will run it now, I'll try out the 14-day World of Warcraft trial I got in the Diablo II Battle Chest. So I spend an hour or so installing the game because it is HUEG LIEK XBOX, go through the account creation process, and find that they require a credit card for account activation.
THIS IS A F**KING JOKE. Why do they even offer the option of store-bought time cards, then? I was under the impression this was around as an alternative for those with no access to a credit card. This... just.. buh... what the crap. See if I ever try their lousy game now.
That does seem illogical. I believe one of my friends pays with timecards, I'll ask him about it. I play World of Warcraft, and it's awesome. Although I would not recommend getting addicted to it unless you have more free time than you could shake a stick at - it's murder on homework. Taking into account that they have 6 million? subscribers, it's no surprise they haven't updated an old trial set.

SupSuper
17 Jan 2007, 15:41
Most accounts' "free trial" require a credit card anyways, so they can get you to pay as soon as the trial is over. Sad, I know. :(

Paul.Power
17 Jan 2007, 18:24
dA seems to be down. Anyone else have this trouble?

worMatty
17 Jan 2007, 22:42
None of the web sites I frequently visit have shown any signs of depression.

AndrewTaylor
17 Jan 2007, 23:34
One more:
http://apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html
I might have to make a site for these. Though that would suggest also making an update schedule and that's not how I like to work. Comments from someone other than bonz would be nice.

philby4000
18 Jan 2007, 01:38
The art's fine, the text layout correct and the writing great.
You're doing it right.
There's not much else to say.

bonz
18 Jan 2007, 03:27
Comments from someone other than bonz would be nice.
Why?
Do you fear that people will think you paid me for commending your work? :D
BTW, is that controlling henchman the same as the protagonist from Apathy, only older and with gray hair?

Pigbuster
18 Jan 2007, 05:54
I have to finish 2 essays by tomorrow for the Wallin Scholarship.
Granted, they're about me and my aspirations, so it should flow out pretty easily, but... it's a lot of pressure. If I don't get this scholarship, I will be in a hell of a lot of debt when I get out of the college I'm looking at.
And the fact that I've become hopelessly addicted to making scripted modifier courses (Stepmania courses that make the arrows do all sorts of crazy crap like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zt2cLQN6G4)) isn't helping at all.

Zero72
18 Jan 2007, 09:31
I'm thinking of performing a large and brutal file organizing overhaul. Well, just for MP3's, I guess. Right now I have them in folders organized according to how I recieved them, but I'm thinking it might be a better idea to organize by type/genre. Mostly because this just doesn't seem like any way to treat an iPod. I could just create different playlists in iTunes, but that'd probably be even more work.

AndrewTaylor
18 Jan 2007, 11:02
BTW, is that controlling henchman the same as the protagonist from Apathy, only older and with gray hair?
Hmm. There are a couple of Apathy-looking people in there. The Health and Danger representative could be Gary if he gelled his hair up, and the henchman-with-hair looks like a more chiselled version of Jack. I didn't mean either to be the same character; they're just easy shapes to draw and distinguish so they're good for recurring characters. Not that I particularly know who will recur yet -- I've just been drawing whoever the strip seems to require. I can't see Health And Danger going away, though, and the guards are always useful people to have in the case.
I think I'll have to add some canteen staff and Dr Malevolex into the mix at some stage. Also the characters might acquire names. If they're lucky.

Paul.Power
18 Jan 2007, 11:20
Good stuff.
- Actually, why do we keep that on the boil in an area where lots of people work?
- That is also the policy
LOL. Although wouldn't that come under "health" more than "danger"?
Sorry, I'm nitpicking.

AndrewTaylor
18 Jan 2007, 11:47
I did think about that and decided that if anyone questioned it, long-term health risks were considered irrelevant due to the average life-expectancy of evil henchmen being what it is.

bonz
18 Jan 2007, 13:33
I'm thinking of performing a large and brutal file organizing overhaul. Well, just for MP3's, I guess. Right now I have them in folders organized according to how I recieved them, but I'm thinking it might be a better idea to organize by type/genre. Mostly because this just doesn't seem like any way to treat an iPod. I could just create different playlists in iTunes, but that'd probably be even more work.
I had my MP3s sorted by genre for a long time. It proved to unflexible though, as I got more and more music that isn't easily describable and I got more and more genre folders with only a handful of bands in it.
I then sorted them alphabetically, ignoring the "the" in all the "the"-bands, except for "The (International) Noise Conspiracy", with a folder for each band and chronologically sorted (year of release) subfolders for each album therein.
I also moved single, non-album songs into a "miscellaneous" subfolder and ditched all other single songs from bands that I don't have at least one album.
I usually make playlists of a band's whole chronologic discography and listen to their opus at once.
Also the characters might acquire names. If they're lucky.
I think henchmen in an evil organization must not have names. One could relate with them too much then. And as we all know evil henchmen are very replaceable and usually die like flies.

AndrewTaylor
18 Jan 2007, 13:37
I merged all my MP3s into one MP3 so I could listen to them all simultaneously. Also, this way I can fit all my music on my decade old MP3 player.

bonz
18 Jan 2007, 14:29
I merged all my MP3s into one MP3 so I could listen to them all simultaneously. Also, this way I can fit all my music on my decade old MP3 player.
Nice idea.
When opened 17,195 instances of Winamp and one instance of Audiorecorder my computer crashes though.

AndrewTaylor
18 Jan 2007, 14:42
Oh, I have one of those new 17,196-core processors, see. I think it's an AMD.

MrBunsy
18 Jan 2007, 16:41
I have to finish 2 essays by tomorrow for the Wallin Scholarship.The what? I'm curious, I didn't think Wallin was a common name.

Pigbuster
18 Jan 2007, 22:13
It's a good scholarship, it would give me a significant amount of money each year...
I've forgotten how much. My parents know more about this than I do. <- SAD :)
http://scrapsofcrap.com/
http://scrapsofcrap.com/a/lovepipe.gif
Little meaningless scraps uploaded often.
And you can send in your own!

worMatty
19 Jan 2007, 00:28
At first I thought the drawing was a bit of a step down from Apathy, but now I don't mind it, and I like its rough and sketchy style. I like the way you're approaching this, by letting the characters develop naturally. Too much planning is bad. I can see Health and Danger guy popping up again, too. He'll be a good recurring punchline or target.
In response to Zeor's comment, when you're working for a mad scientist, you have to take in to account that crazy experiments may see you cloned and, if you watch enough Stargate SG-1, your concsiousness transferred to your new body. It happened in Half-Life.
Yes folks it's THAT GOOD telly that you'll literally jump out of your skin to a new body to continue to watch it.

Zero72
19 Jan 2007, 08:37
In response to Zeor's comment, when you're working for a mad scientist, you have to take in to account that crazy experiments may see you cloned and, if you watch enough Stargate SG-1, your concsiousness transferred to your new body. It happened in Half-Life.... Huh?

AndrewTaylor
19 Jan 2007, 09:32
So now you see how to organise your MP3s, right, Zero?
At first I thought the drawing was a bit of a step down from Apathy, but now I don't mind it, and I like its rough and sketchy style.
I'm in two minds. It's less "polished" than Apathy was because it's scanned -- so there's a few random flecks of black in coloured areas and of white in the black lines, and that also means that I can't repeatedly undo something and redraw it. But I've taken to sketching out in pencil before applying my big, chunky, variable-line-width pen, so I think generally the composition is better. Personally, I prefer the overall look this way gives me, and it's a lot more fun to draw because it's quicker and more natural and because I get to draw a bigger variety of stuff.
Edit: Also I've been doing bigger facial features, and I think that helps a lot.

philby4000
19 Jan 2007, 14:03
I'm in two minds. It's less "polished" than Apathy was because it's scanned -- so there's a few random flecks of black in coloured areas and of white in the black lines,
That can be fixed relatively quickly through cunning use of the magic wand tool.
But that's only helpful if you're using a progrm with a magic wand tool.:p

AndrewTaylor
19 Jan 2007, 14:22
Of course I am. What programme doesn't have magic wand these days?
But I don't know about "relatively quickly". The way I've been doing it is to scan it at high resolution, flood-fill it, then resample it down so the fills are antialiased nicely. I'm not even sure what the magic wand would do about it. Generally the flecks are odd pixels, though, which tend to vanish anyway on resizing.

bonz
19 Jan 2007, 17:27
What programme doesn't have magic wand these days?
cmd.exe ?

Pickleworm
19 Jan 2007, 20:40
Youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=xmsV9R8FsDA), youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=V_XdX9kcP3g) youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=T79AIEe4mm0) youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=zzFYsZRpHEU) (this is really old but really funny and I haven't been linked to it ever) youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=L6cK-nDd_bI) google video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7427670564634124906). Youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4qfeFqEbGUc) youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=qZUKBCupZaA&mode=related&search=).

philby4000
19 Jan 2007, 20:52
Of course I am. What programme doesn't have magic wand these days?
Flash.
Or at leeast it doesn't have a Magic wand tool I can work out how to use.:p
I hope Adobe put some of photoshop's tools into the next version. Flash with photoshop's line tool is something I fantasize about,
But I don't know about "relatively quickly". The way I've been doing it is to scan it at high resolution, flood-fill it, then resample it down so the fills are antialiased nicely. I'm not even sure what the magic wand would do about it. Generally the flecks are odd pixels, though, which tend to vanish anyway on resizing.
Obviously it's not a problem at the resolution you work at. It's probably not a problem at the resolution I work at either, but I can't stand having white (or even transparant) pixels dotted about.
Usualy I select all the lines I want too keep, invert selection and clear to remove the flecks of black, then I select all the areas of white, invert selection, clear then flood fill the selected area black (with the contiguous setting turned off) to get of the white flecks.

AndrewTaylor
19 Jan 2007, 22:58
Flash.
Or at leeast it doesn't have a Magic wand tool I can work out how to use.:p
What? Flash is vector art -- surely the regular object-selection tool is the "magic wand"?

philby4000
20 Jan 2007, 00:21
Not really.
I can't select all the items that are the same colour with that tool.
there is a magic wand, but it's function aludes me.

worMatty
20 Jan 2007, 01:01
Sounds wanderful.

SupSuper
20 Jan 2007, 16:03
As Andrew pointed out, the Magic Wand is of no point in vector art. The Magic Wand is for imported bitmaps in Flash.

thomasp
20 Jan 2007, 23:07
Note: the following post only really applies to British people.
I rarely read The Sun, but occasionally if there's been a certain kind of news story going on and I want a laugh I'll pop over to www.thesun.co.uk and see what they've got.
This has to be one of the most biased articles ever - it's a "great" read: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,11049-2007030346,00.html I find it quite frightening what kind of image they paint of Jade Goody - and the scary thing is a lot of people read The Sun - and believe it.
Note, for non-British viewers, The Sun is an often highly-biased tabloid newspaper giving "less than accurate" news reports. It is also the highest-circulated newspaper in the UK.
Big Brother as I'm sure most of you know is a show where members of the public (or in this case, Celebrities*) are locked in a house for a number of weeks. This is the 4th (I think) Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, and there have been 7 general-public ones, each one getting progressively worse. BB is seen (well, in my eyes) as the lowest-of-the-low of British TV
*Jade Goody is only a Celebrity due to Big Brother. She was in one of the earlier "public" shows and was known for her general stupidity and making it very well known she was severely lacking in the IQ department. She didn't win but became famous as a result.

worMatty
20 Jan 2007, 23:53
Which part of the article is supposed to be controversial, exactly?
I wish I'd watched Big Brother now so I could have seen for myself what was said and in what context it was. I'm not content with accepting the second-hand reports of a tabloid newspaper that doesn't publish any or all real evidence.

thomasp
20 Jan 2007, 23:55
Which part of the article is supposed to be controversial, exactly?
I wish I'd watched Big Brother now so I could have seen for myself what was said and in what context it was. I'm not content with accepting the second-hand reports of a tabloid newspaper that doesn't publish any or all real evidence.
None of that particular article - I was commenting on what kind of light it showed Jade and how biased it was.

worMatty
21 Jan 2007, 00:17
I see what you mean now. Sorry, I'm used to ignoring all the extra unnecessary **** they throw in.

Pigbuster
21 Jan 2007, 05:28
Big Brother as I'm sure most of you know is a show where members of the public (or in this case, Celebrities*) are locked in a house for a number of weeks. This is the 4th (I think) Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, and there have been 7 general-public ones, each one getting progressively worse. BB is seen (well, in my eyes) as the lowest-of-the-low of British TV
Big Brother was rather horrible in America too, when it was around.
Though I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here was even worse.
It showed me exactly why Survivor is scripted - because if it wasn't, it would be unbelievably boring.

Paul.Power
21 Jan 2007, 10:53
Thing is (I haven't read the Sun's version of events; I take the Guardian), Jade has to be either racist, thick, or both to say that sort of thing.
And we already knew she was thick.
Only worthwhile reality TV show so far has been Restoration.

AndrewTaylor
21 Jan 2007, 16:22
There's now a version of strip 4 up with a new font I made myself.
http://www.apathysketchpad.com/henchmen/preview.html
I think I prefer it. It's chunkier, like the drawings, and it's more like how I write (on account that I scanned my own writing to make it). Also, there are no copyright worries with a font I made.
Comments?

Paul.Power
21 Jan 2007, 16:28
The Os look a bit odd, and it's now harder to see which text is emphasised, but other than that it's okay.

AndrewTaylor
21 Jan 2007, 16:36
That's because I didn't put any emphasis in.

bonz
21 Jan 2007, 18:02
The new font looks all bold to me. You may want to make the letters a bit thinner and/or make more space between them.
And maybe remove that small dash in your Os. Your K is also one of the harder to read letters.
Other than that it's nice.
Your handwriting must be almost like block letters.

Pickleworm
21 Jan 2007, 22:50
I don't mind the O or the K but the Gs look like lowercase Qs to me.

AndrewTaylor
22 Jan 2007, 10:59
I just won't write anything that uses those letters, then.
Edit: Hang on, the Gs? They're perfectly clear.

MtlAngelus
22 Jan 2007, 12:44
I like the other one more.

philby4000
22 Jan 2007, 15:17
The Ks and Os devfinitely need tweaking. The Gs are fine.

Paul.Power
22 Jan 2007, 17:55
I don't mind the O or the K but the Gs look like lowercase Qs to me.Shouldn't the fact that every other letter is uppercase make people realise that they aren't lowercase Qs?
Anyway, why does red compress so horribly in JPEGs?

worMatty
22 Jan 2007, 22:31
The J.P.E.G. supports Everton?
I agree with Bonz. It looks a bit crowded. Have you had a look at http://www.blambot.com?

AndrewTaylor
22 Jan 2007, 22:53
The J.P.E.G. supports Everton?
I agree with Bonz. It looks a bit crowded. Have you had a look at http://www.blambot.com?
Well obviously I have, as the old font came from there, and Apathy's font came from there, and I mentioned them in the post about the sodding font!

worMatty
23 Jan 2007, 00:44
Did you?
12345678910

Pickleworm
23 Jan 2007, 00:53
Shouldn't the fact that every other letter is uppercase make people realise that they aren't lowercase Qs?
I guess my brain is just screwed up v:)v
Whenever I see the letter I only realize it's a G on the second glance, but I have no problems with any of the other letters and if I read the comic on a regular basis the Gs wouldn't bother me at all.
Just ignore me, it's not important.

AndrewTaylor
23 Jan 2007, 00:56
Did you?
12345678910
I did in one of them. I'm crossposting across two forums.

MtlAngelus
23 Jan 2007, 09:11
thomasp is no fun D:
He keeps closing the threads I want to reply to.:(
:p

thomasp
23 Jan 2007, 09:16
thomasp is no fun D:
He keeps closing the threads I want to reply to.:(
:p
:rolleyes:

Paul.Power
23 Jan 2007, 09:28
Seriously, why does red compress so horribly? (Compared with blue and green)

bonz
23 Jan 2007, 13:37
Seriously, why does red compress so horribly? (Compared with blue and green)
It has the larger wave length of course.

Paul.Power
23 Jan 2007, 13:51
But why would that affect the compression algorithm?

bonz
23 Jan 2007, 14:29
But why would that affect the compression algorithm?
That was a joke of course.
I have no idea.
Perhaps because JPG uses lossy compression. I always use PNG, as it is lossless, allows and transparency.

philby4000
23 Jan 2007, 15:44
Perhaps because JPG uses lossy compression.
Thanks for that, Sherlock.
Maybe red compresses just as well as other colours, but the damage caused is simply more noticeable.

MrBunsy
23 Jan 2007, 22:41
thomasp is no fun D:
He keeps closing the threads I want to reply to.:(
:p
And on that note, this thread is going nowhere
*Thread closed*If every thread that went nowhere was closed, there wouldn't be much left open :p

thomasp
23 Jan 2007, 22:49
If every thread that went nowhere was closed, there wouldn't be much left open :p
FINE THEN. I'M SICK TO DEATH OF ALL YOUR COMPLAINING. HAVE IT YOUR WAY, SEE IF I CARE. :mad::mad::mad::mad:
*Demods self*

bonz
23 Jan 2007, 22:51
*Demods self*
Can I take over your place then? :D

thomasp
23 Jan 2007, 22:53
Dear Mr. Bonz,
Thank you for your application.
We regret to announce that you have been unsuccesful. Unfortunately, there are currently no user moderator positions are currently available. We thank you for taking the time to apply for this position and wish you all the best for the future.
Yours,
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bloopy
24 Jan 2007, 06:26
If every thread that went nowhere was closed, there wouldn't be much left open :p
There probably wouldn't be anything left open, because all the ones that went somewhere would be locked for going off topic. :p

Zero72
24 Jan 2007, 09:11
I think I've caught some sort of slow-motion cold. It started setting in like 4 days ago and I'm still not quite beyond "noticably icky-feeling." Maybe it's a replay of a previous one, slowed down so I can notice all the details.
Not going into a Postive/Negative Events thread, because it may end up getting me an extra day off of work, which is always a good thing.

AndrewTaylor
24 Jan 2007, 10:21
I look forward to your first slow-motion sneeze.

Zero72
24 Jan 2007, 11:57
Whoa, didn't even think of that. I'll have to keep my camera handy.

thomasp
24 Jan 2007, 15:50
Whoa, didn't even think of that. I'll have to keep my camera handy.
*Covers screen*

SupSuper
24 Jan 2007, 16:14
I tried blowing my nose without a tissue.
...
Seriously.

thomasp
24 Jan 2007, 16:22
I tried blowing my nose without a tissue.
...
Seriously.
*Ducks*
*Surfaces*
*Removes laptop from desk*
*Ducks again*

Star Worms
24 Jan 2007, 22:52
Power to the people! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6295633.stm

MonkeyforaHead
25 Jan 2007, 01:05
I tried blowing my nose without a tissue.
...
Seriously.
I tried that once, too. Didn't work out too well.
I think I damaged my sinuses if anything. :p

Pigbuster
25 Jan 2007, 04:38
It happens when you're carrying something in both hands.
Or you're outside in winter without gloves on, and you want to keep them in your pockets.

Zero72
25 Jan 2007, 06:09
I think I absentmindedly did it once when I had a clogged nose really driving me nuts. I was just like "honk" wtf did I just do

Pickleworm
25 Jan 2007, 12:48
I did it in the shower once because tissues don't work very well when you're in the shower.

Paul.Power
25 Jan 2007, 13:37
I'm pretty sure I must have done it at least once in my long and illustrious noseblowing career.

AndrewTaylor
25 Jan 2007, 13:38
This conversation is disgusting.

bonz
25 Jan 2007, 14:47
Blowing your nose without the use of your hands (i.e. fingers)?
I think that'll be messy most of the time, as you can build up enough pressure to blow out the ooze far enough.

SupSuper
25 Jan 2007, 21:39
Blowing your nose without the use of your hands (i.e. fingers)?
I think that'll be messy most of the time, as you can build up enough pressure to blow out the ooze far enough.
The green gooey slime made it to the mirror, yes.
I would've taken a picture if I could.

Pickleworm
26 Jan 2007, 02:33
The green gooey slime made it to the mirror, yes.
I would've taken a picture if I could.
The mental image alone makes me dry heave

Zero72
26 Jan 2007, 04:39
Fun fact: I'm eating

Paul.Power
26 Jan 2007, 11:07
Any idea how to anti-aliase in GIMP?
For example, to get this looking smooth and less pixellated.
Gaussian Blur doesn't seem to do the job.

thomasp
26 Jan 2007, 11:49
Any idea how to anti-aliase in GIMP?
For example, to get this looking smooth and less pixellated.
Gaussian Blur doesn't seem to do the job.
Save it as a low-compression JPEG?
I know it won't achieve quite the desired effect, but close enough :p

AndrewTaylor
26 Jan 2007, 11:55
Any idea how to anti-aliase in GIMP?
For example, to get this looking smooth and less pixellated.
Gaussian Blur doesn't seem to do the job.
I used Paint Shop when I did that same effect earlier in this thread, and I used the cunning ploy of working at a higher resolution than the final image. Failing that I expect dilating and eroding an anti-aliased selection ought to work.

Paul.Power
26 Jan 2007, 12:05
Oh well, I ended up using Sobel Edge Detect.
Thing is, I did resize... but I added the text and bubbles after the resize...
*tries Dilate/Erode*
No, that just leaves it unchanged...

AndrewTaylor
26 Jan 2007, 12:29
How are you getting your selection in the first place? If that's antialiased then the eroded/dilated versions should be as well. If not, then they won't be.
I can't remember how good the GIMP is as getting selections from (presumably) text.

Paul.Power
26 Jan 2007, 14:07
How are you getting your selection in the first place? If that's antialiased then the eroded/dilated versions should be as well. If not, then they won't be.
I can't remember how good the GIMP is as getting selections from (presumably) text.
Text layer to image size
Select everything that isn't text (non-AA)
Invert selection
Grow 5
New Layer - fill white
Border 1
New Layer - fill black
Never mind, finished now: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/47418759/

AndrewTaylor
26 Jan 2007, 14:14
That's roughly what I do, but I work in hi-res so I need to use much larger numbers.

Paul.Power
26 Jan 2007, 18:00
Fair enough.
I used to do a lot of hi-res stuff, but then I realised that the main thing it did was give me unbelievably huge files.
Anyway:
pauldotpower: Remember in Reception when they used to make us trace out letters and numbers?
pauldotpower: WHY?
pauldotpower: I DAMN WELL KNOW WHAT A 2 LOOKS LIKE, WHY DO I NEED TO TRACE IT?
pauldotpower: *ahem*
SupSuper: ...right
Ben / S2K: Magical.
SupSuper: that's why i don't voicechat with you people. it feels like i'm in a completely different dimension
:p

Paul.Power
28 Jan 2007, 11:26
جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
hi min ma3i ana boudi
Paul.Power says:
Sorry, what?
جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
i am boudi you?
Paul.Power says:
Paul
جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
acabei e atualiza meu novo flog, visita ae e ei
Paul.Power says:
Eh what pardon?
... what on Earth?

bonz
28 Jan 2007, 13:16
... what on Earth?
Seems like you haven't paid any attention in your Arabic classes back in school.

Paul.Power
28 Jan 2007, 13:21
Seems like you haven't paid any attention in your Arabic classes back in school.I only ever had one, and that was during a primary school visit to a mosque.
I did wonder whether "hi min ma3i ana boudi" and "acabei e atualiza meu novo flog, visita ae e ei" was Arabic in Roman script. It looked a bit like Spanish, which of course is hybrid Latin/Arabic.

AndrewTaylor
28 Jan 2007, 13:28
Of course.

SupSuper
28 Jan 2007, 19:20
Actually the last line is Brazilian. No, I don't get why either. The whole thing roughly translates to this:
جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
hi my name is ana boudi
Paul.Power says:
Sorry, what?
جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
i am boudi you?
Paul.Power says:
Paul
جمالك جمال القمر ... و انت القمر ........فهل يعقل ان يمشي القمر على الارض says:
i finished and updated my new flog (blog?), visit it eh?
Paul.Power says:
Eh what pardon?

Paul.Power
28 Jan 2007, 21:45
Aside from the fact I'm not a habitual blog reader (because I'm not a habitual blogger. I'm actually bloody impressed I've managed to write 22 Peripherals articles roughly on schedule - even if it has included a few fillers)
EDIT: Damn, forgot I had a sentence to finish there. Aside from the fact I'm not a habitual blog reader, he didn't actually provide a URL for it.
EDIT 2: Sequence for y'all:
1
2
6
12
60
60
420
...
Have a guess at the next term.
Have a guess at the 16th term, if you feel so bold.

bloopy
29 Jan 2007, 09:22
EDIT 2: Sequence for y'all:
1
2
6
12
60
60
420
...
Have a guess at the next term.
Have a guess at the 16th term, if you feel so bold.
Hmm, how about this:
Next term: 1680
16th term: 40642560000

Paul.Power
29 Jan 2007, 17:14
Hmm, how about this:
Next term: 1680
16th term: 40642560000Sorry, no. Both are quite a bit smaller. In fact, you could say smallness is the object of the excercise.

Squirminator2k
29 Jan 2007, 17:31
We interrupt this number sequence for an important announcement:
29264

bloopy
29 Jan 2007, 20:33
Sorry, no. Both are quite a bit smaller. In fact, you could say smallness is the object of the excercise.
There's too many possibilities for such a short sequence I guess... I was hoping there might be an easy formula to it and I found a pattern in the factors between the terms. :p

Paul.Power
29 Jan 2007, 20:36
There's too many possibilities for such a short sequence I guess... I was hoping there might be an easy formula to it and I found a pattern in the factors between the terms. :pI'll give you a few more then. Terms 1 to 12
1
2
6
12
60
60
420
840
2520
2520
27720
27720
So term 8 is 840. Try for 13, 14, 15 and 16.

bloopy
29 Jan 2007, 20:54
Actually just realised what it was before you added more.
16th term: 720720

Paul.Power
29 Jan 2007, 21:00
Actually just realised what it was before you added more.
16th term: 720720
Hooray!
(For those who don't know, each number is the LCM of all the natural numbers up to and including the position of the number
1 is the LCM of 1
2 is the LCM of 1 and 2
6 is the LCM of 1, 2 and 3
12 of 1, 2, 3 and 4
60 of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 - and 6, hence the repeat
And so on.

bloopy
29 Jan 2007, 22:00
Maths. Yum. (http://www.kellogg.com.au/DisplayPage.asp?PageID=310&brandid=22)

Paul.Power
29 Jan 2007, 22:34
Everything seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator these days.

thomasp
29 Jan 2007, 22:40
I've a good mind to slap you with something, Mr. Power :p
I've been doing too much maths, statistics and physicsy revision stuff recently to appreciate any wannabe mathemagicians.
You will be held wholly responsible when my brain explodes then implodes.
:)

Zero72
30 Jan 2007, 10:08
We interrupt this number sequence for an important announcement:
29264Not sure about him, but I'm quite sure I'm doing the guitar solo from Free Bird. Yeah, definitely.

Paul.Power
30 Jan 2007, 18:26
Why is it that when you breath in normally your stomach goes out, but when you take a deep breath, it goes in?
EDIT: This is my 999th post in 100%OT.

worMatty
30 Jan 2007, 21:27
Did you try softening the speech bubbles?
The text is too small and soft to read easily.

SupSuper
30 Jan 2007, 23:15
"Hello SupSuper, We at Team17 Forum would like to wish you a happy birthday today"
I thought the Team17 Forum server was on GMT. :confused:

thomasp
30 Jan 2007, 23:19
"Hello SupSuper, We at Team17 Forum would like to wish you a happy birthday today"
I thought the Team17 Forum server was on GMT. :confused:
Yeah, for some reason the birthday mailers get sent out at 2300 server time (either GMT or GMT+1/BST) the day before your birthday.
happy birthday for tomorrow :D (or when you read this, possibly today)

FutureWorm
31 Jan 2007, 00:26
Why is it that when you breath in normally your stomach goes out, but when you take a deep breath, it goes in?
EDIT: This is my 999th post in 100%OT.
That made me curious, it did.
Paul.Power 999
Zero72 881
MtlAngelus 815
UnKnown X 626
SupSuper 608
SomePerson 569
AndrewTaylor 522
FutureWorm 511
MonkeyforaHead 447
Worm-Nut 445
KamikazeBananze 366
Star Worms 356
Blinx 267
OldSkoolCrazy 264
BetongÅsna 256
Pickleworm 251
philby4000 223
SargeMcCluck 205
K^2 200
PinkWorm 199
Pigbuster 182
War Worm 163
Slick 116
Worm Mad 104
tundraH 104
thomasp 100
worMatty 96
Vader 95
bonz 94
Test Zero 73
bloopy 64
FatWhitey 64
Splapp 56
Xinos 40
rambo_6 34
Traxada 29
Squirminator2k 28
Lex 27
ThePaladin 24
MrBunsy 21
Madmaxquinn 20
mocoworm 16
Glenn 15
kamikazeee 15
wormsfreak 13
HuntaKilla 12
Newt X 11
Kjatte 10
Run 10
Plutonic 9
Dim Worm 9
CyberShadow 6
Lawd 6
Sel 3
NZkiwi 3
Nutter 3
Error404 2
M3ntal 2
Macobsession 2
Pooka 2
svenneundulat 2
craxxor 2
Helkite 2
KRD 2
Babylon 2
PsyDome 1
Striker 1
Compudragon 1
Apollo 1
I dare someone to read the entire 100%OTT in one sitting.

bonz
31 Jan 2007, 00:30
Why is it that when you breath in normally your stomach goes out, but when you take a deep breath, it goes in?
If you breath normally your diaphragm extends downwards, in the process expanding your lungs for breathing and at the same time pushing away your intestines, thus your stomach goes out.
When you take a very deep breath, first the above mentioned happens, followed by an expansion of the rib cage adding additional volume to the lungs.
But you're right, sometimes if you are also stretching your shoulders back at the same time, your stomach doesn't extend much.

Pickleworm
31 Jan 2007, 00:40
That made me curious, it did.
A lot of those people don't post on here anymore. (or at least in OO/OD)

Zero72
31 Jan 2007, 09:29
"Hello SupSuper, We at Team17 Forum would like to wish you a happy birthday today"
I thought the Team17 Forum server was on GMT. :confused:Yo, word up to yo b-day, Holmes.
Or something.

SupSuper
31 Jan 2007, 11:02
Cheers. :)

bonz
31 Jan 2007, 11:29
Happy Birthday!
Sunny, no clouds & blue sky over Graz today.

Paul.Power
31 Jan 2007, 15:57
First person to reach 1000 posts in 100%OT.
*blows party streamer*
Tricky to believe I've written over one post in eleven in this thread, but there we go.
And thanks bonz. I'm particularly puzzled about when people tell you to breath in so that, e.g., they can squeeze past.

Zero72
1 Feb 2007, 09:48
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/5234/simbeavisandbuttheadsd8.png
I made these and I am a horrible person for it.

bonz
1 Feb 2007, 09:50
I'm particularly puzzled about when people tell you to breath in so that, e.g., they can squeeze past.
That would be a quite useless endevour.
Except maybe they are airheads and actually reroute some of the air up there.

FutureWorm
1 Feb 2007, 19:39
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/5234/simbeavisandbuttheadsd8.png
I made these and I am a horrible person for it.
That is awesome.

Pickleworm
1 Feb 2007, 20:16
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/5234/simbeavisandbuttheadsd8.png
I made these and I am a horrible person for it.
Woah, great job on those

SupSuper
1 Feb 2007, 21:49
And thanks bonz. I'm particularly puzzled about when people tell you to breath in so that, e.g., they can squeeze past.They probably think "breath in" as in "squeeze your stomach in".

Paul.Power
1 Feb 2007, 23:13
Hmm. Maybe when you squeeze your stomach in, you can't breath, so it's better to have air in your lungs than the alternative...

bonz
2 Feb 2007, 00:53
Beavis & Butthead need a couch to sit on and a TV.

Zero72
2 Feb 2007, 09:41
...and that's about it. :p
Not sure how I'm going to use them (if, for that matter)... I can't move them into their own place because they're Teens, meaning I'd have to have at least one adult/elder with them. I'm actually also considering recreating Ganondorf again...
Side note, I'd like to mention that their shorts were both originally khaki in color, but I was able to figure out openCanvas' color value tool. Go, me.
Lastly, I'm gonna try to work on a once-and-for-all Sim Me that's as accurate as I can get it.

Paul.Power
2 Feb 2007, 10:40
Good grief, we've finally beaten Australia on this tour:
England 292/7 (50 ovs) (Joyce 107, Bell 51)
Australia 200/9 (plus one retired hurt) (38.5 ovs) (Hayden 51, Plunkett 3-24)
England win by 92 runs.

Paul.Power
2 Feb 2007, 15:51
Guess what I bought the other day because I couldn't find any of my normal shampoo?

AndrewTaylor
2 Feb 2007, 16:02
Knowing you?
A DS game? A sandwich?

Paul.Power
2 Feb 2007, 16:30
Johnson's Baby Shampoo
Not quite the Lotion, but fairly close.

SupSuper
2 Feb 2007, 18:39
I wish regular shampoos were like baby shampoos. "Oh crap, the shampoo is slipping onto my eyes, OH MY GAWD OH SWEET DEAR GAWD IT BURNS, IT BURNS SO MUCH, WHY WON'T THE PAIN GO AWAY?!?!?!?"

Star Worms
2 Feb 2007, 20:39
Diamond may no longer be the hardest substance: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn11093&feedId=online-news_rss20

MtlAngelus
2 Feb 2007, 20:40
Not sure how I'm going to use them (if, for that matter)... I can't move them into their own place because they're Teens, meaning I'd have to have at least one adult/elder with them. I'm actually also considering recreating Ganondorf again...
What if... you move them with an adult, then get rid of the adult? :p

Star Worms
2 Feb 2007, 21:25
Anyone know what the original Monopoly pieces were? It's bugging me a little. These are the ones I can remember:
Dog, car, hat, ship, wheelbarrow, thimble erm... iron erm... cannon.... Are there any more?
Ah - shoe and horse. Although I don't remember the horse at all.

bonz
2 Feb 2007, 21:31
Anyone know what the original Monopoly pieces were? It's bugging me a little. These are the ones I can remember:
Dog, car, hat, ship, wheelbarrow, thimble erm... iron erm... cannon.... Are there any more?
Ah - shoe and horse. Although I don't remember the horse at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_%28game%29#Equipment
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmonopoly.html

Pigbuster
2 Feb 2007, 21:38
Diamond may no longer be the hardest substance: http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn11093&feedId=online-news_rss20
Diamonds could be broken by a hammer, though.
They're strong against heavy pressure, but not heavy impacts.
I think.
And I'm not sure if I'm just stating the obvious here or not.

bonz
2 Feb 2007, 22:47
ADNRs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregated_diamond_nanorods) .
They don't look as shiny as diamonds though.
http://www.esrf.eu/NewsAndEvents/Spotlight/spotlight25nanorods/

AndrewTaylor
2 Feb 2007, 23:17
Diamonds could be broken by a hammer, though.
They're strong against heavy pressure, but not heavy impacts.
I think.
And I'm not sure if I'm just stating the obvious here or not.
That's why scientists (at least, material scientists and engineers) distunguish between "hardness", "brittleness" and a few kinds of strength. Words that people use without really thinking about suddenly become very hard to define in science, so science adopts a conventional definition for each.

Paul.Power
2 Feb 2007, 23:26
I wish regular shampoos were like baby shampoos. "Oh crap, the shampoo is slipping onto my eyes, OH MY GAWD OH SWEET DEAR GAWD IT BURNS, IT BURNS SO MUCH, WHY WON'T THE PAIN GO AWAY?!?!?!?"Doesn't exactly taste very nice, though.

SupSuper
3 Feb 2007, 00:03
This is awesome!
http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/8493/operadevzh4.png

worMatty
3 Feb 2007, 00:09
Butthead's eyes should be further apart and slightly smaller, and his hair higher at the front.
EDIT: Dan, you sad, sad man. What is it?

Zero72
3 Feb 2007, 00:36
What if... you move them with an adult, then get rid of the adult? :pSounds easy enough. Hell, I could probably even cheat and just delete the adult like an ordinary object. :p

Pigbuster
3 Feb 2007, 02:00
Tony Vs. Paul (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7482907487503529688&q=tony+vs+paul)
The greatest stop motion video I've seen yet.

bonz
3 Feb 2007, 03:18
I like these a lot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u46eaeAfeqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYhhfHYZa5s

Zero72
3 Feb 2007, 04:16
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7281/woofmindsafekg0.png
That's just about as good as I can possibly get it.

FutureWorm
3 Feb 2007, 04:51
This is awesome!
doesn't change the fact that Opera sucks

MtlAngelus
3 Feb 2007, 07:33
doesn't change the fact that Opera sucks
U SUCK! .

Paul.Power
3 Feb 2007, 10:29
Tony Vs. Paul (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7482907487503529688&q=tony+vs+paul)
The greatest stop motion video I've seen yet.Awesomeness.
And not just because one of the characters was called Paul :p

Star Worms
3 Feb 2007, 10:56
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6326425.stm lolz

Paul.Power
3 Feb 2007, 11:05
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6326425.stm lolz
Yet more awesomeness.
We could use one of those on the bit where Birchgrove Road (the B4291) goes through Glais.

bonz
3 Feb 2007, 14:22
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/6326425.stm lolz
Ha!
Police in Austria officially uses such police dummies in critical areas like road works.
Though I have a feeling they do that to not have to be on the road, but stay at the station to play cards.
http://static2.orf.at/vietnam2/images/site/oesterreich/200528/alu-sheriff_153x114.jpg
The one in the picture has been stolen.

Star Worms
3 Feb 2007, 15:31
H5N1 Bird flu is in the UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6327193.stm

bonz
3 Feb 2007, 17:25
H5N1 Bird flu is in the UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/6327193.stm
Meh.
We've had it in Austria before. It's not that great.

SupSuper
4 Feb 2007, 01:34
EDIT: Dan, you sad, sad man. What is it?It's Opera 9.2's new Developer Console. It pretty much allows you to view/edit/debug a webpage during "runtime". :)

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