New blog address
And thus the move to another blog system has been completed. In the future I will blog att
http://www.squishythoughts.com - where squishyness comes first. See you there.
Everybody! Wave... now!
I've been doing a lot of thing that is not blogging recently. I've been learning to model humans in Blender. I've been writing and I've been programming. I should've blogged about all that stuff, but I haven't since I felt my blog would become polluted with... me. Too much of me. Therefor I'm planning to transfer this blog to a wordpress based version where I have something to organize the me's: tags.
I will also move the blog to my own server again, so I can have more control over all the stuff that's running on it. I want to try to do some nifty stuff with python and just maybe possibly lisp. These are new languages that I've never worked in before and it has taken some time getting used to how free you are in those languages compared to C++.
The new place will not be just a blog, but kind of a different beast, I think. I might possibly put up some non-bloggificious stuff about things that I think are interesting. I'll pipe my horn when the move has been completed.
Writing is really quite stimulating...
Dirty, so dirty...
Yes, I've done it again. I've been playing with myself... games, that is. Being an incredibly smart, and let's not forget most handsome, young man, I have come to find simple games to be too... eh, simple. Yes, way too simple for a refined mind such as my own. One game that is not difficult enough is Rubik's Cube. I mean you only need 29 simple turns and you've solved it. Pah! I say. Bring on the
Magic Cube 4D. Now, that's a real challenge... for anyone with an IQ of 170+. Why the hell would you want a 4-dimensional cube? I have problems getting my head around six sides of those pesky little cubes (which I bet would be no match to pry loose with a screwdriver), and if you follow the link and click on the picture at the top of their page, you get to try it out. You can just feel neuron's breaking down in tears and committing collective suicide from the complexity of that thing.
I haven't played it, looking at it was quite enough for me. I did play a little
Vulture's Eye though, a graphical
NetHack-version. Another game which makes your braincells try to emigrate is
Tong. It's as simple as it's devious. A combination of Tetris -- the classical falling-blocks game -- and Pong -- the classical hit-ball-with-a-board... game, eh, yeah -- and you are supposed to play them at the same time. The ball is bouncing inside the Tetris playing field and you have to control both games, simultaneously. It's kinda like constructing a 30-story skyscraper while giving your girlfriend a full body massage (and I'm talking the whole thing: massage oil, Barry White, the muppets, live candles). So, if you're up for some mind fucking, you should give Tong a go... and that sounded a lot less wrong in my head.
Anyways, those are my current gaming adventures. You know what that means? It means I'm still procrastinating... shit.
Time is a'wastin'
When I installed linux, I figured I shouldn't install any games. The silly rabbit knows I've played the Windows games way more than I should have, and if they're not installed, it's a lot easier to resist the urge. Those easy and quick to play games are a real and very potent problem, office workers all around the world spend countless hours playing WinMine and Solitaire. They're really devious; you have to use your brain just enough to not feel like you're watching TV, but not enough to actually get smarter (it's quite possible it'll actually make you dumber). Now, contrary to my own words of wisdom, I couldn't resist the urge and installed a game tonight. It's called
Neverball (featuring Neverputt). It's similar to Super Monkey Ball for the GameCube (and Dreamcast?) which means it's very addictive. Yes, addictive, just like drugs, coffee and lubricated horseshoes. I ended up wasting my whole evening playing that damn game instead of writing. Is procrastination rearing it's reluctant head? Hell yeah! When I'm procrastinating I always end up looking for games. I've also spent a fair share of time tonight, reading about
OpenTTD (Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe),
FreeCiv and
FreeCol. Lucky for me, I managed to resist installing them, else I wouldn't be blogging right now (god damnit! I just used "blog" as a verb, another step towards the dark, smelly, evil abyss of quite possibly eternal fruitcake).
Procrastination is a real bitch. But I also think trying to write a script which doesn't contain any fantasy elements makes it a bit more difficult for me, because reality is boring... or dumb... or possibly both: dorumb.
While I'm on the subject, I should mention this link:
Supposing... Computers are deliberately wasting our time which is a fitting article for this evening of wasted work. So long, and thanks for the fruitcake... I mean fish.
George Lucas in Love
I happened to find this while surfing about recently:
George Lucas in Love which is a Shakespeare in Love-spoof but we're back at the school years of George Lucas and we get to see where the inspiration for StarWars really came from. Great fun and well produced.
I've also just now (about an hour ago) finished watching
Point Pleasant which was axed by Fox (meaning they applied cheap deodorant) after 13 episodes. And what can I say, I loved the show. Sometimes it gets just a tad bit too heavy on the melodrama (don't get me wrong, I like melodrama, but in a few spots, they overdid it) but other than that it's just great. I was literally jumping in my seat while I was watching the finale. Too bad they cut it short (deodorant is good for you -- one of life's lessons).
Now I go all techno-geek on you!
A few years ago I tried migrating to linux but I never felt I could do all the stuff I used to do in Windows. I ran multiboot and after a while I realized I didn't boot up in linux all that much, so away it went into the dark corners of my mind. I killed the linux partition because I never used it.
A couple of weeks ago I thought I got the idea to try again. I have a server which has been running slackware for years, but I wanted to see if linux was desktop-ready. Could I replace Windows (which I use everyday for all kinds of things) with linux without being frustrated or feeling restricted? I looked around at the different distributions and settled with Gentoo. Click forward a few times and here we are. 12.5% of my computer is now running linux and I'm not the least bit frustrated (not counting non-computer related frustration). The game support is a bit flakey (using Wine) but they're busy trying to map d3d to opengl, so I'm hopeful, other than that it's really nice. I kind of like the idea of having source code available for most of the software I run, even though I'll probably never tamper with any of it. I haven't booted up Windows in over a week. This is also one of the reasons why I haven't written here for a while, been busy getting my machine working for me instead of against me (I do not condone torture and I only do it for fun) and now it finally is.
I've been thinking about getting a PDA. I've read people can reach close to 80 wpm on one of those using the Fitaly-layout. The question is, do I need one? I bought a laptop a few years ago to, among other things, become a bit more mobile. The thing with laptops is that they weigh a couple of kilos and they're really hard to fit into your pants... ehh.. pocket. You really shouldn't put your laptop in your pants, that would be wrong. I plan on using it for writing, but I don't know if that's a feasible idea? Will writing on one of those give me carpal tunnel syndrome or give me hairy palms? Could it give me the ability to write wherever I am? I hope so...
Truck!
Fangs and blood
I have never actually seen a vampire. Oh, I have seen Interview with a Vampire and BtVS but I've never actually seen a real, living (dead?) vampire. The reason for this is because there are no such thing as vampires -- or so I thought. Then something hit me... all of those stories can't be fiction, can they? I mean, the vampire myth goes way back (I don't think they called them vampires back then) so there must be some truth to it.
This of course led me to the movies. Whenever there are vampires in movies, there's usually a vampire hunter. From Dr. Abraham van Helsing to Blade and Buffy. How come there is always a vampire hunter around when vampires roam? "They're just movies", right? Possibly, but I think there is something more to it. I think if you want to see a vampire, you have to actually hunt it. Vampires don't like attention (with the exception of Lestat from the movie Queen of the Damned, but let's not talk about wanna-be-goth vampires) and a vampire hunter casts too much light on them (and in Blade's case, UV-light) which means they have to destroy him or her.
So my conclusion is this: if you want to see a vampire you're gonna have to become a vampire hunter (or slayer if you're a girl and have super powers) and except for putting out an ad in the paper, buying a cool trenchcoat (brown cloth or black leather, depending on the era you want to represent) and getting yourself a silver cross (it should be silver in case you run into a werewolf, then you can stab it to death, or so I've heard) you should also get yourself one of these:
a Vampire-slaying kit.
So, time to go out and hunt, and if you still don't find any vampires, you can get your girlfriend or boyfriend to act the hunter and you'll pretend to be the vampire: The forbidden love.
"A vampire in love with a slayer. Poetic, in a maudlin sort of way."
