I’m not really sure this needs an introduction… those of you who know how to code and understand netspeak will probably find this as amusing as I do. Or you might just find it lame. Can you imagine writing an entire program in LOLCODE though? I think I might try later on :D
Archive for the ‘Geekery’ Category
Marble Adding Machine
Alan sent me this link to the Marble Adding Machine, which is absolutely crazy and so completely nerdy I was blown away. Needless to say, I wouldn’t mind if someone built one for me :D
Explorer woes
So, over the festive break I took the opportunity to reformat my computer as well as install extra RAM into it. Tichondrius is now sporting a sweeet 2GB of RAM. After some initial hiccups with memtest (damn ASUS BIOS bug!) it seemed to be working fine. My main reason for reinstalling XP was to get rid of some nasty errors that I kept getting. I have a few hard drives in my computer, and on each of the drives I usually have at least 2 partitions. Only because I like to have separate ‘drives’ for different files (Document, Games, Music, Movies). I used to have this problem where, if I clicked on a file (usually a TV episode), Windows Explorer would have an error and I would get a pop-up box saying that it had to be shutdown. If I was really lucky I’d also get a Dr Watson error. I’d click ok, Explorer would disappear, the taskbar would disappear and then reload, and that would usually be fine. Of course, it’s a complete pain in the backside to have this happen for just about every file as I like to rename mine with the title. Initially I thought it might be a HDD error, but a Seagate Tools diagnostic said everything was fine. Then I suspected the RAM, but memtest cleared that as well. After re-formatting, I was sure that the problem had gone… until a week ago when I was trying to rename something and *bam!* error again. I’m not sure if it’s a kernel problem, but I haven’t been tinkering with the registry or anything. Maybe a program running in the background is causing a conflict? But I can’t seem to see any real consistency to the problem so I don’t know. It seems to happen on any drive, not just a particular one and even after I re-partitioned stuff it still happens. It’s becoming quite frustrating and I’m kind of stumped on how to fix it as no one else seems to have had this sort of problem. So really.. I’m just throwing it out there… anybody have any ideas? Maybe I should just wait for Vista.
Puzzle Me This
I did my first sudoku puzzle yesterday. There was a certain sense of achievement having completed it, but my initial reaction was “and so?”. I’m not entirely sure what the fuss is about or why people say they’re so addictive. Maybe my skills haven’t progresse beyond the simple ‘elimination’ tactics. I have a feeling I may have just picked an easy one. Some of the harder ones are annoying obviously as you have to sort of guess but even then you can retrace your steps if you’re not sure.
I’ve found that I’d much rather have a go at crossword puzzles. Normally I’m not very good at them, particularly the cryptic ones. However, I do enjoy the challenge of thinking about the words more than I enjoy putting numbers into a grid. I guess each to their own. I’m thinking of alternating between sudoku and crosswords each day, just to give me something to do. Hopefully I won’t get bored with them. So why am I doing puzzles? Well, I wanted something to keep my brain active beyond say work or playing computer games. I’d play chess, except it’s been ultra hard to find a decent chess game for the computer and I doubt they’ll release one for the PSP ever. Apparently the DS will be getting a card game compendium type thingy which also includes chess and Othello. That’s kind of tempting. I could probably go on Yahoo! games and play, but the players there can be annoyingly juvenile.
Top Heroines and Ancient Observatories…
In keeping with my ‘I don’t have time to blog but here’s some stuff for you anyways’ of late, here’s two links:
Top 75 Heroines of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror: Part IV
As I wasn’t really interested in showing ALL 75, I’ve given the list from number 14, because that’s what number Hermione Granger is. What I don’t understand is how the Powerpuff Girls beat her? Also, very cool that Buffy was number 2. That’s wicked.
Ancient observatory found
Well, that about dang says it all really. Actually, this sort of thing fascinates me, because the usual unanswered question is: just how did they build these things? Even with all the technology that we have now, building a pyramid would be friggin hard job no? So all I can do is look in awe.
I hate fish.
HAHAHA. That’s kind of all I can say to that. Considering the first time I heard of the movie I did think it *was* a B-Grade 80’s flick. Scary.
So I was looking into RSS reader extensions for Firefox and found one that I like – Wizz RSS. I used to use the aptly named RSS Reader program, which displayed everything in the old newsgroup style. In some ways it’s a lot easier to just use a Firefox extension because the feeds are just webpages anyways. I haven’t tested its podcasting ability yet, as the only podcast I listen to I get through *shudder* iTunes. Guess I’ll have to look into that. I found the cool http://www.i-am-bored.com which could really have me procrastinating for the whole day. I think enjoyment of the Internet increases as the time to x is due decreases. Must snap out of this habit.
On a totally unrelated note, I had fish for dinner tonight. *ugh*. I think the number of times we’re having fish per week is steadily increasing. It used to be once a week. I swear it’s like two or three times now which means that I’m usually very hungry by midnight.
