Robot Jox

Why? Why isn't there anyone seeding a copy of Robot Jox? *huhuhu*

Beowulf in IMAX 3D

I never saw the movie when it first came out so everything was new for me. The IMAX screen was big, maybe twice as tall as an ordinary theater screen and the seats were set on a really angled slope so as to give all the viewers a good chance to see a hundred percent of it. The 3D effects were awesome; the stuff that roll, fly, move towards you really look as if they are going to hit you.

Beowulf as a movie was worth watching. Beowulf in 3D was awesome.

Mobius Strip

This is freaking amazing!!!

Original link.

Ultimate Keyboard

We were talking about emacs when I had this curious idea. Why not create a keyboard that instead of generating signals based on what keys were pressed, generates signals based on the depth of the button pressed? Randell was quick to suggest speed of typing as another basis.

Jeepney Accident

I was driving from Los Banos this morning on my way to work when I saw this. Two jeepneys look to be in a serious accident. The second is obscured behind the first; I couldn't get another shot off my camera because the police were urging me to go faster. The second jeep's rear chassis was kinda ripped out.

MoA Marching Band

Mall of Asia's marching band. Happened upon them when I exited Fully Booked. Saw "In The Name Of The King" afterward. The fight scenes rocked. The story was meh. The directing was awful. How the hell did Uwe Boll get the job?

13 things that do not make sense

I am fascinated by scientific mumbo jumbo. I love logic and reasoning and then finding stuff that contradict them. Here are thirteen contradictions presented by NewScientist.

From bash.org

#832919 +(1730)- [X]

CDSBIGSBY: at work, on the like, 'keyboard' for the cash registers, there are two buttons that don't do anything
CDSBIGSBY: and it's like, the button, a little slip of paper that says what the button does, and a plastic cover that holds the paper in
CDSBIGSBY: and this dude at work figured that out, 'cause he popped the plastic cover off
CDSBIGSBY: and so we made labels for the two 'empty' buttons on the registers we were on that day
CDSBIGSBY: he didn't utilize the full potential of the opportunity though, as one of his buttons is a happy face and the other a sad face
CDSBIGSBY: but i feel i did mine justice.
CDSBIGSBY: Lane 14 at Meijer's has a Self-Destruct button and a Bat Signal button.

CloverField; No Country For Old Men

Cloverfield was AWESOME. No Country For Old Men was AWESOME.

If you watch both films, you can understand why it brought to my mind Stephen King's answer to the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" His answer was:

"Because they can."

Wings

My Dream Home

... according to http://www.directhomefind.com/dream-home. Discovered on necramirez.blogspot.com.

Your home is a Gamer's Hideout Your kitchen is stocked with chips, dips, and assorted caffeinated beverages. There's a pantry with emergency backup caffeinated beverages. You also have some breakfast cereals in there, but you haven't had breakfast since last Spring. Your master bedroom has blankets printed with images of Mario and Link. Your study includes unread copies of various gamer magazines, each purchased for the free demo CDs. One of your garages houses your Hummer, and others contain your H2, and H3... with room for an H4, if they ever invent one. Your home also includes a roost for griffons. You've never actually seen a griffon, but you keep the roost ready anyway. Your guests enjoy your collection of every console and associated game ever made. Except the Intellivision -- those controllers drive them NUTS. Outside is the moat that protects your home from goblin invaders and extended family. Below is a snippet of the blueprints:

Find YOUR Dream House!

Vista Sucks

I have a new workstation at the office and it came pre-installed with Windows Vista. It was working fine for a few days but now I've seen what a stupid piece of flaming shit vista is. I had 75 Gb of free space last night. Today, I have 1.55Gb free. I used FreeCommander's nifty feature of displaying the folder sizes so I could easily track where the culprit was. Lo and behold. It's in

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Projects\SystemIndex\SystemIndex.Crwl14.gthr

The little bugger needs 70Gb to index a 160Gb drive? Useless. When I finish my current critical tasks, I'm going to have to go back to XP and maybe Linux.

Carillion. UPLB.