Undead Alert
The NYer had an article about AOL's new strategy and leader, which talked about its journalistic aspirations. Now it's absorbed the Huffington Post ===:O
Ugh, I hate AOL - why can't it and Yahoo just lie down and die already.
Labels: Dept of ZOMG, zombeh, zombie
- 29 August 2010
Errr... great... idea... :/Labels: Dept of ZOMG, Duct Tape
27 August 2010
Paul Allen is busy suing Aol, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, Officemax, Staples, Yahoo, and YouTube all at once.
Paging the Guiness Book of Worlds Records!
Labels: Dept of Divine Moles, Dept of ZOMG, Dept. of This Will Not End Well, Intarwebz, revived by an electric nut-grind
02 April 2009
Wow, I was searching for my flamethrower and found these:
I would guess that's the date I answered a call on the Game Dev group chat for someone to help test Sim Combat at the Kill Club. /me looks at the time... well, I might've got that AFTER the first time I played the game. Who knows. There are weird old things in my inventory, though.I can remember going and fighting by choosing moves from a blue menu. After that I'd drag Enj over there every once in a while.
Note: Sim Combat turned into Combat Cards.
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
30 March 2009
Qarl said on the jira:
"flexi-sculpties are implemented and ready for official viewer integration - however they still require cache work in our texture system (as detailed above.)"
Which I didn't really pay attention to until this part:
"this work is being done by another linden as he reworks all of our texture system. i think there's almost NO chance of all of this being in 1.23, but a good chance that it'll appear in 1.24 (or whatever we call that version). "
Might that involve how textures are cached and reconstituted?
That would be awesomely good.
I have heard that viewer called something like Viewer 2009 or something.
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
16 February 2009
"China is currently Japan's largest import provider, and the Japanese slowdown is creating tremendous pressure on Chinese factories. Just last week, the Chinese government announced that 20 million rural migrants had lost their jobs."
--Wall Street Journal
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
15 February 2009
SJ flew back from D.C. on Friday, and rang me this morning* to make me guess who she sat next to and formed a friendship with over the six-hour flight. She gave me 15 guesses but I used about four, I think, and my guesses were not exactly serious.
Me: Uh... I have no clue. Al Sharpton?
SJ: No.
Me: ...Ted Kaczynski?
SJ: He's in prison.
Me: You didn't hear that he escaped?
SJ: *clue*
Me: Uh... Carl Rove's brother?
SJ: Close! An iconic president's brother.
Me: uh... *can't think of any presidents* uh... Truman's brother?
SJ: No! Nixon! Nixon's brother!
Me: ZOMG. (First things that pop into my head are the opera Nixon in China, and the Cod Wars.)
* It wasn't early by any stretch of the imagination, but I can't sleep lately so I stay up all night then crash.
Labels: Bad Persons Bureau, Dept of ZOMG
16 November 2008
There's always bizarre possibilities lurking in the far corners of medical statistics, and every time I run across one it makes me blink. Like monkeypox virus, they often have names that are old-fashioned blunt descriptions rather than either colloquialisms or medicalese.
I had an item in my feed from Mind Hacks, about "An unusual and poignant brain injury." I read it and clicked on the link and ran across a sentence, "There was no tendency, as a matter of fact, for the formation of a brain fungus at either wound." A brain fungus?
I got a vision of the black fungus I'd cooked in wild rice yesterday, only it would be jiggling off the side of some unlucky person's head-wound - in the case of the poignantly injured woman in the .PDF it would've been jiggling off both sides like soft shell antlers had she been unluckier.*
There seems to be no end to the number of unbelievably awful things that can happen, which, I reckon, must indicate that there's no end to the number of unbelievably wonderful things that can happen, as well. All on the far edges, it seems, although some seem not far away enough whilst others we think we'd like closer.
* I'm not sure how luck could even be determined here; if someone is so interested in termination that a bullet is sent from one temple to the other, is it lucky or unlucky that she survived? Once having survived it was lucky that she wasn't (according to what was written) too terribly damaged, and lucky she wasn't a brain fungus type, of course. I wondered what happened after.
I knew a woman whose sister was ironing in her kitchen in the 1950s when a rock, blown into the air by someone illegally dynamiting stumps two miles away, came straight down through the roof of the house and through, too, the roof of her head. Her husband happened to've been walking through the door minutes after into the scene of blood and wailing babes. She survived but had seizures ever after, I was told. Another terrible ironing accident. Let THAT be a lesson, all ye apologists for that type of occupation.
Update:
Enj: did I ever tell you about my daughter's eeg patient?
me: no
Enj: the weirdest one?
me: /me backs away
Enj: well this man came in complaining of headache
me: wud hoppen?
Enj: they could not find anything
me: eep
Enj: took eeg and found ....
dun da dun dun
BRAIN WORMS
eeeesh
me: /me faints.
Enj: /me vomits
me: /me tries to get up but fails.
Enj: farts too
lol
me: I'm blogging tbis.
Enj: it was a tapeworm that went into the bloodstream, I think
me: NOOOOOOOOO
Enj: and lodgitated in the brain
Labels: Dept of ZOMG, Monkeh
16 September 2008
Holy shit =======:O
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-9203
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
18 July 2008
==========:O
Wow, Zero Point was accidentally razed.
wow.
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
26 June 2008
It Is Happening to Others
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
16 June 2008
ZOMG
It's 70°
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
23 May 2008
Heh. Oh, that APPLE. It's been rather annoying with its Ipod constantly scratching at the door to be let in, but I happened to read the whimper/scratch update TOS* which included, in super huge jumbo enormous large great big capital letters:
THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.
There was a cartoon in the New Yorker last year with a pilot saying to a co-pilot, "Heh, I'm flying this thing with my Blackberry." What next, launching spaceships with a Wii remote?
*It ascribes to the belief that great blocks of capitalised text without paragraphic ordering for relief illustrates the importance of points well. I can't quibble as I did see it, but I must say that I found the document entirely lacking in style, somewhat high-pitched and hysterical (if Apple, having no womb, can be said to be hysterical), and rather funny.
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
18 May 2008
Bwahahaha!
(Click - you won't be sorry.)
I saw it on It's Nice, That
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
20 April 2008
Remember this?
8 Dec 07
Avatar: are you submissive?
Osprey Therian: no
Avatar: Hmm
Osprey Therian: No one has ever asked me that before.
Osprey Therian: It is decidedly not the case.
Avatar: will you be submissive to me?
Osprey Therian: no
Osprey Therian: Will you be submissive to me?
Avatar: not as your master
Avatar: but just helping me
Osprey Therian: Heh, I think you are looking for someone else.
Avatar: NO
Osprey Therian: :D
Osprey Therian: Good
Avatar: Hhehe
Osprey Therian: heh
Osprey Therian: I need to get back to my work, but good luck :D
Avatar: ok
Avatar: Do you know what i want?
Osprey Therian: I don't actually care., I think.
Avatar: Hmmm
Avatar: I think you could help me
Osprey Therian: I have a lot to do. I think you need to look elsewhere for help.
Avatar: maybe i do
*Unfortunately stabslock doesn't work in IM.
Tonight
I was invited to a magic show he had created - which I went to, being interested in SL theatre. It was all extremely religious of the Christian variety. That surprised me (maybe it shouldn't've).
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
14 March 2008
Oh, no. jF.
I just saw this.
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Labels: Dept of :(, Dept of ZOMG, Dept. of jF
18 February 2008
ZOMG!
Enjah has joined Human Age, hah! she's in Age 1, of course, and can hunt, do the quests, eat and drink and raise her weight/stats, furnish her lovely dwelling place, and... uh... SO MUCH MORE! Yeah. Well I like it because it's just silly, but we shall see if Enj likes it enough to log in every day for months in order to get to Age 2 where I am. I'll still be there I'm sure as Age 2 (Celts) is slower than Age 1 (Cavemen). The interest is almost entirely verbal (all right, entirely verbal* - there's no "there" there.).
By the way, Enj, things in the market reset their conservation length in Age 1 when you buy them (not true in Age 2 except weapons). I have befriended her and sent a message, and added her to my contacts.
*I was trained to like weird java games by that totally bizarre little camel game. I think fondly on my camel, Dr. Fireball, to this day. I was led there by the bushwhacking AKACooties.
Note: Enjah is in the Frozen Feet Tribe but luckily our tribes are at peace.
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
14 February 2008
I just saw this:
Spore finally evolves to retail
Sept 7, 2008
Woo - that is a game everyone has been waiting for!
The old video you've seen before is here.
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
09 February 2008
It's a miracle...
I hit a bad bug in the WindLight 1.19 client and tried logging in to the jira again, as usual... except this time it let me in. :)))
My bug issue duplicated an earlier one so if you can go and vote for that one:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-4676
Basically, changing URLs for streaming audio now requires a UI player restart =======:O That kills the show as we require audio to begin for everyone at the same time. /me prays for a quck fix.
Labels: Dept of ZOMG
28 January 2008
Origami Porn
On a forum thread about machinima orn someone said:
It would be about as interesting or stimulating as watching origami porn...
ZOMG origami porn - well it makes me think of lots of things including cadavre exquis. I am interested and stimulated. Also weird, heh.
Labels: Dept of ZOMG