Archive for January, 2007
Totality of Turing Tests Trumped
This man may have the funniest laugh ever recorded. I challenge you to watch and not join in. We no longer need a Turing test, just play this video for the entity in question. If it doesn’t laugh, destroy it immediately as it’s a robot or alien invader.
Fantastic Bungie article
Edge has an excellent article up about Bungie.
Escalation in apartment living
Reading this tale of apartment living brought up memories I’d long since buried. Apartment living, frankly, sucks. You can dress it up however you like but it all boils down to the realization that there are other humans — humans that almost certainly do not have your needs at the forefront of their minds — [...]
But I don’t want to want HBO
George R. R. Martin’s phenomenal series, “A Song of Ice and Fire”, is set to become a series running on HBO. Schoolchildren don’t get this giddy.
Moping perfected
I’m breaking my “no more Julia pictures” rule for this one since you can’t really see her anyway. Cat caught this one of a very dejected Julia. I don’t know what terrible event sparked this episode, but those slumped shoulders and little hands are fairly representative of a classic Julia mope.
A Ghostbusters game that needs to be made
Some video surfaced purportedly showing a Ghostbusters game. A good looking one. Gears of War meets the Stay-Puft marshmellow man. The developers said it’s true, they’re developing it. They have a couple of minor issues to resolve like getting the rights to the Ghostbusters IP, but I’m sure that’s just a formality. Ahem. I doubt this [...]
The Police reunion?!
I would travel far and wide to see The Police. It may yet happen.
A physics lesson
My wife, knowing my desire to learn more about photography, paid for me to have some classes at the local Wolf Camera. I was dubious at first, especially of the very first “How to point your camera at something and push the button” class but it was actually informative. It taught me some things about [...]
