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Monthly Archives: July 2006
Incredible ASCII Art
Every once in a while you stumble on something really exceptional. For example, consider the two links below: Superman ASCII Art Powergirl ASCII Art In case those links go down, here are screengrabs of the links above. They are not … Continue reading
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Smoking Room Image
Here is a brilliant image painted on the ceiling of a smoking room. Click on the image to see the full version at the original location: It’s quite striking. [tags]smoking, smoking room, art[/tags]
Posted in geek humor
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Local Privileges Escalation in WinXP
Did you know that you can escalate you can become the SYSTEM user on a WinXP box simply by using the at command? Try this at home: at 11:45pm /interactive cmd.exe You just scheduled a job that will pop up … Continue reading
Thoughts on URL Scheme
A while ago I read an interesting article that claimed that our current URI addressing scheme is counter intuitive. I do not necessarily support this point of view but I thought it was an interesting point. If you think about … Continue reading
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Gigi at Comicon 2006
The Gigi Enthusiast Service has some nice pictures of Gigi Edgley at the ComicCon 2006. I guess this is a good time to do one of my “Farscape Con Stories”. For the record, I went only once, but it was … Continue reading
Mark of Chaos Trailer
Holly Fucking Shit! I absolutely love the new Mark of Chaos Trailer [youtube mirror]. It is so incredibly bad ass cool that it leaves me speechless. If you are not a fan of Warhammer you will probably not understand. This … Continue reading
Megastructures
Someone sent me this interesting mega-scale space colony image: click to enlarge Now, can anyone tell me what kind of megastructure would this be? I’m thinking that this is either O’Neil Cylinder, a Stanford Taurus or a Topopolis. Actually, both … Continue reading
Posted in futuristic musings
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Renaissance
Renaissance really looks awesome! I think this movie might be a long awaited proof that Japanise are not the only people who can make really good, animation. If it lives up to all the expectations. I really hope the plot … Continue reading
Myspace
Myspace is the one place on the web where poor web design meets with a collective lack of aesthetic sensibility and poor taste in music. Putting a colorful image as your background, and making all the layout tables transparent is … Continue reading
Innovative Game Design
My brother always says that we got our video game preferences completely backwards. I happen to be the geeky brother who has a degree in computer science and works in IT. My brother is an art major with limited patience … Continue reading
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Latex: Citations in Figures
For some unknown, mysterious reason you can’t put a \cite command as an argument of the \caption statement. I stumbled upon this today when I was trying to attribute an image that I shamelessly snurched from the web. Apparently, the … Continue reading
Moving Forward
It seems that the paperwork needed to finally register my thesis course is going to get done by the end of the week. And I think my assistantship is still going to cover it. I’m really relieved that I will … Continue reading
Posted in school and teaching
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Viral Pirate Song
That stupid Pirate Song is officially stuck in my head now. I think this is going to be the new anthem of p2p generation. Apparently the actual song was actually pulled from that weird, annoying kids show called Lazytown. Someone … Continue reading
MPAA suing a Millionaire
So far RIAA have been suing old ladies, single mothers, young children, and dead people. It is a brilliant strategy – you sue innocent people who can’t pay legal fees and extort money from them. If they can’t pay up, … Continue reading
Cursed Dice
Reading about a guy who buried a set of allegedly cursed 10 sided dice in his back yard reminded me of our own set of dice related superstitions. You may think this guy is silly, but I can totally relate … Continue reading
OMG! This guy beats Edoh!
I finally found someone who can compete with Dr. Edoh for the Worst Computer Science Instructor Award. At least Edoh attempted to teach us data structures using Java. This guy picked VB: Wow… Just wow… I seriously think that any … Continue reading
New MMO Paradigms Must Emerge
Dan Rubenfield, and experienced developer who worked on titles like Ultima and Star Wars Galaxies, has posted a very interesting entry in his blog today. He notes how the MMO market is completely dominated by WoW, and that game companies … Continue reading
Posted in video games
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War of the Worlds
I just saw War of the Worlds the other day on HBO. I never went to see it in the theaters, because I just can’t stand Tom Cruise these days. Frankly, I’m glad I didn’t waste money for a rental … Continue reading
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Comcastic, the saga continues…
If you recall, in June I had some major issues with Comcast at work. You can see my previous posts here and here. It is now July 23 and my issue is still not resolved. I called them almost every … Continue reading
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