My computer just kept inserting spurious "-"s whenever I typed something. I think the keyboard might have been shorting out. It was pretty weird, as half the time backspace would work as intended, and half the time it would give me a -. It seems to be working properly now, but should I still be worried?
Also, I saw an amusing "now playing" sign at an nearby movie theater:
EDIT: Erm, it seems that a They Might Be Giants CD was sitting on the corner of my numpad...
Also, I saw an amusing "now playing" sign at an nearby movie theater:
EDIT: Erm, it seems that a They Might Be Giants CD was sitting on the corner of my numpad...
I just discovered, and am using at this very moment, an incredibly nifty program called Dasher. It enables you to use a pointing device to write by steering your way through a sort of recursive fractal phonebook of every string of letters that could ever exist. The trick is that the size of the oncoming letters is based on the probability of those letters coming next from what you just wrote (or might write, in the case of the further-ahead ones) so the effect is that there're all these potential words zooming at you, and you simply need to steer down the path that leads to where you want to get to.
In an apt coincidence, I just saw "drink me" scroll by-someone obviously fed the prediction engine some Lewis Carroll. This conjecture was just confirmed by the readiness with which it offered me "Lewis Carroll" as an option: letters which are commonly connected follow each other more closely. The details defy explanation; suffice it to say that the program is brilliant and you should go download it at once.
In an apt coincidence, I just saw "drink me" scroll by-someone obviously fed the prediction engine some Lewis Carroll. This conjecture was just confirmed by the readiness with which it offered me "Lewis Carroll" as an option: letters which are commonly connected follow each other more closely. The details defy explanation; suffice it to say that the program is brilliant and you should go download it at once.
Once again my video game prescience/"Nintendo spying on me" phenomenon manifests itself. I think it'd be fair to say that this is more than just one of those obviously predictable ideas like the Natures in Pokemon R/S or a new 2D Mario game on the Nintendo DS.
It's been way, way too long since I last posted something (and I have any number of pathetic excuses for this - finals, college applications, etc.) but now that I'm on break and it's been nearly two months since my last post, I figure that I'd better put something up so people know I'm still alive.
I had an interesting dream last night in which I was at some party, arguing about DRM and P2P stuff with Jack Valenti. It was... weird.
I had an interesting dream last night in which I was at some party, arguing about DRM and P2P stuff with Jack Valenti. It was... weird.
School's been keeping me really busy lately, so I haven't had much time to blog. My 18th birthday was November 3rd (missed the election by one day!), and it was really a bit less eventful than I expected. I still haven't quite come to grips with the all the ramifications of it yet, though.In other news, Bush will be running the country
2 Greats and a lost freeze on July Medium, and failure 3 notes from the end of Energy Normal Simple.
I finally got a AA on Dam Dariram Heavy (26 greats); I got the match for an extra game at the end of a pinball game (I didn't know it was possible); and the toaster oven let its magic smoke out.
I also recently got TMBG's latest album, The Spine. It's pretty good. I have midterms coming up, and I'm not doing as well as I'd like to be in my classes. Despite this I devoted about half of my mental energy designing Yet Another Game By Nathan That Will Never Get Made. Force feedback and physics stuff in an arcade game.
I also recently got TMBG's latest album, The Spine. It's pretty good. I have midterms coming up, and I'm not doing as well as I'd like to be in my classes. Despite this I devoted about half of my mental energy designing Yet Another Game By Nathan That Will Never Get Made. Force feedback and physics stuff in an arcade game.