Oh yeah, I forgot.

ROAST CHICKEN TONIGHT.

Everybody Loves Linux

Recently installed Ubuntu through Wubi on my Main PC. I managed to get ALSA wrangled into working properly, fixed up my graphics card with EnvyNG, got Compiz working the way I like and got some nice themes from Emerald.

And here’s the result!

Hooray! Shiny Blue Goodness with a transparent Terminal with Nethack! YEE HAR!

Asymmetry In Spore

Hooray! Normally in Spore, you can only create creatures which are symmetrical. However, some clever clogs has written his own .package file for spore which allows you to place arms and legs or anything wherever you like! Hooray! The creatures also work in games that do not have the mod, and upload to the server just fine.
Get it here: http://www.xspore.com/news/708_spore-asymmetry-mod.html

EDIT: I uploaded a vid here:

Avast!

Prepare yeselves, men! It be talk like a Pirate day tomorrow!

Mmm…

A delicious smell is wafting up the stairs. Roast Chicken.

Roast Chicken! How can I describe the delights?! And not only Roast Chicken, tonight, there’s a twist. Not the beloved Mash. Not the Christmasesque Roast Potatoes with Yorkshire Puddings. Chips.

Gloriously crispy golden Chips, with soft creamy potato in their little batter casings. Slightly salty, with a hint of vinegar here and there, mingling perfectly with the taste of the Chicken. Thick cut rectangular delicious capsules of tasty goodness.

Ah. And it’s only 5 minutes away.

Yay!

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You can subscribe to the RSS feed for the blog now! Link over on the sidebar at the left. Enjoy!

Poodles are not part of a Healthy Breakfast.

Well, I thought that was obvious, didn’t you?

Anyway, on the real subject of this post, I have this neat utility called “Babble”. Basically, it’s a DOS program that runs fine in XP (meaning Wine will handle it seamlessly) and what it does is this (quoted from the readme):

” Babble!, a toy for people who love words. This program babbles
endlessly in an unlimited number of writing styles. You control which
styles are babbled, and you can mix different styles together while
Babble! continues to generate its steady stream of more or less
unintelligible prose.

Babble! is fun to play with solo or as part of a group. It comes with
neat samples like Shakespeare, Dick and Jane, and Firesign Theater,
and includes a plethora of special effects like Lisp, Hangman, and
Subliminal, as well as the ever-surprising Pot Luck. You can even
import your own text samples!
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Basically, you can import a text file, it analyzes the sentences, and rebuilds them using Markov-Chain-Like algorithms to produce hilarious text that makes perfect grammatical sense.

You can even enter “talk” mode, where you type to it, and it learns new words from you and adds them to the ensuing babble. It’s possible to hold a coherent conversation (at least a mildly interpretable one) using it.

Here’s an example: I’ll use this post.


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Tadaah!

Here’s the link:
http://www.evolutionzone.com/kulturezone/c-g.writing/bab200.zip

The Mentality of Hats

I’m not even entirely sure if they have one. A mentality that is.

How do we know that inanimate objects do not have feelings? People say, “Well, of course they can’t, they’ve got no brains or anything” but starfish have no brains either, but they seem to manage being alive. So how do we KNOW that rocks and such don’t have feelings? Well, the simple answer is, we don’t. The complicated answer is we don’t, and we do.

The complicated answer of course, being a foray into quantum physics.
In one universe, we found out they did (or didn’t) have feelings. In the other, we didn’t, and in another, we didn’t bother because we were to busy smacking atoms into eachother at high speeds along a 28km particle accelerator at CERN.

So there you go. They don’t, do, and we dunno.

Class dismissed.

Fastest Windows Defragmenter?

It can defrag 25GB in 8 minutes.

It’s free. It’s authorized. It works. I use it now.

It’s name is….

CONTIG.EXE. It is a commandline-based defragger that uses almost no processing power and gets the job done. You can defrag a whole disk, a folder, or even just one file if you wish. Wonderful.

Ramble-Rantin’-Hoot-a-Gootination!

Time for a ramblerant, methinks! After all, the time doth breach the late hours.

So, first on the delicious menu tonight is Clockwork.

Who invented clockwork? Did he share the same noble background as the Earl Of Sandwich, i.e. was his name the Duke of Clocksbury or something? Was he fat? Was he a thin old guy with a white straggly beard or was he some sort of idiot who did it by mistake? Who ate the afterburner? Why does this sound more and more like an advert for a soap opera? Is Dave really cheating on his girlfriend?

So, moving along: SOY BEANS.

THEY ARE NOT SAPIENT.
OR SOME SORT OF GRAIN.
NO, THEY’RE NOT A TYPE OF HAT MERCHANT EITHER.

Leading me into the happy world of Mario, the delightful Italian drug addict.

So, he runs around is a shiny bright world eating magic mushrooms which make him big and strong so he can fight the giant turtles who have captured a princess. Then, if he eats some sort of herb thing he calls a “fire flower” (more likely cannabis or something) he can shoot fire and make money out of the evil monsters. If he gets so high he can touch the stars, he becomes invincible and very fast.

Just what is this teaching kids? Eat those shiny mushrooms and you can get hit by something which would normally kill you and survive?

Also, why not talk about ballpoint-pens? They’re useful. They’re not orangutans. They happen to be quite good at poetry, given the chance.

Spare a copper for a poor orange guv’nor. Oi’ve got a woife and three kids to support on this. *Man eats the orange*

Besides from that, how about a story? Imma gonna Ad-Lib this one.
Once upon a time, there was a guy called Reggie. He liked to eat carrots. So one day, Reggie got dressed and went to the local grocery shop, where he bought carrots. He went home, and made carrot soup. After he ate the soup, he used the remaining carrots to spring a friend from prison by cleverly hiding a chainsaw inside one of the carrots. These, of course, were magic carrots that could change size with the magic word, “Grunkle”. They had two sizes: Flubberinkins, and Large.
Reggie was caught by the police for malicious carrot-Grunkling with intent to cause ritual disbelief among the righteous followers of Squeck. Squeck was a block of cheese. The police had helmets made of finest bread, and often toasted them by the fire after a hard minute’s work. Then they had sausages for tea. Reggie died in prison. The End.

The moral of that story? STAY THE HECK AWAY FROM CHEESE WORSHIPPING PEOPLE.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we will now perform a test of our emergency warning system.

*BWAEEEEEEE* *WAUMP* *WAUMP* *WAUMP* *BWAEEEEEEE* *SQEUUUEE* *WAUMPWAUMPWAUMP*

Thankyou. We will now perform a test of our not-so-emergencyish warning system.

*zoing*

Thankyou.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Put your tray tables up and your seat back in the full upright position and prepare for impact.

There, that wasn’t so bad, was it?

Right, so now I’m going to play some mario. All dem mushrooms.