It’s pleasantly dry, sunny and warm outside. As a contrast to many other mayday eves that have been celebrated in horizontally zooming sleet.
Time to head back out. Not downtown though, that level of chaos is not appreciated.
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
Off the boat and into the fray
Posted in games on Apr 29th, 2008
Purchased GTA IV last night (shops started selling the game at midnight).
And finished the first mission before going to bed.
Based on a sleep-addled ten minutes - the game is pretty, the soundscape once again magnificently realized.
Should consume quite a few hours in the immediate future.
In an unexpected turn of events, Psystar, the alleged supplier of cloned Macintosh computers has been proven legit.
Legit in the sense that someone’s been able to capture a machine on video, not to the extent of being legal in any way.
Bets on Apple suing the proverbial socks off the company are […]
Game of the Week: TypeRacer
Posted in game of the week on Apr 27th, 2008
Been playing a couple of games of TypeRacer, and politely reminded that learning the 10-finger system is not a mandatory part of the finnish curriculum.
My rather unorthodox typing style does not lend itself well to scoring high in the game. Though let it be known that the incredibly low score in the […]
Two entries from wikipedia took me back to the early eighties earlier this week.
One of the very first (if not even the first) Lucky Luke albums I ever owned was The Rivals of Painful Gulch. The story concerned itself with two families on the warpath due to alleged slights committed way lower […]
Sighs of relief, part n
Posted in movies on Apr 25th, 2008
Guillermo del Toro will
Rude Monks
Posted in haircut on Apr 25th, 2008
It’s easy to say that it’s not been a very good week thus far, when you catch yourself smiling uncontrollably at an innocent typo on a slide.
But I couldn’t help it - the concept of order of staring processes just caught me off guard in the first meeting of the day.
Thursday Challenge 24.4.2008: Earth
Posted in thursday challenge on Apr 24th, 2008
This week’s thursday challenge is earth.
The selected image takes the viewers to a very specific piece of earth, an ancient rock formation - Uluru in the middle of Australia. The picture was taken on a morning hike around the rock, around 5 am - just when the sun was creeping out behind […]
Moleskine Art
Posted in art on Apr 24th, 2008
In the un-ending series of magnificent hand-crafted objets d’ art from etsy.com: really cool laser-etched moleskines.
I don’t exactly need a new notebook - the current is barely broken in at less than ten pages used, but these certainly are much fancier than the plain black with a couple of stickies on the […]
Usually my morning walk to to work takes about 22 minutes, from door to desk.
This morning was a bit more hurried, the very same 22 minutes, from bed to meeting room. Shower included, but breakfast omitted.
And only then noted that the meeting started half an hour later.
Not nice, […]
#87: Domestic
Posted in photo thursday on Apr 23rd, 2008
This week’s photo thursday challenge is domestic - something typically finnish.
I’m sure this week’s collection will be filled with images on flags, forests and snow. Among other things. My take is a very common scene in Ostrobothnia, an lush emerald-green field sliced in half by a powerline, topped with a roiling […]
Just *how* fast is Trent Reznor working
Posted in music on Apr 23rd, 2008
It’s been about a month since the release of Ghosts I-IV, and Nine Inch Nails has once again new material up for download.
Available in less than 24 hours after mastering.
This certainly could, and definitely should, teach Axl Rose something about actually releasing new music.
RoR for dummies
Posted in programming, web on Apr 22nd, 2008
A List Apart began a nifty-looking series of articles on getting started with Ruby on Rails.
Been intrigued by the concept for a while, and looking for a therapy project - will definitely look into this.
EDIT: OK, so it’s not a series, really… Just two articles in a […]
Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the sequel
Posted in interactive fiction on Apr 22nd, 2008
By far the biggest news in recent times in the interactive fiction community is Andy Baio’s uncovering of the unpublished sequel to the 1984 game published by Infocom.
That’s right. A whole unpublished game. Or actually just a duo of prototypes with very limited functionality.
But it’s not really the game […]
Not knowing much about hardcore image manipulation, the techniques employed at Pixeloo produce eyebrow-raising results.
The un-tooned Jessica Rabbit is the best showcase of the site. Heidi Klum’s take of the iconic wife of Roger Rabbit still remains the top re-interpretation.
Well, I alluded to my utter inexperience with World of Warcraft (and actually all Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games altogether) yesterday.
That’s not my only omission, another significant chunk of games that has gone almost entirely unplayed are Japanese role-playing games.
I tried out Final Fantasy VII back in the original playstation days, […]
The entire world, not just the WoW-addicts, breathes relieved.
[via slashdot. ]
Spam, spam, comments and spam
Posted in blog on Apr 21st, 2008
The ratio of proper comments to spam is frighteningly low.
Either preserved pork has really increased in number lately, or the old version of this blog escaped on account of some bad recon.
Top 50 5/5
Posted in blogging on Apr 21st, 2008
The analysis series of Guardian’s list of top 50 blogs concludes here. Hopefully the fifth batch might bring some fresh faces.
The F-Word
The tagline, Contemporary UK Feminism, proves it - this is not a blog I was meant to read.
Jonny B’s private secret diary
Haircut (including a healthy relationship with barnyard animals) from UK. […]
Moody Monday 21.4.2008: Incomplete
Posted in moody monday on Apr 21st, 2008
Today’s Moody Monday photography challenge is incomplete.
I don’t think that there’s anything in my collection that’s more blatantly incomplete than Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Família in Barcelona. The church, under construction since 1882, is projected to be completed in 2026 on the 100th anniversary of the architect’s death.
A visit to the […]