Simcoe
pointed at the
Skinny on Sleep Twitches
which is timely.
You know, when suddenly every muscle in your body goes bezerkers when
you're drifting off? There's a faint sensation that you did it in
reaction to falling, or in my case, sliding. But I just tell my brain,
"Knock it off you idiot, you're on the floor, nothing is sliding."
Hannah Holmes' style is enjoyable, and the archives come highly
recommended; covering the sort of useless crap that Apathy would
be proud of exploring.
Like
strange sneezing situations, which includes the baddest acronym to ever walk the scorched earth: SNATIATION. Now there's inspiration! Think she made it up?
[simcoe is rad, obviously]
[12/11/1999]
So, just because I wasted my entire evening playing
video games
doesn't mean you are deprived of linkage. One of the more friendly
competitors mentioned that he runs
Funseek.net.
It's a portal targetted at
fun
-- go figure.
Any site where the search CGI script resides in a
"goobersearch" directory is a-okay with me. The rest of this update's
links are derived therefrom.
Babysue.com
isn't what you might guess. It has a strange assortment of obscure
music reviews and bizzare content; check it. The editor throws in
reviews of movies with the music, as well as concepts and people. Plus,
they liked the new Starflyer 59 record. [Man, look at all the rock they get in each month.]
I found me a completely dorky
math comics listing! Funny in that unfunny way.
The few salvageable ones all seem to be Calvin and Hobbes, but this panel of
Frank and Ernest on infinity
isn't too shabby.
Daryl Cagle's framed listing
should come in handy when an overdose of currently running cartoons is
required.
This surreal picture
is disturbing in that aftertaste of reality way. Shudder...
From the
Pynoman
domain. What?
Bringing sanity to us and then taking it away, it's the
abstract humor page. Don't miss the salmon epics.
Not sure if this one passed through the weblog meme-a-lizer yet; perhaps
it's a bit over the top. I saw
it a few years back, and it falls under the absurd for sure:
Jamming a Pair of Scissors Repeatedly Into Your Crotch.
Hey, as long as it's for the cause of humor...
The Feels Like Forecast
was definitely on target this week. Wednesday felt like a Monday, and Thursday was very much a Wednesday.
Awww nuts, Ackxhpaez.com is registered, and in use even. (!?)
It hosts some
extremely warped comics
if you can call 'em that.
Fun with Science
will make you wince.
Went on a record buying spree today for no apparent reason. Got so much
stuff I haven't even spun it all yet. I am particularly loving Coltrane's Jupiter variation from Interstellar Space tonight, where he rips reggae a new one with Rashied Ali. I need more Coltrane. In the more structured jazz [?] vein, I picked up Zorn's Naked City. Every time I find something like this I feel like a retard for not knowing sooner, ya know? Haven't dug into the whole thing yet, but... he covers Ennio Morricone and Ornette Coleman in between originals; a lot of ground is sped across in a blur.
[12/10/1999]
Gamasutra
has been running quite a few post-development diaries by game designers
lately. The only one I played was System Shock 2, certainly the most engaging
"standard" single-player game experience this year. Check out the
System Shock 2 postmortem for the good and bad:
One difficulty that we encountered was educating our designers in what was expected from them in terms of game-play implementation. Most of our level builders had previously built Quake or Unreal levels and were not familiar with the style of game play that we were trying to build in System Shock 2. Partially this was because we were simply exploring a style of game play that we did not entirely understand ourselves.
Also in games, here's a
handy Quake 3 logfile analyzer
in Perl. Yes, I now have been sucked into Quake 3. What'd you expect? I'm a
videogame kid. Must improve that plasma aim. You crazy reader folks will
understand if I'm not quite as verbose, right?
[12/09/1999]
Begging to be a meme:
Crossed Lines and Bad Connections
hooks up two people in a conference call -- each thinking the other
called them.
In that department,
Odd Duck's Pranques
is fairly high quality compared to most of the unoriginal, annoying
pranksters.
For prophecy, see
Nostradamus Foretold,
especially predictions of
Mentos Candy
and the
A-Team.
The Odd Duck
also provides the hilarious
Aernold's Fables
To convince you to visit, I present ripped in its entirety:
The Hen and the Chicken
One day, a chicken happened upon a hen.
"Ahh, it's fine to see another chicken in these here parts," said the chicken to the hen.
The hen stared at the chicken with disdain. "Are you blind. I am a hen, not a chicken."
"That's rich," cackled the chicken. "Don't you know that a hen is a female chicken?"
The hen had not known.
The moral: Hens are female chickens.
[12/07/1999]
