Azaka Exclusive

Because I have too much time on my hands, we now have a short-circuited exclusive!

Azaka is hot.

Unexpectedly, I could not find this image elsewhere at all, except for the small product preview version (like 250 pixels wide).

Why Spock May be Guilty of Genocide

I finally got around to seeing the new Star Trek film. Overall, it is enjoyable, but I couldn’t figure out why Eric Bana is so pissed off all the time. Then I realized that we’ve never really heard  his side of the story, only Spock’s.  Let’s try to approach this as reasonably as possible from what we know from the film.

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Experiment in Colors

I wanted to experiment with vectoring and decided to try what color reduction on a simple image would turn out like. Read more »

Theorycrafting MTG 01

Let’s start with Mind Funeral (Figure 1-1). We (lsun and I) calculated that it had approximately the same average number of milled cards as Sanity Grinding, so I guess it was meant to be its spiritual successor for Constructed play come Winter. Sanity Grinding had an average of 10.4 cards milled, and Mind Funeral clocked in with 10.9 cards against a 22 land deck.

Update: A (terrible) mistake but… how the hell did we get 10.4 cards milled with Sanity Grinding? I ran the calculations again and it should be more like 15! Mind Funeral just doesn’t compare. Read more »

3 years?!

A bit late, but apparently this blog is now three years old. THREE years. And we’re still on the default template.

God help us. orz

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12 Things I’ve Learned from Watching Television

I have not made  a post in almost a year now, but I promised Hikago that I would before the end of this school term. Don’t worry though, since I used my extra time to focus on the more important things in life … like watching television.

1. Any TV shows must use one of the following settings - cops, doctors, federal agent, criminal, or mundane life.
2. The main character is a loose cannon who only like to play by his own rules, at the chagrin of his by-the-book boss (played by Lance Reddick).
3. The ultimate bad guy must make an appearance within five episodes of the season. If  not, it only means the bad guy is actually the friend of the main character, and will ultimately reveal himself to be the antagonist.  (Unless the show you’re watching is produced by J.J.Abrams, in which case you will never, ever find out who, or what is going on, ever)
4. No one important ever dies, unless it’s in the movie version of the TV franchise, then an important character will most certainly perish. If someone does end up dying, they’ll come back in a later episode as a ghost/time traveler/albino clone/hallucination/robot or mysterious resurrected (only to disappear again in the failtastic finale).
5. If the hero is in an intimate and loving relationship at the start of the show, something terrible is going to happen to either the hero, or the partner.
6. If the hero is not in an intimate and loving relationship, he/she will be by the end of the series.
7. When someone falls off a high rise building, he always lands on a car.
8. When an explosion occurs on a city street, all the car alarms in the block will go off.
9. If a scene starts with two people in bed, one of them (the important one) will get a phone call.
10. If a scene ends with two people in bed, they’re not going to be sleeping.
11. The biggest asshole on the show is also the one the viewers like best.
12. No fat chicks.
13. Any show that attempts to break the rules above will surely be canceled before the end of its first season.

Listens per day

Seeing this post, I realized that listens per day might be a better metric, and went about rewriting a mIRC addon for iTunes I was using to output this data.

Unfortunately I was predicting a switch to foobar2000 or Songbird in the near future, so the addon is still in beta and is not 100% functional (although it does the bare minimum of outputting the song, artist, total listens, LPD, etc.). A more in-depth discussion after the jump. Read more »

White Album 11

A fine example of unintentional humor.

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DotA Rage 01

Friend and fellow blog poster (lsun) introduced me to this hilarious DotA TDA thread in which people express their rage at the game/players in poorly drawn comics. And as readers of this blog know, I love poorly drawn comics (see Points of Contention). I also play a lot of dota.

And so, in Figure 1-1 we can see the horrific results of 10 minutes in MSPaint. (It’s after the jump, you’ve been warned…)

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Points of Contention 5

Another guest comic from Falcanium. “The Engineers are doing it again” indeed.

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