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Random Food Quiz ('Borrowed' from mycroftb) [14 May 2008|09:33am] [ mood | Now i'm hungry... ] [ music | FotC - The Humans are Dead (Live).mp3 ] 1. Are you a vegetarian? Vegan? More like somewhere between omnivore and carnivore. 2. What's your favorite food? Hard to say, so many good things to eat. Although a couple that rank near the top would be a big steak, cooked just enough that it doesn't bleed when you cut it open, or maybe this thing called a "breakfast haystack"*, it's full of win too. 3. White bread or whole wheat? White. Although once in a while I'll use multi-grain for a sandwich. 4. What's for breakfast? Breakfast? Usually I don't bother, unless there's pizza left over from the previous day, or if I'm near McDonalds before 10:30. (In which case I get a couple Sausage/Bacon/Egg McGriddles, and a couple hash browns.) 5. You're making a Dagwood sandwich. What's in it? What isn't? 6. What's on your pizza? Stuffed-Crust Meat Lovers. 7. Coffee, tea, milk, or soda? Usually TaB, sometimes cheap generic Mountain Dew, occasionally coffee or tea. 8. Dark, milk, or white chocolate? White chocolate. Once in a while dark chocolate. 9. Teetotal, beer, wine, or hard liquor? I usually don't drink too often, but I don't really have anythinmg against it, either. 10. Does cilantro taste like citrus, or like soap? It tastes like cilantro. 11. Is chorizo the greatest thing ever or is it totally disgusting? What's a chorizo? 12. Do you use garlic like a vegetable or like a spice? Let's just say that my garlic butter usually ends up as more of a garlic-and-butter paste from the amount of garlic in it. 13. Onions: raw, cooked, or not at all? All of the above. 14. Does broccoli taste sweet or bitter? It tastes like broccoli. 15. How do you feel about fish? Sure, why not? 16. How about sushi? It's ok. Usually I just get the one labeled 'eel' though. 17. Fave ethnic cuisine? No idea. 18. What's your favorite fruit? What's that kind of pear that's a sort of light brown outside instead of yellow or green? They're good. 19. Cheese - thumbs up or thumbs down? Cheese is fine. Especially if it's been deep-fried. 20. Finally, favorite dessert? Hard to say. Although I do like rice pudding, it's good. *Breakfast Haystack: -- Found these at a truck stop I'm near once in a while. -- Take a plate. Cover it with hash browns. Put a few biscuits on. Put scrambled eggs on it. Cover it all with lots of sausage gravy. Add on top choice of 3 strips bacon, 3 sausage links, or 2 (smallish) sausage patties. (I usually pick the bacon.) Upload a file

Random idea. [13 May 2008|09:15pm] [ mood | Hmm... ] 1. Take a microphone. 2. Split the output three ways. 3a. Run one through a sub-audible-frequency low-pass. 3b. Run another through a super-audible-frequency high-pass. 3c. Run the third through an audible-range-frequency bandpass. 4a. Upshift the output of the low-pass. 4b. Downshift the output of the high-pass. 5. Merge the upshifted audio, the downshifted audio, and the bandpassed audio. 6. Feed the merged audio into headphones. Note: For best results, fit a mic into each headphone, use separate processing for each, and feed processed audio into the apropriate side of the headphones. 1 file uploaded|Upload a file

Random airsoft trick I figured out. [02 May 2008|12:49pm] [ mood | accomplished ] [ music | 24-soul_asylum-misery.mp3 ] Found a trick to fit an extra shot into my airsoft gun. 1 - Fill mag (12 pellets or whatever they're called, in my case.) 2 - Pull back on (slide? The part that you pull on before you shoot.) 3 - Eject mag. 4 - Put another in the mag (refill back to 12) 5 - Get 13 shots! :-) 4 files uploaded|Upload a file

The Fast and the Furious [25 Apr 2008|12:44pm] [ mood | amused ] Hmm. Looks like someone put The Fast and the Furious up on YouTube. (Not that I really need that, the DVD was only $1 at Wal-Mart...) Parts: (1/8) (2/8) (3/8) (4/8) (5/8) (6/8) (7/8) (8/8) Upload a file

Blu-Ray equivalent to DVD/HD-DVD "flip" disc? [23 Apr 2008|10:22am] [ mood | curious ] [ music | Black Sabbath - Road To Nowhere.mp3 ] Just out of curiosity - is there a Blu-Ray equivalent to the DVD/HD-DVD "flip" discs? Or is there some really stupid reason that that doesn't work for BD discs? Although I suppose you could fake it by taking a DVD-18 disc, using one side for a standard DVD-9 disc, and using the other side for a BD9 disc. (Of course, that's an ugly kludge, plus you'd probably only have room for bonus content on the DVD-9 side...) I still suspect that the only real reason Blu-Ray beat HD-DVD is because everyone with a PS3 automatically had a Blu-Ray player also, while no popular consoles came stock with a HD-DVD drive. I suspect that if the XBox-360 HD-DVD drive had come built in instead of being an expensive extra that HD-DVD would've had a much better chance, especially considering that HD-DVD has no region encoding (Blu-Ray does), and HD-DVD offers "flip" discs that can be used in your new HD player /or/ in, say, a portable DVD player, or one mounted in a van, all for the price of just the HD disc. Haven't seen anything like that at all for Blu-Ray yet. Upload a file

Interesting... [19 Apr 2008|01:22pm] [ mood | intrigued ] [ music | Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance - 01 - The Hellion ] A B A OR B A AND B NOT A + + + + - + 0 + 0 - + - + - - 0 + + 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 - 0 - + + - + - 0 0 - + - - - - + 2 files uploaded|Upload a file

New SecondLife Viewer - It Sucks! [09 Apr 2008|02:19am] [ mood | pissed off ] [ music | Electric Avenue.mp3 ] Ok, whoever's in charge of the SL viewers should be yelled at. Here I was, started up my old 1.18.? viewer, which worked fine, and I get this big red message about "mandatory update" or something. So I let it. It installs 1.19.1 - and suddenly everything sucks! Tried increasing draw distance - no go. Tried increasing cache - still no go. I can zoom the camera out, and random pieces of things just start vanishing for no reason! So I try downgrading to an older version someone linked to on the forum, 1.19.0 - Well, things don't disappear when I zoom out now at least. Also, I'd like to say that the new 1.19.x UI sucks compared to the old 1.18.x UI. About the only thing they did that was an improvement to it was finally letting you kill that damn "Search" box they forced on you a few versions back that was covering up the stat bars. Upload a file

MegaTokyo + Serial Experiments Lain = ??? [07 Apr 2008|12:24pm] [ mood | curious ] [ music | 02-the_crystal_method_-_born_too_slow-ost-2003-djn.mp3 ] Had an interesting random thought. MegaTokyo + Serial Experiments Lain = ??? Room for all sorts of interesting character interaction there, huh? :-D (Also, I wonder what would happen if someone took a Psyche chip like the one in Lain's NAVI and installed it in Ping? Could be unusual.) Upload a file

[23 Mar 2008|11:25am] [ music | 24-soul_asylum-misery.mp3 ] Had an idea what would make a cool game, although it'll obviously never happen. Remember how with Sonic&Knuckles you could plug other games into it to get S3&K (with saves), or S2&K? (I've also seen a hack to allow S1&K) Sonic 1+2+3&K, all the levels chained together, with the save/load from S3, and an expanded character select. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy (mostly as a Sonic resprite), Cream (mostly as a Tails resprite), and MAYBE Shadow or a couple other characters from Chaotix or the Sonic arcade games. 1-player with any, 2-player any 2 (Not limited to certain combos like S&K, which only allowed Sonic+Tails or Knuckles+Tails in 2-player) And of course give Tails/Cream Tails' flight ability from S3. And of course update the graphics to HD quality, and to widescreen display (by displaying more of the background/etc, NOT by cropping out the top and/or bottom of the background, and /certainly/ not by stretching the picture!) I'd also suggest keeping the miniboss music from S3 instead of replacing it like S3&K did, but that (Maybe even throw in some of the Sonic 2 Beta levels taken out of the final, and use the music/graphics from S2B for the S2 levels instead of the S2 Final music/graphics? That'd be nice.) Upload a file

[21 Mar 2008|11:30am] [ mood | curious ] [ music | Beastles - Let it Beast ] Hmm. I wonder how hard it'd be to get a pair of lenses the equivalent of stacking the lenses from my glasses with the lenses from a standard Model-L View-Master? In the same size/shape as the View-Master lenses, of course. Maybe I could fit some LEDs into the front of the viewer so I don't need to point it at a lamp/window/etc, either. Upload a file

Writer's Block: The Things We Carry [13 Mar 2008|10:08am] What do you always carry with you? View other answers Hmm, let's see here... - Key for a green late-90s Grand Caravan - Panda keychain/LED light (attached to said key) - 2GB thumbdrive - Pocketknife - Folded measuring tape - Tiny nail clippers - A "Travel Bug" keychain thing - Self-inking panda stamp - Flat oval change-holding thing - Key for a white 1990 Caravan C/V - Cell phone (Motorola C139) - Wallet Upload a file

[13 Mar 2008|09:09am] [ mood | anger ] [ music | BombRepeatBomb.mp3 ] WTF? 9 files uploaded|Upload a file

Random quiz thing I ran across... [06 Mar 2008|10:08am] [ mood | amused ] Upload a file

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Pandamar on "Power Joy PJ-008" cart... [09 Feb 2008|12:50am] [ mood | curious ] http://famicomworld.com/Reviews/Pandamar.htm ...now I just need to hunt down one of this cartridge. I've even got a Power-Joy to play it with. (Although any famiclone should work, or an NES if I got a Famicom>NES adapter.) Got the Power Joy used with no cart for $5, but it has 10 games onboard, including a rather decent Tetris clone, albeit with nonstandard tetrominos. At least they were square-based tetrominos, not like the ones in that unlicensed NES game "Pyramid" by Sachen. [Pyramid screenshot] I wonder how many different Power Joy cartridges there are, anyways? Might be interesting to try to get "the whole set", as it were... 2 files uploaded|Upload a file

Shiny... [07 Feb 2008|01:30am] Whatever happened to everyone putting random sparkly so-called "holographic" paterns like this, or this, or possibly the less-popular this onto every cheap product in sight? Or for that matter, what happened to those neat cards with the shiny 3-D hologram pictures on them? I mean, yeah, they /were/ monochrome, usually either green, green fading to orange, or silver, but they /were/ pretty cool. And they actually deserved the name "hologram", unlike those comparatively lame random-looking patterns of shiny... The closest I've seen to these in /years/ is the little shiny hologram logo on credit cards... Upload a file

Pic of My Bike [01 Feb 2008|11:06am] Well, I finally managed to get a pic of my bike uploaded... http://pics.livejournal.com/discopanda/pic/0002zg5r (Warning, 3072x2304px JPEG image.) 1 file uploaded|Upload a file

[30 Jan 2008|06:59pm] [ mood | amused ] [ music | Grayfolded - Mirror Ashes - 04 - The Speed of Space ] Ok, Disc 2 of this set is just weird. Put it in the player - and it starts on Track 01. That's normal. Then it has 0:30-0:45 /negative/ time of music between each track. And if you put it on track 1 you can then rewind it to almost -3:00 minutes and all that's music too! 1 file uploaded|Upload a file

[27 Jan 2008|11:42am] [ mood | irritated ] [ music | E:\ - Electric Light Orchestra - Moment of Truth ] Okay, the XP version of MS Paint is really annoying. I like how they added a bunch more file formats, but... They seem to have removed the "Do you want to enlarge the image to fit?" dialog for pasting things bigger than the current image size, and simply defaulted it to "Yes". Anyone know if there's a way to fix this retarded behavior? 2 files uploaded|Upload a file

Prims [24 Jan 2008|02:57am] [ mood | contemplative ] Hmm, that's interesting. Been reading about VRML - SL has more kinds of prims than VRML, but VRML has kinds of prim called "billboard" and "text" that sound like they'd be somewhat useful... 2 files uploaded|Upload a file

[16 Jan 2008|10:58pm] [ mood | curious ] [ music | Journey - Greatest Hits ] I wonder, is there any actual name for the kind of hat that the Cat in the Hat wears? You know, the tall stripey kind of hat? (Someday I should make one with a bunch of different shades of gray for the stripes instead of red/white or rainbow or whatever other color combinations you usually see... Might look cool with my grayscale tie-dye shirt.) 1 file uploaded|Upload a file

USB Hub Chip? [03 Jan 2008|08:57am] [ mood | creative ] [ music | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktnD8AoWvqg ] Anyone know if there's any sort of USB "hub-in-a-chip" easy to get? As in, instead of a box with a board and sockets in it, just a chip with leads, that you could wire to a board in place of whatever, and then wire devices/sockets/etc to? Because it as I remember, you can't just wire several devices straight into one connector, it just confuses everything involved, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong about that... 4 files uploaded|Upload a file

[01 Jan 2008|12:21pm] [ mood | amused ] [ music | 07 - Shadow OST - Magna Fi - All Hail Shadow.mp3 ] You Are a Chocolate Mocha and Orange Cheesecake Enthusiastic and intense, there's so much you love in the world... it's hard to do it all. You are good at getting things to mix - friends, flavors, hobbies. You're the master of fusion! What Kind of Cheesecake Are You? 2 files uploaded|Upload a file

New Year. [01 Jan 2008|12:19am] [ mood | blah ] [ music | 02 - Shadow OST - Julien-K - Waking Up.mp3 ] Well, now it's a new year as of about 20 minutes ago. Not that it'll really do me much good, but whatever. I'll probably spend most of this one sitting around the house on the computer too, I really do need to find more excuses to get out of the house I suppose... Upload a file

Random Idea that I Just Had [26 Dec 2007|02:51am] [ mood | creative ] [ music | Final_Fantasy_7_The_Twelfth_Commandment_OC_ReMix.mp3 ] I wonder what it'd take to interface part of the guts from a cheap wind-up alarm clock with a ($10) Mini RoboPanda? Then it'd be a wind-up Mini RoboPanda instead of eating AAA batteries. Might even be able to replace the eye LEDs with flints out of an old toy or something, sparks are /like/ lighting up, right? :-D Upload a file

Yay for solvents? [24 Dec 2007|02:30am] [ mood | creative ] [ music | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb6VhV6sOyA ] Ok, minor change of plans. Acetone - Can't find my can of it. Goo Gone - Lame citrus stuff, probably wouldn't affect paint. Goof-Off - Heard it works well, only found big cans though. Claims to contain xylene/tolulene. Goo Gone Xtreme - Never heard of it before, but comes in more convenient container, Claims to contain naptha/xylene/ethanol/ethyl-benzene. Probably going to try the Goo Gone Xtreme. Also, might try vinyl dye instead of Krylon Fusion, as I've read that while Fusion /does/ stick to plastics better than normal spraypaint, it still won't put up with things flexing. 2 files uploaded|Upload a file

Oh, just wonderful... [20 Dec 2007|03:07am] Well, looks like tomorrow I get to dig around in my stuff, try and find a few things. Might have to go buy some of them, I dunno. Such as: - X-Acto knife - some "fusion" spray-paint - locate can of acetone (wtf did I leave that sitting this time?) - needle-nose pliers - plastic washers - tiny zip ties - a bunch of other random-sounding stuff Then all I really need to do is figure out A) How I plan to do this, and B) /How/ again did I manage let myself get talked into this exactly?? 2 files uploaded|Upload a file

[12 Dec 2007|10:37pm] [ mood | depressed ] [ music | Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.mp3 ] Do they make everything more complicated on /purpose/ these days? I remember software used to be retail/shareware/freeware/PD (well, those and postcardware, but that was less common), and now they seem to have regular copyright, copyleft, half a million GPL or GPL-like licenses, something-dozen flavors of CC, and more custom licences than you can shake a stick at. I hear that even the old See'N'Say has gone battery-powered and full of processors and junk. The old ones were full-mechanical, something halfway between a record player and a wind-up, and they'd take ridiculous amounts of abuse without problems. And they never even needed battery changes, because they had none. (also meant they wouldn't fill with corrosive sludge leaked from ancient dead batteries, unlike certain other things I've come across...) And I'm not even going to start on the new ViewMaster where the disc is inside a shell also containing a bunch of sound chips, that puts little audio clips with the pictures when you use it. Isn't that what CDs or tapes are for? Or maybe I just need to catch up with the rest of the world, and think more about cheap shiny cut-rate junk instead of durable long-lasting items, I dunno. :-/ Upload a file

[11 Dec 2007|02:51pm] [ mood | impressed ] Well this is an interesting car I've read about. Nearly 5500 lbs and the aerodynamics of a brick, but it does 0-75 in 10 sec, can reach over 100 mph, has 1000 lb/ft torque and no transmission, is almost completely quiet, and supposedly passes California emissions. Now if only it didn't eat through K-1 at 15 mpg... (Wonder if it'd work on WVO though?) Upload a file

Random Observation that I Just Had... [06 Dec 2007|09:32pm] [ mood | creative ] [ music | 05 - Shadow OST - E.G.G.M.A.N Remix.mp3 ] Random observation that I just had: GameCube (especially with Game Boy Player) = cube Weighted Companion Cube = cube You can see where this is going. Make up a stick-on decal skin, add corner bits, and replace the pop-out-able centerplate on the lid with the apropriate graphic (which would also be on the side skins, of course). :-P 2 files uploaded|Upload a file

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