Dear slow driver,
Why did you buy an SUV with a V8 to go 50 down a 60 zone?
Jackass.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Apparently digital is the new traditional
Creating the Art of Innistrad
From that point on, I count finished Innistrad pieces 5,6,8,9,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,25,26 and 28 are almost certainly digital, and pieces 2,10,13,19,20,27 stand a pretty good chance of being digital.
That's 19/28.
Also, Painter is pretty tank, so even ones that look real might still be digital. <_<
New Phyrexia was rife with digital painters, not only to really sell the terrible sheen of metal, but also so I could redirect for the look of Innistrad, which is a more grounded, relatable and straightforward place, and would benefit from a more "traditionally painted" feel.
From that point on, I count finished Innistrad pieces 5,6,8,9,14,15,16,17,18,20,21,25,26 and 28 are almost certainly digital, and pieces 2,10,13,19,20,27 stand a pretty good chance of being digital.
That's 19/28.
Also, Painter is pretty tank, so even ones that look real might still be digital. <_<
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Of course
Tumblr is worthless, why would you share pictures one at a time? They're not even yours, so you're clearly not limited by production.
And most of the stuff being shared is generic low res shit anyways.
How can you compete with stuff like Boston Globe's picture blog?
And most of the stuff being shared is generic low res shit anyways.
How can you compete with stuff like Boston Globe's picture blog?
Some places
I've been collecting images of places for a while now. I haven't done many pictures of scenery so I've been collecting them in hopes of getting inspired.
Well that never happened. But there are some great pictures in that folder; these ones I think are each enough to inspire a world unto itself. My apologies they're not all high quality.
Afghanistan, by my estimation about 30km North of Fuck Nowhere.
Along the Chicago river.
CityPoint in London; from this angle it looks like the buildings extend forever.
Dubai, pre-bust presumably.
This is (somewhere) in Egypt, you can see the crops surrounding center-pivot irrigators.
A bridge being constructed in Guizhou.
Hyesan.
This is at Ijen volcano; I believe they use the pipes to transport sulfur from the volcano. Yes, they are mining a volcano, crazy!
The Maunsell sea forts.
Unfortunately I don't remember what this is, the image says Mina but I'm not convinced it's not a mosque in Mecca proper.
Anyways, you can see that I neglected to include any ghost towns or abandoned and derelict building photos because, honestly, everyone's seen those before already.
And of course, there's no way I've covered all the craziness in the world here.
Well that never happened. But there are some great pictures in that folder; these ones I think are each enough to inspire a world unto itself. My apologies they're not all high quality.
Afghanistan, by my estimation about 30km North of Fuck Nowhere.
Along the Chicago river.
CityPoint in London; from this angle it looks like the buildings extend forever.
Dubai, pre-bust presumably.
This is (somewhere) in Egypt, you can see the crops surrounding center-pivot irrigators.
A bridge being constructed in Guizhou.
Hyesan.
This is at Ijen volcano; I believe they use the pipes to transport sulfur from the volcano. Yes, they are mining a volcano, crazy!
The Maunsell sea forts.
Unfortunately I don't remember what this is, the image says Mina but I'm not convinced it's not a mosque in Mecca proper.
Anyways, you can see that I neglected to include any ghost towns or abandoned and derelict building photos because, honestly, everyone's seen those before already.
And of course, there's no way I've covered all the craziness in the world here.
Thought exercise
I was thinking if I would take a Charger coloured like that.
No.
Nothing made in America could look like that.
But maybe a Veyron.
You know, black out all their stupid chrome.
Could be hot.
What if you just had an all beige car? Like wheels and everything.
But then you could have bright red brake calipers.
Anyone remember the time Richard Hammond brought on a dark grey GT3? Except its tyres were jet black, the rims were red, and it had yellow brake calipers.
What a retarded idea!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
They did it already: it's called Battle Royale
This is how my version of The Hunger Games would be:
It will be based around a group of housemates who are playing fighting games.
They are hungry because they are lazy and can't be bothered to cook food.
The story would come to a thrilling conclusion as they end up going out for sushi after not eating for the entire day.
Inspired by a true story.
It will be based around a group of housemates who are playing fighting games.
They are hungry because they are lazy and can't be bothered to cook food.
The story would come to a thrilling conclusion as they end up going out for sushi after not eating for the entire day.
Inspired by a true story.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Don't use it, lose it
People think that the easy dissemination of information makes it difficult to lose knowledge in the modern age.
Actually, it's extremely easy to to lose knowledge. Especially technical expertise. So much of it is very specialized and only existent in the private hands of corporations. And within these corporations, specific and important facts are only kept in the minds of a handful of people.
If the engineers depart and the line workers depart, without replacement, you've already lost most of the knowledge.
For instance, the principals of an internal combustion engine are well known, and there's quite a bit more than that circulating around in papers. Do you think that's enough to reconstruct a modern car engine? Engine fundamentals from the Model T to the Fiesta haven't changed. But over the last century, Ford has figured out how to squeeze out more than 3 times the mileage and 6 times the power with an engine volume of half the size. Do you know what they did? Do you think your educational institution knows what they did? Not a chance, unless your professor worked in a very specific field within the industry. Even then, his knowledge grows more outdated year by year as Ford engineers continue to squeeze out a few more percentage points of performance year by year.
Or let's say that you already know that you can get a 5% efficiency gain by tweaking the inlet aero. How would you know where to tweak? You'd have to go through all the testing that was done before, and you'd need to design and build the infrastructure to conduct the tests in the first place.
It's the same across all fields, from cars to bridges to computers. Good luck building a modern virtual machine using the Dragon Book. And that's still only talking design knowledge.
Im CAD hat's passt.
It fits in CAD. Not good enough.
You can't learn how to build something without actually building it and, more than anything else, this is something kept exclusively in the minds of workers. And god help you if the toolset had been struck already (which is common), because now all of sudden all of your work instructions are worthless without the accompanying equipment. Now you have to redesign and rebuild the infrastructure too and go through the teething process all over again. Think you can make a violin from an instruction book? Nope, you learn by building a violin and a lot of crappy violins.
See how we've decided to stop going to the moon for a couple of decades and suddenly it's a pain in the ass to figure out how to do it again. And that's with all of the previous generation's artifacts around, more computing power than our predecessors could ever imagine and an extremely competent corp of people who've been shooting things into space non-stop in the intermediate period. Sure you don't have to go though the paradigm shift breakthroughs again, but most of being able to do something is just grinding, and that's a feat that'll need to be replicated if you ever forget. Technology has not dark age proofed us.
Actually, it's extremely easy to to lose knowledge. Especially technical expertise. So much of it is very specialized and only existent in the private hands of corporations. And within these corporations, specific and important facts are only kept in the minds of a handful of people.
If the engineers depart and the line workers depart, without replacement, you've already lost most of the knowledge.
For instance, the principals of an internal combustion engine are well known, and there's quite a bit more than that circulating around in papers. Do you think that's enough to reconstruct a modern car engine? Engine fundamentals from the Model T to the Fiesta haven't changed. But over the last century, Ford has figured out how to squeeze out more than 3 times the mileage and 6 times the power with an engine volume of half the size. Do you know what they did? Do you think your educational institution knows what they did? Not a chance, unless your professor worked in a very specific field within the industry. Even then, his knowledge grows more outdated year by year as Ford engineers continue to squeeze out a few more percentage points of performance year by year.
Or let's say that you already know that you can get a 5% efficiency gain by tweaking the inlet aero. How would you know where to tweak? You'd have to go through all the testing that was done before, and you'd need to design and build the infrastructure to conduct the tests in the first place.
It's the same across all fields, from cars to bridges to computers. Good luck building a modern virtual machine using the Dragon Book. And that's still only talking design knowledge.
Im CAD hat's passt.
It fits in CAD. Not good enough.
You can't learn how to build something without actually building it and, more than anything else, this is something kept exclusively in the minds of workers. And god help you if the toolset had been struck already (which is common), because now all of sudden all of your work instructions are worthless without the accompanying equipment. Now you have to redesign and rebuild the infrastructure too and go through the teething process all over again. Think you can make a violin from an instruction book? Nope, you learn by building a violin and a lot of crappy violins.
See how we've decided to stop going to the moon for a couple of decades and suddenly it's a pain in the ass to figure out how to do it again. And that's with all of the previous generation's artifacts around, more computing power than our predecessors could ever imagine and an extremely competent corp of people who've been shooting things into space non-stop in the intermediate period. Sure you don't have to go though the paradigm shift breakthroughs again, but most of being able to do something is just grinding, and that's a feat that'll need to be replicated if you ever forget. Technology has not dark age proofed us.
Sunday, September 04, 2011
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Everyone should be getting close to graduating, right?
And then we'd be like real adults, right?
...
What do?
...
What do?
Friday, September 02, 2011
Sounds promising
My Google Reader frontpage publicizes:
"I have no breasts, but I do have a camera!"
That's Good News.
"I have no breasts, but I do have a camera!"
That's Good News.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Punctuation
Some people might've noticed that my punctuation is all over the place.
I actually pay a lot of attention to my punctuation.
I just don't care much for the rules.
I actually pay a lot of attention to my punctuation.
I just don't care much for the rules.
The trick is, I think...
When it comes to games, I don't really apply the same weighting factors as average people. For instance, I put a disproportionate amount of weighting into originality and UI. And by "originality" I don't actually mean the pioneering game of some mechanic set but rather the first decent game of the same set that happens to fall into my lap. Sorry, first come first serve.
An example.
I played Disgaea 2. This should be fairly obvious to any readers. I peddle the series to anyone who would listen, because it's a great set of games. But it's actually hard for me to actually be motivated to play any other game in the series or in fact any other tactical RPGs. You know, it's all flavours of fruit punch; once you've tried one you've tried them all.
Maniac shooters are different. That's because I've convinced myself that I have to conquer them all. Crazy, I know.
Anyways,
Let's talk about Ar Tonelico.
I will first discuss the UI.
Look at all these gauges! It is comforting that they are there. That is all.
People complain about its difficulty curve being too easy. I've never ran into that problem. The trick is, I think, to be too lazy to upgrade your equips. Some games are made for min/max-ing. Melding this, crystal that, who cares. This isn't one of those games; this is a game made for diving into Reyvateils.
Oh, and the story turns out to be pretty good.
An example.
I played Disgaea 2. This should be fairly obvious to any readers. I peddle the series to anyone who would listen, because it's a great set of games. But it's actually hard for me to actually be motivated to play any other game in the series or in fact any other tactical RPGs. You know, it's all flavours of fruit punch; once you've tried one you've tried them all.
Maniac shooters are different. That's because I've convinced myself that I have to conquer them all. Crazy, I know.
Anyways,
Let's talk about Ar Tonelico.
I will first discuss the UI.
Look at all these gauges! It is comforting that they are there. That is all.
People complain about its difficulty curve being too easy. I've never ran into that problem. The trick is, I think, to be too lazy to upgrade your equips. Some games are made for min/max-ing. Melding this, crystal that, who cares. This isn't one of those games; this is a game made for diving into Reyvateils.
Oh, and the story turns out to be pretty good.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Saturday, August 06, 2011
What's Google got on you?
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Friday, August 05, 2011
Canada
Given deep introspection, I have come to the conclusion that Canada is the least exotic country in the world.
No, seriously, there is literally no other country that is as boring.
We are pretty much America, but without the gungho "go big or go home" attitude. And in the case of hispanics, it's pretty much just "go home". Where home is apparently Mexico regardless of origin of birth or place of childhood. Also our own "Manifest Destiny" was kind of half-assed. Like we sort of wanted to screw over the natives but didn't really put in the effort.
Commonwealth but without koalas, frivolous hats or a hatred of the British for pillaging the land and taking all the diamonds.
Well run like Germany, but more like a contraption made of rusty nails and softwood lumber that just happens to work rather than an engine of precision milled aluminum designed by engineers in fluorescent white cleanrooms. We also don't have a history of half-baked world domination ploys and make terrible movie villains.
Cold, like Scandinavia, but with less Satan.
I'd take kangaroos over Canadian geese. At least you can eat them.
No, seriously, there is literally no other country that is as boring.
We are pretty much America, but without the gungho "go big or go home" attitude. And in the case of hispanics, it's pretty much just "go home". Where home is apparently Mexico regardless of origin of birth or place of childhood. Also our own "Manifest Destiny" was kind of half-assed. Like we sort of wanted to screw over the natives but didn't really put in the effort.
Commonwealth but without koalas, frivolous hats or a hatred of the British for pillaging the land and taking all the diamonds.
Well run like Germany, but more like a contraption made of rusty nails and softwood lumber that just happens to work rather than an engine of precision milled aluminum designed by engineers in fluorescent white cleanrooms. We also don't have a history of half-baked world domination ploys and make terrible movie villains.
Cold, like Scandinavia, but with less Satan.
I'd take kangaroos over Canadian geese. At least you can eat them.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Need for Speed is stupid, as if the police would chase you in Lamborghinis!
Well...turns out I was dead wrong.
And apparently some of them do actually get used for policing duty...so...
Oh well, not like regular police cars are cheap either. The Italians also got a pair of Evoras on duty.
And apparently some of them do actually get used for policing duty...so...
Oh well, not like regular police cars are cheap either. The Italians also got a pair of Evoras on duty.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
So much for the spirit of learning
I just made a P-x-y diagram.
It certainly looks like a P-x-y diagram, but I'm not really sure what the curves mean.
I'll just leave it unlabelled and assume that the marker will assume I know what things are.
Often in engineering, we are told to do something to solve a problem because it works and not to think too deeply about it.
It gets really ingrained and sometimes we take it to too much of an extreme.
Last week I was working on a Transport assignment.
"Does this graph look right to you?"
"Yes, I mean wait, what are those lines?"
"Uh, let me read the problem statement and get back to you"
Like in Jeopardy, when you ring in the answer before the question gets read.
One more thing: I hope the med students run their training patients with better care than we run our training distillation columns. Otherwise I'd stay away from the hospital at Mac.
It certainly looks like a P-x-y diagram, but I'm not really sure what the curves mean.
I'll just leave it unlabelled and assume that the marker will assume I know what things are.
Often in engineering, we are told to do something to solve a problem because it works and not to think too deeply about it.
It gets really ingrained and sometimes we take it to too much of an extreme.
Last week I was working on a Transport assignment.
"Does this graph look right to you?"
"Yes, I mean wait, what are those lines?"
"Uh, let me read the problem statement and get back to you"
Like in Jeopardy, when you ring in the answer before the question gets read.
One more thing: I hope the med students run their training patients with better care than we run our training distillation columns. Otherwise I'd stay away from the hospital at Mac.
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