Steve Fischer's Random Blog

Category: Technology

  • Amusing Game

    I love this guy’s games, because they have a simple but great sense of humor. I’ve blogged about them before, but if you don’t recall, this guy creates small simple games that take a maximum of 7 days to create. He usually puts out one a month.

    This month’s installment is a simple shoot ’em up. You are trying to blast robots. But there’s a twist. When you die, you press the spacebar to go back in time.

    What actually happens is that the game remembers exactly what you did the first time and “you” automatically do exactly that (up to and including getting killed) while the new “you” gets to operate along side. So in this game dying is advantageous because eventually there are ten of your blasting robots simultaneously.

    Amusing…

  • Wordle

    Not unlike the tag cloud on the right of this blog, Wordle will take a blog and create a cloud by actually reading the text and seeing how often words are used.

    I clearly can’t show this to my daughter Danielle, because she will be upset that I apparently talk about Victoria a lot more. I’m also a bit concerned about the prominence of the word “old”…

  • Geeky Astronomy Post

    I like this guy’s blog. Here he explains Lagrange Points (watch the video). Prior to reading this I had never heard of them. Now I not only understand them, but I think they’re pretty cool…

     

  • Ugly = Good?

    Here’s another post from Trizle. The title is “Why Ugly Projects = Good” but in truth it’s talking about just finishing the damn project (even if it’s ugly).

    This is obvious stuff, but the writing is amusing:

    Think of Fat Guy + Running

    Fat guy screams he’ll run this year:

    • “I need to get the nicest shoes!”
    • “I have to read the latest running magazines!”
    • “I need the latest gear!”
    • “I need the most awesome running trail!”

    Yet, details eventually get him:

    • Instead of just frickin’ running, his immersion into details prevents him from achieving that goal.

    Likewise:

    1. We Business
    2. People
    3. Suck
    4. Like
    5. Fat Guy
    6. Because
    7. We’re So
    8. @#%#^
    9. Obsessed with
      1. The Details

    We want X to be oh-so-fricko-perfecto that we forget the most important part:

    • Accomplishing the @#$%, even if we’re the ugliest @#$% finisher in the world.

  • Another silly game

    OK, I have to admit it. This guy’s simple games just amuse me. You can’t play them for long but they have a sense of humor…

  • Automation is not always good

    Again, I’m trying not to advance an agenda here (full disclosure, I’m Christian). But damn, if you are so anti-gay (or anti-homosexual if you prefer) that you feel that using auto-replace for news feeds from the Associated Press makes sense then you deserve what you get.

    And if US track Olympian Tyson Gay sues your ass, you really deserve it…

    The article has been corrected, but read it as is and do the translation yourself. Originally it stated:

    “It means a lot to me,” the 25-year-old Homosexual said. “I’m glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me.”

    And even more amusingly, with a competitor named Dix:

    After the race, Homosexual and Dix looked at each other and slapped palms, then hugged.

    You just can’t make this stuff up…

  • Biz Advice goes hip-hop?

    I have no idea what to make of this site, but I’m subscribing to the RSS feed just to see. I first found the site via a link to a post explaining why motivational posters suck. That’s not exactly a revelation, I was most amused by the fact that they used the word “suck”.

    So I check the home page and Trizle is apparently all about this:

    Trizle provides tips, tools, and tricks to rock your business like it ain’t no thang but a chicken wing on a string.

    That’s worth checking out for the mere amusement value…

  • When Galaxies collide

    This is just a really cool picture…

  • Crop Circle follow-up

    OK, this is just funny, as is the headline…

  • Hilarious

    This is a do it yourself resignation letter from Yahoo! using drop down lists. My favorite potential phrase is:

    I have come to realize that management does not seem to fully understand to run a fucking taco truck, much less an actual, you know, $30 billion business.

    Although equally funny is:

    My last day here will be the best day of my life you fucking incompetent nincompoops, after which time I shall be taking a position with that doesn’t require me to bend over and lube up.

    If you aren’t offended by the f-word (sorry, I should have warned you before the above quotes), the last item in each list is funniest…