Sunday, August 26, 2007

Killed By a Rabbit Recently?

Quote available here.

[Dejos] I was killed by a rabit in D&D once
[Wiser] lol
[Dejos] stupid DM
[recursive] did it have big sharp pointy teeth?
[recursive] \/\/\/\/\/
[Dejos] no! it didnt have squat.. I tripped over it and fell off a cliff

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Han Solo Solo No More

This is so cool! This guy has replaced Han Solo's face in the legendary block of carbonite with his own! Check it out at
www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000668.php. As he says, it's definitely one way to try and cement one's nerdship for a looooong while. Well done Rob!!!

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Biology in IT

bash.org quote here.

[SSilver2k] he worked on a server called Servix in a college, he asked this girl to log into her "servix" terminal...you can see how that conversation went.

It's All a Matter of Physics...

Bash.org quote here.

[chaz] I had to recompile our software to pick up the new libraries etc
[chaz] we then hit an issue with connectivity to the database server
[chaz] but thats what i fixed (i hope) this morning, so we'll see :)
* Twitch crosses her fingers for you
[chaz] my apologies, I didn't realise you were female.
[chaz] I should turn my geek off. :/
[Twitch] I'm in Physics, don't bother

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Bash.org - Duke Nukem Forever

*siiiiggghhh...* I'm still being optimistic and waiting for Duke Nukem Forever. Hopefully it won't be recorded as DNF...

Here's a good DNF quote from bash.org:
[Analogy]:     The Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled approximately 2.5 billion miles since the announcement of Duke Nukem Forever

Monday, August 13, 2007

How It Feels To Lose A Girl Explained To A Gamer

Digg link:
This is a brilliant quote!!!

Direct link:
http://www.bash.org/?761414

SergioThree: there's other fish in the sea, man, she's just a girl
Beatsfromkorea: no dude, that's bullshit.
Beatsfromkorea: Think of it this way. if your precious copy of street fighter third strike broke and i told you "it's ok man, there's other games in the sea. here, play mortal kombat instead" what would you say? you'd be like, "fuck that, gimme third strike."
SergioThree: ...
SergioThree: you just reached me on a level that i never thought possible

Thursday, August 09, 2007

A Few Quotes and Stuff...


  • "The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea."- _The Wizardry Compiled_ by Rick Cook
  • Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
  • Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
  • We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.
  • The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten 10% of its capacity, the rest is overhead for the operating system.
  • Programming is an art form that fights back.
  • There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
  • Best file compression around: "DEL *.* /S" = 100% compression
  • Windows: Just another pane in the glass.
  • RAM disk is *not* an installation procedure.
  • Shell to DOS...Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...
    • What happens to programmers when they die?
    • They get deallocated?
    • Their values become undefined?
    • The get re-intialized?
    • Their structues break down?
    • They become WORM food...
    • They start dropping bits........
    • They branch to a new address!
    • Their social system resources are released?
    • They dump core?

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Battle in the Kruger Park

Here a small pride of lions, a crocodile and an herd on buffalo. It is AMAZING!!!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Questions in the early morning

What am I doing? Where am I going with my life? Am I moving forward? Progressing? Stagnating? Growing?

I think I'm growing, moving forward. I feel/think that it's just a bit slow...