Coolest thing ever: iPhone 4.
Uncoolest thing ever: holding Apple accountable for giving the iPhone 4 shitty reception and shitty construction.
Thu 11 Mar 2010
Because some of the Tiny Gods are extremely passionate about “unboxing” photos and videos I decided to capture a recent unboxing event of my own. The box in question is something of a case. Some are said to crave its contents. I present for your edification the Crave Case, Unboxed:
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| Crave Case Unboxing |
Tue 2 Mar 2010
Semantic Data
Posted by Pasty under Computers, Design
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Humans would like to have semantically searchable data. Computers can search semantic data, but do not excel at creating it. For most common projects, humans are more interested in formatting data for human use than semantically categorizing it. The solution, as I see it, is to embed AI into all word processors (MS Word/Works, Open/Star Office Writer, Google Docs, etc) and separate the visible formatting from the contextual formatting. Only give users the ability to add contextual formatting to aid in semantic sorting and parsing so that human-necessary work gets done at all. Then have the AI step in, dynamically in real-time, to format the data into a human friendly display format (based on a selected theme, or AI type to give it a “biz memo” look and feel, or “newsletter” or “personal note” or “white paper” or “blog entry” or to make it “Professional” or “Informal”, etc.) and start giving up precise control of how things are viewed. This will be a boon as more data is seen on more devices and differently sized screens than ever before (see: smartphones, iPad, QSXGA TVs, etc.). Let’s all get out of the text layout business and get into the semantic encoding business, for the good of us all.
Sat 30 Jan 2010
We Have Gravity
Posted by Mandrake under Awesome, Gaming, TinyGods
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Once again, I’m getting a late start. I’ve made some improvements to my stupid game from last night, but I don’t have time to mess with that right now. It’s looking like some decent progress has been made on our main project. Time for me to get to work! I’m going to get my level editing on.
Sat 30 Jan 2010
Our first evening is winding down. Pasty has been doing all kinds of fancy physicsing. Chuck has been playing terrible music and also programming. Sullivan has produced some hilarious art. I should have a lot more details to post tomorrow, but for now I will present to you my contribution for the evening: Teh Stupid Gaem!
It’s pretty dumb. Just click on the dude to make him jump over the bad thing and you win. It was thrown together using jQuery. It’s not nearly as awesome as what the other guys have been working on, but it’s something.
See you tomorrow!
Fri 29 Jan 2010
What’s up, folks? This is your pal Mandrake LIVE BLOGGING from the official Tiny Gods Game Jam taking place at la casa de Chuck. We’re jamming some games and pounding down some Mountain Dew Throwback.
Pasty is doing some coding. Ran and Idan are tossing around some design ideas. Sullivan is drawing lots of pretty pictures. Chuck is setting up some source control for us. I arrived a bit late, so I’m still trying to snag myself a worthwhile role. I figured I might as well document things.
The theme for the Global Game Jam is “Deception” but we’re going with “Escape” because we don’t let anybody tell us how to jam. I’ll post more as progress is made.
Thu 17 Dec 2009
RIP Rolando the Soldier
Posted by Pasty under Gaming
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Borderlands killed my soldier, Rolando, once and for all. He was level 32 and I had finally found him a set of 4 weapons with elemental damage that I liked.
He had a caustic shotgun that turned bandits to slime in no time flat. He had a shocking machine gun that depleted shields and dealt heavy damage at an ungodly rate. His SMG did 4x fire damage and was great for settings those hard-to-see critters ablaze. His new shocking sniper rifle was adequate and thoroughly useful.
I’d just put two points in a skill that regenerated health for him after every kill. His class mod increased the magazine size for every weapon for everyone in the game by over a quarter. He was a nice guy but he didn’t take no shit from no skags. He will be missed.
Yes, I saved the game and no, I didn’t interrupt it. I was playing with someone else at the time and that character (Brock) is intact, while mine is pushing up daisies. And to make matters worse, WordPress is being a total bitchass about the formatting of this post. Reported the bug on the Gearbox forums.
Mon 14 Dec 2009
As much as I hate to bump Miss Scarlett from the top of the page, I’ve got a rant to spit out in lieu of doing real work.
Google has just added a URL shortener service (and provided shortcuts to it from their Toolbar and other products) named goo.gl and it will “compete” with services such at bit.ly and others. Â The reason for these URL shorteners is that some things give you very few characters to send URLs and the long URLs (especially those auto generated by content management systems) don’t leave much room for anything else. (more…)
Sun 29 Nov 2009
Whew! Who knew November would fly by so quick? The month may be nearly over, but that just means that we are just days away from the December BotM post!
This month brings us none other than Mrs. Ryan Reynolds….er, umm….Scarlett Johansson. Ryan Reynolds was the Beefcake of the Month for May, a month that featured no babe. To make up for this oversight on my part, ScarJo is being made the honorary May BotM in addition to her duties as November BotM, so that husband and wife can be together.
On the last day of this Thanksgiving weekend, here are 29 more things to be thankful for. Enjoy!
Mon 16 Nov 2009
Another usurper to the TinyGods throne has emerged: TheTinyGods.com
I’m not sure if we’re feudin’ with them yet; stay vigilant.
Ninja Tumblr Attack!
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