Valve Life (It’s Like Thug Life, Just Trust Me)
Mar/10 4
So tomorrow night we have a hot date with zombies, playing L4D. When I was talking with Syd about it yesterday, she asked if we might play tf2 on Friday because she said “I want to push the cart.” So what say you all? Who’s in for L4D Thursday night and who’s in for tf2 with Syd Friday night? Come on people, we can make a girl’s dream to push a cart come true.
I’m with CoCo
Mar/10 8
I have the distinguished pleasure of formally petitioning the Cup community to assimil-induct a new Cup tender. His name is David. I think we’ve all had the pleasure of basking in his presence and being told “What the fuck man?!?!” by him at one point or another.
He’s an awesome guy and I think he could breath new life into the community. He’s a self-proclaimed visionary, trailblazer and maverick. He’s a programming legend, Bill Gates has called him “the human virtual machine.” Intel has used his brain as the blue-print for their next generation of processors, the dCore Infinity. Obama has stated, “We are now 100% safe from cyber-terrorists, all because of the D-Man.”
Fellow cup-tenders, will you allow this man to pour his espresso in our cups?
Quote of the day
Mar/10 2
“I thought there would be more cock.”
- re: adventures in Chat Roulette
We are the fish brigade. We will assimilate you.
EDIT: “If you hold your cock in the forest and no one sees it, are you really holding your cock?”
Sushi Cat
Mar/10 1
I give you SUSHI-CAT!!! The goal is to navigate your cat through a world of sushi, all the while ensuring that your cat eats as much as possible. Cool music track too…kind of a reggae/tea-house vibe
Strange Things Afoot at Valve….
Mar/10 3
I first read about this at Kotaku, which will probably have more updates by the time you read this….
It started with a simple update to Portal, which added a new “Transmission Received” achievement:
New portal achievement.
Which quickly turned into a mad rush of players figuring out what the hell this is all about…and my god…as of this writing, there’s a steam forum thread that’s reached 2267 posts, here’s a recap as of post 2187:
in a nutshell:
-Portal gets surprise update yesterday afternoon
-People see new mystery achievement
-People play and see the radio in the beginning room now has a green light
-Carry it around and notice it makes strange broadcast interference noises in certain places
-Locate and place all 26 of these mystery radios for achievement
-Smart people yank wav files out of game content folders and run them through steganography programs
-Produces 26 weird cryptic image files in a numbered sequence (link)
-Some dude runs the number string through an md5 hash translator and gets a landline number
-Internet traces it to Kirkland, WA (near Valve HQ)
-People find out its not a phone/fax line but a data line hosting a BBS and telnet it
-Use a clue from one of the files to figure out the BBS user/password login info
-End up with a bunch of weird ASCII artwork (link)
-We’re trying to figure out wtf it means
-XJR asks for summary on the forums
We’ll see where this has gone come morning…bravo to valve, those are some CRAZY hoops to jump though….CRAZY….and bravo to the community for figuring it all out….my god man, can we get the steam community to cure cancer? find alien life?
UPDATE:
MoOse included a bunch of info in the comments, but I just wanted to point everyone to this video for new ending which was added today.
Gorillaz New Album + Misc….
Mar/10 8
For those interested, Gorillaz will be coming out with a new album called Plastic Beach on March 9th. As of right now, the full album can be streamed from NPR for your listening pleasure.
On another note, I haven’t subjected the cup community to my random intertube findings for some time. I know you’re all eager to see what random shit has befallen my eyes as of late, so without futhur ado…
UPDATE:
If I ever say “bring da ambalamps” you’ll see why at the end of the jump…
Return of the Multi-Post: HoR, Valve, PokeArt
Feb/10 4
This crazy mashup of ancient japanese art and pokemon evolutions was found somewheres over on Kotaku several weeks ago. I post it here for your consideration.
Valve might be bringing steam to the OSX and Linux! Definitely not world changing with bootcamp for OSX and Wine for Linux, but official support for these platforms would be greatly appreciated.
In good political news the House of Rep.s voted 406-19 in favor of repealing Anti-Trust exemptions for health insurance companies. I believe this will still have to go through the Senate, but the margin of victory on this bill is insane/awesome and as a result has a good chance there.
And last but not least here’s what $60 spent on a video game goes towards.
I’m on YouTube! Kind of….
Feb/10 2
I’m part of a 7 man programming group (boy that sounds dirty) in one of my classes. And we’ve worked our butts off on this thing. The teacher said to take screen shots, but I wanted this thing to shine. So I took on the responsibility of making a demo video, which turned into a lesson in video conversion, which turned into a lesson in patience as videos converted and uploaded to different places (also dirty).
Here are the results, of the demo at least:
Mnemonic devices gone wild!
Feb/10 7
Ordinarily I wouldn’t make a post about the goings-on in my quantitative analysis class because I’m pretty sure no one here has a special interest in regression analysis. But things got a little ridiculous in last weeks discussion section, and I’m optimistically assuming that the humor is real and not just collective insanity induced.
We were going over the derivation of the slope coefficient in a bivariate regression, and the GSI decided she was obligated to tell us the shorthand way of rembering the formula that someone had come up with in the last class. Formula:
(The “S”s with the subscripts mean the same thing as the sums)
So how does one rember this mess? “Sexy sex.”
We then went on to talk about the corresponding coefficient for a multivariate regression, which is a gigantic mess, but can be abbreviated:
So the GSI goes “hmm.. I don’t think there’s an easy way to rember this one” and someone yells out “they got tired after they had sexy sex” (the zz subsripts), and then I think someone tried to describe the last part of the numerator in terms of a threesome.
And the final bit of statistics/sex mnenomic fun for the day: the GSI just decided to go with the flow of everything descending into chaos and told us a story about a professor of hers that always had trouble remembering whether sex ratio statistics represent the number of males per female or the number of females per male in the population. The solution: “missionary position” (males/females).
Patriotism
Feb/10 11
I haven’t been able
to quit smoking ever since
I started back up again last week
when I flipped my blue 2003 Toyota Celica
on the 405. I guess I needed a little taste of death
to celebrate being alive.
And why not? It’s the American way.
In America death is our birthright.
Marlboro, Jack Daniels, and Smith & Wesson are worshipped
as the holy trinity of our National Treasury.
Throw in a coked-out blonde with a donkey and a little dice game
and you got yourself a regular ol’ red blooded,
fist pumping, flag saluting,
patriot.
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