Ever have the munchies for a game? Last week when I’ve been migrating part of my old blog over, I hit the days when I got WarCraft III when it was first released.
Well, I went searching for the game and couldn’t find it. It wasn’t on my bookshelf and I search in every single box I thought it could be in. Finally I shoot a email to Liam and turns out its at his house in Berkeley. Oh well, I thought and hoped my munchy would go away. But it didn’t unfortunately. Would it be unethical to download a game that you already own? Well, that’s what I ended up *whiste*.
I never completed the series and never got around to finish it. Plus back then, my computer was barely good enough to run it at 1024×768. Now I can run at 1280×960 (the highest wide screen setting they allow) and I’ve set all the quality settings to high and it still runs really smooth.
Well, yah… that’s what I’ve been doing instead of blogging this past week.
Random Crap:
Official in S.C.: Sterilize bad parents – A City Council member, reacting to a video store holdup believed to have been carried out by children, says parents who can’t properly care for their kids should be sterilized. Haha!
Man wears cardboard box at Pa. hearing – A man accused of theft arrived for a preliminary hearing Thursday wearing a cardboard box on his head in an effort to conceal his identity. … “I’m trying to think outside of the box, so to speak,” Leonard said. Isn’t that the opposite? I’d think he’s thinking “inside” the box.
Are burglars these days just getting dumber?
Seven-metre fingernails win place in book of records – Lee Redmond soaks hers in olive oil. Aaron Studham lathers his in hairspray. They both say it’s worth it. Redmond, 65, earned an entry in the latest edition of Guinness World Records with the world’s longest fingernails that have now reached a resplendent 24 feet 7 inches (7.51 metres). Studham, 17, joined the ranks of the weird, wacky and wonderful with the tallest hair on the planet.
Dry cleaner finds note about ‘murder’ – Dry cleaners find all kinds of things hiding in the clothes of their customers — but probably nothing quite like what some employees stumbled across recently. A note found in a customer’s clothing read, “You have committed a murder, but no one believes it. All I can do is kill myself, then everyone will see what you have done.” It was signed: “Your wife, Alice.”
Robot Chicken: Inspector Gadget (from RayAlome) – A hilarouis video parody of Inspector Gadget mix with Terminator.
Beijing’s penis emporium – An interesting read on Chinese delicacies made with “animal penises”. Did you know that snakes have two penises each?
PARK(ing) (from /.) – PARK(ing) is an investigation into reprogramming a typical unit of private vehicular space by leasing a metered parking spot for public recreational activity. An very interesting project. Do check out the photos and video.
Art teacher’s naked lecture denounced – The naked lecture made many of the 30 or so students feel “uneasy”, the paper said. “Some kept their eyes trained on the ceiling, some awkwardly bowed their heads and stared at the ground“. Why is that? If this was in America, everyone would be staring. As kids, my parents told us to look away whenever there was a sexual scene in the movie. I guess we were just “trained” to do so.
Files.to – a similar site to RapidShare and MEGAUPLOAD, but so far, this new site beats both hands down. I’ve gotten consistent 500KB/s download with only ~10second wait. I can have 2 simultaneous transfers at the same time too.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (from Cari) – a rather funny comic strip on how to cure AIDS.
Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared (from /.):
When I first began to use BitTorrent in 2004 there was little question as to which indexing site to use. Today, Suprnova is long gone and we are left with an array of diverse options. This is a comparison of today’s ten most used BitTorrent sites according to Alexa.com.
Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites:
- BTJunkie – Editors Choice
- BitTorrent.com
- Bushtorrent & Torrentreactor (Mirror Indexes)
- isoHunt
- Meganova
- Mininova
- The Pirate Bay
- Torrent Portal
- TorrentSpy
- Torrentz
Man with faulty implant may not get cash – The implant has caused Lennon to have an erection for 10 years.
Man who pawned rifle as boy gets it back – It was a ricochet nearly 50 years in the making. At age 8, Terry Jackson gave up his prized .22-caliber Winchester short-barrel rifle to get his grandmother a washer. Recently, the 57-year-old got the gun back through a series of chance encounters and conversations. One of the few articles that I actually read all the way through. Story is quite touching.
So Smooth (from RayAlome) – a hilarious video of some guy arguing who’s better by making “I’m so… you’re so…” punch lines with a hint of geekiness. RayAlome tells me there’s more at: Barats & Bereta Productions. They were also the ones that did that auto insurance video I posted the other day.
GrandCentral (from B$) – A pretty neat service which provides a local phone number and then forwards your calls to your home phone, work phone, mobile phone, etc based on time and the caller. The free service gives upto 100 minutes of voice time a month and afterwards forwards your calls to an voice mailbox. You get to try the premium service free during this beta period. It even allows you to choose your own ringtones which you can upload your own mp3s.
Mega Man Powered Up (from Tera) – They’ve completely redone the original Mega Man game and gave it a new skin. The characters are so cute and adorable now! Do check out the videos. I’d recommend the Official Trailer Extended.
The Genius of George Bush (from RayAlome) – The Genius of George Bush, funny montage of priceless Bush in action.
Guy gets a rocket to the crotch (from DeadLock) – title explains it all.
The Package (from MS newsgroup) – a pretty interesting game. Requires a bit of computer/programming knowledge. Only took me 3 minutes to solve this puzzle.
Gentlemen, stop your engines (from /.) – EEStor’s device is not technically a battery because no chemicals are involved. In fact, it contains no hazardous materials whatsoever. Yet it acts like a battery in that it stores electricity. If it works as it’s supposed to, it will charge up in five minutes and provide enough energy to drive 500 miles on about $9 worth of electricity. At today’s gas prices, covering that distance can cost $60 or more; the EEStor device would power a car for the equivalent of about 45 cents a gallon.