Tell me.

Please tell me I'm dreaming. This is halerious! Read the text on this translated web-site:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.thueringen.info/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DTh%25C3%25BCringen%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7GGLJ

They need to improve this feature. On the sidebar it says: "Meals, and drinking." That mixed with "Use Conditions" on the bottom, well...

Theory: In the beginning

Ok. Here I have another musing of mine, just something to pass the time.

What if, when we were a young species, Male and Female were actually completely different? What if, one was a dog-like creature, with fearsome fangs, and the other, a plant eater, or some combination of different species. Then, one day, somehow, these two entirely different species "came together", and, by survival of the fittest, the early human outlived both these species?

Ok, here's an idea: what if those two species were actually intelligent, explaining our intelligence?

Clock

Since I'm nowadays ranting about all the widgets I can find on the net, here's a couple:

The Time in Toronto:




5.5/10

The Weather Here

I know that I'm near obsessive about the weather, so I'm going to switch the current "CO2 Emissions" Gaget for a "Current Weather" one. Just for now. If I get a riot on my Mailbox about the change, I'll switch it. Here's a preview:

Little Pig Adventure

I think I'll do this for now. Make a review, then add the EMBEDed game in a later post.

Little Pig Adventure Guide the cute little pig towards the exit point in every stage by dodging various moving security cameras.

Play this free game now!!

Little Pig Adventure Review

Okay, so this is a game that I found on a site recently, and I followed a link, to an EMBED code. This game is a little different from TD Tower defense and Desktop Tower defense because it's:

1. In a foreign language, (okay, not in English)
   
2. A click-move game
3. Seems Easier
4. In later levels, it isn't.

So, I decided to do a review:
This game is basically about a pig in a "jail" trying to eat the most... Things to move faster, without hitting the walls, and without getting caught. To play, you click to move to the area that you clicked. Simple, right?
Well, as with any game, it can get harder. More sentinels, less speed, (sometimes too much? not sure. If so, I haven't made it to that level yet), and smaller "doors", can always thwart a pig's attempts to evade a so-called "jail". Plus, It's in French.

5.5/10

Could be better. You'll see why.

Out with the Old, in with the New. Good advice?

I'm not one to give advice, but I find that this is a flawed statement. "Out with the old, in with the new", is a little bit of a paradox in certain ways; if you go "Out with the old" to the extreme, that would literally mean getting rid of everything old, including memories. Technically, a statement, such as "Out with the old, in with the new", is a thought, and after that thought has occured, it becomes a memory.
Therefore, you forget the concept of "Out with the old, in with the new" because of itself. Then, in theory, you could fall into a vicious circle, a constant pattern of thought. You think of "out with the old, in with the new", so you discard the memory of that thought, either keeping you from doing so again, or, you think of it again, and again you force yourself to forget it.

That's only in extreme cases.

But, in certain cases, "out with the old, in with the new" can be helpful, to a degree. Objects, technology needs to be updated, serviced so that it keeps working. Sometimes, it needs to be replaced with the new.

Obsessions with technology

Is our society too technology obsessed? I mean, we have YouTube, iPod, Blackberry, the Internet... The list of different technologies that people are addicted to is endless. So, where do we draw the line? Where do we say, "stop!" to the money making dealers of technology that subliminally tries to convince us that we need it really badly, eventually making us dependant on these technologies. This brings up memories of the Reaserch in Motion crash a few weeks ago - it led to thousands of different blackberries not being able to e-mail, resulting in money loss.

Where do we draw the line on this?

Nobody temperatures

I'm not sure why I'm writing this one down, but there you go... In any case, my story is this:

I have a temperature monitor in my house, with an exterior sensor. Everyday, I add a two new temperatures: that of the morning inside, and out, and that of the evening, inside and out. Every so-often, I write them into an Excel document. Every time there is at least one mini meter of rainfall, I write it down. I haven't for the last few months written down either of these measurements into Excel, so I'll have to during the summer break.
In any case, my point is that there are certain temperatures that I refer to as "no-body temperatures". These are mild temperatures during the winter, and also mild ones during the summer. Their range is 2ºC to 15ºC, arguably. Your mom phones you to wear a jacket when these temperatures are present during the summer, while during the winter, she calls you up to tell you to remember to wear a lighter jacket.

The New Tower Defence

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/ is, as you can imagine, another TD game. In this game, there are a few differences from Flash Element TD, which I will outline here.

Good points: Bigger board, more money, you can build your own maze, there are more types of towers, and you can decide weather to use a so-called "fun mode". In essence, there are more choices. Plus, there is no advertising during the loading period.

Bad points: No EMBED code provided, flying creeps do not follow your maze (for better, or for worse) and you run out of money faster. Plus, the towers are basically the same concepts as for Flash Element TD, just tweaked a little. The timer (yes, there is one) runs out slowly, and one usually ends up pushing the "next level" button a lot. Also, after awhile, little creeps can go through cracks in your maze, which is really annoying.

Scheduled outage at 4PM PDT on Blogger

The "Scheduled outage at 4PM PDT on Blogger" didn't seem to happen to Brain Radiation for unknown reasons. What is known, though, is that it has yet to be explained, and that nothing new seems to have happened.
Maybe it's just a background software update, or maybe, it's something more sinister... :)

How the Market Works Dot Com

I most recently found a very interesting web-based, free program [please note that this is the usual combination for useless, annoying and stupid] that is actually quite good. howthemarketworks.com is a top-notch free stock-market simulation, which is very cool for using real stats, with 15-20 minutes delay. Here, you can chose how much "money" you can have available to you to "buy" "stocks".

It also has a forum.

Theory: Life in a bubble

I'm sure this theory is old, but, here you go, anyway:

"What if, the entire universe was made-up of different chambers. What if, in the center of a galaxy, there was the center of the chamber, made up of very dense stars that, together, create enough gravity to keep the galaxy together.
Now, imagine that each galaxy was encircled with some kind of glass; something to keep beings of that galaxy from contact, and to keep from losing gases and/or other planetary material. That would be a waste [to lose those]."

Now, imagine the first extra-galactic space-ships unknowingly piercing that "glass", and the even bigger suction of whatever the stuff around the galaxies is, pulling everything in our galaxy into the void, tearing every single thing in our galactic home apart.

Ouch? We'd probably not feel, or see it, depending on how fast the sucking goes.

I have idea for a story: what if, a space-faring civilization unwittingly already punched that hole, but the suction is so slow, that so far, it's only the outer "glass" that's come off.

Maybe that's why we can see other galaxies... But this is probably just sci-fi thinking on my part.

May Day

Today is the first day of May, also known as May Day. During May, spring is officially sprung, and High school students get all their final exams and the teachers are writing the report cards.

Today is known in high schools sometimes as "mayday".