Russian Around
There needs to be a family sitcom called “Russian Around”; it would be set in the cold war, where a bumbling Russian spy rents a spare room from a stereotypical American family, and we laugh as he...
View ArticleKVM / Virt-manager / Bridging
I wanted my VMs bridged onto my LAN so they would be publicly accessible, but virt-manager only had options for creating new, private bridges. However, it turns out that if you create the bridge...
View ArticleDoing the time warp again
(Background: Braid is a game where you can do stuff, then rewind time and use your knowledge of the “future” to your advantage) As far as I remember, I only briefly played Braid as a demo, on my own, a...
View ArticleAce Combat 3
Finally completed Ace Combat 3 – 30 missions with a plot that’s surprisingly confusing for essentially nothing (mission 1: blow stuff up for company x, mission 2: you now work for company y, blow stuff...
View ArticleNumber magic: not actually magic
A thing I’ve seen around the internet is “if you add your age to the last two digits of your birth year, it is 111! magic!” – I’ve tried explaining why this isn’t magic, but haven’t made it as simple...
View ArticleModels of Heaven
This got me thinking. All the models of heaven that I’ve seen have had glaring logical flaws, inconsistencies, and mutually exclusive parts in their descriptions. The traditional image of humans...
View ArticleProgrammer-relevant whitespace in python
A comment was made at #rsparlyredux along the lines that while python’s enforcement of proper indentation stops people from not indenting at all, it also stops them from adding extra indentation, and...
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Strike Witches ep01
I saw a music video with clips from the series, and it seemed pretty cool; the best of magical girl and mech worlds? Unfortunately not. After trying really hard to like the first episode, I can’t think...
View ArticleCrash resistance
Graphics drivers lock up, but I don’t want to reboot, or even log out / in again since I’m in the middle of stuff. What to do? Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to console mode. Screen is black, as the drivers are...
View ArticleWormholes \o/
Finally got round to checking out wormholes, ended up making ~100mil in loot. Quite pleased, just salvaging one more wreck before heading home; not bothering to check d-scan since the system’s been...
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