Random Crap

epic chiptune organ.

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:10:50 +1000

epic chiptune organ.

mr cuppy (monster) & can face(s)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:18:00 +1000

Photo

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:48:21 +1000

yeah, i’d totally buy it.

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:56:48 +1000

yeah, i’d totally buy it.

A Michael Jackson Meledy by Brett Domino on a Roland AX...

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:21:43 +1000

A Michael Jackson Meledy by Brett Domino on a Roland AX Synth… EPIC!

"The idea that true leadership means being able to think for yourself and act on your convictions...."

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:16:00 +1000

“The idea that true leadership means being able to think for yourself and act on your convictions. But how do you learn to do that? How do you learn to think? Let’s start with how you don’t learn to think. A study by a team of researchers at Stanford came out a couple of months ago. The investigators wanted to figure out how today’s college students were able to multitask so much more effectively than adults. How do they manage to do it, the researchers asked? The answer, they discovered—and this is by no means what they expected—is that they don’t. The enhanced cognitive abilities the investigators expected to find, the mental faculties that enable people to multitask effectively, were simply not there. In other words, people do not multitask effectively. And here’s the really surprising finding: the more people multitask, the worse they are, not just at other mental abilities, but at multitasking itself.”

- Excerpt from Solitude and Leadership by William Deresiewicz.

canadian hamlet.

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:15:41 +1000

canadian hamlet.

portal 2 trailer. out in 2011. can’t wait for this.

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:40:27 +1000

portal 2 trailer. out in 2011. can’t wait for this.

a fair, objective comparison of todays web browsers.

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:29:54 +1000

a fair, objective comparison of todays web browsers.

"When I heard that BP was destroying a big portion of Earth, with no serious discussion of cutting..."

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:12:15 +1000

“When I heard that BP was destroying a big portion of Earth, with no serious discussion of cutting their dividend, I had two thoughts: 1) I hate them, and 2) This would be an excellent time to buy their stock. And so I did. Although I should have waited a week.”

- Betting on the Bad Guys – Scott Adams

How Dogs Roll

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:47:00 +1000

Note: This is a drunken rant infomercial.

Do you know where dogs come from? They’re decendant from wolves. Do you know what wolves do? They eat the faces of anything they can overpower as a pack when they’re hungry. Do you know what chilli does? It prevents predators from eating it by being stupid hot. You know what species is fucking crazy enough to think they could eat chilli and tame wolves? Humans.

Humans ate chilli, when it hurt, a lot. Probably because we thought it was it was funny. In the end humans developed a tollerance to it, and began adding it to our food.

At some stage, humans though it would be funny to steal wolve pups and had the idiotic preserveance to attempt to raise and breed them. OK, that might not be how it happened, but somehow, decendants of wovles have become our domestic companions.

What do dogs and chilli have in common? Actually, what do dogs and people have in common? we’re both mammals. What don’t we have in common? Dogs do what dogs do, and humans are fucking idiot crazy. We ate chilli when it was a stupid idea. Now we eat chilli.

Dogs cannot eat chilli.

Do not feed your dog chilli. It fucking hurts them.

But this is not about how dogs cannot eat chilli, it’s more about how dogs roll and how people need to understand it to better look after them so they don’t become complete shit-bag dogs.

You see, dogs have a pack mentality, and in their pack they have pack leaders. When you treat your dog like a Generation Y child, with praise and toys, and when they shit on your pillow you give them their dinner.

That is not how you look after your dog.

A common complaint of dog owners is that they are are ‘so nice’ to their dogs but their dogs are ‘so naughty’. It’s coz the dog thinks it is beter than you. Before we get into any existential discussion about how the dog is or isn’t better than you think about this. You can take your dog to a kind of shop and have it put down via overdose of barbiturates. You can’t do that to your child. You are therefore better than your dog.

But you bought a dog beacuse your dog makes you happy, that is, when it’s not shitting on your pillow. So how do you make your dog happy so that you are happy?

First off, you need to understand how dogs roll. Oh yeah, I already said that. Dogs roll in packs, they have a pack leader. So what does that mean? It means that what you say goes. You eat before they eat. They play when you say they can play. They sit when you tell them to sit. You sleep in a fancy bed when they sleep outside (or somewhere not in your bed).

It is unfortunate, that you can’t replace real kids with dogs, so really you have to treat your dog like he’s in a pack, you have to trick him, because he’s not as smart as you are. If he was then you’d be his pet. So you need to pretend you’re a dog when interacting with your dog.

Dogs who are pack leaders always eat first, they call the shots. This is why you shouldn’t feed your dog from the table. This is why your dog should be on their mat when you’re eating. This is also why when after you eat you should reinforce this by giving them some food after they have observed you eat.

This is why you should always tell them to do something before you give them a treat.

Dogs respond very well to a kind of discipline that is not common or welcomed among humans. If you have a problem with that, go have kids, or put up with your dog shitting on your pillow. Kid are humans, dogs are dogs. OK?

That’s how dogs roll.

light sabres are cool.

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:57:14 +1000

light sabres are cool.

preview of hybrid’s new album. can’t wait for this,...

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:55:08 +1100

preview of hybrid’s new album. can’t wait for this, it’s gonna be ace.

absolute pisser. love it. their album is brilliant as well,...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:52:23 +1100

absolute pisser. love it. their album is brilliant as well, additionally check out ‘i’m on a boat’.

honor societies - xckd

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:53:22 +1100

honor societies - xckd

Voice Band for the iPhone. A truly innovative way to write rock...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:02:41 +1100

Voice Band for the iPhone. A truly innovative way to write rock music. You simply sing at your phone and it interprets it and plays back real instrument samples. Amazing! Watch!

technoBox is the one reason why you should buy an iPhone....

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:33:00 +1100

technoBox is the one reason why you should buy an iPhone. Possibly the only reason at all.

very happy xmas heidi. taken by me, on my sisters camera, coz...

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:23:15 +1100

very happy xmas heidi. taken by me, on my sisters camera, coz i’m like, so much better at taking photos of animals.

"Double-incidentally, I’m sure some of you are thinking: “OK, ummm, ah, what should I..."

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:46:00 +1100

“

Double-incidentally, I’m sure some of you are thinking: “OK, ummm, ah, what should I use? You seem to hate everything.” Yep! Sunny G. put it best, actually. He said I reminded him of Dostoyevsky. He says I’m a “tortured soul”, which evidently makes me a good blogger, on account of my liver going to crap, or something along those lines. We were having beers at the time, so his exact wording is a bit fuzzy now. But he’s right. I do hate everything — at least all programming languages.

Or perhaps I should say “dislike?” No, I think “hate” will do nicely. All languages suck. At this junction in human history, the best thing you can do as a programmer (other than perhaps write your own language) is not to get too attached to any particular one, and choose them as appropriate for the task at hand, since each language has its niche.

”

- Ancient Languages: Perl – Stevey’s Drunken Blog Rants (tm)

Heidi, taken by my sister, Bridget.

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:30:56 +1100

Heidi, taken by my sister, Bridget.