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joehillsthrills:

I was feeling a little blue and I was looking for something on the internet to cheer me up and Warren Ellis has a post on his tumblr pointing to a website, I Write Like, so I thought, oh, hey, why not? Warren got David Foster Wallace; I was thinking, huh, maybe it’ll tell me I write like John Steinbeck! Hell, maybe David Mitchell!!!

Sigh. Going to bed now.

PS - It’s funny. I admit it. Even I think it’s funny.

Interesting. The latest chapter of Magic, as Opposed to Magic is written like someone called J.K. Rowling; the next chapter of The Wasteland Affair is either Johnathan Swift (current draft) or Dan Brown (previous), and the first chapter of same reads like Chuck Palahniuk. And a chapter out of Shetlander reads like Tolkien.

Just a cute little toy, even though I’ve never read Palahniuk or Doorstop Brown.

Every time I apply for a job.

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Almost everyone in the world watches television, and millions of people are involved in television production, and yet there is not a single show on TV that accurately depicts real life. This will doom you to a life of shattered expectations as you have already spent about 30% of your existence watching sitcoms.

Winston Rowntree

Almost everyone in the world watches television, and millions of people are involved in television production, and yet there is not a single show on TV that accurately depicts real life. This will doom you to a life of shattered expectations as you have already spent about 30% of your existence watching sitcoms.

Winston Rowntree

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Worlds biggest cave in Vietnam. It comes with its own forest.

Worlds biggest cave in Vietnam. It comes with its own forest.

“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. ‘Blessed are the merciful’ in a courtroom? ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’ in the Pentagon?”

Kurt Vonnegut  (via existenti-al)

I’m not down with either being in public buildings, but if I have to choose I’d take the Sermon on the Mount over the Ten Commandments any day of the week.  Signed, someone who not only has the Ten Commandments in her courthouse but a Bible in a glass case turned to a passage about salvation on the lawn of her public building.

(via theprophetlilith)

5 days ago with 1,226 notes comments

black-megallica-shirt:

This is not YYH related, but I just felt like you guys need to be aware.

I received a call today from a blocked number, who claimed they were from Windows Security Center. The person on the phone - who had a very heavy accent - said that they had noticed that my computer had been downloading malicious content while I was browsing the internet (which how could they even fucking know in the first place). He then asked me to turn on my computer (which it already was, but that’s besides the point) and told me to click and hold the Windows key and the ‘R; key, which opens up the Run window. He then wanted me to enter the following: eventvwr (this stands for “event viewer” which lets you see info about hard/software, system problems, and security on your OS).

This is where I hung up.

Because, you see, what this asshole didn’t know is that my dad is and IT guy, so I know a few tricks. What he was trying to do was gain remote access to my computer, but do I look like a bitch? Don’t answer that.

Unfortunately, some people are - that’s why I’m making this post, so you don’t end up being anybody’s bitch. And it’s not like these assholes just sprang up yesterday; according to my extensive Google research (it wasn’t that extensive, I just like being dramatic) they’ve been around at least since 2009.

If you want to know what they sound like, click here for a YouTube video of an actual phone conversation between some dude and a would-be hacker (there is profanity).

Microsoft has confirmed that they are a hacker group, and have some preventative tips, though really - it’s 2013, y’all should already know. If you have been scammed or know someone who’s been scammed by these douche bags, click here or here.

Signal boost, or don’t. Don’t let me run your life; I just felt you should be aware.

IF ANY OF MY FOLLOWERS WANT SAI (WITH TRANSPARENCY) AND PHOTOSHOP CS6;

yesthatdana:

brorails:

brorails:

SAI

PHOTOSHOP

i’ll tag it in my art tag so that you guys can find it easily too!!

i’m going to be reblogging this for the next few days to make sure that everybody who wants these programs can get them because i know they can be damn hard to find, so here you go guys!! ♥

omg sai with transparency. its a flipping MIRACLE

This could be incredibly useful for my job search.

1 week ago with 12,071 notes comments

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cyborgorgy:

I do not know the photographer for this so I cannot give him/her credit. 

This is Aila, from Germany.

Robots are usually males or genderless machines, so it’s pretty interesting when researchers come up with a robot that resembles a human female. Well, the folks over at the Robotics Innovation Center at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Robotics Group at the University of Bremen recently came up with a robot with a female form named AILA… No reason was given to why AILA was designed to resemble a female, but I guess it will provide some diversity to the all-male crew on future space exploration missions.

cyborgorgy:

I do not know the photographer for this so I cannot give him/her credit. 

This is Aila, from Germany.

Robots are usually males or genderless machines, so it’s pretty interesting when researchers come up with a robot that resembles a human female. Well, the folks over at the Robotics Innovation Center at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Robotics Group at the University of Bremen recently came up with a robot with a female form named AILA… No reason was given to why AILA was designed to resemble a female, but I guess it will provide some diversity to the all-male crew on future space exploration missions.

“There was always something slightly greasy about Wednesdays in Normalsea; a decidedly unclean feeling like something terrible was about to happen, somewhere between all-out nuclear war and Uncle Algernon’s trick with the tablecloth.”

From an idea that was inspired by Scarfolk, but leaning more to the surridiculous [sic] than sinister.

1 week ago with 0 notes comments

imprecise:

Pascal Petit

Just look at the colours in this geode. Just look at them.

I see a lot of depictions of future cities on my Tumblr feed, many of which make me wonder: where is Nature in the future?

1 week ago with 1 note comments

escapevessel:

Board via Moravec machine. Full-blast VR/VT system. Nanotech fabricators build exploration androids on the fly (or out of same).

How many of these techs exist? Maybe I need to start looking beyond the local big box stores and garage sales for Escape Vessel parts.

Most of this tech is still in the conceptual stage.

Hans Moravec, if I remember right, posited the notion of a machine that read the neural patterns in the human brain and uploaded them to a computer modelling system. Because of the destructive nature of the reading, it’s a one-way street.

Once ‘aboard’, all senses are tickled by a full-immersion VR system with variable timescale (the VT bit). Who needs relativistic speeds when you can simply slow yourself down to wait out the trip from, oh, Sol to Vega? (Or speed up to answer all that e-mail that’s built up.)

And of course Earth nanotechnology hasn’t moved past buzzwords and shoving loose atoms around with scanning tunnelling microscopy. But in this ideal, the ship can construct a version of my meatspace self that can explore any environment and/or carry out any repair work that’s required.

The vessel then, seen from outside, has but few open spaces, generally leaks like a sieve, and otherwise is all engine and computing capacity. The interior heaven of shagpile ceilings, plaid lightbulbs and stereophonic telephone (or whatever) is all a digital dream.

2 weeks ago with 6 notes comments

Tagged: #escapevessel

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Daddy drank his special juice before we went.
We went very fast.
We went so fast, we hit a big truck.
And the evil clown drank our blood as we cried.
The End.

Daddy drank his special juice before we went.

We went very fast.

We went so fast, we hit a big truck.

And the evil clown drank our blood as we cried.

The End.

Just watch this kittehbox on a skateboard.

Just watch it.

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