I wish someone would help me make a Snow-Jabba the Hut

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treadmillasaurus-rex

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the faces look pretty awesome in this. i hope it is a sign of things to come

more film lists

Geophysics: How to Break the Crust and Come Back Again

Geophysics: How to Break the Crust and Come Back Again

submarine

today this... like what I tried the other day but with lentils. Good winter stuff I think.

actually this whole blog is pretty good

Dog fort continues to be awesome

It's like we're all competing in a game that no one wants to play. And even though you can't ever win the game, you can prevent yourself from losing by pretending that you like playing long enough to be allowed to stop playing.

captain flinder's cat - bryce courtney

phil?

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/12/goddammit_someone_is_making_a_clash_of_the_titans.php

Awesome comment

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/09/julian-assange-nobel-peace-prize

Typical Russian politics: Whatever the US is doing, do the exact opposite.

At this rate Russia will be a functioning liberal democracy by 2016.

More films to watch.

Voices of a Distant Star

5 Centimeters Per Second: A Chain of Short Stories About Their Distance

The Iron Giant

Mind Game

Pitch Black (have i seen this?)

The Road

Avalon

actually many of the pictures in this set are good

Zombie Diesel

http://www.graphwar.com/tutorial.html

From Reddit

I tried to explain the common saying "Gacche kathal gophe tel" to my friends today. But in English, "Oiling your mustache in anticipation of the jackfruit tree bearing fruit" doesn't have the same snap.

It means "Don't get ahead of yourself." Like, an American equivalent might be, "Don't start counting your vacation days before the job interview."

But I like the fact that the Bangladeshi version makes the assumptions that:

a) You love jackfruit (which is milder than durian but if even slightly overripe smells like diarrhea),

b) You have a mustache that's thick enough that it would be a hindrance to eating the juicy and sticky jackfruit,

c) You oil the mustache before you eat the jackfruit so that the remnant stink (which can get pretty intense) doesn't fuck with your luxurious facial hair, and

d) You are so excited by the idea of eating jackfruit that you oil your mustache in anticipation of this glorious event.

Centurion
How to Train Your Dragon -< good disney animation. YAY for dwagons!
The Secret of Kells
Me and Orson Welles

Bernard Werber

Sita Sings the Blues

Good fun. Lots of good music but I got a bit exhausted by the method of story telling by the end.

Moon (2009)

Finally downloaded and watched this movie. Really good. Why can't there be more films like this happening? Good production values with a proper sci-fi plot.
I kept thinking it was going to be another one of these going mad in deep space stories but it was much more human. Especially that but where the camera pans around to see the earth and he is all alone.
And somehow the computer companion was more human than it's masters. Eeee Kevin Spacey!

On a similar note, I thought Solaris was pretty good.

Uncomfortable Truthasaurus

Sita Sings the Blues (2008)

Mary and Max (2009)

find quotes... use them

sausage pasta thingamajig

Ingredients:
350g fresh spinach or egg tagliatelle
60ml freshly grated pecorino or Parmesan cheese

For the sauce:
8 fresh Italian pork and garlic sausages
15ml olive oil
1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
1 carrot, peeled and finely chopped
1 celery stick, finely chopped
225ml vegetable stock
2 flat mushrooms, chopped
1 bunch of fresh thyme, tough stalks removed
1x800g can plum tomatoes
salt and freshly ground black pepper
50g butter

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 200°C, 400°F, gas mark 6.

Place the sausages on a baking tray and cook in the oven for 10 minutes.

Heat the oil in a large saucepan, add the onion, carrot and celery and pour in the stock. Cook for 5 minutes. Chop the sausages and add to the pan together with the chopped mushrooms. Cook for a further 5 minutes. Stir in the thyme leaves and tomatoes with their juice. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Cover and cook for 1 hour until the sauce is thick, stirring occasionally.

During the final 10 minutes of the sauce’s cooking time, cook the pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water for 5-8 minutes, or according to the instructions on the packet, until al dente.

Drain and transfer to a large pasta bowl.

Stir the butter into the sauce, then pour over the pasta.

Sprinkle with the cheese and toss to mix

This is going to hinge on some really great strong tasting sausages...

kill your idols

The best part of the night was walking home in the snow

wat?

Just 'cos i like dem gams!

some cool cats

And I already ate

article

NOM

Oh. my. god!
That was an orgasmic dinner!
The garlic/mustard sauce was fantastic.
Strip loin steak, so juicy, such a deep crust!
Potatoes... crispy and good.
Tomato and red onions in a balsamic vinaigrette.

A BBC4 documentary on Verdi and a single cigarette to finish.

Why do people think I am hitting on them when all I want is for them to repeatedly tell me how awesome I am?

potatoes
+
steak with dijon/cracked pepper
+
light salad
+
beerss

14.4kbps

full afterburner

naked geometry

oddly reminds me of

Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics

And when you least expect it...

What ho, this frog appears to know my secrets!

these guys sound good

The Silent City 1080p HD from Ruairi Robinson on Vimeo.

Not an invention.

This makes no sense.

not really catching up with a lot of these movies but oh hey...

Little Miss Sunshine
Bubba Ho-tep
Wild Zero

Why is this so funny?!

awesome, star trek streaming!!!

Beardmaster

Directly lifted from reddit

This public notice pronouncing General Leigh Read to be a coward was posted by Whig party leader William Tradewell in March, 1839, after Read refused to apologize or duel following an argument. General Read, a leading Democrat, remarked at the time that if he were going to fight someone, it would be the head of the Whigs, Colonel Augustus Alston.

Hearing this, Colonel Alston challenged Read to a duel. This offer was accepted and the duel set for December 12, 1839. Alston was a seasoned duelist and Read was considered to be as good as dead.

General Read chose the unusual "Yager" hunting rifle with a sensitive hair-trigger with which to duel. The over-confident Colonel Alston, unused to this heavy weapon, lost his balance and fired before he was able to aim. Read then calmly shot Alston in the chest, killing him.

Although the Alston-Read duel was considered "fair", Alston's grieving sisters thought of it as murder. They removed the bullet from Alston's body, and had it melted down and poured into a press to reshape it. They sent it to their older brother-insisting he avenge his brother's death using the same bullet. General Read was shot and killed by Willis Alston in April, 1841.

Górecki

daww, very sweet

Somtimes a dinner date feels like that

cool TNG pictures

man that's a lotta drugs

In need of attention.

celebrate festivus with an aluminium pole

the egg

Those mars landers ought to have mass spectrometers capable of identifying mercury in the environment, because it's well known that martian life must have used mercury like we use water -- otherwise they would never have dug all those Hg wells.

In future we'll leverage synergistic above board and across the piece adoption processes that create face time while simultaneously reducing feature creep in our front burner priorities.

Going forward, actionable items will commodotize our core competencies to the point we can drill down to create deliverables that gain traction in a granular market environment.

as improbable as it sounds, lots of good-fun sci fi ideas

http://therawness.com/myth-of-the-ghetto-alpha-male/

Notes from the day

So after murdering an entire day in idleness at work saw Terry Pratchett give is inaugural adjunct professorial talk. funny, warm lecture.

Later, documentary on portraiture

Gustave Courbet - Self Portrait, The Despairing Man

Edvard Munch - Self portrait in hell

awesome


So then finally decided to stay up and watch this movie Happy-go-lucky
Mike Leigh-> find some more of his films.
that movie made me happy. moreso than a movie has for sometime.

haha I'm a mess

also i have been told to seek out I am love
Will dig that out tomorrow...

Irish police. Too much force?

the mind boggles

more

Idle hands arfe the devil's play things

So bored. Spent yesterday afternoon on this sequence. (some steps omitted because I closed the tabs)
... was enjoyable, but nothing to do with work. Thanks to one of my new friends for the initial seed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-humanism
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem02.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology
http://www.gamestudies.org/0501/lindley/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/130849-post-structuralism-in-video-games/
http://www.molleindustria.org/ergon_logos/ergon_logos.html
http://www.the-foodist.com/recipes/obatzter-bavarian-cheese-cream-recipe/

Stuck inside of Dublin with the London blues again.

Mo-fucking-vember

Except for fallout: New Vegas

which has delivered 30 hours of gameplay so far. Up till 4 last night. Thank you funding cut so that I dont care about work any more!

terry gilliam short

there where did Weed Smokin' Jo come from?

baldurs gate in DAO engine

People often ask me if I have any words of advice for young people. Well, here are a few simple admonitions for young and old.

Never interfere in a boy and girl fight.

Beware of whores who say they don't want money. The hell they don't. What they mean is they want more money. Much more.

If you're doing business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit, not with the good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.

Avoid fuckups. You all know the type. Anything they have anything to do with, no matter how good it sounds, turns into a disaster.

Do not offer sympathy to the mentally ill. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel. You are a terminal fool."

Now some of you may encounter the devil's bargain if you get that far. Any old soul is worth saving at least to a priest, but not every soul is worth buying. So you can take the offer as a compliment. They charge the easy ones first, you know, like money, all the money there is. But who wants to be the richest guy in some cemetery? Not much to spend it on, eh, Gramps? Getting too old to cut the mustard. Have you forgotten something, Gramps? In order to feel something, you have to be there. You have to be 18. You're not 18, you are 78. Old fool sold his soul for a strap-on.

How about an honorable bargain? "You always wanted to become a doctor. Now's your chance. Why, you could have become a great healer and benefit humanity. What's wrong with that?" Just about everything. There are no honorable bargains involving exchange of qualitative merchandise like souls. Just quantitative merchandise like time and money. So piss off, Satan, and don't take me for dumber than I look. As an old junk pusher told me, "Watch whose money you pick up."

-- William S. Burroughs

rally for sanity

as long as you can get over it being a massive circlejerk. some of the signs are funny

and further whenever i see the national mall all i can think about is how i killed supermutants there

New friends

This is exactly how I recall my earlier years.

"... for ages folk in the Shire smoked various herbs, some fouler, some sweeter. But all accounts agree that Tobold Hornblower of Longbottom in the Southfarthing first grew the true pipe-weed in his gardens in the days of Isengrim the Second, about the year 1070 of Shire-reckoning.
The best home-grown still comes from that district, especially the varieties now known as Longbottom Leaf, Old Toby, and Southern Star. How Old Toby came by the plant is not recorded, for to his dying day he would not tell. He knew much about herbs."

had to keep a link to this gag factory thread

Ireland budget cuts

So finally the systematic breakdown of this third-rate country has gotten to me. Due to reduction in science spending, the SFI grant that pays for my position is not being continued. Need to find something else by April.

to watch

Century of self. documentary series by Andrew Curtis

parkour dog

"Oscar was not into serious street-fighting, but he was hell on wheels in a bar brawl. Any combination of a 250 lb Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach - but when the alleged Mexican is in fact a profoundly angry Chicano lawyer with no fear at all of anything that walks on less than three legs and a de facto suicidal conviction that he will die at the age of 33 - just like Jesus Christ - you have a serious piece of work on your hands. Especially if the bastard is already 33½ years old with a head full of Sandoz acid, a loaded .357 Magnum in his belt, a hatchet-wielding Chicano bodyguard on his elbow at all times, and a disconcerting habit of projectile vomiting geysers of pure blood off the front porch every 30 or 40 minutes, or whenever his malignant ulcer can't handle any more raw tequila."

—Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone #254, December 15, 1977 

I just watched that new Luc Besson film: "The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec". It's good. Maybe not quite another Fifth Element but good stuff indeed. Just a shame the torrent I found was dubbed in Mandarin with English subtitles.

har har

rice: a poem of spring

Some listening for Di.

A new way of using youtube videos

i don't think i ever saw these pics before

To watch:

- Proof
- The Room

M.

Made me laugh