OMG. Sonny Bill Williams gquit the Bulldogs and Server Transfered!!!!

(Posted by Michael O'Ryan Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:54:00 GMT)

However I didn’t hear anything about him looting the guild bank.

Seriously the whole thing reminds me of how WoW raiding guilds handle people leaving especially when your a decent player.

I think I was telling Sunny with a U ages ago about it. Here’s a perfect if real world example of what happens.

Sonny Bill could face criminal charges: Gallop

Watch the linked movie if you can.

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nnnnnnngrrreeeeeeeeeeee

just... thinking about... how much of a noob you are... (Posted by Sunny Kalsi Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:44:00 GMT)

Link

I can’t say anything without being angry, so I’ll just post the link.

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My driving experiences

Roads eh? (Posted by Sunny Kalsi Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:49:00 GMT)

I’ve begun to see more and more TV screens in cars such as 4WDs. Invariably, they’re playing cartoons for the kiddies in the rear seats to watch. There’s only one problem. I sometimes start watching them as well. On the road, they’re the brightest thing visible, and they’re right in the line of sight. Also, I’m curious as to what they’re subjecting their kids to (usually spongebob squarepants). I’ve actually gotten so drawn in once that these bright lights came on and I was like "WTF"

The car was braking.

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NSW generates $230 million from WYD

(Posted by Michael O'Ryan Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:15:00 GMT)

NSW urged to learn from WYD transport success. It’s down the bottom.

So the average wage of a worker in Australia is something like 50k a year, obviously higher in the CBD. World Youth Day lasted about a weak. However the CBD was deserted thanks to traffic fears. Thus if 239,200 people at 50k a year took the week off then there’s been no net benefit to the economy? Funny how thats also around the same amount of pilgrims (200k) whom attended WYD.

Homer Simpson: Okay, boy. This is where all the hard work, sacrifice, and painful scaldings pay off.
Employee: Four pounds of grease… that comes to… sixty-three cents.
Homer Simpson: Woo-hoo!
Bart Simpson: Dad, all that bacon cost twenty-seven dollars.
Homer Simpson: Yeah, but your mom paid for that!
Bart Simpson: But doesn’t she get her money from you?
Homer Simpson: And I get my money from grease! What’s the problem?

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Police caught speeding!!!

(Posted by Michael O'Ryan Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:42:00 GMT)

Police hoons caught ignoring speed limits

Summerised offduty police staff and officers were caught by fixed speed cameras doing upto 20km/h over the posted speed limits in Queensland.

Which follows the suspended licence of a NSW minister for sub 15km/h above the posted speed limits.

Seriously when those that make the laws and those that enforce the laws don’t deem the laws worthy of being enforced then maybe just maybe they aren’t there for safety but instead exist as a tax.

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Doomed to a ball of flame.

(Posted by Sunny Kalsi Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:28:45 GMT)

I liked His and Her Circumstances because it was very terse. The voice overs were done very quickly, and the story was kept concise. The whole time, the punch lines came hard and fast, and so did the emotions. For someone with very little patience, Kare Kano was a great anime.

I would say that it aspires to an infernokrusher aesthetic. I like the idea behind infernokrusher, because it’s: * Short tempered – Everything is kept concise and minimalist * Lossy – Due to the sudden flaming destruction of the subject matter, it is required that many things are left up to the reader, or implied. * Attention-grabbing – The main point here is to keep the key points of something in one’s head. Poignant explosions trigger memories.

I believe this is ideal for documents in a workplace. When places end up with way too much documentation which no one follows, and no one can use their own judgement and decision making skills when following processes, infernokrusher is an ideal aesthetic for these documents to have: * Get to the Point – Because no one really cares, and the people who you need to convince are antithetic to your point. * Imply a lot – Expect that your document is skimmed. Make your most important points in the most effective locations. * Trigger memories with explosions – Make people remember things in your document.

No one seems to agree. Workplaces seem to have this soul-sucking boredom entrenched in their fabric. Ironically, they are doomed to a ball of flame.

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Things you don't want to hear in the same breath

programmer or serial killer? (Posted by Sunny Kalsi Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:49:00 GMT)

Violent video games often bear the brunt of the blame when some loon goes out to kill a bunch of people. Luckily, while some of these loons play video games, none of them are associated with gaming. They’re not avid or pro gamers, they’re not game designers, and they’re not game programmers. People from many walks of life sometimes commit murder, whether it’s doctors, or CEOs, or economists. However, unlike these other professions, I think that if someone "in the gaming industry" or "well known in gaming circles" killed someone else, gaming in it’s entirety would be in a lot of trouble.

There was a kind of joke "test", which asked you to find if someone was a Programmer or a serial killer. I thought it was fairly funny, because maybe that’s how we present ourselves to the outside world. If an economist was a serial killer, people would say "I’m so shocked that an economist would do this"; if a programmer was a serial killer, people would say "I always knew those guys were a little off-kilter." I figured we’d never get to a situation where a well known programmer would kill someone. Then Hans Reiser happened. I’ve mentioned reiserfs a few times before, and I’ve always spoken fondly of it. Even though it didn’t take off, I still admire the idea. It’s really quite bad that the dude’s gonna have "murderer" next to his name. The wikipedia entry already has more about the murder and trial than about reiserfs.

Quite sad.

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Team Choko Videos

The sidebar now has team choko videos (Posted by Sunny Kalsi Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:02:00 GMT)

I’ve uploaded "fwoosh" on vimeo, which has fairly decent video quality. I’ve got the links on the sidebar. For now, anything I upload to vimeo will appear there. If we make more videos, we can make a "channel" so only the team choko videos will be on this site. We should also consider restarting the team choko productions site. I’ll upload some of the other videos (like Waldorf’s) when I can blur out certain details (like Harpy’s license and my car’s registration plate). Unfortunately, due to the people involved in, say, thief and the bundanoon vid. We should consider remaking thief, and maybe make some more stuff.

I appear to have lost planet ninja…

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