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Saturday, May 26th, 2012
2:08 pm	Embracing the Alarm Clock So after years of no alarm clock living, the dream has come to an end. Around 10am+ every single day i'm bombarded with noise from all sides, making it impossible to sleep. Rather than continue to swim against the current to no avail, i'm going to just adopt a relatively normal sleep schedule. 2am to 10am sounds about right. Hey there digital clock, long time no see! I won't be setting an alarm or anything, but i'll try not to stay up too far past 2am when i'm sleepy. (Redefine reality)
Monday, May 21st, 2012
8:57 pm	Word of Ze Day: bated I saw this word and thought it was a typo of baited breath. Well whaddayaknow, it's a word its own, and the correct spelling of "bated breath". Oddly enough i knew the word abated. Holes in one's edumacation... bated bate [beyt] verb, bat·ed, bat·ing. verb (used with object) 1. to moderate or restrain: unable to bate our enthusiasm. 2. to lessen or diminish; abate: setbacks that bated his hopes. verb (used without object) 3. to diminish or subside; abate. Idiom 4. with bated breath, with breath drawn in or held because of anticipation or suspense: We watched with bated breath as the runners approached the finish line. (Redefine reality)
8:52 pm	aproductivity First truly productive day of catching up on work backlog in 8 weeks. Apparently for me to get anything useful done, it takes rain + non-workday + internet connection too screwed up to play diablo. (Redefine reality)
11:35 am	Permadeath Bike Funny dream combining 2 current passions: Diablo 3 and cycling. My bike was being squished under a wide factory door. Its life bulb was drained to almost 0 - i stopped trying to pull it through so that it wouldn't die forever. (Redefine reality)
12:36 am	Super Mario 3 Music How memorable was this water level song from Super Mario Bros. 3? It still comes back to me at random times. Sorry about the random person talking, just finding the song was enough work as it is. (Redefine reality)
Monday, May 14th, 2012
10:24 pm	Humans Perceive the World in Snapshots, not Continuously Brain oscillations reveal that our senses do not experience the world continuously It has long been suspected that humans do not experience the world continuously, but rather in rapid snapshots. “Rhythmicity therefore is indeed omnipresent not only in brain activity but also brain function. For perception, this means that despite experiencing the world as a continuum, we do not sample our world continuously but in discrete snapshots determined by the cycles of brain rhythms.” (1 dimension |Redefine reality)
10:20 pm	Fractal Fly Flight Watching a fly fly around in the washroom made me wonder just wtf is with the chaotic, endless flight patterns. Came across a couple interesting related articles. Up first, from Flies don't buzz about aimlessly!, where it sounds like animal food foraging (including human hunter-gatherers) may be performed in a fractal pattern: Armed with a computer video tracking system and an array of mathematical techniques the two researchers have revealed how the flight patterns of starved fruit flies constitute an optimal scale-free searching strategy – like the fractal patterns of a snowflake, a fly flight path appears similar whether viewed up close, or from a distance. From Prof. Explores The Physics Behind Fruit Fly Flight: Cohen’s research shows that insects utilize a fundamental “rowing motion,” like oars on a ship or like the fins of a fish. This observation supports the Swimming-to-Flight Transition Hypothesis, which suggests that insect flight actually originated in water. (Redefine reality)
4:59 pm	Diablo 3 Here's my new battletag: unsane#1631. Also, if anyone else is playing Hardcore only from the start (on Americas), let me know! (Redefine reality)
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
2:31 am	The Spins You know that wicked feeling when you're 4 drinks in, when you close your eyes, and you spin like fucking crazy? Why does that only happen with eyes closed? It's like the vision centres 100% dampen it. (1 dimension |Redefine reality)
1:47 am	Music - Opposites Attract Always amazes me how music collaborations can randomly involve the most polarized groups i know, and yet the collab can be some of the best music. E.g. Battle of Mice involved a member of Neurosis/Red Sparowes (post-metal), and Fugees/Peeping Tom (hip hop?)! Talented musician is talented, regardless of genre. (Redefine reality)
1:10 am	Salvador Dali + Walt Disney = Destino (2003) Fucking drooling. This is the kind of stuff i gobble up. Too bad the genre is practically non-existent. Aeon Flux, Alice in Wonderland, this. (Redefine reality)
Friday, May 11th, 2012
8:59 pm	Dark Seed (1992) - H. R. Giger Does Video Games I always wondered about this game. It doesn't have great reviews, but... it's Giger! Redd a great idea on a D3 news item: just watch a full playthrough on youtube! Found an HD playthrough. Needless to say, spoilers! If you want to just cut to the chase and watch the Giger parts, here you go (total 14:15): 1/6: 0:15-0:30 - Opening Sequence 1:10-1:30 - Intro 8:30-8:55 - Hallucination 1 2/6: 0:55-1:10 - Hallucination 2 7:10-7:35 - Dream Sequence 1 3/6: 4:00-7:20 - Dark World 1 4/6: 3:45-8:15 - Dark World 2 8:55-9:30 - Dream Sequence 2 5/6 6/6: 0:25-3:10 - Dark World 3 3:55-4:00 - Hallucination 3 4:40-5:00 - End Sequence (Redefine reality)
3:40 pm	Buddhist Monks Caught in High-Stakes Cash Game Scandal Caught on camera: $800k changed hands in a secret 13-hour high stakes poker marathon involving South Korea’s leading Buddhists. Six leaders of a South Korean Buddhist Order have been forced to quit following the publication of secret video footage showing the monks drinking, smoking and playing a high-stakes cash game of poker. More, including grainy video... (1 dimension |Redefine reality)
Monday, May 7th, 2012
2:35 pm	Pleas-ure Bets Imagine if human life is a simulation run by extraterrestrials or whatever, in which they bet on "runners" (us individual humans), to see which have sex/masturbate the most. Every time you do, an alien profits. hah (1 dimension |Redefine reality)
12:28 pm	Path of Exile Public Stress Test Weekend #2 This weekend: http://www.pathofexile.com/publicweekend/ (Redefine reality)
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
1:39 am	Ever since Bluetooth, it's harder to tell if someone's crazy. (2 dimensions |Redefine reality)
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
2:58 pm	Eight Inefficient Cheat Sheet Techniques (Redefine reality)
Monday, April 30th, 2012
7:54 pm	Sick of horseflies? 4. At least two experiments indicate that the disruptive colouration [of zebras] is an effective means of confusing the visual system of flies, in one case the blood-sucking tsetse fly, in another horseflies (tabanids). So, wear striped clothing/bathing suits to avoid horseflies and others? :) (1 dimension |Redefine reality)
3:09 am	Alfredo al Footo Stepped onto a plate with scraps of Alfredo sauce = not the best smell ever. The Alfredo sauce already smelled a little off to begin with. Match made in heaven. (1 dimension |Redefine reality)
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
1:02 pm	So what's better, "cloudy with sunny breaks" or "variable cloudiness"? Fucking stupid weather terms. (2 dimensions |Redefine reality)