Archive for November, 2007

On the importance of boobs

Posted in November 30th, 2007
by PAgent in FYI

I ran across the following article over at linkfilter:
“My instant boob job from 36A to 36DD - and the effect it had on men (and women)”
As an experiment, a Brit named Clover Stroud had a makeup and special effects expert create “a pair of perfect 36DD silicone breasts” for her to wear around Oxford, to [...]

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Here’s an idea

Posted in November 28th, 2007
by PAgent in Rant

Here’s a thought.
Well, a bit of a suggestion, really.
If you are engaged in a cell phone conversation, and the topic of the conversation is such that you feel uncomfortable continuing the conversation while you are in an elevator full of strangers, maybe you should consider NOT HAVING THAT FREAKING CONVERSATION ON THE CELL PHONE IN [...]

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Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006

Posted in November 27th, 2007
by PAgent in Games, Video

This is a 12-minute black-and-white film by Paul Robertson. If you misspent your youth playing platform games, it will be eerily familiar. But PBCBSF-2006 goes beyond being an animated video game homage, into territory that is truly disturbing and often entertaining.
It is a beautiful thing. In fact it may be Art.
If you are at all [...]

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Zoo Triage

Posted in November 27th, 2007
by PAgent in Games

It’s nothing short of astounding how quickly the scenarios in Zoo Tycoon 2 evolve.
Last night in just a few games I went from goals like:
“You need to keep your animals happy, and increase visitor donations”
to situations like:
“You have no money, no staff, PETA is picketing your zoo, and half of your animals have the [...]

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Old Age and Treachery Defeat Youth and Beauty

Posted in November 26th, 2007
by PAgent in Games

Actually, there’s damn little treachery involved. But as far as sayings go, I like that one. There’s got to be some advantage to getting this gray hair in my beard, and having all these memories rattling around in my head. Here’s another quote, one of my favorites:
Good decisions come from wisdom.
Wisdom comes from experience.
Experience comes [...]

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The Chapman Stick

Posted in November 24th, 2007
by PAgent in Flotsam, Video

Emmett Chapman was a guitarist who, in the late 1960s, began playing the electric guitar by tapping or fretting the strings, rather than plucking them. Although some guitarists had played with a two-handed tapping, keeping the fingers of the right hand parallel to the strings, Chapman’s “Free Hand” method placed the fingers of both hands [...]

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