It's a blog about nothing!

Ouroboros
11/7/2011 - 17:51:30 - 1 comments - By D47
I wish I was more creative.

I made this blog 3 years ago as some kind of creative outlet and it totally didn't work.

I wish I could live multiple lifetimes so that I can try different things each time. I would like to be an artist, a musician, a lazy dole bludger, a doctor, a psychotic.. but these things take a lifetimes dedication (except psychotic perhaps.)

If I had one wish it would be to live strong until I wanted to die. I could witness the rise and fall of humanity and I could accomplish whatever I desired with no worry for time lost, I could appreciate the lifes work of others to their just deserve and play with things I could never in this life.

In this state my apathy is limited only by my willingness to hide it.
If I could live forever I would be very comfortable indeed.

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Hello Louis.
 
As yet unamed game in prolonged development
27/6/2011 - 18:04:31 - 1 comments - By D47
For a long while now, during free time, me and Ry have been developing an ambitious game for the android platform.

I have been doing the programming/logic and Ry has been proving the textures/sprites/direction for the game.

If you like what you see, even if you have stumbled upon our site by accident after playing partypoker, please leave a comment! We collectively have no free time so it is rather slow progressing. But it has been that way for most of the year and it still manages to make progress :).

Here are some screenshots of the current state of things:

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Japan!
10/2/2011 - 03:54:55 - 1 comments - By D47
So,

My trip to Japan has ended and I'm sitting back at home with only the memories.
I know I said that I was going to post updates while I was in Japan as a kind of travel journal, but I didn't.

Japan is an amazing place. Things are so similar yet so different in ways that can't really be put accurately into words.

What I did do is take allot of pictures. I will make efforts to create an image gallery type thing when I have time/feel like it.

Aside from the culture of Japan, the temperature there was around 10 degrees (c) in Tokyo and as low as -5 (c) or so in Sapporo. After the first week I came to consider it to be somewhat preferable to the relative heat that I'm used to. Perhaps that's just a side effect of my ridiculously warm jacket.

The people there are certainly very polite but they don't really seem to say anything that isn't ritualised in some way. Naturally the only people we had the chance to talk to where people behind a counter which is a shame. I was looking forward to trying out my Japanese and learning more as I went.

The only time that I got to interact with anyone more naturally was when a small school kid noticed me while I was trying to ice skate and proceeded to try-out the few lines of English he must have learnt at school. "Hello", he said. I responded with "Hi", which in Japanese sounds like their word for yes. After recovering from his confusion he told me his name and asked me how I was, all in English. The whole conversation had an air of condescension and mockery directed at me and my being a foreigner (even if it doesn't sound like it from my description), but of course I can dismiss this as a kid just having fun and in fact I enjoyed it.

While I was over there I had (and still have) rather long blond hair past my shoulders. This certainly attracted allot of looks and made me stand out a bit too.

The experience was definitely a very memorable one and I look forward to visiting again and many more times.
 
Google street view cars
7/1/2011 - 22:43:09 - 0 comments - By D47
I was just browsing through google street view in Brazil and happened upon these two shots.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-22.885472,-43.22549&spn=3.885995,8.388062&z=8&layer=c&cbll=-22.885472,-43.22549&panoid=CJr4cdA_tPWhyIWqm7lL5Q&cbp=12,257.12,,0,9.48

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-22.885504,-43.225582&spn=3.885995,8.388062&z=8&layer=c&cbll=-22.885504,-43.225582&panoid=IbviP792htp95eFKePmqFg&cbp=12,86.38,,0,9.89

Both are taken at the same time by each of the cars.
Just a strange coincidence, I guess it must happen at some time!
Just don't cross the streams.
 
KanaQuiz for Android
2/1/2011 - 17:15:21 - 2 comments - By D47
With my free time this weekend I decided to tryout the android market with a simple tool for learning and memorising Japanese hiragana and katakana.

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Try it out =)l
 

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