Beautiful Life, by Rick Astley The Very Best of Johnny Hates Jazz Four Winds, by Tangier: Switching to more bluesy here. Freeways, by Bachman-Turner Overdrive What always amuses me about the Rick Roll is I grew up with Rick Astley's music, he's a really good R&B-pop singer. "Never Gonna Give You Up" isn't my favorite … Continue reading "Rick Roll Thursday Music"Read More »

Was searching for another file, and found my Minecraft screenshots from my first real world. I bought it 2010-09-29, just before the Halloween update, but didn't really play much until the next spring; Alpha was buggy as hell, you can't imagine. Beta 1.3_01 was much more stable, and I settled down. I'm 90% sure WORLD … Continue reading "Minecraft 2011"Read More »

The JP site has little weekly update comics, which have mostly been translated by fans: Magia Report S1 Magia Report S2 Mostly just gags about bad pulls and events after they're over (in JP timeline; the EN timeline should be following the same pattern eventually), but a few honestly great jokes about Madoka like the … Continue reading "A Little More Magia Record"Read More »

Magia Record official EN site A Puella Magi Madoka Magica mobage! It's very cutesy, aimed at teenage Japanese girls and horny otaku boys, so I'm not likely to play very long, but I really did enjoy the anime series. If you haven't seen it yet, go watch that at the very least up to episode … Continue reading "What I'm Playing: Magia Record"Read More »

(Needed a little break from EVA which brings up both happy and terribly sad memories for me… So something "dark" instead) Dark is a German Twin Peaks/12 Monkeys/La Jetée/Stranger Things/The Caves of Time CYOA mashup. Kids go missing in the woods around a nuclear power plant. Terrible English dubbing, often gravelly old people for the … Continue reading "What I'm Watching: Dark"Read More »

Flamingo Drive-In, by Quixotic Stray, by Diskette Park Trackpoint, by Diskette Park PS-EXE.exe, by System ST91 VaporDisk, by System ST91 Better Than Reality, by LukHash Akuma II, by Alex & Tokyo Rose Several of these /via xtheo, which is a fantastic synthwave & '80s tumbleblog/moodboard. Note with Soundcloud, you need to hit the hamburger menu … Continue reading "Neon Wednesday Music"Read More »

As a system programming language, C still deserves learning today lobsters comments C has the great virtue that most computers have a C compiler installed or can get one from the vendor, and by typing: % clang -o thing thing.c # or gcc if you must. You get a binary that'll run on that platform. … Continue reading "Y C?"Read More »

Harry Reid wants to believe Project Blue Book Which one is correct? Let's think about this from the other direction. Could we buzz another planet, today, in a way that makes "UFO sightings are ALIENS!" make any kind of sense? Premise 1: It is incredibly unlikely that any "intelligent" species, having recently developed from hunter-gatherers … Continue reading "Project UFO"Read More »

Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here, by Pink Floyd The Wall, by Pink Floyd Tales from Topographic Oceans (Deluxe Edition), by YesRead More »

Almost normal mecha show episodes: NERV HQ is shut down by unknown attackers by unknown means so everyone has to infiltrate the base and do a launch manually. Security really isn't very good when the power's down, three children are able to break into NERV. And then the orbital bombardment… Accurately understands the kinetic power … Continue reading "Evangelion Session 4: E11-12"Read More »