Displaying articles with tag lame

Annoying Web 2.0 Stuff

Posted by hank, Mon Jun 30 23:31:00 UTC 2008

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if no one ever upgraded to Web 2.0? I mean, really, what have we gained. Here’s a list of things that I personally find really stupid about the phenomenon…

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Angband save games directory in Ubuntu

Posted by hank, Wed Jan 02 00:13:00 UTC 2008

I finally found where Angband saves are stored in Ubuntu thanks to the helpful file listing it provides. It’s all in /var/games/angband, and the save directory looks like this:


root@rofl:/var/games/angband/save# ls -al
total 60
d---rwx--- 2 root games  4096 2008-01-01 23:57 .
drwxr-sr-x 9 root games  4096 2007-12-31 16:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 hank games 45651 2008-01-01 23:57 1000.Hank
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root games    47 2006-11-13 01:20 delete.me

The inside of 1000.Hank is complete binary gibberish, but at least I can back it up now and move it between computers. This is so encouraging me to cheat. To find out more about angband, read this article.

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I can't read the news because of advertising.

Posted by hank, Wed Jun 27 11:05:00 UTC 2007

What is wrong with this picture?

Hmmm

Oh! I know! Maybe its that I can’t read the article because of an ad!! Good work, CNN!

Original Story. You might have to refresh a few times. This is because of oversize flash advertisements. Here is a short flash video of my experience.

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Thoughts on Flying

Posted by hank, Sat Jun 02 17:25:00 UTC 2007

I was looking to see if I could bring my deoderant on the plane. Turns out I can’t since it’s over 3oz. But wait - down the list a little is this gem:

Gel-filled bras and similar prosthetics - Gel-filled bras may be worn through security screening and aboard aircraft.

Wow, awesome. I wonder why this is. Couldn’t a terrorist just sport some bomb boobs? I mean, could a convincing transvestite take down an aircraft? Why is this allowed and not my water bottle?

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