tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784 packbat packbat 2020-06-02T03:52:22Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:301494 2020-06-02T03:52:22Z 2020-06-02T03:52:22Z "Hey Now" by London Grammar drained public 0 <p>Too tired to originate anything new today, so we're gonna go through some of the PICO-8 carts on our hard drive that we've written and copy out comments that we find amusing. (Note: one of these is amusing to us for non-screen-reader-able reasons.)</p> <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/301494.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div> <p>Interesting to note how many of the comments on our code are exceedingly practical. Useful? We don't know yet. But they get to the point.</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&ditemid=301494" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:278974 2010-02-12T14:10:20Z 2010-02-12T20:03:44Z public 0 This mashup is seriously the most awesome thing I've seen all week. Thanks, <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://tacit.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://tacit.livejournal.com/'><b>tacit</b></a></span>! (And thanks <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://nationelectric.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://nationelectric.livejournal.com/'><b>nationelectric</b></a></span>, who linked tacit's essay the other day!)<br /><br /><strong>EDIT:</strong> Substitute <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://remix79.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://remix79.livejournal.com/'><b>remix79</b></a></span> in the parenthetical - goes to show why you should check your sources...<br /><br /><object width="853" height="505"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lKeA3-n27t8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="sameDomain"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lKeA3-n27t8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="true" width="853" height="505"></embed></object><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&ditemid=278974" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:277838 2010-02-08T01:47:28Z 2010-02-08T01:47:28Z public 0 Okay, so strictly speaking, it returned five hours ago ... but it's back!<br /><br />No heat, though. And we're still so socked in with the weekend blizzard (over 20 inches) that school's closed tomorrow. And another five inches of snow is on its way Tuesday/Wednesday.<br /><br />...yay, electricity!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&ditemid=277838" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:277007 2010-02-04T15:37:56Z 2010-02-05T22:31:52Z Sara Bareilles - Love Song confused public 0 I swear, there is no conceivable explanation for how I can be as <em>stupidly</em> lucky as I have been my <em>entire</em> life.<br /><br />I am <a href="http://xkcd.com/666/">seriously tempted</a> to start invoking <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnthropicPrinciple">absurd excuses for this</a>.<br /><br />In other news, hello! Don't follow those links if you value your time!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&ditemid=277007" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:276012 2009-11-23T05:07:31Z 2009-11-23T05:07:31Z "Crazy Love, Vol. II" - Paul Simon amused public 0 <span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/276012.html#cutid1">Screenshot</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />Yes, I just spent hours of my life 'painting' a virtual car with a virtual skyline and a Maryland flag. But that's not the ridiculous part.<br /><br />No, the ridiculous part is that I didn't plan on putting that Maryland flag on my hood. I was only making it so that I could put it on the license plate.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://packbat.dreamwidth.org/276012.html#cutid2">Second screenshot</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />P.S. Many thanks to netstate.com, for <a href="http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/flags/md_flag.htm">Maryland flag information</a>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&ditemid=276012" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-03:244784:264487 2009-05-21T16:38:05Z 2009-05-21T16:38:05Z amused public 2 Stolen from <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://active-apathy.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://active-apathy.livejournal.com/'><b>active_apathy</b></a></span>, who swiped it from <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://laurenmitchell.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://laurenmitchell.livejournal.com/'><b>laurenmitchell</b></a></span>:<br /><br /><ol><li>Choose an episode of anime or television series you have on your computer. Make sure you're certain you want that one, you cannot change your mind once you skip this step. DO NOT TELL YOUR FLIST WHAT YOU CHOSE.<br /><br /><li>Make note of how long the episode is here: <strong>59:59</strong><br /><br /><li>Ask your flist to choose a time between 00:00 and whatever the length of your episode is. Be specific - e.g. 21:09, 02:42, 36:50. (No guarantees that times more precisely than the second will be respected, but feel free to try!)<br /><br /><li>Make them an icon using THAT FRAME ONLY no matter what it is. And remember, you can only use that ONE episode you chose previous, even if the person posting isn't familiar with it.</li></li></li></li></ol><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=packbat&ditemid=264487" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments