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WHY! Click Me. (Go through all 5 pictures)


I'm kidding of course - I doubt I'll be able to contain how much fun I'm having to just myself. Which means I share it the only way I know how. Semi-annoymously through the internet. Woo hoo.

Never too early ... right?

Birthday wishlist! Okay, its more just a list of stuff I'm want to buy and I figure if I put it here, I won't lose it.

Wishlist

Tuba Virtuoso

Nerd Level: 9.3 out of 10

A lot of the time I'll claim to like classical music. The problem is, a good portion of the time I find typical classical music, like most, a horrid bore. Periodically though I will run across something new and unique that really perks my ears.

There is a method called lip multiphonic, which can allow a player to play two notes at once. Another way is to try to sing and play at the same time. This guy actually does all three - which leads to a sound that is hard to believe is coming out of one instrument. I love hearing the crowd laugh in disbelief.

On top of that, about 6 minutes in he turns his tuba into a beat box. It is hard enough to beat box with just your mouth/hands, but to do it through an instrument that has about 27 feet of pipe is another level of impressive.

..and to reiterate, the first 3 minutes is just him playing.



And for any musical doubters, here he is playing the Carnival of Venice (an obscenely hard piece for those not as nerdy as most).

Olympus Rally 2007

Olympus Rally 2007 (click on my pic below to go to the gallery)



Might as well make this a full blown DiRT advertisement too. 3 minutes of new footage of wrecks in DiRT - including them wrecking the exact car from my photo above (at 1 minute 30 seconds in).

Online comic relavance

Phil = Bryce Guitar Hero = Forza

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Well, I'd play Guitar Hero if I had it.


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Its hard to believe the administration can so blatantly lie and attempt to subvert the constitution; and still get away with it. Jon Stewart summarizes the latest two AG stories fairly well.

Nice to hear

We get to wallow in others ineptitude. A British judge, working an Internet Terrorist case is baffled by terms like "web site" and "forum".

So at least its not just our judges who are idiots

Rally rally rally!

The Olympus Rally is coming to town! (Olympia that is).

Some really good chances to see some rally cars in action for not to far away for most of you. They will be at the state capital Saturday morning (9am), and stages at the OVR park in Shelton starting at 11am. From there they head up into the woods to race for two days.

Spectator guide here.

The weekend weather doesn't look wonderful, but I'm sure I'm going to be warmer than I was down in Oregon. =/ Hopefully some good pictures for Monday.

Mmm.. Pie

I guess if I ever was going to make a pie, I'd be much more likely to do it with a pi pie bowl.

Forza and DiRT

Lately I've been spurting off links and talking Forza racing left and right (they are in their last month of development) to my friends. Its a great looking game that has some of the highest expectations I've seen in a game in a very long time. We'll see.

But on top of that, DiRT just released 3 videos that now make me really curious on where I'm going to spend my free time.

You'll hear the navigator. Larger numbers, faster the corner. This is a high-rez link, so if you're on a bit of a slower connection, this will take some time:

Subaru STI through wet streets in Japan

Huge open course rally wheel to wheel racing.


A run up Pikes Peak - some of those drop off finally look scary in a game.


All I know is my racing wheel, tv and xbox 360 are going to get a workout.

Showtime

**Update** - Alex brought to my attention that #8 can be done with less than 16 blocks as they say. I never really looked, but it possible with 12 blocks.


Okay, so I actually got quite a few message about the game I posted below; mainly "omg my head hurts", and "what the hell" and "I hate you".

So, I'll be nice, and solve two of them for you. The easiest one (lvl 8), and a fairly difficult one if you don't "see" the solution by the time you're at lvl 10. My only question - they claim lvl 10 "has been solved in 1min 25 seconds on youtube". Should I email them with me solving it in less than 40 seconds? hehe.

Level 8:


Level 10:

Can you solve them all?

This will make your brain work a bit.

I'll help you out with the interface:

Click Figuur1 on the left side.
What your end result should look like will come up in the upper left; at the bottom of that screen is the number of blocks you need to use.

To add blocks, just left click. To take a block away, just select the "break down" bullet, and click the block you want to remove.

There are no physics, so blocks CAN float.

You'll get a "green" bullet next to "Figure#" when the image is right but you have too many blocked used. Yellow means you nailed it.

Took me ~15 minutes to get them all yellow. Honestly, figure 1 is one of the hardest to get yellow. Don't worry about the minimum blocks at first - just build them, then start taking blocks away.

http://mathsnet.net/geometry/solid/houses.html

Update: #1 and #9 are easily the hardest. Funny enough, after 10 minutes this time around I couldn't solve #9. Had one extra block somewhere.