Despondent eyes of sorrow

No clue...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:38:36 GMT

... what the lyrics are about or what's the story behind the video, but that is one awesome-looking XiangQi set!

I also like the bit where they're dancing on the giant board :)

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:16:59 GMT

Shortest english words containing all vowels (including y):
Aneuploidy, Audiometry, Autotypies, Buoyancies, Coequality, Eukaryotic, Oxyuriases

Shortest english words containing all vowels (exluding y):
Eulogia, Miaoued, Sequoia

Longest english words using no letter more than once:
Uncopyrightable, Dermatoglyphics

Shortest words that have five of the same letter:
A (11): Abracadabra; E (9): Beekeeper; I (12): Divicibility, Incivilities, Initializing, Insipidities, Invisibility, Risibilities, Visibilities; L (16): Polysyllabically; N (10): Nonwinning; O (12): Protozoology; S (8): Assesses.

Words that have six of the same letter:
E: Degeneratenesses, Regeneratenesses; I: Divicibilities, Indivisibility, Invisibilities, Immiscibilities, Ineligibilities, Invincibilities, Illimitabilities; S: Dispossesses, Classlessness, Dispossessors, Possessedness, Saplessnesses, Senselessness, Sexlessnesses, Sinlessnesses, Uselessnesses.

Words that have seven of the same letter:
I: Indivisibilities; S: Stresslessness, Classlessnesses, Possessednesses, Senselessnesses, Possessivenesses, Resistlessnesses.

And finally, a word that have eight of the same letter:
S: Stresslessnesses.

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:17:55 GMT

RIP Dave Arneson.
Thanks for the way you set free our imagination and led us out on adventures.

Waaah!

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:31:58 GMT

I want to move to Svalbard!

I want to move to Svalbard!

I want to move to Svalbard!

... there is absolutely no chance of that happening though :(

*very sad face*

Sjunde inseglet

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:00:44 GMT

I den utmärkta filmen Sjunde inseglet - Om riddaren hade varit smartare (och känt till det) hade han inte utmanat döden på västerländskt schack utan istället på ett parti Taikyoku Shogi - det borde varat länge nog för att ge honom ett långt gott liv :)

Brädet är 36x36 (1296 rutor), med 402 pjäser per spelare.

P4wned!

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:04:33 GMT

Turkish Checkers:

... now if only I could set up combinations like that in any checkers variant!

(There is one point where white can make a different capture, instead of c5:c3:c1, white can capture a3:c3:c1, but that also leads to a similar end - black gives away all but one piece, then captures all of white's pieces with that one.)

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:05:04 GMT

... uppenbarligen verkar föräldrar och syskon inte ha något emot att bli av med mig.

Låt oss då hoppas att så verkligen sker!

Baduk

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:04:52 GMT

Always cut, unless you can't cut, then cut anyway. If you absolutely can't cut, connect, but only if it means you can cut later.

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:35:49 GMT

I'm drowning in loneliness

Cthulhu ... dancing ?

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:21:53 GMT

Somebody decided to create a Cthulhu copy for Spore:

... and for a whole bunch of other Cthulhu mythos monsters remade in Spore, see http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/32452

... summer ...

Sat, 31 May 2008 16:44:21 GMT

It's stinking awful hot.

The bloody annoying sun shines all the bloody time.

No snow in sight anywhere.

Barely any dark hours to speak of any longer.

Take away this sodding summer, put it up against the wall and load your rifles. I never want to see it again.

I hate summer.

I despise summer. I loathe it with a passion.

Give me winter.

Give me nice cold days. -10 to -25 degrees centigrade would be welcome.

Give me snow.

Give me dark mornings and evenings.

Take away this awful summer!

... and I don't even have my Amelia here to console me :(

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:24:40 GMT

Arden mena lavid sui. Degamen da bina advi mena. Bandi la, dela megata, dela saryn. Ybarin erovire sadina. Sui dent mareni banyr da garind alen harebo. Garind, garinari, garind sui! Bedago lavi dastin sary estag. Dela samiara, syran bad estomen.

Revid laben dasi menyari dela arend. Sui sera bandi. Rebeo lyera da esera mena. Estomen dig berba gans banyr elvari ad harken. Mareno sui levadi sed myren. Hasten belo garinari elva dageni. Revas la, aves lo! Revasi alba nyra toi.

BBC ...

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:33:22 GMT

... are bloody cheapskates!

Sat down to watch one of my dvds... only to find out there were no subtitles. Searched the web a bit, and: "... they consider subtitling costs to be too high in the UK."

Well, that's the only tv series I've tried to watch on DVD so far that's been lacking subtitles. All of the rest of them, including some from BBC's competitor channels, have had subtitles.

Bloody cheapskates. What a waste of my money to have purchased this DVD box from them. I can't hear well enough to follow dialogue on TV, generally.

I therefore prounounce BBC to be bloody cheapskates, berks, bastards, gits! At least as far as this particular DVD box set is concerned.

Fifteen

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:25:16 GMT

But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on walls
As wide as lovers eyes

In the temple of love will fall before
This black wind calls my name across this land

Looked at johnny johnny wanted to run
But the movie kept moving as planned
The boy was in the heavy air along the interstate
black lung full of stars wide with memories

everything I ever had
is gone

every spring I ever had
is gone

every man I ever knew
every woman I ever had
is lost

every spring I ever had
has died

Well you can beat them
i know that you like it like that
And to another but still the same
For the window wearing the face
that you could sink so low

you think you worried for me then
the subtler ways that I'd give in
but I know you like it like that like it like that
And the temple of love is falling
Down

Ah look at all the lonely people
Ah look at all the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie wiping the dirt
from his hand on my knee
on the screen
And I felt the arrows of desire

I put my hands and there’s the answer
You got pen knives and
Switchblades preferred
Then he cries then he scream he made and my heart pitched that nobody heard he was on that bed It was like a sailor
in a sea of possibilities one who seizes possibilities
Except for one who seizes possibilities one who seizes possibilities
There’s a red stream
That went streaming through my body
I I that’s how i
That’s how i
That’s how i
That’s how i
I died
at that tower of babel they knew what they were after
everything on the current moved up
I tried to move around the pain is so big you feel nothing happening at all
A working class hero is something to be

There’s a mare black and shining silver studs with the sun
Sleeping
With you

Sorrow has a human heart
From my god it will depart
I'd sail before a thousand moons
Never finding where to go

Two hundred twentytwo days of light
Will be desired by a night
And now it's still the same
Everywhere I look you're stayin' alive
Ah ah ah ah stayin' alive stayin' alive stayin' alive
ah ah ah stayin' alive
Feel the city lights
hear the calling
And the temple grows old and strong
But the wind blows longer cold and long
And the temple of love Hear my name

And the name of the place it’s across this land

Looked at johnny johnny gets up takes off his leather jacket
Taped to his chest there’s the answer
You got pen knives and
Switchblades preferred switchblades preferred
Then he cries then he screams saying
Life is filled with holes johnny’s laying there with my legs spread like a sea of possibilities
up there
I seize the first possibilities
It started hardening in my hand
And I fill my nose with snow and go rimbaud go rimbaud go rimbaud go rimbaud go rimbaud
And go inside the black tube he felt himself disintegrate
there is just a sea of jelly
And so he seized the first possibilities I felt his hand on my knee
on the screen
And I felt the arrows of desire

I put my fingers
Nobody came
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt
from his hand on my knee
on the screen
And I fill my nose with snow and go rimbaud
And go inside the black sky thunder cry like rain
And I looked at johnny and handed him a branch of cold flame
in the dustbin
we're the flowers
in the heavy air along the interstate
black eyes full of pain I’m cruisin’ through soul

baby's got a problem
tries so hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to belive that sin
Can make a better man
It´s the mood that I am in
That´s left us were
we began

Oh girl
Lead me into your darknes
When this world is trying it´s
hardest
To leave me unimpressed
Just one caress
From you and I´m blessed

When this world is trying it´s
hardest
To leave me unimpressed
Just one caress
From you and I´m blessed

When there's nobody there
What does he care

All the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby died in the church
and was buried along with her name
Nobody heard he was on that bed it was like a sea of possibilities I felt his hands as he walks from the fire from the fire from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain in life
a time to kill the pain inside

teeth in the necks of everyone you know
i did not believe
that you like it like that like it like that you like it like that you can
I'll take all that I can do now
This thing is slowly taking me apart
Gray would be the colour if I had a heart
Come on tell me!

You make this all go away
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
I just want something new

Oh girl
Lead me into your darknes
When this world is trying it´s
hardest
To leave me unimpressed
Just one caress
From you and I´m blessed

I´m shying from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand
You run for another it's all worthwhile
it's all worthwhile
it's all right it's okay
I'll live to see another day
We can try to understand
the New York Times' effect on man

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
you're future
you're future
no future for you
no fufure for me

The ice is thin come on dive in
underneath my lucid skin
The cold is lost forgotten

Hours pass days pass time stands still
light gets dark and darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sunlight died and night above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside

teeth in the necks of everyone you know
you can keep on sucking until the blood won't flow
when it starts to hurt it only helps it grow
taking all you need
but not this time
no you don't
no you don't
no you don't

In that big house there are fifty beds
and one of them leads to your heart
In the temple of love Hear my name

In the temple of love Hear the calling
And the tears he cried will rain on walls
As wide as lovers eyes

In the temple of love Hear the children sing just a breath away
dance in the hallway
He merged perfectly the mirror in the temple of love
I shine like thunder sweeping
Underground and over water
Sounds of crying weeping will not save
Your faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninetysix below the wave
When stone is dust and only air remains
the only haven you can trust

And the temple of love Hear my name

And the temple of love is always over in the temple of love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the name of the forest
There’s a little place a place called space
It’s a pretty little place is you like it like the ringing in my ears
My favorite dreams of you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want
Don't be told what you need
but no you don't

and just for the pain in life
a time to kill the pain
but oh your soul
It's a bed of threats
regrets and sheets so cold
All I knew your eyes so velvet blue
I've been in love before
This black wind calls my name to you no more

In the temple of love is falling
Down

Ah look at all the taste of your tears
Echoing your voice just like that like it like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something I can never have
I just want something I can never have

In the temple of love
You run for cover in the temple of love Hear the children sing just a breath away
dance in the sea to the sea to the sea of possibility
like mad pituitary glands
The scream he made and my heart was so high my heart was so high my heart pitched that nobody heard
No one was saved

All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie writing the words
of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you worried for me then
the subtler ways that I'd give in
but I know you like it like that
Like it like that like it like that
And to another but still the same
Everywhere I look you're all I see
Just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be
Come on tell me!

You make this all go away
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
You make this all go away
You make it all go way
I just want something
I just walked right up and saw that
Up there there is a sea
Up there there is just a sea of jelly
And so he seized the first
his vocal chords started hardening in my ears
My favorite dreams of you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be like thunder cry like rain
And the temple of love Hear my calling
In the black tube he felt himself disintegrate
there is just a sea of possibilities
It started shooting like of a horse mad pituitary glands
The scream he made and my heart pitched that nobody heard
No one heard johnny the butterfly flapping into sea horses
Coming in in all directions
White shining horse
And my fingers
Like arteries like fingers
how much fits between
black eyes full of fear
A working darning his socks
in the dustbin
we're the poison
in your fingers through my heart pitched that nobody heard he was on that bed it was like a sailor
in a sea of possibility
There is no keeper but the key
up there is no sea but the land
up there is a sea
Up there there is no keeper but the key
up there
I seize the first
his vocal chords shot up
possibilities I felt his hands as he walks from the fireworks up above
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the poet's play
Until there's nobody there
What does he care

All the lonely people
Ah

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:22:36 GMT

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away."

One should be careful...

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:48:50 GMT

... when lending things out. Especially starfleet officers, it seems.

Riker, while performing temporary duties on board a Klingon ship, hailing Picard on the Enterprise: "Enterprise, this is Captain William Riker of the Klingon vessel Pagh. I order you to lower your shields and surrender." (Star Trek: The Next Generation 2x08 A Matter of Honor)

Sadness

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:25:12 GMT

RIP Gary Gygax, and thanks for sharing the wonders of your imagination with the world and inspiring so many of us to use our own imagination a bit more!

Movie meme

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:26:24 GMT

Stolen from hanzan:

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

... quotes in alphabetical order ...

1. ~~"All shall love me and despair!"~~ Lord of the Rings ywalme

2. ~~"God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural fluids. God bless you all"~~ Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ywalme

3.
"Have you come for me?"
"I have long walked by your side."
"So I have noticed." The Seventh Seal hanzan

4. ~~"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."~~ The Princess Bride ywalme

5. ~~"I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it."~~ 2001: A Space Oddysey ywalme

6. ~~"I'm expendable. I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is. I've gotta get outta here."~~ Galaxy Quest ywalme

7. "I've heard of you. I heard you were dead!"

8. "I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them... but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it... ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love..."

9. "Man is born crying. When he has cried enough, he dies."

10. "Shit... charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets in the Indy 500."

11. ~~"Somebody's coming up. Somebody serious."~~ Leon arhra

12. ~~"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy."~~ Blade Runner tinyameliakitty

13. ~~"The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done."~~ Star Trek VIII: First Contact ywalme

14. "There was nothing I hated more than to see a filthy old drunkie, a-howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as if it were a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts."

15. "To face what we are in the end, we stand before the light and our true nature is revealed. Self-revelation is annihilation of self."

... not sure these are my favourite movies, but they are at least ones I thought were reasonable entertainment - and (importantly enough for this meme) ones I could find quotes for.

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:17:47 GMT

Minsc - Flowers are beautiful, aren't they Boo? I wish there were more to see.

Cernd - I see you have an appreciation for the small things, Minsc. You see the power in their simple nature.

Minsc - I don't understand much that is complicated, but the trees and the flowers are music to my eyes. Boo prefers the calm of the forest, though he suffers my company.

Cernd - Ahh, you are his tree amidst the cities and people, and despite your bending and bowing in the wind you are his stability, as I suspect he is yours.

Minsc - No, he is my hamster. You talk in circles, Cernd, but that's okay. Boo runs in them.

Trains, trains, trains...

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:03:03 GMT

Semmeringbahn

Semmeringbahn was the world's first normal gauge mountain railway. It was opened in 1854, and is nowaday classified by Unesco as a world heritage.

Semmeringbahn has 14 tunnels, 16 aqueducts (such as in the picture), and over 100 bridges. The majority (60%) of the track has a gradient of 20% or more.

When Semmeringbahn opened, none of the existing locomotives could handle the demanding track, so a new locomotive was designed specifically for it.

Trains, trains, trains...

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:16:12 GMT

LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman

The Flying Scotsman was built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway. It was designed by H.N. Grensley.

In November, 1934, it became the first steam locomotive to officially reach a speed of 100 miles per hour.

It was in active service in Britain until 1963.

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:01:46 GMT

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

Last month I ruled Iran as a cruel and heartless dictator (-700 points). Last Saturday I punched chococat in the arm (-10 points). In May I ate my brussel sprouts (1 points). In October I invaded Iraq, broke it, and couldn't glue it back together before Mom got home (-1012 points). In March I turned tinyameliakitty in for littering (3 points).

Overall, I've been naughty (-1718 points). For Christmas I deserve a moldy sandwich!

Sincerely,
enhorning

Where have all the unicorns gone?

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:57:14 GMT

Until something better than this world arrives,
I'll need a rich fantasy life,
a rich fantasy life.

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:54:34 GMT

London calling 
     to the faraway towns
Now that war is declared 
     - and battle come down
London calling 
     to the underworld
London calling, 
     now don't look at us
The ice age is coming, 
     the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running 
     and the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, 
     but I have no fear
London is drowning
     - and I live by the river
London calling 
     upon the zombies of death
Quit holding out
     - and draw another breath
London calling
     at the top of the dial

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:30:40 GMT

These are the pale deaths
which men miscall their lives:
for all the scents of green things growing,
each breath is but an exhalation of the grave.