Category Archives: Fun Stuff

Into the Void

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Joseph

I really wanted to make a “we can’t stay here, this is bat country” reference in this post, but I didn’t want to piss Edwin off and I’m falling a little short.

The first thing I remember was the light.

It wasn’t bright or blinding, like one would expect from the desert sun; it was cool and blue. My head buzzed with questions and the remnants of the previous evening. Where had I gone? What had I done? My memories were clouded by drink, a hodgepodge of flashing lights, ringing bells, and spotty memories of recalling the TCP/IP stack.

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All hail the Mc10:35!

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Joel

There is a secret movement sweeping San Francisco McDonalds. It’s an elusive beast akin to our own McGangBang 2.0. Unlike our aforementioned gastrointestinal delicacy, this mashup of a sandwich can only be obtained once every day. Once every day! How could this be!

Imagine for a moment, it’s mid morning and you’re standing in a McDonalds wracked with guilt. Do you appease your intestinal lusting with a piece of midday sustenance or do you pounce upon a breakfast bite to better remind yourself of what could have been had you slept in? Desperate you look at the clock, time is running out. If you wait too long your decision will be made and breakfast will have died by the wayside. But dammit, you still yearn for the comfort a breakfast sandwich brings even as you acquiesce to the sustainability of the ubiquitous burger. And then it hits you: the Mc10:35!

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Matchstick Minas Tirith

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Joel

We can add another item to the long list of amazing things that I wish I thought of and yet have no time to ever accomplish. Patrick Acton of Iowa has completed an incredibly detailed match stick model of Minas Tirith. His labor of love began in April of 2007 and culminated last week on the 15th of February. He used 420,000 matchsticks to create the city and another 24,000 wooden blocks for Mount Mindolluin (the mountain the city is built into). You can catch more pictures of the model over at Matchstick Marvels and I must say, they’re pretty awesome.

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ALRIGHT ZELDA, A WORD WITH YOU.

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Joseph

The entire DC area has been under several feet of snow for like, a month now, so in running out of things to do, I decided to start playing “The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.” I got the ROMs from bittorrent, and I use the Mac version of Snes9x to play. Snes9x, for those who haven’t used it, is one hell of an SNES emulator.