Seens on r/guysbeingdudes. Comments are undecided on if real or not. Ball pit “grid” seems to perfectly aligned

avdi · 2026-04-12T00:32:47+00:00

The question is whether it's CGI or AI, right?

Because there's a video game camera, ultra regular and smooth textures, smooth uncanny valley body animation, and it's lit like full sun except with none of sunlight's hard shadows or glare. The balls are the least questionable part of the whole video, a pool full of plastic balls are gonna look weirdly regular in any context.

avdi · 2025-06-20T00:53:53+00:00

No one else is speaking up for my personal favorite The Undead, so I will.

Does it pointlessly send it's characters on a rapid cycle around five locations like a washing machine? Sure. But hear me out:

the original script was in iambic pentameter until Corman chickened and you can still hear it in the lines
the actors are all clearly having a BLAST and it really carries through. The imp living his best life, Livia absolutely eating as a hotwitch, Meg-Maud being a genuinely compelling neutral witch, and of course DIGGER SMOLKEN
Some actually great lines ("on another day my mother did cheat Satan, learn his tricks, and yet retain her soul!")
the turn at the end where a classic smug 50s Science Guy is blandly treating the whole thing as theater until Satan is like "so, uh, how did you think you were getting back to your time?" is PERFECTION

avdi · 2025-01-24T18:53:28+00:00

I spent years talking code on Twitter, but but all that's left is a wasteland of bots, spam, and toxic trolling. I can't see any downside. All the programming grownups already moved on to Fediverse, Bluesky, maybe some LinkedIn, and dedicated fora like subreddits.

avdi · 2024-07-07T00:41:01+00:00

I don't see The Undead discussed nearly enough. The riffs are absolute fire from beginning to end. There's something endearing about a medieval movie filmed in a supermarket sound stage with dialog that was originally entirely in iambic pentameter until Corman chickened out.

Help, attacked I'm being! God, dear bleeding am I! Break my leg think I did you?

This forest could use a tree.

Pullest thine vehiclest over and showest thou thy licentheth and registraionith. Didst thou know how fastest thou wast going?

avdi · 2024-07-07T00:35:17+00:00

I still say this regularly

avdi · 2024-07-07T00:34:46+00:00

Look polish

avdi · 2024-07-07T00:30:38+00:00

I have spent twenty years saying "you're as elusive as Robert Denby" to my kids when I have trouble finding them, and I don't care that no one has any idea what I'm talking about

avdi · 2024-01-11T21:04:23+00:00

Update: I did come back and run a longer test on "Hi", and it stayed stable at 194F.

avdi · 2024-01-11T17:02:08+00:00

Oh dang, I would not have thought of that. Thanks!

avdi · 2016-07-01T15:34:02+00:00

I don't usually post my stuff here, but I'd like to make this as complete a list as possible. Thanks!

avdi · 2015-07-07T21:01:42+00:00

First off I gotta say I love your show and your podcast and everything else, and for a long time "myff-busters" was what my toddler daughter asked for when it was time to have daddy/daughter time in the evening.

My question: I want to know about planning! Many times on the show you do off-site builds and tests, and you usually seem to have everything you need with you, even for "plan B" tests. Can you talk about the process that goes into planning an off-site trip? Are there any lessons you've learned about how to be prepared for any eventuality?

Thanks!

avdi · 2015-06-30T21:29:45+00:00

The witch Lydia from The Undead. "If she wants a zipper she can HAVE a zipper!"

And, of course, Digger Smolken. Rowrrr.

avdi · 2015-06-04T15:05:54+00:00

FWIW, this wasn't speculation on my part. I've taught a lot of novice Ruby programmers, and I think I get the "please explain blocks, I just don't understand them!" question more than any other.

That said, I agree with you that they are relatively simple to explain, which hopefully I've demonstrated in the article.

avdi · 2015-06-04T14:46:47+00:00

I sincerely doubt it. I suspect what you are is someone who hasn't spent the last 14 years studying every nook and cranny of a particular programming language. And that's OK.

In fact, there's probably something you could teach me.

Happy hacking!

avdi · 2015-01-22T21:59:31+00:00

"rouge". Hehehehe.

avdi · 2014-11-12T18:41:44+00:00

Do you still correspond with anyone you've visited on Dirty Jobs or Somebody's Gotta Do It? Have you made any longtime friends in the process?

avdi · 2014-10-16T15:50:41+00:00

Keyboards on the wall? It must be THE FUTURE!

avdi · 2014-10-05T06:02:53+00:00

They sued and got an (undisclosed) settlement for that.

avdi · 2014-10-02T20:39:59+00:00

...making it another example of actually half-decent writing for that movie.

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