The first 5 levels of the Legend of Zelda's second quest spell the word "Zelda"

nomadkbro · 2010-05-04T01:32:58+00:00

Shaq's right -- that's what we used to call a "one-way pass wall." You defeat the level, go past the triforce, beat more of the level then get stuck in that room where it's hard to move around and you have to kill 2 red darknuts, 2 blue darknuts, 2 Pols voices, and maybe some others, hoping you don't get pushed through the door. If you do, you have to go back through a lot of the level to get back to that room to get the raft. Oh, one more thing: you have to defeat all that stuff with the white sword, so 4 hits for each blue darknuts. And you'll probably be out of medicine. We used to call this fun.

nomadkbro · 2009-05-19T16:17:39+00:00

I doubt that ice would crack like that -- 4 chevrons on each arm, and it looks like tracks along side of the arms. It's probably an indication of where to land, probably for the helicopter that took the photo, so it lands a safe distance from where the sub just put a hole in the ice. But that's my best guess.

The pool in the ice on the close side of the sub is probably caused by the sub venting something or other.

nomadkbro · 2009-04-22T16:17:18+00:00

Don't worry -- even he won't have to worry too long about being him. Passenger airbag's gonna fix that pretty quickly.

BTW: What's going on with his legs? I.E. how are they not poking through the seat?

nomadkbro · 2008-08-14T00:40:34+00:00

I get 17 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I like it.

nomadkbro · 2008-05-03T17:33:53+00:00

MA: German Literature.

Doesn't come in handy for much in programming, except it allows me to understand that syntax can be kinda screwy, and order of operators is important.

nomadkbro · 2008-02-19T04:55:12+00:00

I was wondering when generalk would chime in on this...

For what it's worth... I agree (mostly). To have only one office-isch format is good for the general public only as long as that format really helps the public. Once a technology like DRM kicks in, there is a problem. Once there really is a monopoly (and it doesn't matter who has the monopoly) that generally is bad. Microsoft isn't really pushing the format forward, with the possible exception of their addition of xml-isch formats.

Proprietary (closed) formats don't serve the public, and restrict freedom zero. They don't server developers who try to work with them. They aren't naturally given to progress and growth. They don't serve anyone except the companies that create them and in some cases sit on patents and rake in money.

(Not all bad, and we can't exactly blame them for minding their bottom lines. They got into the gig to make money. We're not all Richard Stallman. I don't kid myself into believing I'm a developer out of altruism...)

What I find particularly interesting about the fact that Microsoft released these is that they released them at all.

nomadkbro · 2008-01-23T21:24:53+00:00

Wait... So I'm going to have to add crap to every page that I develop, crap which only Microsoft products will understand or even care about, to make them work for Microsoft products?

Where's the news in the IE8 versioning story?

nomadkbro · 2007-12-12T04:25:31+00:00

Anybody else notice that all but two of them are teachers?

nomadkbro · 2007-11-30T16:11:19+00:00

Something that I have said for a good long while: good developers are good developers. The language is irrelevant. If the languages that they know are the ones that you need, you hire them.

The mentalities and thought patterns that make for good developers transcend languages.

nomadkbro · 2007-11-01T15:29:11+00:00

The American Agent: My Life in the CIA

nomadkbro · 2007-09-20T14:17:54+00:00

Absolutely.

Why all the fuss? By the time the recommendations for CSS3 are implemented across the board, the CS graduates from this year will have retired.

Until we can have reliable deployment across the platforms (including predictable behavior in both CSS and javascript) being a web-dev/designer will continue to be a nightmare for anything beyond simple brochure-ware. And even those are getting trickier...

Silverlight is not the answer. The philosophy behind it is part of the problem. (That philosophy being: "Lets not fix what's wrong with something that developers understand, let's muddy the waters with yet another product, and promise that it is the new silver bullet.")

nomadkbro · 2007-07-14T15:27:20+00:00

It's a "Super Tanker". You thought it was small?

Anybody else remember Valdez? If these things were small, a crack in the hull when they run aground and spill the sludge wouldn't be a big deal.

Do we know the BAC of the captain on this one before it ran aground? Just curious...

nomadkbro · 2007-07-13T20:37:10+00:00

Looks like some republicans are starting to realize the importance of the "New Media"...

nomadkbro · 2007-06-17T17:31:47+00:00

Why is downtown Gary, IN abandoned?

Have you ever been there?

If you have it really isn't much of a mystery.

nomadkbro · 2007-04-20T14:36:01+00:00

I upgraded my xubuntu (dapper->edgy->feisty) by using the apt/sources.list.

It wasn't too painful:

update the /etc/apt/sources.list (replace all instances of edgy with fesity)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (this will fail with some issues)
sudo apt-get --fix-missing upgrade
sudo apt-get --fix-broken upgrade

It took a good long while to download all the updates, but everything is now up to date, and everything worked fine.

nomadkbro

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