Sunday, October 07, 2007
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Sunday, June 17, 2007
Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion.
Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion.
Nice place to read up and pass the time...
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Saturday, May 12, 2007
THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER -- Printout -- TIME
THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER -- Printout -- TIME
Cool little fiction piece from Neal Stephenson about the future of an electronic currency.
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Monday, April 09, 2007
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Saturday, March 31, 2007
WiPeer - Serverless Peer to Peer Collaboration
WiPeer - Serverless Peer to Peer Collaboration: "What is WiPeer ?
WiPeer enables sharing files directly among computers, playing multi-player games, chatting, and collaboration over both Wi-Fi and home/office networks."
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
V
VoilĂ ! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
– V's introduction to Evey
Friday, March 09, 2007
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Counter
After an extensive combat, the fight appears to be in a stalemate. All combatants are blazing in their animas, coronas in full glory. Both the abyssal and solar circles have been badly wounded, and are most probably running low on essence. Yet neither side will stand down.
Suddenly, Mateo pokes his head out from where he was hiding, beneath some rubble that had been knocked earlier. In the time it takes Naya to yell an anguished "NO!!!", already knowing the potential outcome, The Abyssal known as Stalker of Dreams and Desires smiles, and suddenly vanishes in a burst of speed. Naya still hasn't finished her single syllable when a crash of metal on metal is heard, and all that can be seen is Shiho, the circle's Night caste, standing in front of Mateo, body extended in a kick, apparently angled to an opponents chest. The heat glow from where their swords impacted is still visible, and keeps my eyes on it for the time it takes Stalker of Dreams to fly through the air, back to where he was standing, landing in a heap.
Shiho calmy says, as she sheaths her twin swords, "That is the definition of a coward."
Monday, January 01, 2007
Defense
After an extensive fight, we seem to have finally escaped, successfully rescuing Mateo. He's tired, and slightly wounded, but is alive, which is what matters. Suddenly, as we clear the courtyard, I notice red essence lines snaking through the floor, to different points of the courtyard. Knowing what's coming next, and also knowing this fight is way over Mateo's league, I yell at the others "Magma Kraken!!" as I lift my right hand, gathering essence into a disk, while I reach for Mateo with my left hand, bringing him close to me. As I pull him close, holding him, the disk slowly washes down around us, forming a crystalline dome, which is quickly put to the test as a gigantic tentacle made of magma pulls up from the ground, and tries to smash us. My barrier holds, thankfully, but I don't know how long can I hold. The look on Mateo's face, scared, gives me the resolve I need to protect him. Like I said I would all those years ago.
Cold Ground for a Summer Love
Maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic, but this is both beautiful and horribly sad...
"When we were apart, all we did was talk about how we could hold each other again when he came back," Kira said, plucking at the grass around his grave. "Now that he's back, we're only a few feet apart and I still can't hold him."
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Friday, December 22, 2006
DAVID Laserscanner
What is DAVID?
DAVID is a freeware software for laser range scanning. All you need is a PC, a camera (e.g. a webcam), a background corner, and a laser which projects a line onto the object you want to scan. So everyone can use it to scan objects without high costs; this is the big advantage over commercial solutions which are rather expensive.
DAVID has been developed by the computer scientists Dr. Simon Winkelbach and Sven Molkenstruck from the Institute for Robotics and Process Control, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. The concept has been published as a paper at the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM, Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft fĂĽr Mustererkennung) and can be downloaded here.
The object you want to scan has to be put into the corner of a room or in front of two planes with an exact angle of 90°. The camera of course has to be pointed towards the object. The special thing about our solution is that you freely hold the laser in your hand, "brushing" the laser line over the object. Meanwhile the computer automatically calculates 3D coordinates of the scanned object surface. See the screenshots to get an impression of the software.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Confrontation, Finished
I finally finished "Confrontation", a story from my latest Exalted character, a Twilight Caste Solar Exalt named Naya. I think it's a nice one. My longest single work, too. Go check it out, if you're into over-the-top combat and Exalted in general, I guess. ^_^
Confrontation, on Lemien's DeviantART page
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Monday, December 11, 2006
Confrontation, Part 1
Running through these undead is a simple affair, even without the powers i've activated. I swerve around, over, and amongst them, with the poor blokes only realizing my passing after the fact. I keep an eye on the real threat, a huge golem of a man whose's full plate armor towers over the battlefield. He holds a bow in his hand, and from what i can see, his arrows cut a wide swath of destruction, taking whole buildings down with a single one. I'm running my fastest to help my friends, swerving amongst these zombies so i can hide from that dark knight.
But then i see him slowly shift his aim a bit ahead of me, and i know i've been spotted. What his huge soulsteel weapon fires looks like a shard of darkness itself, a bolt of the purest obsidian that radiates a palpable entropy, seeking only to destroy. I watch it's approach, calculating if my current defenses are enough to protect me against this projectile. But when it's close enough for me to feel how my anima clashes against it's emanations, i know i can't risk it.
It only takes a momentary concentration to focus on my nascent energy, and to diffuse it throughout my being. As the bolt hits, in an eternal instant, my body's shadow separates into seven distinct images, and as they fade, so does my form. The projectile goes on through, vaporizing at least four ghouls and the three buildings behind, a raze at least 15 meters wide. My body reforms five meters away, still mid-stride, and completely in awe at the damage caused.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Testing Picasa Web Albums
Testing Picasa Web Albums. Feel free to visit this one. ^_^
Also, any others I set up can be seen from my web albums page here. The link can also be found at the links section on the sidebar.
Ash out.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Nonlethal Gun Makes You Wish You Were Shot with BFG - Gizmodo
Nonlethal Gun Makes You Wish You Were Shot with BFG - Gizmodo
"The ADS shoots a beam of high intensity millimeter waves, which in
plain English means if you get in the beam's way, it'll feel like
you're being dipped in lava. In fact, the pain is so intense, that the
longest any human test subject could withstand the beam was 5 seconds,
and a very small number of them walked away with redness and blisters
from the beam's intense heat."
Monday, December 04, 2006
Folding Diagrams for the Traditional Shuriken
Folding Diagrams for the Two-Piece Throwing Star (All 22 Steps)
So you can ready yourself for the intense combat tomorrow will bring... (You need some way to take down those pesky parrots, after all.)
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Friday, December 01, 2006
Performancing Test 2
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Hmm, i can blog marked text, but it eats all the end-lines.... lol
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Kotaku, the Gamer’s Guide
Hmm, i can blog marked text, but it eats all the end-lines.... lol
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Kotaku, the Gamer’s Guide
December 12006
Wii JPN Launch: Last Minute Info
Tomorrow, 400,000 Wiis hit The Land of the Rising Sun. Gizmodo Japan reports that compared to the PS3, there have been more Wii pre-orders. And thus, more people unable to get pre-orders. So it's a numbers game again, really.
For our Japan-based readers, here's the retailer run-down:
Bic Camera: Sales start first come, first served tomorrow morning at 7:00am. As previously mentioned, those with Suica cards can pre-reserve. Otherwise, head to the Ikebukuro headquarters (ahem, Jean Snow!) or Yurakucho.
Yodobashi Camera: Sales also first come, first served with stores opening at 7:00am at the Shinjuku, Akihabara and Umeda branches. I'll be at the Umeda branch. Wearing a Paul Smith scarf (Yeah, I know. My excuse: It was a present.)
Shibuya TSUTAYA: Pre-reserves only. Orders filled in two hours.
Sofmap (Den-Den Town): Likewise, pre-reserves. They apparently went quick.
Sakuraya: Tickets will be passed out from 7:30 am tomorrow morning with sales starting at 8:00 am.
Good luck all! Brian Ashcraft
Japan Retail Info For Wii GET [Gizmodo Japan]
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Performancing Test 1
Ashtear's Corner of Reality
Testing my ability to blog pages on the new Blogger Beta with Performancing.
Testing my ability to blog pages on the new Blogger Beta with Performancing.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Sony e3 2006 Press Conference in 1 minute
I dunno if it's just me, but I found this hilariously funny.
Friday, November 24, 2006
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
Ricky Martin - Tu Recuerdo (MTV Unplugged)
Beautiful song. Just beautiful.
......
Is it just me, or is he incredibly gay at a few parts in the video, mainly at the beginning, when he's presenting Mari?
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Hunny I don't like that
Definitely not safe for work, guys, so open at your own risk... Just some comedy. No porn, I swear. ^_^
Hunny I don't like that on Pornotube
Makbro's Spot
Check out my friend Makbro's new page here. Nice piece of work, although still a work in progress.
Love the girl.. ^_^
Monday, November 13, 2006
Testing Google Docs Publish
This is a sample document that I intend to use to upload to my Blogger Blog. Just testing this process...
You can try this yourself by having a Blogger blog and then typing up what you want to post at Google Docs and Spreadsheets .
Give it a try!
Ash out.
Friday, November 10, 2006
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Saturday, November 04, 2006
AJAX Translator
Nifty little web app to translate between english, spanish, italian, portugese, and german.
AJAX Translator
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
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