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The Merge V1.0 Mac OS X Screensaver

19th May 2009 | | Direct Link

"Thought processes from brain waves interacting and overruling each other."

Or it's just wavy blocks moving and changing colour. Either way, it looks pretty.

Screen Saver Size: 60KB
Zip Size: 16KB

Click to Download The Merge.

Update: This screen saver has been given a Apple Staff Pick on the apple.com downloads site, which I'm delighted with.

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Five days ago | | Direct Link

This week I have a hangover, the last hangover I had was about 3 years ago so as you can image I feel quite ill.
Spinning room, throwing up then re-swalling it again, banging head, the usual hangover symptoms. Of course it's someone else's fault entirely, plus that last pint was off. In fact it might not be the alcohol at all it might be the Balti that's having a bad effect or me.
Come to think about it I hardly drank anything so it really is a mystery.

One thing on my mind (other than dehydration) today is the bad press Button is getting for going to McLaren. If I was in his position I would go to McLaren, Brawn (or whatever they will now be called) won't win next season, I think everyone can agree on that. And he is the current champion, so why wouldn't he move.

Some even say he will be second fiddle to Hamilton, maybe, but I think he will surprise quite a few people. Not saying he will beat Hamilton but I think it will be closer than expected. I'll stop ranting now :)

1. Brilliant Billboards - Now many of these people will have already come across, but some are new to me, and worthy of a post, I especially like Number 23. Number 27 would have me in a panic every time I saw it.

2. R2D2 in Star Trek

3. Snowmen Warning rudeness.

4. I have no comment on this other than it's Fryer fault :)


5. Let the Bass Kick In Miami Girl


6. Long Shot - I especially like the end part fighting in this, nicely done.


7. A shiny new penny to the first person who can manage to balance the coins.

8. '....which cannot fall out due to the special structure', i'll have to see about that.

9. Jokes
Someone sneaked a spoon into work today,
It caused quite a stir.

In my evening pottery class, the teacher gave us all a lump of clay and asked us to replicate a part of an animal. I made a right pig's ear out of it.

I asked a french bloke if he played video games.
He said Wii.

10. I have been on the lookout for a bookshelf for ages and whilst we sort of have an idea for one I want something really cool, This wouldn't really fit anywhere, but is very cool

Well i'm off for a tablet or two of pain relief.

12th Nov 2009 | | Direct Link

I read this in a few places, and it's quite the scary thought, first off on an average day apparently your hand(s) will come into contact with 15 penises*, you will breath 1 litre of other peoples arse gas, annually you will shake with 6 men (or 11 women) who have recently masturbated (and failed to wash their hands).

Furthermore at the next wedding reception you attend be aware you have a 1 in 100 chance of getting a cold sore from a guest (Sorry Jamie).
And finally during an hour of swimming** you will have ingested over half a litre of urine.

The ones paying more attention to all this will still be standing back in amazment that women masturbate more than men. Sorry that isn't true, I believe it means less women wash their hands after a shufty.

We'll start this week with one of my favs.
Wasted

Luckiest - This story gave me the shivvers.

Facebook Mistakes

cleverbot

Top US TV Earners

Effective and Easy, pity they don't do this cool kind of stuff in the UK.
Piano Stairs

How to eat chicken Wings


ONLY watch this if you can spare a few hetero cells.


Clash of the Titans (2010) All together now: Noooooooooooooooooooooo

Every man and his dog has an iphone now, which says something, what I'm not sure, but it says something. Anyone, being no different to every other website I have put my list of iphone apps, or more correctly, Apps you may want to look into.

I'll link these if I get the time***.

Facebook - Free
TUAQ - FREE (The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Sky Sports Live Football Score Centre - Free
AroundMe - Free
Wikipanion - Free
GunApp - Free
TVGuide - Free
Tower Madness Zero: 3D Tower Defense - Free
NASA app for iPhone - Free
TapWord - Free
Ebay - Free

Optional
Rightmove App - Free
Twitterrific - Free

Payed For (yes you read that correctly)
Crazy Penguin Catapult 2
Virtual Pool Online
Zombie Nombie
Flight Control


Well I'm off to reasearch Sam Fox in readiness for I'm A Celebrity......

* Off Door handles
** In Municipal Baths
*** Not Going to Happen Is It.

5th Nov 2009 | | Direct Link

I have a confession to make, and I hope no-one things any less of me.
It all started about a month ago when I was given a Skeleton to put together out of wood for one of my lads (who expressed an interest in knowing what all the bones on a model are whilst in a hospital ward, the nurses sat and told him about them all apparently).
Anyway, assembling this (difficult) skeleton required me to apply glue to certain parts to stop it collapsing (or being poked by the kids).
Where to get glue from, "AHA" I thought, I know just the place, off I trot, with kids, but minus wife to the nearest Games Workshop to get some glue ideal for the task.

Mistake Number one.

It's been (confession part) a looooooooong time since I've ever looked at the tabletop fantasy games so I was a bit dubious when the guy serving me asked if I wanted a game (I kid you not).
I thought the kids might enjoy it so partook.
The crowds gathered around and we began to play, well he played, I played and tried to stop two kids from stealing, crushing and breaking everything in site.

I had forgotten more than I knew but the nice guy ran me through the rules (which was good for all the spectators, by now 10 people, to learn the game and give their input as well) through with me as we went along.

Well twenty minutes of a speeded bespoke version (at least it seemed that way) later and two broken miniatures later by the kids it turns out I was the winner, to much applause and adoration from the watching crowd.

Man I felt like a million bucks whilst leaving the shop, that was until I worked out in between a group of kids whereas the words 'nerd' were quite audible.

Just glad I didn't retaliate with "But I won".


1. Tetris AI - Certainly gave me a headache!
Just a quick question does anyone know where I can get an arcade machine of Tetris that actually paid out money when you got to higher levels, I'm sure one exists.

2. So Cool. (but pointless)


3. Floaters - I suffer from these (as I write this 5 are in my field of visiion) and they are not what you think, dirty mind.

4. Shotgun

5. As I'm soon to produce and direct a movie (don't ask) I've started to notice certain aspects of videos that catch my attention (ok things I can steal), this is just nicely done.


6. I heard that you are feeling ill.....

Eh Batta Batta


7. Super Cool password Confirmation
Now, obviously you don't have to submit this, but this is possibly the best and easiest way to visually check that your 'confirm' password is the same as the password field.
Confirm Password - You just know this is going to turn up on something I do in the next 6 months.

8. Warhammer - How did this get in, please ignore, nothing to see.

9. Now this is horrible, especially if your a parent, but I wish I had been able to sit down and watch these things before I had kids to get me used to the predicaments and scrapes they get into.


10. Little Boots



11. Joking
How can you tell a maths student from other girls sunbathing on the beach?
Look for the tan line...

I just had someone trick or treat my house dressed as a postman.
Trust them to be two days late.


Well i'm off to sign up for an Open Uni Degree :)

2nd Nov 2009 | | Direct Link

This was just me having a look at the GL_POLY part of OpenGL.

Pointy Screensaver (20KB Download, screensaver 106KB)

Just something I was playing with to get to grips with. I have found however I am now quite fond of this screensaver when the computer is idle.
I don't have any intention of putting this on the Apple Downloads site as it's really lacking a bit more functionality (directions etc) and is basically just part of the TetronimoesX screensaver.

It may have a few bugs, just let me know, oh and the angle of the Points is slightly off, this is on purpose to give them a bit more depth.

Anyway, someone might like it it is after all straight to the point (sorry).

29th Oct 2009 | | Direct Link

As most people know me my mind can ping things into existence that are quite strange (try living with an over-active imagination, it can be a challenge).

One such thing this week is Pulp Fiction (The Movie). Why are those guys eating a burger for breakfast from Big Kahuna Burger when most burger places don't sell burgers until a specific time (let alone open). (Email Schlotts@opanoid.com if you have an explanation.
Other things that are popping into my head (and scaring me) are movies that are now officially 'old'. This is depressing and makes me feel like and old man.
The Abyss - 20 years old
Heathers - 20 years old
The Karate Kid - 25 years old
A Nightmare of Elm Street - 25 years old
Alien - 30 Years Old
Monty Python's Life of Brian - 30 Years old
Blazing Saddles - 35 Years Old
MASH - 39 Years Old
The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ 24 Years Old

And the third thing was at a early morning meeting.
Whilst sitting their listen to people talk about their company I started to daydream into a scenario (which is common for me). I still here and take in what is being said but I imagine things happening or about to happen in and around the room. This time in came Special Forces smashing through all the windows at the same time and holding everyone at gun point.
Except me. No I had a bomb strapped to my ankle that had been put their by someone to kill everyone in the room, but someone in the room was responsible for this bomb hence the special forces holding them all at gun point (it was quite cool the entrance I can tell you).

Anyway Long scenario short I managed to torture the culprit until he told me the combination.

The guys presentation was quite good despite all these distractions.

(Number 1, Just Before 2)
Hot Dog

Yup, They Might Be Giants Again :)

(Number 2, Just After 1, But Before 3)
Stan Lee Interview

Number (3, Way After 1, Right After 2, But Before 4)
Black and White in Colour
Nicely done.

(Number 4, Way Way After 1, Way After 2, Right After 3, Just in Front of 5)
Upside Down Dogs

(Number 5, Can Hardly See 1, Way Way After 2, Way After 3, Right After 4, Just in Front of 6).
Dont look down
Yup, my legs went twice looking at these, worst one, the dog on the edge of the cliff strangely.

(Number 6, Can't See 1, Can Hardly See 2, Way Way After 3, Way After 4, Right After 5, Just in Front of 7)
If you don't laugh at this, your missing a part of your brain.


(Number 7, Where is 1, Can't See 2, Can Hardly See 3, Way Way After 4, Way After 5, Right After 6, Just in Front of 8)
Jokes
Definition of pressure:
A wife, a mistress and a mortgage.
All one month late

Today my doctor told me I was constipated.
I couldn't give a sh1t.

I'm doing community service at a funfair but today I stole a wobbly mirror.
I just hope it doesn't reflect badly on me.

Why did the chicken hold a seance?

(Number 8, 1 Is a Gone, Where is 2, Can't See 3, Can Hardly See 4, Way Way After 5, Way After 6, Right After 7, Just in Front of 9)
Photo Manipulation. Some very nice professional stuff here.

(Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number9)
Music - This has widely been regarded as Claire's Favorite Song in the World Ever. Or the one that she seems to hear all the time on Radio 1 and Hates it, I forget which.

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Sod All has happened to since last week, which is odd, usually something happens to me that is either amusing or just downright odd, oh no wait, just remembered someone farted in my face, just remembered that.
I dropped a load of slips at a meeting on the floor and as everyone bent down to pick them up the woman in front (facing away) bent down and farted (loudly) right in my face as I was also bent down.

Come to think of it I've never been face-farted (copyright opanoid.com) before by a woman, males yes as part of a joke, but woman no.
Nothing like a sprouty (See if is a word, but I use it to mean something else!) fart to put you off someone.

Bringing forth the List.

Splurgg - Darth Vaders Armor
Splurgg and Mooog - 6 Things your body does that can't be explained.
Mooog and a Tartch - Pixar The Truth
Tartch and a Feloi - Deja Vu
Feloi and a Nistrab - Ikea Hacker
Nistrab and a Togarth - Singing in a Shop is baaaad
Togarth and a Dimbrel - High Fives, I really want to try the escalator one.


Been waiting for this song to have a video and had feared it would have no embed option, but I must give it to Paolo Nutini for letting the video be embedded (others take note!).
Paolo Nutini - Pencil Full of Lead


Very very good video, at least I think it is. But then what do I know, well more than some people but less than other people. A little bit more than him but slightly less than him. Anyway, watch it and make your own schizo mind up*.


Well I'm off to cheer up the Brawn GP Team.

* Sorry if your Schizo this is meant as a joke.
No it isn't.
yes it is.

15th Oct 2009 | | Direct Link

Had a business challenge today. Didn't do great myself as I hurt my back yesterday playing football and felt I could't give my normal 110%, but we won something for a particular game for fastest time and one of our team won for best shooting (100% which was amazing) so all in all it wasn't too bad.

We had a quiz to fill out through the day, and the cool thing is we were encouraged to use our phone to get the answers (100 questions, half the questions were half way up a climbing wall that had to be read out by climbers, suffice to say I didn't climb, but I did go down a zip wire twice :).

So I was looking up a particular answer to a phobia question and typed it into a wiki app on my iphone. Second option comes up with a title and brief description. The answer I was looking for was in the description so no need to go to the wiki article.
I hand the phone over to the guy and girl next to me who are writing down the answers for them to look at it feeling another one answered and we can move onto the next.

However they both just look up at me a bit bemused.
It seems the correct answer was the second option, but the first option that popped up was Homophobia.

Did I mention they were both gay. Luckily they were able to see the funny side, phew!

Listing Listing forever Listing.

1. Always wanted to know what an Aggie was - Now I know.
2. Just remember, your partner is out their somewhere. You just have to be lucky like these two.
3. This is a bit more for the US audience, but I thought it was an excellent idea (the UK have a minimum 5 quid spend for free shipping I believe).
Free Amazon Shipping
4. Beers, Boobs - MANswers

5. Not sure if this is a good thing to post or not, PlaySEGA is exactly that, SEGA games to play online.
6. Need some Motivation?
7. Strange video I've seen this week definitely goes to this, the third one (the woman) actually freaks me out a bit:

8. End on a song - Chipmunk - Oopsy Daisy


Well i'm off to tell people to get their Post out earlier rather than later.