Yeah, i know, i know. Anyway, you can expect Lasciate speranza IV for th 11th.
May
30
But worry no more, for next week i’ll buy a new one. And i’ll update the blog. I can’t seem to post without javascript calling a .php file OVER 9000! times.
May
21
Readers:
Again with the latin?
Me:
Hmm well, i was–
Readers:
Save it. Just explain.
[i]Nulla in mundo pax sincera[/i] is a song, written by Antonio Vivaldi, which roughly translates “In the world there is no honest peace”. The lyrics are in latin:
Aria.
Nulla in mundo pax sincera
sine felle; pura et vera,
dulcis Jesu, est in te.Inter poenas et tormenta
vivit anima contenta
casti amoris sola aspe.Recitative.
Blando colore oculos mundus decepit
at occulto vulnere corda conficit;
fugiamus ridentem, vitemus sequentem,
nam delicias ostentado arte secura
vellet ludendo superare.Aria.
Spirat anguis
inter flores et colores
explicando tegit fel.
Sed occulto tactus ore
homo demens in amore
saepe lambit quasi mel.
Aria means that it is just one voice accompanied by an orchestra. Recitative is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech. Oh yeah, all songs sang in latin are awesome.
The translation for the lyrics? Of course:
Aria.
In this world there is no honest peace
free from bitterness; pure and true
peace, sweet Jesus. lies in Thee.Amidst punishment and torment
lives the contented soul,
chaste love its only hope.Recitative.
This world deceives the eye by surface charms,
but is corroded within by hidden wounds.
Let us flee him who smiles, shun him who follows us,
for by skilfully displaying its pleasures, this world
overwhelms us by deceit.Aria.
The serpent’s hiss conceals its venom,
as it uncoils itself
among blossoms and beauty.
But with a furtive touch of the lips,
a man maddened by love
will often kiss as if licking honey.
May
15
President Bush and Ex-President Clinton are WARLOCKS.
ONE DAY THEY’RE GONNA COME IN WITH THEIR PROUD LOOKS AND WE’RE GONNA CALL THE FIRES FROM THE HEAVEN AND BURN THEM RIGHT ON THE SPOT
Hehe, warlocks and fire from the heaven. WoW and GW much?
No, seriously, wtf.
Oh, and, me less than three controversy.
May
15
I was reading a recent thread and found that most of you guys think that because Halo isn’t spinning, centrifugal force is not at work on Halo. This thread will prove that wrong. Halo is spinning. It is possible to create the necessary force through nearly imperceptible rotation and still maintain Earth-like pseudo-gravitiational force observed on Halo.
Assuming ONLY CENTRIFUGAL FORCE.
Radius of Halo: 5,000,000 Meters=R
Earths Gravity: 9.8 Meters per second per second=G
Velocity of ring around center=V
√(G*R)=V
√(9.8*5,000,000)=V=7,000
Everything on Halo is moving at 7,000 meters per second around Halo’s center.
π*Diameter= Circumference
π*10,000,000 meters = 31,415,927 Meters around Halo
C/V=Time taken for Halo to make one rotation=T
T=4487.98 seconds = 1 hour 14 minuets 48 seconds for one full rotation.
Can you actually see that minute hand turning without looking really closely? No. Halo’s rotation is nearly imperceptible while still maintaining the effect of gravity on earth.
If you find any errors, post them.
May
14
Let see if it works, shall we?
[audio:CVAoS-DanceHall.mp3]
I love that song.
EDIT: It doesn’t work, then?
EDIT2: [audio:http://www.acgla.net/stuff/CVAoS-DanceHall.mp3]
EDIT3: No, it doesn’t. I’ll fix it tomorrow.
May
13
I was browsing around DownloadSquad, and found this convenient app, with which you can convert a torrent file to an standlone downloader for the file. Interesting, and useful if you want to help your less tech-savvy friends download ubuntu or some pirated stuff.
May
13
For those not in the know…well, back in the day, there was “Battlestar Galactica.” It starred Ben Cartwright and Faceman from “The A-Team” in velour spacesuits, and was not very good. Now and then, the characters uttered the word “frak” in a sort of general cursing kind of way. A few years ago, somebody decided to remake “Battlestar Galactica.” The new one stars Lt. Castillo and the lady from Dances With Wolves and it is thoroughly awesome. The writers of the new one, drawing on fond memories of the old one, naturally brought back the word “frak.” In the new one, it’s clearly the “Galactica” equivalent of fuck. They say frakking, and mother-frakker, and “Frak you!” and other stuff that makes its nature as a vulgar word completely obvious. Internet nerds have picked up on this and use the word “frak” all the time in, as Jon observes, Ain’t-it-Cool talkbacks and other thoroughly lame contexts.
Just say “fuck,” nerds. “Frak” isn’t cool, it isn’t funny, it isn’t anything but dorky as hell. Fuck is a good word, even though it’s a bad word. No, I don’t use it in polite company or when writing academic papers or anything like that. But in a casual sense, it’s a great word. Deployed with style and panache, it can be cool. Used with timing and flair, it can be funny. For example, two of the funniest moments from two of my favorite movies:
The Stranger: I like your style, Dude. Just one thing, though.
The Dude: What’s that?
The Stranger: Do you have to use so many cusswords?
The Dude: What the fuck you talking about?
The Stranger: Okay, Dude, have it your own way…
Otto: You pompous, stuck-up, fuck-face, dick-nose…
Archie: How interesting. You’re quite the vulgarian, aren’t you?
Otto: You’re the vulgarian, you fuck!
(That’s The Big Lebowski and A Fish Called Wanda, respectively for the cinematically illiterate out there.)
Maybe I’m the vulgarian, but I find the f-word funny as hell. It adds such lovely weight and emphasis to any sentence. It conveys so much with just four simple letters. It can be a noun, a verb, an adjective, an interjection…creative users can probably even make it into a conjunction or an adverb. Actors as lowly as Sly Stallone and Schwarzenegger have practically built careers on it, and actors as acclaimed as DeNiro and Pacino have used it no less often. Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Eddie Murphy practically raised its utterance to an art form. Minds as great as Carl Sagan’s have pondered it - in The Dragons of Eden, he muses on the implied “I” of the phrase, “Fuck you!”
Cole Porter once claimed that “good authors…once knew better words,” but I donno. I’ve read Chaucer, and that dude could make a sailor blush. Filthy mouth, that Chaucer. Or filthy pen, anyway.
May
12
Uhm, i’ve come into an unusual need today: to edit a PDF file. I found the best tool for this job, right here on linux:
http://getdeb.net/search.php?search_distro_id=7&keywords=pdfedit
Don’t worry, even though it is the Gutsy version, it’ll work fine in Hardy.
May
12
1st: The title. It is a quote from a fairy in an obscure book, one of my favorites.
2nd: The image. Upon realizing something about my gaming priorities i decided to play every zelda game ever made for any Nintendo console. [CD-I ZELDA WASN'T REAL. I DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE.]
WTF, you may ask? Well, i think my insanity just decided to act up today. Well, not exactly acting up, but acting as intended, you know.