8 posts tagged “internet”

Join me on PMOG, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game!

Just by surfing the interbutts, you get experience (datapoints).  You can spend these on mines, to attack other surfers; armor, to protect yourself from mines; portals, to send people blindly to sites of your choosing; crates, so you can stash goodies for others to find; and lampposts, so you can make your own missions through the interweb, highlighting your favourite sites, exploring a topic, or whatnot, which other people can take for experience and learning new stuffz.

It's good fun, and you can play it as actively or passively as you like.  Additionally, it's all delightfully steampunk themed, so how can you go wrong?

I'm Mullenkedheim, so feel free to mark me as an acquaintance if you like, once you join. 

NOTE: If you're using Firefox 3 Beta 5, the plugin may be a bit dodgy. It works fine for me in 3b5 under Vista Ultimate, but it doesn't work under 3b5 in XP SP2.  It works perfectly in 2.0.0.14 though, and the 3b5 problems will be cleared up sooner or later, I trust.  Just a heads up, to prevent you from getting too frustrated. :}

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I recently added a tracker to my sidebar here at Vox.  It has taught me a few interesting things.
(1) I don't get too many visitors. Only 5-10/day. I think most people who read me are reading the syndicated posts in their friend page on LJ; (2) despite showing up very high in the Google searches for several terms, they're apparently terms of interest to no one but myself since none of my visitors come from there; (3) the people who DO come from search engines are looking for things I don't provide, and must be ever-so-disappointed with what they find here.

In 20 days, only two hits have been registered from a search engine. That search engine is Google Images. The first hit was on a search for "topless porn" -- they got linked to this picture. It was from a random comment I made in a post a year ago when I spent the weekend in Tokyo, tried to watch the music channel on the pay-per-view, but realized it was channel 3, and there was no button on the remote for it.

The second, which happened today, was also from GIS, and was on a search for "animal sex" -- they got linked to this picture, which was in an entry about a quite ridiculous Beat Takeshi movie.

Oh, Internet. What am I going to do with you? -_-

My internet used to be blazing fast. My TV-through-DSL (it's just like Digital CAble, functions exactly the same, only it's DSL based, not cable based) was good and clear and all my stations worked and life was good.

Then, three or four weeks ago, a few of my tv channels started to skip and stutter. I thought maybe it was just a temporary problem, so I didn't worry about it.  It went on for several days and I started to get concerned... then it spread and soon fully half my stations were fucked.  It was about a week ago that I realized my internet had also become super slow. 

How much slower? Let us gaze at the visual aid.

My internet downstream was fully 1/3rd of what it used to be.  This is unacceptable.  I tried to get tech support, but it was only available in Japanese, and had to be done from my home (as they'd want me to try to do several things [things i'd already tried to no avail]). 

Today, one of my teachers popped by to help me with tech support.  She called them up, and after much hemming and hawing and tests (power-cycling, etc.) which I'd already tried, tech support decided that maybe my modem was borked.  Over the next few days they're going to (1) check to make sure that nothing's awry at the switching office, (2) try to tweak the signal strength on my tv channels and (3) replace my modem.  Hopefully this is enough to fix my problem...

[19:11] [Jack] so, i went out shopping for hard drives, hoping i could pick one up locally and transfer my shit tonight, instead of having to wait 5-10 days for delivery
[19:12] [Jack] all the stores primarily had external drive
[19:12] [Jack] the internal drives they did have were all buffalo or io-data
[19:12] [Jack] aka, off-brand maxtors
[19:12] [Jack] the biggest they had was 320 gigs
[19:12] [Jack] and here's the kicker
[19:13] [Jack] whereas i can buy a 750gig seagate on the internet for like, $270, at these stores i can buy shitty 250gig off-brand maxtors for the same price.
[19:13] [Jack] for the $120 i can buy a 500gig drive on the internet for, I could pick up an off-brand 40gig drive at these local stores
[19:14] [Jack] so, i guess i'm buying online

[00:26] [Jack] there's a chicken on cartoon network, speaking czech
[00:29] [Jack] apparently her rooster keeled over from lack of milk
[00:30] [Jack] so the chicken had to go on a fetch quest
[00:31] [Jack] the cow needed grass, but the grass needed water, so she had to find a dam and break it down, and then the grass grew and she collected that and took it back to the cow and the cow at it and made milk and then she took the milk to the rooster and the rooster woke up and wa sike "oh, i'm better, and soooooooo mellow and czech. here, i have a berry in my mouth, come take it from me baby'
[00:31] [no_name] ..what
[00:32] [Jack] who the fuck knows man
[00:32] [Jack] czech cartoons on cartoon network need to stop
[00:32] [Jack] now there's a girl named eva with very messy hair
[00:33] [Jack] mommy and daddy were perfect together
[00:34] [Jack] then one day she daydreamed about getting it on with a famous scientist, so daddy got angry and mommy left with eva
[00:35] [Jack] then the scientist, many years later, blew something up, and he left, and mommy turned into a redhead and conveniently a helicopter appeared just then to take slutty mommy and eva away
[00:36] [Jack] then after the wedding lightning hit the helicopter and mommy and eva bailed out. they landed in the middle of a busy intersection, and the traffic cop decied to pick up on mommy
[00:36] [Jack] then, during lunch with the traffic cop, mommy took off after a sailor with eva
[00:37] [Jack] mommy's too busy being a dumb slut to brush eva's hair
[00:37] [Jack] while using a telescope, mommy saw a big buff guy at the pool, and left the sailor for him
[00:38] [Jack] soon winter came, and mommy was painting shirts, and suddenly she heard an opera singer upstairs, so she jumped cocks again
[00:39] [Jack] mommy has had like 9 hair colours by now
[00:39] [Jack] now she's just brought a painter home to the flat she shared with the opera singer
[00:39] [Jack] now they've moved in with the painter
[00:40] [Jack] and he's apparently an impressionist painter and she didn't realize that, so she's upset that she has two noses, and 5 titties in his picture
[00:40] [Jack] now she's so distraight she's just jumped off a bridge with eva in tow
[00:40] [Jack] and luckily landed on a diver
[00:40] [Jack] they got married with him in his diving helmet
[00:41] [Jack] haha
[00:41] [Jack] she never saw the diver out of his outfigt. he looked big and buff in the outfit, but was actually a tiny little wor m of a man
[00:41] [Jack] luckily a dance instructor entered just then
[00:41] [Jack] so she left with him
[00:42] [Jack] now they're dancing, and she's fallen for the drummer of the band
[00:42] [Jack] but he drums all the time and she's decided she hates the sound
[00:43] [Jack] now she's callen for the hair dresser that gave her three-coloured hair
[00:43] [Jack] and now they're about to get it on, when he puts eva out on the balcony in the cold so they can do their thing
[00:43] [Jack] and she's like
[00:43] [Jack] i just want someone to brush my hair
[00:43] [Jack] THE END.
[00:47] [tavaryn] :(
[01:06] [h1nch] u can brush my hair
[01:06] [h1nch] undress me everywhere

So, I love space.  It's really just one of those things that I really enjoy everything about, but I can't really explain why.  Anyway, there's this new site, Galaxy Zoo which allows you to indulge your love of space, and help out science at the same time.

It's all about galaxy classification: spiral (clockwise, counterclockwise), elliptical, mergers, or actually a star.  Computers can look at the pictures, but computers are pretty bad at visual pattern recognition.  This is why CAPTCHA images are so effective against bots.  It makes it difficult for a computer to look at a picture of a galaxy (which may be low-res, blurry, etc.,) and make a judgment call on what classification it is.  People, however, are awesome at visual pattern recognition; additionally, people love looking at space pictures.  Put the two together, and you get Galaxy Zoo, where you analyze pictures of galaxies and what not and classify them.  The site is new, and very popular, so it can be a little slow at times, but I'm sure it'll get things smoothed out soon.

Now it's time for a few shots that I've analyzed today.

Here's an elliptical galaxy, possible undergoing a merger.

Here's a clockwise spiral galaxy. Again, the red spot may be something far away or it may be merging

Then there's this one...

I'm a colossal nerd, and I've joined www.wakoopa.com recently.  Do any of you use it and want to be my nerdo contact?  I'm Serge, there.

Here, here's a bunch of other ways you can interact with me.  Woo.