Write A Letter To Your Past Self

I’ll go first:

Dear year-3022 self —

When changing out the hypothermic deflector coils, there’s a point at which it will seem as if the inverse tachyon thrusters are about to fire. They’re not. There IS actually a transphasic warp conduit cascade in progress, but it won’t fire the thrusters. Don’t make the mistake that I made of decompressing the fourth tier dichromium pulse inducers — that will knock the pulse-alignment manifold out of synch with the carbon integrity filters and will take not only four days to repair, but will also set you back over 9000 credits, which will be better spent on the closeout special on replacement tetric suppression bypass rods that will never be that cheap again.

Sincerely, your year-3024 self.

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Also, Happy 32nd birthday to me ^_^ Site birthday #2 is in December =D

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Model Railroad Hobbyist Creates Working Model Train Set Small Enough To Be A Model In A Model Train Set

Imagine a model train set, with a model building of a model train hobbyist at work — on a working model model-train set in that little model building. David Smith created a 1:35,200-scale train set (no wider in total with of the set, than your pinky fingernail).

World’s Smallest Working Model Train Set Unveiled

The preview screen shows how small it is, by holding a ball-point pen next to it. It cost about 6 British Pounds (or USD $9.84) to make, and is fully working, with a little car that makes a journey around an elliptical track complete with mountain pass and painted backdrop.

This detailed photo gallery shows a few steps of the process the hobbyist went through to create the eensy set.

Professional Arm Wrestler Has One Giant Arm

I’m not sure if this is a hoax, but even if it is, it’s a pretty good one. Matthias Schlitte has one giant powerful right arm that dwarfs just about any other limb on his body. Check this monster out.

Dear Grammar Nazis: Kindly Shutter Thine Yapper

There’s a roundabout \m/. awesome .\m/ review at Salon.com, of an upcoming book about how most grammar police who correct you for improperly using “there” when it should be “they’re” get their own earful of whats-it-to-ya.

The Lexicographer’s Dilemma addresses how the idea that language, as a set and proper form in dire need of enforcement to ensure the greatest literacy quotient among the populace, is just a bunch of ballyhoo. People who think this are prescriptivists while those who believe dictionaries to be newspapers of how language has been used in the past (instead of how words must be spelled in the future) are descriptivists and how the latter bunch have the right idea for the most part.

As lovely as it would be, I doubt the author included my word for indirectly divulging one’s school of thought on this issue, to squiptipadoogleboinkaflop. I’m just glad the book is out and lays it straight ^_^

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Timewaster Flash Game: Small Worlds

It’s been a while since I posted a timewaster flash game to play, and I’m starting to think that less is really more. Much like my previous post, the music really adds an awesome dimension to this next incredibly simple game. You’re a little pixel man and move with the arrow keys and jump with the spacebar. There’s no dying or lives, no health, no enemies, and no actual instructions. You just figure it out, and it’s incredible.

Without giving any spoilers, what I was expecting at the end was at least a percent-completed score of some kind, similar to how one or two of Gameboy Advance’s Castlevania games give you a percentage of the total overhead map you’ve been able to discover. But, there’s no scoring, no speed-run stats, etc. Just a lovely conclusion to a game that lets your imagination fill in the details.

Timewaster Flash Game: Small Worlds

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Is it just me, or is one of the panda’s arms absurdly large?

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