Saturday, January 24, 2004
Housekeeping
Added some more links on the right, specifically in the comics area. They're more or less almost all the comics I keep up with now, with a couple of dead-but-still-great ones to boot. They are...
Road Waffles - the result of putting U-Turn, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Quentin Tarantino in a blender and making a comic soup.
Mac Hall - easily one of the best drawn comics out there. Period. End.
Death World - one of the former Gateway comics, this site is the reason they never made sense in the paper. Turns out there's a little thing called continuity that kept popping up.
Elf Only Inn - one of the weirder (and funnier!) comics, this one just came back from a 4 month hiatus. It's a comic depicting the visualization of an IRC channel, complete with the AOL lamers and the roleplayers.
Cigarro and Cerveja - another former Gateway comic, this one was that "rabbit and goose" one that was actually both well written and well drawn!
8-Bit Theater - if Final Fantasy 1 had kids and they were raised by gamers, they would be the light warriors.
Queen of Wands - like Three's Company, but with more porn references.
Least I Could Do - about a ladies-killer and his roommates. More entertaining than it sounds.
Homestar Runner - if you don't know what this is, you haven't been on the Internet enough. Strong Bad's Email forever!!!!
Red Meat - twisted little strips about evil milkmen, little girls, crazy preachers and kids under the porch. All done in a 50's clipart style.
Life of Riley - just plain out there. In theory, about a bunch of gamers, but with succubi, angels and vampires thrown in for very little reason.
Megatokyo - the story about a semi-depressed guy living with his neurotic friend in Japan.
The dead ones are Force Monkeys and Floyd!. FM is one of the smaller but really well done strips that has been defunct since the middle of last year. The creators are working on another strip called The Indomitable Mr. Stick, and apparantly it's been started, but hasn't been released or launched or anything. (I know this because I'm a mod on the forums...) Floyd! is a strip that was found in Dragon magazine for a while. It's done by the superbly talented Aaron Williams who also does Nodwick and PS238, and manages to make a really cool fantasy story with pop culture references. I was also going to post a link to Warp 9 To Hell, which was a hilariously twisted comic that really just kinda vanished off the face of the earth. It's too bad, really...
I'd type more, but it hurts.
Nursing a hangover today since there was a little co-op get together at the Heart and Crown / Mother Murphy's / Black Rose / a whole crapload of bars. The place is so cool! It's like if you took a bunch of places similar to Squire's? (the one on Whytes where Berry got hammered on his birthday (the one I actually attended...)) and clumped them all together. You can go from pub to pub without going outside. Also, (in case Alex is reading) they have a whole crapload of stuff on tap, from Guiness to Stella Arnois to Boddington's, to all the other weird British beers that nobody drinks over here.
Also, I hear tell that there's brewery in Ottawa that makes beer in stubby bottles!
On chess
Because I was so bored at work (for various reasons), I was doing silly things like trying to solve chess puzzles. Without further ado, here is both a solution to the 8 Queens problem and the Knight's Tour problem that I worked out.
28|15|44|03|30|13|46|01
43|04|29|14|45|02|31|50
16|27|64|61|52|49|12|47
05|42|53|58|55|62|51|32
26|17|56|63|60|33|48|11
41|06|59|54|57|36|21|34
18|25|08|39|20|23|10|37
07|40|19|24|09|38|35|22
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The first is a way (starting at 1) to jump a knight onto every square on the chessboard without repeating a step, and the second is a way to place 8 queens on the board without any of them being able to take another. Amazing what one can come up with when deprived of stuff to do for 8 hours a day for 2 weeks.
Why can't they ever pick me for these things?
Cool experiment about drugs. Yes, I got the link from mimi smartypants' front page, but a) it's too good not to spread and b) you probably haven't cared enough to check it out already.
So old they fart dust. I wonder if GSN still shows them?
Also, not really a "link" per se, but has anyone seen this movie? I really really want to, but I still haven't found out if it's playing in Ottawa. (This town is devoid of theaters... I've found 3 so far, one second-run and one French/artsy. Makes me sad...) ¶ 10:02 a.m.
Added some more links on the right, specifically in the comics area. They're more or less almost all the comics I keep up with now, with a couple of dead-but-still-great ones to boot. They are...
Road Waffles - the result of putting U-Turn, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Quentin Tarantino in a blender and making a comic soup.
Mac Hall - easily one of the best drawn comics out there. Period. End.
Death World - one of the former Gateway comics, this site is the reason they never made sense in the paper. Turns out there's a little thing called continuity that kept popping up.
Elf Only Inn - one of the weirder (and funnier!) comics, this one just came back from a 4 month hiatus. It's a comic depicting the visualization of an IRC channel, complete with the AOL lamers and the roleplayers.
Cigarro and Cerveja - another former Gateway comic, this one was that "rabbit and goose" one that was actually both well written and well drawn!
8-Bit Theater - if Final Fantasy 1 had kids and they were raised by gamers, they would be the light warriors.
Queen of Wands - like Three's Company, but with more porn references.
Least I Could Do - about a ladies-killer and his roommates. More entertaining than it sounds.
Homestar Runner - if you don't know what this is, you haven't been on the Internet enough. Strong Bad's Email forever!!!!
Red Meat - twisted little strips about evil milkmen, little girls, crazy preachers and kids under the porch. All done in a 50's clipart style.
Life of Riley - just plain out there. In theory, about a bunch of gamers, but with succubi, angels and vampires thrown in for very little reason.
Megatokyo - the story about a semi-depressed guy living with his neurotic friend in Japan.
The dead ones are Force Monkeys and Floyd!. FM is one of the smaller but really well done strips that has been defunct since the middle of last year. The creators are working on another strip called The Indomitable Mr. Stick, and apparantly it's been started, but hasn't been released or launched or anything. (I know this because I'm a mod on the forums...) Floyd! is a strip that was found in Dragon magazine for a while. It's done by the superbly talented Aaron Williams who also does Nodwick and PS238, and manages to make a really cool fantasy story with pop culture references. I was also going to post a link to Warp 9 To Hell, which was a hilariously twisted comic that really just kinda vanished off the face of the earth. It's too bad, really...
I'd type more, but it hurts.
Nursing a hangover today since there was a little co-op get together at the Heart and Crown / Mother Murphy's / Black Rose / a whole crapload of bars. The place is so cool! It's like if you took a bunch of places similar to Squire's? (the one on Whytes where Berry got hammered on his birthday (the one I actually attended...)) and clumped them all together. You can go from pub to pub without going outside. Also, (in case Alex is reading) they have a whole crapload of stuff on tap, from Guiness to Stella Arnois to Boddington's, to all the other weird British beers that nobody drinks over here.
Also, I hear tell that there's brewery in Ottawa that makes beer in stubby bottles!
On chess
Because I was so bored at work (for various reasons), I was doing silly things like trying to solve chess puzzles. Without further ado, here is both a solution to the 8 Queens problem and the Knight's Tour problem that I worked out.
28|15|44|03|30|13|46|01
43|04|29|14|45|02|31|50
16|27|64|61|52|49|12|47
05|42|53|58|55|62|51|32
26|17|56|63|60|33|48|11
41|06|59|54|57|36|21|34
18|25|08|39|20|23|10|37
07|40|19|24|09|38|35|22
-|*|-|-|-|-|-|-
-|-|-|*|-|-|-|-
-|-|-|-|-|*|-|-
-|-|-|-|-|-|-|*
-|-|*|-|-|-|-|-
*|-|-|-|-|-|-|-
-|-|-|-|-|-|*|-
-|-|-|-|*|-|-|-
The first is a way (starting at 1) to jump a knight onto every square on the chessboard without repeating a step, and the second is a way to place 8 queens on the board without any of them being able to take another. Amazing what one can come up with when deprived of stuff to do for 8 hours a day for 2 weeks.
Why can't they ever pick me for these things?
Cool experiment about drugs. Yes, I got the link from mimi smartypants' front page, but a) it's too good not to spread and b) you probably haven't cared enough to check it out already.
So old they fart dust. I wonder if GSN still shows them?
Also, not really a "link" per se, but has anyone seen this movie? I really really want to, but I still haven't found out if it's playing in Ottawa. (This town is devoid of theaters... I've found 3 so far, one second-run and one French/artsy. Makes me sad...) ¶ 10:02 a.m.
