When I was younger I hated the summer; it was too hot, I’d sweat profusely and feel uncomfortable the entire time.
This summer right now, I’ve been walking an hour a day for the last eight months, half an hour to work and half an hour back. And that’s not much, there could be more, but I’m now enjoying the heat.
I bake and sweat, feel my brain sizzling, but in the nicest possible way.
For the first time in years I’m no longer pasty; the sun stretches me tight.
Here are the lyrics, as best as I can work them out, for the final song in Act I of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog:
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P: Thank you Hammer Man, I don’t think I can
P: Explain how important it was that you stopped the van
D: CRUNCH
P: I would be splattered, I’d be crushed under debris
D: CRUNCH
P: Thank you sir for saving me
H: Don’t worry about it, a man’s gotta do what a
H: Man’s gotta do
P: You came from above
D: Are you kidding?
H: (It) seems destiny
H: Holds for me saving you
D: What heist were you watching?
P: I wonder what you’re captain of
D: Stop looking at her like that
H: When you’re the best
H: You can’t rest, what’s the use?
D: Did you notice that he threw you in the garbage?
P: My heart is beating like a drum
H: There’s ass needs kicking, some ticking bomb to defuse
D: I stopped the van
D: The remote control was in my hand
P: (I) must be in shock
H: So the doom that’s looming
P: Assuming I’m not
H: Is you loving me to death
P: Loving you to death
D: Whatever…
H: So please give me a sec to catch my breath
P: So please give me a sec to catch my breath
D: Balls
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With thanks to Its_Only_Cody, ftloosenfanzfree and kindakrazy on the IMDb message board.
PS – Go watch this thing, it is pretty good.
PPS – A better source of lyrics for future acts will probably be this thread at whedonesque.org.
For the last year or so I’ve been using Connect360 to stream video from my MacBook, whenever I wanted to watch it on the big screen via either Mike or Kitty’s Xbox 360s.
However, I keep all my films and TV shows on a 500GB external hard drive, that has both FireWire and USB 2.0 ports:
Back when I was tiny, I had an alarm clock next to my bed that had glowing red numbers and a radio built in too. Then, for many years, I did not.
Now it kind of almost returns!
As a delayed present from one of my sisters, I got the LEGO X-wing using the gift voucher she gave me for Christmas. It is a mighty set, doing all the kinds of things I tried to do in my own various interpretations of the craft, both when I was younger and even more recently.
This brings my total number of LEGO bricks to 13,301, with 7,925 in whole sets and 5,376 as loose parts.
Regarding my next big LEGO project, that I alluded to when writing of the Gay Deceiver, it shall be a LEGO-man-scale version of the Belafonte from The Life Aquatic.
Today, 12th March 2008, there are approximately 6,793,052,354 people alive right now.
According to ‘How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?’ by Carl Haub, in mid-2002, there were 6,215,000,000 people alive and the total number of people ever born was 106,456,367,669.
Assuming the total number of people alive doubles every 50 years, as Isaac Asimov supposed in 1991, then in 800 years time there will be as many people alive as there had ever existed up to mid-2002.
Which is to say, if the human population continues growing at the current rate, by the year 2800 there will be over 100 billion people alive.
I tried to work out the method to determine:
1 – How long it would be until the number of people living was exactly half that of those who had ever been born (which is to say, the same number as all those who had died up to that point).
And:
2 – How long it would take for there to be more people alive than had ever lived.
But my brain does not know how, at least not right now.
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I first read Asimov’s ‘The Power of Progression’ years ago, but it was Ellis’ musings and the bizzare “answers” to this question on Yahoo! that prompted me to write this.
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The short answer; no, there are not more people alive today than have ever died. We make up about 5.8% of all those ever born.
This Saturday just gone, I played Carcassonne with some friends and made a time-lapse video of our game, as we had discussed the week before:
( Time Lapse Carcassonne (YouTube, 18 seconds )
If you like, you can also download a much higher quality version:
( Time Lapse Carcassonne (5.44MB QuickTime Movie) )
2 hours and 45 minutes compressed into a little over 18 seconds? Hoo-hah.
In researching my next big LEGO project, I remembered the Serenity model I saw a while ago and so looked around a bit more on that website. In doing so, I came across a model very much like one I would build myself, a spaceship based on the Gay Deceiver from Robert Heinlein’s books.
In a kind of follow-up to my Resident Evil 4: Good Guy post from over a year ago, I show proof that I really do like this game too much: