I just decided to do a Google query on the string “Will russia attack the united states?” and, interestingly enough, got a couple of hits talking about how a Russian general said he had intel that the US was going to attack Iran on April 6, and that they might even use nukes to do it. That’s only 8 days away, so I was about to start digging a fallout shelter in anticipation of World War III when I noticed that the article was March 2007. Damn. So much for some excitement…
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
So yeah, I was away at CYC for the weekend. CYC is an acronym for Catholic Youth Celebration. It’s basically a 3 day event where you listen to a bunch of speakers, sing some songs, and level up your Religion skill. Or something. I’ve gone to the last three (four?) CYC events, and this was probably the most boring. It just seemed like there wasn’t nearly as much content as there was before. Though Brad Henning did show up this year, and he’s awesome.
But, there is some good news — I took my video camera with me, and got a few random interviews. One thing everyone seemed to ask me: “Is that thing on?”
I’ll have the footage up this week, hopefully.
So I just watched the first part of Zeitgeist, The Movie. And it was… interesting. Unfortunately, it was the “and people believe this shit?” kind of interesting. I’ll write up a full review later, but here’s a few things I noticed right off the bat:
They claim that A bunch of old mythological gods were supposed to have been born on the 25th of December, just like Jesus. Therefore, Jesus is a myth. Problem with that: our calender is called the Gregorian calendar. It was not put into effect until 1582. That’s less then 500 years ago, long after everyone stopped believing in Zeus, Thor, Set, Horus, whatever. To be fair, it is based on the Julian calendar, which was invented by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. However, even taking that into account, all those gods were invented long before that, meaning that those “December 25th” dates had to have been picked sometime later then 46 BC, which doesn’t give them very long to be in existence and be supposedly picked up and copied by Christians.
Another thing is that they say Horus was born of a virgin. Not quite right: “Issis had Osiris’ body returned to Egypt after his death; Set had retrieved the body of Osiris and dismembered it into 14 pieces which he scattered all over Egypt. Thus Isis went out to search for each piece which she then buried. This is why there are many tombs to Osiris. The only part she did not find in her search was the genitals of Osiris which were thrown into a river by Set. She fashioned a substitute penis after seeing the condition it was in once she had found it and proceeded to have intercourse with the dead Osiris which resulted in the conception of Horus the child.”
Kind of odd, but that means she’s not a virgin.
Anyway, a full review of the movie will come later. I’d just like to say, though: if you watch a documentary, no matter what it is, always fact check! You never know when it could be total bull.
Spent the last hour or so installing the new theme you see before you. Got it from here. Annoying work — Textpattern can be a bit difficult to work with — but rewarding, not only in that my site looks cool now, but also because I learned a bit of how Textpattern works. And knowledge is power… 
Only thing I don’t like is that it only displays one post at a time. I’ll figure out how to fix it later, I’m tired at the moment. *Yawns.*
It is, it is indeed. I’ve been working on an RPG, and I have to say that this is the farthest I’ve ever gotten with any language. And believe me, I’ve tried a lot: BASIC, Free Basic, C, C++, PHP… But I just never seemed to understand (or, as geeks say, “grok”) any of those languages. But with Python, it’s like “I can do this!”
So yeah, pretty cool.
If anyone wants to take a look at my program, I’ve uploaded it here. It’s pretty simplistic — you can fight monsters, you can buy stuff, and you can sleep. And it runs in a terminal, so don’t expect fancy graphics. 
Oh, and it’s not balanced at all.
I commented the the code up pretty well, so even if you’re just starting learning Python you should be able to figure out what’s going on. Hopefully.
I was just reading the Wikipedia article on the Columbine Massacre. It’s an interesting read — here’s an excerpt:
“At this point, several witnesses heard Harris and Klebold comment on how they no longer found a thrill in shooting their victims. Klebold was quoted to have said “Maybe we should start knifing people, that might be more fun.”“
It also mentioned something called the Harris Levels, which I’d never heard of before. Harris (one of the shooters) was apparently a Doom fan, and had created few maps for the game, collectively titled “The Harris Levels.” There were a lot of rumors that these levels depicted the Columbine Highschool, or parts thereof, but they are apparently untrue. I’m looking for the levels right now, and will post them here when I find them.
This reminded me of an idea I’d had a long time ago — make a game that involves shooting up a highshool. Highlights would include an in-game map editor, so you could remake your own school, as well as the ability to easily create custom characters, for both yourself and everyone you hate. Then you shoot them. I’d call the game “The real Harris Levels.”
And now that I’m learning Python, I actually think that I’ll be able to make a game like that (3D and everything) within a year.
I wonder what kind of publicity it’d get…
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