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  • flOw

    This is a fantastic little game ported and improved from an original Flash version. You play a tiny micro-organism living in some kind of watery world. You swim about by tilting the ps3 controller in the direction you want to move, which is usually towards some food (ie smaller micro-organisms). As you eat more food, you grow and develop new features and can dive to deeper levels. When you hit the bottom you change into a different kind of micro-organism and start again, facing different challenges and growing in different ways. This happens a few times and then the game starts all over. It’s accompanied by an excellent ambient soundtrack which is largely controlled by what you are doing (very much like the fantastic Rez), and it has a distinctive yet calming visual style. It’s simple, relaxing and fun; It’s not very hard and it doesn’t take very long to complete. Perfect for under £4 and a few minutes of downloading.

  • Farm ore punny

    < koudelkat> He's such a boar
    < Ng> koudelkat: bee quiet, that's a terribull pun ;)
     Ng: No need to be piggish
    < Ng> pathetick ;)
    < koudelkat> I can't bear this any more :'(
     Now you've got koudelka cowed
    < cdavies> lemur alone, he's had enough.
     * koudelkat eyes lily's sheeply curves
     koudelkat: stop being so catty
    < koudelkat> I'm no pussy!
     true, you're definitely not henpecked
    < koudelkat> Don't egg me on.
    < koudelkat> Ok, we've milked this quite enough
     Chicken
    < koudelkat> :'(
    < cdavies> koudelkat: I don't think you've been gibbon enough credit.
    < koudelkat> then I shall crow in delight over the recognition
    < koudelkat> I don't mean to worm my way in though
    < cdavies> civet you've done now? You can your puns.
     ok, time to stop monkeying around
    < koudelkat> yeah, it's not cricket
    < cdavies> let me stick my proboscis in to this conversation.
     cdavies: OK, but just what is it giraffe-ter?
    < koudelkat> lilyj: nothing at all, he's lion
    < cdavies> lilyj: I can see you're a shrew-d operator.
     cdavies: No need to fawn
    < cdavies> lilyj: yes, deer.
    < koudelkat> you guys are doeps
     don't be a dik dik
     which is my favortie animal name, btw
    < cdavies> marmoset I shouldn't talk to strangers.
     cdavies: I was expecting "marmoset there'd be days like these."
    < koudelkat> she toad me the same thing!
     cdavies: it would have rammed the pun home
    < cdavies> If I can't think up a good pun soon, I may have to fall back on a meer cat joke.
     but ewe missed it
    < koudelkat> what an ass!
    < koudelkat> he should have mule'd it over more.
     cdavies: If you had responded to "he's lion" with "he's not lion, he's a meerkat" you could have even gotten a rimshot
    < cdavies> I didn't want to hog the glory.
    < koudelkat> I'm sure one of us would have swined about it
    < koudelkat> But we've no need to ham i tup
     probably not.  we're too busy putting on hares
    < koudelkat> and steaking our own claims
     steering each other in wrong directions
    < cdavies> owl come right out and say it, this coversation makes me want to shriek and run out to the barn.
     a rather mousey response
    < koudelkat> we do hawk bad puns :(
     It's getting harder to ferret them out, though
    < cdavies> maybe it's time to clam up then.
     cdavies: I think you're just being shellfish
     lilyj: it's good to see that you still have elephantitis
    < koudelkat> lilyj: you'd better krill him!
    < cdavies> don't mount him though, he's been known to humpback.
    < koudelkat> cdavies: not if she starts whaling on you
    < cdavies> yeah, squid pro quo for putting up with your puns.
    < koudelkat> cdavies: you're a sucker for them
     he wolfs them down
     damn, this conversation is just beastly
    < koudelkat> it has a tendency to dragon though...
     maybe we could sire a new one
     if everyone is done horsing around, that is...
    < koudelkat> you're such a cheetah
     you're going to have have to pony up an explanation for that accusation
    < koudelkat> that wasnt stipulated in the rider agreement
     don't try to jockey around the subject
     Your telling of tails gives me paws
    < koudelkat> lilyj: mare-ry me?
     koudelkat: am I the gorilla your dreams?
    < koudelkat> lilyj: i'm homoerectus for your man though :'(
     salamander of taste, I suppose
    < koudelkat> I'm actually newt-ral on the subject..
     I gnu you would be
    < Ng> after all this punnery there's going to have to be some lion down
    < koudelkat> yeah, they've got no sole now
    < Ng> oh my cod this is getting bat ;)
     I can't be herring this correctly
    < koudelkat> We should really put lox on our mouths
    < Ng> lilyj: there there deer, it'll be ok
     now Ng is fawning over me
     salmon should stop us
    < Ng> noo! wevil got to keep going! ;)
    < Ng> frogging and country
     Ng: I thought bad puns were your bugbear
    < koudelkat> Ng: Flea while you still can!
     Fly away
     before the bull gets any thicker
    < Ng> eel brb ;)
    < cdavies> and with that, he's herring off in to the night.
    < koudelkat> i'm just gonna tuna you guys out
    < koudelkat> I dont want us to get into a roe about this.
     Ng: We'll whlek-ome you back with open arms
     whelk-ome
    < koudelkat> lilyj: he's such an urchin
     cdavies: Yeah, he left us to flounder about on our own
    < cdavies> always musseling in on our punnage.
    < koudelkat> he crabs all the good ones :'(
    < cdavies> he's sole'd out.
     what a rat
    < koudelkat> to another orca-stra.
    < cdavies> what a cheap skate.
    < koudelkat> let's make him walk the plankton
     he'd just fish himself out
     but i suppose we could just gopher it and see what happens
    < koudelkat> that's what he went to school for
    < cdavies> I swear, he's one of the pod people.
    < koudelkat> can't trust men of that elk
    < cdavies> you moose love punnani bad.
    < koudelkat> well, i do love critter-us
    < cdavies> Oh well, I can't just yak on. Must work.
     that pun will hound me for days
    < koudelkat> i'm gonna be feline it for days
     I might even bitch about it
    < koudelkat> I've haddock with you guys, I'm gonna work.
     koudelkat: OK, simian the morning and we'll continue
    < koudelkat> lilyj: I hope we can include frogging in the agenda, I've been bad.
    < cdavies> we wouldn't have to frog you, if only you'd toad the line.
    < koudelkat> lilyj: Meat you in the morning, then.
    < Ng> cdavies: he always weasels his way out of such things
    < cdavies> Ng: Oh, I didn't know, I'm newt to this.
     cdavies: that' stoat-ally untrue
    < koudelkat> we just spent an hour on delicious puns
    < koudelkat> i didn't even notice
     it was our dogged determination that got us through
    < cdavies> that and years of squirrelling away puns.
     But we were finally able to come out of our shells
     fur what it's worth
    < cdavies> and that the audience didn't let fruit fly.
    < Ng> I'm impressed, I thought it'd die out quickly, but you all kept beavering away
     cdavies: They're just gnat like that
     of course, sometimes they can bee waspish
    < koudelkat> I canter do this anymore. :(
     koudelkat: no need to get your gallop
    < Ng> koudelkat: come bacteria tomorrow
    < Ng> and your salvation shall be found virus
    < cdavies> you shouldn't ape jesus.
     +r
    < Ng> cdavies: he won't be back until the raptor ;)
     woah, this has been going on for ages
    < Ng> kif: I'll bison time while you catch up ;)
    < Ng> then you can yak with us! ;)
     sow you say...
     * kif just bees quiet
    < cdavies> kif: I you don't think of puns, you ruminant for the rest of us.
    < cdavies> and that gets my goat.
     besides, it probably won't beetle tomorrow sometime that we decide to stop
    < koudelkat> i'm horny
     lilyj: but you've ewe-sed mouse-t of the possibilities already!
     kif: Don't be a tit :D
    < Ng> kif: so start robin other peoples' ;)
    < cdavies> that'd just be cuckoo
    < koudelkat> lilyj: she just squeeked by
     yeah, don't just try to badger us into quitting
     * kif admits to being out-foxed ):
    < Ng> lilyj: we could surely take a little fowl play? ;)
     i prefer it when you guys just paste rood lynx (;
     like lynx from hornet?
    < koudelkat> kif: that's our of sty-le
     a crime against hu-manatee
    < Ng> our ewe-nun is good though, you get days off for good bee hive here
     well, bugger that for a lark
    < Ng> lilyj: don't get antsey
    < cdavies> termite be cake later
     Ng: Yes, mallard
     * koudelkat ducks the bad puns
    < Ng> koudelkat: don't have a cow, man
    < koudelkat> Ng: well stop with insect-uous relationships with lilyj
    < Ng> koudelkat: cheeky monkey!
    < koudelkat> butt of course :D
     ok, you're boar-ing me now
     I think he's just aping you now
     * kif wonders owl this end?
    < koudelkat> kif: we'll probably all flock to the icecream place
    < Ng> koudelkat: well flamingo then!
     kif: WHenever we're out of puns to panda to the masses
     oh deer ):
    < learath> Panda Style!
     don't listen to him, he's just raven
     * kif leaves you guys to rabbit on
    < cdavies> alls whelk that ends whelk, I say.
     cdavies: I don't swallow that
    < cdavies> lilyj: I cow-tow to your superiour wisdom
     ooo, mushroomtwo.  i bet he sable to pun with us
     at least, he mite be
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     aww, heron away
     Ibex he'll be back
    < cdavies> people just flamingo-ing away away like that gets my goat.
    < cdavies> It's like they're coming the raw prawn.
     I just turn the other chick
    < cdavies> it just gets to me, I fillet deep in my heart.
     Dingo let off some steam
     no use letting it make you bittern callous
    < Ng> damn, you two are pun animals
     bullocks
    < cdavies> I've just got the gift of the crab.
     I shouldp robalby go to lunch.  I'm getting a bit peckish
    < cdavies> Ng: I think it's your tern.
    < cdavies> Once bittern, twice shy I suppose.
     yous guys are genus
    < cdavies> guillemot hold it against you.
    < cdavies> but I suppose it could become auk-ward.
     kif: enough of your barbs
     gar-na go wolf something down
    < cdavies> if you're cooking, make sure not the char anything.
     howver, albino catfish.  I can't abide catfish
     stop tigress-ing!
    < cdavies> lilyj: I trout they're edible.
     of horse they are
    < cdavies> maybe I'll cook some for you, salmon-chanted evening!
    < Ng> I hope someone is logging this for later reproduction as a short story ;)
     A Big Fish story?  or a Fairy Tail?
    < Ng> lilyj: definitely a shaggy dog story
    < Ng> cdavies: you should cook up some rat-atouille and chick peas ;)
     toad in the hole
     great, now I want ratatouille and I Don't know of any place that sells it
     maybe you could get mouse-cerpone instead?
    < Ng> ooh, I have tara-mouse-lata at home
     moose-aka
     baabaa ganoush
     * Ng had bull-ognese last night
     haha, terribull!
    < Ng> yeah, it was
    < Ng> stupid ready meals ;)
     m-eels?
     maybe I'll get some hum-mouse
     with a side of PETA...mmmm vegans
    
  • Music stuff

    I picked up the latest Hybrid album recently, called I Choose Noise. It’s outstanding, if you are a fan of Hybrid you will definitely like it. If not, go and listen to them on last.fm or something and then go buy the albums! In the process of faffing around again with music libraries and ripping CDs and rhythmbox I found myself quite irritated that I couldn’t control my music from my laptop (which I use more than my desktop these days), so I installed Music Player Daemon (mpd) and then a gnome client for it on my laptop. It rocks! The client UI could use some love, but it’s fully capable of playing music, which is what I wanted :)

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  • yay for linux devices

    BusyBox v1.00 (2006.11.07-01:40+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
    Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
    
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     WHITE RUSSIAN (RC6) -------------------------------
      * 2 oz Vodka   Mix the Vodka and Kahlua together
      * 1 oz Kahlua  over ice, then float the cream or
      * 1/2oz cream  milk on the top.
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    root@OpenWrt:~#
    

    Hurray! Embedded Linux rocks. It’s just something of a shame that I didn’t actually mean to buy this particular model of LinkSys wireless thingy. Never mind, I’m sure I’ll find a use for it :)

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