Life Outside PLT1

Indian tech support strikes again!

So I’ve installed the ‘F-Secure’ Antivirus software. It sucked in terms of speed and detection. Being fed up with the amount of fail, the following Email conversation between me and their tech support took place.

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Itamar is cold

Itamar is perpetually cold.
Even in the middle of summer.

Excellent Music

Aram Khachaturian - Sabre Dance

Jerry Goldsmith - Main Title (Patton)

John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Clint Mansell - Requiem for a Dream

Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

WELCOME TO AMERICA

Fuck pens. Also, resized gigantic image incoming.

Yeah yeah; here’s something i’ve been chipping away at.
Drawn in my old fixed perspective wooden doll style but hey, old habits die hard. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks because he’ll get tired. There’s more than one way to skin a cat but they’re all illegal.
Also, fuck cat and dog metaphors.

Gigantic version here:
http://www.plt1.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/template2.jpg

My new Pelikan

My latest (and 2nd to last for now) pen arrived today. It is a German made Pelikan M400 Tortoise with a Medium Nib. I picked it up from Trademe for $113 including shipping.

The M400 (like all of the Souverän Range) is a piston filler and as such holds a lot of ink. The medium nib, which writes a fine medium line, is a dry writer compared to my other pens. That been said by no means does it not lay down enough ink. The nib is smooth, the smoothest of my collection and the pen is very comfortable in my hands.

Overall I am extremely pleased with my purchase, especially I didn’t really mean to win the auction. I know  it sounds stupid but I placed my bid thinking that I would be out bid. I am now very pleased that I wasn’t!

P.S. If anyone is wanting to get into the fabulous world of fountain pens, I recomend the $45 Lamy Safari (I have an Al-Star which is the metal version).

Online Translators Suck

“Preparing for English-speaking visitors, a restaurant in China recently ran its name through an online translator, took the result, then purchased and mounted a large sign displaying the English version of their name: Translate Server Error.”

Linky

O_o Guy Java Source Code and Game

As promised here’s the source code to O_o Guy (formerly known as Noodles). The code is a mess and there’s a lot of bugs, but it’s still playable.

Commands: Up/Down/Left/Right move our hero. R restarts the level.

And how can you not love a game with art like this?

If you just want to play: Click Here

Otherwise hit read more for the source.
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