Elftown greens have become a different shade! *panics and runs around the streets, mumbling to herself and wearing a tinfoil hat*

This diary-entry has nothing to do with [Viking] nor [All_Most PUNK]. In other words, it was a complete waste of time. ^,^

Came across this and I quite liked it. Not sure whether it's a true story or a piece of prose, but anyway. Good text.
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The Rolling Panda Army!
[Warning. A lot of animated gifs on that page, slow connections might not likey.]

I actually think this is awesome. o.O It's also like proto-wiki-art. I know it wasn't made to be wiki art, but it's still cool. I have deep reasons for liking it, thus I'm not lame thinking it's cute or random - I just really like the effect it has, and I think it could be used to make something even awesomer.

I habe new poll. People like [Viking] should all vote.

A better diary entry now, full of thoughts and stuff.

In favour of specialisation
I've been thinking about artificial intelligence. They measure it with the Turing test, in which the test administrator talks to the AI and a person, and if the tester can't tell the difference between man and machine in a conversation, the AI is given some kind of prize (so far no one has achieved this prize). Now, I keep thinking that there are people who would probably do a lot worse than the machine, and I bet not all of them have some kind of syndrome either. In general I find the idea of drawing conclusions about the inside of people's heads based on their expressions like speech and behaviour etc... Some people are shy and don't say a lot - that doesn't mean they are dumb. Some people can't control themselves - and again not talking about people who have clinical issues.
Bleh, it's the same as happening with new media: at first TV imitated radio before it evolved into its own medium with its own strenghts, web pages are laid out like magazines or they stream video/audio (copying TV broadcast), neither of which is necessarely the streght of the computer screen. The same is happening to AI because we are expecting it to behave like humans in order to admit that it is intelligent. That is like expecting a dog to act like a horse before acknowledging that the animal could be useful. Let's leave near-random association and pleasurable discussion to humans, and let AI do what it's good at, like... play chess. o.O

Another thing I've been thinking some time now was sparked into vocalised (or at least typed) thoughts by this quote (I was reading old forum-postings):
"By rejecting the ideas, they reject the people"
I digress. I consider drinking, smoking, drug abuse, homosexuality, atheism, etc etc... to be bad, a sin. Yet I don't hold those things against individuals (or even groups): I have friends who drink, smoke, take drugs, are gay or atheist (in my line of work they are the majority). Just the same as I expect people to not hold my mistakes and weaknesses against me, but to be understanding and patient with me, or simply to ignore my problems. Good friends I expect to help me when I need help - just as I'd be ready to help a friend if they asked for help.

_{Bleh. -_- Sometimes it's too hard to remain idealistic and positive.}

If you don't read [Viking]'s diary, you missed out on something awesome. But 'cause I'm nice, here it is:
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I'm not turning into an anime freak, but this is cool:

Okay, this doens't apply to me all the way, but it made me giggle-snort..
So YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM COVENTRY WHEN:

1,You try to pronounce words with the letter ‘T’ in them and find you can’t (letter, mitigating).
2,Your Dad, Granddad, Uncle have been made redundant by a car manufacturing company.
3,Your school involved a small farm in the grounds, a castle ruin or mosque.
4,You had fights with your neighbouring schools, involving bricks, concrete slabs/anything stolen from a building site.
5,The cinema you went to as a child became a university.
6,The Colly is not a round building of ancient wonder in Rome (although you swear it has been there forever.)
7,You passed your driving test mainly because you didn’t go on the ringroad.
8,You support Coventry City Football Club because "they’re the team you can see from your bedroom window"’.
9,A big night out on the town means a choice between just 3 nightclubs.
10,You consider Shakespeare, Clive Owen, Philip Larkin to be near relatives.
11,You know your responsible for the best watch making this country has ever seen despite their being no museum to prove this.
12,You grew up thinking an apprenticeship into a car company would have you made for life!
13,You’ve visited Coventry cathedral and sketched the windows on about 5 school trips.
14,You used to go the Round Café in the centre of town with your Nan, quite possibly whilst wearing a shell suit and looking forward to a trip to the Transport Museum.
15,You know that fashion statements are divided between the Chaved (found hanging around bus shelters in the evening), the Gothic (found hanging around statues of naked ladies), the Camp (found mostly in the only gay bar in the city) and the Colly Indie look ( found loitering nervously with satchels inside the Coliseum).
6,You think words like "’barn cake" and "cob" make people sound mentally ill.
18,You get into fights- end of.
19,You’ve had to replace the horn in your car at least once.
20,You know not to travel on the number 13 bus to Willenhall at night without company, weaponry or a desire not to passively inhale cannabis.
21,If you were travelling abroad and explaining where you lived to a stranger you’d say “near London”.
22,Fishy Moore’s make the best fish and chips you’re ever tasted.
23,Chinese people like your universities (plural, cus you have two), Kosovans like your fountains and mostly Polish people like working in your hospitals.
24,You don’t like one of anything- you need three spires, two universities and 5 parks without safe lighting, however one blitz is quite enough.
25,Brummies consider you “unfriendly” just because you cringe at their accent.
26,You know a good night out by the level of smoke left to inhale off your head next morning.
27,Your Dad would not accept your lover/fiancée if they were a) a villa fan. b) were t-total, c) could not talk football/ top gear/ father ted in the garden at family parties.
28,Your frontdoor, car window, house window has been in need of a temporary card board replacement at one time.
29,The police have phoned you at 3am telling you your car is smashed up and abandoned in Stoke Aldermoor and not outside your house where you left it.
30,Your parents believe any major storyline will be covered best in the Evening Telegraph.
31,You’ve had at least one attempted mugging by a person younger than you, and laughed in their face.
32,You’ve invited cousins, partners, uni friends down for a weekend and used the phrases, “its crap”, and “there’s not much to see”.
33, You've heard there's a Coventry Castle but have no idea where it is, how it went and why Mary Queen of Scotts was there.
34, You can see the 60's did more damage to the city centre than the Germans.
35, You think the bridge outside Millenium Point looks like a giant slinky.
36, You were born at Walsgrave hospital, quite possibly in the corridor.
37, The name of the area you live in usually ends in 'Green'
38, It's obvious to you that the sports centre is shaped like an elephant
39, You know that the upstairs back seat of a bus is the only acceptable place to smoke a blunt
40, You know that the University of Warwick has nothing to do with Warwick, the place, at all
41, You've always wondered what the elephant thing was about.
42, Having a giant big top as a permanent feature of the city's architecture seems perfectly reasonable to you
43, You can visit the scariest ghettos of the UK and still be accused of coming from a rough area
44, You've always secretly wanted to put a bottle of washing up liquid in the Smithford Way fountain
45, You can give directions to The Litten Tree, Ikon, The Flying Standard, and the Social Security Office - but you've no idea where the Herbert Art Gallery is.
46, Trying to walk from Lloyds/ Earl of Mercia to city centre you've told some charity at least twice that ya don't wanna give them any money

I was feeling a bit lonely so I decided life would be more fun if I had a pet. So, I went to the pet shop and told the owner that I wanted to buy an unusual pet.

After some discussion, I finally bought a Centipede which came in a little white box to use for his house.

I took the box back home, found a good location for it, and decided I would start off by taking my new pet to the pub to have a drink.

So, I asked the centipede in the box, 'Would you like to go down The Queen's Head Pub with me and have a beer?'
But there was no answer.

This bothered me a bit, but I waited a few minutes and then asked him again, 'How about going to the pub for a drink?'
But again, there was no answer from my new friend and pet.

So, I waited a few minutes more, thinking about the situation.

I decided to ask him one more time; this time putting my face up against the centipede's house and shouting, 'Hey, in there! Would you like to go to The Queen's Head Pub and have a drink with me?'

A little voice came out of the box:
'I heard you the first time! I'm putting my f****ng shoes on.'

Commodore 64 update!
-Well, I'm poking around with the programming language, just for old ActionScript-times' sakes :P
-I found a place onine that still makes and sells C64 stuff, which is uber-cool because we could do with another joystick (we have two, but one is short and awkward and the button-press doesn't register, the other fits to the hand perfectly and is awesome but doesn't go left).
-Today we were playing and discovering, when suddenly the thing kept telling us that it can't find the diskette-drive. The cable from the main unit to the diskette-drive had been cut in half and two white wires had been added to the middle of it (by who and why, God only knows), so we took it off and my sister linked the two cable ends to each other. While she was taking some of the covering off of the little wires, she muttered "this looked much easier on TV" to which I replied "surely you mean in physics class!?" XD

Gah, the geekdom. I actually joined the ET geeks forum yesterday and read through all the old postings... It must have rubbed off on me. :P

Stuff of today:

Quoth my newest cool awesome person to know:
"We are like a collective intelligence. Without the intelligence part."
Heh <3

Then also I'd like to share a fun thing I did with my sister. We fixed our old Commodore 64! It's in my room, plugged to the tv (the legendary tv that hosted Son-Son). So far we're just re-discovering old games we used to play ages ago, but in the manuals I've noticed mention of possible visual arty -stuff too, which sounds interesting. So I'll be faffing around with that alot. :B

I wanted to share this story that [Hedda] told a long time ago somewhere (Damn I love reading old forums).

But one late night when there was only two of my friends and one other guy in the other end of the 10 rooms with computers they build a script that logged into the computers one by one and turned on the screen and made it go "beep". So it become a big wave of beeps that travelled from room to room.

The other guy came running to them and said "Was it you that did that???" ;-)

So what is a Man Thing, our special reported [ally] sheds light on the issue:

"I reckon it's a thing men have and women don't otherwise it would just be a thing."

Bring 3D Back To Our Cinemas!

Sob T_T So... beautiful...
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Then for the interest of English friends (Engelska vanner)
http://www.thelondongroup.com/exhibitions/open_exhibition_2007.html

You know I have a fixation with all things nuclear, right? Nuclear power, nuclear war, nuclear winter, nuclear waste... it all interests me. Because it's invisible and so dangerous. It's an ugly malevolent beast, and I find it beautiful. I love to read about it all. Now I've been reading Arthur Koestler's "Ghost in the machine" for a very long time, and if you know the book, it prattles on all over all possible subjects. And now, near the end, it has reached the nuclear bomb. The author paints horror images of nuclear war, saying it is only a matter of time. And I tell you, if I had the control over this nuclear power, I'd detonate it, right now. Just to make it happen. Just so it wouldn't be a war-effort that brought about the destruction of the old world. I say old world, because I'm fairly certain a new world will emerge from it all.

I also find myself agreeing more and more with F. T. Marinetti (which makes me question my sanity).
http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/manifesto.html
The fact is that the futurists had a point (with the downside that they all happened to be fascists :/)

In my degree show I had a note that read "I'm in the unfortunate position of being a futurist stuck in the future" - and now I mean it.

Today's YouTube find (you betcha it's Barenaked Ladies!)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U3hoZ9hDY_g

Now you know that I mostly hate all that yaoi-crap, but... Did you spot the hottest thing ever? (I actually paused the vid, screen dumped and saved on my network hard-drive :9)

*addment*
I love the fact that the guys in BNL aren't typically attractive men - it makes me feel happy that I love them so much even though they are very normal-looking. It's so easy to love Nirvana for example, when the lead singer is/was t3h sex.
*ish happy with this observation*

Today's ominous scene by [Viking] -quote:

"Hello little girl! Are your parents home?"

"They're in the attic. Sleeping."

"Oh, perhaps I should come by later?"

"No, they'll still be sleeping in the attic."