the eyepool

“If you see the Buddha, kill the Buddha for his treasure and XP”: a t-shirt by Daniel Solis

animalstalkinginallcaps:

SUSPENDED ANIMATION, AGENT MOOREHOUSE! THE SLOWING OF THE BODY’S VITAL FUNCTIONS TO PROLONG LIFE. IN THIS CASE CHEMICALLY, USING A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INHIBITOR DELIVERED VIA THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM, ALTHOUGH IN THE PAST WE TRIED CRYOGENIC FREEZING TECHNIQUES AND INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA, AND BEFORE THAT ALCHEMICAL COMPOUNDS AND INJECTIONS OF SUBSTANCES NEVER MEANT TO EXIST, THE UNFORTUNATE RESULTS OF WHICH YOU SEE BEFORE YOU.

MISSHAPEN THOUGH I MAY NOW BE, THE MIND BEHIND THE MONSTER IS KEEN AS EVER. I HAVE SURVIVED CENTURIES, RISEN AGAIN AND AGAIN TO GATHER UNTO MYSELF EVER GREATER POWER. WITH YOUR MEDDLING YOU HAVE ONLY SUCCEEDED IN POSTPONING THE INEVITABLE. WHEN NEXT I RISE YOU WILL BE DUST, AND NOTHING WILL STAND IN THE WAY OF MY ASCENSCION.

PUT DOWN THE GUN. THE STASIS CHAMBER IS IMPERVIOUS TO DAMAGE. IT HAS SURVIVED THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA AND THE IMPACT OF BOULDERS. YOU WERE A WORTHY ADVERSARY, AGENT MOORHOUSE, BUT THERE IS NOTHING MORE YOU CAN DO. MY HENCHMEN APPROACH. RUN NOW, WHILE YOU MAY.

IF YOUR CHILDREN EVER THINK TO HAVE CHILDREN, AGENT MOOREHOUSE, ADVISE THEM AGAINST IT. IN A CENTURY THIS WHOLE PLANET SHALL BELONG TO ME.

I WILL FIND THEM, AND THEY WILL PAY FOR YOUR INTERFERENCE! I SLEEP, BUT I DO NOT FORGET!

Wondermark #796; In which a Cat is either Lost, or Gained

This is so cool! To celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Spacewar!” — the first video game ever — some people at MIT re-implemented it for an Arduino, a tiny single-board microcomputer. Originally it ran on a PDP-1, a large mainframe. In the picture above you can see that they’ve apparently hooked up a video projector to put the display on a sort-of replica of the original PDP-1 vector display unit.

Here’s what the original looked like:

(via The Gameshelf)

"There is no stack [on the PDP-1]. For programmers used to working at a C level of abstraction or higher, this was very confusing for us at first. As mentioned above, macros look like functions when you write them, but when they are processed by the MACRO compiler they all get inlined. There is no stack pointer. There are no stack frames. Everything is just one big blob of data and instructions mushed together."

Owen Macindoe, GAMBIT: Investigating the Spacewar! Source

I don’t think I can convey to a non-programmer how frightening this is. It would be like trying to go through your day with Memento-style short-term memory loss. That these 1961 MIT hackers wrote a real video game under these constraints (and many others; read the article) is amazing.

INCIDENTAL COMICS: Literary Devices

INCIDENTAL COMICS: Daydream

I have a playlist in iTunes that I’ve started turning into a real mix CD. This time it’s metal/hardcore/prog. So far it includes:

Mahavishnu Orchestra — King Crimson — Botch — Harkonen — Kylesa — Made Out Of Babies — White Hills — Dysrhythmia — Pelican — Earth — Ufomammut — Chelsea Wolfe — and more…

It might be ready in a few days. Or it might not. We’ll see.

lemon2jul:

Yamantaka

(Source: dirtyscarab, via talialina)

katie-scott:

some pattern work