Unless you’re a little yellow almost-circle you can probably sleep soundly knowing that these ghosts won’t eat you. They don’t eat any of the fruit or the little golden orbs now do they?
This one is $26.50USD.
Author: Nathan Campbell
Nathan runs St Eutychus. He loves Jesus. His wife. His daughter. His son. His other daughter. His dog. Coffee. And the Internet. He is the pastor of City South Presbyterian Church, a church in Brisbane, a graduate of Queensland Theological College (M. Div) and the Queensland University of Technology (B. Journ). He spent a significant portion of his pre-ministry-as-a-full-time-job life working in Public Relations, and now loves promoting Jesus in Brisbane and online. He can't believe how great it is that people pay him to talk and think about Jesus. If you'd like to support his writing financially you can do that by giving to his church.
T-Shirt Appreciation Day: Stop evolving
Yeah. Cop that Neanderthal man. This one is $20.95USD.
T-Shirt Appreciation Day – Love is Colourblind
I am colour blind. But I still like this shirt. $20USD.
T-Shirt Appreciation Day: Shirts and blogs
I’m calling today “T-Shirt Appreciation Day” because I have a bunch of shirts to post and “Shirt of the Day” works questionably if I’m posting more than one shirt a day…
Now, onto the show…
Buy this one for $19. It’s a hard truth, but a truth no less.
Choose your own adventure – easier with a map
I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books as a young’un. Though, being a Campbell, I was a pretty bad cheat and used to do them backwards after a couple of frustrating deaths.
Perhaps I would have made better choices had I studied the structure of the books in depth. Like this person has.
In scanning over the distribution of colors in this plot, one clear pattern is a the gradual decline in the number of endings. The earliest books (in the top row) are awash in reds and oranges, with a healthy number of ‘winning’ endings mixed in. Later cyoa books tended to favor a single ‘best’ ending (see CYOA 44 & 53).
And here’s something I did not know, and indeed it contains a life lesson for those of us who like to cheat…
The one outlier is the catastrophic ending seen in the third row from the bottom. This was a punishment page that could only be reached by cheating. Unlike most other endings in the book it does not offer to let you continue the story from a few pages back but instead calls you a cheater and leaves you with no choice but to start over from the beginning.
Apparently the books evolved to become more difficult over time. As indicated by this graph…
Read the rest of the research. It’s interesting.
Heaven-o
You wouldn’t read about it in the papers. A guy is trying to get “hello” removed from the lexicon.
The perfect mug for instant coffee drinkers
If you’re going to drink crap you might as well drink it from a toilet…
Paddle pop
Table Tennis hasn’t been a bastion of innovation. Much. The basic gameplay is essentially the same as it was when invented. Although, I was in a sports shop yesterday and I noticed the handles had a little slide out adjustable thing that is meant to change the amount of control a player can exert on the ball. Interesting. And yet the really innovative players are doing away with handles altogether…
Here it is in action…
Mail order riots
Are you sick of direct mail? I am. Not quite as sick as these guys who have produced a 16 page pamphlet to stuff into the reply paid envelopes they get sent in the mail.
Here are some samples from the brochure.
Things get a little crazy from there… but it all ends well…
Brain power
While we’re on the subject of robots… here’s a cool little piece of trivia.
A robot with a processor as smart as the human brain would require at least 10 megawatts to operate. That’s the amount of energy produced by a small hydroelectric plant. But a small group of computer scientists may have hit on a new neural supercomputer that could someday emulate the human brain’s low energy requirements of just 20 watts–barely enough to run a dim light bulb.
Robots in disguise
If ever the Decepticons do attack you can rest assured we have friendly robots everywhere that will no doubt leap to our defence. They’ll be hiding though. They’re very sneaky, and all over the place. Where you’d least expect them.
Like playing pool…
Or making pancakes…
…Playing volleyball…
They might be packing stuff in a warehouse.
Or taking out the trash…
With all these powers combined and built into a body like this one they’ll be all set to protect us from the nasty aliens.
Optimus Time
This is perhaps the coolest fancy dress costume since the last Transformers costume I posted…
Paintball Art
You have quite possibly seen this video of the Mythbusters guys painting the Mona Lisa in a blink with a paintball turret gun…
But I’m hoping you haven’t seen this rendering of Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portrait already…
And I posted this a while ago, but it’s equally impressive – though not strictly a piece of “paintball art”… in fact it’s got nothing to do with paintball. But it is the Mona Lisa.
Shirt of the Day: Pacman meets Casper
Mmm. Tasty Tasty Ghost.
And on a shirt too…
