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sonjaaa @ 14:48 : Doom lives on!
Doom 4 was announced yesterday.

Doom II was the classic first-person shooter game we played in grade 10, a mix of demonic and almost Lovecraftian horror. Our school had a "computer users student organization" that would meet during lunch time, but all we did was play Doom II on the school's LAN. Up to 16 people in deathmatch! So we nicknamed it the "Doom student organization".

Many of us still play Doom II online for free using Zdaemon. I particularly enjoy the coop mode where 16 people can work together to shoot down the demons and complete a level!

Let's not forget Doom, the Roguelike for and even olderskool, rich ASCII experience!

Check out this home-made plush cacodemon!

John Romero is pretty is this picture:

lapingvino @ 23:13 : Sterk Verhaal
Sterk Verhaal: http://www.youtube.com/?v=ck5mVVwi4IE

Mia frato kunludas, pretendante ke li parolas la rusan (kion li entute ne kapablas, same kiel mi).

kvarko @ 04:23 :

A few New Zealand advertisements that amused me:	Kelkaj nov-zelandaj televid-reklamoj kiuj amuzis min:
Pink Batts: Snug State Insurance: Jeans NZI: Everyone's always stealing your stuff

Tags: new zealand, television

sonjaaa, posting in esperanto @ 23:50 : Serĉas pagperanton
Ĉu iu el vi havas konton ĉe UEA aŭ Monato, kaj havas konton ĉe PayPal?

Mi bezonas sendi pagon al iu, kiu havas kontojn ĉe UEA kaj Monato, sed mi ne havas tian. Mi povus sendi al vi al monon per PayPal unue, por ke vi tiam pagu la homon por mi ĉe la alia konto.

sonjaaa @ 15:13 : Echochrome
Another video game some of you might like...

sonjaaa @ 20:35 : Sort IMDB by rating?
I wish there were a way to sort a list like this by average user rating instead of by year, to quickly find the best bovies movies an actor was in.

sonjaaa @ 10:09 : Lesbians
Lesbians with a big L (the inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos) want lesbians with a small L (gay women around the world) to stop hijacking their word and disgracing the name of their island. The Greek government is so embarrassed by the term that it has renamed the island after its capital, Mytilini. (BBC News)

Personally, I'd be proud if my island was known worldwide because of a famous local poet. (Although, whether Sappho herself was a lesbian is also subject to debate. If not Sappho, I wonder who is the first explicitly lesbian woman recorded in history...)

sonjaaa @ 18:50 : Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 is going to be free on Steam all weekend! (nromally $30 to buy on Steam)

It's an awesome and cute cooperative 1st person shooter game that resembles rock, paper, scissors on steroids! There are also many support roles like medics and engineers if you're not the type to go pew pew pew in the front lines. Watch the trailers!

kvarko @ 07:31 :

I know that you're all expecting me to post something about the Colossal Squid (not to be confused with its smaller cousin the Giant Squid) which was caught last year in Antarctica and is now (as I type) thawing at Te Papa museum in Wellington, New Zealand (check out the live webcam!). This is the sixth specimen of a Colossal Squid ever retrieved from the ocean and the most preserved (only the second to include the stomach) and largest. The sex is still unknown (the previous specimens have all been female).	Mi scias ke vi ĉiuj atendas de mi enskribon pri la Kolosa Kalmaro (ne konfuzu ĝin kun ĝia malpli granda parenco, la giganta kalmaro -- pri ambaŭ, la angla-lingva Vikipedio havas pli bonan artikolon) kiu estis kaptita pastinjare en Antarkto kaj nun (dum mi tajpas) degelas ĉe la muzeo Te Papa en Wellington, Nov-Zelando (rigardu la retkamera-fluon!). Ĉi tiu estas la sesa ekzemplero de Kolosa Kalmaro iam ajn prenita el la maro kaj la plej bonkvalita (nur la dua kiu inkluzivas la stomakon) kaj la plej granda. La sekson oni ankoraŭ ne scias (la antaŭaj ekzempleroj ĉiuj estas inaj).
No, instead I'd like to talk about art forgery in New Zealand.	Ne, anstataŭe mi volas paroli pri art-falsado en Nov-Zelando.
( Tales of (art) interest! / Rakontoj (arte) interesaj! )

Tags: art, books, new zealand

sonjaaa @ 19:47 : High Park
While shigil came to contemplate the Japanese cherry blossoms, I made friends with the animals.

The Highland cattle are so cute and shaggy.



( Moar pictures of animals... )

(Photos are copyright Stephanie Gorecki.)

sonjaaa @ 16:58 : TTC strike
I personally support transit workers' right to strike, but like kids on the Internets would say, "ur doin it wrong". The biggest error they made was in striking with only 30 minute notice on Friday at midnight. Women and elderly people were left stranded across the city at night with no ride to come back home late Friday night. "We're serious about your safety." Suuuuuurrre.

They said that the reason they didn't give 48-hour notice was to avoid TTC staff getting abused and heckled by riders in those last two days. But guess what, now people will be 100 times more pissed off and abusive! Torontonians are pissed off and vandalizing TTC property.




I feel like walking around in the street wearing a TTC uniform to see what kind of abuse people would hurl at me. Make a documentary. ;)

More news: http://torontoist.com/2008/04/ttc_strike_resources.php

sonjaaa @ 10:24 : TTC strike news
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080426.wttc0425/BNStory/National/home

amuzulo @ 08:30 : Dvorak keyboard, morning day 2
So, now I know the home row and can touch most keys without too much thought.  In the long run, I know this will be much better on my hands and I will type faster, but in the meantime it is quite frustrating.  It is especially difficult to type German, because I have to concentrate on German at the same time.  At least with my customized layout, I can now type in English, Esperanto, German, and Spanish without changing keyboard layouts.  ...and yes this post has been typed entirely in Dvorak, mostly without looking at the keyboard!

Tags: dvorak, keyboard