strawberry harvest

watching fable 3

(...but thinking about minecraft)

halloween update! #minecraft

"you are you kidding me with this shit, right?"

fixing the crane

chickens can't get enough of my new underwater base

He thinks he's a mouse!!

biomes!!

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1417193203/biomes-theyre-not-final-yet-but-this-is-about

http://i54.tinypic.com/fbjrex.jpg

nooooo...! #minecraft

(warning, boring story follows).

so i have a little single player world. i haven't been there there
long. i found an amazing cave a few minutes walk away from my base. i
explored it for a while and loaded up on iron and coal, carefully
marking my path so i could find my way back up. (there was some gold
there too but i hadn't made an iron pick yet).

it was getting late (irl) so I decided to go back home. got almost
to the surface when i was ambushed by a skeleton! i noobishly
had no bacon or other means to restore health and i ended up full of
arrows and dead. when i respawned it was daylight (thankfully) so i
bolted as quick as i could back to the spot to get my loot before it
disappeared.

but i couldn't find the entrance! it was kind of hard to see; just a
flat hole in grass and i hadn't had the sense to mark it. eventually i
found it but it was too late and all my stuff was gone. this includes
a heap of glass that i had made and all my torches, my tools, my wood,
some flint. everything. :(

(the end)

holy crap (kyü)

Watch KYU and other great gigs on Moshcam.

this could be an amazing new band: kyü

listen to pixiphony on their myspace. kind of
bat-for-lashes-vs-animal-collective-y:
http://www.myspace.com/kyusounds
friday show in brisbane:
http://tickets.oztix.com.au/?Event=17821
itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/kyu/id391988362
(i will let you know if the hype is justified)

a sweet minecrafter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUGbhGF4SlA

Moon

Sweet Lego

Scruffy

Mandelbrot's Ted Talk, Feb 2010

http://www.ted.com/talks/benoit_mandelbrot_fractals_the_art_of_roughness.html

Benoît Mandelbrot (1924 - 2010)

ob mandelbrot video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxbhdr3w2I

the photo parts are a little tacky LAME but i like the way there is zooming, panning and rotation (instead of just the traditional endless zoom)

more...

minecraft

i might try to explain to you how amazing this game is. but not now. now it's just these links, (which don't really explain it either):

a fan's attempt at a trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaMTedT6P0I

train ride

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asImTDkPWKA

crafting guide

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting

sc_791

http://www.doublefine.com/comics/Scott_C/dfac_791/

fremnet manor by night

my first ever diamond

fremnet help me shore it up so i could mine it without the diamond falling into lava

beginning_of_fortnight method for Ruby on Rails

You might know that Rails provides a bunch of useful extensions to the Time class with methods like beginning_of_week, beginning_of_month, etc.

For my application (a thing with fortnightly billing periods) I wanted to define a beginning of fortnight method to consistently calculate the beginning (and end) of a fortnight. Here's how it ended up (both short and sweet):

	#
	# Extend ActiveSupport to provide a beginning_of_fortnight and an
	# end_of_fortnight method for the Time class
	#
	module ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Calculations
	#
	# How many weeks since the beginning_of_week before unix time zero
	#
	def weeks_after_epoch
	((self - ::Time.at(0).beginning_of_week) / 1.week).to_i
	end
	#
	# The beginning of the current fortnight
	#
	# The choice of which week should begin a fortnight is arbitrary
	# If you want to flip it then change even? to odd? below
	#
	def beginning_of_fortnight
	# If there's been an even number of weeks since epoch use beginning of this week
	# If there's been an odd number of weeks since epoch use the beginning of last week
	(weeks_after_epoch.even? ? self : self - 1.week).beginning_of_week
	end
	#
	# The end of the current fortnight
	#
	def end_of_fortnight
	(beginning_of_fortnight + 13.days).end_of_day
	end
	end

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(Note that there's no special reason to use epoch. Any other day would work just as well probably).

Does it work?

	[Development]>> puts Time.now; (-5..5).each { |w| t = Time.now + w.weeks; puts "now and #{'%2d'%w} weeks: #{t.beginning_of_fortnight} - #{t.end_of_fortnight}" }; nil
	Wed Oct 06 16:29:52 +1000 2010
	now and -5 weeks: Mon Aug 30 00:00:00 +1000 2010 - Sun Sep 12 23:59:59 +1000 2010
	now and -4 weeks: Mon Aug 30 00:00:00 +1000 2010 - Sun Sep 12 23:59:59 +1000 2010
	now and -3 weeks: Mon Sep 13 00:00:00 +1000 2010 - Sun Sep 26 23:59:59 +1000 2010
	now and -2 weeks: Mon Sep 13 00:00:00 +1000 2010 - Sun Sep 26 23:59:59 +1000 2010
	now and -1 weeks: Mon Sep 27 00:00:00 +1000 2010 - Sun Oct 10 23:59:59 +1000 2010
	now and 0 weeks: Mon Sep 27 00:00:00 +1000 2010 - Sun Oct 10 23:59:59 +1000 2010
	now and 1 weeks: Mon Oct 11 00:00:00 +1000 2010 - Sun Oct 24 23:59:59 +1000 2010
	now and 2 weeks: Mon Oct 11 00:00:00 +1000 2010 - Sun Oct 24 23:59:59 +1000 2010
	now and 3 weeks: Mon Oct 25 00:00:00 +1000 2010 - Sun Nov 07 23:59:59 +1000 2010
	now and 4 weeks: Mon Oct 25 00:00:00 +1000 2010 - Sun Nov 07 23:59:59 +1000 2010
	now and 5 weeks: Mon Nov 08 00:00:00 +1000 2010 - Sun Nov 21 23:59:59 +1000 2010
	=> nil

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Put beginning_of_fortnight.rb in config/initializers.

Note that there is already a Numeric#fortnights method in ActiveSupport so we can use things like 2.fortnights without needing any extentions.

sleigh bells!

tell 'em (track 1)

never has a song intro more effectively communicated the message "WAKE THE EFF UP AND LISTEN TO THIS! :)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJ05P-71gY

riot rhythm (track 3)

mad chromatic gee-tar riff ftw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ld-0na1mpI

rill rill (track 7)

delicious summery chill-out without even trying

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLRnmQ-4Yp0

and the rest of it is as good

check it out

Sleigh Bells

Treats (2010)

(Content owner: Liberation Music)

Sunset

night 4 (minecraft)

My cave hideout has a top storey lookout and a walled courtyard.

Pic 1: "everything under control here. stupid exploder below me isn't going anywhere. stupid zombie at the back is just roaming up and down outside my wall.

Pic 2: HOLY WHAT THE.. ZOMBIE CLIMBING UP TO GET ME..?!  AIIEEEE..

Then I think it started shooting me with arrows.