Now I wonder if I can route VGA through unusual items. Cutlery, the railing on a staircase, swords, something like that. As long as I can find six pieces of metal of roughly equal length, it should work.
Back in 2007 or 2008 I attempted to create a CPU architecture that directly uses Brainfuck as its instruction set. I had to put it on hold before it was completed because I had a custom FPGA development board with really bad documentation but if I ever get my hands on an affordable FPGA, it will get done eventually.
I’ve created a nonogram that solves to a rickroll QR code. I had to rely on the error correction because the exact pattern didn’t result in a well-defined solution but I’ve recently learned about some more parameters that you can tweak on a QR code. So now I just need to acquire or more likely build a QR code generator that lets me manually control those parameters and an automatic nonogram solver so I don’t have to manually solve a bunch of 25x25 nonograms to confirm they have a single solution.
My plan for tonight is to start porting a 22-year-old handheld game to a ~35-year-old home console. I’ve acquired a C compiler but will probably have to learn assembly for a CPU architecture that was barely used for anything else. There is no chance to ever share the resulting game without getting sued to hell and back again.
I’ve made chainmail bikinis for a couple of friends.
Edit: One more because it might be my magnum opus. Have you ever played KJumpingCube? That doesn’t only work on grids but on arbitrary graphs. My friends and I chose a Risk board. Not a digital one. A real life physical Risk board with actual dice on every country that need to be turned by hand. A single game took us about 6-7 hours with the winning move alone taking up the last hour.
That’s just what I comes to mind at the moment. I’m sure if I spend some time thinking or digging around old hard drives, I can find more.
I’ve been working on developing a CPU architecture based around my own variant of lisp called “dollhouse lisp” the big twist is that DHlisp executes code by reducing a syntax tree, so all code is destroyed once it’s been executed. It’s a very elegant solution, but a very difficult implementation. (Especially when it comes to loops and garbage collection.)
This is excellent. This reminds me of when I couldn’t get any hard requirements or specs for a back end tool that I was tasked with making, so to spite everyone, and maybe myself, I wrote it in brainfuck. It was rock solid for years, and then I left due to management actively preventing me from furthering my career. I still wonder how long that process kept being used before someone had to look into the source to make changes.
So… how much fabric is in these chain-mail bikinis, exactly?
Because without any, they’re basically going to be see-through, right? Not that I would complain.
No fabric at all, just metal rings and a bit of string. They are far from see-through though because they are pretty dense. If you’re close enough you can see a bit of… anatomy… but it’s more on the side of a coarsly knit sweater than transparent fabric.
I think it was in Die Hard where there was a scene of the protagonist short-cruiting an alarm system with the help of flower pot water to help extend some cables?
Now I wonder if I can route VGA through unusual items. Cutlery, the railing on a staircase, swords, something like that. As long as I can find six pieces of metal of roughly equal length, it should work.
Q: So do you have any hobbies?
A: Well lately I’ve really gotten interested in routing VGA through unusual items!
Q: Ooooh, that’s so hot right now
Well… I don’t think it would be the weirdest thing I’ve done with my free time. Would probably barely rank in the top three.
I’m listening.
Let’s see:
That’s just what I comes to mind at the moment. I’m sure if I spend some time thinking or digging around old hard drives, I can find more.
I’ve been working on developing a CPU architecture based around my own variant of lisp called “dollhouse lisp” the big twist is that DHlisp executes code by reducing a syntax tree, so all code is destroyed once it’s been executed. It’s a very elegant solution, but a very difficult implementation. (Especially when it comes to loops and garbage collection.)
This is excellent. This reminds me of when I couldn’t get any hard requirements or specs for a back end tool that I was tasked with making, so to spite everyone, and maybe myself, I wrote it in brainfuck. It was rock solid for years, and then I left due to management actively preventing me from furthering my career. I still wonder how long that process kept being used before someone had to look into the source to make changes.
So… how much fabric is in these chain-mail bikinis, exactly?
Because without any, they’re basically going to be see-through, right? Not that I would complain.
No fabric at all, just metal rings and a bit of string. They are far from see-through though because they are pretty dense. If you’re close enough you can see a bit of… anatomy… but it’s more on the side of a coarsly knit sweater than transparent fabric.
I figured you’d want some fabric in those sensitive areas
If all the loops are properly closed, chainmail is actually quite comfortable.
There are worse hobbies. There’s also no shortage of items to try.
Ideas:
Through your body with nippleclamps?
I’d need a couple more volunteers to make sure all signals have the same delay.
Ugh… Fine… Let’s get started.
I once routed a SCART signal into cinch with an assortment of different paperclips. Worked perfectly fine
Probably was more robust than an actual SCART cable too!
Don’t forget to try bananas
I think it was in Die Hard where there was a scene of the protagonist short-cruiting an alarm system with the help of flower pot water to help extend some cables?