http://thesnarky.com The Words of the One Who Calls Himself a Philosopher Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:23:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Due to the recent elections, and fears of a renewed Assault Weapons ban (Which actually bans a lot more than should be considered an 'assault weapon', and only semi-automatic weapons) gun parts have been getting extremely rare, leading to me still waiting on the 20" barrel I ordered over a ... http://thesnarky.com/2008/11/12/just-need-a-name/ Ok, the title lies. but I'm cleaning up my desktop, and came across a screenshot from a few days ago. It is a CAPTCHA that I, for the life of me, could only make sense of as: Six E Pi Pi. So, in this case it worked, right? The human ... http://thesnarky.com/2008/10/24/i-failed-a-turing-test/ Its been a few months since I announced I was going to try to write a PHP based Mafia game and in that time I've learned a decent amount. First off, if you want a project done, you can't be getting distracted. Since I've started Thieves Tavern I've also fallen ... http://thesnarky.com/2008/10/23/thieves-tavern-beta/ I got my motorcycle a little over 4 months ago and had a blast learning how to ride, enjoying taking the slower roads, and having a new way to clear my mind of any issues. She was a good little bike, not too underpowered, and on a warm afternoon she'd ... http://thesnarky.com/2008/10/02/the-end-of-an-era/ I nabbed a plugin to fix my borked LJ Crossposting script... mine was not behaving nicely. So this is mainly a test to see if/how it works. Test. Test 2... Big Test Now we're testing an edit, and adding in a link to the plugin's home. http://thesnarky.com/2008/09/26/new-lj-crossposting-script/ Tragically, there was another school shooting at the beginning of this week. This one was in Finland, and their second in 12 months which left 10 dead, 11 including the shooter. We can expect the cry for more gun control, both domestically, and in Finland, so I pulled out a ... http://thesnarky.com/2008/09/25/gun-control-and-musicsoftware-piracy/ As I mentioned before, I'm putting together an AR-15, and my next few posts will be the story of how its been put together. I'm also using this project to test out Picasa, so I'll use that to post my images (just as soon as it finishes scanning a few ... http://thesnarky.com/2008/09/21/lower-assembly-done/ Its been a long time since I've written anything, I've kept busy at work and at play. On the work side I'm going to look into what it will take for me to actually run Three Planets as a real company, mainly for tax purposes and my own sanity. On ... http://thesnarky.com/2008/09/10/head-first-mechanics-and-gun-smithing/ For about two weeks now I've been working on a PHP version of the game Mafia. If you don't know it, mayhaps you know the name Werewolf, or Assassin (not Assassin's Creed, like I had some people guess.... there's no way I could port that to PHP). If you're still ... http://thesnarky.com/2008/06/28/thieves-tavern-where-all-the-cool-kids-play/ A bunch of us were chatting yesterday about ICANN's new TLD policy, wherein companies can buy custom TLDs for tons of money, such as .google or .microsoft. Peter Harkins, over at push.cx, maintains that this means 'WWW' will never die. The thinking is that now we'll need a way to ... http://thesnarky.com/2008/06/27/www-your-time-is-running-out/