Tag: mobile

Please – kill Sylar off for good (and other chatter)

So I really got in to Heroes last season, and I’m staying up-to-date (give or take 2 days) with each weeks’ episodes this season. I was so glad last season when they finally killed of Sylar. Now I’m so disappointed that he’s back. Worst. Villain. Evar! I expect he’ll be in the show the rest of the season, but I do keep hoping they’ll kill him off soon.

On a different note – I finally got a PSP last week. I bought the Star Wars pack not realizing it didn’t have a memory card (no, I didn’t read the box – thought Daxter and Star Wars boxes had the same extras except for the Family Guy UMD and which game was packed in), so now I have a game I’m not interested in and had to buy a memory stick. Bleh on that. I did just get the new PSP Castlevania today, and it feels goooood to play it. I’ve always liked the Castlevania games, but this one is a throwback to the days of my TurboGrafx and TurboDuo systems (which, by the way, I still have and which are still functional).

This one never was released in the US, but I did eventually manage to get an image off the Internet for it that worked on my (registered) Magic Engine emulator. I never played it much then, but I’m already playing it quite a bit on my PSP. It’s tough (but not Ghost n’ Goblins, Sinistar, or Ninja Gaiden tough), but there are lots of goodies and exploring to make it worth playing. It’s certainly not a dumbed down, anyone can win game like so many are these days.

[tags]Castlevania, PSP, TurboGrafx, TurboDuo, Gaming, Heroes, Useless[/tags]

Dealing with monkeys

There is a problem with monkeys in Delhi.

The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.

Now we at the Blahg don’t normally make light of the suffering of others (yes, yes we often do), but that’s got to be one hella tough story to tell when arriving in the after-life.

Experts in the area are searching for a response that will curb the monkey problem. I have an idea what NOT to do, but the so-called experts are going to try something I’d recommend not trying:

One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques.

Jeff Goldblum would disapprove in a Jurassic Park universe, I think. And as brilliance expert Bill (of DQ fame) pointed out – That has Kim Possible written all over it.

[tags]Monkeys, Bad dates, Death by monkey, I know an old lady who swallowed a fly[/tags]

Build your own Sputnik

It’s been 50 years since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, shaming the American government into taking the space race seriously. In part of a look back BBC News has a retrospective on the Sputnik launch and a guide in brief on building your own satellite.

“Technology now is way ahead of what was available in 1957, and making your own fully functional Sputnik would now be very simple indeed,” says Jan Buiting, editor of Elektor Electronics, a hobbyist magazine.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if you could build one in a container smaller than a matchbox, weighing about as much as a wristwatch. The components, including a transmitter, battery and the sensors you’d need would probably cost less than £50,” he says.

Of course, launching it into space, getting it to the right altitude to orbit, and keeping track of it might all require a bit more. However, the basics of building the device are clearly easily achieved in modern times.

[tags]Sputnik, Space race, DIY, Build your own Sputnik[/tags]