A little lunch break post…

Some of you may have seen the comic link to nichtlustig.de. German, yes! But now they finally put an english version online!: notfunnycartoons.com

Links to the first cartoon. So if you need to get started with it :]

Unfortunately there are far less cartoons available: 39 only compared to the 587 brilliant german ones. And of course the text is not written by the original author. Its his font but its slightly thinner that his own writing. For comparison:

german: http://www.nichtlustig.de/toondb/030306.html

english: http://www.notfunnycartoons.com/toondb/080122.html

And the color is not the same in this case.
Sorry for being so picky guys. But you could do that with a little more commitment ;]

I hope to see much more there in the future…

I always wanted to do a collection of these: Now here it is:

“Lets put a muzzle flash each gun even though there is no one shooting”

Probably cover artist face the insane demands of their bosses to add more action to it. The image is almost finished .. so what to do? ..

The game series Call of Duty is a perfect aspirant for that position: On Kotaku there was just a new cover posted :

I mean.. look: that guy seems completely relaxed. He’s just holding that gun. But BAM! There it is ^^

(more…)

Why shouldn’t I post about when adding a new link. Nice Idea huh? :]

Lifehacker.com is a real cool glog! There is almost everything I’m interested in besides 3D-Stuff, electronic music, games and demoscene and even more of topics that I really should take a deeper look into:

• handy tools for every Operating system, even online and very likely free and Open Source
• customization-stuff and scripts for all sorts of things: Browser, OS, Gadgets
• helpful Tips & Tricks & Tutorials for OS and tools
• collections and polls for “Best 5 things for …”

but even stuff like that:

• DIY (Do-It-Yourself)- and CheapAss-instructions for all kinds of things
• tips for concentration and sorting tasks (getting things done stuff)
• simple and comprehensible environment tips
• fitness for nerds

Of course there is always crappy stuff flooding in e.g. Apple-news … *yawwwn*. But you get to know things beside your everyday round and if you are not happy with anything 100% (Texteditor, Calendar, Notestool..) might be there is already an alternative discussed at lifehacker.

If I finally get to release something Autohotkey-related I’ll definitely try to get it on Lifehacker! There isn’t even a dedicated ac’tivAid-Post! OKok, it lacks a cool presentation… My ac’tivAid-Vidcast is still long time coming ;] nah it will it will..

First I gonna get melDrop going. But thats a quite Maya-kind thing. More about that another time … (hopefully soon )

Oh if you are scripting or coding you might come across those “insights”. This is of course to share my thoughts but to have a place to keep and remember this stuff as well. I mean maybe this is completely bollocks!! Comment if you you think so! :]

Ok: fall-throughs:
As I always try to cover as many cases as possible (within reason of course!) I create a lot of masseges to the user. In this style I really became sick of that huge if-else blocks that have the fall-through-message at the end. These tree like creatures:

if ($condition1)
{
    // do all this ...

    if ($condition2)
    {
        if ($condition3)
        {
            // do this too ....
        }
        else
            error "bla because of ...";
    }
    else if ($condition4)
    {
        // do other stuff ...
    }
    else
        error "bla bla blub...";
}
else
    error "bla bla bla...";

this shows the usual style one would do: But there are major drawbacks: the conditions and the error-messages are at opposite positions. And if you add a condition that might escape the whole thing you’d have to add another “scoping-level”…
Ok, now the insight: I write the escape-relevant conditions in negative style a line in the very front of the script:

if (!$condition1)
    error "because of ...";
else if (!$condition2)
    error "because of ...";
else if (!$condition3)
    error "because of ...";
else if (!$condition4)
    error "because of ...";

// now do stuff ...

With this style I have the conditions right at the error messages. The indentation is much less deep. And all the stuff that could crap up the thing is coupled at a definite place.

Ok.. this might sound like kindergarten to a real programmer but. I felt quite smart when doing so ^^

whatever now I wrote it down. So be it.

Wow, so much cool stuff today:

I just installed a fresh (obviously released yesterday) Find Toolbar Tweaks-version for Firefox 3 from Joji Ikeda. That addon is really a helper highlighting you every occurrence of your search in Firefox. It was already in Firefox 2 but it got outdated for the time being. I remember that there was an occurrence counter … maybe he adds it later.. dunno: More:

I was already digging in gmails DOM to maybe write a greasemonkey script that widens the darn message-box when reading and replying. but as I’m too dumb for that Raffles beat me to it with the userscript: Gmail Full Width 2

btw: On lifehacker – a nerdish website about customizing, tools, environment, fitness and cheapass stuff (whatta punchout combo!) – a best of the best list was just posted. “Best Digital Photo Organizer”, “Best Instant Messenger”, “Best Desktop Media Player”…. All collected over some months only voted by the users of the site. One special contestant triumphed at 3 disciplines:

Best GTD Application: Pen and Paper
Best Note-Taking Tool: Pen and Paper
Best To-Do List Manager: Pen and Paper

Okok 3 quite similar things and I don’t know whats the main difference between “GetThingsDone Application” and “To-Do List Manager” but very interesting that this made it to the tops so widely.

So go download your copy of Pen and Paper now!!

Holy Shit!!!! OK, I know where I am tonight!

Good Ol DJ Sneak plays in the Weekend Berlin! Oh I’m so exited! *grin* *jump*

I hope I can mobilize some folks. But I’d get some records from him and go alone. I surely have about 10 of his uncountable many. Some already from 1996 … DJ Sneak – The Polyester EP even from 95!! :]

Oh! this is house music!

That I may witness that!!!

In Japan 360 exclusive Tales of Vesperia just arrived in the shelves and obviously now you can’t get any Xbox 360 until the next shipment next month! Microsoft is even appologizing to the customers (see Kotaku-link^).
Of course I’m a little happy about that I’m quite a fanboy of that piece of Jet …

Now they’re even shortening the prices over there! According to german golem.de the cheap-ass arcade-version is available for 126€ (¥19,800). That even beats nintendos standard console price of ¥25,000 considerably! (Nintendos consoles always cost ¥25,000!)

360 FTW!!!1

I finally created my first Greasemonkey userscript!:
YouTube Theater Black2

And if you install it youtube looks like ->

OKOK, I didn’t do it from scratch. I’ve seen the yet a little puny but cool Better Youtube via Lifehacker. And the there included YouTube Theater. But that cuts away a little too much in my opinion. Then there is YouTube Theater Black. It already keeps the stuff but leaves it cluttered around after resizing the player and Text that is still written in black of course is no longer visible. Ok Now I just hacked this one with a little help from FireBug.:

• like the others do: enlargens the player (a little bigger in my version. you know size matters)
• like the others do: hides crap
• background black
• black text white
• places the boxes nicely far under the player
• removes the background of the searchbar

So still lots of Kudos to : Erik Nomitch (YouTube Theater) and Ivan Ivanovic (YouTube Theater Black)

Btw: The video I linked in the image: Very very funny and from Paul Fenwick! I wish all presentations would be made up like that. I wish I could do then when talking about scripting so people don’t hurt their heads no more on the table edges when dozing off.
There are other ones on his youtube page but very funny too was : SweeperBot 2000.

Hey! Long time no see!

d!o of johnandjohn.nl replyed! Hooray I may use the cool john&john-smilies to replace some of the boring wordpress ones. Now for:

• you type : ] or : )
• you type : D
• you type ; ) or ; – )
• you type 8 O or : o
• you type : p or : – P
• you type : (
• :puke: you type : puke :

Just like before but … explained! (Of course you’d have to write the key-letters together. Not like in the example with spaces.)
The wink and the mad-smiley could be a little more expressive though, but they rock as well. Fine thing: they all match my booger-color-scheme quite perfectly!

And for the ^ ^-thingy: I just hacked wordpress’ functions.php to make that a ^^ as well. For some peeps that seemed not clear enough but now I guess it should be.

Works in the comments as well… so you may give it a try. :]

Yesterday I just couldn’t get rid of this! Today I already heard it 4 times:

The youtube videos sound unfortunately isn’t as phat as the mp3. But I just got 3/4 of it. I recently heard it on flaresound and started ripping it with streamripper. But of course this only ripps if you say start ripping! But maybe I can do something about that soon… ;]

And I already found a guy at discogs selling the record here in berlin!!