Havard Havard Havard-Havard von Havard

French beer?!

If you knew where this channel strip lived before I bought it, you’d be jealous.

new toy

pupukachoo:

My third year film made at Cal Arts!  It follows the story of a young girl named Maddy waiting for her mother and father.

Wonderful!

seriously. hit a Ukrainian maritime station roaming the Indian ocean from my house with a meager 100 Watts into a G5RV antenna.

Ham radio is magic.

WOOHOO!

First DX via PSK31 on 40m.

Ponies?

My Little Pony cosplay is a gateway to being a Furry.

NYTimes: Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity
http://nyti.ms/HRmxWh

thebigjim:

russianpencil:

A couple weeks ago, a gentlemen named Timothy Collins called into the Vergecast podcast and sent the blogosphere into a tizzy by suggesting how Apple could increase the screen size in a new iPhone by simply elongating the screen to a 16:9 (ish) ratio, while keeping the same resolution (326 dpi)….

Good mockups of what a 4” iPhone might look like.

The iPhone is the perfect size right now, except when it comes to typing on the screen.  The only other option is to make it wider like the Galaxy devices, which are impossible to use one-handed.

Which one is better?  Neither.  Until they get a direct brain interface working, all smartphones are intolerable compromises that we couldn’t stand if Angry Birds didn’t exist.

pupukachoo:

superhiki:

think-progress:

The Tennessee Senate approved a bill that teaches students hand-holding is a “gateway sexual activity.”

Because kids grow up to have sex with their parents due to year upon years of hand holding, gotcha. Helping someone onto a ledge might lead to unprotected sex, children, and drugs. Holding a senior citizen’s hand while volunteering at a home, or even just stopping to pay them attention may lead to them and you in their ultra clean Buick. 

If only I’d known!

-______-;;;;;;;;; dammit, home state, what are you doing and why are you adding this to your list of accomplishments

so you can’t hold hands without sex

you can’t say gay

but you can cook up endless bathtubs of meth

I need to be from another state.

well, you could always claim Mississippi. now with improved access to real beer!

Was trying to remember this for the past few days.  Electronics design suite that doesn’t suck, almost as good as altium.  50% discount for hobbyist licenses.  So, $350 for the full thing.  Will need to buy this for the various upcoming projects.

What do I mean when I say, “almost as good as Altium”?  Well, the Altium Designer Custom Board Implementation suite is $5500.  If you have actually used it, you know everything else is inferior.  You know that the $5500 is a bargain, and if you were designing electronics for a living, spending that small amount of money would be a non-issue.  It’s good enough that even if you aren’t designing electronics for a living, you’ll feel guilty not paying for it even though you can’t afford it.  You will seriously consider scraping together $5500 for Altium Designer, until you realize it would wipe out your funds for actually making electronics.  You will look at the more expensive, inferior EDA suites with horror. 

DipTrace gives about 85% of the feel of Altium Designer, but without the polish.  Because it’s priced appropriately, one can overlook that it doesn’t have the ability to automate various exotic tasks that aren’t relevant to my hobbyist needs.  The fact that DipTrace has a 50% hobbyist discount on top of its already reasonable price makes it unbeatable.

(Source: jjangs, via thebigjim)

thebigjim:

This year it’s 48 entries, next year 96. $1 Million is the new $10,000 in the poker world, keeps the casual players at home.

Well, seeing as how your average wanker can go, “WOO I WANNA BE ON TEEVEE COMPETIN’ WITH THEM BIG SHAWTS, SO I GON’ MORTGAGE MUH HOUSE, MAX OUT MY CREDIT CARDS AND SELL MY KIDS’ VITAL ORGANS FOR THAT TEN THOUSAND ENTERY FEE,” they should have done this years ago.

pupukachoo:

…. *choke*

What is this?  ULTRA-CLAMP?

(Source: playingdead)

bigjim00:

The Boomstick … in the flesh.

It’s not called that because it looks like a shotgun.  They call it the Boomstick because it turns your digestive tract into one.