“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” First of all, this is accredited as the longest legitimate sentence in the English language that uses only one word. But what does it mean? Well, we’ll try some substitution. It uses three meanings of “buffalo”. In order of usage: Buffalo, a city in New York buffalo, […]

I recently earned the Half-life 2 achievement “zombie chopper”. The description is “Play through Ravenholm using only the Gravity Gun”. So I decided to share my expertise! The following is a list of tips that should help you get it (I did… first try :P) Know the maps Make sure you understand where you need […]

I have now had my third nerd cake in a row — a headcrab cake. A headcrab looks like and is from the beyond decent game Half-life. So, with some help from here and Garry’s Mod, some minor mishaps and a bunch of fondant, we had: and ate it and it was delicious. I put […]

I took a screenshot of every bit of ASCII from the Portal end credits. Then I copied the text by hand. Well, I spent about an 1½ hours on these: .,-:;//;:=, . :H@@@MM@M#H/.,+%;, ,/X+ +M@@M@MM%=,-%HMMM@X/, -+@MM; $M@@MH+-,;XMMMM@MMMM@+- ;@M@@M- XM@X;. -+XXXXXHHH@M@M#@/. ,%MM@@MH ,@%= .—=-=:=,. -@#@@@MX ., -%HX$$%%%+; =-./@M@M$ .;@MMMM@MM: X@/ -$MM/ .+MM@@@M$ ,@M@H: :@: . -X#@@@@- […]

Last night I watched about three meteors from the annual Geminids shower. They occur once a year from around December 7th to December 15th. This year it was December 14 11pm – December 15 1am in Sydney. The stereotype of a meteor/shower is quite different from reality. First of all, there’s only one every minute […]

NOTE: Apparently this isn’t meant to be done, as you can’t get the cube through the door. Ha Valve, been outsmarted! First, grab the cube and walk to it. Then place the cube against the bit with the hole. Jump on and next to the hole, And shoot the necessary portals to line up the laser. Proof […]

From Kyle Gabler, co-developer of World of Goo: The Human Brain Cloud: a massively Multiplayer Word Association Game! You will be shown a word. You will type what you first think of. You will be shown another word. You will type what you first think of. Ad infinitum. But it’s fun! The idea is, the […]

On Monday, 2/6/14, I decided to install Windows 8.1 (free for 8.0 users). After waiting literally an hour or two, it finished downloading and, after waiting another hour for it to restart and set up, and waiting for it to set up my account (no data was lost, if you’re concerned); was it really worth […]