My cat Buster brought a friend with him home today

Ain’t it fun when the fridge contains a big waterpool, everything is soaking wet and the ice-compartment is covered in ice when it’s not supposed to… At least this gives me something to do (aside from my summerschool studies with Python and all other programmering I do for fun, yaaay……)!

Defrosting...

Well well, one can also use the time to make some nice food for oneself, anyone up for some kebab in pita bread?

Kebab and pita bread

Went with my mom to Nossebro, lots and lots of people everywhere… Nice weather

Nossebro

Back from a short LAN-party in Fly. Kinda akward that they host a LAN in the basement of their church…

Was a while since I last attended a LAN-party, thank god (right place for that, hehehehe…) for that! Definitely not healthy… At least I gave them a big can of whoopass

I’m more comfortable with being home, siting outside in the sun and doing some coding for Anrop.se and what I really should do, python for my summer studies!

Two spot on comics by Geek And Poke

The Secret of Monkey Island is finally out on Steam!

Taken from Steam:

Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike. The development team at LucasArts is bringing the game into the modern era with an all new re-imagined contemporary art style, a re-mastered musical score, full voiceover, and an in-depth hint system to help players through the game’s side-splitting puzzles. Purists will also delight in the ability to seamlessly switch between the updated hand-drawn re-imagining and the original classic version.

The game’s twisty plot leads our naive hero on a hilarious, swash-buckling search for the fabled secret of Monkey Island. Tales of pirate wealth lure him to the port of Mêlée with high hopes, no money, and insatiable curiosity. If clever enough, he will win the confidence of Mêlée’s pirates and find himself blown by the winds of fate toward the terrifying and legendary Monkey Island — an adventure that would chill the bones of even the most bloodthirsty buccaneer.

Relive the swashbuckling humorous misadventures of the wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood

• Go on a daring adventure in your attempt to become the most infamous pirate in the Caribbean
• Win the heart of the beautiful governor, Elaine Marley
• Along the way, confront the evil ghost pirate, LeChuck

Play it again for the first time

• All new re-imagined contemporary art style, hand-drawn to feature animation quality
• Re-mastered music score presented in full orchestrated detail
• Complete voice over using the original Monkey Island™ franchise cast brings the story and characters of the original adventures to life like never before
• Scene-for-scene hot swap allows for seamless transition between special edition and classic modes anywhere and at any time

Includes all new features

• All new intuitive game interface and controls provide a more interactive gameplay experience
• In-game puzzle hint system keeps the puzzles fresh and fun

A little more than a week with perhaps a little too much happening…

Started out with a quick visit down in Skåne last weekend, Malmö and my cousin’s confirmation, to go there by car sucks big time…

A late airsoft game on Tuesday which became more of a movienight with pizza, I don’t mind

Wednesday and Thursday I played RPG for the first time in a while, D&D with a couple of friends, nice to see them again!

Friday I wished my auntie and her friend a nice flight to London from Landvetter airport, some reconstrution since I was there last time…

On Saturday was Camilla’s birthday, nice evening with good food, friends and lots and lots of raaaaain (first time in a while!).

And today, reformatted and rearranged most of my computers and handed them over where needed, my mom got a new speedy core 2 duo with windows 7 rc until rtm is out and my grandma got a really slick setup with a new desktop, portrait-layout is kinda nice if you only use the computer for surfing and mail! Not that funny to work all day long with installing software and tweaking the OS, great that this year’s studies starts with math and electric circuits, no need to slave infront of the computer

Thank god that not every week is like this, sleeping suddenly comes knocking and is pissed of due to not being part of my daily routines

Also, there is a bug stuck beneath the glass of my laptop screen, GET THE HELL OUT OF MY COMPUTER!

From Abstruse Goose

First android application released! Used to easily lookup your contract information and invoices at Tele2, a Swedish phone company.

To download, search for “Tele2″ or scan this barcode:

Work has its privileges. Tomorrow I’m off with my co-workers to Stockholm. Our main mission is to play football (soccer) in a tournament, STHLMVII, arranged by Nike Sportswear on Sunday. The other teams include other shops, designers and creative businesses in Sweden and Denmark. Below, see our training video I threw together with the little footage I had of training.

I’m currently in the midst of packing my stuff, picture follows.

Be sure to like our team. It really boosts our confidence.

I can now announce that my apartment is completely environment friendly and co²-neutral now that I have a solar powered bobbing head cat charm.

And while I’m at it, here are some mood pictures from the apt. Theme is “bi-savory”.

Sweet stuff found in Berlin.

(Yeah, crossposting formspring.me questions is the cool new thing.)

Most likely social democrat (SPD). Possibly Pirates. I am not up to date enough with North-Rhine Westphalian politics to say for sure.

I can say, though, that I enjoy the current result projections. Red-Green in NRW would be ideal, for several reasons:

1) First and foremost: Goodbye CDU/FDP Bundesrat majority. The Bundesrat is a gremium made of representatives of all german states. It can block a lot of legislation. It will, from now on, most likely be able to block things, because the governing parties (CDU [right-conservative] / FDP [libertarian/rich-people-party] will not have a majority anymore. This means, amongst other things: Goodbye to plans for Kopfpauschale (Highly associal crap, IMO, if you’re curious, ask and I’ll try to explain it as I understand it) and goodbye to plans for longer nuclear power plant runtimes. :3

2) Real chances for school system reform in NRW, and consequently, other places. Same goes for tuition fees. NRW sacking tuition fees could help us here in BW a LOT.

3) It’s a nice signal that the german left (Political direction, not the party) is back.

Oh, also, the Pirate Party got a nice 2%-ish result. That’s okay. :3

I moved to Malmö today.

Mostly floor life currently, without a bed, table, chairs, electricity and only internet through my tethering phone. I wonder how long I could survive without electricity. And sleeping on the floor. And <1 mbit/s speed.

Good thing summer heat is ahead and office wifi only 50 meters away.

Q: Please tell me a story. One involving a unicorn and a talking ham sandwich if it isn’t too much trouble.
A: Sure. Story time.

Ham

Alex didn’t immediately realize something was a little bit off with the world. In retrospect, the talking ham sandwich he had for breakfast should have been a dead giveaway, but, it being a Saturday morning, he attributed that to his lack of sleep and the drugs, and went on about his business as if nothing had happened.

His business kept him occupied and glued to his computer screen most of the time - even today, on a stormy 1st of may - traditionally a federal holiday where he lived. Alex, you see, worked as a “Senior Systems Analyst and Administrator” for the european divison of HardNet incorporated, or, as he liked to put it, he was in the business of pumping out tens of thousands of gigabytes of hardcore bondage pornography at three hundred fucking megabit per second, fuck yeah, baby. Not that any of that mattered much anymore, though, now that he was dead.

Most people had always thought that the apocalypse would come in form of some man- or god-made earth shattering kaboom. When the apocalypse came, later that morning, about 2 hours after Alex had put half of the now-quiet sandwich back into the fridge, it came in the form of unicorns. The first people to spot the unicorns were scientists at NASAs near-earth-object observatory with their telescopes, detecting them hurling for the earth at awesome speeds, accelerating as they neared the blue planet. Upon reporting their findings to the US government officials responsible for such things, they were promptly told that ha ha ha ha yeeeeeah, right, why don’t you shoot our care bear beams at them?

When the unicorns became visible to the naked eye a few minutes later, the lead researcher managed to at least get a “told you so” in before the world ended. It wasn’t so much the kaboom everyone had expected than a sudden complete loss of molecular integrity of everything that got in the way of the swarm of unicorns as they blazed past. The earth, now closely resembling a piece of swiss cheese, collapsed into a ball of rocks and molten iron within minutes, eventually losing orbit and dropping into the sun. After barely half an hour, it was as if nothing had ever been where the earth used to be, the only indication of there ever having been a planet between Venus and Mars except the now slightly irregular orbits of the surrounding planets.

Alex, though, hadn’t been there to wittness any of this. His house had happened to be in the trajectory of one of the rainbow-spewing harbingers of the end, which had made him one of the first people to go.

He didn’t have any time to figure out that he had just died. Having lost all faith in god due to his strict religious upbringing, he imagined death to be a much less interactive thing. After he had been disintegrated by a magical creature traversing space at 98.7% the speed of light, he had suddenly found himself in what appeared to be a semi-transparent room somewhere towards the top of a multi-story building in the middle of a bright yellow-white plain that extended to the horizon in all directions. Next to him, two strangely feature-less people were busy defenestrating white boxes, which, on closer inspection, turned out to be refridgerators. When Alex asked them whatever the hell they were doing and why there were doing whatever the hell they were doing, he was informed that the two people, who introduced themselves as A4153 and A4155, were doing important work furthering the unicorn cause in the great ham war. Then, he was promptly thrown out the window.

As he flew down towards the ground, thoughts raced his mind, and he remembered the sandwich’s words, and something clicked, and the days events suddenly made perfect sense to him. Sadly, though, he hit the ground and splattered into several thousand tiny pieces - severely impairing his functioning as a human being in a way his death earlier had not - before he had the chance to do as much as shout “Eureka!”, and that is the end of that story.

Left deer: satf deer pin. Right deer: fridge magnet deer. Other: garments (not deer related).

The search for useful stuff for my apartment has resulted in yet another item.

My mom just came home from the United States, and with her she brought me a fridge magnet. A deer fridge magnet, at that. Holy crap, my mother knows what I like.

Today, I found a Helvetica* bathroom rug that goes perfectly with my Helvetica-branded Moleskine. And my cat. And hopefully my soon-to-be apartment. Superb.

I’m starting a series about what I buy for my new apartment. As I’ve mentioned, I’m moving to Malmö in May, which means that I need to get a completely new set of stuff for it.

* Helvetica as in the country, but that plus is probably in the font we all have come to love.

So, over the easter weekend, I went to Breakpoint, a demo party in the wonderful “Bingen am Rhein”. Since I like the invitation to that a lot, have a video of it to start off this post:

It was awesome, as always; Demos were released and enjoyed on the bigscreen, beer was consumed, people were drunkenly hugged, and a great time was had by all, as evidenced by my own pictures at flickr, and some more pictures over at slengpung.

Speaking of releases, here’s two: First, our [SVatGs] release for the 4 kilobyte intro competition, which placed 9th out of 18! (Upper half! Yeeeeeeeeeeah!) 4k intros are demos that have a size of only four kilobytes. For comparison, this tiny image, which I randomly picked out of my misc folder, is 10k big - more than twice that! [5dpl on pouet]

And then, there’s my favourite entry from the demo compo, because I like things what are colourful and blink a lot: United Force / Digital Dynamite - Wir sind Einstein. [on pouet]

Overally, it was a great weekend, and it’s impossible to thank the BP orga team enough for making it possible. I hope that some people will get together and pull off a party as awesome as this next easter, now that breakpoint is over with~

Until then, let’s remember the most important (most important possible) announcement, and see you at the next demoparty. :3

To continue the music posting, I got my Junius – Juarez LP split today! Out of principle and lack of a turntable I will not be playing it until the beginning of May. May? What happens in May, you say? I’m moving!

I’ve hustled my way to get a pretty decent apartment in central Malmö, which means no more commuting to work. I will actually be living about 50 meters from the office, as opposed to traveling for a total of near-three hours every day.

Now back to the Junius-shebang. As a christening of the apartment and the future turntable of mine, the Junius / Juarez split will be the first tones flowing through the penthouse. No pressure.

Fantastic 65 minutes of static at that.

65daysofstatic have been tirelessly touring the world since what feels like 2005, and only barely touched the nordic region a fingerful times, which made it get my swift rigorous attention when it was announced that this time they would indeed play Copenhagen. Which is somewhat in the proximity of my willingness of going to live concerts.

Worth mentioning is maybe also that Last.fm has tracked a somewhat embarrassing 8,754 plays  (at the time of writing) of my plays of 65. The dark partying ages of 2006-2007.

Tuesday around 6 I was sitting at work, minding my own business when the Tweetie icon suddenly turned blue. Rejoice, a new tweet!

But it wasn’t any tweet. It was a 65daysofstatic (@65dos) tweet.

The tweet exclaimed the following:

KOBENHAVN! 65DOS play the BETA tonight. It holds 90 people. Be one of them! 2 pairs of guestlist to be won! First people to RT to get them!

With my adrenalin pumping and hands shaking I actually managed to get an RT out. Followed was a nerving wait until I got an email from Twitter stating @65dos were following me (starstruck) and that I had a DM that in turn said I got to put down two names. Extreme exhilaration.

Stating the obvious: you're doing it wrong.

Concert was awesome and pretty much all that one could expect from a band of such magnitude. Lot’s of new stuff, more party than ever, but also a few classics like Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!, Fix the Sky a Little and Radio Protector.

Here follows pictures, many of them a bit poor due to me using a borrowed camera and not being that good a friend with it.