I would have written a witty comment here but I’m too busy LOL’ing
Author: Sohaib Athar
Kids Songs, Adult Songs and why Superman is like the US of A
When my son Harris was three, he used to go to sleep while listening to Nirvana, Pink Floyd and Alanis Morissette, so it is ironic that I found this video when I was searching for kids songs for him on youtube:
and while we are listening to songs, here’s some good advice that you may remember if you grew up in the 90s:
and this page verifies my years-old belief that Superman sucks!. I have never watched any of the Superman movies and don’t regret it
and press the red button here to see what death in Iraq looks like, when taken as a statistic
and free-will may not be as free as we think it is
and sorry about the title of this post, but I really need to make my “TO BLOG” bookmarks folder a bit lighter 😀
How to Win Any PC Game
I have just discovered a quick way to beat any game that involves virtual currency – thanks to a request to me by a certain “leetkiss” on a freelancing website. I am very impressed by leetkiss’ understanding of reusable software patterns and C++ Interop and the clean code that he writes. He has written most of the software and is only missing one small piece now – one that he wants to outsource.
Even though I am too busy to take up his project, I am thinking of buying the program from him, once he gets it developed, so that I can be rich in the few MMORPGs that I play.
Here’s his complete request, please leave a comment if you can do this for him and I will get you in touch:
Hey
I want a program made, that can do the following:
The program will be called “Game Cheater” and It will make a troublesome PC GAME easier to win by helping you find the memory address where a desired quantity (like amount of money) is located so ou can change that quantity.
The program will find a hex address based on the input parameters you set and edit these addresses to my desired quantity.
Example (changing the money variable in a GAME from $50 to $999999999):
Call changeMemory(search_string, replace_String)
Call changeMemory(“$50”, “$999999999”)
It needs to be a .DLL file ( C++ )
I need to be able to use the DLL in my VB6 program. Here is ALL of the source code from my VB6:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
search_string = “$50”
replace_string = “$9999999”
changeMemory(search_string, replace_String)
End Sub
Children Riding Buses Alone
I leave my car at home and travel on a bus at least a couple of times a week so that I can stay in touch with the real world around me and observe the actual people that make up our country. Their discussions (and cursing) on current affairs is probably more informative than your average 30 minute daily news reports.
Yesterday, six little kids wearing school uniforms and carrying school bags got on the bus and rode for a few kilometers before getting off. They were unsupervised, but were totally at ease, joking and playing with each other. None of them looked older than 8 or 9 years old, with the youngest one probably 5 or 6. They were so confident that I wished I had my camera with me.
Watching the kids, I was reminded of the “news” that I read a few days ago – which was covered by a LOT of blogs and websites. The news was about about the “amazing” incident of a mother letting her 9 year old ride the subway alone. Hundreds of children, 5 or 6 years old, travel many kilometers in public transports private buses to go to school – all alone. Perhaps the NY Sun can come and cover these cute kids as well.
The mother commented:
Isn’t New York as safe now as it was in 1963? It’s not like we’re living in downtown Baghdad.
I wonder if she realizes that before “the war”, the Iraqi children from downtown Baghdad were probably also traveling alone – supervised – in public transport – just like our Lahori children… instead of being groped and raped.
The article linked above realizes that
The problem with this everything-is-dangerous outlook is that over-protectiveness is a danger in and of itself.
“A Nation of Wimps” is an apt title for the book mentioned in the article above, but a powerful nation of wimps can do a lot of damage – you can’t really blame the american parents as they are probably just following the footsteps of their leaders.
End of a somewhat disconnected thought-stream.
Do you know Dust Puppy?
I remember it very clearly – it was 2001 when I discovered an easter egg in Quake III Arena (a game that has claimed many hours of my life) featuring Dust Puppy – a character from the geeky comic strip at UserFriendly.org. I was curious and visited the website, and was hooked for life.
The strip has been running for 10 years now, and although it is not mainstream and certainly not as popular as Dilbert, but it is funnier than Peanuts IMHO, and documents the evolution of computing in a way that Dilbert simply does not. I can praise the strip for hours, but just go check it out yourself.
Here’s where it all started [click to go to the website]:
and this strip is one of my personal favorites (as I am turning into a dinosaur myself):
I have not seen the strip covered on any of the blogs I read – and I hope I manage to contribute to the Userfriendly.org mission of “Impairing productivity” by this post. Let me know how you like it in the comments 😀