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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8

Seriously.  This 'game.'
I'm going to have to go back with a better ship and pick them up, the return part of the craft was destroyed when I ran out of fuel to slow down the final decent.  But.  They made it!

Heard a crash last night, tree branch came down and got the coop :(




The 'branch' that got it

Amazingly it only killed two chickens out of the 10 that were in there, probably the ones roosting directly below where it hit.  Roof system is totally trashed (obviously) but the box survived remarkably well.  Knocked one side panel down a few inches and sank the support leg on the opposite side, used a bottle jack to put it back in place.
It wasn't in my schedule today to put a new roof on it so I ran by the hardware store, picked up some metal braces, and repaired what I could.  Its ugly but functional, will keep the rain off them until I have time to decide what to do with it.  Its about time for a bigger coop anyways.

Is Shiney

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

Just.......  lol
Apparently there's a 20-40 second input lag as well, so how anything actually gets done who knows
http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon/c/3726150

Redwall: Warlords 3.0 Beta
7 of the 18 Warlords in the game are considered active.

45 Warlords have been destroyed, and -44 Warlords have been abandoned.
1 accounts have been disabled by Administration.
There are 3 active Clans.
122,638,381 rats have been sold on the market for an average price of $438
9,011,536 weasels have been sold on the market for an average price of $778
25,132,368 stoats have been sold on the market for an average price of $1,477
5,777,774 skiffs have been sold on the market for an average price of $2,109
4,536,370,672 food has been sold on the market for an average price of $15

1. Grim Ninja (#10)
$1,321,652,988 with 25,864 Acres

2. Woof (#5)
$532,085,644 with 241,032 Acres

3. Vargarth (Passive) (#4)
$345,364,233 with 9,626 Acres

4. Land Farm (Free Land) (#9)
$28,715,844 with 12,905 Acres

5. SiegeMaster (#17)
$19,027,387 with 9,432 Acres

6. Shake and Bake (#12)
$17,499,023 with 11,027 Acres

7. Djinn (#7)
$7,233,960 with 6,635 Acres

8. KaBOOOM (#11)
$2,952,782 with 3,454 Acres

9. PWN (#13)
$2,607,095 with 3,594 Acres

10. Sevz Swallows (#18)
$2,552,408 with 3,594 Acres

11. Sarevok Terranyth (#16)
$1,193,823 with 2,047 Acres

12. the man of capybara (#6)
$147,388 with 250 Acres

13. Abioh (#15)
$146,316 with 250 Acres

14. "Why So Serious?" (#14)
$4,279,291 with 0 Acres

15. Daughters of Delor (Admin) (#1)
$134,078,112 with 52,813 Acres

Most Rats
Woof (#5)
39,289,291 Rats

Most Weasels
Woof (#5)
14,059,938 Weasels

Most Stoats
Woof (#5)
14,693,582 Stoats

Most Skiffs
Woof (#5)
5,128,186 Skiffs

Most Food
Grim Ninja (#10)
65,920,656,062 Food

Most Cash
Grim Ninja (#10)
116,723,553,308 Cash

Most Leaders
Grim Ninja (#10)
6,698,226 Leaders

Most Loyalty
Woof (#5)
46,148,998 Loyalty

Most Land
Woof (#5)
241,032 Land

Most Total Offenses
Grim Ninja (#10)
1,426 Total Offenses

Most Total Defenses
Land Farm (Free Land) (#9)
398 Total Defenses

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Redwall: Warlords 3.0 Beta
11 of the 26 Warlords in the game are considered active.

42 Warlords have been destroyed, and -42 Warlords have been abandoned.
1 accounts have been disabled by Administration.
There are 5 active Clans.
594,080,973 rats have been sold on the market for an average price of $412
115,999,739 weasels have been sold on the market for an average price of $783
174,828,434 stoats have been sold on the market for an average price of $1,480
58,218,315 skiffs have been sold on the market for an average price of $2,139
29,102,352,801 food has been sold on the market for an average price of $15

1. Beta is lame (#4)
$764,858,662 with 180,591 Acres

2. Canonical (#16)
$62,717,359 with 50,172 Acres

3. I Miss Old RWL (#6)
$41,070,746 with 24,220 Acres

4. King (#12)
$38,358,792 with 9,257 Acres

5. Snagru (#25)
$35,794,032 with 14,723 Acres

6. Liceu (#9)
$34,785,830 with 9,357 Acres

7. The Fallen (#5)
$23,375,083 with 5,662 Acres

8. Land Farm (Free Land) (#17)
$12,713,646 with 12,340 Acres

9. Thorin Oakenshield the 10000000 (#19)
$11,997,736 with 2,835 Acres

10. Heinrich (#8)
$9,153,277 with 3,930 Acres

11. Chickens (#24)
$8,252,974 with 1,722 Acres

12. Luparan (#23)
$7,787,761 with 5,570 Acres

13. Subotai (#14)
$4,424,308 with 3,980 Acres

14. rip fang (#11)
$3,392,983 with 1,095 Acres

15. BAXX (#18)
$3,266,031 with 4,164 Acres

Most Rats
Beta is lame (#4)
236,351,275 Rats

Most Weasels
Beta is lame (#4)
34,913,424 Weasels

Most Stoats
Beta is lame (#4)
44,926,474 Stoats

Most Skiffs
Beta is lame (#4)
22,754,165 Skiffs

Most Food
I Miss Old RWL (#6)
776,902,997 Food

Most Cash
Liceu (#9)
17,457,843,342 Cash

Most Leaders
Liceu (#9)
4,001,417 Leaders

Most Loyalty
Liceu (#9)
35,109,860 Loyalty

Most Land
Beta is lame (#4)
180,591 Land

Most Total Offenses
Canonical (#16)
1,472 Total Offenses

Most Total Defenses
Canonical (#16)
1,329 Total Defenses

Urg.  So my '70 Beetle is almost drivable
Sorta dreading dealing with other drivers while I learn how to drive stick with it.

CafePress has car magnets on sale for $2.50 or so, made this

Probably won't help much, but 's fair warning to other drivers.  She's slow and for the love of all things good plz don't stop inches from my bumper on a hill

Train rides!

Post random facts and stories here.

First off:

"In Unix systems, there's a program named "login". login is the code that takes your username and password, verifies that the password you gave is the correct one for the username you gave, and if so, logs you in to the system.

For debugging purposes, Thompson put a back-door into "login". The way he did it was by modifying the C compiler. He took the code pattern for password verification, and embedded it into the C compiler, so that when it saw that pattern, it would actually generate code that accepted either the correct password for the username, or Thompson's special debugging password. In pseudo-Python:

    def compile(code):
        if (looksLikeLoginCode(code)):
            generateLoginWithBackDoor()
        else:
            compileNormally(code)

With that in the C compiler, any time that anyone compiles login, the code generated by the compiler will include Ritchie's back door.

Now comes the really clever part. Obviously, if anyone saw code like what's in that example, they'd throw a fit. That's insanely insecure, and any manager who saw that would immediately demand that it be removed. So, how can you keep the back door, but get rid of the danger of someone noticing it in the source code for the C compiler? You hack the C compiler itself:

    def compile(code):
        if (looksLikeLoginCode(code)):
            generateLoginWithBackDoor(code)
        elif (looksLikeCompilerCode(code)):
            generateCompilerWithBackDoorDetection(code)
        else:
            compileNormally(code)

What happens here is that you modify the C compiler code so that when it compiles itelf, it inserts the back-door code. So now when the C compiler compiles login, it will insert the back door code; and when it compiles the C compiler, it will insert the code that inserts the code into both login and the C compiler.

Now, you compile the C compiler with itself – getting a C compiler that includes the back-door generation code explicitly. Then you delete the back-door code from the C compiler source. But it's in the binary. So when you use that binary to produce a new version of the compiler from the source, it will insert the back-door code into the new version.

So you've now got a C compiler that inserts back-door code when it compiles itself – and that code appears nowhere in the source code of the compiler. It did exist in the code at one point – but then it got deleted. But because the C compiler is written in C, and always compiled with itself, that means thats each successive new version of the C compiler will pass along the back-door – and it will continue to appear in both login and in the C compiler, without any trace in the source code of either."

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-dennis-ritchie-a/  (via Slashdot)

Haven't checked that in a while, somewhat shocked how low IE usage is

I listened to the Harry Potter series audiobooks, read by Jim Dale (highly recommend)

Realized something towards the end, not really ground breaking or applicable to anything, but Dumbledore must have repaired Hagrid's wand with the elder wand after it was broken by the expelling authorities.
After Ron's wand broken -- accidentally, mind, so probably not as badly damaged as Hagrid's was when it was purposefully broken -- it couldn't perform the least bit of magic without  major crapouts.  Hagrid, on the other hand, despite not getting past, what, year 3 still didn't have any real issues using his pink umbrella. 

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Rubeus_Hagrid%27s_umbrella
That wiki only lists two incidents where Hagrid didn't perform the magic he meant to, the first could easily be explained by the fact that transfiguration is tremendously hard and Hagrid never finished his 3rd year.  The second explained by the fact that he was under severe pressure.
Everything other bit of magic he did without issue

Likely not an original theory, but hey.

Hey guys
Taek went through and cleaned up the Construct and Cluny's Hut pages, I've updated Turbo with them.  Mostly clean up, but a few tweaks and additions as well.

Let me know if you notice anything unexpected, I poked them and they seem fine.

Redwall: Warlords 3.0 Beta
20 of the 34 Warlords in the game are considered active.

43 Warlords have been destroyed, and -41 Warlords have been abandoned.
2 accounts have been disabled by Administration.
There are 9 active Clans.
1,463,800,454 rats have been sold on the market for an average price of $467
211,381,105 weasels have been sold on the market for an average price of $855
323,006,425 stoats have been sold on the market for an average price of $1,617
129,875,482 skiffs have been sold on the market for an average price of $2,295
1,798,794,178 food has been sold on the market for an average price of $18

1. SevzTheBetaReaper (#9)
$3,045,168,883 with 515,123 Acres

2. zoso (#7)
$487,868,451 with 26,111 Acres

3. TheRealTaek (#27)
$258,437,602 with 41,615 Acres

4. ripeye (#13)
$107,675,852 with 8,821 Acres

5. Blood,Guts & Glory (#16)
$63,088,396 with 7,730 Acres

6. Exploit More Please (#10)
$61,823,797 with 595 Acres

7. (#25)
$48,081,423 with 2,317 Acres

8. Eibmoz (#31)
$43,993,937 with 35,799 Acres

9. Dog-Cat (#18)
$20,015,532 with 5,462 Acres

10. Land Farm (Free Land) (#12)
$15,068,228 with 7,678 Acres

11. Germanicus (#28)
$22,056,445 with 14,028 Acres

12. #yoloswag420blazeit (#30)
$15,281,749 with 10,281 Acres

13. bluesky (#33)
$14,751,923 with 2,444 Acres

14. $_$ (#15)
$13,218,021 with 8,960 Acres

15. Benjamin Edison (#20)
$12,261,483 with 2,404 Acres

Most Rats
SevzTheBetaReaper (#9)
838,719,718 Rats

Most Weasels
SevzTheBetaReaper (#9)
86,372,285 Weasels

Most Stoats
SevzTheBetaReaper (#9)
195,910,905 Stoats

Most Skiffs
SevzTheBetaReaper (#9)
107,364,614 Skiffs

Most Food
SevzTheBetaReaper (#9)
2,259,291,121 Food

Most Cash
SevzTheBetaReaper (#9)
500,000,000,009 Cash

Most Leaders
SevzTheBetaReaper (#9)
10,702,510 Leaders

Most Loyalty
$_$ (#15)
13,009,444 Loyalty

Most Land
SevzTheBetaReaper (#9)
515,123 Land

Most Total Offenses
zoso (#7)
1,823 Total Offenses

Most Total Defenses
Land Farm (Free Land) (#12)
1,084 Total Defenses

This topic has been moved to Spa Room 101.

http://www.redwallwarlords.com/forums/index.php?topic=17036.0

Please note this upcoming change.

Land Leak
As implemented, it averages the land in the top ten to form a goal then checks all vacationed accounts.  If the vacationed account has more land than the goal .1% of the player's land is taken and given to the landfarm.  This is done every turn cycle until the vacationed player's land is less than the goal or the player comes out of vacation.

Normally changes that are made to Reg are reactionary, this is the case here. 
Vacation abuse was much more prevalent on Turbo, never so much an issue on Reg.  That is, until a group of players took just about a million acres out on vacation.  Serio. 

Jaffar, Angel of Death (#836)    466,654    
Boris Johnson (#36)    304,697    
My Networth Sucks :( (#788)    209,958    

Those three accounts have gone into vacation in the past three weeks.  That's an incredible amount of land to suck out of the game, and it appears to be coordinated.  Vacationing for the express purpose of protecting your horde has generally been looked down on, but (afaik) was never really against the rules as its somewhat hard to enforce. 
But still, come on guys.

I sent each of those players a note earlier this evening letting them know I plan to put the patch in place on Wednesday evening, so they have two days to come out if they'd like to save their land.
Again, this will only affect you if you go into vacation with more land than the average top ten player, and it will only take land in .1% increments until you are at average land or you break vacation.

The patch is written.  I'll review it again later and poke Shadow to give it a look as well.
Let me know if there's any questions or concerns.
Cheers guys

...
I've ended up with like 10
5 currently in use, four gmail addresses that feed into one account and a yahoo

Well?

Both clans have set each other to war, emps de-protection'd

Have at it