The Barbershop Quartet

hestekor.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) is a good example of a barbershop quartet. Very funny, I must have played with this Flash program for 20 minutes, laughing most of the time.

Amazing Stop Motion Video Creation

Amazing Stop Motion Video Creation
This is a truly cool video. In 5 minutes, the designer takes you on a journey through one day in his life, which is animated like a video game! You'll never see more motion in stop motion as with this...

Am I the Center of the Universe?

A post from AmIWrongOrRight.com written by 'CompuGuy':

If we assume that the Universe has no edge, then we can assume that the Universe has no definite middle, either. So it could be said that any given person or place is at the center of the Universe.

So far, 78% of people agreed. Cast your vote!

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Why I'm Sick and Tired of Doctors

I went to the doctor's office a few days ago for a routine psychiatric examination.

I hate psychiatrist's!! My disability is massive brain trauma (I'm missing 1/4 of my brain; no exaggeration). What I need is a neurologist, not a psychiatrist. But, Colorado Medicaid sent me to see this dude so he could examine the inner working of my thought processes.

He asked me questions and gave me an exam where he asked me questions which I had to answer. Whatever he did to me, stressed my mind out so much that, I had several seizures, lost 3 weeks of memory, and nearly dropped into complete autism.

Now memory loss is a regular symptom for me... I awake in the morning with no clue who I am, where I am, what I'm supposed to be doing. I forget things at the drop of a hat, sometimes completely losing recent memories that happened only seconds before. However, with time, I can eventually retrieve those memories (although there's a good chance I'll lose them again). But losing three weeks at a time, and not being able to get them back is hard to take...

Yes, I know it sounds a lot like 50 First Dates (I hate that movie; it hits way too close to home for me).

Despite what many of you are probably thinking now, what really scares me is not the disability. I live with this memory loss every day; there's no reason to be scared of it. I'm scared that I might be losing touch with myself, with my core personality and who I am sometimes, and it is depressing not knowing who you are. But what really scares me are the doctors I have to see. I'm trying to find a doctor who will write me a letter that says I'm disabled and explains the reasons I cannot work. A single letter is all I need to win my case against both Medicaid, and Social Security. But these idiot doctors won't do it. The psychiatrist I went o see said quite clearly, "Well, it's obvious that he's disabled and will never be able to work in a normal field ever again." When I asked him to put that in writing, he wouldn't. He wants to run more tests, get a second opinion (although by this time I've seen HUNDREDS of doctors).

What scares me the most about being disabled is this guinea pig mentality of the doctors. They see me, they certify me disabled, but they want to study me OVER and OVER and OVER again, so instead of writing the letter I so desperately need, the refer me to another doctor or tell me to come and see them again.

I have been written up in so many medical magazines, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, by doctors who are using my case and various treatments they implemented in my case to make themselves famous. But they don't know when to stop and say, "Okay I'm famous enough. Let's get this kid some help."

Now you know why I'm sick of doctors. But unfortuanetly, it looks like I'm going to be a guinea pig for the rest of my life...

I'm a Subscriber

YAY!!
I finally managed to raise enough money to get a DeviantArt subscription. I'm officially a DA member now, and a DA beta tester.
Now that I'm subscribed I'm going to get my prints account going. Unfortuantely, those of you who asked for certain Terragen pictures to be prints won't get them (unless you want a watermarked picture; I don't have the original prints anymore), but there will be many new pictures/prints in the future to choose from.
Look out world... Here I come...

Pixel Ships Hacks

I've been absorbed in a new computer game lately called PixelShips. In this side-scrolling game you are able to fly up to 160 different ships up to 99,990 different arenas to complete various missions, earn upgrades, capture enemy ships, etc.

I enjoy playing PixelShips because it's a new game for me to hack. Most people don't get as much enjoyment as I do by finding out different hacks and cheats to make the game easier but I do. And since there are no cheats online for PixelShips (I'm apparently the first one to have hacked the program this extensively), I'm going to submit them here...
You will need a good hex editor that displays byte location in an offset number. You can check some of the links on my website if you need to find a hex editor.NOTE! Using a hex editor can be dangerous since it makes permanent changes to the file structure within a program. If you do not know what you are doing, make a backup of the file you will be editing, so you can recover if your hack does not work.

1. To put more ships into your computers memory.
When you first start playing PixelShips, the computer memory is blank because it expects you to capture enemy ships and fly them to add those ships and their specifications to your memory. Normally this is done by destroying a ship and
then vacuuming the pixels into your cargo. You will need to have less than 6 ships in your fleet to do this. Only ships that show up in your fleet are added to the flight computer. This is the only way in-game to add ships to the computers memory.
To put more ships into your flight computer's memory manually using a hex editor, you will need a hex editor that shows locations within a file in an byte offset number.
First, figure out which ship you want to see the stats for in your flight computer. All the ships in Pixel Ships are numbered. Take the ship number you want to see and add:

• 33 for Save Location 1
  
• 361 for Save Location 2
  
• 689 for Save Location 3
  
• 1017 for Save Location 4

Open the file, pilots.dat (contained in your PixelShips folder), in your hex editor. The calculation you just did will yield the offset number to be edited. Navigate to the correct offset location and place a "01" in that offset location. When you open Pixel Ships you will have a new ship in your flight computer.

2. To add ships to your Pixel Ships fleet, or change the ships in your fleet.
Normally this is done by destroying a ship and then vacuuming the pixels into your cargo. You will need to have less than 6 ships in your fleet to do this.
To add or change ships in your fleet manually, you will need a hex editor that shows locations within a file in an offset number, and a decimal-to-hexadecimal converter.
First, figure out which ship you want to add to your fleet. All the ships in Pixel Ships are numbered in the flight computer. Find the ship you want to add to your fleet and write down its number.
Convert that number to hexadecimal. This should leave you with a two-digit number (for the decimal numbers 1-16, remember to put a 0 in front, e.g; 01, 05, or 0A)
There are only six ships in any Pixels Ships fleet. Open pilots.dat in your hex editor. The fleets can be found and edited at:

• Offset 195-200 for Save Location 1
  
• Offset 523-528 for Save Location 2
  
• Offset 851-856 for Save Location 3
  
• Offset 1179-1184 for Save Location 4

When you navigate to those locations, you will see the hexadecimal numbers of your
current fleet. For there to be a ship present, the hexadecimal number must be greater
than "00".
"00"= No ship.
"01" – "A0" = ships.
You can change these numbers to change ships.
Or you can change any of the signed bytes within the correct offset location to the hexadecimal number of the ship you want in your fleet.

3. The best Pixel Ship ever.
Follow the instructions on #2 to add Pixel Ships to your fleet, but place "A1" in one of the locations. This releases the last Pixel Ship in the game (#161 - I'll bet you thought there was only 160 PixelShips right), and the most powerful Pixel Ship ever. If you want to add the stats for the PixelShip to your Pixel Computer, just follow step #1, but remember that this is ship 161.