A post in a blog
I rarely mention other blog posts, but this one caught my attention:
The quote that I specifically liked was:
“A kid that dies from a bad case of diarrhea in the third world would pleasure 60 year-olds with heart disease for the chance to become a 60 year-old with heart disease getting pleasured by a young boy.”
Silly Linux
Sometimes Linux is downright counter-intuitive. I have SSH command line access to my server and I wanted to rename a directory. Now I know that cp is used to copy files so I try rn. No luck. So I think perhaps they are being nice so I try rename. This seems to work. But the file is not actually renamed. When I type the command on its on it says call: rename from to files. Nice but not useful. After a quick search I find out how to do it: you need the move command. Well to be precise the mv command. After a moment’s thought it does make sense but it is not intuitive…
Aber, Aber, Aber…
I went with Julia to Aberystwyth to university on Saturday. Six hour train journey. Aberystwyth is nice except for the one hill the university sits on top of.
Pimsleur’s German steps up a notch…
Well I’m now on unit 3 of German II (i.e. the 33rd lesson in total) and it’s definitely moved up a gear. It has finally mentioned “du” the informal version of you (which even if you never say it you certainly need to recognise) and nearly every thing you say has “interesting” grammar as well as new vocabulary
(By interesting I mean things like subordinate clauses and modal verbs which play with word order).
And of course I have to sing praise to Pimsleur again… which of course I always do since it really is amazing. :)
Sonic Mega Collection Plus
I found a cool little PS2 game recently, Sonic Mega Collection Plus. It’s a collection of Sonic games from the Mega Drive/Genesis and Game Gear, including Sonic The Hedgehog (for each), Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic Spinball, Sonic Chaos, Sonic Blast, Sonic Drift, Sonic 3D and Dr. Robotoniks Mean Bean Machine (for both).
For anyone who likes Sonic it is well worth getting. There are a few notes first though.
It does include Knuckles in Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles, but they must be unlocked.
The Game Gear games are single player (emulating two Game Gears that could link up would have been fun).
The unlockable non-Sonic games are interesting but not really worth going to the hassle to unlock.
It would have been nice to have the Master System versions of Sonic and Sonic 2, but you can’t have everything.