My mom recently sent me a link to a Youtube video of a great tongue twister segment from Pinkey and the Brain:
Searching for a transcript of this segment I came across a page of tongue twisters which contained a great story about “Shrewd Simon Short” in which every word started with the letter “s”. In order to best appreciate it I attempted to read it aloud. It sounded amusing enough that I decided to record it. So, donning my best book-on-tape narrator voice, I made the following recording:
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Since my previous avatar DDOSed my router, today I wrote a less popular avatar game. The only game I could think of that has no need for actual user input was the card game war. So I implemented it in my avatar. You can play too, by simply refreshing this image:
Features:
Proper handeling of running out of cards during a “war”
War cards are show (with appropriate cards face up or down)
Building on my previous avatar hack, I set out to design an avatar that was also an interactive game. The game I eventually settled on was one where you compete with the other users to see who can load the avatar the most times. The image you are served shows your ranking as compared to the other users. It looked like this:
And true to its word, every time you refreshed it, your number went up, and you could climb to the top. I thought it would be fun, and a person or two might even refresh it a few times to get to the top. So, before I went to bed, I set it as my avatar on a forum I frequent. When I woke up the next morning More
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My name is Jordan Eldredge. I am a musician, a programmer and a geek.
This blog is contains: the results of my various personal projects.
This blog does not contain: rants, ramblings, philosophies, observations, journal entries or personal drama.
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