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I was recently interviewed for a regional tv news channel about my pet project, http://www.ingenkirkeskat.dk/ (which allows you to easily depart the danish national church). Here you can see the the clip, which turned out very well, if I do say so myself.

One thing I love about games is that you get a lot of feedback in the form of in-game rewards, that let's you learn and improve your game.

One game that is perfect in this regard is Settlers, which I've played online for a couple of weeks now. It is a very simple game, but when I first played it I was daunted by the the complexity. Should I concentrate on getting a little of each resource or would it be better to get a lot of a few resources? Should I try to build the longest road or was it better to try for the largest army? Each of these questions can be answered very well for each situation, simply by amassing a lot of experience in the game. Another game I also would recommend if you haven't tried it is Dice Wars.

Like Settlers it's one of the funnest ways to become good at dice probability and probablity in general, and besides that it plays so fast that each session can be fitted into a very short attention span. Lastly, if you've seen Entourage you definitely have to check out Viking Quest. It's really well made and complements the series brilliantly.

Lately I've been wondering about which sport I prefer. In addition to considering only how fun it is I also try to keep in mind the health benefits (if any) and the costs associated with the sport. Of course these things vary, but for me, right now, things look like this:

As you can see, some of my favorite sports are also quite expensive. If I weighed each factor equally I should be running all the time, but I don't. Most of the time I choose a sport based on what I find the most fun. Lately I've been playing a lot of golf, which is super-fun, but isn't exactly cheap and it isn't doing anything for my body either, so I think a couple of months of ping pong and fitness is in order.

After owning my Aeron chair for over two years I just found a new function on it. Normal office chairs tilts of course and most also have a lock function that disables tilting. Well the Airon has those, and it also has forward tilt as well as a forward tilt lock. It also has tilt sensitivity adjustment. All of the above are features I use regularly, but the function I found out about today is the multi-step backwards tilt lock. In other words, if you want to be able to tilt back a bit, but not all the way, then you can lock it to the position of your liking! Also. When you make an image of the Aeron really small it looks like a japanese kanji. Look: . What a chair.

OK, so let's see what's happened since last post. I changed job, first from webdanmark to DIS, now to Trustpilot. I've started kite surfing, wakeboarding and golfing (why did I ever waste my time with any other sports?). I've moved to a fancy new appartment. I've earned a bachelors degree in computer science. And last but not least I've appeared for both radio, newspaper and television. Yay for me. What to do now? One thing that comes to mind is to be succesful at at least one of the above...

I just encountered the following chat at my online poker table:

roganity >> slash where u from
Slash007 >> scandinavia
roganity >> cool
Slash007 >> how? :)
roganity >> near the north pole

For those of my readers who are danish and are pondering a resignation from the danish national curch, I have created a site that will help you do just that: IngenKirkeskat.dk

Thanks to global warming it is now about time for parkour again. Last year I did some videos, with some of my fellow tracours. Hopefully this year will be the one in which I perfect my roll.

this made me lol:

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I think Apple is going in the right direction by combining the phone and the media player. We should expand on this concept. Just imagine the Doctor with integrated Jeopardy Quiz:

Doctor: I give the answers, you provide the question

Patient: Okay

Doctor: Smoking

Patient: What is the cause of my illness?

Doctor: Correct

Doctor: Cancer

Patient: What is my illness?

Doctor: Correct again!

Doctor: Many expensive operations followed by a painful death

Patient: What is my future?

Doctor: Correct! Congratulations! You have won a free Doctors appointment.

While browsing around on Wikipedia's Top 100 I stumbled upon this historical Rock-Paper-Scissors match:

"You talk about a dress that does not fit … imagine my problems,"
-- Hitler, to Eva Braun

I'm in love and I want the whole world to know. Here she is:

I just finished Hitman 4. One thing I like about computer games is the inevitable unintentional humor. Check this screenshot below. It's the final mission, and I'm in a wild gun-fight against a bunch of agents. Look what the agents are doing. One of them is cleverly returning fire, but the other one STOPS TO CHECK HIS EARPIECE!

happy moods are now being generated through electrical stimulation at their very source -- deep within the brain itself
-- Fordyce: Human Happiness

Today I attended a computer science lecture with a female attendance in excess of 12%. I count myself lucky.

In case you were wondering how the prettiest CS girl on uni looks, here is her webpage.

The traditional French measuring system was chaotic, with size of units differing in each small town, and often even within towns. Lyon had two different values of pound in general use, one of 14 ounces, and another of 15 ounces, the latter only being used for measuring silk.

-- wikipedia

Three of my previous subjects stick their heads together for the ultimate who's coolest (even more ultimate than this one):

	The worm from Galaxy of Terror	Julie Bowen	TheTomcat7
Question 1: Did you ever eat anyone?	I ate Taaffe O'Connell after I raped her. And after this quiz I'm going to eat you. (1 point)	My goodness no! (0 point)	Whaddya think beeotch? (I don't think so - 0 point)
Question 2: Did you ever win a $1000 pot in poker?	SHHLUURRP! (I'll take that as a no - 0 point)	I once got a man to give me a thousand dollar chip just by smiling at him (I guess you could call it a win - ½ point)	PartyPoker once reimbursed me more than $1000 (Getting lost money back isn't winning - 0 point)
Question 3: Did you ever cause a woman to have an orgasm so intense that she had a heart attack?	The only woman I raped who did not have a heart attack was Helena Humann (1.5 point)	Once... it sure sounded like it!! (1 point)	No (0 point)
Question 4: Can you speak more than one language?	RIIIPP! NNGHH! (Ehr? 0 point)	I learned Italian while studying in Europe (1 point)	I s|*ee|< leet |*e|2|=e(tl`/ (Not bad - 1 point)
Question 5: Do you like watching girls kiss?	SPLURSH! STREETCH! FOOP! (It's gotta mean yes sometimes - 1 point)	I got upset when they wouldn't allow me to play a lesbian in The Last Man On Planet Earth - fortunately I still got to fool around with a lot of the hot female cast members (What can I say? - 1 point)	Who ya callin' gay you mofo? (noone - 0 point)

 

And now for the final score:

TheTomcat7: 1 point
Julie Bowen: 3.5 points
The Worm: 3.5 points

And we have a split win! That means both of the winners get's a nice bottle of scotch! Congratulations!

I just visited linkbunnies.org three times in a row. Why? Because my stupid unconscious mind has taken over - and it loves linkbunnies so much that if it were up to it alone, I'd use my entire life reloading their page looking for mildly interesting links to follow - which is pretty much what I do anyway.

Today I achieved my very first scrabble bingo! And what a great feeling! Feel free to try and see if you can find it:

Lately I have been absorbed in chess. It started when I accidentally stumbled over a wikipedia article that mentioned something about chess. That led me to read most of what wikipedia had to say about chess, including such obscure topics as the Albin Countergambit and the Göring Attack. The articles in turn led me to the even better written Kibitzer articles by Tim Harding. Of course I had to try out all the new ideas I found, so I started playing on ICC, an excellent online chess server. And with my mind fully loaded with foxy gambits, I must say chess has never been so fun!

All that chess got me thinking about my earlier life, since chess played a major part in my life back then. In fact the first word I ever looked up on the 'net back in '95 was chess. Of course back then the best browser around was altavista, and it was no better back then than it is today.

When I read this article today I naturally decided to improve it by inserting a NPOV tag into it, so that other readers would be aware of it's biased content. The biased content were as follows (translated): 

The chinese are more confident with exagerated acting and close-ups of beautiful woman who cries bucketfulls of snot over unhappy love [that korean soap's provide]

I was unable to locate the edit-button though, so you will have to do with this warning.

Today I noticed that the artificial intelligence in freeciv has a find_something_to_kill function. If only people would listen to sense...

New page added. Go read it, it wont take long.

I have just found a new excellent blog to read. What a joy. Just when I thought I knew about all the good blogs, a new one pops up. Take for instance this comment on left-and-right footed socks:

When I was younger, I learned that humankind had put men on the moon in 1969. Yet in 2005, I have just discovered and purchased my first pairs of left- and right-footed socks. This idea is even more preposterous when considering that shoes were no longer made on absolutely straight lasts as of circa 1850. Left and right socks are amazing. Just like we wonder how people back in the American Revolution wore anatomically punishing footwear, I suppose civilization will note our imbecility in not adopting left- and right- socks sooner.

Priceless

While reading my daily dose of poker stories I have discovered one thing about the english language: "I will leave it at that" can have radically different meanings. For instance if used in an academic context it means "I'll stop boring you now". On the other hand when used in stories from Vegas it usually means that a stripper or prostitute got involved at that point. In either case it's use is beneficial to the reader.

After linkbunnies recklessly posted a link to a prison rape story I read it and was quite shocked. Seing as the story was posted on a racist hate page, I wanted to find out if it had any basis in real life and sadly it did. Those stories really puts all humanitarian work into perspective. Here they are helping starving kids while other people would consider dying of hunger a small miracle.

And also: Absurd anti turn signal post

Today I was introduced to an insult that is new to me while playing the game that I love...

Fellow online poker player: what a jerk/off
Me: Are you talking to me?
Player: waddya think dickhead
Me: I don't understand the "jerk/off" part. Are you saying I'm a jerk or that I'm an off?
Player: figure it out einstein
Me: Hmm.. maybe you are saying I should "jerk off", ie. masturbate. Do you want me to masturbate?
Player: go to hell
Me: Hmm.. maybe I should masturbate
Player: jesus. what an asshole

Listen: if you want to understand Israel, you must first understand that there is mandatory military service for all unmarried 18-year-old Jews, which lasts three years for the men and two or three for the women and is followed up by reserve duty for the men until at least age 43. During the active-duty period, soldiers carry their weapons with them at all times.

In other words, all the 18- and 19-year-old Jewish girls in the whole country are walking around in uniforms carrying Uzis.
-- Richard "Quite Lion" Brodie

Damn girls with uzi's are sexy. Who would have thought there was an entire country decicated solely to bringing my perverted sexual fantasies to life?

You shouldn't have mentioned the stuff about Benzedrine. It's not that you got it wrong. It's just that I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics to think that they have to take drugs to succeed.
--Paul Erdős

Here's a chat I logged a while back. I'm DJ_Bobo

#1200742760: DJ_Bobo wins $166 from the main pot with a full house, Nines full of sevens.
TheTomcat7: omg
TheTomcat7: you f.ucking idiot
TheTomcat7: how you know it was coming out.... you using software?
DJ_Bobo: lol
TheTomcat7: admit... are you cheating
TheTomcat7: i will report you
DJ_Bobo: I had you all along
TheTomcat7: you knew 79 was coming out
TheTomcat7: how
DJ_Bobo: Didn't need the extra nine
TheTomcat7: hey idiot
TheTomcat7: i am talking on the flop fa.ggot
TheTomcat7: how did yuo know it was coming
DJ_Bobo: lol. You are funny
TheTomcat7: admit it
TheTomcat7: bulls.hit, i knoew about peope on here who know what cards are coming out and play rediculous hands
TheTomcat7: so admit it
pdcttj: admit what
DJ_Bobo: Rebuy
TheTomcat7: he is using software to see what cards are coming out
pdcttj: excuse me
pdcttj: how does that exist
TheTomcat7: and then bet big on flop cause he knew i would call with KK
TheTomcat7: eacy
TheTomcat7: ask party poker aout it, they will tell you
TheTomcat7: not difficult.. any hacking software can do it
pdcttj: what r u talkin about
TheTomcat7: f.uck it nevermind
TheTomcat7: i haven't said anything hard to tunderstand so nevermind
DJ_Bobo: lol. "ANY" hacking software? If it's so easy, why don't you use it?
TheTomcat7: cause i dont do that stuff and don't know how
TheTomcat7: any guy who knows computers could
pdcttj: how do u no that has happewned
TheTomcat7: part poker emailed me about it so i am reporting you
TheTomcat7: cause i got reimbursed for my money once
pdcttj: ur kidding
TheTomcat7: no
pdcttj: how do u prove it
dboyzz: lol
DJ_Bobo: Incredible. They really reimbursed you? They sure are friendly
TheTomcat7: any stat tracker sees all the cards when someone is using it at their computer......... then you can hack to see what their program sees
pdcttj: how was party poker able to figure it out
TheTomcat7: ask them
pdcttj: that concerns me

42% of american house wives have had or are currently having sexual relations with one or more home appliances
-- Jeff Daniels