OftenImitated Blog

On this wonderous invention we like to call the Internet, there is a magical world by the name of YouTube. On the YouTubes, there are television shows that you can’t find anywhere else (or at least, quite to easily). One of these shows is called ALF, and it’s what this blog post is all about.

This little rascal is the man (alien?) himself. The shows can be found on YouTube here. They’ve been making me laugh like crazy for the past few days, so I thought I’d share them with you.

Oh, by the way, the first few episodes are a bit campy, but they get better… I promise.

Wow, I feel like a 3rd grader doing a geography project.

Anyway, here are some interesting facts about the Dominican Republic:

• Although the nation has most recently gained its independence from Spain (in 1865), its primary independance celebration is that of independence from Haiti (in 1844).
• Unlike Haiti, the Dominican Republic is in UTC-4 (Atlantic) time, meaning it is 1 hour ahead of Eastern Time in the USA.
• Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, is the oldest continuous western settlement in the “New World”, having been formally settled in 1496.
• The Dominican Republic offered the first chartered university, hospital, cathedral, and monastery in the Americas.

So… yeah… enjoy…

Oh, this is what I was doing (early) this morning… and yes, I’m going to semi-cheat and let this count for Friday.

Admittedly, this isn’t the only thing that I was doing, but it certainly took a while… Uploading photos is a hassle, and DeviantArt is kind of a pain to upload to… but they’re awesome to buy from! YES!

The future is now! The people of the past were a little off in the picture they painted of it, though they can be excused for being simpler people in a simpler time. We’re pretty close though! Instead of flying cars we have $3 ring tones. Instead of jet packs we have a closed-circuit cameras at intersections. Instead of moon bases we have a machine on which watch teenagers talk about their problems in a language they invented, 24 hours a day! And instead of a cure for all diseases, we have cars that have neon lights attached to the undercarriage. Marvelous.

Haha.

In fun and awesome news, there are The Icon Generation pillows from Throwboy. These things are awesome, you just need to see them to understand:

If that’s not the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen in your life, then I don’t know what is. They’re $29 each, or $149 for the entire set of 6, so they’re a bit pricey as far as pillows go, but you have to admit that this is just about an absolute must for any and all Mac fans, ever. (I can’t afford them, but if I could… oh, imagine the looks on any visitor’s face).

In other news, I have taken my Saturday, and used it to do the most unproductive and wasteful thing ever: I have created a Java interpreter for the Brainf*** programming language. (It feels good to get back into Java programming… ahh, the good ol’ days…) All it does is take in a program as a string (either as an argument, or contained in a text file, and interpret the program, command-by-command. It’s quick, inefficient, and it kept me busy for about 10 minutes… but programming in brainf***, that kept me busy for the rest of the afternoon. Here’s a quick snapshot of part of the interpreter:

Let me tell you, this junk really lives up to it’s name. Here’s hello world:

++++++++++        initialises cell zero to 10
[
>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-
]                 this loop sets the next four cells to 70/100/30/10
>++.              print   'H'
>+.               print   'e'
+++++++.                  'l'
.                         'l'
+++.                      'o'
>++.                      space
<<+++++++++++++++.        'W'
>.                        'o'
+++.                      'r'
------.                   'l'
--------.                 'd'
>+.                       '!'
>.                        newline

Of course, anything that’s not <>+-,.[] is just comments.

I removed the comments from this one. If you can tell me what it does, you get a prize!

,>,>++++++[-<--------<-------->>]
<<[
>[->+>+<<]
>[-<<-
[>]>>>[<[>>>-<<<[-]]>>]<<]
>>>+
<<[-<<+>>]
<<<]
>[-]>>>>[-<<<<<+>>>>>]
<<<<++++++[-<++++++++>]<.

Well that’s it for now, gotta write a paper!