Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Warning: swallow whatever you're in the middle of eating or drinking before you follow this link.

Okay, this (by greendalek -- Peter Vinton Jr.) is f'ing brilliant. If most of the unfamiliar references are what they think they are, then I just learned a lot more about a game I've heard of but never played than I've picked up from people actually talking about the game -- and even if I'm wrong about the game, it's a delightfully concise satirical examination of the subcategories of my subculture. (It's a couple of screens long, but I called it "concise" because it packs so much into the space it takes up.)

Figured it deserved its own entry instead of waiting for the next time I get around to a "link sausage" post.

(BTW, thanks for all the encouragement regarding my upcoming photo exhibition in September!)

POSTSCRIPT: A web search suggests that the references are to a television show, not a game. So the game I'm thinking of must have been inspired by the television show, I guess.

What causes really short contrails? I just looked out the windows (police helicopter caught my attention so I went upstairs and OOH! REALLY COOL SUNSET!) and noticed four jets to the west, none of which had a contrail longer than a degree or two of arc. They look like apostrophes, except for the one close enough to see twin trails, which looks like quotation marks. I'm used to seeing contrails stretch at least a quarter of the way across the sky, and some days clear from horizon to horizon.

Is it simply a humidity/temperature thing?

(Interestingly, the tiny contrails are very brightly lit in gold by the setting sun. Gotta go load some colour film, since the camera I grabbed has BW in it.)

In other news, the police helicopter was hovering when I first got upstairs. It almost never hovers; it usually circles. It did move after several seconds though. (Someone explained to me why hovering consumes many times as much fuel as even slow forward motion in a helicopter, which I suppose is why the Baltimore police so seldom hover.

Argh! I keep trying to enter 'vi' commands when I'm editing a comment to someone else's journal in Opera. "[Esc]kk^wi" does not do the right thing in a text-entry box in the browser. (Hey, wouldn't it be neat if I could specify such behaviour in a browser config file / preferences screen / someplace?) As far as I can tell, the version of 'clive' I'm using is only good for posting entries, not comments. I should get around to installing a LiveJournal client that lets me do everything that I'm currently doing in the web interface ... but it'll have to do it all in ways that don't annoy me. I'm picky about my user interfaces.