Remember the scene in The Matrix where Neo dodges the bullets? Well, someone turned that scene into an ASCII movie! This is the first ASCII movie I have ever scene, and it is really cool. I am thinking that there had to be some type of frame capturing from the original movie, and then those captures run thru something to convert it to ASCII. If not, then someone just had a lot of time on there hands and some serious ASCII skills.
Monthly Archives: May 2005
Letter to Ikea
I know of people who have driven literally hundreds of miles to shop at an Ikea store, and have said they would do it again. I, personally, would not do that for any store, but thats just me. Having never been to an Ikea myself, and only hearing about them from friends, I found this letter to Ikea from a “pleased consumer” rather entertaining. Odds are, you will too.
Pepsi Can Stove
I don’t camp much, nor claim to know a lot about true camping, especially as when I do camp it is usually some place with some kind of plumbing, but I do know that certain things are needed when you do camp. When thing is a way to cook and prepare food. This is usually acomplished by some type of a fire pit, but why not a home made Pepsi can stove? Yep thats right, a stove made out of a Pepsi can, well ok three pepsi cans to be exact. I think this is really neat, and might even make one.
File sizes
While searching through digg tonight I came across this neat little article that shows how all the file sizes relate. I thought it was interesting, and it really puts file sizes into perspective, well at least in relation to each other.
* 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
* 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
* 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
* 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
* 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
* 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte – In 2000, 3 exabytes of information was created
* 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
* 1000 Zettabyte = 1 Zottabyte
* 1000 Zottabyte = 1 Brontobyte – that is a 1 followed by 27 zeroes
15 Pound Burger
Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA has recently reclaimed “its crown as the home of the world’s biggest burger” with the introduction of there new 15 pound “Beer Barrel Belly Buster” according to this article.
The burger comes with 10.5 pounds of ground beef, 25 slices of cheese, a head of lettuce, three tomatoes, two onions, a cup-and-a-half each of mayonnaise, relish, ketchup, mustard and banana peppers — and a bun.
Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub had previously held the crown of the world’s biggest burger with a 6-pound burger that had 5 pounds of toppings. However, one month after Kate Stelnick of Princeton, N.J., “a 100-pound female college student, became the first to eat the burger within the three-hour time limit”, the Clinton Station Diner in Clinton, N.J. introduced a larger one.
Now, I consider myself to have a large appetite, heck I have even conquered the Gobbler at Gaylord’s Gobbler Restaurant, but I don’t think I would have been able to eat the 11 pound burger that Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub previously offered, and definitely not this 15 pound monster!