Turns out that Seattle has rusty things too.
Also, to whom it concerns:
Serious, ridiculous thanks!
The colonials are being properly educated in the ways of tea...
Wow, an update here? I'm amazed. Anyway, thanks.
Is that the remains of some gigantic electric motor?
Cool!
Being a dirty southerner I prefer a drop of PG rather than that funny northern stuff.
(Although we're currently drinking Captain Scott's Strong blend, which is, well, much the same as normal tea)
I must admit, I'm an Assam man, myself. Still, can't go wrong with a good cuppa, no matter the leaf used.
I'll get that picture of me in front of the Cardiff Melinium Center up soon. Maybe we can start some kind of world-wide photo-request service-thingey around here? Adam's already covered Seattle.
(did I do that right?)
Any chance the pics are inspiration/reference material for anything in particular? :)?
Sortie; looking forward to it!
Huge motor, alright.
Good choice with the tea. needs a good bit of tea loaf or cream scones with it, though.
Ooh! Yorkshire tea. Do they even sell it in Seattle?
I hope the headcrab has been "fixed" for your sake.
=P
Turns out the dear Doctor was wrong. Horribly wrong.
http://www.maxsi.dk/upload/?id=1505
In case you haven't guessed, that's the oft-requested picture of me in front of the Cardiff Millenium Centre. Sorry, I didn't do anything silly at the time. (Although it was very amusing to run around the Welsh underground mines while drunk; claiming they were built by Hobbits, which isn't that far away from the truth anyways.)
Come on, The colonials know how to make tea, I mean that's what the boston tea party was for? I mean if you don't like tea why would you make an ocean sized serving?
Nice! Man I wish I knew how to use photoshop or the gimp or something. MS Paint is about as far as I get.
Alrighty then, it took me awhile to dig this out, but here's my response:
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc302/trp92003/Pacesbigday.jpg
It's a bit tricky to tell, but I can assure you, I'm being quite silly. (check out my fancy photo-editing skills, eh?)
Oooh, I've been there! Also, it's awesome GIMP-Editing skills. Who needs an underpaid pirated version of Adobe Photoshop when you got a lovely GPL released tool that allows me to do the basically same thing?
Any reason why there is a particular red circle about a bunch of people on your photo?
Ah sorry, that wasn't clear. That was me. In that circle. I'm in the circle in the picture doing something silly in front of the Wales Millenium Centre. Or, such is my claim. (some may call that claim into question, and perhaps may also question whether or not I've ever even been to Wales. But don't listen to them. I'm in there. And I'm doing something quite silly.)
Glad it sounds like you had a good time. To me the Welsh accent (speaking English) sounds a lot like a Scottish accent, so, um, therefore they must be pretty cool there. Or something. Or rather, they ARE, since I'd know. Having been there.
The site has been updated! This makes GLaDness foster in my heart!
I too, am curious about the choice of background on the monitor. Obviously Adam spent some thought setting up the shot, what with the positioned headcrab and delicious Yorkshire Tea... what could it mean?
Anyone been following up on the "What's in the Box?" ARG? Seems like something Adam would make...
Have you had a chance to visit Bungie yet, Adam?
Adam, or anyone else that has mod rights in the forum, some bloody spam bot has got loose and sprayed rubbish around in there.
(ps, the ones with cyrillic titles are full of pr0n so NSFW!)
Spam users deleted, forum decontaminated, and systems upgraded to the latest phpBB. I'll see if I can enforce a more powerful CAPTCHA thinger too - these bleddy Cylons get everywhere...
ahem.. hate to say this, but, um, errr, *cough cough* *nudge nudge*
... and reCAPTCHA support hacked in.
(It's worked beautifully for the blog-beast, so it may well protect the forum too...)
I mean, look at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30198977/
Have they found a way to "[...] corral a stream of superheated plasma from geosynchronous orbit down to ground level"?
I'd amazed this is possible, I really look forward to seeing it in action in 2016. On another note, turns out what Minerva blew up wasn't a combine island but rather a PG&E ground facillity. Ooops?
Looking at the titles.txt, Metastasis takes place on the 15th October 2009. That's soon. Can we expect some kind of update? If so, did I ruin it by posting this comment? (Or does the blog-beast blog comments like this?)
Oh good job Minerva...
The article was pretty sweet though. A good read.
I realize you guys may be tired of this, but, the WHAT'S IN THE BOX site has been updated. It now features an extremely short film in the form of a newsflash, some newspaper articles, and a cryptic password box. When typing "help" in the box, it says "high contrast". Upon boosting your monitor's contrast you will find that a password is written in the dark background. However, it doesn't work. At least not with me.
Also something I discovered: http://babel-research.eu/
Notice the Black Mesa and Aperture Science logos in the bottom. I tried logging in here with the password, but that didn't work either.
I like it though. It's cryptic, punishingly hard, and interesting. Like MINERVA. I recommend all acolytes to see what they can do with their no doubt carefully honed puzzle-solving skills.
Puzzles? Oh god. Sleep is such a terible waste of time!
This guy seems to have worked most of it out:
http://wikibruce.com/2009/04/a-big-box-of-babel-research/
It seems fiendishly complicated, well beyond my limited expertise / patience.
Sleep, Sortie, is *never* a waste of time ;-).
Now that you have posted a comment on this otherwise forsaken blog, Adam, and thus proven that you haven't died or suffered some hideous accident that prevents you from typing, might you grace us with some commentary on your new life?
It can't all be top-secret-non-disclosure-or-Valve-will-do-horrid-things-to-you stuff!
How are you getting on?
Sleep is a terrible waste of time when there are online puzzles. And when I had to do some homework to tomorrow, but was too tired to do it, and somehow managed make a presentation of the topic without being prepared.
I'll check out these links once I have posted this comment, seems that the guys who made that video also are brilliant at viral campaigns. Awesome!
Oh and there are some photoes of dead antlions, buggys used by rebels to drive to Nova Prospect, and some lazy dogs, all taken in Mexico and uploaded on Adam's FlicR page! Oh and some nature too!
Hummmm..... 2 sick..... 32 million face masks.. 2 sick..... Hummmm... I guess either they must know something I don't or they're morons.
Fracking system, moving it over, sorry for the bother people. :(
... you posted the comment to the wrong article?
68.*.*.* - - [12/May/2009:20:29:39 +0100] "POST /minerva/blogsheep.php?action=commentpost&id=87 HTTP/1.1" 302 - "http://www.hylobatidae.org/minerva/blogsheep.php?action=articleinfo&id=87" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4"
(And there was me trying to track down possible bugs in the dear old blog-beast by peering at Apache's logs. I've now hacked in the article name into comment forms, to reduce the risk of future befuddlement. Carry on! ;-) )
How about an option to delete your comment if it's the lastest post posted and is recent, and how about some fancy method to edit your comments?
Oh and now that Adam is fired from Valve ( see http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2519 ), perhaps we can get some more work done on MINERVA: Out of Time?
I'm pretty sure that was Jay Pinkerton doing the firing. The style matches up perfectly with Jay's plans for if he ever ran a company.
And I'm less clear if he actually can fire people. Walker, sure, but the bylaws regarding Pinkerton disguised as Walker are less clear.
After careful investigation, I have come to the conclusion that the FlicR RSS Feed updates before the Hylobatidae RSS Feed does. Oh well.
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1. Fantastic
Posted by Llevel at 8:34AM, Friday April 3 2009
How do you find the amazing places. I want to go explore them. They look insanely interesting.