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Comment on The Sentinel by Mike Ott

Mike Ott — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:14:14 +0000

I used to wag school to play Sentinel on the C64. Ah the memories.

Comment on MegaHAL by The Magic Pantry › TTM: Time To MegaHAL

The Magic Pantry › TTM: Time To MegaHAL — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:47:23 +0000

[...] Release MegaHAL.10. [...]

Comment on Classification and Censorship by iPhone News : Australian ratings board looks ahead to App Store crackdown

iPhone News : Australian ratings board looks ahead to App Store crackdown — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:43:50 +0000

[...] up as long ago as October of last year, in response to the infamous BabyShaker app. Aussie devs Lloyd Kranzky and Nick Lowe have weighed in on their blogs, and raise some good points: although it’s not [...]

Comment on Movie Science: My Theory of Inception by Blake

Blake — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:26:36 +0000

LLoyd, I like your theory alot. The only thing I might add is that perhaps Ariadne isn’t an assumed identity of Cobb’s, but instead she is actually what his wife looks like. Consider that Cobb has been in his dream for a long time and the two people that we can assume are his best friends (Ariadne and Arthur) both look to be much younger than Cobb. Maybe Cobb is also a graduate student and just as Cobb’s “deeper” dreams show himself and Mal as older he has also aged in the level that he considers to be reality. What do you think?

Comment on Monster Stomp by Tweets that mention The Magic Pantry › Monster Stomp -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention The Magic Pantry › Monster Stomp -- Topsy.com — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:17:35 +0000

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Comment on FAQoverflow by joshhh

joshhh — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 08:22:11 +0000

This is awesome. Thank you Kransky!

Comment on EA Spam by Lloyd Kranzky

Lloyd Kranzky — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:22:02 +0000

OK, THAT’S FUCKING THE LAST STRAW YOU BASTARDS!

NO I AM NOT INTERESTED IN THE DARKSPORE BETA.

NOW YOU DIE!!!

Comment on MegaHAL by Lloyd Kranzky

Lloyd Kranzky — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:10:42 +0000

Continuing work on this, fixing bugs and improving performance. In all of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the word “thong” appears twice, and the word “telephone” appears twice, and they never appear in the same sentence together. But we can ask MegaHAL.10 to generate a sentence that contains them both…

“That is precisely what do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then when you see the grim and gray eyes, while she is a huge ledger upon the road, and telephone to make a careful examination of the others, because the thong is commonly passed between them and that she was very happy to advance, but began to amuse you in a most strange and dramatic character, but the facts in my family.”

Noice.

Comment on A Cunning Plan by Lloyd Kranzky

Lloyd Kranzky — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:46:37 +0000

Expense was to do with location shooting, I believe. The BBC picked up subsequent series on the condition that it move to a studio shoot to cut costs.

I quite like “Beer”. And the one about Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary. But very hard to choose a stand-out favourite.

Comment on A Cunning Plan by Clinton

Clinton — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:06:44 +0000

What’s your favourite episode? It’s a tough call, but I think mine would have to be “Duel and Duality” from “Black Adder the Third” for pure jam packed non-stop hilarity. I must have watched it twenty times or more over the years, and still I laugh like a madman each time. Stephen Fry is superb in the role of The Duke of Wellington –

“You don’t think then, that inspired leadership and tactical ability have anything to do with it?
Nope! It’s all down to shouting! Bah!!!”

I’m surprised to learn that the first season was the most expensive to make. The production quality seemed much higher on subsequent seasons. Was there an improvement in video tech at the time? Less location scenes? Did they just learn to do more with less? Perhaps I should give the commentary a spin.