House of the Undying scene in GoT S01E10 - disappointing (Blog Post)

The House of the Undying chapter in the book, Clash of Kings is extremely creepy.  In the series? Not so much.  In defense of the producers, it probably would have required the budget of the entire second season to faithfully recreate the scene, but still, I was hoping to see this horrific chapter come to life- especially considering they saved it for the last episode. 

Anyway, here is summary of the chapter for anyone who cares:

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Einstein's Riddle (Blog Post)

Einstein's logic riddle. 

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

A Riddle (Blog Post)

As this riddle was described to me, a 4 year old will solve it in 5-10 minutes, a programmer will solve it in an hour, and you will solve it in.....

 

9313 = 1

7756 = 1

6855 = 3

9881 = 5

8096 = 5

7111 = 0

2172 = 0

6666 = 4

1111 = 0

3213 = 0

7662 = 2

5531 = 0

2222 = 0

7777 = 0

9999 = 4

8809 = 6

0000 = 4

3333 = 0

5555 = 0

8193 = 3

2581 = ???

 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler buffer.

 

 

 

 

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lose loose loser looser (Blog Post)

lose \ˈlüz\
Verb: Be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something): "I've lost my appetite". Cause (someone) to fail to gain or retain (something): "you lost me my appointment at the university".

loose \ˈlüs\
Adjective: Not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached: "a loose tooth".
Verb: Set free; release: "the hounds have been loosed".

loser \ˈlü-zər\
Noun: A person or thing that loses or has lost something, esp. a game or contest. A person who accepts defeat with good or bad grace, as specified: "they should concede that and be good losers"

looser \ˈlüs-ər\
Adjective: Not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached: "a loose tooth". Not held or tied together; not packaged or placed in a container: "wear your hair loose".

In Bb (Blog Post)

http://www.inbflat.net/

 

Based on Terry Reilly's famous piece 'In C', some creative youtubers have recorded themselves noodling in the key of Bb.  Start and stop individual tracks as you like to create your own version of the piece.   

 

 

ProcrastinationSift (Blog Post)

How am I supposed to get anything done, dag.  Seriously.  There is just way too much to do on this site.  Like right now for instance.  I need to copy some music at kinkos, pay some urgent bills, get my car registered and still leave time to drive/load into my gig at 6, yet here I am, writing this blog.  Damn you all to hell for making me procrastinate.   

Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department (Onion) (Blog Post)

CHEYENNE, WY—After attempting to contain a living-room blaze started by a cigarette, card-carrying Libertarian Trent Jacobs reluctantly called the Cheyenne Fire Department Monday. "Although the community would do better to rely on an efficient, free-market fire-fighting service, the fact is that expensive, unnecessary public fire departments do exist," Jacobs said. "Also, my house was burning down." Jacobs did not offer to pay firefighters for their service.

 

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32825

IssyKitty and I are Leaving The Sift.... (Blog Post)

... to go on vacation.  I've got a gig in Montana and Issy is going with.  We might even get to see kp along the way.  Check out our sweet new ride! Some call it 'The Pumpkin'.

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We will be back online in a few days when we find some wireless.   Unplugging... laptop... Nooooooo!

 

Your Top Ten Horror Films. (Blog Post)

Blankfist, Smibbo and I seem to share a love of horror films, and I was curious to see if there are other horror fans out there, so feel free to go ahead and list your top 10 (or so) horror films of all time.  Just for fun, why not list your 3 least favorite horror films too.  There are plenty of horror films I haven't seen, so hopefully you can turn me on to some good scares.

 

Top 11 

1. The Shining

2. Alien

3. Evil Dead II

4. Poltergeist

5. Lost Highway

6. Jacob's Ladder

7. Shaun of the Dead

8. Nightmare on Elm Street

9. Dawn of the Dead (2004)

10. Blair Witch

11. Psycho (obligatory classic)

 

Bottom 3

I'm going to limit my bottom 3 to films that had some artistic merit to begin with to liven the discussion, otherwise it would be impossible to narrow down between the infinite terrible sequels of all the various horror franchises. 

1. Wendigo - The trailer was great, the moster was cool looking, but the film just had nowhere to go.

2. Devil's Rejects - Rob Zombie's white trash horror opera did well with critics and fans, but I found it dull and meandering.

3.  Event Horizon - A nice build up, but oh what a dissapointing climax.

 

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