I posted a video in commemoration of the event>
http://www.videosift.com/video/David-Attenborough-fools-a-woodpecker

Unfortunately, embedding was disabled on that one, I manage to work around that using my leet computer hack skills, but in the end I was defeated by our strict but fair Lord Youtube, they seem to have some kind of timing on it..

You can still watch it by youtube, just click on the video outside the Play-button

Here I am in all my hyperallergenic middle class vegetarian stereotypical glory.


1. What do you do when you are not on the computer?

eat vegetarian food, fuck a vegetarian, buy vegetables, that sort of thing.
And make music, but that's on a computer... so.... but I play trumpet... Into a computer.


2. Approximate the percentage of time you work and you play on a computer.

like all the freaking time. since i was 5. asthma (see hatred of cars below)
but mostly design or chatting to people back home, i am not a hardcore leet geek hacker or something.
i like any sport that's wet, but i don't live near a lake or sea, so i don't do much sport.
I DJ, with proper records, dnb, dubstep, triphop... no computer. Then i upload the mix into a computer.


3. If you had a time machine would you travel to an era in the past or future? Explain.

depends if you can guarantee my safety, if so, i would like to see the future. but not my own future.


4. What is your ratio of pairs of shoes to undergarments?

1 to 20


5. Do you wear boxers or briefs?

i think you call them trunks.


6. Do you have a Mac, PC or Linux?

mac, but honestly it's only half as annoying as a pc.


7. Would you prefer death by firing squad or salmonella poisoning?

yo firing squad for real. what kind of idiot says anything else? i turned vegetarian after bad food poisoning so, no thanks, not again.


8. Do is you add sprinkles, gravy, nuts or a cherry on top?

gravy? on top of what?


9. Are you a tits, ass, or legs man?

yes.


10. What kind of pet(s) do you have? Include name(s).

none, i would have a cat if i wasn't allergic and i liked the smell of cat piss, i would call it tony blair. no, i would call it whatever my girl wants to call it (see previous question)


11. What is your favorite kind of taco?

those things that break when you bite them and spill meat all over you which (did i mention) i don't eat?


12. What is your favorite source for news?

videosift


13. What is your beer preference? Or other beverage (poison) of choice?

beeeeeer. anything english from a local brewery. Or Svyturys in Lithuania if i want lager, or a real lithuanian live beer, preferably dark. I feel old just typing this. I even like whisky now.


14. Have you ever been arrested?

No. Searched, but they didn't find it hahahahah.


15. Which is your Cheetos preference: Crunchy Cheese or Puffs?

Yikes. You eat that shit?


16. How would you describe your coif: bangs, balding or rug?

bangs wtf?
it's just off the collar, and a bit girly.


17. Is your face clean-shaven or do you have a beard, a goatee or a mustache?

smooth skin: kiss.
scabby red itchy hairy prickly skin: no kiss.


18. List your five most cherished possessions.

any video or audio recording i ever made.
banksy print, powerbook, trumpet, erm... i haven't got much else.


19. What religion did you practice as a child?

anglican christianity, but i didn't get it.


20. What is your favorite childhood memory?

yikes.
can't choose a favourite. i get vivid flashbacks though, normally embarassment or mundanity.
probably best feeling was sailing, in the sun, in a one man boat.
what i didn't like was the time i fell off waterskiing and forgot to clench my buttocks and about 30 litres of water raped me.


21. What was your favorite childhood television show?

terrahawks (gerry anderson... i think i have a sift somewhere)
things that fly out of buildings into space are awwwwweeeeeesssssssommmmeee.

22. What is your most sacred personal rant?

people should fucking create their own shit, and the government should invest more in creativity and education, capitalism alone doesn't work for art.

also cars and outdoor advertising should be banned. especially outdoor advertising of cars.


23. What is a reason not to go to Burning Man?

it's thousands of miles away and the water's expensive?


24. Who is your favorite Sift Hero?

choggie for insisting on creativity, literally with every word he writes.


25. How would your characterize SiftBot: slave, servant or secret overlord?

fiction


26. Do you have any image(s) of yourself online that you're willing to share?

if the roast is fun i am willing to unmask myself a bit. maybe some music. but i post as MINK, not myself, so my face is not relevant to the roast.


27. What is your quest?

to make 100% of my money from creativity and to spread that around. sounds lofty, but so does the word "quest". I do hope that after i die, someone enjoys something I made, and they say "hey, that guy made cool shit, shame he's dead". That's all.


28. What is your favorite color?

red. aries. what can i do.

Let the record show that I resent the male meat eating american bias in these questions but i'm like cool with it, you know, you can't help being a freaking yank.

>> ^anyprophet:
I wish I could downvote this shit. There is nothing funny or clever about this video.
ISN'T IT FUNNY THAT THE TURRETS FROM PORTAL TALK LIKE TEH GAMING NERDS AND USE LEET SPEAK?!!/11


Um, last I check 1337 speak was typed, not spoken... And things like
"OMG" "ROFL" and "LOL" aren't gaming terms. They're internet chat acronyms. Learn something before you spew stupid shit onto a thread.

I wish I could downvote this shit. There is nothing funny or clever about this video.

ISN'T IT FUNNY THAT THE TURRETS FROM PORTAL TALK LIKE TEH GAMING NERDS AND USE LEET SPEAK?!!/11

and @MGR I have respect for you and I understand where you and deedub are coming from however consider this: it's a heterosexual culture. Heteros don't need to "shove it in your face" because that's already done for you. Billboards, advertisements, fashion, hell even polite banter all goes on the assumption that everyone is heterosexual (especially men)
While the vast majority of gays are used to that and deal with it just fine, it's very annoying to hear "don't shove it in my face" as if gays are on some kind of mission to "force" everyone to acknowledge their gayness. It's not about "shoving it in your face" it's about being allowed to comfortably express a part of you that is not consider "normal" and not have to feel threatened by doing so. Sure, going into an online game server with "gayboy" as a name is begging for harrassment, think about it - it shouldn't be seen as such. THe reason everyone is on that server is because they want to play a game. What do you care if someone is gay, right? Well by the same token what do you care if that gamers primary sense of identity happens to be connected to his sexuality? COnsidering some of the more offensive and stupid names I've seen on servers that refer to heterosexuality (Usually names indidcating what a huge genital member they have) or satanism (which I do not really believe there are THAT many satanists on game servers) or their "leetness" I can't believe you'd be so asinine as to say something disparaging about someone choosing the benign title of "gayboy"
I'd think someone who calls himself "gayboy" far more mature than "bigbon3r" or "c00zdiv3r" or "b33lz3bub" any day of th eweek

Okay, this almost didn't get my vote for the leet speak. VERY nice instant replays from multiple angles.

Just loaded Orange Box/Steam today.
since the name "firefly" was taken I'm now...PHiR3FLy (huzzah for leet speak conversions!)

by the way what's the voicechat of choice? X-fire? Ventrilo? neither?

Measure the stick, and the shadow of the stick, and you get a triangle, in this case the sunlight hit the stick in Alexandria at a 7 degree angle.. so the triangle would be 90, 83 and 7 degrees.

so if the stick was 100cm tall, then the shadow would be 12.3 cm long, so thats 7 degrees angle between the imagined line from the top of the stick to the end of the shadow.

LEET Drawing:

Alexandria:
\\
\\\sunlight
\\\
\\\\

7 degrees
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90 83

Syena:

||||
|||sunlight
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0
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no shadow..

In other words, assuming that the sunlight was parallel, the two sticks would join in the center of the earth at 7 degrees.(they were not parallel, as you would expect on a flat earth.)

I have plenty of geek, but virtually no 'leet'. I looked up "noze" in an urban dicitonary and got this:

" A sudden exclamation, traditionally a sarcastic cry of discontent. Usually uttered in a childish voice if spoken, or typed in all caps with Izyized punctuation. Also seen as "OH NOES" '

Thought you were annoyed at one beggin and whining for more toys. Misunderstood, sorry.

disregard the snarky complaint I left on your gtalk.

In reply to your comment:
“oh man, i'm sorry I wasn't trying to be rude. I just always find myself saying "this feature will be in VS 3.0," I find myself saying it so much that I imagine other people are like "When is this stupid vaporware going to appear." Hence my comment saying we have included this feature for vs 3.0 was the vaporware plug.... I was trying to self flagellate and be cute about it. Sorry it got lost in translation.

In reply to your comment:
“You know James? Never mind *discard””

6 or 7 years? We need election cycle returns! I am with you, James.

But all your leet babble about new growth sectors leads me to believe that you are not a friend of a friend of the working man. Kind of like these guys.

great sift.. amazing!!!!!!! how're you supposed to beat these guys at the olympics? practice! practice fellow videosifters. I urge you with the utmost sincerity to find your local archery range and pwn these leet archers. the bar has to be raised. we have to take archery to a new level. this is no easy challenge, and I discourage such an endeavour for the faint of heart but to those of you willing to sacrifice the toil of several years worth of endless practice... I give you a salute, so that we can the hope one day another great archery youtube video will be avaliable for us to gander upon and thus in retrospect indeed know that the limits of archery can indeed defy all comprehension. don't hesitate, have faith, and all the best. all the best you brave bastards.

Or perhaps, "exploited a race condition". That's my sweetie, leet hax0r *and* purveyor of fine feather headdresses.

What's a race condition? Let's look at a real world example, counting attendees at the ballpark.

This ballpark has several entrances, each with a single person counting people as they walk in. Each of those counters has a little handheld computer with a button. The computers are connected wirelessly to a central machine that keeps track of the total for all entrances.

(Did you wonder about counting the people who leave? Congratulations, you get a cookie! We'll skip that, just to keep things simple.)

Ready to write bad counting software now? Whoo, me too! ...the good times just never stop around here. ;-)

So, the central computer can do two things:

1: report on the total number of attendees
2: set the new total number to whatever we say

Each wireless clicker can do just one thing:

1: Ask the central computer for the total number of attendees, add one, and report the new number back

What's the problem? Well, there's a small lag time between when the clicker asks for the total, and when the new total gets back to the central computer.

TWO COUNTERS ENTER, ONLY ONE WILL LEAVE!

Alfred and Bettie both click at the exact same instant
Alfred and Bettie both learn that there are 999 total attendees
Alfred adds one and reports that there are now 1000 total attendees.
Bettie adds one and reports that there are now 1000 total attendees, too.

Whoops? There should be 1001 total attendees, not 1000. We lost one.

Because this is a bug brought on by time, or by when things happen, it's called a "race condition", that is, when two processes run at the same time and assume that nothing will change behind their back.

A hoser is more than any old hick. A hoser was like a L337 hick before the concept of L337 even existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

Wow, makes you thankful that 'leet wasn't an issue back then. Nice one.