Error message of ze day

Posted: December 13th, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

The International Mozart Foundation in Austria has posted the sheet music for all of Mozart's scores online, and is offering them as free downloads. Apparently they're been very popular, and the number of downloads must be straining their server, because the download page bears this warning message:

NOTE: We are overvelmed by the resonance of this website. We regret
any delays in accessing this site and are working on expanding
our server capacities


Yeoz, weightlifter

Posted: December 6th, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | 6 Comments »
Yeoz, weighlifter
GNE Banana

While poking around on my hard drive, I unearthed
a Game Neverending chat transcript from about three years ago. It's from when yeoz had discovered a bug in GNE Mark II that allowed him to pick up an enormous number of items, and he was seeing just how far it would go. Here's his moment of glory:

yeöz:*Ahem*
yeöz picks up 2880851 bananas.
striatic: yes!
Aaaugh! applauds

yeöz: You pick up 2880851 bananas. pack weight +230468080.

yeöz: i'm not going to eat them though…
striatic cries tears of joy.

yeöz drops 2880851 bananas.
striatic: are you still below 0% capacity
yeöz: holy cow
yeöz: it jumped even
yeöz: -531k%
Aaaugh!: What are you going to do for an encore?
striatic: because then you can walk around with them and not lose energy
yeöz picks up 2880851 bananas.
yeöz drops 2880851 bananas.

striatic: weird
yeöz: i'm only -70k% with *all* the bananas 🙂
Plurp has arrived.
Aaaugh!: I wonder how many harpsichords you could carry now.
striatic: nice work
Plurp: An infinite number.


The Wombat

Posted: December 3rd, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | No Comments »

The wombat lives across the seas,
Among the far Antipodes.
He may exist on nuts and berries,
Or then again, on missionaries;
His distant habitat precludes
Conclusive knowledge of his moods,
But I would not engage the wombat
In any form of mortal combat.

—Ogden Nash