Aleksander Skjæveland Larsen

Make your own sun-dried tomatoes (in the oven)

ogrim — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:57:33 +0000

Slice cheap, tasteless tomatoes in half. Put them in the oven at 100° C for 5-7 hours, depending on the size. Leave the door slightly open so moisture can escape.

They now has a flavor!

Graffiti Markup Language

ogrim — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:10:02 +0000

Makup languages are fun.

GML = Graffiti Markup Language from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

Via http://thepiratesdilemma.com/

Strangehome & Habakukk – Bolivia

ogrim — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:55:06 +0000

Some friends requested I put this online. It is something we made years ago, as part of a project at school, gathering money for an orphan home in Bolivia.

01 – Tore vant
Track #1 is about our friend Tore, which won the contest to be featured as the events yearly postcard. Hence the title Tore vant (Tore won). A teacher entered the classroom and announced he had won. The teacher also said it was to be kept a secret until lunchtime, as it where to be announced to the rest of the classes. Our reaction was to spontaneously make up a victory song, to counteract the teachers admonition by singing it aloud in the canteen area.

02 – Batseba
Track #2 is a love song for a girl in the class, Batseba (Bathsheba). I can’t recall why she is called this. It surely makes no sense.

03 – Dragonflames in Bolivia
Track #3 is a result of our need to make cheesy power metal. The lyrics do not make sense.

04 – Jahn Kenneth
Track #4 is a bonus track. It is the result of spontaneously making a song of celebration when Jahn Kenneth suddenly appeared in his home town. Everyone thought he was in another part of the country. This song is legendary.

Album in ZIP-archive

Merry Christmas

ogrim — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:55:16 +0000

You can have it, please

Best commercial I have ever seen

ogrim — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:18:22 +0000

Pixelicious wallpaper #2

ogrim — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:30 +0000

Today I made another wallpaper. It is done by data bending the last wallpaper in a hex editor, finding and enlarging an interesting composition.

Download full size (1920×1080)

Pixelicious wallpaper

ogrim — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:33:44 +0000

Here is a wallpaper I made the other day. I like it very much. Spread the pixel love.

Download the full-sized wallpaper (1920×1080)
or look at some closeups below

TVTracker: crazy idea

ogrim — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:54:59 +0000

Now I have the great idea that I should write TVTracker from scratch in C++, using some cross-platform framework for the user interface. When I first wrote the application, I never thought I would extend it to support different types of media. If I am going to add support for a DVD type, I pretty much have to rewrite everything, stupid me. Also, I could get support for Mac OS.

Internet dunces

ogrim — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:58:09 +0000

We all laugh in unison at the dunces of the internet. Usually they lack basic netiquette, and make themselves look terrible stupid. Like desperately trying to control a discussion by deleting fair comments on a blog or other websites, and disregard all reasonable critique. We can only facepalm when reading about musicians, artists and companies suing discussion forums, journalists and bloggers when they get bad press. Another kind of these dunces are those trying to use pictures they find when searching online.

If you find a picture you would like to use on another site, you are supposed to upload it to your own server or service. If you use the image directly you are hot-linking, which is bad practice. Every time someone browses your hot-linked site, you load the image directly from the source, hence stealing bandwidth. In many cases the source has to pay for the bandwidth used, so in some sense it is equal to stealing money. There are ways of protecting against this, but I have not bothered to set this up for two good reasons:

One: the bandwidth from my host is free
Two: it brings much joy and power

Joy and power? Yes, when people are hot-linking you can replace the original image with something horrible, giving you a direct impact on the thieving websites. Recently I discovered some sites hot-linking to the old Statoil logo featured in this post. I decided to replace the Statoil logo with a funny picture that would make no sense in the context. By doing this, I am having quite fun by slightly defacing another persons website. Also I am sending a signal that if I would, I could replace the image with something truly repulsive and disgusting.

Let us look at the bandits in question.

Bandit #1:

after my image replacement:

Bandit #2:

after my image replacement:

Bandit #3:

after my image replacement:

What are the facts?

Swedes are hot-linkers
Hot-linkers are bandits
Bandits are bad
Victims of hot-linking may receive great joy

What can we infer?

Swedes are bandits
Swedes cause great joy
Bandits cause great joy

Haha, contradictions.

TVTracker: note to self

ogrim — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:35:39 +0000

I get lost when I watch my MacGyver DVDs. I should add a DVD type to TVTracker, so I can count episodes on a disk (usually 5) and reset the count when I increment the disk number.