Iraqi money

A friend just gave me some Iraqi money that doesn't appear to be old.

Life is not fair

Life is not fair. Once you break the conditioning of that, your life will open up. Quit trying to make things fair.

Two children found a bag containing twelve marbles. They argued over how to divide the toys and finally went to see the WISE-MAN. When asked to settle their disagreement, the WISE-MAN asked whether the children wanted him to divide the marbles as a human would or as God would.

The children replied, "We want it to be fair. Divide the marbles as God would."

So, the WISE-MAN counted out the marbles and gave three to one child and nine to the other.

Favorite blog

http://djhives.blogspot.com/ - My favorite blog

What does "is" mean?

Robert Anton Wilson shared a view of E-prime on one of his many videos on youtube. I thought it was really interesting and that it can fix a lot of problems I see in society.

E-Prime, short for English-Prime, refers to a modified English syntax and vocabulary lacking all forms of the verb to be: be, is, am, are, was, were, been and being, and also their contractions. Sentences composed in E-Prime seldom contain the passive voice, which in turn may force the writer or speaker to think differently. By eliminating most uses of the passive voice, E-Prime compels the writer to explicitly acknowledge the agent of a sentence, possibly making the written text easier to read and understand. - wikipedia

Who are you?

You are like a speck; now rethink your life!

TV

Why do you think they call it programming? You have become a part of the mass, no longer an individual, a clone of someone else...

Deus Ex : Playstation 2

I got Deus Ex for PS2. I have only played it for 30 minutes but the game started off with a really slick story involving New World Order types of themes. It was made by Ion Storm.

Programming

I saw this on www.Twittypic.com


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Pygame (Python+SDL) Demo

I wrote this demo. Thanks Brian!



# Collision
# Testing collision with pygame
# Haroon Khalid - 12/02/2008

import pygame
import random
from sys import exit

# INITIALIZE PYGAME
pygame.init()

# SET WINDOW CAPTION
pygame.display.set_caption("Collision Test")

# SET WINDOW RESOLUTION
resolution = (286, 80)
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(resolution, 0, 32)

# SET UP THE FONT AND COLOR
default_font = pygame.font.get_default_font()
font = pygame.font.SysFont(default_font, 20)
white = (255,255,255)

class Enemy(object):
def __init__(self):
enemy = 'enemy.png'
enemyimg = pygame.image.load(enemy).convert()
enemyimg.set_colorkey((76,88,100))
self.image = enemyimg
self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
self.rect.x = 0
self.rect.y = 0

def update(self):
if self.rect.x < bullet =" 'bullet.png'" bulletimg =" pygame.image.load(bullet).convert()" image =" bulletimg" rect =" self.image.get_rect()" x =" 0" y =" 0"> 300:
bullets.remove(self)
else:
self.rect.x += 10
screen.blit(bulletimg,(self.rect.x,self.rect.y))

class Player(object):
def __init__(self):
self.x = 0
self.y = 0
self.alive = True
player = 'player.png'
playerimg = pygame.image.load(player).convert()
self.image = playerimg

def test_input():
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
exit()
elif event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
if event.key == pygame.K_SPACE:
shot_snd.play()
create_bullet()
if event.key == pygame.K_z:
create_enemy()

def draw_stats():
white = (255, 255, 255)
bulletamt = str(len(bullets))
bullettxt = font.render("Bullets: " + bulletamt, True, white)
enemyamt = str(len(enemies))
enemytxt = font.render("Enemies: " + enemyamt, True, white)
screen.blit(enemytxt, (1, 1))
screen.blit(bullettxt, (1, 14))

def create_enemy():
E = Enemy()
E.rect.x = random.randint(200,250)
E.rect.y = 0
enemies.append(E)

def update_enemy():
for enemy in enemies:
enemy.update()

def create_bullet():
b = Bullet()
b.rect.x = p1.x + 25
b.rect.y = p1.y + 7
bullets.append(b)

def update_bullet():
for bullet in bullets:
bullet.update()

# CHECK FOR COLLISION BY COMPARING RECTS W/ LISTS
def check_hit():
for j in bullets:
for k in enemies:
if j.rect.colliderect(k.rect):
zap_snd.play()
if j in bullets:
bullets.remove(j)
if k in enemies:
enemies.remove(k)

# SOUNDS
shot_snd = pygame.mixer.Sound("shot.ogg")
hit_snd = pygame.mixer.Sound("hit.ogg")
zap_snd = pygame.mixer.Sound("zap.ogg")

# LISTS FOR STORING
bullets = []
enemies = []

# CREATE THE PLAYERS SHIP AND POSITION
p1 = Player()
p1.x = 0
p1.y = 29

# SETTING UP SPRITES
bullet = 'bullet.png'
bulletimg = pygame.image.load(bullet).convert()
bg = 'bg.png'
bgimg = pygame.image.load(bg).convert()

# MAIN GAME LOOP
while True:

screen.blit(bgimg, (0,0))
draw_stats()
test_input()
check_hit()
screen.blit(p1.image, (p1.x, p1.y))
update_bullet()
update_enemy()
pygame.display.update()
pygame.time.delay(25)