Archive for the 'Script Flipping' Category
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Why you should always pay your webdesigners!
LatinStarMag.com decided not to pay their web designers, and after 7 months they are got tired of the lies and promises.
Below are the results.
-CGP fo Life-
Friday, December 7th, 2007
I Can Haz Logo?
After a year long hiatus (A.K.A. payin the bills), CGP is coming back, and we even have a new look. MoveableType killed itself so the blog’s on Wordpress now. There’s a new design, and a kick-ass new logo thanks to BeskOne at BigRedSquirrel. All the old posts from the old site have been imported but comments didnt make it. The old site will stay up just cause I’m lazy. Look for new posts coming soon! -CGP fo Life-
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Das UberTap and Ultimate Cocktail
The UberTap is bound to change the world (of college keggers)! With the Ubertap, you can laugh at the sad frat boys next door and their antiquated “hand-pump” and single hose dispenser because you my friend, you have THREE. The foot pedal pump means you never even have to break a sweat while filling endless dixie cups of PBR and Naughty Ice.
” What used to require expensive CO2 systems or tedious manual hand-pumping has now been replaced by a foot pump. This allows the user “handsfree†pressurization of the keg. By merging a brass and stainless steel coupling system with a stainless steel tri-splitter, Uber technology has created the toughest and most efficient beer dispensing device on the market today. A securely engineered seal and the seamless integration of the shaft with the tri-splitter allows the Uber tap to create the most efficient flow with the least amount of disturbance to the beer as it moves from the keg to the faucets. This system decreases wait time of users by allowing for swifter pumping and filling at the keg.
Features:
• Foot Pump replaces the less efficient traditional hand pump
• Tri-splitter to allow dispensation from three hoses at once
• Best engineered fit of any system available
• Seamless integration for least disturbance of beer as it moves through system”
And when the sun comes up, and your tired of puking beer, thats when you break out The Ultimate Cocktail! This ingenious device combines with the Ubertap to form VOLTRON the perfect party drink dispenser.
“In pursuit of perfection Uber tap engineers synchronized innovation and performance to create the final stage in the evolution of the punch bowl. With so many other choice beverages to dispense, beer is now just one of many tapped by a picnic pump. By linking a keg tap to the Ultimate Cocktail, party throwers can now eliminate the all too common mess, sticky floor, and drunken beverage contamination, while providing their guests with a signature cocktail for any event.
Turn any drink into a tapped beverage. Just pour in your drink, tap, and serve. Using advanced technology and functionality, the Ultimate Cocktail consists of a pressurized bottle with a screw top keg valve making for a miniature, reusable, plastic keg for drinks ranging from sports quenchers to Jungle Juice.
Features:
• Connects to your UberTap™
• Unique Design allows you to pressurize and tap any beverage
• Available in 5, 15, & 30 liter units
• Available for A, D, G, S, & U UberTapâ„¢ systems”
I may have to replace my work coffee mug with one of these badboys.
-CGP fo Life-
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Treehouse Pimpin
Do you have a spoiled kid and an extra $18,000? Or maybe you have a pirate obsession and need a place to hide from your wife? Well then Costco has your answer.
“Each tree house is built in two main pieces: the playhouse and the log. The log is a real, old fallen tree that we hollow out using a chainsaw! To get into the playhouse, simply enter the door in the hollow log, climb up the ladder in the center of the log and pull yourself through the trap door in the floor of the playhouse. Kids or no kids, this tree house is an incredible addition to any landscape!
Every tree house is a unique creation. That’s because no two logs are exactly alike. Although they each differ, they’re all extraordinary! Skallywag Sloop tree houses are about 14’ tall at the roof peak, and 20’ tall at the top of the flag. The average log is about 4′ in diameter. It’s a snug fit, but a large adult can easily climb inside and stand straight up with room to spare.”
When I was a kid, I was lucky to get an eyepatch, let-alone a kisk-ass pirateship treehouse thats worth more than my car.
-CGP fo Life-
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
Backlit Keyboard Disco
If your like me, your easily entertained by blinking lights, and semi-obsessed with iTunes visuals.
Well some guy named Stefan is too, so he wrote an iTunes plug-in that makes your backlit keyboard react to the music.
Backlight Visualizer for iTunes on MacOS X
After seeing info on hacking the keyboard backlight of newer Apple portables and someone posting a CPU meter using the backlight, I decided that it would be time to put this into an iTunes plugin.new and improved: now it can optionally blink the screen’s backlight! Use at your own risk.
-CGP fo Life-
Monday, May 15th, 2006
Analog Piracy
This how-to is my favorite kind of hack. They show you how to make a copy of a record (thats right VINYL baby) with some basic hardware store items. Silicon for the (reusable) base mold and some liquid plastic for the new record. It doesnt damage the original at all. You can only copy one side, and I am sure the mold would only last a few copies, but it’s so simple even small children and stoners could do it.
-CGP fo Life-
Technorati Tags: mold, hardware store, liquid plastic, stoners, cgp, hack, silicon, new record
Technorati Tags: hardware store, mold, technorati, liquid plastic, stoners, cgp, hack, silicon, new record
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
Minor CGP Updates
For the past year both comments and trackbacks have been turned off here to avoid dealing with all the spam, but now that Akismet is available for MovableType and there’s a fix for MT-BlackList comments and trackbacks are back on (for now at least).
Have fun!
-CGP fo Life-
Technorati Tags: cgp, blacklist, spam, fun
Technorati Tags: blacklist spam, cgp, fun, technorati
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Damn You Dietrich
Your a drunken middle-aged Swedish executive from the now defunct Gizmondo, with a million dollar Enzo Ferrari, and a German friend named Dietrich. So what do you do when someone with a half-million dollar MacLaren Mercedes SLR challenges you to a race? You let Deitrich crash it into a pole going 120mph on Pacific Coast Highway of course! And here’s a video of the aftermath.
-CGP fo Life-
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
The Pirate eBay
The Pirate Bay is auctioning off a single shirt and a night of drinking for a ridiculous amount of money. From the auction:
“The Pirate Bay is the worlds largest bittorrent tracker. It also has one of the world’s most obnoxious, retarded yet pleasant crews behind it. You probably know who we are since you found this auction.
Since we have a lot of bandwidth usage and low salaries for working on our site, we’ve decided to sell a one of a kind t-shirt.
Yes, you heard us. We’re selling out a really nice t-shirt. The t-shirt (as pictured below) is a an original copy of the original itself.
Anyhow, if you win this auction you will receive the “honor” of paying your own fare to Stockholm, Sweden, and pay for all your own expenses (i.e. hotel, food, 1337, whatever you’re into). You will also get to treat the seller to a nice dinner in town with pleasant conversations about happy times and joy-joy feelings. And yeah, we need something to wash down the food with as well.
So, who will you be able to hang with? All of the crew basically. Anakata, Tiamo, and the non-mentionable behind the scenes-people. We’re about 4-5 people that you are interested in meeting and showing of your precious new t-shirt to.
The pick-up date and size will be negotiated with the buyer.”
As of this writing the auction is almost at $4,000.
-CGP fo Life-
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Saturday, January 14th, 2006
Tickr For Flickr
Tickr for Flickr is a really nice and simple Flickr desktop ticker. Type in a tag, pick an image size and screen location, and watch the pictures scroll. Under the hood are tons of little features that make this one elegant application.
“But you probably want to know a little more about the images you’re seeing, so you can point to them with your mouse and see the title the photographer gave the image, the tags which people have given the image, and the original image’s size in pixels. If you double-click the image, its flickr page will open in your web browser.
tickr’s contextual menu deserves a little discussion. By right- or Control-clicking on an image, you can bring up a contextual menu from which you can pause and resume the tickrshow, open the image’s flickr page (same as a double-click), open a larger version of the image, or open the photographer’s photostream page. All of these options will open a new window in your favorite web browser. You can also copy a link to the image’s flickr page (great for showing your friends an image in Newspeak!) or copy the image itself to the clipboard. If you save the image to your Pictures folder, they’ll be saved in a subfolder called tickr Downloads.”
-CGP fo Life-
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