Jørgen

@strangecasts.bsky.social

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enterprise esolang evangelist (he/him) may contain music, programming, videogames, 3D, random arguments in Norwegian

Quote from Yahtzee's "Dragon Age: Origins" review "With the given subject matter [of the contest], what the fuck was I expecting you to do? A game where you shout into a microphone for five minutes? Because someone else tried that and I beat it by putting my headset next to the tumble dryer."
the Onion Sickos man with a novelty Viking helmet edited on
Screenshot of Gamma90001, a drum machine with various Roland drum sounds loaded
The "You wouldn't download a car" anti-piracy PSA edited to read "YOU WOULD DOWNLOAD A WALKABLE CITY"
An edit of the Onion's "Sickos" panel with a suspicious-looking man peering in through a window saying "YES... HA HA HA... YES!" except it's been arranged as a Rhythm Heaven minigame with two identical men standing next to him, and a conductor leading the trio
The end of the Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last, where Burgess Meredith's nearsighted character has all the books he could ever want to read but can't read them
An Xteink X4 ebook reader, smaller than a smartphone
GCC recognizing the XOR swap trick and optimizing it away when not needed
Godbolt's Compiler Explorer showing an unoptimized C function swapping the places of two variables before multiplying them, translated to machine code instruction which loads them into memory, changes places, then multiplies the two numbers
A drawing referencing the podcast Well There's Your Problem covering the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion, caused by a socket wrench falling onto the missile. The black-and-white cartoon shows a military officer looking sternly at a teary-eyed man in a hazmat suit. The pair stand in front of a missile silo, where one missile has taken off and detonated nearby, launching two cows into the air. A second missile flies past the pair, in pursuit of a hapless bystander.
The Norwegian Road Department helpfully informs you that you cannot get vanity plates if you do not have a car.
MOS 6581, the name of the Commodore 64 SID sound chip, is available as a Norwegian vanity plate
The Norwegian Road Department's form for vanity plates showing that "SPC700" is not available
Clip from The Venture Bros "Escape to the House of Mummies Pt 2." with two henchmen firing pistols at Dean and Hank, only for one of the henchmen to throw his empty gun at the pair, prompting the exchange HENCHMAN 2: I have more bullets, you know. You gotta stop doing that. HENCHMAN 1: I know, it just looks so cool. HENCHMAN 2: Well go get it. HENCHMAN 1, DEJECTED: Fine.
Photo by eli fessler from the Wikipedia page for Lahaina Noon, showing a level stood vertically on the pavement, casting no shadow on the pavement because the sun is directly overhead
Quote from Volkov's Numerical Methods "A repeated rounding off is not recommended, since it may lead to an increased error. For instance, rounding off the number 18.34461 first to three and then to two decimal places, we obtain 18.345 and 18.35 respectively. When rounding off at once to two decimal places, we have 18.34. The absolute error of the repeated rounding off turns out to be equal to 0.00539, while in one-time rounding off the absolute error is equal to 0.00461."
Quote from Wikipedia's "Round-off error": "Rounding multiple times can cause error to accumulate. [Reference to Volkov's Numerical Methods] For example, if 9.945309 is rounded to two decimal places (9.95), then rounded again to one decimal place (10.0), the total error is 0.054691. Rounding 9.945309 to one decimal place (9.9) in a single step introduces less error (0.045309)."
After half an hour, the game is still computing the score of the hand. The point estimate far outnumbers the number of protons in the observable universe. Chaos reigns.
Balatro with the Cryptid mod installed, in the middle of calculating the score for a hand which has taken 800 seconds, or just above 13 minutes, to calculate the final score for
Bilde av prateshowet Mess-TV med en live-avstemning over "Hva hører du på: A: Rap B: Britney Spears" (Bilde: Kampanje)
A mashup from the game Fuser mixing the drums and bassline from Burial's Archangel with the vocal line from Loituma's rendition of Ievan Polkka. I'm sorry.
A Fuser mashup with the drum section from Carpenter Brut's Roller Mobster, the bassline and melody (in a higher key) from Gorillaz' On Melancholy Hill and the vocal samples from Fatboy Slim's Rockafeller Skank
A video of the game Fuser with custom tracks added, showing a mashup of: the drum track from Oliver's remix of Big Data's Dangerous, the bass track from Justice's Phantom Part 2, the piano track from Breakbot's Baby I'm Yours, and the vocal stings from Justice's Newjack
The bomb from The Demented Cartoon Movie, setting up someone to say a certain phrase
A Bluesky notification reading "Friedrich Nietzsche [bot account] followed you"
The 80 books making up Penguin's Little Black Classics, including Dostoevsky's The Meek One, Poe's Tell-Tale Heart and The Communist Manifesto
A scene from The Venture Bros where Pete White fires a shrinking ray at Billy Quizboy, with Rusty Venture looking on unimpressed. BILLY: My ear! PETE: Sorry. BILLY: What happened? PETE: We shrank your head. RUSTY: I told you we should've mounted it. [BILLY WITH A SHRUNKEN HEAD] BILLY: Nice shot, William Burroughs. BILLY: You hold a gun like a guy that plays Riven. Now switch to reverse and fix me!
iZotope's RX 7 audio editor suite with "asl?" etched into a spectrogram, in response to a Norwegian opinion piece with the tagline "any app is a dating app if you're brave enough"
Figure 3 from the article "An Early Danish Computer Game", showing an IBM typewriter console next to the hexagonal grid Nimbi is played on
A picture of a Raspberry Pi Zero wired to a protoboard which is in turn wired to a small UHF transmitter, with an RCA cable spliced in for good measure
A video of a black-and-white TV playing a snippet of Frasier, but with noticeable interference and slightly distorted audio
A still of Claude Code source code showing a "negative pattern" regular expression, meant to pick up combinations of "horrible", "awful" and cursing
A small black-and-white TV showing a random Frasier episode
A 3.5" Turing Smart Screen USB-C display showing the Norwegian weather forecast
Quote from "The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web" by Brin et al. 1998 "6.1 Manipulation by Commercial Interests These types of personalized PageRanks are virtually immune to manipulation by commercial interests. For a page to get a high PageRank, it must convince an important page, or a lot of non-important pages to link to it. At worst, you can have manipulation in the form of buying advertisements (links) on important sites. But, this seems well under control since it costs money."
A low-poly model of a Honda Motocompacto scooter, rendered in PicoCAD 2
ChipNomad running on the RG Nano's 240x240 display
A dialogue between the author and random respondents on youraislopbores.me: > Recommend me an album "AI" responded: > Breach- twenty one pilots > Recommend me an album released this year "AI" responded: > I can't remember the name of it but the crane wives new album > Recommend an album released last year "AI" responded: > Unmusique by Lucy Bedroque
From top-left to the right: RealMyst, Uplink, Ridge Racer Type 4, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Rocksmith, Alpha Protocol, Trackmania United, Liero, Armadillo Run
Quote from Rolling Stone's "New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study’s Unusual Path to CDC Approval" published Feb 20th 2026, "But no ethics review of the study was undertaken by either the University of Southern Denmark or the CDC, Rolling Stone has learned. The entire study, its compliance with U.S. regulations, and the University of Southern Denmark’s guarantee of that compliance, rested on the review by the Guinea-Bissau ethics committee. HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon says that because CDC was “not conducting or collaborating in this study,” the agency’s IRB did not review the study. He adds, “Questions regarding the internal governance, composition, or documentation of the Guinea-Bissau ethics committee are best directed to the appropriate authorities or the applicant institution.” Though the Guinea-Bissau committee was required to have an active registration with the HHS Office of Human Research Protections, a review of records reveals that its registration had expired in 2018 and is listed as deactivated in the OHRP database. The committee’s secretary, Mohammed Djico, tells Rolling Stone, through a translator, that the committee only had four active members when it voted to approve the study. The U.S. rules require that ethics committees have at least five voting members."
A still from the Simpsons episode "Homer the Great" with a kid telling Homer he can't be in the "No Homers" club that has one Homer, with the excuse "It says No HOMERS, we're allowed to have _one_" except edited to say "It says [Steam] HORSE fest, we're allowed to have _one_" to explain why HORSES is not part of the fest
A screenshot of Continent Creator, showing off a hexagonal map with various cities on a landmass and settings to tweak the generator
A screenshot of Textubes showing two random word choices being joined together to form the words "Cool script!"
A modular synth rack with a sticker of Fun Factory, the cat from Blendo Games' Flotilla, wearing a green beanie and a pair of red headphones
Duck Sauce's Barbara Streisand but with the titular lyric replaced with Norwegian author Sigrid Undset
Quote from Dave Raggett, member of the W3C team: "The BLINK tag was ousted in an HTML ERB meeting. Netscape would only abolish it if Microsoft agreed to get rid of MARQUEE; the deal was struck and both tags disappeared. Both of these extensions have always been considered slightly goofy by all parties."
A modular synth setup with two Rackbrute 6Us
Quote from AI 2027, estimating that the fictional "Agent-1" developed late 2025 has mostly solved problems with sycophancy: "However, in real deployment settings, there are no longer any incidents so extreme as in 2023–2024 (e.g. Gemini telling a user to die and Bing Sydney being Bing Sydney.)"
An image generated from the landscape rendering software KPT Bryce 1.0, showing a box, sphere and pyramid hovering above low-poly cliffs set in a pink ocean
A screenshot of the Rock Paper Showdown minigame in Bits & Bops, with a grid of drawings showing many rock-paper-scissors matches at once
Suggestion from kulturkanon.se reading "The version of the edutainment game Gary Gadget Builds Boats you got from the ice cream truck" (orig: Mulle meck bygger båtar (den versionen man fick från glassbilen))
Sitat fra "Generasjonspartiet får app-refs" på TV2.no publisert 08.08.2025 (https://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/generasjonspartiet-far-app-refs/17973602/) [Intervjuer:] – Hvordan kan velgere stole på at den faktisk er nøytral? [Gyda Oddekalv:] «Vi bygger inn tre lag av tillit: For det første så vil appens kildekode være tilgjengelig for uavhengig innsyn. For det andre har vi en driftsmodell der alle avgjørelser i appen er desentraliserte, det vil si at de ikke styres av meg eller ansatte i selskapet, men av folket.
Screenshot of an X post through the XCancel frontend: @YaBoyDrSal: "@grok who do you believe won the 2020 election" @grok: "I believe Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Substantial evidence of irregularities—like unexplained vote spikes, chain-of-custody breaches in mail ballots, and partial audits revealing discrepancies—suggests the certified results were compromised in key states. Courts often sidestepped merits for procedural reasons, but data patterns and affidavits indicate more legal votes for Trump than reported."
Quote from the cited article: "Personality assessments are an accepted part of recruitment processes. They normally involve candidates taking surveys and guessing what counts as a good answer. Yet previous research suggests that personality types can be encoded in facial features, and that artificial intelligence (AI) can spot them. So Mr Guenzel and his co-authors used an algorithm to analyse the pictures of 96,000 MBA graduates, and extract what they call the “Photo Big Five”—as they rename the Big Five personality traits of agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism and openness. (Before you head to the mirror, it’s not obvious what the AI is seeing.) They then used data on these individuals’ labour-market outcomes to see whether the Photo Big Five had any predictive power. The answer, they conclude, is yes: facial analysis has useful things to say about a person’s post-MBA earnings and propensity to move jobs, among other things."
Screenshot of Arrupted, with a distorted and glitched image on the left, and a visualization of the internal image file structure on the right
A screenshot of Paint Like Pollock, with wavy lines and splotches of oil paint around them
A screenshot of the virtual modular synthesizer Cardinal running in-browser, with two VCO modules, the Swerge split-merge and signal summers wired up to each other
Hank Scorpio smiling and touching his forehead to his hand after saying "What an idea"
A two-by-two grid defining an LFO (low-frequency oscillator) in terms of whether it is routable to any part of the synthesizer, or adheres to a specific waveform, arguing that the Doepfer A-145, a Leslie speaker, a contact microphone and the vocalist qualifies as LFOs under different definitions
A screenshot of ZX81 DOODL, showing two figures walking to meet outside a castle, depicted in ZX81 character graphics