Star Citizen has earned over $100 million on a crowdfunding site. I could not find which one, but come on. $100 million pledged toward a game that doesn't even exist? Here is one of the trailers for the game. The company has even already held a CitizenCon, a convention for fans of this not-yet-real game. Amazing.
Rollercoaster Tycoon has been around in some form since 1999. The sixth iteration of it, Rollercoaster Tycoon World, is being release next year. The reason I am including it is because an unnamed player has built a coaster in the game that would theoretically take 210 real-life days and 3,000 years of in-game time to complete. Named “Kairos - The Slow,” the builder realized that in the game, coasters never roll to a stop, no matter how slow they’re going. As long as the track is at a consistent, level height, the speed comes closer and closer to zero, but never reaches it. So, in his words, "The train comes out of the station and hits breaks with slow it down to 4mph [sic]. Then it travels along the track, always losing speed but never stopping, until it gets to the center, where it rolls back and does the spiral again until it gets back to the station.” Here is a link for a video showing another of his coasters The Wheel of Life and Death, which takes 60 real-time hours to complete, but it’s nothing compared to Kairos. I am neither that creative nor obsessive. Would have have conceived such a crazy coaster?
Also yesterday, I came across Apollo17.org. That is a fascinating site that lets you experience the last manned mission to the moon with Apollo 17 in 1972. I just watched the launch, supplanted by seeing the transcript of the astronaut transmissions. At least go Watch that. It is pretty cool.
I also found 10 spectacular cupcakes for the Christmas season.
And a special thanks to my cupcake supplier, DS, for the reindeer ones.
JV is looking a little goofy in this photo. No, wait. This is Goofy looking goofy.
And here is a couple of Mickey's checking out the dolphin tank.
And even a duck as pretty as a Daisy.
In our family, we have long enjoyed a video of a crazy court deposition and the funny statements made by some of the defendants. Now, the New York Times has dramatized a deposition by a chicken farmer from 2001. He even links God and chickens. It's only about 5 minutes long, so go check it out (the link is from Yahoo, so it does not require you to login to the NYT site).
There is a really cool animation of how the average person spends their day. I just watched it and some of my times don't line up with the norm. I did see that over 92% of us are asleep between 1am-3am. That's amazing given how much business is still active through the night. Anyway, it is worth a quick glance.
I am not seeing anything else on my various web sources. I am seeing something else in my COV source.
Thanks for your attention. Has anything changed since yesterday with regards to your preparedness for the holidays? Go do it today, and then come home and watch the finale of Survivor. I still don't know who will win (although I predict Jeremy. You heard it here first). See you soon.
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