Comments for Bad By Design http://joshpelton.com/blag Products & features that suck to use. Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Uru: Ages Beyond Myst by Mikev http://joshpelton.com/blag/?p=127#comment-22 Mikev Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:23:03 +0000 http://joshpelton.com/blag/?p=127#comment-22 Yep, that's why I hate URU and will never again attempt it. Have hauled out all the others to replay, years apart (actually a problem now with later OS's). Even the timed puzzles in some of them have my teeth in peril of crushing each other. I HATE dexterity tests - there are gazillions of other games to satisfy agile fingers. I vote Josh as candidate to resuscitate the Myst series! There must be a million other who feel as forlorn as me? Yep, that’s why I hate URU and will never again attempt it. Have hauled out all the others to replay, years apart (actually a problem now with later OS’s). Even the timed puzzles in some of them have my teeth in peril of crushing each other. I HATE dexterity tests – there are gazillions of other games to satisfy agile fingers. I vote Josh as candidate to resuscitate the Myst series! There must be a million other who feel as forlorn as me?

]]> Comment on Uru: Ages Beyond Myst by Vincent http://joshpelton.com/blag/?p=127#comment-12 Vincent Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:54:10 +0000 http://joshpelton.com/blag/?p=127#comment-12 i hear you. been there done that , said this is nuts and went to the walk through. And to think the maker of the game had linguistic talents. he missed out on the one plus one equals two part. i hear you. been there done that , said this is nuts and went to the walk through. And to think the maker of the game had linguistic talents. he missed out on the one plus one equals two part.

]]> Comment on Bad Teapot by josh http://joshpelton.com/blag/?p=137#comment-11 josh Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:03:05 +0000 http://joshpelton.com/blag/?p=137#comment-11 There are a couple different ways of approaching it, but long story short, you have to make the inertia of the tea as it leaves the spout greater than its tendency to adhere to the spout. You can achieve this by either decreasing the surface tension (as mentioned above) or increasing the velocity of the tea as it leaves the spout. Intuitively, I feel like you could achieve this by raising the spout & pointing it down more, but I don't have anything to support that. Perhaps you could experiment? There are a couple different ways of approaching it, but long story short, you have to make the inertia of the tea as it leaves the spout greater than its tendency to adhere to the spout. You can achieve this by either decreasing the surface tension (as mentioned above) or increasing the velocity of the tea as it leaves the spout. Intuitively, I feel like you could achieve this by raising the spout & pointing it down more, but I don’t have anything to support that. Perhaps you could experiment?

]]> Comment on Bad Teapot by Roly Beevor http://joshpelton.com/blag/?p=137#comment-10 Roly Beevor Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:08:25 +0000 http://joshpelton.com/blag/?p=137#comment-10 Josh, so true. Though I think the idea is to put the butter on the outside to break the surface tension, so that the tea doesn't start down the outside of the spout? Have you any more thoughts on this subject, especially as it applies to potters? The problem with the thin wall solution is that its difficult to make and easy to break. Cheers Roly Josh, so true. Though I think the idea is to put the butter on the outside to break the surface tension, so that the tea doesn’t start down the outside of the spout?

Have you any more thoughts on this subject, especially as it applies to potters? The problem with the thin wall solution is that its difficult to make and easy to break.

Cheers
Roly

]]> Comment on Turn Signals, Tail Lights, & Brakelights by ian http://joshpelton.com/blag/?p=124#comment-6 ian Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:40:38 +0000 http://joshpelton.com/blag/?p=124#comment-6 i know that there's a worse offender than the nissan altima, but i can't remember what it is. the altima is pretty terrible: http://articles.dashzracing.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/02-03-04-05-nissan-altima-ccfl-projector-headlights-1.jpg i know that there’s a worse offender than the nissan altima, but i
can’t remember what it is. the altima is pretty terrible:
http://articles.dashzracing.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/02-03-04-05-nissan-altima-ccfl-projector-headlights-1.jpg

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