I've been doing a bit of OT lately with crunch time and all but I didnt realise my brain was this fried.
I was testing a CD install and simply wanted to copy the CD key from the computer onto my paper notepad on my desk.... so what do I do. I highlight said CD key and then whilst staring at my notepad proceed to hit the CTRl-V key. Did this a couple of times before my brain decided to take a look at its surroundings and promptly vacate the room shaking its head in shame.
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Mik is great fun to watch in action. I'm pretty sure he doesn't know what day it is right now. [:P]
My favourite stupid thing Mik has done lately would have to be when he got one of those emails with pictures of dogs wearing sunglasses at about the time he got a businessy email. He replied to everyone on the biz mail list saying "awww cuuute puppies!".
As for me, when I'm exhausted I sometimes talk at length without using real words. [:P]
Scott.
Watching rage in the early hours of the morning i kept having the impulse that i needed to knock the mouse before the screensaver kicked in. I blame it on watching music DVDs, downloaded videos and such on my computer. The worse part is i would be like "oh heh its the TV, how silly of me..." and then 5 minutes later id have the same impulse again.
We had an old Subaru in the paddock for thrashing, and one day a mate, who is really into Battlefield Vietnam, was going up to try and get the car started.. He opened the door and some stray cat jumped out of the thing, taking him by surprise... He jumped back quick, and his hands came up into his FPS WSAD + Mouse position with his left finger clicking!
One of the funniest/saddest things I've ever seen!
I made a ctrl+z movement ( u know that flick of the wrist)whilst making a hot glass sculpture, burnt my fingers/hand on the hot steel rod holding the molten sculpture. Felt like a tard. Had to tell my assistants that it was an unvolentary movement cause by muscle stress, which was more believable. Thank god there where no CG people around.
Oh and sometimes i mutter "OWNED!" for lifes little achievements when combating social situation. eg. finding a great park, throwing paper in a bin from a distance. etc etc. try it, feels good.
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Ah, funny stuff.
I tend to do it with games a lot as well. Do something stupid and the impulse is to hit Ctrl Z to undo that bullet wound, or holding down the wheel button to try and rotate an in-game model around like I would if it was in Max.
Er, no, sorry, that isn?t my model in Half-life 2, I can?t select show wires and convert to edit poly to start playing with the mesh.
But then I guess I probably shouldn?t play games at 2 in the morning after modelling all night..
It gets scary when you play a lot of Grand Turismo (or any driving game), and you start to act like your in-game when your actually driving a real car. Must remember that in real life the cars can take damage, and you can?t bounce off railings.
You're not standing next to them - that's a pot plant Mick.
My "stupid" stories (or at least the ones I discuss in public) are typically computer based:
- Pulled apart a PC power supply to replace a fuse, then put it back together without a crucial bit of insulation. When I powered it up a firecracker went off (was a ceramic Cap blowing) and shut off power to the whole office.
- While uninstalling linux one day - deleted my whole windows partition and all my stored Uni projects instead of the old linux partition I'd carefully backed up to CD.
Once when I was at a LAN we ran out of chairs, so I had to sit on an exercise bike while I played. It was a relic of an exercise bike and had sharp edges all over. I unwittingly popped the bike on top of my power cable and it cut through it... sparks jumped off the bike, the power went out, and all while I was peddling furiously having scared the shit out of myself!
That was pretty dumb (but apparently pretty funny to watch).
Scott.
Recent Javachat conversation:
A: there's this freakish bug crawling across my monitor
A: it follows the mouse caret when I move it
B: cool take a screenshot
A: ok
A: no, wait..that's retarded