Category: General

Abbreviations! (NSFW)

I recently introduced my sweetheart to Reddit. I had a hunch she wasn’t getting all the abbrevations used so I asked about the first ten I saw.

Here’s what she thinks they mean:

  • stfu – so that’s fucking unique
  • wtf – what the fuck
  • omg – oh my god
  • asap – as soon as possible
  • gtfo – get the first out
  • fyi – for your information
  • imho – I’m hooked
  • tl;dr – this is life ; don’t rush
  • TIL – That I like
  • NSFW – Not so funny… something, something
  • gl hf – good luck, high five

gl hf is what a lot of players say at the beginning of a starcraft 2 game, which see’s seen when watching Day9. I just love the idea of players high fiving each other before the game!

Mispronounced words from Reddit

I was linked to a post on Reddit entitled Which words did you mispronounce for years because you’d only seen it in writing?

I was surprised of the kind of words people were mispronouncing and decided to check the correct pronunciation on Dictionary.com. To my dismay, the digitial voice of Dictionary.com didn’t pronounce some of the words in the same way I have been doing for 28 years. Entering all these searches took some time so I thought I’d help you along the way and link to the pronunciation of some of the more common tricky words mentioned in the Reddit post.

As Reddit’s darien_gap so nicely put it: mispronunciation is the sign of somebody who reads at a level above the education level of the people he spends time with.

Here’s the list, once on the new page click the little audio icon to actually hear a digital voice pronounce the word.

albeit
anime
annihilate
awry
archive
banal
bass
cache
chaos
circumference
colonel
conch
debris
debut
deficit
deus ex machina
draught (as in draught beer)
ethereal
epinephrine
epitome
eunuch
facade
focaccia
gauge
hegemony
heresy
hermione
hors d’œuvre
hyperbole
indictment
lingerie
melee
macabre
meatus
meme
miscellaneous
paradigm
phlegm
pseudo
quay
queue
quixotic
ricochet
segue
sentient
sieve
sovereign
subtle
trough
vehement
victuals
zealot

OnLive Viewer for iPad

Bloody hell! Have you downloaded OnLive Viewer for iPad yet? Well you should; it is nothing less than fantastic.

This app lets you watch games being played live on OnLive’s servers. Even though I’ve played through Batman: Arkham Asylum already I’m right in the middle of watching player “Sere” experiencing the wonderful introduction of the Joker.

What we’ve got here is the start of a new gaming era and and a change in how video games are perceived. Televised gaming started it off, and game commenters such as HDstarcraft on YouTube took a step further but this means you can watch games being played live, any game you like (from OnLive’s supply) without having to have the game installed on a computer or console.

Christmas came early this year.

OnLive’s iPad app from MonkeyKong on Vimeo.

code and me!

Quick update: Together with two good friends I’ve recently started making iphone and android applications. Our first iPhone app is in review by the Apple crew and we hope to have it out by July 2nd. It’s an app for Bar Flamingo and we’re very proud of our work.

We’ve got a video blog up and running at codeandme.se (in swedish).