Random though on abort

The ethical question on abort can be compared to a heads up Texas Hold 'Em poker game. When you are small blind, or big blind and the other player has raised, you are considering wether you should call or fold. The flop about to come that could make your hand good or bad, can be thought of as both existing and non existing. It doesn't really exist because no one has seen it and the cards are random, so the potential hand you could get doesn't exist before the flop is shown, therefore you do not lose that potential hand if you fold, as it doesn't exist yet.

The same way when a baby is growing inside a belly it is only a potential person. It is only a certain set of genes and a biological animal, there is yet no soul. In my head what makes a person into the person he or she is, is the things that happen around and to him or her, and not the genes which merely is how a person is biologically build. So in that way a baby inside a belly does not exist before it is born.

So in the same way as the poker hand before the flop, one does not lose anything by giving it up.

Samsung B6050 LED TV

For a long time I've been tired of the noobness of my old TV, a Prosonic LCD HDTV 32''. Pixelerror, losing connection from PC, some extreme flickering when watching from antenna ect. So after reading many a reviews, forum entries ect. I was down to choosing between two TVs. The LG L8000 and the Samsung B6050. Both 37''. I visited pretty much all electronic stores in the city to try and find them so I could seem them in real life, found the Samsung a few places but the LG was no where to be found. However some time later when I had a few minutes wait for the bus I went into one of the stores I'd been in before to see if they should have gotten the LG in the meantime and to my luck they had.

After that I decided to go with the Samsung based on it's better design and the fact that the picture quality seemed pretty equal, which is also what different reviews have said, the Samsung bit better at some things and the LG a bit better at other things.

Still didn't buy it right away as I was waiting for a nice offer somewhere. Just before the olympics I discovered I have DR HD, which sent a lot of olympics, but I needed the new TV with digital tuner which my old was lacking to see it, so I decided to buy the new one few days into the olympics.

3rd Annual Golden Kopas

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Winner
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Nominees:
Nights in Rodanthe
Sunshine Cleaning
Camille
Prison Break: The Final Break


Best Motion Picture - Comedy

Winner
The Hangover

Nominees:
Ten Inch Hero
Marley & Me
Fanboys
(500) Days of Summer


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Winner
James Franco (Silias) for Camille

Nominees:
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Wentworth Miller (Michael Scofield) for Prison Break: The Final Break
Adrien Brody (Bloom) for The Brothers Bloom
Mark Ruffalo (Stephen) for The Brothers Bloom


Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Winner
Amy Adams (Rose Lorkowski) for Sunshine Cleaning

Nominees:
Emily Blunt (Norah Lorkowski) for Sunshine Cleaning
Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Sienna Miller (Camille Foster) for Camille
Rachel Weisz (Penelope) for The Brothers Bloom


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy

Winner
Bradley Cooper (Phil Wenneck) for The Hangover

Nominees:
Steve Coogan (Dana Marschz) for Hamlet 2
Clark Duke (Lance) for Sex Drive
Owen Wilson (John Grogan) for Marley & Me
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Tom Hansen) for (500) Days of Summer


Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy

Winner
Kristen Bell (Zoe) for Fanboys

Nominees:
Isla Fisher (Rebecca Bloomwood) for Confessions of a Shopaholic
Lindsay Lohan (Thea Clayhill) for Labor Pains
Jennifer Garner (Jenny Perotti) for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Zooey Deschanel (Summer Finn) for (500) Days of Summer


Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Winner
Matthew Perry (Mike O'Donnell (Adult)) for 17 Again

Nominees:
Bradley Cooper (Peter) for Yes Man
Alan Arkin (Joe Lorkowski) for Sunshine Cleaning
Michael Gambon (Professor Albus Dumbledore) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Ryan Reynolds (Mike Connell) for Adventureland


Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Winner
Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Nominees:
Christina Applegate (Kim) for The Rocker
Amy Adams (Amelia Earhart) for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Heather Graham (Jade) for The Hangover
Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


Best Screenplay or Previously Released Material - Motion Picture

Winner
J.K. Rowling (novel) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Nominees:
Megan Holley (written by) for Sunshine Cleaning
John Grogan (book) for Marley & Me
Nick Pustay (written by) for Camille

3rd Annual Golden Kopas (nominees)

Here are the nominees for the Golden Kopas 2009. Eligable movies are movies I saw in 2009 that are from 2008 or 2009, with a few exceptions from 2007 that had a late DVD release. Winners next weekend.

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Nominees:
Nights in Rodanthe
Sunshine Cleaning
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Camille
Prison Break: The Final Break


Best Motion Picture - Comedy

Nominees:
Ten Inch Hero
Marley & Me
Fanboys
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Nominees:
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
James Franco (Silias) for Camille
Wentworth Miller (Michael Scofield) for Prison Break: The Final Break
Adrien Brody (Bloom) for The Brothers Bloom
Mark Ruffalo (Stephen) for The Brothers Bloom


Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Nominees:
Amy Adams (Rose Lorkowski) for Sunshine Cleaning
Emily Blunt (Norah Lorkowski) for Sunshine Cleaning
Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Sienna Miller (Camille Foster) for Camille
Rachel Weisz (Penelope) for The Brothers Bloom


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy

Nominees:
Steve Coogan (Dana Marschz) for Hamlet 2
Clark Duke (Lance) for Sex Drive
Owen Wilson (John Grogan) for Marley & Me
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Tom Hansen) for (500) Days of Summer
Bradley Cooper (Phil Wenneck) for The Hangover


Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy

Nominees:
Kristen Bell (Zoe) for Fanboys
Isla Fisher (Rebecca Bloomwood) for Confessions of a Shopaholic
Lindsay Lohan (Thea Clayhill) for Labor Pains
Jennifer Garner (Jenny Perotti) for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Zooey Deschanel (Summer Finn) for (500) Days of Summer


Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Nominees:
Bradley Cooper (Peter) for Yes Man
Alan Arkin (Joe Lorkowski) for Sunshine Cleaning
Michael Gambon (Professor Albus Dumbledore) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Ryan Reynolds (Mike Connell) for Adventureland
Matthew Perry (Mike O'Donnell (Adult)) for 17 Again


Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Nominees:
Christina Applegate (Kim) for The Rocker
Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Amy Adams (Amelia Earhart) for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Heather Graham (Jade) for The Hangover
Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


Best Screenplay or Previously Released Material - Motion Picture

Nominees:
Megan Holley (written by) for Sunshine Cleaning
John Grogan (book) for Marley & Me
Nick Pustay (written by) for Camille
J.K. Rowling (novel) for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Megan Holley (written by) for Sunshine Cleaning

Is EOL the holy grail?

Milagros has announced he will finish EOL this weekend, after which we'll have a two week testing period with more testers and it will be released. So that means EOL out in mid March if things goes well.

It's been, what? three years? in the making with continuously pushed release dates by mila. I believe he at one point said spring '08? Anyway during this period it has been hyped, forgotten, rehyped and sometimes talked of like the holy grail. But is it all it's cracked up to be?

Being beta tester and designer of the webpage I have been close to the development for the past 1½ years. There has been really A LOT of smaller and bigger updates and features added, more than mila or any tester can remember I'm sure. Big ones are things like cooperative multiplayer, but some of the smaller ones are important aswell, things that will make the daily use more pleasant. This is things like being able to download any level ever played ingame and TCP mode for port forwarding noobs.

However the most important thing maybe is the site, that hopefully will bring people together about more than just the current battle and the last five chat lines. This is what I believe will be what makes or breaks the great succes of EOL, the people. If people doesn't play online all the time and get their stats recorded, if people doesn't use the site to see stats for the levels they play and if people doesn't use the potential of the extensive stats it will just be belma with a couple of new battle modes. On the other hand if people do do all these things and really come together around it, this is not just a new version of belma but more than we ever could have hoped for in Elasto Mania 2.

So it really is up to the people and, well me, and what I make of the site. The holy grail is there, we just have to grab it ;-)

Acer Aspire Timeline 1810tz

My old laptop, a Zepto Znote, broke during the christmas holiday. The graphics card was suddenly totally fucked up, causing the screen to viewed twice on the monitor, on top of each other, and the colors totally fucked up. At first I thought it was the memory as it was also giving some BSOD screens with memery error and taking out one of the ram blocks fixed it. But it turned out it was just random when it happened and eventually it happened again and more and more frequently, untill it was like 95% of the times I turned it on.
It had still waranty but Zepto has recently went bankrupt so not much help in that. Eventhough it's not an onboard graphics card I found out it's integreted in the motherboard, which means it will be quite expensive to get fixed. And seeing as the motherboard had just been replaced a couple of months earlier, for different issue though (that time on warranty as it was before they went bankrupt) I didn't want to spend a lot of money fixing it, if it would just brake again. So I decided to get a new one. Also because I wanted a bit smaller one, and was tired of the old ones noise.

After some research I pretty quickly find the Acer Timeline 1810tz/3810tz to fit my needs perfectly, and at a nice price. This time I went for a much cheaper one, as I don't really need to good hardware I had in the old one, as I mostly use it for uni and when I'm at my parents place. There is an 11.7'' and a 13,3'' version of it, after seeing both of them in local stores I decided on the smaller one, and bought it at wupti.com for 510€.

After recieving it I was immediately reassured I had choosen the right size, it just felt really nice to work with. Today I could debut it at the semester's first lecture.

Best of 2009

Sorry for the very long delay. Here is the best of 2009!

Movie

The Hangover

Runner ups:
Camille
Sunshine Cleaning
Nights in Rodanthe
Fanboys

Comment: The Hangover was simply just a great comedy.


TV Show

Lost

Runner ups:
Scrubs
Friday Night Lights
How I Met Your Mother
30 Rock

Comment: Scrubs had such a perfect "ending", however Losts fifth season was another mindblowing experience.


Song

Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone

Runner ups:
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Taylor Swift - Love Story
Christina Metaxa - Firefly
Yohanna - Is It True

Comment: Already Gone tops an amazing album by Kelly Clarkson. Was also considering giving Bad Romance the win, it's awesome, have such a nice rythm/beat. However Already Gone is just wonderful.


Music

Kelly Clarkson

Runner ups:
Kelly Clarkson
Mandy Moore
Céline Dion
Britney Spears

Comment: As mentioned Kelly Clarkson made an amazing album this year. 'All I Ever Wanted' has quickly become one of the albums I consider to be the very best and an instant classic in my mind.


Hottie

Britney Spears

Runner ups:
Kerry Bishé
Hilary Duff
Kristen Bell
Cobie Smulders

Comment: Saw her in real life this year at the concert in Parken, copenhagen.


Website

Postsecret

Runner ups:
Byggepladen
ScT
Facebook
Bricklink

Comment: Joining the danish lego user group Byggepladen and following the forum has been nice, however Postsecret is such an amazing project and it's really interesting to read the postcards each sunday.


Day

May 9. Klodsfest

Runner ups:
July 11. Britney Spears in concert
July 16. Nicky Sørensen winning a stage in Tour De France

Comment: Klodsfest is like a lego meeting. It was great fun to meet the people from Byggepladen, see their creations and participate in activities.