Apparently there’s a new term floating around the interwebs for all that mail you get that’s not spam and not personal mail — bacn (pronounced bay-cun). Everyone gets it, it’s that mail from Facebook or MySpace that says you have a new comment, or a newsletter from your favorite website. But do we really need a new word for this not-quite-spam,-yet-spam mail, and what do you do when you get it? Comments welcome.
So after the announcement two nights past I was waiting to download and play BioShock all day yesterday. All through class I waited, all through work I waited, until 7PM I waited to be able to download this JesusGame that everyone is giving fantastic reviews. Finally, when the gods of gaming pulled back the clouds and smiled down on me, I was able to get in the queue to download from FileShack. To say I was happy was an understatement, here I was about to download THE GAME! I was ready to push the rest of my life to the side for one night and play this wonderful feat of programming and 3D rendering. The queue said I had 100 minutes until I could begin my download, and this was a little after 7PM, so I decided I could take a bath in that time and make a sandwich and by then I should be downloading and be ready to play before I needed to go to bed.
100 minutes lasted 3.5 hours but I was okay with that, it was only 10:30 so I still had 2 hours to download the game and play a little before I needed to sleep so I could get up in time for class this morning. I was merrily watching TV and doing some browsing of the interwebs when I glanced at the download around 11:30, it was at 80% and I, being the optimist, thought it would finish before I needed to get off the computer. Well, apparently the same gods that smiled upon me just 4.5 hours earlier are very fickle and laughed at my optimism, slowing down the download so that it didn’t finish until 12:15. Now I must wait until tonight to play the demo as I will not be able to pick up my reserved copy until later. It’s going to be a late night.
MacApper.com just blogged about Soulver, the calculator based on the English language. It looks like a very interesting app for Mac users who aren’t mathematically inclined (myself included) and don’t like word problems. I did notice that the screenshot on MacApper.com shows the app doing a simple problem — “What is 10% of 45?” — and for some reason it gives the answer “5″. I don’t know why it says it’s five, unless it is auto-rounding up. I’m not sure if this is an option or what, I’ll give more info on this when I get a chance to play around with the app myself.
