{"id":2290,"date":"2010-05-15T07:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T11:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2010-05-15T07:51:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T11:51:57","slug":"jupiter-and-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2290","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter and so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> read<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2291\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2291\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/jupiter_bands-150x73.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Where did that go?\" width=\"150\" height=\"73\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2291\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/jupiter_bands-150x73.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/jupiter_bands-300x147.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/jupiter_bands.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> this the day before yesterday: apparently, Jupiter has lost one of it&#8217;s bands (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/05\/100514-science-space-jupiter-lost-belt-great-red-spot\/\">National Geographic on this<\/a>) within the last couple of months (or even year). If you&#8217;re curious if this will have any impact on our Earthly lives, please check your local daily astrology forecast.\n<\/p>\n<p>Computers are fascination and so are games: depending on your mileage, of course. Earlier this month, I learnt that a senior fellow in the US managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vgchartz.com\/news.php?id=8022\">defeat the game &#8216;Bejeweled&#8217;<\/a> by reaching the topscore of (wait for it, wait for it), <em>2,147,783,647<\/em>. If you&#8217;re not familiar with that number, for your reference I present Wikipedia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Integer_(computer_science)\">entry on Integer numbers<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>And last but not least, via Reddit, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gaming\/comments\/c1fno\/arma2_a_serious_game_for_serious_players\/\">this gem<\/a> (or youtube <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3EaQIEWGc-Q\">video<\/a>) showcasing the excellent animation stuff in the Arma2 game. I looked at this game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2195\">a year or so ago<\/a> and while buggy, I was extremely impressed with the online-multiplayer portion of Arma2. From the &#8216;Leave no man alone, rescue Arthur&#8217; mission, to that &#8216;long lonely walk until someone offered me a ride on his bike to the battlefield&#8217; occasion. No really: surreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this the day before yesterday: apparently, Jupiter has lost one of it&#8217;s bands (National Geographic on this) within the last couple of months (or even year). If you&#8217;re curious if this will have any impact on our Earthly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[425,128,204,423,424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}