Portal 2 cupcakes!

It was a cold and dull day today, so we (me and my girlfriend) decided to bake&make Portal 2 cupcakes. Check out the pictures below

The cupcakes are carrot-orange cupcakes, with marzipan base, cream cheese frosting and marzipan figures, colored with food coloring. My girlfriend made the Portals with split-turret, the cake and the cube on the cake. I made the turret, the cube without a cake and Wheatley

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Awesome Super Meat Boy cuddly toy!

She did it again!

Remember the awesome Plants vs. Zombies cake my girlfriend gave me last year?
This year she gave me a self-made awesome Super Meat Boy soft cuddly toy! It's now always watching TV with us

My Bejeweled Blitz cheat bot

A few months ago I've written a cheatbot (in Java) for PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook. Today I've done a few improvements. Time to share this with the web.

You might think "OMG H4X!!!one!!". Well, not really. I didn't manipulate the game or browser in any way, I simply let my computer move my mouse and play the game.

How does it work?

• Take a screenshot of the current grid (or field)
• Check the color of the pixel in the middle of each gem on the grid
• If it's a hypercube: move the hypercube randomly to a direction
• Check for each gem whether moving it is a valid move
• If so, move it!
• Repeat until the minute is over
• ...
• Profit!

This performs pretty well, check out the video below:

Improvements still to be done:

• It does not recognize every special gem, this should be fixed
• The first valid move is now performed immediately, perhaps a better heuristic is possible (e.g. find hypercubes first, then search for multipliers... etc.)
• It should have a shortcut to e exited, now it keeps on running; making the mouse impossible to use until the minute is over.
• The code is a bit messy, should be cleaned up.

Funny thing: Normally Blitz guarantees there always is a new move, however I happened to have a field once with no further possibilities, probably because of a race condition between my bot and the game, see below.

Questions and comments are welcome

Awesome Plants vs. Zombies cake

Look what I got as a present from my girlfriend, celebrating our 6 months anniversary:

It's an AWESOME Plants vs. Zombies cake. If you don't know the game, you must've been lying under a stone for a while... Anyway, I just LOVE the game, and the cake.

The cake is a chocolate cake with a green grid of butter-cream containing egg white. The cake characters are a Sunflower, Peashooter, Chomper, Potato Mine and a Zombie all made of custom colored marzipan.

Just look at all the little details! Gleeeeee. More pictures below

Comments are more than welcome I'll make sure my girlfriend will read them

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