Feed some real fish via this web app
aquard.io
aquard.io
I'm not at all certain the fish are real either.
This is 2014. Assuming a decent level of development skills, it is not like this is so amazing that it just has to be faked. Hooking up webcams to the internet and hooking up a few web buttons to some real equipment via an Arduino is so easy I can't help but think it's actually easier to set this up for real than convincingly fake it in front of an Internet audience!
Seriously, folks, turn the cynicism knob down a bit. And I'm a cynic myself.
After a second visit and careful observation I am convinced the fish are indeed real - one swam very close to the camera so it couldn't have been a sprite, and I've also spotted a few shadows cast by the fish onto scene geometry.
Is it safe to feed fish every hour? That seems excessive.
I use to have this screensaver running, it's very nice. I'm not sure if it's been updated in a while though. http://www.dreamaquarium.com/
I haven't looked at the feeding yet, so I can't comment on whether the amount of food is small enough.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05...
Maybe there's room for two?
Maybe negative feedback just isn't the right thing to provide.
These:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claw_crane
They had a bunch in like a warehouse and you'd control the claw to see if you could get the toys. Once and a while you'd see someone slightly off camera walking around the warehouse throwing the toys back in. My brother and I got good at those games from that site. They also had an address where you could send in toys to be put in the games. I remember there was a roll of toilet paper in one of the games, and sometimes other weird things too but I don't recall anything else specifically.
Way better than feeding fish.
Chill out, he said please.
How much time have you wasted on HN over the last few years?
When I should be doing something productive, but can't be bothered, HN is a "compromise" for me. Basically 90% of the time is wasted, but at the same time I do learn a fair bit in the other 10% of the time. I can kid myself I am doing something productive, (when 90% of the time it isn't).
> Sometimes it can be relaxing to peer into a fish tank and just pass a few minutes in quiet contemplation. Just you and the fish. But if you’re at work, this isn’t really a very practical way of de-stressing.
I usually prefer to grab a coffee and talk to a real human being. A little pause is sometimes useful to pick a new solution method for a problem when you are at a dead end.
Plenty of people like to de-stress away from humanity, in the woods, near water especially think waterfalls, oceans, waves, beach, river... Nothing wrong with that. Everyone is different.