Feed some real fish via this web app
aquard.io
aquard.io
I'm not at all certain the fish are real either.
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.
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.
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.