Archive for February, 2010
I can’t brain today, I have the dumb
So there I am, Wednesday morning at work, daydreaming about a climbing trip to Swinburne. My previous route guide for Swinburne was a mess of 75 unbound A4 pages, so I decide to do it properly this time around. Operation route guide print is a go go go! - Test the guide readability on the screen at A5 size: check...
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Beam me up Scotty
..there’s no intelligent life down here. from Inhabitat: “a physicist at Tohoku University in Japan has figured out how to teleport energy from one point in the universe to another. The energy teleportation technique is based upon research that shows it’s possible to teleport information from one location to another. According to MIT, “The process...
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Who’s your daddy?
And for the people who still know what a command prompt is: What does C:\>DarthVader say to C:\>DarthVader\LukeSkywalker ? “Luke, I’m your folder”
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Pondering promptness, precision and perfection
This past Thursday night I spent at Tings & Times in Hatfield, my second visit there. The invite I got clearly stated that the bands playing are Gently Scar’d and Walt, in that order, starting at 8PM. Looking forward to returning there and the prospect of their simply delicious food, I made plans to...
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The best thing to do with that memo from your boss
……is to wipe your ass with it. “Japanese scientists have come up with an ingenious method of recycling the mountains of office paper waste – by turning it into toilet paper. The oddly named ‘White Goat’ machine is 6ft-tall and weighs a hefty 94st. It works using an automatic system that creates one new roll...
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