Volume 47
6 Oct 2003
very odd - I folowed the link from NTK which points out that the images appear to be rendered and not be webcam at all. The sequence of images I watched involved someone apparently attacking someone and leaving them lying on the ground.
5 Oct 2003
4 Oct 2003
These are of course essential (mine is green - I must get a white one) but what is all this crap about them being banned? Why would you ban a Light?
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Toilet Paper Encyclopedia - I was going to try to make some kind of witty remark but then found myself reading loads of interesting stuff - for instance I didn't know that TP was four times as expensive in the UK as in the USA!
3 Oct 2003
Pervscan is a compendium of the latest headlines in sordid behavior. It is not a porn website but an index to the strange obsessions, sexual outrages, and deviant doings that can be found in the news.
2 Oct 2003
1 Oct 2003
Lord, it's a mess in here tonight. I'll clean it up tomorrow.....
TV Quotes - I could argue long and hard that several of the pgroammes listed as "good" are in fact utter drek....
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Piven World - the portraits are astonishingly recognisable even though they are so simple. More caricature than portrait I suppose.
30 Sep 2003
I made up the word Fractometer and lo and behold there are many hits, including this one. I don't even know what a fractometer measures - I suppose I'd better read some of the sites...
29 Sep 2003
Life Case - perfect for a place where assailants a) give warning that they are about to attack, b) are very slow at getting a shot off at you, and, most importantly, c) never, ever try to shoot people in the head. Sheesh!
Hmm, I definitely need one of those 500Gb discs. Though quite how you back them up I don't know.
Yesterday's Proloxil link is now fixed.
28 Sep 2003
I finished the grand master levels of the telescope game. Penny says it must be a man thing.
RIP Donald O'Connor - a wonderful dancer, much under-rated
There has to be some kind of punning line for this, but I can't come up with it. Something about poop decks maybe.
RIP Garner Ted Armstrong - I used to hear him on the wireless a lot (though I never actually listened to him of course)
Ah, I just realised what the answer to the puzzle monkey question is!
27 Sep 2003
I'm stuck on the second question at puzzle donkey (can't get the lateral thinking in gear) and am on the the very last of the Grand Master telescope puzzles.
Did I mean "redolescence" (thanks Chris) - no hits for that either (until now)
Just to confuse you more here is Echad Polygamy which they say is quite different from all the other kinds, though I bet you couldn't tell from the outside.
In the interest of balance (and fairness of course), I went looking for polyandry, but you can't have Christian Polyandry since it appears to be forbidden in the bible somewhere (though I bet it is encouraged in some other verse) and most of the other links were broken.
And more, but we warned "If you are not a Christian with Christ as your head and King with His Law your guide then you should only read this page for informational purposes. If you are not a Christian then the lifestyle presented in this web site is prohibited to you if you live in the united States or another country that prohibits having more than one wife simultaneously."
Christian Singles living purposefully for Christ! What better way to spend a Saturday night but browsing the Christian singles scene?
Google claims there are no pages with the word "redolesence" - there are now....
Today I saw a girl wearing a T-shirt saying "Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty" - good one I thought.
26 Sep 2003
RIP Robert Palmer - victim of heart disease
Well, I just watched the Matrix Revolutions trailer and it looks as though it will be pretty crappy.
Some new stuff at hoogerbrugge - one of those sites you ahve to keep going back to and I haven't been for a while.
25 Sep 2003
Nokia Kaleidoscope - except it isn't a kaleidoscope it's just a mini image viewer, shame really.
You will have heard about this scam, but the BBC reports has different reports for different areas - this is for Africa
24 Sep 2003
No, Rolf Harris wasn't born in Wales, but his parents were Welsh.
Damn, my soul is only worth 15,143 UKP
I just got given a little fluorescent zipped bag with a label on it that says "Aujourd'hui c'est GYMS®"
I just looked at a page that says " Here is where content people hang out and interact with each other." - I have no idea how to parse (or pronounce!) the word "content" in this sentence.
Louise Brookes Society - without a doubt one of the most beautiful women of the 20th century. Look at the gallery.
It seems that Rolf Harris was born in Wales.
23 Sep 2003
22 Sep 2003
21 Sep 2003
"The Internet is a medium, being neither rare nor well done." - spotted on /.
20 Sep 2003
I really can't believe that "sistertainment" has no hits on google - isn't it just such an obvious coinage? I'm sure you know exactly what it means already. How odd.
BTW the name of the Morbegs (see last item) would appear to me to mean the big littles in gaelic. Sounds not unreasonable
Can you juggle a wuggle? Well, only if I had put the link on it.....
Mmmmmm, Coxs and Worcesters at the greengrocers today. The proper apple season has started. Russets soon too then. Yum.
The Edison Papers (always remember that whatever you have been told, he didn't invent the light bulb!!)
RIP Slim Dusty
19 Sep 2003
Nice version of "Some of Shelley's Blues" - another wonderful Michael Nesmith song. One of my most favourite songs in the whole world in fact.
I never realised that Michael Nesmith wrote "Different Drum"
18 Sep 2003
Had a very busy day......
17 Sep 2003
16 Sep 2003
The-Incredible-True-Facts-Of-Space leads me to the sleep masturbation story. Is it just me, or did you giggle whenever the author talks about coming away empty handed? Titfos has lots of other good ans pleasing strangeness too.
Isn't the David Blaine thing the most dull thing you could imagine? If he is going to stay in the box for 44 days then there is clearly some element of "illusion" involved.
15 Sep 2003
Cool and Strange Music Magazine - the latest issue has an article about National Lampoon records and the teaser for it is illustrated by tne record that introduced me to the Paul is dead story : Radio Dinner. There Woodstock spoof is funnier though (its name eludes me at the moment)
14 Sep 2003
Has anyone asked what happens to the photographs that they are now taking at airports that are linked to your boarding card? I bet they aren't deleted as they should be.
Sorry, that was getting silly.
Yay! I am now the number one hit out of three for datatainment. Now, if only it meant something....
A stone mason's dictionary (Actually it's a dictionary of terms used by stone masons which is a little different)
Did you know that the US legislature has now banned sex offenders from working in porno stores?
My Mother had a triple-by-pass on Wednesday so I was in Edinburgh this weekend to visit her in hospital - mind you she gets out tomorrow. The sign outside the brand new hospital says "investing in Scotalnd's health", more like "profiting from Scotland's ill-health" : it costs 1.20UKP per hour to watch television and they won't let the WRVS in because they do stuff for free. Grrrrrrr.
12 Sep 2003
RIP Johnny Cash
11 Sep 2003
Oh, I did go up the tower in Pisa, though I didn't go to the very top : my vertigo kicked in seriously on the 7th floor and I couldn't even get to the bottom of the last flight of stairs. Very odd experience going up though - the lean makes it feel so weird.
Dave Allen - he wasn't that funny and definitely went downhill eventually, but we did always tend to watch him I must admit. "May your god go with you"
9 Sep 2003
Yesterday I saw someone wearing a T-shirt that read "Dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians"
8 Sep 2003
Well, the tower certainly does lean.
6 Sep 2003
OK, I know it's in twice! I can't fix easily till next Thursday as I am off to Pisa tomorrow for the FAST 2003 workshop where I'm giving a paper (and someone else's too)
5 Sep 2003
The Toto Washlet - it is compulsory to watch the video!!! Note that the video doesn't mention the massage featuer or the pulsating water feature, though the androgyne does seem to be somewhat ecstatic at one point. BTW if you haven't used one of these, for all they sound ridiculous they are really rather good and I would certainly have one if I could afford it.
4 Sep 2003
Seriously Weird - I must admit to a total loathing of all things Disney. If it weren't an entirely rational loathing you might describe it as irrational.
Dave's Gourmet - makers of Insanity Sauce, the hottest sauce availabel. Use one drop at a time only. Read comments from a UK user...
Bobby Conner, and make sure you meet Bobby : This "Gentle Giant" is uniquely anointed with refreshing humor and razor-sharp prophetic accuracy which has been documented around the world. Note that nothing seems to have been updated for a very long time. Razor-sharp?
These people spammed me (in English) and at the end of the message it says "If you don´t wish to receive this info, please forgive us. This email does NOT pollute our environment, does not cut trees, does not invade you and it recognizes your right of reply." What? (The houses actually look quite nice, should you ever need to stay in Beunos Aires.)
3 Sep 2003
Minni di Virgini - note the reference to the wonderfully titled article "The Waning of Sexually Allusive Monastic Confectionery in Southern Italy". WOuldn't you have liked to be the author of that? (I just read the book this is derived from and it is pretty interesting, though he is rather anti-vegetarian and his fact checking in certain areas is a little weak IMHO) The book contains a bizarre story about Mitterands last meal which finished with 2 ortolans after which he refused food. More on ortolans another time - my battery is dying....
Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science - and even after all these years and all the media coverage I really still don't have any clear idea who the hell Jill Dando was! This page describes her as "one of Britain's best-known television journalists" - well, I had never heard of her before she was killed and I know a lot of other people who hadn't either, so that must be some new definition of best-known then. Oh, I notice that the page also features that new buzzphrase "evidence based".
Have fun making computers sound stupid at this page. Try the sentence "auchtermuchty, milnegalvie and beaulieu are all hard to say". What I want to know why the male UK English voice sounds like someone from a 1930s movie - no real person speaks like that! The US voices all sound fine. Oh, try getting Rosa to read the above sentence in Spanish. And also try "My hovercraft is full of eels. Would you like to come back to my place bouncy bouncy?" in other languages. Wonderful. OK, I'll stop being stupid now.
2 Sep 2003
1 Sep 2003
Hollow Earth Trip "Don't miss this chance to personally visit that paradise within our earth via the North Polar Opening and meet the highly advanced, friendly people who live there. We are of the opinion that they are the lengendary Lost Tribes of Israel who migrated into the North Country over 2,500 years ago and literally became lost to the knowledge of mankind."
29 Aug 2003
Hmm, that "Word of mouth" site I mentioned the other day seems to be some kind of way of getting you pay money to find out what people are saying about you. (Thanks Alex)
Stripper's Pole - don't forget that hard to reach Q-zone! (I was in tears of laughter at the end of this - brilliant)
Galway was nice, though there was an awful lot of litter in the streets. There was in fact an anti-litter campaign running under the slogan "Galway deserves better". the signs had been modified by removing the de and the tt so that theya ll read "Galway serves beer", which it most certainly did : I haven't seen so many pubs in such close proximity for a long time.
I don't understand any of it, but BR seems to have appeared on blogshares.com, so I have added the link at the top.
24 Aug 2003
I'm speaking at the LTSN-ICS conference in Galway City next week so there probably won't any activity here (unless I can get online from Galway). The weather forecast is for rain sadly.
I've always been interested in the "Paul is dead" story ever since I heard that National Lampoon record that makes lots of jokes about it. (In fact I have one of the earliest web pages about it on my old Obituary page), but this site takes the biscuit. I've never thought that the story had much to it - not because I think it is impossible but because I don't believe a secret like that would have held this long - but there is definitely something weird going on when you look at some of the material presented.
23 Aug 2003
BTW I am very pleased with the Netgear DG824M that I am using to provide the network in the house. (And no, the wi-fi is not open to everyone : you think I am going to let my freeeloading neighbours piggyback on my connection?)
There's been an awful lot of moaning in the press recently about what they insist in calling "blogs" - the word is weblog. What puzzles me is that all the examples they give are almost without exception online journals and not weblogs, and also without exception are sites of which I have never heard. And of course a weblog is a collection of links rather than just the random ramblings of some ego-maniac who think their views on life or their random comments about the availability of wi-fi in their house are interesting to other people. The links are important not the raving.
Damn, this wireless network in the house is great! And the speed. Now all I want is DSL rather than ADSL so I can send stuff up at the same sort of lick.
Sitting on the seat on the back yard.
22 Aug 2003
Got the home wireless setup working, so this note is indeed from my front room.
I get really annoyed when you sign up for Computer Science conferences and the organisers cannot even set up a secure website so you have to FAX your credit card details. This is not rocket science, it is barely even computer science. Grrrr.
Word of Mouth - bizarre, anonymous connections system. Someone entered a comment about me (or something) but you don't seem to be aqble to find out about it or who said it. Its trying to be some kind of recommendation system, but by being anonymous they entirely miss the point : you don't take recommendations from anyone, just people you trust. Tell me more if you know anything about it.