Bifurcated Rivets
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11 May 2010
11:17:11
Is it just me being old and out of touch, but does the idea of sites like Blippy and Swipely where you share with your "friends" what you buy and where just seem really stupid? I am really not interested in what people spend their money on.
10 May 2010
21:47:10
I can highly recommend ASDA Reggae Reggae Vegetable Pasties.
21:46:10
Woot! Byline 3.0 out for the iPhone.
08:45:10
RIP Lena Horne
8 May 2010 7 May 2010
08:58:07
I've got a Pleo now - absolutely fantastic piece of technology.
5 May 2010 4 May 2010 2 May 201022:46:02
I had no idea that the trampoline was only invented in the 1930s.
21:17:02
I keep seeing people with tattoos of dog pawprints. What on earth is that all about?
30 April 2010 29 April 201023:12:29
Cover mashups (via j-walk)
28 April 201013:26:28
Iron Chef UK - wonderfully OTT (UK Only I think)
11:28:28
Chocolate coated tomatoes - I am actually about to make some chocolate covered olives as an experiment (using chilli chocolate) so I might do some sundried tomatoes at the same time.
27 April 201012:45:27
Google earth view in maps is odd. A small number of things are rendered in 3D (the toon ground, and a shop that is near it, a couple of churches) and everything else squashed.
26 April 2010 23 April 2010 22 April 2010 21 April 201009:24:21
Does anyone have any ideas of where I might find someone who registers third level .name domains? I got one from register.com ages ago but they no longer register them and I can't find anywhere else that still does them.
20 April 2010 19 April 201015:31:19
Grapevine 1, and grapevine 2 - Generous application of pancake in version 1, don't you think? 2 is ridiculously good.
11:10:19
I'd really like one of these, but $3400 is a tad steep....
18 April 2010 16 April 201016:11:16
Woo, check out the European airspace (see yesterday) - nothing flying North or West of Italy.
15 April 201014:03:15Jay at work - typical idiot youtube commenters too
12:00:15
Air traffic live (and you can see the effect of the ash cloud clearly)
14 April 201021:52:14
"Me and old Obray's had a lot of fun at the square dances. We'd play to two or three in the morning and everybody like it. Or they made us think they did." (But can you identify the source? A wonderful recording)
15:10:14
Late May!?! Bugger.
13 April 201013:40:13Nice trick (very cleanly done counts - I wish I could do them like that)
12 April 2010 11 April 2010 9 April 201017:05:09
RIP Malcolm Maclaren
28 March 201012:31:28
RIP Diz Dizley
26 March 201015:33:26
Hmm, there are sounds of rummaging in the cone locker.
25 March 201012:38:25
Read the sidebar story (and look at the Coltrane photos too)
24 March 201015:55:24Nice trick - Gerry Sadowitz does a very fast version of this but with (of course) a particularly NSFW commentary and jokes (It may even be his trick originally)
23 March 2010 22 March 201022:33:22
This is nice (but I have to say that I am a bit of a philistine wrt opera unless they are funny)
19:42:22
RIP Robin Milner - one of my favourite lecturers as an undergrad, so helpful and always pleased if you were interested in the work, but it was all a bit too advanced mathematically for me.
11:18:22Minor Swing and mandolin - what more can a man ask for? Nicely played too. I muts get myself a solid, though I would like a 5 string I think rather than a 4.
21 March 201013:59:21
slow mo dogs (I still prefer cats)
12:09:21
Nice western swing fiddle by Wade Ray at about 16:40 into this (it's in number 2 not number 1)
20 March 201016:30:20
OK, so you twisted my arm - here's another one I'm pleased at last to see someone playing a "grand bouche" style Macca like the one I have! (well, the copy I have anyway)
16:21:20
And, of course, a Minor Swing - someone needs to tell the camera operator that the rule of three doesn't work for video really. But watch the rhythm player : he's locked into his own world just holding the beat down.
16:02:20
Hah! youtube just posted an ad to me saying "Get all John Coltrane ringtones now!"
15:56:20More Zoot - somewhat older this time but actual video and such lovely melodic lines he plays. And the bass solo is a joy
15:52:20Blue skies - Sims & Brookmeyer (another non-video video but really nice playing)
15:43:20Lovely technique - there is very little actual footage of him playing on youtube just these montage things.
11:06:20
Pizza Hut Japan's menu - some odd looking pizzas
19 March 201019:16:19
Having been ill all week, today I find I have entirely lost my sense of smell. It's very odd indeed.
19:14:19
Hmm, I keep getting failures going to google
18:59:19Crystal Swing - remember that you can't unhear or unsee
17 March 201020:34:17
RIP Charlie Gillett
16 March 201017:26:16
Welcome to North Korea - some of the same guides as in the Vice Guide.
11:42:16
Two of us tried to get a small amount funding to start something like this ten years ago or possibly more, but nobody would was interested. *sigh*
11:35:16
Probably apocryphal, but I do like the story that when Casals was asked why he still practiced 3 hours a day at the age of 93 he said "I am starting to see some improvement"
10:55:16
I was reading about Erdos-Bacon numbers on metafilter. I *nearly* have one since I was once filmed by Adam Buxton who has a Bacon number of 2, but I wasn't actually in a film with him so it doesn't count. The thing I was filmed for was a pilot that never got shown but did have someone well known in it (not Buxton, somoen whose name I can't recall), that probably doesn't count either though.
09:10:16
Is it just me or is 3D TV really just a stupid idea?
09:05:16
Ugh, not a well man today at all
15 March 2010 14 March 201021:17:14OKGo Rube Goldberg - linked everywhere but well worth it
20:57:14
Where I went to scho0l, but it has been converted back into houses now. (compare with this photo)
20:52:14
The house I grew up in, though it had sash windows and a wooden door in those days. And the tree wasn't there....
19:33:14
Bruz Fletcher (via Schadenfreudian Therapy)
17:40:14
RIP George Webb (very early British trad jazzer)
11:59:14
Was not impressed by the attempt to illuminate the route of Hadrian's wall yesterday. Not well organised. Haven't seen the film of it yet - we should be in it I think.
12 March 2010 11 March 201017:05:11
Good Grief (the ad at the bottom, though the one at the top is also quite a sight)
10 March 201015:10:10
Grrr. I hate it when people won't sell you what you want to buy! I am trying to get hold of a version of "Green Stamps" by Bob Brookmeyer that I heard on internet radio. You can get it from iTunes USA (DRMed probably) and from amazon USA (MP3) but they don't have the version I want available to the UK. How annoying is that?
9 March 2010 8 March 2010 7 March 2010 6 March 201010:47:06
If you have an iPhone or touch and don't have TuneinRadio, then let me recommend it - by far and away the best Internet Radio app I have found. A lot cheaper than paying for a special purpose internet radio!
5 March 201010:46:05
Repo men are coming trailer - watch this just for the cleanroom sequence towards the end : a lovely setup.
3 March 201013:57:03Insane technique but I am not sure that it is all that enjoyable to be honest
13:14:03
RIP Michael Foot
2 March 2010 1 March 201009:13:01
There's a local band playing on Tuesday night, they are called Cordoroy Pillow : guaranteed to make an impression.....
28 February 201016:25:28
Anyone come across any code that takes a time and turns it into "5 o'clock" or "half past seven"? Clearly I could write it but I am too lazy. Haven't hit on a search that brings up anything yet though. (someone posted a link to nice bit of code in the comments but also included spam so I deleted it - if anyone wants the address for the code I can pass it on)
27 February 201021:34:27
I just realised that I hadn't seen any posts at Mr Anchovy for ages and discovered he had moved to a new place. Oh well I am caught up now.
14:11:27
I just found, on my desktop, a PDF of a paper called "Multivariate analysis of beer foam stand". I have no idea where it came from.......
26 February 201023:42:26
I also just watched King of Kong.
21:58:26
Just watched Chasing Ghosts - interesting though I don't actually recall ever playing a game in a video arcade myself.
23 February 2010 21 February 201020:08:21
Oh good grief why can't the BBC stop summarising and repeating things for the Winter Olympics. Just show the sport and stop with all the nonsense.
19:52:21
This word game is clever but much too fiddly with a mouse. Would work much better with touch actually.
18 February 2010 12 February 201023:29:12
Lovely playing of Minor Swing (You might have to sign up for TFTV for this but it seems to be free and it is worth it just for this I reckon)
23:11:12
The minor swing page at the Djangopedia. Lots of videos and links.
10 February 201023:00:10A bit slower - again some lovely ideas in there.
22:47:10Drunk as a skunk and it is still minor swing. I don't this guy at all (Gary any clues??) he seems rather good.
22:44:10
Not had any Minor Swing for a while....
9 February 201021:27:09
Good lord, I just saw a photo of Daltry at the Superbowl. What on earth does he think he looks like?
19:25:09
No Buzz on my gmail yet
09:08:09Most Excellent (via neatorama) Watch the others too.
8 February 201022:59:08
Satan's Music (warning: ignorant, ill-informed, wing nuts)
7 February 201021:33:07
Fascinating (and you will learn the meaning of burking)
18:10:07
The interubes seem very quiet today. Is this some kind of superbowl effect I wonder ?
09:15:07
RIP John Dankworth
6 February 201016:28:06
Scotch on the rocks (sorry)
16:10:06
RIP Ian Carmichael
5 February 2010 4 February 201017:21:04
Much linked I think, but excellent
3 February 2010 1 February 2010 31 January 201019:16:31
I just came across a word I have never met before : "benthic"
16:02:31
Landfill prize (and also a classic example of a site implemented in Flash that could have been done with straight HTML)
30 January 201009:53:30
Note that augury is what the iPhone spelling checker turns suguru into.
09:51:30
Yay! My suguru order has been shipped.
29 January 201021:03:29
Cadillac Sky on the bluegrass radio - simply amazing. Not heard of them of before I don't think. Sadly I note that their web page suggests that they have gone "from a critically-acclaimed Bluegrass band to a band without boundaries". That sort of thing is so often the kiss of death, but they may of course have become even better.
19:04:29
What a boon 3G and the iPhone (or similar) is : nothing on the wireless coming home so I just listened to Steel Radio on the net. No dropouts or buffering or anything. Perfect. Now I am listening to a bluegrass internet station off my iPod Tuch plugged into my stereo. Now all I need is a guarantee that they will only play records I like.....
27 January 2010
23:38:27
Tired already of people ranting about how bad the iPad is - any expectations they had were entirely their own invention. Oh, and of people making tampon jokes - nobody ever made that joke about NotePad so why make it about this?
23:35:27
Turn off JavaScript and visit the holy land experience - there are all kind of half finished things and lorem ipsums on it. If you go with it turned on you get all kinds of crap that you really don't want to be bothered with at all.
26 January 201022:53:26
We just got a xmas card from some friends in Canada. On the front there is a stamp saying "Missent to Guyana" : not some improvised stamp either but one that was clearly made for the sole purpose of marking mail in this way.....
16:06:26
Courtesy of the newly retired Len (too much time on his hands!), someone's "favourite christian thrillers" - there don't seem to be a lot of different story lines do there?
25 January 2010 23 January 201023:30:23
I just read a reference to someone who is a "writer of Christian thrillers". No, I have no idea either.
22 January 2010 21 January 2010 