- 1st
- Aliens vs. Titanic → I quote from the original script by James Cameron: - What was that, Mr. Murdoch? - An iceberg, sir. - Well that’s great, that’s just fuckin’ great man. Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We’re in some real pretty shit now man… That’s it man, game over man, game over! What the [...]
- 2nd
- Higher Education Awareness Day → En route to becoming a teacher, I found myself spending a day telling Year 9 and 10 kids about university. Groups from three different local schools came to the uni campus and we did lots of activities which were, quite frankly, bizarrely awful - “research a degree course and make a poster about it!” - [...]
- 10th
- Volunteers needed for medical research! → So goes the subject line of, so far, 4 separate emails sent out on the all-students mailing list over the last few months. All of them are from different people, and they’re all about… wait for it… pain research! Between them they propose burning your hands with lasers and forcing you to watch horrific videos, whilst [...]
- How everything is made → I spent many an enjoyable minute of the last half hour reading this photo-tour of the Gigabyte motherboard factory. Wow. Seeing so many things come together in one place to make one product makes me wonder how anyone ever thought an economy was something plannable by human minds. Over the last few years I’ve seen a [...]
- 13th
- More Jaws! → The movie cycle is coming round once again to the point where a new Jaws film could be supported, i.e. the economy is doing well, people are getting dumber, and beerier, and there is plenty of spare change to be wasted by going to see a guaranteed pile of crap like another Jaws movie. All [...]
- 14th
- Dell Madness → My brother is starting university in September. His current PC is more than 5 years old. The very day he placed the order for a new laptop, the power supply on his old Dell Dimension desktop spontaneously exploded in a shower of sparks. Perhaps it detected itself being used to order a non-Dell machine and [...]
- 15th
- But wait… BBC forever! → Speaking of TV, over Christmas I saw an episode of “Camilo e filho”, a Portuguese (from Portugal) scene-for-scene remake of Steptoe and Son, except with much much lower production values and totally lacking anything that was good about the original. It really was an identical clone, right down to the skeleton in the living room, [...]
- TV Tax → At least 3 times a year for the last 4 years, the TV licensing company has sent me various letters warning me that they’re going to send the boys round to deliver a thousand pound fine and possibly a bit of a kicking. The only way to tell them that I don’t have a TV is [...]
- 16th
- Einstein vs. Islam vs. Toilets → Ah, toilets. The basis of our entire culture. I found this article about toilet activism astonishing - who would’ve thought such political conundrums could be caused by the old Kidderminster? Even more remarkable is the linked article about designing toilets compatible with Islam: Islam prohibits facing the Qiblah while defecating. The Prophet said “if you go [...]
- Boa vs. Python → The following code took 1 minute to design and type, and about 5 minutes to run: #!/usr/bin/python d = 0 for i in range(0,15000): x = 2**i lead = int(str(x)[0]) if lead == 1: [...]
- 19th
- “Bandle Bobble”? → Hey, you know that new sound you’re looking for? Well listen to this! (It’s a live performance by a high school music class whose teacher has taught them how to play the Bubble Bobble theme tune. Not well. Lordy lordy. Still, cluecakes all round for the attempt.)
- 21st
- Genoism → “Of course, it’s illegal to discriminate - ‘genoism’ it’s called - but no one takes the laws seriously. If you refuse to disclose, they can always take a sample from a doorhandle… or a handshake… even the saliva off your application form.“
- 23rd
- Mini-reviews of (not so) recent watchings → Big Fish: That’s some good viewin’ there. Hard to describe what I liked about this. Probably simply the aura of Tim Burtonage. That guy is a genius. The Incredibles: even better second time round! I saw it with Portuguese subtitles this time. The translation was sadly flat, as usual, but I noticed something very cool: all [...]
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Oh my Jesus! I’m doing a course featuring the work of a German mathematician called Dr. Killing.
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