Two points.
I found this - it lets you make ice cubes in the shape of Lego bricks! How cool!
I have ordered some :-)
As you’ve probably noticed, my website has moved. www.alfa.org.uk is the new link. Wordpress is the new software. Dreamhost are the new hosting provider. Many apologies to everyone who has commented on here in the past - unfortunately the comments were lost during the blosxom->wordpress database conversion. I hope it doesn’t put you off commenting in the future.
You never know - I might actually start to write here now.
“Bosnia holds three suspected suicide bombers”.
That seems a remarkably stupid thing to do, to me…
It’s amazing how making one post can give you the impetus you needed to write more. Kind of how hearing the Pussycat Doll’s single can make me get up and do all the important things I’ve been procrastinating about.
I’m in Canada at the moment. Did you know that Canada is the second largest country in the world? It’s really quite massive, believe me. Obviously not quite as big as space, which really is unbelievably ginormously massive, but still, it’s pretty darn big. Being in Canada has made me start using words like “darn”; I think this is probably a bad thing.
Across the road from the hotel I’m staying in is a strip club. It has a large neon sign outside with its name on it (I think there is probably legislation that requires all strip clubs have large neon signs outside). The sign reads: “Barbarella’s Diamond’s”. Ye gods, it’s like having nails scratched down a blackboard every time I see it. Do you think they would appreciate having their punctuation critiqued?
Donald Rumsfeld is giving President Bush his daily briefing on events from around the world. He concludes by saying: “Oh, and yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in an accident”.
“OH MY GOD!”, the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!”
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands. Finally, the President looks up and asks:
“How many is a Brazillion again?”
Thanks very much, I’m here all week.
Brilliant photo snapped at What The Hack. I’m off to Canada in a few weeks - I will have to go through this charade as usual.
The latest Paul Graham article talks about blogs, and explains why newspapers should be worried.
Those in the print media who dismiss the writing online because of its low average quality are missing an important point: no one reads the average blog. In the old world of channels, it meant something to talk about average quality, because that’s what you were getting whether you liked it or not. But now you can read any writer you want. So the average quality of writing online isn’t what the print media are competing against. They’re competing against the best writing online. And, like Microsoft, they’re losing.
Then there is Maciej Ceglowski’s brilliant article about NASA’s manned space programme, which is so good that it provides the perfect evidence Graham is correct.
To the uneducated mind, it would seem we could accomplish our current manned space flight objectives more easily by not launching any astronauts into space at all - leaving the Shuttle and ISS on the ground would result in massive savings without the slightest impact on basic science, while also increasing mission safety by many orders of magnitude.
Keep me on hold (playing Spandau Ballet at me) for ten minutes, then transfer me to the automated system!
P.S. Yes I am alive, life has been busy.
