I was looking around for a picture of Tony Benn on the web and I came across this fantastic political site. It was made by a boy called Jason Whiley to settle a bet he had with his dad about whether or not politicians are more boring nowadays than they used to be. His dad had a picture of Enoch Powell on a pogo stick so he wrote to loads of politicians asking them whether they had ever been on any of a list of children’s locomotive toys, things like skateboards and space-hoppers. Lots of politicians wrote back, many with touchingly amusing answers. I am sorry to say, but not surprised, that the Prime Minister just sent a form letter saying he was very busy. Self-important humbug.
Monthly Archive for September, 2004
I’m confused. In 2002 there was an announcement that a virus called Perrun was the first virus to infect .jpeg files. Computerworld published an article discussing whether or not this program posed a real threat. This is not a new phenomenon. Way back in 1994 there was a hoax warning on the net about a similar kind of thing. Today there’s another story about a ‘new’ .jpeg virus threat. Is this all just hype? Anyway, I can’t find any suggestion that Macintosh computers are at risk so maybe I should welcome more bad press for Windows.
On a bit of a diversion while looking for Dvorak keyboard information I found a page hidden away in someone’s file system. It is a series of photos of two kids growing up. It has really made me curious about how my girls will look when they become adults. It also shows how photogenesis changes over the years…
I’ve been learning to touch type and I’ve reached that difficult stage, like growing out a perm, where I can no longer properly type with two fingers but I can only touch type at 20 words per minute. It occured to me that maybe I should have learned to touch type using a Dvorak keyboard layout since that wouldn’t have affacted my two-finger typing so much. Maybe it’s not too late to switch now.
My relationship with Boden is spiralling downwards. Every time they produce a new catalogue they send our household three copies. Two for me and one for my partner. They have me in their database as two people, a rich man and a poorer one. They once sent the rich me their hard-backed catalogue, a glimpse of how the other half shop.
I never buy anything from them now, for two main reasons. The first is that their clothes are dangerously inclined to look frumpy on men, the trousers in particular are cut for men with meaty, american style hams. The second reason is that they waste so much money on sending catalogues to me. I assume that they send too many catalogues to everyone who has ever shopped with them and that is what makes their clothes expensive.
But then it turns out that the white T-shirt company only make T-shirts for people with a bust-size. I have no bust. However, while looking for other makers of good quality white t-shirts I came across a t-shirt with a slogan about 2012 on it. Is seems that 2012 is the last year in the Mayan calendar. What might happen in 2012? Who knows but this site should be held up as a warning to anyone who is considering taking psychedelic drugs. Be careful out there, you could end up seriously hard to understand.
Good web design and good looking T-shirts. I have loads of irritating, baggy and funny-shaped t-shirts of one kind and another. The White T-Shirt Company have one aim in life, the selling of very good quality t-shirts. The only problem is that they are really rather expensive, but then maybe it’s worth it.
I really like talking to AIs. I suppose it must be for the same reasons that I like computers; the people who make them are similar to me and so it’s a comforting subset of the real world. The C.L.A.U.D.I.O. Personality Test Bot looks tempting. I wonder if it’s worth the money.
Sometimes I hear women talking about their partners in a way that makes my blood boil. They are dismissive and even contemptuous when they discuss the ‘ridiculous’, ‘tacky’ or ‘disgusting’ things that get men going. On the other hand, men are supposed to be considerate and accepting of the female view of romance and sex. It is such blatant hypocrisy. Most of the men I know work really hard, not just pretending or going along with their partner’s needs but actually getting in touch with the female aspects of their own characters. If the women in their lives would make even half as much effort to understand what it is that men need sexually everyone would be much, much happier. I hasten to add that my own partner is not too bad in this respect (although I don’t think she’d suffer from spending some time reading Belle de jour’s amazing blog.)
Well, these nasty skeptics are a real bunch of spoil sports. They went and did an experiment and concluded that “there is no evidence that listeners can hear the alleged RS (reverse speech) sequences unless ‘prompted’ in advance”. So I guess it’s back to the drawing board.
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