I'm not in hibernation - just

Sorry about the delay - I just haven't gotten around to posting anything.

Anyway found this and had to post - normal service shall be resumed as soon as we work out just what normal is.

Now they tell me!

Why why why did they not tell me this before! :-)

I wish I had days like this.....

Burn the fantasy

I live inside my head so much i found todays cartoon from xkcd ironically funny, in a telling me off sort of way. You may need to click to embiggen it to read it

Don't you sometimes just wish....

For the fans of...

The TV shows I enjoy just got mashed. (mixed together for the un-hip speaking people)

Lost, Battlestar Gallactica and Smallville

Enjoy

Potter Puppet Pals in "The Mysterious Ticking Noise"

Heh heh heh...

Where's Wally (aka Waldo) all you Google Earthers?

Canadian artist Melanie Coles has painted a 55-foot image of Wally on an undisclosed rooftop in Vancouver, British Columbia. The game now is to figure out where Wally is and to be the first to spot him when he eventually turns up on Google Earth. It's a game of chance because the company does not reveal how often it updates its images, and it doesn't take its own satellite images in the first place, it licences them from a third party.
Coles publicised the project on her blog www.whereonearthiswaldo.com, and is encouraging others to follow her lead and create a network of Google Earth Wallys across the world.

Thanks to PC world for this one.

Terry Pratchetts discworld series

I have been reading Terry Pratchetts discworld series since the mid 80's, given that they started in the early 80's this must make me a long term fan.

The premise goes a bit like this, in an infinite universe, or indeed an infinite multi-verse anything is possible. In those bell shaped probability curves something needs to be the pointed end of the graph.

The discworld is one of these pointed ends. The great A'tuin is a star turtle, upon whose back are four elephants upon whose backs is a world - flat like a pancake, or more accurately, a pizza (cause that has knobbly bits and stringy cheese). And upon thise world Terry writes satire and parody of nearly every myth and fable and legend knowen to man. And has done so over around 37 books.

A few months ago I decided to re-read these books, from the beginning. While each book - generally - can be read independent of the others there are various threads of the same characters, as so it is useful to read in order. (at least this captain of pedanticism thinks so).

Rincewind the failed wizard, the three witches, the city guard, Death (yes the anthropromorphic personification is a real character, with a real black cloak, a real scythe and a real white horse [named binky]).

Along with the adventure, satire, parody Terry pops in, now and again, great witticisms.

Such as...

Perdita thought that not obeying rules was somehow *cool*. Agnes thought that rules like "Don' t fall into this huge pit of spikes" were there for a purpose.

Or...

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

Also brilliant turns of phrase such as...

The night was as black as the inside of a cat. It was the kind of night, you could believe, on which gods moved men as though they were pawns on the chessboard of fate. In the middle of this elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel's eye. It illuminated three hunched figures. As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: "When shall we three meet again?"

There was a pause.

Finally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: "Well, I can do next Tuesday."

Anyway if by some chance you had never heard of Terry, do a google, find a library, get a book out (doesn't matter which at this point) and start some reading. Later you can worry about collecting the set.

High Tech Noon

For some reason this ne just tickles my funny bone...

I'm confused

In social situations when I sing they tell me not to give up my day job. But when I'm at work and I sing they tell me I should...

Previously on Lost...

Breaking News! Adolf Hitler was assasinated - opps no he wasn't it's been fixed...

A bit of fun science fiction.

A wiki forum from the year 2104 from the International Forum of Time Travellers.

Here is a snippet.

International Association of Time Travelers: Members' Forum Subforum: Europe – Twentieth Century – Second World War
Page 263

11/15/2104
At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote:
Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl's cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice!

At 14:57:44, SilverFox316 wrote:
Back from 1936 Berlin; incapacitated FreedomFighter69 before he could pull his little stunt. Freedomfighter69, as you are a new member, please read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler before your next excursion. Failure to do so may result in your expulsion per Bylaw 223.

At 18:06:59, BigChill wrote:
Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?

Muppet Danny Boy performed by Beaker, Swedish Chef and Animal

Ok I'm a date late for St Patrick's day. But this is too good to pass up.

Thanks to boingboing for this.

Adrian Plass encounters temptation

Tell me again why I love reading his books and why I'm glad he's touring NZ in September this year?

Photography