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September 29, 2006 • 12:17 pm
I was on the tram the other day and I spotted a man running as fast as he could towards the tram stop as we neared it. We were about 50 metres away and he looked very determined, so I naturally assumed he was trying to catch the tram.
Not so, ladies and gentlemen! Not so! [...]
September 27, 2006 • 2:17 am
Another excellent quiz! It’s based on your pronunciation of words and it promises to answer the all-important question, Are you a Yankee or a Rebel?
I scored:
50% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.
Which is great, cos I’ve always thought that the Southern US accent is damn sexy.
September 25, 2006 • 11:33 am
Maybe the reason old people have deja vu all the time is because they’re always saying the same thing over and over and it’s tricked their brains into thinking that everything in life repeats itself anyway, so you might as well make like you recognise someone/a situation/whatever because you probably do.
At least, that’s the theory [...]
September 22, 2006 • 2:02 pm
Found this poster a while ago in a kebab shop:
What tickled me was the ISO mark you see there. ISO is a standards organisation that, well, sets standards. I’m used to hearing their name in conjunction with computing standards like XHTML and character encodings. Apparently they also set the standards for making kebabs. Who knew?
September 16, 2006 • 12:47 pm
Last night I wrote to Typhoo to ask them an important question:
Dear Typhoo,
Does your choice of brand name have anything to do with Typhoid fever, the devastating disease passed on by contaminated water?
If so, what is the connection?
Many thanks,
Mark
What will be their response?
Update: Typhoo responded a few days ago on the 18th. Stacey, from Consumer [...]
September 14, 2006 • 1:00 pm
There is something wonderful and mysterious about Google translate, especially when translating from Italian:
You take the clam:
and it cuts it to you in two parts.
You take the shells:
they washes to you in order and dries to you well them.
September 06, 2006 • 3:21 pm
This from the PHP manual:
The function names __sleep and __wakeup are magical in PHP classes. You cannot have functions with these names in any of your classes unless you want the magic functionality associated with them. See below for more information.
Magical! Programming is full of this sort of thing. Another example is something called a [...]
September 05, 2006 • 12:51 am
King of Shaves shaving oil is the best thing I have ever rubbed into my face, ever. It’s just amazing. It has gone a long way to solving most, if not all, of my shaving problems. This is mainly because you don’t have to mess around with that infernal shaving gel/foam. The shaving oil is [...]
September 02, 2006 • 1:05 am
I am: Pure Nerd
Statistics: 52 % Nerd, 21% Geek, 17% Dork
For The Record
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in [...]