Be Excellent To Each Other

There's a photo of a window somewhere that looks like a man's penis.

A man's penis, you say? That's whay was confusing me. I was looking for a lady penis.

I love redundancy in language.

Crudity spoiler:

My boss spotted the penis on my screen before I did. Woe is me.

And this is why we don't do video conferences anymore, kids.

Nope. I insist on walking to that person's office and thrusting my erect member in their face.

Awesome, I used to love Snake on my Nokia.

Was having a chat yesterday early evening with someone who used to trade grain for ("a well known integrated commodities producer and marketer that went public this year" - Ed) and he commented that he saw an old colleague recently who said it was hard to find people to do that sort of thing nowadays. So I said for him to email me and I'll pass my details over to him. It can't be that hard, can it?

I've seen how you play Catan...

Easy, what's the exchange rate on magic beans these days?

I recommend you watch the excellent documentary on commodities trading, Trading Places.

All you need to do is keep repeating "My God! The Dukes are going to corner the entire frozen orange juice market!"

Quite a good use of RFID tagging, I guess.

Foxhunters evicted after 130 years.

It appears I may have bad AIDS shingles. No rash, but a severe on off pain below my right shoulder for the past 2.5 weeks. Have been given some industrial strength NSAID's to help.

Still at least it's not RSI which was my real worry. Just hope it goes off.

Why do you think I put that Austin Powers quotee there?

Aaaaaah. Christ I'm slow.

Put griddle pan on high heat. Leave it for ten minutes, or until it is red hot. Add knob of butter. Add steak that you've rubbed salt and pepper into. Count to thirty. Turn steak over. Pour melted butter of the top of steak. Count to thirty. Turn steak over. Pour melted butter over the other side. Count to ten. Serve. Made me feel considerably better, that. Steak and new potatoes.

I understand now why the starlings swooped down and cracked open the shells of the snails and ate them.

Is it dimrill?

Does anybody know anything about this:

Abstracting and indexing services (A & I services) with regard to journals?

Much obliged. I remain, etc.

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Shit! They got to Mr Chris!

It's the sword using him as a conduit!

Where's DavPaz....? He's not on holiday or owt is he?

Davpaz stared into the database vortex and now demands everyone calls him "Master". He's currently being fitted for a rather fetching outfit in black and is promising to grow a beard before killing us all.

At another campus during the day and separated from my lovely office. They've got me learning OS deployment stuff, the buggers. I'll not be on much until next Tuesday. Sorry!

No matter how many times I have to do it, I hate getting up at 4am to drive to Reading!!!

Sometimes in my darkest hours I wonder if it would be so very wrong of me to cut the middle man and just go ahead and hoover my dog.

Well this is a new one me....



I came in to find it lying on my fax this morning. When did they abandon email!? Anyway, I don't really want 15% of $85m so feel free to email him to see if you can help I'm sure this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to help the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources, South Africa.

I hoover my dog. She doesn't mind at all.

You shouldn't as the static build up will damage vital components.

Many years ago my dad got a scam letter in the post, way before the days of email and the like. It was super exciting, he sent it to the police and everything.

I think dogs are pretty sturdy when it comes to static, dude...

Nonsense. I've seen tens of dogs been attached to ceilings by drunken teenagers in my time, after rubbing them on their jumpers for a while.

Don't you get a number from who you recieved it from? can't flis show the police it? I've never used a fax, I just presume it's like telephone with pictures rather than words

Heh. That was me typing in the dark.

I used to hoover my old dog, he was fine about it (in fact, with the stiff brush hose attachment, I think he quite liked the scratching). The two shedmonsters I have now, however, are petrified of the hoover and won't come anywhere near it.

I strongly suspect they'll be using an email-fax conversion service. It'd be much too much hassle to have to burn fax numbers otherwise.

I'll class that as "IT", then.

Um, "IT"?

I repaired my quadracopter over the weekend with judicious application of Loctite All Plastics superglue.

Took it out for a test run yesterday in the car park of a pub we'd had a meal in, and it was awesome. It flew like new again, in fact, it seemed to be more stable than it was when it was new!

I then decided to see how high it would fly, so sent it up to 5m high (I'd set the altitude limit to 5m in case I lost WiFi control of it while it was up there.)

I didn't leave it up there for too long though, I brought it back down to Earth by holding the joystick down, thus telling the quadracopter's brains to reduce power and lose altitude.

I wasn't quite prepared for just how quickly it would lose altitude though. It came down at 1 metre per second. By the time I knew what was happening, it had crashed into the concrete at that speed and shattered the centre cross again.

It's now sitting on my living room table, superglued again, waiting to go back in to the hull.

Well... it's a learning curve.

Found out that yesterday, all the ground floor staff were called to a meeting. Apparently someone had taken a crap on the floor of the gents and someone/someone else had walked it all over the floor in there. The mind boggles.

Who says its someone on the ground floor? Or a man?

I've heard of phantom shit smearing incidents in large office buildings quite a few times. It seems to be a common, if baffling, phenomenon.

The way Forum Runner uses stock emoticons instead of Dimlies never ceases to amuse me. Your post takes on such a different light:

We had a phantom shit smearer at our secondary school - they did it a fair few times and never got caught. I'm still a bit freaked out in case it was one of my close friends who was secretly a loon.

There is at least one person here who will stuff the toilet full of paper, THEN do a shit in it. They're clearly doing it deliberately to block the toilet and cause work for the cleaner. It's odd as hell. There are also one or more people who have such explosive shits that it gets poo on the outside of the toilet bowl, in defiance of all known laws of physics.

Gah, Ebuyer have stopped selling the external HD enclosures I've been buying for 5 years* and sent me an updated model from the same people.

The new one looks similar and has the same PSU connection. Thankfully however I checked the pinout and it has the 12v and ground reversed from all my other caddies. This is important as I tend to keep one PSU next to the computer and just bring the enclosures to it (I have about 12 with old projects on).

Now trying to find remaining stocks of the old model. SVP have some so I'm going to have to bite my lip and order a couple up from them (I boycotted them after they turned to shit after the takeover). Don't want to go mad and order 10 at once in case they too send an updated model.

Sounds daft I know but I don't want to be messing around with multiple power supplies trying to remember what PSU runs with what enclosure.

* Sumvision Apex Plus. They sent an Apex 2.