Bits & Bobs 31

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49233

Trooper wrote:

My home internet connection sends and receives goblins down a single tiny fragile wire, which connects to another tiny fragile wire, which connects to a billion other tiny fragile wires, all of which are buried underground, or draped through the air in a haphazard fashion, all of which need to be perfectly connected and none of which can be broken.

That works all the time.

By comparison, my phone throws it's goblins in every direction at the same time, it is literally impossible not to be hit by a goblin of mine if you are within range. Same in reverse from the tower, yet it can't even catch one of them?

Goblins have a terrible sense of direction. You can guarantee it'll work better if you give them a bit of string to follow to their destination.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22310

Craster wrote:

Trooper wrote:

My home internet connection sends and receives goblins down a single tiny fragile wire, which connects to another tiny fragile wire, which connects to a billion other tiny fragile wires, all of which are buried underground, or draped through the air in a haphazard fashion, all of which need to be perfectly connected and none of which can be broken.

That works all the time.

By comparison, my phone throws it's goblins in every direction at the same time, it is literally impossible not to be hit by a goblin of mine if you are within range. Same in reverse from the tower, yet it can't even catch one of them?

Goblins have a terrible sense of direction. You can guarantee it'll work better if you give them a bit of string to follow to their destination.

There sense of direction doesn't matter, they are able to go everywhere at once, it's a goblin mexican wave, rather than individual goblins walking to see their mum and getting lost.

As an aside, I spent my formative working years testing mobile phones. Or more specifically, GSM PCMCIA Modems connected to various makes of different mobile phones
Oh yes, in those days, your phone couldn't handle it's own data connection, you had to buy a modem, and each modem could only support one type of phone.

Now, to test these lovely little modems, I had trays and trays full of various mobile phones, which always worked, possibly due to the reason that sitting beside me was a 2ft square steel box with lots of buttons and bits on it. This was a portable mobile phone signal generator. My head was 3ft away from it for most of the day for a few months, when I wasn't being blasted by various atmospheric and security point radiations as I flew around europe from airport to airport, spending a few hours in each, running various tests…

This may explain a lot.

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

Trooper wrote:

My home internet connection sends and receives goblins down a single tiny fragile wire, which connects to another tiny fragile wire, which connects to a billion other tiny fragile wires, all of which are buried underground, or draped through the air in a haphazard fashion, all of which need to be perfectly connected and none of which can be broken.

If that were true, the internet would never work.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49233

Trooper wrote:

Craster wrote:

Goblins have a terrible sense of direction. You can guarantee it'll work better if you give them a bit of string to follow to their destination.

There sense of direction doesn't matter, they are able to go everywhere at once, it's a goblin mexican wave, rather than individual goblins walking to see their mum and getting lost.

Nah. Ethernet goblins can't go everywhere at once. That's why they have a label on a bit of string around their necks to remind themselves where they're supposed to be going in case they get lost.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I've had a busy day today, and just catching up with the news.

Oh, poor Ed Milliband. Was his brother near the goblin transducer?

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 17:57

All this goblin talk is just coming across as trolling.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 18:06

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

I've had a busy day today, and just catching up with the news.

Oh, poor Ed Milliband. Was his brother near the goblin transducer?

Whenever I see Ed Milliband I always think of...

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22310

Craster wrote:

Trooper wrote:

Craster wrote:

Goblins have a terrible sense of direction. You can guarantee it'll work better if you give them a bit of string to follow to their destination.

There sense of direction doesn't matter, they are able to go everywhere at once, it's a goblin mexican wave, rather than individual goblins walking to see their mum and getting lost.

Nah. Ethernet goblins can't go everywhere at once. That's why they have a label on a bit of string around their necks to remind themselves where they're supposed to be going in case they get lost.

Ethernet goblins have a label, but wireless goblins go literally everywhere. Which is why it is crazy that they can't find a way to my phone.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22310

lasermink wrote:

Trooper wrote:

My home internet connection sends and receives goblins down a single tiny fragile wire, which connects to another tiny fragile wire, which connects to a billion other tiny fragile wires, all of which are buried underground, or draped through the air in a haphazard fashion, all of which need to be perfectly connected and none of which can be broken.

If that were true, the internet would never work.

Not everything mentioned is the entire truth

I'm not sure, but i'm pretty certain there aren't any goblins involved either...

KovacsC · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 19:16

i have so got to get Goblins used in sentences at work tomorrow. I might get sent home

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11847

Trooper wrote:

Craster wrote:

Trooper wrote:

Craster wrote:

Goblins have a terrible sense of direction. You can guarantee it'll work better if you give them a bit of string to follow to their destination.

There sense of direction doesn't matter, they are able to go everywhere at once, it's a goblin mexican wave, rather than individual goblins walking to see their mum and getting lost.

Nah. Ethernet goblins can't go everywhere at once. That's why they have a label on a bit of string around their necks to remind themselves where they're supposed to be going in case they get lost.

Ethernet goblins have a label, but wireless goblins go literally everywhere. Which is why it is crazy that they can't find a way to my phone.

Wireless goblins get tired and lost easier, so get spread out and separated. For want of a better term, you could say the goblin intensity decreases with distance from the goblin homestead.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32621

Bobbyaro wrote:

Wireless goblins get tired and lost easier, so get spread out and separated. For want of a better term, you could say the goblin intensity decreases with distance from the goblin homestead.

With the square of distance if there's no clutter in the way, but in practice with the goblins bouncing off hills and buildings and other goblins it's often more like the distance raised to the forth power.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 21:25

Trooper wrote:

There sense of direction

Oh, Trooper.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22310

Grim... wrote:

Trooper wrote:

There sense of direction

Oh, Trooper.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 21:38

What do you say, Trooper?

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22310

Stop using your mod powers to edit my posts and make me look foolish?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 22:15

I don't have mod powas.
I do have 'original post log' powas, though:

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That works all the time.^M
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By comparison, my phone throws it's goblins in every direction at the same time, it is literally impossible not to be hit by a goblin of mine if you are within range.  Same in reverse from the tower, yet it can't even catch one of them?[/quote]^M
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Goblins have a terrible sense of direction. You can guarantee it'll work better if you give them a bit of string to follow to their destination.[/quote]^M
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There sense of direction doesn't matter, they are able to go everywhere at once, it's a goblin mexican wave, rather than individual goblins walking to see their mum and getting lost.^M
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As an aside, I spent my formative working years testing mobile phones.  Or more specifically, GSM PCMCIA Modems connected to various makes of different mobile phones^M
Oh yes, in those days, your phone couldn't handle it's own data connection, you had to buy a modem, and each modem could only support one type of phone.^M
^M
Now, to test these lovely little modems, I had trays and trays full of various mobile phones, which always worked, possibly due to the reason that sitting beside me was a 2ft square steel box with lots of buttons and bits on it.  This was a portable mobile phone signal generator.  My head was 3ft away from it for most of the day for a few months, when I wasn't being blasted by various atmospheric and security point radiations as I flew around europe from airport to airport, spending a few hours in each, running various testsâ¦^M
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This may explain a lot.
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So there

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 22:19

Hmm - do you copy and paste your posts from Word, or something? Odd that your ellipsis was turned into ASCII  (…).

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 22:19

I'm fairly sure this is a fascinating conversation for everyone.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22310

Grim... wrote:

Hmm - do you copy and paste your posts from Word, or something? Odd that your ellipsis was turned into ASCII  (…).

For longer posts like that i'm typing into a textedit document and cut and pasting for the next couple of weeks. The joys of open plan offices, pair workstations and not enough desks to go round

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 22:37

I
KNOW(tice)
ALL

I find http://www.beex.co.uk/m is better for 'office working'. I'm tempted to do a spreadsheet theme

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 22:42

Yes you should.. although, my work doesn't use spreadsheets. They prefer to cut and paste figures into notepad.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49233

Over the past 8 weeks I've spend faaaar longer doing spreadsheets for Beex than spreadsheets for work.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 23:35

"Who's"

Argh.

Also, met PM Milliband once - just before he became PM - in an attempt at corralling him into the signing the library visiting book. Disappointingly limp handshake leading to Hank Hill crisis of confidence in me over him.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2011 23:41

NervousPete wrote:

Also, met PM Milliband once - just before he became PM - in an attempt at corralling him into the signing the library visiting book. Disappointingly limp handshake leading to Hank Hill crisis of confidence in me over him.

MILLIBAND IS PM?

NervousPete · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 0:02

Grim... wrote:

NervousPete wrote:

Also, met PM Milliband once - just before he became PM - in an attempt at corralling him into the signing the library visiting book. Disappointingly limp handshake leading to Hank Hill crisis of confidence in me over him.

MILLIBAND IS PM?

Last I checked.

...

Oops. Sorry, slipped into Universe B again.

... wait, is George Takei supposed to be President?

lasermink · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1883

This thread is full of LIES.

Decca · **Joined:** 23rd Jun, 2010 **Posts:** 2282

I momentarily freaked the heck out.

flis · **Joined:** 26th May, 2008 **Posts:** 3333

I want to hear more stories about goblins.

I have bruises on my back from being an awesome weightlifting superstar. I R well hard. But also in mild discomfort.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:17

I'm trying to read Mr Miliband's speech. As with all such things, it looks like they've put the autocue text online, which makes it look like some free verse poetry and thus difficult to read. I suppose I should just be less of politics nerd and just listen to the snippets on the news - everyone else does.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

flis wrote:

I want to hear more stories about goblins.

I have bruises on my back from being an awesome weightlifting superstar.

Is that the euphamism we're using now?

flis · **Joined:** 26th May, 2008 **Posts:** 3333

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

flis wrote:

I want to hear more stories about goblins.

I have bruises on my back from being an awesome weightlifting superstar.

Is that the euphamism we're using now?

No, norty Chris! Good to have back, man, I was wondering about you at the weekend. Because apparently I like to spend my spare time wondering about internet forum people. Like a weirdo.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

Ramsea is pretty heavy, though.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:51

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

Still, it'll be a bit warmer at that end of the house now. And any leftovers can be turned into wargaming scenery.

You should totally come visit my new basement.

Heh. Train set!

Also - don't you live in the arse end of nowhere now? How's the north treating you? How's MrsA's new job going?

The top floor bedroom would be awesome for a massive train set. The basement, possibly, too, but it's smaller. I'm a 20 minute train ride from Leeds, and 6 miles from Bradford nowadays. I think she's enjoying the job, although with the lack of commute, we're adjusting to spe ding an extra 3 hours a day together.

Decca · **Joined:** 23rd Jun, 2010 **Posts:** 2282

Keyboard! Sweet wonderful working keyboard! Plus it has that special not filled with crumbs look :DD

Oh, Delete, SIU shift, alt and number keys how I've yearned for thee.

Edit: also spacebar, sweet jesus the lack of spacebar was annoying.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 13:29

Stupid spineless bosses just tried to make us work through our lunch even though we regularly work overtime.

I told them they take enough time off us as it is then stormed off... to lunch.

I like standing up for myself but wonder if it'll get me in trouble?

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11847

No, but spending the time posting on a forum might!

(Good on you!)

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I don't doubt you spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about me, Flis. Just not when you're doing your "weightlifting", eh? That'd be weird.

Mali - how are you liking your new location, then? Is it urban/suburban/rural? Do you own a tweed jacket? Are you gainfully employed yet, or is it a bit soon for that?

I'd have thought the additional 3 hours a day with MrsA would be worth the price of the move alone, Mr Grumpychops.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 15:09

Kissyfur: I quite like Bingley, it's a nice place. We've found a nice curry house and there's a couple of nice pubs. We've also joined the theatre, and will be stage managing a production in the new year, hopefully. We live in a terraced town house (4 minutes from the station, 6 minutes to town, 10 to curry house and nice pub) built sometime in the mid 1800s or so. We're spread over four floors, the basement containing a utility room, and essentials such as XBox, big TV, PC and 80 watt guitar amp. Ground floor is a large living room and a kitchen, first floor is quite a large bathroom and large bedroom and the whole of the top floor is our bedroom. I've owned a tweed jacket for ages now.

I've been around the agencies in Leeds for employment and been applying for things, seems to be a fair amount about, so fingers crossed. Theatre guy is singing my praises to a solicitor so I've got to make contact with him soon. MrsA can walk to work and back, and I do enjoy the extra time we spend together moreso now that the house is empty of fleas and cat hair, even though she makes me do stuff like 'go for walks' and so on. I'm really happy we've moved up here, just need to give MaliTowers a lick of paint, and stick it on the market now, I guess, as it seems we might stay up here.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 15:33

You are all kinds of awesome Malia.

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 15:33

TheVision wrote:

You are all kinds of awesome Malia.

I'm not even being sarcastic.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

also.

glad to hear it's working out well, sir.

Is it the Bingley of "Bradford &"?

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 15:41

TheVision wrote:

You are all kinds of awesome Malia.

I'm not sure what has prompted this, but thanks.

SKY have sent me a thingymadoodah which is a T-Mobile broadband USB thing in lieu of not having a fucking internet connection until the 7th October, 10 days tardy from there greatest estimate. I'm only allowed 1 gig per month for three months, but I don't understnad how much a gig is (Take That was £84 a ticket - MrsA). SO I came to the Wetherspoons to drink their 89p tea and an old lady has just told me all about how her internet doesn't work. So I told it it was sunspots. Deffo sunspots, as they cause EMP things to happen, and that's how they killed the robots in the Matrix. She seemed happy with this. But anyway, the dongle doesn't work in my basement, but my iPod can pick up the wireless signal from the redundant router as I'd turned it on, hoing to see the green lights of contact, but alas. I've used 40 meg so far, and would 1 gig get me through until a week friday? I'll be looking at simplyhired.co.uk (venture funded, doncha know) one a day and doing my emails every so often, but just reading them, and uploading my CV (67kb)to places about 4 times a day. Will it be enough?

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 15:45

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

:this: also.

glad to hear it's working out well, sir.

Is it the Bingley of "Bradford &"?

You mean the MASSIVE BOARDED UP BUILDING BEHIND ME? Why, yes.

kalmar · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 15:46

Quote:

Will it be enough?

Yep.

Just stop uploading huge photos of Bingley.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 15:49

kalmar wrote:

Quote:

Will it be enough?

Yep.

Just stop uploading huge photos of Bingley.

Heh, this is Wetherspoon's bandwidth.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I've never understood the etymology of the name "Wetherspoon", what with a "wether" being a castrated ram. Unless vets used to be seriously fucking evil.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 15:52

I need a haircut.

Decca · **Joined:** 23rd Jun, 2010 **Posts:** 2282

and now from the designers of the Sheffield egg box and the arndale centre....

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

sad thing is I'm probably right

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2011 16:05

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

I've never understood the etymology of the name "Wetherspoon", what with a "wether" being a castrated ram. Unless vets used to be seriously fucking evil.

It was the name of the founder's teacher, I think.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Grim... wrote:

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

I've never understood the etymology of the name "Wetherspoon", what with a "wether" being a castrated ram. Unless vets used to be seriously fucking evil.

It was the name of the founder's teacher, I think.

Huh, how about that.

Does that mean that, historically, his teacher's antecedents used to dig out rams' balls with a spoon?

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