Be Excellent To Each Other

Just going to leave this here, filed under "Why MrsA loves BeeX and, hopefully, why BeeX does extend some form of common courtesy towards her". A text message conversation I ( happened upon - Legal Ed) whilst (Pressing numbers into the phone like the large thumbed buffoon you are - Legal Ed) and I'm ( Very hapy to be here, thank you Cleveland, Goodnight! - Legal Ed)

It was pretty clear to me, reading it hours later, that tempers were getting frayed and nobody was stepping back and voluntarily going for a walk to cool down. I think it was a good call.

Shut up, fuckhead!

I really could have made it in the 80's as a singer in a hair metal band, you know.

The Afterthought's entry to the Halo3 Fancy dress competition was unfairly relegated to last place.

WORST EPISODE OF TERRY AND JUNE EVAH!

my hamster just trolled the shit out of me.

I'm making a brew when I hear sobbing coming closer and closer..
"muuuumeeee the manster's deaaaaaad!!!"
*ah shit thinks I
"Ok I'll have a look at him but remeber he's very old for a hamster"
"I looooove chip and now I don't have a hamster"
"I'll buy you a new hamster"
*go upstairs to find chip in the standerd dead hamster postition
*ah shit thinks I
I go to pick up the cage, hamster wakes up looks at me like "what the fuck are you doing woman" gets up and is all like "what??? what do you want???"

Somehow, I managed to miss the train, yet still arrive at work 20 minutes early.

Look into it, and possibly capitalise on some excellent extra sleep. I managed to save 40 minutes a day doing that.

I suspect it's to do with the school holidays, so the A34 is comparatively quiet, along with the roads in Oxford. I did have a comparatively late night, last night, though, going to bed jsut past midnight, but slept right through, which was a pleasant change, but I'd imagine that was the booze.

Just in case it gets overlooked:
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I can't find this already posted, but I'd not be surprised to find it has been. Even so:

Scary Freaky Faces


Warning : This may well creep you the heck out.

Suddenly, I feel rough.

Urge. Fuck you, brain!

It is mental isn't it...

I wish I were at the cricket.

I read it and decided I really didn't have anything useful to add, but I was saddened by the vehemence of some posters. l get the impression that some of these people have had disagreements in the past and are likely to have more in the future. That's life; you can't get on with everyone you meet, IRL or virtually and there will always be flame wars. I suppose the one saving grace is that it doesn't get worse than name calling, at least I hope it doesn't. And the recipients of an attack can always flounce off if they want to.

I find flame wars a terrible waste of time, as you're unlikely to change someone's opinion by flaming them, but it's just too easy to do on the net, just like it's too easy to jump on the band wagon of some ill thought out newspaper campaign to castrate all pediatricians. We'd never have had the same level of involvement in some of these campaigns in the days when you had to put pen to paper and a stamp on an envelope to get your opinion to the media (not that they'd have published a lot of them, there's limited space on the letters pages). I rarely join in flame wars, there's really no point, even if I hold a totally opposing view to something that I feel strongly about.

Commentators enjoying the cricket:

This is why being British is sometimes awesome.

I now find myself sticking coloured dots onto PSU's thanks to the manufacturer of the HD enclosures I use swapping the pins on the PSU connector around but leaving no way to tell them apart from the old model.

Three times I've now tried to get hold of the old model so I can still use them but even when sites list the old model they now send the new model. Tsk!

It's nice to get a message from eBay saying "you didn't win the..."

I have 3 keys on my key ring, one for my car, one for my front door and one that I have absolutely no idea what it's for.

omg, it's the key to your wife's heart, she gave it to you on your first anniversary! You are a shit husband.

I'll try it tonight then.

My Kenwood Titanium Chef has decided that it will only mix on medium/high speed. I can't pulse anything, I can't mix slowly to combine (to stop the stuff in the bowl ending up outside the bowl) or mix fast enough to make butter cream icing completely white.

I have to make 48 cakes this weekend for a Christening...with a machine I can't trust will actually be able to mix anything....FFS.

I'll have to wait until I've done/attempted the cake making before I get in touch with Kenwood, it's barely 6 months old so I'm not foreseeing any problems getting it fixed, the timing is pretty shit though.

Hmm... remind me not to eat one of your cakes, flis! I'm pretty sure that titanium isn't edible :|

Everything in moderation, Gaz!

Windows vs Macs, embodied by a McDonald's "how to use our free Wifi" leaflet.

I know I'm going to regret this, but shouldn't the Windows instructions just be:
Click on View Available Wireless Networks
Click on whatever the McDonalds one is called.

Unless you can't set up a Mac to have a static IP, then I don't see why there isn't a huge lecture on how to properly configure your Mac as well (unless it does clever things and automatically gets IPs from DHCP servers, but surely you wouldn't necessarily want it to do that).

I know i shouldn't, but why does the doc need guidance from Mcdonalds to find wifi?

I have no idea why McDonald's has written these instructions that way. The clear implication is that significant numbers of its customers were annoyed at being unable to get online because they had static IPs on the wireless interface, could see other public Wifi access points that took priority, or they had HTTP proxies configured. This seems unlikely, but on the other hand, it presumably wouldn't be issuing a leaflet as long as that for fun.

It was posted on Twitter.

am in edinburgh hilton having beer. Am on a conference for the week, first paper of the day; Semi classical quantum chemistry. Nice welcome.

That makes me terribly nostalgic for the old days of computer game instructions where you'd have loading instructions for all formats in front of you.

Like the McDonalds leaflet that was a fairly pointless exercise as well given that if you hadn't mastered loading software then you probably shouldn't be using a computer to begin with.

[presses shift and run/stop]

Caecilius est prion. Ubi est Caecilius?

Or possibly, the average knowledge base of a Windows customer is lower than a Mac user so they have to play to the lowest common denominator

Or maybe Mac cultists users are Thicky McThick, so Apple makes their stuff so easy to use that a lobotomised sea turtle could do it, whilst Windows gives extra options for the 'power user'

Well that's not entirely fair really, given that XP is a ten year old operating system.

I'd be interested to see the instructions for Windows 7, as they'd look very similar to the instructions for Mac OS.

Eeeep. Interview tomorrow. They're having first and second stage interviews on the same day, as they're in a hurry. Going to be a stressful day.

So is OS X (those instructions are valid all the way back to 10.0).

Not if they cover selecting a dynamic IP and changing the default system proxy settings, they wouldn't be. You've missed the point. The point is: why is McDonald's putting all those steps in the Windows instructions?

Good luck, Mr Awesome. You'll nail it.

Those cartoons were the most defacable of all our photocopies.

Because Windows is more suitable for the technically competent and Apple products are for metrosexuals, women, and flamboyant gay men.

In an ideal world McDonald's wouldn't have given any instructions for Windows on the basis that people who can't work it out should just go and get a Mac instead.

Or maybe Apple slipped Mcdonalds a fiver to make windows look like a bigger pain in the arse than it really is.

POTW

Bit homophobic, though. Some of the casual bigotry around here is disgusting. Then again, if that's your bag, I guess.

Just to be clear, are you saying that Mac OS X cannot support static IPs or system-wide HTTP proxy configuration, and that this makes it an inferior OS?

Poof

It's not in the slightest bit homophobic, same as me.

"Some of my best friends are gayers", eh?

I'm actually thinking that, like most pointless shite in the world, it came from some pointy-haired fool in head office.