Bits & Bobs 39

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

This weekend I made both Ginger Beer and Bread.

I am a domestic goddess.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14419

MaliA wrote:

Terribly sorry if it came over as "gloating", chap.

Sorry, poor choice of words by me. I'm actually glad you brought it up though, I'd forgot all about it.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 14:43

Phone fixed! Yay!

Only took them an hour at the place just around the corner! Yay!

Cost 75 quid! Boo!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Dimrill wrote:

Wurm. I've med a shed! Bang bang.

Now you are a man, my son.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

Grim... wrote:

I love albums that tell a story, but it's a rare thing nowadays. The last one I can remember is "A Grand Don't Come For Free" by The Streets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet

Easily the best example of the genre.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 14:48

DavPaz wrote:

Dimrill wrote:

Wurm. I've med a shed! Bang bang.

Now you are a man, my son.

I'm so bad at chopping logs I can't even burn them. True story.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 14:56

Trooper wrote:

Grim... wrote:

I love albums that tell a story, but it's a rare thing nowadays. The last one I can remember is "A Grand Don't Come For Free" by The Streets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet

Easily the best example of the genre.

Followed that as it was released, song by song. It's ace!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 14:57

Thwart my frothy unguent.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

Grim... wrote:

Trooper wrote:

Grim... wrote:

I love albums that tell a story, but it's a rare thing nowadays. The last one I can remember is "A Grand Don't Come For Free" by The Streets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet

Easily the best example of the genre.

Followed that as it was released, song by song. It's ace!

Oooh, november last year there were 10 more chapters released! That'll be my Friday taken up then.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 15:08

Trooper wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Trooper wrote:

Grim... wrote:

I love albums that tell a story, but it's a rare thing nowadays. The last one I can remember is "A Grand Don't Come For Free" by The Streets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet

Easily the best example of the genre.

Followed that as it was released, song by song. It's ace!

Oooh, november last year there were 10 more chapters released! That'll be my Friday taken up then.

WTFF? TO THE SOMETHING-O-TRON!

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Just stumbled across this Eurogamer article showing someone playing Team Fortress 2 using one of those VR headsets and an omnidirectional treadmill:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013- ... culus-rift

I don't know how it's sensing where the controller is pointing which could be a weak point but a game properly designed for that setup would be excellent fun I reckon, and would certainly do more for your fitness than fucking Wii Fit et al. As someone in the comments pointed out maybe FPS isn't the best genre for it and that something like Dear Esther would be brilliantly suited to it. Some kind of stealth game could be excellent as well as (a) you wouldn't need to olympic level fitness to play it and (b) the headset could be implemented well for peaking round corners and whatnot. Obviously it just screams 'gimmick' on first viewing but I genuinely think there's a potential for a level of immersion there that you couldn't get any other way and it's likely to be more reliable than Kinect or the bloody Wii controllers.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 17:29

Sounds like that Craig Charles thing from the early 90s.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Dimrill wrote:

Sounds like that Craig Charles thing from the early 90s.

Cyberspace? I think the graphics have got a bit better

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38667

Cyber Zone?

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11899

not a great first day!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 82622.html

YOG · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 18:43

Amaze. It's a good summary of last week's news, anyway.

Why isn't everyone like this on telly? I'm pretty sure I nearly had a heart attack giving a 10-minute presentation at university once...

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 20:48

does anybody else watch the program presented by a man called chris jericho in which he makes eight feet tall human controlled robots fight each other?

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 21:14

I saw a trailer and decided that it was far too bizarre for me to watch.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Apr 22, 2013 21:30

Half ton.
Eight feet tall.
Robots.
Fighting.

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

That's not just good telly, that's the basis of the first perfect religion.

nickachu · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 4:25

Trooper wrote:

Grim... wrote:

I love albums that tell a story, but it's a rare thing nowadays. The last one I can remember is "A Grand Don't Come For Free" by The Streets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet

Easily the best example of the genre.

Plan B - the deformation of strickland banks.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Dimrill wrote:

Sounds like that Craig Charles thing from the early 90s.

Prison?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:15

nickachu wrote:

Trooper wrote:

Grim... wrote:

I love albums that tell a story, but it's a rare thing nowadays. The last one I can remember is "A Grand Don't Come For Free" by The Streets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet

Easily the best example of the genre.

Plan B - the deformation of strickland banks.

Defamation, you lunatic!

nickachu · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:15

Curiosity wrote:

nickachu wrote:

Trooper wrote:

Grim... wrote:

I love albums that tell a story, but it's a rare thing nowadays. The last one I can remember is "A Grand Don't Come For Free" by The Streets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped_in_the_Closet

Easily the best example of the genre.

Plan B - the deformation of strickland banks.

Defamation, you lunatic!

I'm not even going to try and claim an autocorrect there

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:34

Did you think they were bending him or something?

:DD

It is a corking album though, and a good story.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:15

I've bought a game off eBay and it stinks of cigarette smoke.

Annoying.

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:35

TheVision wrote:

I've bought a game off eBay and it stinks of cigarette smoke.

Annoying.

X-Files: The Game?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:37

TheVision wrote:

I've bought a game off eBay and it stinks of cigarette smoke.

Annoying.

"Yo! Joe Camel!"?

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:04

It was actually Final Fight on the Mega CD so... erm... I guess there was a guy who smoked in it?

That's the best I can do.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:25

So some people are scared of clowns, and some people are scared of electricity pylons, right?

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

nickachu · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 14:08

Curiosity wrote:

Did you think they were bending him or something?

:DD

It is a corking album though, and a good story.

I'm just a belm.

Slightly Green · **Joined:** 26th Aug, 2010 **Posts:** 2069

Harvard Age Guessing Game Claims To Be Accurate Just By Analysing Clicking Patterns

Try it here

Huff Post wrote:

Scientists at Harvard University have developed a deceptively simple looking computer game - and they claim it can guess your age with an unnerving accuracy.

In the game you have to click highlighted dots as fast as possible, over 10 separate stages. But the game isn't just a simple case of analysing how fast you can move a mouse around.

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 14:19

I did this yesterday. I'm 29, 30 this year. It thought I was 10.

I don't know if that's good or bad.

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

It's broked

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6614

Great, who broke Harvard? Now I'll never know my click-age.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

It's a bit flaky but it worked in the end. It thought I was 30, which is 6 years out.

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 14:29

Squirt wrote:

Great, who broke Harvard? Now I'll never know my click-age.

Times like this I wish "cl" didn't look like "d" at a glance.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

GazChap wrote:

Squirt wrote:

Great, who broke Harvard? Now I'll never know my click-age.

Times like this I wish "cl" didn't look like "d" at a glance.

Unless Squirt had some interesting first few years of life, I expect that would be the same as the rest of him...

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 14:39

Cras wrote:

Being at work on a Sunday is irritating.

Being at work on a Sunday is extra-irritating when they're doing facilities maintenance so the aircon has been off for two days and the place is somewhere close to surface of mars temperatures.

Hey, I've been away and I'm not reading 9 pages of BnB, but do you mean really cold, as mars is generally around -55C, or did you mean Mercury, or Venus for that matter

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

DBSnappa wrote:

Cras wrote:

Being at work on a Sunday is irritating.

Being at work on a Sunday is extra-irritating when they're doing facilities maintenance so the aircon has been off for two days and the place is somewhere close to surface of mars temperatures.

Hey, I've been away and I'm not reading 9 pages of BnB, but do you mean really cold, as mars is generally around -55C, or did you mean Mercury, or Venus for that matter

Ooooh! (frost)burn!

GazChap · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 14:44

DBSnappa wrote:

Cras wrote:

Being at work on a Sunday is irritating.

Being at work on a Sunday is extra-irritating when they're doing facilities maintenance so the aircon has been off for two days and the place is somewhere close to surface of mars temperatures.

Hey, I've been away and I'm not reading 9 pages of BnB, but do you mean really cold, as mars is generally around -55C, or did you mean Mercury, or Venus for that matter

I assumed he was talking about the chocolate bar.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 14:46

GazChap wrote:

DBSnappa wrote:

Cras wrote:

Being at work on a Sunday is irritating.

Being at work on a Sunday is extra-irritating when they're doing facilities maintenance so the aircon has been off for two days and the place is somewhere close to surface of mars temperatures.

Hey, I've been away and I'm not reading 9 pages of BnB, but do you mean really cold, as mars is generally around -55C, or did you mean Mercury, or Venus for that matter

I assumed he was talking about the chocolate bar.

Refridgerated chocolate bars irritate me. The vending machine holds everything at 4 degrees, including crisps. Stupid machine.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 14:46

It said I'm 31.. I'm actually 33.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 14:47

TheVision wrote:

It said I'm 31.. I'm actually 33.

Quote:

This test will also not work with Internet Explorer 8 or older.

BOO!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

MaliA wrote:

TheVision wrote:

It said I'm 31.. I'm actually 33.

Quote:

This test will also not work with Internet Explorer 8 or older.

BOO!

It got my age wrong by over 10 years

And if your using IE then you must be over 50 :-)

nickachu · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 14:54

I just got a "You have completed the test, Thank you!!!" and that's it

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

DBSnappa wrote:

Hey, I've been away and I'm not reading 9 pages of BnB, but do you mean really cold, as mars is generally around -55C, or did you mean Mercury, or Venus for that matter

I...but...shut up.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

nickachu wrote:

I just got a "You have completed the test, Thank you!!!" and that's it

Try F5 - I had it stick and Chrome gave me an error about server connection issue , I hit F5 and it continued (this was after the main 'test' part

nickachu · **Posted:** Tue Apr 23, 2013 15:04

zaphod79 wrote:

nickachu wrote:

I just got a "You have completed the test, Thank you!!!" and that's it

Try F5 - I had it stick and Chrome gave me an error about server connection issue , I hit F5 and it continued (this was after the main 'test' part

Tried and it made me do the test again, not THAT interested in finding out my clicking age.

Zio · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6093

Some genius high up at the photocopier/printer manufacturer I work for has decided to remove all the drivers for any non-current device from our website, whereas until around 2 days ago, it kept a fairly solid archive of everything, no matter how old.

They also decided to totally overhaul the internal company database, 'upgrading' it in such a way as to make it nigh-on impossible to find drivers for our products.

I work in support. I am not having a good day at work today.

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