My Macbook Pro is officially no longer at the minimum spec for Elder Scrolls Online, so I need a new computer. Since Apple don't make laptops with sufficient graphics capabilities for gaming, I'm being forced back to a PC. I am not very happy about this and will be keeping my Mac for work purposes, most likely ( Read more... )

Who wants to buy me this for Christmas/Yule/Newtonmas?

Too tired for personal update. It's Techniques Week, which means several days of sitting through lectures, and two early morning starts. (10 am at College means leaving the house before 9, which means getting up at *mumble*...)

Instead, have some pictures which will make geeks laugh, weep, or both: Signs on chemistry labs at Georgia Tech in ( Read more... )

xiphias brings us great news of epic geekiness!

Go to http://www.newsweek.com

Click in the browser window, and type in the Super Contra cheat code (for those of you who don't know, it's ( Read more... )

Three snippets of recent conversation:

Richard (getting dressed & pulling clean underwear out of a drawer): "I think these pants have had it. Look at the elastic! It's not elastic any more, it's undergoing plastic deformation!".

Me: "Hooke's Law in action!"

Tim (coming into our room as we were getting up): "Oh, you've got the big bear in bed ( Read more... )

This is what I've spent my evening doing: making the PINKEST, UGLIEST Pokemon team EVER.  I've taken all the pink Pokemon I don't care for - plus a lot more that are perfectly fine-looking in their normal form but go hideous when shinyIf you can't be bothered to go to the forum and read my post, or it's taking forever to load because either 'Charms ( Read more... )

Happy birthday stellarwind! Don't try to tell me it was in December, I've only just got your present ready. Me singing the Portal song. About 3 MB. Not entirely in tune.

More voice recorder silliness: A previous recording gets interrupted by my phone ringing, causing me to completely lose the tune. Save the file and skip ahead to about 1 min 15 sec (1.4 MB ( Read more... )

Yesterday [0] I wrote a web forum post about human cloning. I wanted Richard to read it to see if it was comprehensible to non-scientists. So I asked him "What's your cell biology like?". He answered "Non-existent", before correcting himself to "Much like any other wuzzie's." Yes indeed, Richard is made of wuzzie cells, which are principally ( Read more... )

irc transcript from #soc.bi, just now:
[23:26] * Otterylexa talks to the object of poing on the phone ( Read more... )

I have bought a new phone which is a Windows mobile mini-PC. It's quite scary. It comes with all sorts of Evil Empire programs, like Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, Powerpoint Mobile and Windows Explorer. As they were all free, I shall probably not uninstall most of them. Eeep ( Read more... )