Is it spectacularly geeky to look at an in-flight picture of Amazon-chap's pre-exploded rocket and think "Hm. Looks like a HTP/Kero motor..." ?

I guess real geekery would involve speculation about the name of the org, the nature of the rocket motor and old MoD naming schemes.

A thing (or rather a person) that I noticed the other week while pottering about the Tate like some vaguely middle-class oik pretending that standing next to some capital-C Culture would rub off on me in some as-yet undetermined manner, perhaps in the same way that people think/thought that fondling the preserved body parts of an alleged saint and/ ( Read more... )

In the future, hand-based foodstuffs (big sarnies, complex baguettes, tiresome burgers) will come with a small field-generator to ensure structural integrity and no sauce/dressing leakage.

When people say that they're about to sally forth and brave the elements, which elements do they mean? Sulphur? A nasty patch of low-lying Vanadium?

The smoking remains of Privilege Denying Dude has been rocking my white, male and cisgendered socks this weekend. A nerve accurately struck, I think.

The steampunk ATAT was pretty good, too.

Several years ago, jarkman and I recorded the noise made by a sack of hammers, so that there would be a reference should anyone go 'Bloody hell that thing sounds like a sack of hammers ( Read more... )

I had cause to make for the Melatonin last night, thus I am very much not awake ( Read more... )

Have I bothered the populace about uk_jon's internet-wireless-thingy, Brierly Hill 90201 recently? Probably not. Choice cuts from Sevs, TRS-80 and someone/thing called 'Asobi Seksu' which is just bloody marvellous. 'Shimmering' and 'Epic' are two good words, and 'pliers' a bad one. They're probably all over the popular press and doing children's AM telly ( Read more... )

So, back in the old days when they still made things in Gloucester ( Read more... )

Brown pinstripe suit w/lionels and Dunlops == Cobol programmer.

Ugh. Bad mojo.

(Though for the full effect, you'd want a knitted tie, real-ale beard and a copies of Practicals Caravan, Computing and Electronics in a 70s Sainsbury's carrier.)