Inside the drink bar of the Pancake Manor, above forehead level on the north-side, scrawled in marker on a piece of packing tape amidst the other notes and inventories for staff to follow:

I has a bucket

Broken.

<catelina> What's that word that means 'to isolate'? .. as in .. emu ..
<rugle> Emu? O_o
Segregate?
Distance?
Separate?
Alienate?
Estrange?
Discourage?
Ostracise? Ostracise! Thanks!
Emu? Ostr- .. Get out of here!

This may yet be the weirdest moment of the day. I was walking back to my desk and glanced into the glass wall of one of the offices. There was my reflection ( Read more... )

I unlocked the Dell on my desk at work for the first time in a while and both Acrobat and Java wanted updating. Alone, either of them is a pain; combined, they form a continuous, conflicting, semi-automated cycle of patch-and-reboot that it so prolonged it's almost comedic ( Read more... )

DirectX8 in VB.NET on a remote desktop logged in over VPN. Is it better to just cut the necrosis out now before it consumes the rest of me?

Bootcamp means I have several penultimately compelling reasons to buy a new iMac. Fortunately, the reasons will gutter and dampen before the fierce blue fire of the existing and perfectly serviceable little ( Read more... )

Last night was a flurry of schoolkid mayhem at the Chapel sleepover for the youth group jelashke co-ordinates. We watched Robots, staged a Mario Kart Double Dash tournament and played Spotlight around the pews with a dastardly torch of blindingBreakfast was a bacon and egg extravaganza but I've since retired to the Coffee Club in Springwood, where I'm ( Read more... )

It's the Inconventional Spelling Award for Contemporary Service to the English Language!

Q: What’s purple and commutes?
A: An Abelian grape.

-- keithmo on slashdot

I'm sitting in the labs, marking students' GUIs for their 5 marks of 20, and I need more coke. I should visit the coke ..

.. ma CHIIIIIIIINEs!

On the way to dropping her home after work, jelashke and I listened to some crazy inner voice to get frozen coke from teh maccas. It was freezily cool outside the fastaurant but the atmosphere inside was filled with hot breath and workmen on their leisure break from where the council was relaying the road to the intersection ( Read more... )