Heading home the other day I spotted someone doing... something outside the block of flats I live in ( Read more... )

Right. It's January 1st. So it's clearly time for some ridiculous January-based resolution.

This year... ( Wet January! )

Playing with a new Christmas present...

C: OK Google, make me a sandwich.
Google declines, but offers to provide detailed instructions if we want.
Me: OK Google, sudo make me a sandwich.
Google: You are now a sandwich.

Best Easter egg so far :)

[Originally posted at https://venta.dreamwidth.org/533812.html]

On Saturday, ChrisC scooted down to Ealing Shopmobility for me and collected a manual wheelchair. They offered me a self-propelled one, which I initially tried to decline as I assumed that meant powered. However, self-propelled just means "big wheels", of the sort you can use to propel yourself around when you're sitting in it. The clue's kind of ( Read more... )

Once, long ago, I used to dye my hair regularly. My hair's long, so I only ever go for semi-permanent dye so I don't have to wait for it to grow out. I think I stopped having silly-coloured hair when I started going to business meetings as my CEO's technical advisor and wanted to do an impression of a grown-up professional.

( But that job is long gone... )

When I lived in Oxford, and got real milk delivered by a real milkman, it was inevitable that I sometimes had to leave notes saying "no milk today". At which point I was left singing No Milk Today for the forseeable ( Read more... )

This has apparently been doing the rounds of soshul meeja, so you may already have seen it. Having been driven to despair by comments on various news stories today, I am delighted to note that the comments on this BBC Recipe are well worth reading.

From the really-very-easily-amused department:

( Door, Reading Station )

Well, aren't you all lovely? Yesterday, I asked anyone who had the time, ability and inclination to measure their toilet seat for me. And although I was reasonably certain some of you would have the time and ability, I didn't really expect anyone to have the inclination. But several of you did ( Read more... )

Oh, go on, we haven't had a sheep on here for ages. And this one doesn't even require any effort from me!

In 2012, ( Read more... )