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wikipedia has never failed me before -
- usually because i don't ask it stupid questions.
but i expected at least a page, or a response, on searching for "Lactobacillus gasseri". -
down the very bottom of the rabbit hole
It was a mess, today, at work, but it's always a mess at work. The filing system consists of thousands of A5-sized sheets with notes scrawled on them, at first derisive and then desperate records of the national fall in literacy ( Read more... ) -
this week's pet peeve: the Met
in particular, the peeve relates to trains which are listed as leaving Southern Cross station for Frankston; only after you're on it and the doors have closed and the train is moving out of the station does the announcer say "Train departing is now the 5:35 Pakenham train, stand clear please" (Stand CLEAR? We're INSIDE IT), requiring a brief trip ( Read more... ) -
the tale of the large external HD
USB interface, touted as 2 terabytes, which, under Windows, means about 1.8 TB. "Formatted as NTFS for Windows 7", and yet when plugged in, no drivers can be located for it, defaulting to the standard USB thingy. i won't name the brand for fear of lawsuits[1], but you can probably guess ( Read more... ) -
one of those jour de le terrier du lapin things
I love three a.m starts!
Well, yes, that's a lie. I don't, and in any case, they're less three a.m. starts than continuations of the previous day with no sleep. But sometimes you have to, in order to keep the Great Machine running, and if you get into the whole "on the road three hours before anyone else" thing, it can be a calm, contemplative ( Read more... ) -
new year's peeve
journalists (or bloggers pretending to be) who start articles with "You know what?" -
100 words: sixty-nine
The depot was empty, no food, no fuel, stone cold, snow blowing in through the broken window. Two days out of McMurdo and we were gonna freeze to death ( Read more... )
