Katy made her boobs talk. It was quite amusing. Apparently, her left boob makes a nice “confused” face, and her right boob is the “yes boob” that agrees with everything the left one says. But hey, it works for me :)
Month: November 2005
Bwahahahahahahahaa!
Holland – A Dutch designer has created a wall of fake breasts to help male shoppers buy bras that fit their wives or girlfriends. Wendy Rameckers works at the Piet Zwart Institute for Retail and Design in Rotterdam, reports Het Nieuwsblad.
“Most men have a selective memory,” she explained. “They know all about their car, but never seem to know their wife's bra size. “When trying to buy a sexy bra for their wife or girlfriend, usually they point to other women in the shop or, when asked about size, they say a 'handful'.”
The wall consists of rows of silicon breasts in all sizes. By look and touch, male shoppers can work out the right size, she says.
A fine meeting indeed
That's the sort of meeting I like: one that doesn't happen and turns into a pub lunch :D
A layman’s guide to philosophy
| TERM | WHAT IT MEANS TO A LAYMAN | WHAT IT MEANS TO A PHILOSOPHER |
|---|---|---|
| hooker | one who can be hired to engage in sexual intercourse | one who thinks that "if A, then B" is logically equivalent (in some sense) to "either not-A, or B"; can be hired to tutor undergraduates, and costs much less |
| utilitarian | almost precisely cubical and made of concrete, probably a multi-storey car park | one who believes that the morally right action is the one with the best consequences, so far as the distribution of happiness is concerned; a creature generally believed to be endowed with the propensity to ignore their own drowning children in order to push buttons which will cause mild sexual gratification in a warehouse full of rabbits |
| Benthamite | substance from the planet Bentham capable of draining the super powers of Wonder Woman, or Spiderman, or some such person | someone who really would ignore their own drowning child in order to push the rabbit-gratification button |
| supervenience | that's it! … he's the guy that gets killed by Benthamite | a one-way dependence relation between properties or facts of one type and properties or facts of another |
| personal identity | the subject of self-help books and those modern Broadway songs which involve the use of a spotlight | that by virtue of which I am the same person I was yesterday |
| logic | …dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few,Captain | involves upside-down As and reversed Es |
| existential quantifier |
an angst-ridden statistician | a reversed E: see above |
| a posteriori | things you think of when you're sitting down | knowledge which is the result of and is based upon experience of some kind |
| a priori | something you've thought of to head your "things to do" list | things you think of when you're sitting down, in an armchair, usually with a snifter of brandy in one hand |
| Platonic | the sort of love which is all very well in its way | a philosophical position which posits abstract objects almost palpable enough to trip over |
| Platonic heaven |
this is a contradiction in terms: see above | a place where one might find triangles, the square root of two, and the abstract property of being a mountain goat |
| Lewis | author of books about Narnia | a contemporary philosopher with a formidable reputation and a truly colossal beard |
| Quine | an alternative spelling of the Old Scottish word "quean", a synonym for "strumpet" which one might just get away with using in a game of Scrabble; indeed, which one often has to resort to using if all of the U's are already on the board | a contemporary philosopher of formidable reputation who I've never actually met, and whose beard I am told does not exist, but who I imagine has quite an impressive snort |
| Kripke | the name of a policeman who is the subject of a song in West Side Story, spelled so that New Zealanders will pronounce it correctly* | a contemporary philosopher of formidable reputation who, I am reliably informed, does have something of an impressive snort |
| Locke | thatte whyche prevents rogues and arrant knaves from burgling Ye Olde English Tea Shoppe | a dead philosopher of politics, language and mind |
| Moore | Dan Quayle's description of Othelloe | a dead philosopher fond of mentioning that he had two hands |
| Hobbes | the butler | a dead political philosopher (who I also think of as having a snort to be reckoned with) |
| t | a letter of the alphabet | a moment in time |
| grue | another one of those Old Scottish words so invaluable in a game of Scrabble, this one meaning "a creeping of the flesh" | either green and first observed before time t or blue and first observed after or at time t |
| modal | something to do with different tonal centres and flattened leading notes, as in "Scarborough Fair" | the phrase "possible worlds" is going to be mentioned any second now |
| possible world |
a phrase which I seem to recall was used as a lyric in a recent animated movie from the Walt Disney studios | either the biggest spatio-temporally connected thing of which we are all part, in which case there is only one; or some sort of weird abstraction, in which case there are uncountably many; but for a different view see Lewis |
| realist | hard-headed | someone who believes in the existence of trees; usually hard-headed,but if you mean "realist about everything", decidedly soft-headed |
| idealist | see tree-hugging, below | one who doesn't actually disbelieve in trees, but who thinks that they can't be bumped into, take up no space, and are in constant danger of winking out of existence if they are not properly attended to |
| pragmatist | as hard-headed as they come | someone whose belief in the existence of trees depends on their belief in the disposition of scientifically-minded angels to believe in trees |
| slab | the noise made by a semi-literate, almost sub-sentient, drunken creature, in order to indicate that it wishes to be given twenty-four cans of beer | the noise made by a semi-literate, almost sub-sentient, drunken creature, in order to indicate that there is a piece of masonry in the immediate vicinity |
| Descartes | a mathematician | a philosopher |
| Leibniz | a mathematician | a philosopher |
| Davies | a philosopher | a physicist |
| classical | Helen of Troy, Beethoven, Corinthian architecture and similar things | a stodgy, old-fashioned logic which produces wildly implausible results: for example, according to classical logic, no proposition is both true and false |
| deviant | someone who does unspeakable things to furry animals | a logic which probably would do unspeakable things to furry animals, if it could |
| absurd | silly | very silly |
| Republic | a nation defined chiefly by its lack of a monarch | a nation which may well have a monarch, so long as the monarch believes everything Plato believes, and has Plato's taste in music |
| France | a country in Europe | a nation defined chiefly by its lack of a monarch |
| the folk | the people responsible for maintaining the national supply of macrame wall hangings | a collection of more or less sensible chaps who more or less know what they mean, and it's more or less what I mean |
| gunk | matter which was once made of atoms like ordinary matter but which is now a formless substance blocking your drains | matter which is not made of atoms like ordinary matter, as it is infinitely divisible |
| deconstructing the other |
??? | ??? |
| Continental | croissants, fruit juice, coffee | deconstructing the other |
| rabbit | rabbit | contiguous and bi-laterally symmetric (when considered three-dimensionally) fusion of temporal slices, chronologically ordered, of what you are so pleased to call a "rabbit" (rabbit, indeed) |
| metaphysics | somewhere between "crystal healing" and "tree hugging" in the Dewey decimal system | No! How many times do I have to tell you? Nothing whatever to do with this New Age stuff! Now move my book away from the stand containing Shirley MacLaine, or I shall be very upset |
Cause I've been playing at this all day
I might be moving to Montana soon to sing a sad song to turn it around because we're all dumb and jaded and now there's a look in your eyes like black holes in the sky.
All that is now and all that is gone and all that's to come: a pointless life has run its course, the red rimmed eyes, the tears still run. My only problem is my problems feel all right, and it's hard for us both to let our feelings show.
I cut waves like some unborn sage and you've clipped my wings before I learnt to fly. Where you are is where I want to be. I need a dirty woman, I need a dirty girl. I think I need a Lear Jet.
No, I'm not insane. Well, not much. This is what happens when you spend your day translating shit. There are 14 song quotes in there. A prize to the person who gets them all. No cheating. Highlight the text below to get the answer.
Frank Zappa – Montana
Daniel Powter – Bad Day
Our Lady Peace – 4AM
Pink Floyd – Shine on you crazy diamond
Pink Floyd – Eclipse
Pink Floyd – Yet another movie.
Beanfield – Keep on believing
Sting – It's probably me
Kasabian – Processed beats
Metallica – Dyers Eve
Santana – Love of my life.
Pink Floyd – Young lust
Pink Floyd – Money
Dire Straits – Money for Nothing
Daniel Powter – Bad Day
Our Lady Peace – 4AM
Pink Floyd – Shine on you crazy diamond
Pink Floyd – Eclipse
Pink Floyd – Yet another movie.
Beanfield – Keep on believing
Sting – It's probably me
Kasabian – Processed beats
Metallica – Dyers Eve
Santana – Love of my life.
Pink Floyd – Young lust
Pink Floyd – Money
Dire Straits – Money for Nothing
How hard is it just to be happy?
I have a feeling I'll be listening to my “music-to-slit-your-wrists-by” playlist today. There's nothing “major” that's wrong; just a bunch of little things that are adding up to make me less-than-happy today.
Why does this remind me of somebody?
Randomly hitting my keyboard
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That's all I'm going to be good for today, I do believe. Had a rough night last night. Woke up at 1am when Katy was coughing up a lung, or so it seemed, then got caught up in a loopy dream that kept my CPU usage in the redline and prevented me from getting back to sleep. I hate that sort of fugue state, where you're kinda sorta awake but still dreaming and you know you're dreaming, but you can't do anythign about it. Then dinner came back to haunt me and I started burping like an idiot – dead sexy I was. I finally managed to get my mind off of what was keeping me up and I got a few hours of decent sleep, but I'm braindead today and my shoulders and chest are stiff. Not good.
Booklist, as of Oct 31 2005.
- Alexandre Duman, Trois Mousquetaires
- Andre Norton, Beast Master's Circus
- C.S. Friedman, In conquest born
- C.S. Friedman, This alien shore
- C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
- Caleb Carr, The Alienist
- Caleb Carr, The Angel of Darkness
- Caleb Carr, The Italian Secretary
- Carl Hiaasen, Eager Beaver
- Carl Hiaasen, Lucky you
- Carl Hiaasen, Skin Tight
- Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip
- Charlaine Harris, Dead to the world
- Charlaine Harris, Dead until dark
- Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas
- Chris Moriarty, Spin State
- Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking fiends
- Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue
- Christopher Moore, Fluke
- Christopher Moore, Island of the sequined love nun
- Christopher Moore, Lamb
- Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping
- Christopher Moore, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
- Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel
- CJ Cherryh, Chanur's Homecoming
- CJ Cherryh, Chanur's Legacy
- CJ Cherryh, Hestia
- CJ Cherryh, The Chanur Saga
- Craig Nova, Wetware
- Dan Brown, Angels and demons
- Dan Brown, Deception Point
- Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
- Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
- David Webber, Ashes of Victory
- David Webber, Echoes of Honor
- David Webber, Field of Dishonor
- David Webber, Flag in Exile
- David Webber, Honor Among Enemies
- David Webber, In Enemy Hands
- David Webber, More than Honor
- David Webber, On Basilisk Station
- David Webber, The Honor of the Queen
- David Webber, The Service of the Shield
- David Webber, The Short Victorious War
- David Webber, War of Honor
- Dennis Danvers, Circuits of Heaven
- Dennis Danvers, End of days
- Dennis Danvers, Wilderness
- Douglas Coupland, Microserfs
- Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
- Eric Flint, Forward the Mage
- Erica Jong, Fanny
- George R. R. Martin, A clash of Kings
- George R. R. Martin, A game of thrones
- Iain Pears, An instance of the fingerpost
- Ian Caldwell, The Rule of Four
- Ian Rankin, The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkhaban
- Jack L. Chalker, Exiles at the Well of Souls
- Jack L. Chalker, Midnight at the Well of Souls
- Jack L. Chalker, Priam's Lense
- Jack L. Chalker, Quest for the Well of Souls
- Jack L. Chalker, The return of Nathan Brazil
- John Irving, The World according to Garp
- Jonathan Lethem, Gun, with occasional music
- Jules Verne, 20,000 lieues sous les mers
- Jules Verne, Cinq semaines en ballon
- Jules Verne, Le tour du monde en 80 jours
- Jules Verne, Les enfants du Capitaine Grant
- Jules Verne, L'ile Mysterieuse
- Julie E. Czerneda, Beholder's Eye
- Julie E. Czerneda, Changing Visions
- Julie E. Czerneda, Hidden In Sight
- Kirsten Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs
- Larry Niven , The Houses of the Kzinti
- Laurell K. Hamilton, A caress of twilight
- Laurell K. Hamilton, A kiss of shadow
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Blue Moon
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Burnt Offerings
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Circus of the Damned
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Incubus Dreams
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in chains
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Obsidian Butterfly
- Laurell K. Hamilton, Seduced by moonlight
- Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse
- Laurell K. Hamilton, The Lunatic Caf
- Laurie R. King, A Letter of Mary
- Laurie R. King, A Monstrous Regiment of Women
- Laurie R. King, Locked Rooms
- Laurie R. King, Justice Hall
- Laurie R. King, O Jerusalem
- Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
- Laurie R. King, The Game
- Laurie R. King, The Moor
- Lisanne Norman, Between darkness and light
- Lisanne Norman, Dark Nadir
- Lisanne Norman, Fire margins
- Lisanne Norman, Fortune's wheel
- Lisanne Norman, Razor's edge
- Lisanne Norman, Stronghold Rising
- Lisanne Norman, Turning point
- Luke Rhinehart, Search for the Dice Man
- Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man
- Mark Simmons, One foor in the grave
- Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers
- Mercedes Lackey, A cast of corbies
- Mercedes Lackey, Bardic Voices
- Mercedes Lackey, Bedlam's bard
- Mercedes Lackey, Beyond world's end
- Mercedes Lackey, Born to run
- Mercedes Lackey, Burning water
- Mercedes Lackey, Four and twenty blackbirds
- Mercedes Lackey, Lammas night
- Mercedes Lackey, Spirits white as lightning
- Mercedes Lackey, The chrome borne
- Mercedes Lackey, The eagle and the nightingale
- Mercedes Lackey, The fire rose
- Mercedes Lackey, The robin and the kestrel
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
- Neal Stephenson, Diamond age
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
- Neil Gaiman, American Gods
- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
- Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors
- Orson Scott Card, Children of the mind
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's game
- Orson Scott Card, Ender's shadow
- Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Hegemon
- Orson Scott Card, Shadow puppets
- Orson Scott Card, Speaker of the dead
- Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
- Paul Cornell, Oh no it isn't!
- Peter F. Hamilton, The Naked God
- Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist
- Philip Jose Farmer, The other log of Phileas Fogg
- Phillip Pullman, Amber Spyglass
- Phillip Pullman, Golden Compass
- Phillip Pullman, Ruby in the smoke
- Phillip Pullman, Shadow in the north
- Phillip Pullman, Subtle Knife
- Phillip Pullman, Tiger in the well
- Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon
- Richard Morgan, Broken Angels
- Richard Morgan, Market Forces
- Richard Morgan, Woken Furies
- Robert Harris, Enigma
- Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a strange land
- Robert Heinlein, The door into summer
- Robert J. Sawyer, Frameshift
- Robert J. Sawyer, The Terminal Experiment
- Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
- Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
- Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum
- Roger Zelazny, A Farce to be Reckoned With
- Roger Zelazny, Bring me the head of Prince Charming
- Roger Zelazny, Changeling
- Roger Zelazny, Chaos and Amber
- Roger Zelazny, Isle of the dead / Eye of the Cat
- Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
- Roger Zelazny, Madwand
- Roger Zelazny, The dawn of Amber
- Roger Zelazny, The Dream Master
- Roger Zelazny, The Great Book of Amber (Complete Chronicles)
- Roger Zelazny, To die in Italbar
- Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
- Spider Robinson, Callahan's key
- Spider Robinson, Callahan's Lady
- Spider Robinson, Callahan's Legacy
- Spider Robinson, Lady slings the booze
- Spider Robinson, The Callahan Chronicals
- Susan Kay, Phantom of the Opera
- Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
- Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
- Terry Pratchett, Eric
- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
- Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
- Terry Pratchett, Guards Guards
- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
- Terry Pratchett, Jingo
- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
- Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
- Terry Pratchett, Mort
- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
- Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
- Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
- Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
- Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
- Terry Pratchett, The Last Hero
- Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
- Terry Pratchett, The Night Watch
- Terry Pratchett, The Truth
- Terry Pratchett, Thud!
- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
- Tom Clancy, Clear and present danger
- Tom Clancy, Executive order
- Tom Clancy, Hunt for Red October
- Tom Clancy, Patriot games
- Tom Clancy, Red rabbit
- Tom Clancy, Teeth of the tiger
- Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon
- Tom Clancy, The Cardinal of the Kremlin
- Tom Clancy, The sum of all fears
- Tom Clancy, Without remorse
- Tom Godwin, The Cold Equations
- Vernor Vinge, A deepness in the sky
- Vernor Vinge, Fire upon the deep
- Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime
- Vernor Vinge, The collected stories
- Vernor Vinge, The Peace War
- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
- William Barton, Alpha Centauri
- William Barton, When we were real
- William Gibson, Neuromancer
I've just come to the conclusion that I've only bought about 4 new books in the last 3 months. This is bad. This is very bad. I need more reading material!