Sadly, the chocolate keyboard only exists as a concept piece, but I want one :)
Only a prototype, le sigh…
Tag: random shit
Geek Meme!
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elfs for this one. Create a faux “first album.” The rules are simple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
This is my entry:
Geek pick-up lines
- You’re like an exothermic reaction, you spread your hotness everywhere!
- I wish I was your derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves.
- You’re like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life!
- If I was an enzyme, I’d be helicase so I could unzip your genes.
- I’m attracted to you so strongly, scientists will have to develop a fifth fundamental force.
- Be my queen and mate me with your knight moves.
- You make my floppy disk turn into a hard drive
- Do you think we can make it a step more serious and disable network sharing?
- I don’t have a library card, but do you mind if I check you out?
- I’ll treat you like my homework — I’ll slam you on the table and do you all night long
- I wish I were your second derivative so I could fill your concavities.
- Did you just combust?? Because you’re HOT!
- What do you say we go back to my room and do some math: Add a bed, subtract our clothes, divide your legs, and multiply
- Every time I see you, my cardiovascular system gets all worked up
- I wish I were adenine because then I could get paired with U.
- What’s your sine? It must be pi/2 because you’re the 1
- If my right leg was Christmas and my left was Easter, would you like to spend some time between the holidays?
- Want to meet up so I can excite your natural frequency?
- You know.. it’s not the length of the vector that counts… it’s how you apply the force
- If I move my lips half the distance to yours… and then half again… and again… etc…. would they ever meet? no? Well in this specific case I am going to disprove your assumption.
- If I was an endoplasmic reticulum, how would you want me: smooth or rough?
- Our love is like dividing by zero…. you cannot define it
- Let me be your integral so I can be the area under your curves
- Let’s discover our coefficient of friction
- You’re so gneiss I’ll never take you for granite.
- I less than three you….. (i < 3 you)
IT wisdom
Benford's Law: Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. (Gregory Benford)
Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Arthur C Clarke)
Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. (Scott Adams)
Ellison's Law: The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. (Harlan Ellison)
Fisher's Fundamental Theorem: The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. (R A Fisher)
Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. (Mike Godwin)
Hanlon's Law: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. (?Robert Heinlein)
Heisenbug Uncertainty Principle: Most production software bugs are soft: they go away when you look at them. (Jim Gray)
Lister's Law: People under time pressure don't think faster. (Timothy Lister)
Murphy's Law: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it. (Edward A Murphy)
Occam's Razor: The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. (William of Occam)
Parkinson's Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. (C Northcote Parkinson)
Pesticide Paradox: Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffectual. (Bruce Beizer)
Spector's Law: The time it takes your favorite application to complete a given task doubles with each new revision. (Lincoln Spector)
Amusing optical illusion of the day
The image below can be perceived to be rotating clockwise or anti-clockwise. If you're seeing it rotate one way, it is possible to concentrate and “force” yourself to see it start rotating in the other direction.
Note to self
Pink Floyd, like tea, makes everything better.
Yay, lesbians!
God, I'm easily amused when I'm debugging :)
Follow-up
As a follow-up to the previous post, dear readers. Please post comments with links to your favourite “office supplies” :)
A clear sign I have a twisted mind
Quick! Quick! Look at this thing and tell me what the first thing you think of!
I'm willing to bet that you didn't think the same thing I did…
A bit of background: I have a gel-filled wrist rest at work. It's black and boring and comfortable, but it sprung a leak so, once in a while, my wrist or some cables get smeared with sticky goo. Not pleasant.
After a bit of running around, I found the right secretary to ask for a new one and, lo and behold, 30 minutes later she came in with a large, shiny, rubbery, bluish thing that would not look out of place in a sex shop.
I feel weirded out and slightly aroused at the same time to have it on my desk.
I have a sick mind, I know.
A looooooong update
Our story, gentle reader, begins last friday.
It was time to get the furball's booster shots and get him vaccinated for feline leukemia at the same time. Initially, he was only supposed to be an indoor-only cat but since we're planning on letting him out once in a while, he needs that vaccine. We took our brave, strong cat to the vet. He didn't like it. He didn't like us either for the next few days and, to show his displeasure, he peed on the couch. Nice. We're letting him off this time, because the shots left him feeling really under the weather for about 36 hours. He's still a bit dopey at times, but he's getting back to his old annoying self.
That evening, Katy and I went to the pudding club at the pub. It was a glorious meal :) Initially, we weren't sure if we'd be able to go because we left it quite late to try and book a table. In fact, the dining room was indeed full up, but they were able to accommodate us in one of the side booths. It was probably nicer that way, to be honest, because we were quite alone and it was a nice ambiance to have a chat. The “light main” course turned out to be quite a hearty coq au vin (which was divine) and I don't even want to contemplate the number of calories we had trying out all those puddings. The new chef at the pub is a pastry chef and she's brilliant. We also got quite drunk (but just drunk enough). It was a fun night.
Saturday saw us going to Cromer for a beachfront day trip. It was a nice day and it wasn't. Traffic to get there was murder and it was just way too hot to be enjoyable. Cromer seems like a nice seaside town and I wouldn't mind going there again under more enjoyable conditions. I'd learned my lesson in Geneva about wearing a hat but I still managed to get a pisser of a sunburn on the back of my neck. I'm still a bit sore, but it's gradually going away. I have pictures of Cromer and they should be up shortly.
Sunday, Katy baked. A lot. A whole lot. She spent the day at it. The lemon cake was lovely (and is already gone) and the marbled cake has only been sampled once (and will probably be portioned out and frozen before it goes stale – it's huuuuuge!). I made a nice roast chicken dinner and we spent a slow day watching Heroes and Grey's Anatomy episodes that we'd taped earlier in the week.
Yesterday was my birfday (I'm now an old fogey at 32) and I was spoiled rotten.
Katy got me:
– a gift voucher for the Cambridge gliding club good for one towed flight to 2000 feet
– tickets to go see Avenue Q in London this weekend (and she booked us into a nice hotel in Mayfair)
– a thumbring 
– a book (You Suck!, by Christopher Moore)
– some chocolate
We had some homemade steak sandwiches with chips and Katy baked (yet again) some freshly-made profiterolles with artery-clogging double cream and dark chocolate. Hooah.
My parents and sister called me earlier in the day and tried to be subtle in telling me to go check my bank balance. I knew they'd said that they were going to pay part of my ticket to go to Canada in September but they went, shall be say, completely off the deep end :) I'm still in shock… THANK YOU!!!
I also got email from Michel last night and I hope to be able to resume our less-than-frequent phone chats with him this week.
Finally, on a purely silly note, I bought myself a SD card for my e-book reader (which, btw, Katy now approves of and wants one for herself :). The card itself is 32 x 24 x 2.1mm and weighs about 2 grams. This is how I got it this morning:
Also, for future reference, here is my flight information for my trip to Canadia:
Gatwick -> Ottawa:
Flight Zoom 411
Leaves Thu 13 Sep 07 14:15
Arrives Thu 13 Sep 07 16:40
Ottawa -> Gatwick:
Flight Zoom 710
Leaves Sun 23 Sep 07 22:55
Arrives Mon 24 Sep 07 10:30
I have no definitive plans yet, but I hope to see as many people as I can.