A conversation between my Wife and I as we were lying in bed listening to California Love by 2Pac on her new iPod shuffle:
me: Is this TuPac?
her: Yes.
me: Isn’t he dead?
her: Yes, this is a recording.
Will writes
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Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?
Well, could ya?
I got 88% correct, or a B+. How embarrassing :) Scores in the comments please!
Scratchcard withdrawn due to withering levels of ignorance
Tina Farrell, from Levenshulme, called Camelot after failing to win with several cards.
The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: “On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn’t.
The best bit however comes next:
“I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher – not lower – than -8 but I’m not having it.”
Tina for president, I say.
Halloween zombie mistaken for murder victim
BERLIN (Reuters) – Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveller dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police.
The 24-year-old man fell into a drunken slumber on his way home from a Halloween party in Hamburg, police in the northern town of Bad Segeberg said on Monday.
Map of all the freecycle groups in the US
Just for fun I plotted all the Freecycle groups in the US on a google map (as you do). An interesting side-effect is that the map shows population density, the darker the area the greater the population. It is easy to spot the cities:
The data is fairly old, there are almost certainly more groups than this now.
Playing with Cameroid
This is a photo of me taken at cameroid.com with my iMacs built in iSight camera.
Fun! And yes, Paul, it does look like me :)
And now Carl has done one too, an improvement over the original I feel:
From the office IRC channel:
[15:16] carl: http://www.cameroid.com/9OJ-A1, me > mona lisa.
[15:16] greg: lol
[15:16] greg: is that going up on your blog?
[15:16] carl: No!
Correct, it’s going up on my blog!
Greg has also been playing, though unlike Carl and I, Greg has decided to take a photo with no comedy overlay:
Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.
But I think the best bit of the article is this:
It wasn’t clear whether the bill was a mistake…
Really!
Wagamamas (Manchester) 2 for 1 meal voucher
For another brief period I will almost be able to afford to eat lunch at Wagamamas:
This voucher is valid from August 7 to August 13 2007, just print it out and take it with you. Apparently a new voucher is released…
…every tuesday starting from 31 July, 2007 we will release a new voucher valid for 1 week.
via.
Wifi network and computer network names
John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has posted some of the wireless network names his iPhone picked up recently, here are a selection:
- McJesus
- TuckerPoo
- breasts
I particularly like breasts… Anyway, this started us talking in the 29degrees office about our wireless network and computer names. At the risk of starting a meme, here are mine:
Wireless network name: foo
Computer names:
- Laptop (PowerBook): marmot
- Linux machines: Patrician and Plebian
I am interested in Tony, Carl, Dean, Stig and Paul‘s nerdy naming conventions. Let’s see how far this can go ;)
