Is anyone else...
...thinking of The Truman Show?
Posts by Robert Ramsay
397 posts • joined Monday 25th September 2006 08:28 GMT
Once upon a time...
"You swapped the cow for a handful of WHAT?"
I would like to donate my haircut coupons to Boris Johnson.
Or as Ted Heath put it...
Interviewer: "Is it true you said 'Rejoice, rejoice' when you heard she had resigned?"
Ted Heath: "Actually, I think I said it three times"
Re: Latex...
Are you Randall Munroe in disguise?
Posted in Ten... Bedroom Gadget Treats
Has no one noticed...?
In the first picture, the TV is coming out of the *head* of the bed...
Posted in Virgin Media's latest throttling rules
Re: A few things on this
That's very odd. I have my own Smoothwall router attached to the modem without problems. I don't have any Macs, but the Smoothwall is ofc a kind of Linux and I have other Linux boxes attached. Besides, if it blocked non-Windows users, surely the PS3 wouldn't work either?
Re: @Adze Where Did He Go?
I thought Onan's sin was *refusing* to sleep with his (dead) brother's wife - which is why he spilled his seed as a "dirty protest"...
Heh
Like the random Godley and Creme reference, although of course that was New York and not Australia...
Space:1999 had it also...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_One_(Space:_1999)
Posted in Spotify v. Pure Music
One question
....Does Pure Music pay artists more than Spotify's 0.000000001p per play?*
*there may be too many noughts here
And in other Gartner news...
hundreds of thousands of dollars are made by "analysts" who never get called on their "predictions".
Question:
What's the first thing you do if you start to lose your balance? Answer: wave your arms around to try to steady yourself...
Are you Doctor Who?
The company was only founded in 2002 and wasn't launched until 2003...
7% of Murdoch, eh?
why didn't he just buy the rest and close it down?
Arrrgh
CIVILISATION IS OFFICIALLY OVER
What the fuck is he wearing?
That is all. Thank you.
Posted in Beeb rescues old Who episodes
In that case...
You'll not want to find out what happened to most of "Not Only But Also"...
That subhead is absolutely brilliant.
I rank that one up with "Intel and AMD piss on each other's chips" "Wife auction goes titsup" and the one about Alcatel laying off loads of people: "Sack Ray Blur"
TBH...
The cosmos could do with a bit of a regeneration.
Posted in US decommissions massive Cold War nuke
Heh
"The bomb is being decommissioned in a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) facility in Amarillo, Texas – but very, very carefully, because most of the original designers are dead and plans for the device could be incomplete."
Sounds like most people will be singing "Is the way OUT of Amarillo?"
This is my thought also.
In string theory, gravity is not confined to a single universe but is allowed to range through the 'bulk' between universes. The past and the future are special cases of multiple universes, and there is a range of universes encompassing every possibility that has come out of quantum results in the past. As time goes on, you would expect the gravitational effect of 'dark matter' (gravity from other universes) to increase as the number of resulting universes increases. This should be falsifiable.
I'm guessing that if you have to ask, you can't afford it.
Dark Matter
Dark Matter always seemed like a modern phlogiston to me. There's no denying that the effect is real, but whether the interpretation of the cause is correct...
It struck me whilst reading about M-theory that whilst most strings that form elementary particles are stuck to their "home brane" (think 'Flatland'), gravity is free to wander between branes. What we refer to as dark matter might be the interference effects of gravity caused by the masses on parallel branes. So a new quantum theory of gravity (which we don't have yet anyway) instead of exotic new "stuff"...
Wi-fi? Pah! Ethernet!
This is why using wireless at home is the invention of the devil.
I believe it was Quentin Crisp whilst being gay-bashed: "Why don't you fuck off back home before they find out you're queer?"
She'll get so enormous...
...She'll be known as "Beyonce Castle"...
Posted in Osun MushRoom Green Zero USB charger
£15...
...is cheaper than Apple's non eco-charger at £27.
Anyone who uses this...
...deserves all they get...
Posted in Peaches Geldof explains Kubrick's 2001
Doesn't seem that far off to me...
Didn't know Peaches was a Freemason though :-)
First *and* largest?
Well, quite.
I thought...
...it was Steve Jobs' Dad.
John Lithgow
"Laugh while you can, monkey boy!"
I thought...
that they put emetics into these things precisely for this reason?
Posted in LucasArts Day of the Tentacle
Hands off that hamster!!!!!
"Bernard, float over here so I can punch yew"
I think he meant "lucky" instead of "shocking"
as a policeman, I mean.
Posted in IDC slashes PC sales forecast for 2011
I predict...
...that these predictions will be exactly as accurate as all other predictions about the future that these companies make.
Indeed...
"As the court heard during the last two weeks, LimeWire wreaked enormous damage on the music community, helping contribute to thousands of lost jobs and fewer opportunities for aspiring artists."
Almost as much as the record companies... http://www.jagshouse.com/music/billnelson.html
Mine are all obscure books...
"The Wall of Years" by Andrew Stephenson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Years-Orbit-Books-Andrew-Stephenson/dp/0708880436/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302874155&sr=1-2
"sunsetting" is not a real word.
That is all, thank you.
This plugin...
if someone was installing it every four seconds, surely there's something wrong with it?
Posted in Sheep as smart as humans: Official
In other news...
...humans proved to be as stupid as sheep...
Posted in Latest boffinry: Feeding TNT to sheep
And I thought...
http://www.wowhead.com/item=4384/explosive-sheep
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Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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