Archive for the 'Random' Category

Thank You, Australia

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Your contributions to civilisation are limited to such things as the lagerphone, the inflatable aircraft escape slide and the Splayd.Now, however, you can add the following video to your list of contributions. Thank you, Australia.

Another Step Towards Stupidity

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/15/students-evacuated-school-chollas-view/
Just baffling and somewhat frightening…

Google Maps

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

I generally consider services like Google Maps and the like to be fairly useful tools, especially for getting a feel of places you’re visiting for the first time. However, problems like this could be quite annoying:

The labels are in the wrong places, which is obviously an issue if you’re looking for either of those buildings. […]

Self Portrait

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

In the absence of anything worthwhile to type about without me sounding like a grumpy old man, I present my self-portrait (not to scale):

Thank you.

Standard Christmas Marker

Friday, October 30th, 2009

I’m surprised it has taken this long, but my standard marker for the arrival of Christmas shows that it has now officially begun.
Considering there were Christmas puddings and crackers and all that in Tesco before I came back to University, I think most places started Christmas around late August or early September.
For those wondering, the […]