Archive for 'Amusements'
World of Goo!
Fab game: http://www.worldofgoo.com/
They _even_ have linux binaries “dpkg –force-architecture -i WorldOfGooDemo.1.40.deb” just worked on my box (yes, you need 32bit libraries installed but I already had the relevant ones installed).
Now how much of my life(time) do I want to spend playing it…
Posted: March 4th, 2009 under Amusements.
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Delusions of grandeur
Driving past a white van earlier today, I saw a message scrawled on the back. Not the usual “also available in white” but “why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?”
Just to show I’m as easy to amuse as I am to get worked up over something
Posted: December 1st, 2008 under Amusements.
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Amusements
Despite what people seem to think, I’m actually generally happy. I just rant a bit, well, a lot. Masses in fact. In fact, on IRC we have a unit of Ranting - the “Bridgett”, though we normally use milliBridgetts.
So, sites that make me laugh, lol, rothlmao, <g> etc:
XKCD - legendary author of [...]
Posted: October 5th, 2008 under Amusements.
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You know you work for an IT company when…
16:27 <blueGremlin> Any company that has an employee ‘pizza preferences’ page
on their wiki is off to a good start.
Posted: June 2nd, 2008 under Amusements.
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Penny Flanagan
On a much lighter note, I should really blog about my favourite music artist - Penny Flanagan. She’s Australian and unfortunately hasn’t recorded for some time and sadly isn’t very well known. I heard an album at some friends many years ago and have been addicted ever since. I’ve only managed to [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2008 under Amusements, Life.
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Bizarre meeting of the week
The explanation was “it’s a team building thing - we are going to have a pointless meeting each month”. “Only rule is no work, no kids (that’s _your_ fault)”
You may have seen that I’m currently seeking an Espresso machine. Well there are few coffee fanatics at a customer and so obviously I’ve [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2008 under Amusements, Life.
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Why designers should ask engineers
An engineer would (I hope) have spotted the problem.
If you link three gears like this, they cannot turn.
Posted: February 15th, 2008 under Amusements.
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Ovum - oh dear
Amusing story of the week about Ovum. Google news still has the old incorrect version in the cache
I’d have sympathy, but a website where each paragraph is highlighted in red and underlined when your mouse goes over it deserves a miserable death. What were they thinking?
Posted: January 17th, 2008 under Amusements.
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Store Wars
I’ve just been watching a very amusing parody called
Posted: September 9th, 2005 under Amusements.
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Freaky
Have a look at this
Posted: August 10th, 2005 under Amusements.
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