Looking at the iTunes total we have 242 days of music, and thats 24 hours a day. Soooooo, if we convert that into hours, and divide that by the average working week we get 2.8 years. Years!! So If I start at the top of my iTunes list and listen 8 hours solidly every day, 5 days a week, I will get back to ABBA (don’t ask) in November 2010.
Strangely enough I still complain that I have nothing to listen to.
So last weekend was the office chrifsmas bash. An office full of ozzies, with a generous as hell boss, is a recipe for disaster. Fun and frolics were had by all - I did my usual trick of disappearing before the end, but I have a feeling they would still be drinking now if they could.
Pics in the sidebar, although this is one of my favourites; it just needs sepia tone and a couple of tommy guns:
Here’s to a lot more boozy shenanegans in the future.
Had to split 100K email addresses into two equal lists, but I could only use MySQL LIKE. So after much tinkering I discovered that almost exactly half of all email addresses contain the letter “u”. If that ever comes up in a pub quiz I’m gonna look like some kinda god…
The office Christmas party…
…the conference room:
Yes that is a wall of booze. Yes that is a 50″ plasma. Yes that is a Wii with 4 controllers.
I’ll post an update when the beer fridge arrives 
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Now I love a bad film. I mean, I really love a bad film; Battlefield Earth is in my top 5. But I have just watched Bratz: The Movie (dont ask… just, please, don’t ask) and wow! This is a film that started life as a line of dolls, then did the whole Barbie thing and got a series of, animated, straight to DVD films, but then Bratz (it hurts even to capitalise that pseudo-word) got pretensions and went for the “feature film”.
A fare old time ago Eddie Izzard described the “circle of cool”; if you go far enough into uncool, through retro, past kitsch, bypass parody, you end up back at cool. Well bratz (sorry, the capital was starting to sting) completes about 3 revolutions before stopping, wheel of fortune style, right back where it started - at painfully obvious, if slightly long, advert. The film is by turns: vapid, materialistic, clichéd (okay, it never really leaves this), morally bankrupt, commercial genius, and predictable from 15 seconds in.
This shit should be taught in schools, and I am being deadly serious here; each class should be forced to watch it in a manner not too dissimilar from the torture scene in A Clockwork Orange. Students would then be given 15 seconds to shout out every offensive stereotype they can remember. Those who get less than 12 are chemically castrated for the good of the species. Those that mention anything connected to shopping or shoes are shot on the spot as a lesson to others.
Watch it. I mean it, watch it - it is a vaccine for the soul, it’s poison will make you stronger. Just, for the love of Cuban heels, don’t pay for the privilege.
Today I have been suffering from extreme motivation issues. To fix this I opted for my usual technique of soaking my brain in caffeine. That was when it dawned on me to look up just how much caffeine is fatal. A quick read on Wikipedia shows that the LD50 , the dose at which half your test subjects die (”Lethal Dose: 50%”), of caffeine is 192 mG / Kg of body mass. This combined with the stats on the side of a can of RedBull gives the following formulae:
(body mass in Kg * 192) / 80 = cans of redbull one can consume before one’s odds of dying are 50%
Just thought you should know.
This post mysteriously vanished from the blog, and I never even noticed! Not pointing fingers, but something fishy must have happened. Well here it is again…
Ingredients:
Take 1 domain name, register & host. Then rip their entire site and
paste it onto the new one. Carefully go through all text and change
job references to that of an adult film extra. Finally submit the site
to all the major search engines. Bake in the interweb for
approximately 1 month. What you should be left with after following
this recipe is the following IM conversation:
DiscoStu says: WHAT THE FUCK SOMEONES RIPPED OFF MY SITE DiscoStu says: http://sturreal.com/news.php DiscoStu says: :O DiscoStu says: how the fuck can I get that taken down benTheGeek says: DMCA? DiscoStu says: no idea benTheGeek says: thats fucked up dude DiscoStu says: what am i going to do about that benTheGeek says: see if there is any contact info DiscoStu says: its hosted by falcon studios benTheGeek says: dude: http://sturreal.com/portfolio.php DiscoStu says: i know DiscoStu says: i've seen DiscoStu says: i'm fucking angry benTheGeek says: The \"tools of the trade\" bit is fucking funny DiscoStu says: aye DiscoStu says: its funny DiscoStu says: but not benTheGeek says: you type shorter and shorter sentences when you get angry! DiscoStu says: its registered to ninefortynine DiscoStu says: dude DiscoStu says: its hosted on 1and1 DiscoStu says: with ninefortynines reg details benTheGeek says: RDNS benTheGeek says: www.dnsstuff.com DiscoStu says: hermann is doing DiscoStu says: i've pulled my site for now benTheGeek says: why pull your site? DiscoStu says: because thats just wrong benTheGeek says: hahahha DiscoStu says: they've stolen my site DiscoStu says: i can't believe how much effort has gone into doing this DiscoStu says: it was created 1st april DiscoStu says: haha someone thinks their really funny DiscoStu says: do you reckon I can goto 1&1 about this and request they remove it? DiscoStu says: well the domain? benTheGeek says: possibly. might have to go through ICAAN arbitration though DiscoStu says: great benTheGeek says: nominet i mean DiscoStu says: mines a .co.uk DiscoStu says: someone registered the .com benTheGeek says: ah right. ICAAN it is then DiscoStu says: man who did I piss off to get someone to do this benTheGeek says: Dud e, I cant take it anymore! I was working on my PC on April the 1st when I noticed that the domain was available…. I just couldnt help it. benTheGeek says: You're gonna kill me now right? DiscoStu says: oh yes benTheGeek says: never have 2 words carried so much hate! DiscoStu says: indeed benTheGeek says: Ask Hermann who did the pictures though. If I'm going down Im taking him with me DiscoStu says: iknow DiscoStu says: hes going to die very shortly caused by a monitor in the eye DiscoStu says: LMAO DiscoStu says: i wondered why you hinted about itDiscoStu says: yeah yeah good joke DiscoStu says: bastards
Just finished the first look at the heatsink / backplate for the tablet PC. It’s wacky, I’m mounting the motherboard pointing to the back of the unit with the backplate itself acting as the heatsink. I have added a pic to the gallery of it, you can see the screw holes to secure the covering panel and the larger holes for the spring barbed fasteners to pull the motherboard onto the heatsink. You can see the motherboard in pink, the block sticking out near the top is that damn battery, and the light grey bit is the power connector.
I have no idea if it will dissipate enough heat without the assistance of a fan; which I’m trying to avoid (the whole moving parts issue), but I may have to bite the bullet and whack a fan in there. I am going to see if I can call in another favour from Dan the man to run the numbers. It’s gonna cost me a butt load to have it manufactured, so I would like to avoid having to build another if this one doesn’t cut it.
btg.
