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Posted by WarHead, around June 2006:

i remembered this little meal recently: 23 plates of pure joy »

Presumably while you were blowing chunks of pure carrot.

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 13th June 2006:

re Emoticon: "maybe we should port flickr to emoticon"

"Introduction
Emoticon is a programming langauge based on emoticons, or smileys, such as those that excessivly litter many bad emails and Usenet postings. In Emoticon these smileys become program instructions, while anything surrounding them becomes data. With some cunning it should be possible to embed Emoticon code in any normal message, though any reader would probably end up being very confused at what mood you were trying to convey! "

a nold post of mine in similar vein:

I was just reminded by someone of two great introductions to the world of programming.

Many of you will have looked at the panoply of TLAs what abound in computer programming and felt a rising panic, then looked at the random gibberish of crypto text within actual programs and fled screaming.

C#, Managed C++, perl, C++/CLI, Basic, Java, forth: what forth uck?

For you, there is now the power and simplicity of the magnificent

Ook#
http://bluesorcerer.net/esoteric/ook.html

Here's that old classic introductory micro-program, "Hello World," written using Ook for demonstrative purposes (which are NOT fish).
#example that prints Hello World!



Ook. Ook? Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook. Ook.

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Beautiful, no?
Strikingly elegant in its parsimonious yet diarrhoea-like viruloquence*.
You sense immediately that you can grasp its whole as a language, since in its dessicated paucity of vocabulary and variation it precisely mirrors the human condition: it speaks to our collective Soul at a very powerful and primitive level with timeless truisms and supra-aeonic verities.

But then, at the other end of the spectrum, is your raw coder, the man with a screwdriver in his hand and a gleam in his eye. He doesn't code down to the bare metal, he codes IN bare metal. To him, if it's not difficult to write AND read, it's not real code.

"Lest a whole new generation of programmers
grow up in ignorance of this glorious past,
I feel duty-bound to describe,
as best I can through the generation gap,
how a Real Programmer wrote code.
I'll call him Mel,
because that was his name.
...

I have often felt that programming is an art form,
whose real value can only be appreciated
by another versed in the same arcane art;
there are lovely gems and brilliant coups
hidden from human view and admiration, sometimes forever,
by the very nature of the process.
You can learn a lot about an individual
just by reading through his code,
even in hexadecimal.
Mel was, I think, an unsung genius.
..."

-- The Story of Mel --

For him, there is the tumescent cryptogeek obfuscatorialness that is:

BrainFuck#
http://bluesorcerer.net/esoteric/bf.html
background info here

So to return to our simple introductory example but now using BrainFuck#:
#example that prints Hello World!



>+++++++++[-]+++++++[-]>>++++++++[-]

>>++++++++++[-]<---.<<<>+.
Both langages have been ported to the imminently ub/in-iquitous .NET "framework" so down you load and off you go!

Oh, and for those who are offended by all the swearing: if you don't like my language, you can get fucked.

Which actually works as a motto for Brainfuck# too, come to think of it. And you know you will.

* "viruloquence" -- "just thought of that -- like it?"

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 15th June 2006:

hmmm. the "<"s etc aren't getting thru the PRE tag. the brainfuck example should be:

#example that prints Hello World!



>+++++++++[<++++++++>-]<.>+++++++[<++++>-]<+.+++++++..+++.>>>++++++++[<++++>-]

<.>>>++++++++++[<+++++++++>-]<---.<<<<.+++.------.--------.>>+.

deepest apologies to all those who've been tearing their hair out in confusion over the apparently nonsensical syntax. it should all be clear now.

Posted by WarHead, around 16th June 2006:

*Tumbleweed*

Posted by WarHead, around 16th June 2006:

awesome! via aaron

Haven't you learned your lesson about helicopters? I suppose this one's OK because it doesn't actually fly.

I thought this item might be fun, but it wasn't the type I was thinking of.

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 17th June 2006:

cal: your new post-text parser is:
a/ causing a double-refresh post post
b/ on Editing a post, inserts hard linebreaks at fixed character-counts (80?)

Posted by WarHead, around 18th June 2006:

.... and I can't see the names of posters. I imagine others can't either.

Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 18th June 2006:

Um, it was working indoors, not at work... slightly ironic.

We can play the guess-who-posted-what game.

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 18th June 2006:

I can't see the posters names either. At home, after refreshing, I could see the names temporarily, until I scrolled down, then they disappeared.

EDIT : the names are visible for literally a second after loading the page, and then disappear.

Also : the yellow doesn't go away after posting.

Posted by Syl @ 08h10 UK time.

Posted by cal_DUPE1, around 18th June 2006:

weird - i don't remember changing anything. oh, maybe the css isn;t loading right - let me give it a kick

Posted by cal_DUPE1, around 18th June 2006:

did that fix it?

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 18th June 2006:

Nope. It's still broken, Cal.
Syl @ 11h01

Posted by WarHead, around 19th June 2006:

Kick it harder. You must have forgotten where the sweet spot is.

Warhead

Posted by Grim..., around 19th June 2006:

I'm having no problems on Firefox - is it an IE thing?

Posted by Grim..., around 19th June 2006:

/checks
Yes, it is.

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 19th June 2006:

Uh. I'm at home now and the problem seems to be fixed.

EDIT:Nope, there it goes again. It was working five minutes ago!

(Syl)

Posted by ellipse, around 19th June 2006:

i wish inknew what you were all talking about
i've yet to experince this problem, cleary i have a superior computer

Posted by Grim..., around 19th June 2006:

Or you don't use IE?

Posted by cal_DUPE1, around 20th June 2006:

probably the rounded corners code working badly on IE. if i start to care, i might try and fix it. but i'm on vaction right now. get firefox

Posted by ellipse, around 20th June 2006:

bon voyage cal

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 20th June 2006:

Have a nice trip, Cal.

Posted by WarHead, 20th June 2006:

Blimey, it's yonks since I've used Firefox. I usually use Avant (alfie's recommendation, IIRC) which I like more than any other browser I've ever used.

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 20th June 2006:

cal: Netscape 7.2 on Mac OS X 10.3.9 here (tiger is not ready for primetime yet, and firefox's UI remains profoundly annoying in a few too-critical areas) so it's definitely not an IE issue.

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 20th June 2006:

Well it's working for me now...?

Posted by WarHead, 21st June 2006:

Warhead's sit rep

IE - not working
Avant - not working
Firefox - working

And with all the recent crap we've had I still think we need a [Ban] button.

Posted by ellipse, 21st June 2006:

still working fine for me :)

Posted by syl_DUPE1, 21st June 2006:

Is it just me (Syl) and warhead?
Good idea warhead...cal while you're fixing this how about a ban button? And I have control over it? (Saddam Hussein)

Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 22nd June 2006:

yeah, tis broke for me too. (in avant) was using firefox till recently but it went mental and started crashing every time I tried to download a file or even save a picture.

Posted by Grim..., around 22nd June 2006:

That's probably because your download list was too big Alf - you have to clear it out now and again or it rapes all your memory every time you open it.

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 22nd June 2006:

ah yes, THAT's the sign of good development and user-centric design: the requirement for particular technical knowledge re a design flaw, and then requirement for manual intervention, just to be able to continue using a basic tool.

contrast with, say, eudora, that old-school app, which warns you that certain usage patterns are starting to have egregious memory consequences and then tells you how to fix it, all in one nice neat little dialogue box. not to mention the wide range of soft and hard limits available within its Settings, which just work in the background to trim out resource load.

sorry, i know firefox is currently the devel/wouldbedevel community's darling because of its scriptability. but on a personal couldn't-be-arsed-hacking-basics-anymore basis, i just see it as a budget netscape with the same major cookie/security regression as introduced in netscape 7.2 combined with deal-stopper anti-user usability bugs (eg, inability to keyboard-switch between tabs or even scroll up and down with the keyboard, after you've clicked within a window (eg, by clicking on it to switch focus, or to copypaste something, or to enter form data, etc.)).

this Download-Memory drain cockup is a new one on me but it fits the pattern of disregard for normal usage patterns (eg, limited memory, non-developer-community users)
</rant>

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 22nd June 2006:

oh
cal, re my original note re posting hiccups: currently on mac os x
10.3.9/netscape 7.2, it works fine. however, there is a noticeable
single whole-screen refresh after posting(/reloading post-screen) or on first loading a topic that's changed. i
don't recall that happening in previous weeks, tho i could be wrong.
not sure what's going on there, but i spose there's a chance it could
bog down older/more-loaded computers.

EDIT: oh, but the EDITing-inserts-LineBreaks thing is still happening. e.g. this post.

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 22nd June 2006:

more bug-winnowing notes for cal's benefit:

EDITing:
1/ inserts a LineBreak after the first Word
2/ multiple LineBreaks (eg used to separate Paras) appear to be eliminated entirely: replaced with a space or linebreak depending on the surrounding text's shape

musings:
these 2 are kind of odd in context with the hard line-wrapping and your statement that you've not intentionally changed anything (related), so i'm guessing a slight change in a low level component, so i'm guessing you might have tweaked your whitespace algorithm?

could even happen accidentally if you've effectively translated a regex pattern across platforms, say by opening a Windows-written file in Linux and Saving it. this can scramble linebreak characters embedded in patterns if the editor was not written to be multi-platform-sensitive. i had someone munch a 50 line sed pattern of mine like that once by opening shell text in Notepad, then hitting Return instead of Escape on closing it. that was in a code generator. much joy trying to find out just what the hell was going on.

Posted by WarHead, around 22nd June 2006:

THUD!

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 22nd June 2006:

*giggles*

Salty, you sure know how to make a short story long. Maybe you should write a novel?

Posted by WarHead, around 24th June 2006:

putty is lacking tabs, but wintabber looks promising.

What the hell is 'putty' in this context?

Don't bother to answer, I Googled it and got the kind of geeky answer that makes me want to consider shepherding as a new career.

Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around 30th June 2006:

this is halla annoying
it's boken for me too, and I really don't feel like getting a whole new browser
now it's like a weird game where you have to guess tho poster and you can't ignore salties posts .... pffffff

btw, back from honeymoon wehey

Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around 30th June 2006:

and I can't edit my post either, needing to put an r in broken :(

Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around 30th June 2006:

miki btw for the fellow ie users

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 30th June 2006:

Hey Miki! There's been a few congratulations posted for you. There's also a Flickr group as well. We've had some silly brats here posting reams of rubbish. You can still edit your posts. If you hover your mouse over the part where the edit bit used to be, the arrow will turn into a hand. Click and you can edit. Same goes for looking up the user. This is Syl by the way. :D

Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around 30th June 2006:

oooh you're right about the edit hand thingie

miki

Posted by WarHead, around 6th July 2006:

build your own version of the prisoner/portmerion with lego

Kewl. Portmeirion is one of my favouritist places in the whole world. If I win Euromillions I might just buy the whole place and live there.

Posted by cal_DUPE1, around 6th July 2006:

i'll fix the site for IE users when i get back from holiday

Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around 6th July 2006:

thanks cal

see I told you guys!
hmm maybe I should change my habit of reading the threads bottom-up so I would've known this before i posted the other thing ...

-miki

Posted by frankie_DUPE1, around July 2006:

no! i think ie users should be punished because if it wasn't for them, i could probably spend more time sleeping instead of trying to make my css work

Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around July 2006:

who is cal?

Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around July 2006:

oh yeah, blame poor little old me
-miki

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around July 2006:

Re Portmeiron in lego:

Hoover Dam
Fast-Fact Pamphlet
If Hoover Dam Were
a Scale Model Made
of Legos.

BY ORR GOEHRING

- - - -

Hoover Dam weighs more than .0027 ton.

Hoover Dam contains materials salvaged from a pirate ship, a medieval castle, and a moon rover.

When operating at full capacity, Hoover Dam generates 0 million kilowatts of electricity.

If Hoover Dam were laid on its side, it would be taller than the coffee table.

Beginning in 2006, cars were no longer permitted to drive across Hoover Dam, because we don't break our toys.

Hoover Dam was once knocked over by a border collie.

Hoover Dam employs a full-time staff of two workers with yellow plastic heads.

Construction on Hoover Dam began on a Sunday afternoon in February and was completed later that evening.

Hoover Dam leaks water like a sieve.

Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around July 2006:

I'm assuming cal's back from holiday because:
I can see again! praise the lord!

hope you had a nice time cal and thank you :)

Posted by WarHead, around July 2006:

He is. See?

Posted by bumdog, around July 2006:

Engaged?

Why do I miss out on all the gossip :(

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around July 2006:

Cal's getting married! Congrats Cal and Elina!

*sobs*

P.S. when's the big day and are iamcal members invited? ;)

Posted by Grim..., around July 2006:

A more appropriate question might be "where's the big day?".

Posted by WarHead, around July 2006:

Somehwere in cyberspace, plobly.

Posted by Grim..., around July 2006:

Ha =]

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around July 2006:

heh

"Do you, Cal, take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife?"

"I RC"

"You may now op the bride."

Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around July 2006:

I'm sure some of the rest of you will get that joke. Can you explain?

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around July 2006:

Cal is going to fly us all to SF for the wedding...eh, Cal?

Posted by Grim..., around July 2006:

Laymans: IRC is a chat program. To let people control the chat room, you can make them operators, or 'op' them.
Also:

if (propose("cal", "elina"))
{
$wife ++;
}

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around July 2006:

he didn't flickr -- he keptr.

Posted by Grim..., around July 2006:

Because she's got rounded corners and gradient fills, innit?

Posted by frankie_DUPE1, around July 2006:

now that will be an iamcal wedding. But only because he actually is cal..
do we all get to go to the wedding? will it be like a real life version of iamcal world? Except with a queen on a matching donut throne...

Posted by Grim..., around July 2006:

So: Me, Cal and Beargod?
Party on.

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around July 2006:

flickr.com/photos/plumpchum...

...check the Description :)

Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around July 2006:

wehey, congratulations cal!

Posted by jeffld_DUPE1, around July 2006:

Just don't ever ever call this function.

if (affair("you", "fiancees relative"))
{
$divorce ++;
}

Posted by WarHead, around July 2006:

Grimbo! What's a 'Marshal' in this context?

Posted by Grim..., around July 2006:

A Marshal is a military guy.
A Marshall is a tractor.

)(*^&%$£"%$&^^£%$
That probably still won't make any sense to you, but hey ho.

Posted by WarHead, around July 2006:

Doesn't need to. As long as I know it's related to motor vehicles of some kind, I know that it makes sense somewhere between your lug 'oles.

Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around July 2006:

Pffft

Posted by WarHead, around July 2006:

Wombat! I know what THAT is, I just didn't think it would be that to which Grim was alluding.

Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around July 2006:

I wasn't suggesting you didn't... never mind, have another Worther's.

Posted by frankie_DUPE1, around 13th July 2006:

actually i think he's more into murray mints

Posted by WarHead, around 13th July 2006:

I prefer Extra Strong, really.

Posted by frankie_DUPE1, around 13th July 2006:

is that because the murray mints play havoc with your dentures?

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 23rd July 2006:

next time flickr has wobbles, an old favourite and a recent new inanity will come together to explain the problem:

Posted by Doctor Lucid_DUPE1, around 23rd July 2006:

Filth!

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 28th July 2006:

> huge hole!

abc.net.au/goldfields/stori...

you can count the number of fingers on the fingers of your hand:

There are lots of things Kalgoorlie-Boulder tops the list for - the biggest open cut mine in the world, the most isolated outback city - we're doing pretty well for pubs as well - but a recent revelation by the city's physicians has brought to light a disturbing new fact:

it's the town with the highest amount of missing fingers in the world!

"One of what seems like a minority of non-disfigured hands in Kalgoorlie-Boulder"

Posted by WarHead, around 28th July 2006:

I went to the second biggest hole, which was in Zambia, in 1972 but didn't notice if the locals were missing any digits.

Chingola open cast mine

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 28th July 2006:

you saw no one?
AH HA! then they're missing the digit JUANoneone11111!!!!

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th August 2006:

>thanks to Robin Pan, there's now a chinese translation of my javascript article at vitamin »

Pfft, s/he just rang these guys and held the phone up to a ViaVoice microphone:
World's first translation software for cell phone launched in Xiamen

It has now become a reality that you hear Chinese when the other people speak to you in English on a mobile phone. This has been achieved by a translation software developed by Xiamen Talentedsoft Co. Ltd. (Talentedsoft).

With storage of 0.1 million words, the world's first translation software for cell phone can translate a common sentence from Chinese to English or from English to Chinese in less than 0.5 second and can also read out the words after the translation is done.

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 5th August 2006:

speaking of mobile internet: www.janchipchase.com/blog/a...

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 26th August 2006:

careful cal:

www.bbspot.com/News/2002/11...

Sunnyvale, CA - Fred Munk yesterday lost his job for excessive perl programming. Munk was hired for categorization and review of links to pornographic websites for Yahoo's Erotica department. He allegedly spent more time programming perl-scripts than looking for porn.

"He was fired for gross laziness" reports Diane Vice, Yahoo's Director of Consumer Porn. "I mean, it's okay to use company resources for fun stuff for fifteen minutes after lunch, to stimulate digestion by whipping up some nifty regular expression or obfuscating the break-condition in a for-loop, but this Munk-guy has a serious productivity problem. I told him get some professional help, but Fred didn't listen and continued to churn out code during work hours -- compulsively, obsessively, just sick!"

Munk responded, "I'd be pounding out some hot code and then the boss would come by and I'd have to quickly switch to Jenna Jameson taking it from behind. I needed quick fingers, but I wasn't quick enough. She kept catching me with Emacs open."

Posted by WarHead, around 4th September 2006:

"i started a blog nobody read" is actually quite catchy

For once, I agree.

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 4th September 2006:

"i started a blog nobody read" is actually quite catchy

For once, I agree.

dojo.fi/~rancid/loituma__.swf

Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 4th September 2006:

I remember that loituma from something else? Hasnt it been linked to before but with a different animation?

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 4th September 2006:

it's been around before, but i just tripped over it again and that maddeningly half-catchy half-maddening funky japop riddim reminded me of this post

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 15th September 2006:

EDIT: DELETED: it was a copy sans-link of -----v

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 15th September 2006:

someone seems angry at tim bray. ruby folks are funny

thanks cal, i loved this post

"Interestingly, namespace= is sticky but attributes= is transient. That is to say, you have to call attributes= once per element.” The word ‘interestingly’, of course, is engineer speak for ‘I have no idea what is going on, who I am, what I am doing and could someone please fire me now’. Look at his explanation, amounting to I HAVE NO IDEA WHY MY CODE DOES THIS."

"let’s take a look at his article. He starts of whining about how he’s encountered libraries for generating markup but if you ask me, he’s never encountered a library in his life. Anyone who has really encountered a library before doesn’t strut about bragging about it on his INTERNET BLOG. Yeah, that’s right, Tim my friend. I said it. INTERNET BLOG."

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 16th September 2006:

go go gadget network hijinkery apparently freezing browser... ]:\

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 18th September 2006:

Marc Orchant calls me a twenty-something first-time-out-of-the-gate stud because of the development model i described. i find it kind of amazing how much he misses the point. "come back and tell me how silly you feel spouting that nonsense in a few years kids". maybe that's not such a bad idea

Are you sure he was talking about you? Were you the only 20-something presenting? If so, I think this guy is suffering from an acute case of the green-eyed monster syndrome.
[Not that I'm being nice to you. I'm still pissed off. ;) ]

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 18th September 2006:

im in ur gutter. blockin ur drainage » « 07:58 16/09/06 | permalink | cats

what's a harbl?

Posted by WarHead, around 18th September 2006:

I was wondering that but didn't like to ask for fear of appearing a twonk.

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 18th September 2006:

hairball

that gif is _excellent_. "i'm n ur northpole, snipin ur elvez"

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 18th September 2006:

cal, i didn't read that post as an attack on any one or two people. but that guy does show a couple of flags of status-needy incompetence posing as priesthood.

the first was his fuddled jumbling of "shipping fast" with "ship whatever", rather than noticing that the google calendar presentation was essentially orthogonal but by slight association potentially an endorsement of the "shipping fast" approach rather than an alternative.

the second was that hideous phrase "best practices" which usually means Big-5 Accountant/Management Consultant syndrome: meme is more important than reality, because you're making money from meme not practice. combined with "40 years of", this suggested to me he doesn't really know much about development. there have been NO new practices developed over the last 50+ years of computer development. and each and every "new big thing" (eg xp, ajax, rest) that keeps coming out is always just yet another flavour on the stuff being done FROM THE OUTSET in the 50s.

"Remember, kids! 'Methodology' means 'Money For Parasites'!"

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 18th September 2006:

i find it kind of amazing how much he misses the point. "come back and tell me how silly you feel spouting that nonsense in a few years kids". maybe that's not such a bad idea.

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

-- Charles Babbage

Posted by Grim..., around 18th September 2006:

Cal - how come you think Mike was talking about you?

Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 18th September 2006:

He was talking about everyone who uses that model. Or more precisely doesn't use a model he's fond of. So Cal falls with that group. Either that or he heard "stud" and assumed, as I would.

Posted by WarHead, around 18th September 2006:

Bwahahahahahahahhaaaaaaaa....

Try using a different model.

How about Naomi campbell?

Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 18th September 2006:

She's too fat ;)

Posted by syl_DUPE1, 17th October 2006:

Hey Cal :

i'm in ur hatbox

edit:thanks warhead!

Posted by WarHead, 17th October 2006:

You need to edit that link, Syl. You've got a superfluous br/ tag on the end of it.

Posted by Sul_DUPE1, 17th October 2006:

Ooh that Phoenix Wright "Objection" tshirt is aces! I've found the only cristmas pressie I wont get my sister to choose for me (the one for her). Already! Yay!

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 18th October 2006:

"I don't understand your reference!"

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 18th October 2006:

bwah hah hah hah ha ha ha haaaaa!!!

1. objection.mrdictionary.net/...
2. objection.mrdictionary.net/...

but seriously -- what the hell is that game about? never heard of/seen reference to it before.

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 18th October 2006:

Objection! T-shirts suck!

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 18th October 2006:

Objection! Why couldn't you just attach them in place?!

(NSFW)
(but you gotta love that leer at the end)

Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, 18th October 2006:

BJ Law.
Seriously.
BJ Law.

Posted by Grim..., 19th October 2006:

What the hell is that Gimmie Some Candy site about?

Posted by Sul_DUPE1, 20th October 2006:

^^that

Posted by WarHead, around 4th December 2006:

monty on the run, hamster style

Class! I laughed until I stopped, and dog knows, I need a laugh right now.

Posted by Clara, around 5th December 2006:

Why warhead? Is the silly season getting you down? :(

Posted by WarHead, around 5th December 2006:

Oh, too many things to go into great detail, but work is driving me nuts right now. Everyone's having to write new job descriptions as part of our restructuring and this is right after around 50 staff have left either via early release/retirement schemes, or just got other jobs elsewhwere because they were pissed off with the direction we're now taking. So we're already understaffed right across the office and trying to cover for the people who've gone and then have been given a complex and tedious task to do before the end of next week.

It's nuts.

Posted by Clara, around 5th December 2006:

Aw. Here's a virtual back rub.

Posted by Clara, around 7th December 2006:

amazingly beautiful ad on the london underground [via coates] » « 18:10 06/12/06 | permalink | ads graphics pretty

I'm not keen on it.

Posted by Grim..., around 7th December 2006:

Neither am I - close up it's a bit of a mess, TBH.
Still, it's better than most tube stations.

Posted by Grim..., around 7th December 2006:

Also, I'm not conviced it's an advert - or am I missing something?

Posted by Sul_DUPE1, around 7th December 2006:

edit:

Clara:

You might be if you saw the rest of the underground. I avoid the tube mainly for safety reasons* so I'm not really in a position to comment too heavily. That said, from what I've seen, Charing Cross provides a history lesson that's mildly interesting and the rest are just a massive influx of ads.

*I realise I'm overly paranoid, before anyone starts, but, really, the platforms get WAY too packed and I am extremely uncomfortable having to stand so close to the line as an end domino just so I can get on a train. I'd rather pay for a cab.

Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 8th December 2006:

I thought it was an art installation, and a rather nice one, rather than an advert, but perhaps it's too subtle for me? Any idea what it is actually advertising?

Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 8th December 2006:

Sul, some tourist/student guy fell under one the other day didn't he? And I mean, shoved under by a heaving throng of people on the platform, rather than jumping under

Posted by Clara, around 8th December 2006:

It's those silly bug-eyed faces that I don't like ... sure maybe compared to the rest of the dingy underground at least it's a bit of colour, but I wouldn't call it "amazingly beautiful"

P.S. We don't go anywhere NEAR the trains in South Africa. You will most certainly be mugged (if you're lucky) and quite likely to be killed by another passenger and/or chucked off the train. :(
Which is a huge pity as I LOVE trains.

Posted by Miki_DUPE1, around 8th December 2006:

I didnt mind getting the underground
I didnt have to do it regularly during rush hour, but even then I was more annoyed at the sardine-ness then scared.

I like Baker street, with the nice Sherlock Holmes tiles.