February 2010
22 posts
Cutest 911 call ever →
*sniffle*
(via @sciencepunk)
You should dig out Paul Simon’s first solo...
Smoking fags in rowing boats (Take 1)
joethedough:
http: //www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/24/postcards-show-the-year-2000-circa-1900.html
dtt101:
I thought the moving pavement thing was my idea : (
dtt101:
See all that physical stuff was too hard
joethedough:
i like how far from the mark the ship/train combo was
joethedough:
and how close summer holidays at the north pole is.
dtt101:
I would love the personal flying machine
dtt101:
I like the guy flying one and have a cigarette
joethedough:
there really would be nothing better than a fag in your flying machine
joethedough:
i used to have a little blue rowing boat
dtt101:
heaven as far as I am concerned
joethedough:
and i used to row it up and down the river in bungay when i was 14 or 15.
dtt101:
aw
joethedough:
then i tired of it when i discovered fags and booze and girls
joethedough:
and we sold it
dtt101:
'rosebud'
joethedough:
it wasn't until i was 20 or so that i realised that the best thing in the world would have been fags, booze, girls AND rowing boats
joethedough:
yeah, if I could think of a conclusion to this story, it'd be the best story ever.
dtt101:
I think the way it works is you build a blue boat for pubert
dtt101:
And he hates it
dtt101:
But then uses it to save you from drowning
dtt101:
And you are reconciled
joethedough:
I might just copy and paste this conversation to my blog
dtt101:
ok
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Smoking fags in rowing boats
When I was 14, I had a little blue rowing boat that I’d row up and down the River Waveney in Bungay. It was all very idyllic - overhanging willow trees; water-meadows at sunset, that kind of thing. Once I even saw a Kingfisher. These are the kinds of things that childhoods in retrospect seem to be made of, despite the fact that at the time they seemed to feature a good deal more hanging from...
a bright wall in a dark room.: Woody Allen Week:... →
THAT WAS THE MOST FUN I’VE EVER HAD WITHOUT LAUGHING.
by Meaghan O’Connell
It has been thirty-three years for him and five for me, but still, my visceral reaction to Woody Allen’s face in the opening credits of Annie Hall is that I want to pull it out of a TigerBeat and fasten it to my…
A conversation I have every month or so
dwineman:
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring you. Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a place to eat? Didn’t that ever...
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IRC as a productivity tool. (I know, right?)
Edit: Some updates from suggestions from Mitchell
David said that they had an IRC channel; just for work. He said a lot of other things too, but the main reason he said that he loved his new job was that there was an IRC channel; just for work.
David’s a bloke I used to see maybe once or twice every six months or so. And whenever I used to see him it was, as it always has been, excellent....
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Planning
One of the things we said we were going to do a few months back was actually use the office as an office - i.e. Actually work in the fucker. With my new job I’ve taken some steps to actually making this happen - but to do it properly will require some plumbing jobs from an IT perspective. If I make this list public, it stands a good chance of actually being something I get round to doing....
Your friday earworm.
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Challenger
The footage in the second video above was only uncovered a few days ago - the guy who filmed it donated it to the Space Exploration Archive shortly before his death - and they themselves have released it in the run up to the anniversary of the disaster.
I know its kind of macabre, but I’m fascinated by the two videos considered together.
One is horrifying because of its detached...