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Peppa Pig: the eldritch horror
Apr. 28th, 2010 01:12 pmI didn't do this. My colleague did. I hope you understand the dangers of exposing your children to this entity now.
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Feb. 4th, 2008 11:26 pmI have started writing a description of the boundary of Greater London in iambic pentameter.
Uxbridge is where our Journey will Begin;
where Oxford Road does bridge the River Colne;
our Boundary does chase the Torrent north;
til Hertfordshire we touch, and then go East
i may have gone a little crazy.
you see, someone asked on IRC to what extent were we allowed to use official government maps which actually define boundaries. and i said, no, you can't. but you can use the prose descriptions attached to them. and then i said that, come to think of it, you could use verse descriptions attached to them, as well, were there any.
Uxbridge is where our Journey will Begin;
where Oxford Road does bridge the River Colne;
our Boundary does chase the Torrent north;
til Hertfordshire we touch, and then go East
i may have gone a little crazy.
you see, someone asked on IRC to what extent were we allowed to use official government maps which actually define boundaries. and i said, no, you can't. but you can use the prose descriptions attached to them. and then i said that, come to think of it, you could use verse descriptions attached to them, as well, were there any.
the long-awaited ferretmacro
Jul. 17th, 2007 12:53 am
lighting and cameraphone didn't interact so well, but there you go. thanks to
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psych0naut and ewtikins and whoever else was playing for their patience.catmacros ate the internet
Jun. 7th, 2007 04:20 pmfound this on boingboing: the laugh-out-loud cats, a comic strip from the early 20th century.
new word: 'trichoequilibrium'
Feb. 21st, 2007 01:25 amme and grim_tim and drjane invented a new word at the weekend. it is "trichoequilibrium" and as of writing this it has no google hits. the word means: the natural length your hair will remain at if you don't have it cut.
as an example of usage, if you have fast growing, strong, or persistent hair, you will end up with a longer trichoequilibrium point than folks who don't.
(i just read a latin textbook, can you tell? 18 books this year, by the way, i hope to have all 50 done by the end of summer! more if graphic novels count.)
grim_tim and drjane invented a new word at the weekend. it is "trichoequilibrium" and as of writing this it has no google hits. the word means: the natural length your hair will remain at if you don't have it cut.as an example of usage, if you have fast growing, strong, or persistent hair, you will end up with a longer trichoequilibrium point than folks who don't.
(i just read a latin textbook, can you tell? 18 books this year, by the way, i hope to have all 50 done by the end of summer! more if graphic novels count.)
great new advance in theoretical physics
Dec. 14th, 2006 12:01 pmhammerspacetime theory, unifying the concepts of hammerspace and hammertime. ideas anyone?
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Nov. 21st, 2006 09:25 pmthe radio just informed me that there is a national society for people who hear voices. i wonder if the voices have a society as well.
All hail 2003 UB313 !
Sep. 14th, 2006 07:39 amI deem it very appropriate that a planetoidy thing which people argued so much about has been named after the Our Lady Eris, the godess of strife.
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Sep. 7th, 2006 08:00 pmon my way to covent garden to buy green tights for b-movie, i was accosted by a chugger for Friends of the Earth. i was in somewhat of a hurry, but didn't really feel like ignoring him, so when he greeted me, i informed him that i could not join his organisation because i was already a member of Destroy the Earth, and it was against our constitution to join friends of the earth. he asked what Destroy the Earth does. i told him. he asked how. i said it was unclear but paving it all had been suggested. I did not tell him about the plan to chrome the moon. he wished me good luck and I left.
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Jul. 20th, 2006 08:57 pmsomeone turned my news story in an audio! hurrah! complete with dodgy cockney accent!
England shocked by occurrence of summer for 21st year in a row : With temperatures in the mid-30s, the inhabitants of England have been expressing their profound shock at the recent spell of hot weather, which according to Met Office records is part of an annual pattern of hot weather between the more normal English seasons of spring and autumn.
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Jun. 26th, 2006 09:23 pm27! thanks all.
rather anticlimatic today after the weekend. i suppose i am now officially in my late 20s. eek. may go buy myself a present tuesday.
today's uncyclopedia roundup consists of : Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip featuring philosophers John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes (not mine), Sixth International (warofdreams) and finally my Gilbert and Sullivan Islands (this has been stewing in my brane for a long time, I find it very hard to think of the real Gilbert and Ellice Islands without the name popping into mind)
do people want to attempt the music quiz tomorrow?
rather anticlimatic today after the weekend. i suppose i am now officially in my late 20s. eek. may go buy myself a present tuesday.
today's uncyclopedia roundup consists of : Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip featuring philosophers John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes (not mine), Sixth International (
warofdreams) and finally my Gilbert and Sullivan Islands (this has been stewing in my brane for a long time, I find it very hard to think of the real Gilbert and Ellice Islands without the name popping into mind)do people want to attempt the music quiz tomorrow?
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Jun. 16th, 2006 12:48 amoh dear. i seem to have spent most of my evening inventing a bad american action/adventure show, That's My Dick, featuring Dick Cheney as a fugitive president, looking for an evil fruit machine and getting involved in random 45 minute long plotlines in various locations. someone drew me a nice poster, though.
(context is here)
yes. there is only one wasp. possibly i could copy and paste this one in various sizes. or not.
I think I'll pretend to go to bed now. (but instead read until i do get tired)
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May. 14th, 2006 02:17 pmon a lighter note, here is a picture i took whilst i was in Sheffield.
anti-humour
May. 12th, 2006 09:58 pm( anti-joke )
oh, and i appear to have managed to attach woolyhair to my head in a vaguely acceptable manner (you can probably see the real hair looking at it from odd angles, i clearly need more mirrors or maybe a cctv system for checking. or i could dye it black and then it wouldn't matter so much.). off to intelekt in a little while.
oh, and i appear to have managed to attach woolyhair to my head in a vaguely acceptable manner (you can probably see the real hair looking at it from odd angles, i clearly need more mirrors or maybe a cctv system for checking. or i could dye it black and then it wouldn't matter so much.). off to intelekt in a little while.
public service announcement
May. 3rd, 2006 09:21 pmfor those people who are awake at the time, or who don't mind staying up in order to look at clocks displaying nice patterns of time - the time 01:02:03 on 04/05/06 approaches, and is less than four hours distant here in BST. americans already had this last month.
metaphorical panda
May. 3rd, 2006 01:07 ammusic quiz this evening. i think i caused a net +1 to be added to the team's score. i'm not sure why i bother really (about anything). on the upside, i've had an AWFUL LOT OF CIDER.
so i was talking to the rest of the team and it turns out they'd never heard ofPOKEY THE PENGUIN, can you believe it?
Some good strips are Pokey #1 Pokey #2 (Pokey and his Friends) Pokey has an Identical Twin The Forbidden Candy Pokey and Yekop (in which pokey deals with his counterpart from an alternate universe) Welcome to Rum Island The Skeptopotamus The Power of Democray/You Can Count On Stalin. How can you not love a comic which has lines like 'HERE ON RUM ISLAND WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN RUM!'?
Also those of you who are geometrically inclined should check out a cartoon which has EVEN WORSE ARTWORK, Triangle and Robert, which is about a triangle called, um, Triangle, and a rhombus called Robert. They insult their cartoonist. A lot. (here for the main page, earlier link was archive)
And bizarre road sign experiment (hunt around the site for more).
oh, and i appear to have ended up with 2 more bottles of beer somehow. the the cupboard with them! (i now have TWELVE!)
so i was talking to the rest of the team and it turns out they'd never heard of
Some good strips are Pokey #1 Pokey #2 (Pokey and his Friends) Pokey has an Identical Twin The Forbidden Candy Pokey and Yekop (in which pokey deals with his counterpart from an alternate universe) Welcome to Rum Island The Skeptopotamus The Power of Democray/You Can Count On Stalin. How can you not love a comic which has lines like 'HERE ON RUM ISLAND WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN RUM!'?
Also those of you who are geometrically inclined should check out a cartoon which has EVEN WORSE ARTWORK, Triangle and Robert, which is about a triangle called, um, Triangle, and a rhombus called Robert. They insult their cartoonist. A lot. (here for the main page, earlier link was archive)
And bizarre road sign experiment (hunt around the site for more).
oh, and i appear to have ended up with 2 more bottles of beer somehow. the the cupboard with them! (i now have TWELVE!)
