2003 February | gimboland

I’d never be able to

I’d never be able to capture, here, just how wonderful Rich & Emma’s wedding, last Saturday, was - so I’m not going to try. Those who were there know what I’m talking about.

My bar bill for the night came to a mere one hundred and forty pounds.

Baby’s Third Through Eighth Words

Baby’s Third Through Eighth Words Registered Trademarks.

Excuse me Miss, you seem

Excuse me Miss, you seem to have something coming out of your nose [chicken].

I’m in disagreement with Jim on this one… I agree that we need to get into space (after all, the fundamental reason the dinosaurs died out is that they didn’t have a space programme), but does it have to involve flag-planting? Does it have to involve flags at all?

I don’t really like flags, to be perfectly honest.

If you ignore the first

If you ignore the first paragraph, here’s a pretty good article on why the Space Shuttle was still in use despite being old, overexpensive, and unsafe [diepunyhumans]. Unsurprisingly, it’s all to do with politics, money, and entrenched interests - and ooh look, there’s Boeing’s name.

Bloody hell… I just turned

Bloody hell… I just turned up to give a lecture, and I was an hour early. How many more times is that going to happen in my career, I wonder.

Well, the wounds seem to

Well, the wounds seem to be healing up now, so I think it’s time “Mauled By Poodles” reverted back to plain old Gimboland. Those of you who missed the whole “mauled by poodles” story, here it is.

Hey Rich! Hey Mike! Hey

Hey Rich! Hey Mike! Hey Roger! Roger Dean wants to rebuild your house [null]. Sweet.

Columbia debris field map [robot]

Columbia debris field map [robot] - wow, or, to put it another way, “holy fuck”.

Gibson has created a guitar

Gibson has created a guitar that you can plug into a computer and record directly on to a hard drive. [wotever]. There’s a picture of (what I believe is) a Les Paul with an ethernet connection - not that I noticed, I just thought it was an ordinary cable. Shrug.

With the Magic technology, the sound from each string is captured individually, so a guitarist can put a special effect on just one or two of the strings.

The killer question is, of course, does it sound any good?

Gridlock. Warning: time sink.

Squirrel fishing - “A new

Squirrel fishing - “A new approach to rodent performance evaluation” [gamma].

In the rare cases where this does succeed, the subject becomes freaked out by the experience and runs away.

Get ‘em out for the

Get ‘em out for the first annual Nude Weblog Awards [pussy]. Get over there and vote for Shauny in the “Weblogger We’d Like To See Nude” award.

I presume this should be

I presume this should be making some sound. Alas, it isn’t for me. It’s still fairly amusing even without sound, though.

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! [jumps up

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! [jumps up and down excitedly]

V For Vendetta annotations! (Also here).

Plus there’s the V For Vendetta Shrine with some good looking stuff including V versus Rorcshach and the music of V For Vendetta.

Tasty.

You want me to cuddle?

You want me to cuddle? Then don’t eat my anterior tentacles for nourishment [null].

Those crafty daleks (thanks, Dave!).

The Brand America Project [null]

Casual Fridays in Reykjavik.

Excellent Get Fuzzy.

Pioneer 10 falls silent [wotever].

Gimboland’s been verging on the silent lately, hasn’t it? Don’t worry, I still love you, I’ve just been busier and more focused on my work than ever before. I’m getting the impression that this job is going to be frantically busy in term-time, and somewhat gentler the rest of the time - which would be a good thing ‘cos then I might get some research done (zip so far). Anyway, this is just a brief burst of telemetry data so you know I’m still transmitting, I guess.

I’m going to completely and

I’m going to completely and shamelessly rip off those good boys at wotever with this one, just ‘cos they do it so well…

dogsincars.co.uk - does exactly what it says on the tin.

Julie: There’s an interesting snippet

Julie: There’s an interesting snippet regarding the RSPCA being somewhat stupid (in a spamming sense) in last week’s Need To Know, (which I’ve only just got round to reading, so busy am I) - about the third item down, look out for FAXYOURMP.COM and you’re in the right place.

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