HASTA LA VISTA, BABY


shirley bindun?

(Mon 19th Oct 2009, 15:39, More)

Haha

(Thu 1st Oct 2009, 16:52, More)

Are your teletext pages HD ready?

(Thu 30th Jul 2009, 15:35, More)

The Pearl With A Girl Earring

(Tue 28th Jul 2009, 14:07, More)

Nice

(Thu 16th Jul 2009, 9:46, More)

Be excellent to each other (Except Klingons)

(Thu 4th Jun 2009, 16:10, More)

Didn't actually need to shop much...

(Mon 9th Mar 2009, 13:44, More)

As promised...

(Thu 26th Feb 2009, 11:27, More)

Let's Rock!

(Mon 1st Dec 2008, 12:04, More)

Is it just me, or...

(Tue 7th Oct 2008, 15:27, More)

» How nerdy are you?

Breaking my QOTW virginity here UPDATED
...so be gentle.

In one summer holiday while doing a maths degree at university, I took it upon myself to make a rug of the Mandelbrot set.

I programmed my BBC B computer to plot the picture, and got it to calculate how many strands of wool of each colour I needed. I then went to the wool shop and befuddled the shop assistant, who's only comment was "There's a lot of black, isn't there?"

I then set about making the rug, based on a printout from the above program.

The rug itself is about a metre square, and I think it contains 10000 strands of wool, which all had to be stitched by hand, using a special hooked tool.

It took about 10 weeks to complete, and I still have it 18 years later.

EDIT: Link to pic, it's a bit fuzzy, because my phone cam is shite

img183.imageshack.us/img183/6932/rugkp4.jpg
(Thu 6th Mar 2008, 17:28, More)

» IT Support

I remember working for an insurance company once
The new Operations Manager was really big on being informed of when things may be going wrong, and so set up the mainframe computer to page him on a pager every time there was a system message generated.

The first night after setting this up he went to bed, presumably with the pager on his bedside table...

Anyway at 4 am the loud beeping of the pager woke him up in a panic. "What could have happened?" he thought.

Anyway he quickly got dressed, drove the 30 miles or so to the office, unlocked all the doors, deactivated the alarms and made his way to the Ops room. There he switched on the terminal to see what was wrong with the mainframe, only to be confronted by the system message that had been generated:-

"Backup completed successfully".
(Thu 24th Sep 2009, 12:58, More)

» I don't understand the attraction

Twitter.
Need I say more?
(Thu 15th Oct 2009, 17:45, More)

» Pointless Experiments

Crushing an egg in your hand by squeezing
This one time, when some eggs had gone past their sell-by date, I attempted to prove or disprove the theory that it is not possible to crush an egg length-ways in your hand by squeezing alone.

After much exertion this appeared to be the case; I could not crush the egg like this, so I then wondered if it was actually possible to crush it width-ways.

For a time it appeared that this wasn't possible either, but then I squeezed just that little bit more, and that extra pressure on the shell must have caused it to crack, and it broke.

Well I say broke, it actually exploded because of the pressure I was exerting on it, and it sprayed all the eggy goodness about 6 feet into the air, all over myself, and all over my good lady wife who was acting the part of an impartial observer to the proceedings.

I was quite unpopular for the rest of the evening.
(Fri 25th Jul 2008, 11:07, More)

» Pet Peeves

Percentage abuse
It really annoys me when people say rubbish like "I gave it 110%".


You can't give it more than 100%. Fact.
(Wed 7th May 2008, 16:14, More)