Come one, come all.
Not there please, that'll be a nightmare to clean up.



Why does my iTunes shuffle seem to think shuffle means "play anything as long as it's by Queen"?
(inb4 "why are you using iTunes"?)
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:21, 62 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

is it cos itunes is gay and fancies freddy mercury and brian maye (with his curly hair)?
i don't achly think itunes is gay.

i'm just setting up my brand-new iphone 3gs...
smug!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:24, Reply)

*makes jealous open mouth fishy face*
YOU HAS IPHONE. Can I play with it?

iTunes is what I have to use, sadly, since I am an Apple whore and have one of those shiny iPods... it does the job but it crashes every time Do You Think I'm Sexy by N-Trance* comes up on shuffle.

* This track belongs to Flatmate. Honest.
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:27, Reply)

i'm a macfanboy, allegedly.
cannot stand pc's.
love macs.
got a g4 powerbook, ipod and now a shiney new iphone.

achly i kind of LIKE itunes.
try changing the randomness setting?

and yes, you can ;-)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:34, Reply)

Yay *pokes ineffectually at the screen and grins like a mong*
I've never used a Mac beyond occasionally checking my emails at uni in Switzerland (there were no PCs on the entire campus, it was Mac or nothing) so am not used to them at all!

I like iTunes when it does what I want it to do; it's just occasionally the shuffle spacks out and decides I'll listen to what it wants me to listen to. Never fun!
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:47, Reply)

And whatsmore, he has the 3GS
Perhaps you should try re-encoding that mp3 and see if it still crashes.

Speaking of N-Trance - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fyH3QgZkWo
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:47, Reply)

Eee!
Incidentally, the one track that always makes me want to go out is Hold Me Forever.
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:49, Reply)

I'm more of a fan of their earlier stuff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj5w1PPfNoo
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:03, Reply)

Absolute. Fucking. Classic.
*reminisces about cheese nights at the union*
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:08, Reply)

I can't answer your question as I don't own an ipod
I'll just leave this here
*pimps*
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAtMouH0yPk
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:28, Reply)

*pauses System of a Down to click*
*is glad she did*

I'm also a bit fixated with the Golden Age of Video song from the newsletter!
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:30, Reply)

I'll be honest, I rarely look at the newsletter but I SHALL NOW
omgomgomgGLENHANSARDANDMARKETAIRGLOVAAREGOINGTOBEHEREINNOVEMBER*dies*
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:34, Reply)

Do it. It's the most awesome mashup ever
*grooves*
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:50, Reply)

haha It's definitely something
I enjoyed it
( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:55, Reply)

"We came, we saw and we kicked its ass!"
I loves it. And I'm friends with his missus :)
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:09, Reply)

venci vidi glutimi

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:42, Reply)

veni vidi velcro.

( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:58, Reply)

I only have iTunes
because my iPhone insists on needing it to be activated and to sync the iPhone. It suffers from the usual Apple User-Interface malaise. Apart from that, I use WinAmp to play mp3s on my PC.

How is everyone this evening?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:42, Reply)

i are mainly grand thanks. had a job in keswick today, the capital of the lake district.
it was lovely weather, great views, no wind etc.

and now i have my 3gs so all is good in the world!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:46, Reply)

When my lovely girly phone cops it
I will save my pennies for an iPhone if it cannot be replaced with an identical model (the third of its kind, I love my Ericsson).
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:51, Reply)

would that be the pink sony ericsson flip phone?

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:57, Reply)

Nope, better than that.
The one with the hypnotic backgrounds and the pretty flowers!
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:10, Reply)

i got mine by upgrading my handset.
i'm on contract for my work phone.
it's only costing me a fiver a month more than i was paying for my nokia.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:57, Reply)

I'm still PAYG, just so I don't spend outside my means.
I never did sort out a data bolt-on for it...
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:13, Reply)

I wanted to visit the Lake district last Easter but I didn't find the time to on my way back down from Edinburgh. But still made it to the Dales though.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:06, Reply)

A truly random pattern produces close together results on occasion

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:52, Reply)

this is true!
most folks don't get it.
just like if you flip a coin 20 times you're as likely to get 20 heads as any other outcome.
or something.
sorry, i'm distracted by the awesomeness of my new iphone...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 19:56, Reply)

true
If you were to draw a probability tree, you would find that the odds of that happening are the same as any other outcome but those odds are 0.5^20
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:03, Reply)

which is way beyond the logic of most folks.
or am i being harsh?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:05, Reply)

My brain hurts!
*adopts Gumby stance*
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:19, Reply)

each time you flip a coin you have a 0.5 chance of it landing either heads or tails.
The overall probability of getting heads twice in a row is 0.5 x 0.5 or 50% of each time you flip it. (0.5^2) so for twenty times (0.5^20)
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:41, Reply)

Ah yes *has a vague memory of probability in maths at school*
I think I did some kind of experiment to prove this...
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:45, Reply)

true
but due to the weighting of the coins, its more like 0.51/0.49 - but i dont remember which is heavier
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:44, Reply)

Think it's the head (fnar)

( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:59, Reply)

Guess what...
I are now posting from my iPhone!
LOL
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:24, Reply)

My phone doesn't like any b3ta post
with more than about 40 replies. It spacks out spectacularly!
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:30, Reply)

i'm just showing off now, i shall stop it.
*smugs a little more*
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:35, Reply)

Why don't you show off the compass as well while you're at it?

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:38, Reply)

okay...
north is...
that way!
*points*
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:41, Reply)

Just you wait until they bring out an iPhone with a greater screen resolution
I'll be on top of the iPhone stakes once again.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:04, Reply)

pah!
the future doesn't exist.
is all.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:06, Reply)

Oh well
At least I have my sun and my stars.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:08, Reply)

the thing i like most about tech is that as soon as you get it...
it starts to become obsolete!
yay!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:13, Reply)

Not yet anyway.

( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:08, Reply)

If we're posting good music off that there youtube
I got pointed to this a few weeks back

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYCzDhaRV60

and LOVED it. Not my normal cup of tea but just SOOO good.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:24, Reply)

You like?
I like!
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:30, Reply)

You've read Pratchett
so I take it that you've read "Good Omens"? Remember what happens to any tape that's left in a car for more than two weeks?

Keep your iPod out of the car and you won't have to listen to "Fat Bottom Girls" again.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:48, Reply)

this is why i stopped using my Walkman (aka the iPoor) on my bike into work
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:51, Reply)

I will steal this nickname for it
and use it for my own nefarious purposes.
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:52, Reply)

"It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust'," said Crowley, closing his eyes as they went through Slough.
To while away the time as they crossed the sleeping Chilterns, they also listened to William Byrd's "We Are the Champions" and Beethoven's "I Want To Break Free." Neither were as good as Vaughan Williams's "Fat-Bottomed Girls."

I'll have to have words with the local bus drivers, or else get a bike :(
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:51, Reply)

I l;ike supergrass in the mornings

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:06, Reply)

I'll listen to most things on the way into work
although death metal tends to send me in there spoiling for a fight...
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:08, Reply)

The only thing I listen to on my way to work
is the guy at the security gate making up yet another reason for why I need to show him my pass.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:11, Reply)

If the one on our front desk (we share our building with two other companies)
makes any more comments about "ooo, she's been shopping again!" when I come back from my lunch with milk or something, I am going to cunt him in the fuck. Nosy old bugger.
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:13, Reply)

You should cone in with an unusual outfit
or some unusual items just to see what sort of reaction you'd get.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:39, Reply)

Oh, why is there not an Ann Summers in Trashford?
That'd shut him up.
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:46, Reply)

Im lucky enough to never have worked for a company with a security guy at the front desk

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:23, Reply)

Nowardays
I make it a point just to cycle past the gate before he can say anything. As I come in every day, he won't feel guilty for letting in someone he shouldn't.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:39, Reply)

And you just know that if you forgot it one day
he'd pretend to not know you.

We get A Letter if we forget ours once, and a Letter for our manager if we do it twice!
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:46, Reply)

Security
I find that using the old jedi mind trick works with the weak minded (i.e. security guards).

Must practice the Alec Guinness hand wave more...
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:59, Reply)

Works a treat down the station - don't even need to show a pass or tix now!
They just know me because of my job (and because of Flatmate).
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:01, Reply)

Openings
Some of us have super special tickets that open all the barriers and doors anyway :-p

But I'm lazy so I wait until the gateline staff open them for me.

^{(And I believe the nearest Ann Summers is in Maidstone... not that I know exactly where, mind you...)}
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:05, Reply)

They know me by sight now so it doesn't matter :)
I've never been to Maidstone...
( Maladicta, Mon 12 Oct 2009, 22:25, Reply)