Showing posts with label miscellany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label miscellany. Show all posts
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Just Ask
OK, ready? Ask me anything:
I await the results of this experiment with interest (and not a little trepidation...)
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Raven Mad
One of the ravens at the Tower of London is called 'Thor'. That's pretty damned cool.
However, another is called Colin. Not so much.
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Evoke Minster
Any York-based types go to this or know anything about it?
"A specially commissioned project for Illuminating York 2007 in northern England, Evoke is a massive animated projection that lights up the facade of York Minster in response to the public, who use their own voices to "evoke" colourful light patterns that emerge at the building's foundations and soar up towards the sky, giving the surface a magical feeling as it melts with colour."
It was in Oct/Nov last year, apparently - any mention in the Yorkshire Evening Press (or were they too busy complaining about the Ring Road, dog mess and empty shops in Stonegate)?
More pics here (thanks, Rowan)
"A specially commissioned project for Illuminating York 2007 in northern England, Evoke is a massive animated projection that lights up the facade of York Minster in response to the public, who use their own voices to "evoke" colourful light patterns that emerge at the building's foundations and soar up towards the sky, giving the surface a magical feeling as it melts with colour."
It was in Oct/Nov last year, apparently - any mention in the Yorkshire Evening Press (or were they too busy complaining about the Ring Road, dog mess and empty shops in Stonegate)?
More pics here (thanks, Rowan)
Thursday, 7 February 2008
Logo Agogo
Worth a glance, some fantastic olde worlde company insignia evolving into the brands we know today:
Neatorama: Evolution
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Chip Chip Hooray
Who knew?
"The International Year of the Potato was officially launched at United Nations headquarters in New York on 18 October 2007. The day's celebrations included the official launching ceremony, held in the ECOSOC Chamber, a special supporting event for IYP partners, and an exhibit on potato and IYP for the general public."
I'm a-fried I missed the launch; mashed try harder...
"The International Year of the Potato was officially launched at United Nations headquarters in New York on 18 October 2007. The day's celebrations included the official launching ceremony, held in the ECOSOC Chamber, a special supporting event for IYP partners, and an exhibit on potato and IYP for the general public."
I'm a-fried I missed the launch; mashed try harder...
Sunday, 13 January 2008
Winging It
Sunday? Raining? Bored? Not any more...
"Great step-by-step instructions on how to fold your own X-Wing. Learn this by heart, and no meeting need be completely boring ever again."
Apparently it should end up looking something like this:
Get to it, men...
UPDATE: Andy had a go, and now so have I - definitely not for the impatient :)
"Great step-by-step instructions on how to fold your own X-Wing. Learn this by heart, and no meeting need be completely boring ever again."
Apparently it should end up looking something like this:
Get to it, men...UPDATE: Andy had a go, and now so have I - definitely not for the impatient :)
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
Gormanuary?
Casually (and if truth be told, somewhat foggily) perusing my many and varied RSS feeds this morning, I stumbled on this:
Which suddenly reminded me rather a lot of this:
Coincidence? Alex, fancy giving Dave a call...
Which suddenly reminded me rather a lot of this:
Coincidence? Alex, fancy giving Dave a call...
Monday, 31 December 2007
e-glue (geddit?)
Need a massive dinosaur for your kid's wall? Zombie pirates? Smiling jungle dwellers? Crustaceans and the like?
Fantastic, if quite pricey...
Fantastic, if quite pricey...
Sunday, 30 December 2007
Giving Palm The Finger?
Astonishing account of Palm 'customer service' (impersonating the CEO, anyone?)
Friday, 28 December 2007
Big Blue Collapse
So this was bbc.co.uk at 17:15 today:
I guess the 20-odd homepage developers were all off merrily tucking into their turkey sandwiches :)
I guess the 20-odd homepage developers were all off merrily tucking into their turkey sandwiches :)
Monday, 24 December 2007
34B-O-XXS-18-24m-15"
Just in time for that last-minute dash to Oxford Street to buy everyone's presents in the sales, we bring you:
Amusingly, the ladies' one contains 'ring size' (now there's optimism!)
Yes, I'm blogging on Xmas Eve. Yes, I'm at work. Yes, the two are connected
Amusingly, the ladies' one contains 'ring size' (now there's optimism!)
Yes, I'm blogging on Xmas Eve. Yes, I'm at work. Yes, the two are connected
Saturday, 24 November 2007
Ready, Steady, Mech
Flatpack creatures to download (PDF), print out and build!
Perfect for those wet winter (and, to be fair, summer) Sunday afternoons, fellow Dads :)
(My favourite is Tentaclopse...)
Perfect for those wet winter (and, to be fair, summer) Sunday afternoons, fellow Dads :)
(My favourite is Tentaclopse...)
Friday, 2 November 2007
Like, The Colours, Man
If you don't subscribe to strangemaps, do so at once. This one is brilliant:
"This map is of the dark side of the moon, which here looks more like a Jackson Pollock action painting, its riotous colours corresponding to geological materials and phenomena. Many of the colour spots are circular in nature, reflecting the large number of meteorites that have impacted on the lunar surface, unprotected by an atmosphere, over many, many centuries. The map is one of a series produced by NASA and the US Geological Survey between 1971 and 1998."
Mesmerising.
"This map is of the dark side of the moon, which here looks more like a Jackson Pollock action painting, its riotous colours corresponding to geological materials and phenomena. Many of the colour spots are circular in nature, reflecting the large number of meteorites that have impacted on the lunar surface, unprotected by an atmosphere, over many, many centuries. The map is one of a series produced by NASA and the US Geological Survey between 1971 and 1998."
Mesmerising.
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
Jesus Wants Me For A Facebook
Well looky here, y'all. Apparently that there Facebooky thing is like totally sooooo much fun that my lovely online (and offline, some of 'em) chums feel I am missing out on all the garden/cake/vampire networking grooviness and have taken time out of their busy Web2.0 virtual tagging sessions to set up a 'group', dedicated to little old me and the persuading-to-join thereof:
Nope. Nice try. But sorry. Never in a million years. Although......a million.....what if a million people joined that group AND PLEDGED TO DONATE A SINGLE UK PENNY EACH? Then I might be tempted.
Ten thousand pounds to a charity of my choosing. What do you reckon, Level 5 Zombie Facebook-types??
* Obviously I would have to join to see it, so I'll just have to take their word for it :)
Ten thousand pounds to a charity of my choosing. What do you reckon, Level 5 Zombie Facebook-types??
* Obviously I would have to join to see it, so I'll just have to take their word for it :)
Thursday, 13 September 2007
Thursday, 6 September 2007
Thursday, 2 August 2007
Monday, 30 July 2007
Feed Me
Right, listen up you lot.
For those of you getting busy with the RSS reader-type things, I am intending to move the feed for this site to:
For those of you getting busy with the RSS reader-type things, I am intending to move the feed for this site to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ForkHandles
Please forcibly redirect your 2.0 sprocket here via the overhead cam flange and hopefully the 'excitement' will continue unabated. If not, drop me a line/comment and I'll hit it with a spanner. And at some as yet indeterminate point the old Atom.xml thing will cease to be. Message ends. Over and out. Chocks away.
Wednesday, 11 July 2007
Office Face
I cut myself shaving yesterday.
(Normally, I imagine that would be up there with "What I had for lunch..." and "So I joined Facebook..." as the first line of a blog post guaranteed to make even the most turgid of readers run a country mile. But please bear with me.)
As it happens, it was quite a nasty nick; over an inch in length, tapered from top to bottom and prominently displayed to the left of my philtrum (you can look it up). It looked as if I had either:
a) had some sort of late-night kebab-shop battle over the last chicken shish;
b) got into an argument with a (slightly half-hearted) Chelsea Headhunter;
c) tried to shift a lengthily-clawed, somewhat-annoyed cat from the sofa; or
d) cut myself shaving.
And do you know what? Not one person at work commented on it in the entire day. Not a single analyst at the 7am morning meeting. Nobody in sales or trading when I was sorting out their conferencing. Nothing from I.T. when I was testing my new PC upstairs. Not even the lugubrious PL and CJ at lunchtime in the Rack & Tenter. None of the normally chatty backoffice team when we were discussing the crazy world of client codes. Not Dei. Not Alex. Nobody.
Now these are people who can generally be relied upon to pounce on the slightest change in haircut and render the owner speechless with a tirade of lighthearted abuse. Similarly, the introduction of a 'jazzy' shirt into the work wardrobe will often be met with wide-eyed mirth and the general donning of sunglasses. I can only assume that they think I live such an exciting life that random facial injuries are deemed to be par for the course.
Almost certainly, though, they didn't want to draw attention to the fact that I am clearly an utter buffoon who can't even be trusted to scrape the dead hair off his chin without carving himself to ribbons :)
(Normally, I imagine that would be up there with "What I had for lunch..." and "So I joined Facebook..." as the first line of a blog post guaranteed to make even the most turgid of readers run a country mile. But please bear with me.)
As it happens, it was quite a nasty nick; over an inch in length, tapered from top to bottom and prominently displayed to the left of my philtrum (you can look it up). It looked as if I had either:
a) had some sort of late-night kebab-shop battle over the last chicken shish;
b) got into an argument with a (slightly half-hearted) Chelsea Headhunter;
c) tried to shift a lengthily-clawed, somewhat-annoyed cat from the sofa; or
d) cut myself shaving.
And do you know what? Not one person at work commented on it in the entire day. Not a single analyst at the 7am morning meeting. Nobody in sales or trading when I was sorting out their conferencing. Nothing from I.T. when I was testing my new PC upstairs. Not even the lugubrious PL and CJ at lunchtime in the Rack & Tenter. None of the normally chatty backoffice team when we were discussing the crazy world of client codes. Not Dei. Not Alex. Nobody.
Now these are people who can generally be relied upon to pounce on the slightest change in haircut and render the owner speechless with a tirade of lighthearted abuse. Similarly, the introduction of a 'jazzy' shirt into the work wardrobe will often be met with wide-eyed mirth and the general donning of sunglasses. I can only assume that they think I live such an exciting life that random facial injuries are deemed to be par for the course.
Almost certainly, though, they didn't want to draw attention to the fact that I am clearly an utter buffoon who can't even be trusted to scrape the dead hair off his chin without carving himself to ribbons :)
Wednesday, 6 June 2007
Go Fish
CatFishing is brilliant.
Guess the person/object/thing from the WikiPedia categories it is in.
But be warned - once you start...
(via Alex and MeFi)
UPDATE: Wikington Crescent is pretty distracting too
Guess the person/object/thing from the WikiPedia categories it is in.
But be warned - once you start...
(via Alex and MeFi)
UPDATE: Wikington Crescent is pretty distracting too
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