Crappy photo. I'll get better with time.
More "LEGO Iron Man gives the finger to [something] (with fire)" soon.
May be I need a better camera... Hint... Hint...
Friday, 1 June 2012
LEGO Iron Man gives the finger to Fish and Chips (With Fire)
More "LEGO Iron Man gives the finger to [something] (with fire)" soon.
May be I need a better camera... Hint... Hint...
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Finally got to eat something for the first time in 48 hrs.
Proof.
Solid food made it past my lips for the first time in 48 hours.
I made *HOT* chilli in record time.
<30mins
Won a chilli cook-off in 1986 in Ann Arbor, Michigan with this recipe.
Beat a Texan! WooHoo!
Here's proof that I actually made it.
(Well as much proof as a stupid photo taken on a phone can be)
And inductive proof that I actually ate it:
The bread was a mix of Sourdough and Lebanese.
Solid food made it past my lips for the first time in 48 hours.
I made *HOT* chilli in record time.
<30mins
Won a chilli cook-off in 1986 in Ann Arbor, Michigan with this recipe.
Beat a Texan! WooHoo!
Here's proof that I actually made it.
(Well as much proof as a stupid photo taken on a phone can be)
And inductive proof that I actually ate it:
We had left overs.
Ben was hungry though, so a kilo or so of chilli vanished in minutes.
I had two buds.
I had two buds.
Movie Review: "The Darkest Hour" 2011
Holy sh*t. Another sci-fi end of the world movie. Would you actually believe it?
Phhhhbbtttt. Of course you would!
Actually it was rather good. Set in Moskva and saving a shed load on special effects by making the aliens invisible (for the most part).
Really liked it. Maybe understanding enough Russian to get by helped... Embarrassed to speak it, but what the hell.
But seriously, if you want a light hearted take on sci-fi alien invasion 'beginning' (no ending here), then watch it. Kinda like "Battle for Los Angeles" (The good one not the cr*p one) set in Moskva.
Currently listening to Laibach btw. Loud.
Phhhhbbtttt. Of course you would!
Actually it was rather good. Set in Moskva and saving a shed load on special effects by making the aliens invisible (for the most part).
Really liked it. Maybe understanding enough Russian to get by helped... Embarrassed to speak it, but what the hell.
But seriously, if you want a light hearted take on sci-fi alien invasion 'beginning' (no ending here), then watch it. Kinda like "Battle for Los Angeles" (The good one not the cr*p one) set in Moskva.
Currently listening to Laibach btw. Loud.
I didn't frickin' believe it! Ron Jeremy is selling RUM!
Ok. I was driving home. Got behind a cab in the driving rain and stared uncomprehendingly at the ad on the back. Complete and utter brain fart.
No. Wait. What?
I grabbed for my iPhone to take a picture, but the moment passed too quickly.
So here is the link to the site:
http://www.rondejeremy.com/
You'll have to enter your date of birth of course, because, after all it *is* adult rum.
I have one thing to ask paraphrasing Johnny Depp:
No. Wait. What?
I grabbed for my iPhone to take a picture, but the moment passed too quickly.
So here is the link to the site:
http://www.rondejeremy.com/
You'll have to enter your date of birth of course, because, after all it *is* adult rum.
I have one thing to ask paraphrasing Johnny Depp:
"But why the rum?"
Movie Review "Iron Sky" (2011)
Just watched Iron Sky.
Frickin' splutter.
Frickin' watch this.
Frickin' it's the best sci-fi movie you'll watch all year.
Frickin' spluttering, laughed, cried and every frickin' emotion and LMFAO.
Frickin' go out and get the full edition with all the extras.
I'm serious.
Do it now. Do it!
Here's the UK link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Iron-Sky-Blu-ray-Digital-Copy/dp/B007ZZKWHY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338373074&sr=8-1
Give these guys who created a movie out of nothing but an idea some frickin' money.
Crowd source!
Wished we'd invested. Oh lordy, wished we'd invested.
And it was made just down the road from us.
JUST DOWN THE ROAD!
I DRIVE PAST THE PLACE THEY MADE THIS SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK!
Oh lordy, wished we'd invested.
You'll love the Downfall meme! LMFAO!
There are so many memes in this that'll you'll have an "accident".
Go get it.
Frickin' brilliant.
Love the fact that the first spaceship to out itself was Ozzie!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
I know you're thinking: "Don't blog when under the influence."
But seriously. Wine and Bourbon aside. I LMFAO.
And Seriously.
Go get this movie.
Buy the full, extended edition.
With extras!
The moment that the character grasped her glasses, I got the meme.
Downfall.
And started spluttering.
I need a shower after watching this.
I'm covered in bits of food and wine.
Seriously.
Get this.
Buy the DVD or Blu Ray special edition.
Frickin' buy this frickin' movie and frickin' watch it.
Buy the DVD or Blu Ray special edition.
Frickin' splutter.
Frickin' watch this.
Frickin' it's the best sci-fi movie you'll watch all year.
Frickin' spluttering, laughed, cried and every frickin' emotion and LMFAO.
Frickin' go out and get the full edition with all the extras.
I'm serious.
Do it now. Do it!
Here's the UK link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Iron-Sky-Blu-ray-Digital-Copy/dp/B007ZZKWHY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338373074&sr=8-1
Give these guys who created a movie out of nothing but an idea some frickin' money.
Crowd source!
Wished we'd invested. Oh lordy, wished we'd invested.
And it was made just down the road from us.
JUST DOWN THE ROAD!
I DRIVE PAST THE PLACE THEY MADE THIS SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK!
Oh lordy, wished we'd invested.
You'll love the Downfall meme! LMFAO!
There are so many memes in this that'll you'll have an "accident".
Go get it.
Frickin' brilliant.
Love the fact that the first spaceship to out itself was Ozzie!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
But seriously. Wine and Bourbon aside. I LMFAO.
And Seriously.
Go get this movie.
Buy the full, extended edition.
With extras!
The moment that the character grasped her glasses, I got the meme.
Downfall.
And started spluttering.
I need a shower after watching this.
I'm covered in bits of food and wine.
Seriously.
Get this.
Buy the DVD or Blu Ray special edition.
Frickin' buy this frickin' movie and frickin' watch it.
Buy the DVD or Blu Ray special edition.
LYOFAO. Laibach! Laibach! Laibach! And wait for the end of the credits. Mars?
Wait. What?
Wait. What?
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Well. I'm frickin' starving and thinking of posing action figures in inappropriate ways.
Didn't get home till very late.
Ben's crashed out on the sofa downstairs with what is almost certainly some kind of flu.
No lights on. I almost knocked myself out.
Twice.
That's gunna leave a bruise.
He's in pain, the poor devil, so I haven't the heart to tell him I'm frickin' starving having had nothing but some Garlic prawns 24hrs ago.
So no dinner for me tonight.
Again.
At least it's a "sort-of" diet.
There's always Bourbon...
Anyway, loads to do reading up on design patterns, and XCode4 and mobile websites and TitaniumStudio, and, and...
Actually I might post pictures of action figures in inappropriate poses.
Venom abusing War Machine for example.
What? (Spreads hands in abject horror)
You're offended?
But Venoms got whips! Whips I tells yer!
And here it is:
Oh. And Iron Man saying "F**k you" (With fire). Yes really. Cool figure.
Bugger. Don't have a photo. Soon. Soon.
Might actually open my (absolutely true honestly have one) Einstein action figure box. With posable chalk no less.
Wish I had the Hawking one. Then I could add a little bazooka to it and make him chase Einstein.
Cool.
Nah. Later.
Ben's crashed out on the sofa downstairs with what is almost certainly some kind of flu.
No lights on. I almost knocked myself out.
Twice.
That's gunna leave a bruise.
He's in pain, the poor devil, so I haven't the heart to tell him I'm frickin' starving having had nothing but some Garlic prawns 24hrs ago.
So no dinner for me tonight.
Again.
At least it's a "sort-of" diet.
There's always Bourbon...
Anyway, loads to do reading up on design patterns, and XCode4 and mobile websites and TitaniumStudio, and, and...
Actually I might post pictures of action figures in inappropriate poses.
Venom abusing War Machine for example.
What? (Spreads hands in abject horror)
You're offended?
But Venoms got whips! Whips I tells yer!
And here it is:
Oh. And Iron Man saying "F**k you" (With fire). Yes really. Cool figure.
Bugger. Don't have a photo. Soon. Soon.
Might actually open my (absolutely true honestly have one) Einstein action figure box. With posable chalk no less.
Wish I had the Hawking one. Then I could add a little bazooka to it and make him chase Einstein.
Cool.
Nah. Later.
Monday, 28 May 2012
Sunday, 27 May 2012
Movie Review: "Alien Western/High Plains Invaders" (2009)
A few weeks ago we stopped by one of those $2 reject shops and noticed this DVD.
Thinking it would be a good laugh, we bought it.
So over fish and chips we watched it tonight.
My Gast was completely Flabberred.
Truly I was expecting to be falling about laughing all the time.
Truly, ruly, ruly I expected to be choking on chips and sputtering wine all over the coffee table every five minutes.
But. Frickin' 'ell. It was actually *good*. Or maybe the wine, fish and chips are talking. Or the fact that I'm a fan of low budget sci-fi movies.
James Marsters (Spike from Buffy) was the main star. The direction was tight, the acting was excellent and although the CGI was not fantastic it was pretty damn good. The alien design was quite unique and quite nice. Four legged, millions of teeth laden mouths, guns in their tails, slow moving, utter crapoids hooked on eating Uranium. Kinda different from standard bi-pedal bugs intent in just eating humans.
Just how they could possibly operate a star ship is not the point btw.
The lighting not so good. But then it was probably filmed in winter in Canada by the look of it.
Script a bit hammed up but they're cowboys for Earp's sake!!! They're going to say "Say son, you look like you need a shot of whiskey" rather than "Pull up a chair old boy. Let's sample this Chateau Peridot 1847. The bouquet! Reminds me of spring in Lyon."
And some of the guns in use... well... not of the era... but... so what? It's a movie not a documentary!
The story, like cowboys vs aliens, was a bit on the 'Wait. What? No. Really?' kind of side, but who the hell cares. The fact that Spike hauled a lead box 4' x 4' x 3' filled with pitchblende (Or U-235 not sure) onto the back of a wagon was... let's just say... a tad unconvincing but who the f**k cares. It looked good!
(I have to say I have a soft spot for James Marsters so I'm probably biased... Twitchy. Twitchy)
If you liked cowboys vs aliens, go watch it.
Personally I'm waiting for cowboys vs ninja robots vs pirate monkeys vs predators vs aliens fused with spiders with wings. All at once. In Stalingrad. In 1942.
Thinking it would be a good laugh, we bought it.
So over fish and chips we watched it tonight.
My Gast was completely Flabberred.
Truly I was expecting to be falling about laughing all the time.
Truly, ruly, ruly I expected to be choking on chips and sputtering wine all over the coffee table every five minutes.
But. Frickin' 'ell. It was actually *good*. Or maybe the wine, fish and chips are talking. Or the fact that I'm a fan of low budget sci-fi movies.
James Marsters (Spike from Buffy) was the main star. The direction was tight, the acting was excellent and although the CGI was not fantastic it was pretty damn good. The alien design was quite unique and quite nice. Four legged, millions of teeth laden mouths, guns in their tails, slow moving, utter crapoids hooked on eating Uranium. Kinda different from standard bi-pedal bugs intent in just eating humans.
Just how they could possibly operate a star ship is not the point btw.
The lighting not so good. But then it was probably filmed in winter in Canada by the look of it.
Script a bit hammed up but they're cowboys for Earp's sake!!! They're going to say "Say son, you look like you need a shot of whiskey" rather than "Pull up a chair old boy. Let's sample this Chateau Peridot 1847. The bouquet! Reminds me of spring in Lyon."
And some of the guns in use... well... not of the era... but... so what? It's a movie not a documentary!
The story, like cowboys vs aliens, was a bit on the 'Wait. What? No. Really?' kind of side, but who the hell cares. The fact that Spike hauled a lead box 4' x 4' x 3' filled with pitchblende (Or U-235 not sure) onto the back of a wagon was... let's just say... a tad unconvincing but who the f**k cares. It looked good!
(I have to say I have a soft spot for James Marsters so I'm probably biased... Twitchy. Twitchy)
If you liked cowboys vs aliens, go watch it.
Personally I'm waiting for cowboys vs ninja robots vs pirate monkeys vs predators vs aliens fused with spiders with wings. All at once. In Stalingrad. In 1942.
Embedded Jetty Runner now has a new sample
I added a sample that shows a very simple JSP/HTML5 boilerplate site that works on desktops and phones. Need to expand it.
Just follow the link from the top menu to get to github.
Anyone who wants to contribute, just e-ping me.
Just follow the link from the top menu to get to github.
Anyone who wants to contribute, just e-ping me.
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Frickin' Remotes!
Ok. I'll start by saying that I'm pissed. In both senses of the word.
We have a Mac Mini that served as our TV controller for quite some time. It was retired when we got a replacement and a Drobo. It was sitting in my office for some time turned off. I decided it was time to configure up a nexus repository for it. So I turned it on.
Keyboard failure. Frickin' bluetooth thing. They're too small to be useful in my not so frickin' humble opinion. But I bottle it up. Like most stupid UX things that happen on a daily basis. "Must Bottle It Up. Must Bottle It Up. Must Bottle It Up. Can't Make A Scene."
Anyway, we figured out that one of the batteries had leaked internally. So after much mucking about we got the batteries out and cleaned out the awful mess. Took ages. Luckily we have a fully stocked tool kit of weird evil looking screwey things and filey things that look like they belong in a dental surgery that made it possible.
Still no luck. iBrick.
So I found a replacement bluetooth keyboard. Popped new batteries in. Turned it on and up popped a window on the Mac Mini:
Then:
No luck. And again. And again.
So I chucked a wobbly. Shouted at the machine:
Worked first time.
Now. To the title of this article.
I went downstairs to watch a movie. I found myself staring at our coffee table. Not that I do that often I might add, but at that point and given I was about to have an aneurysm it just seemed to me that that this small table seemed to be groaning under the weight of TV remotes.
I lost my rag.
I probably need valium.
Or more Wild Turkey.
Or both.
Why the frickin' f**k do manufacturers create remotes with such massive over the top stupid frickin' complex devices that rival the devices they control in size?
We've got a TV, a DVD and a I-Don't-Frickin-Know-What-It's-Called-That-Controls-Sound thing. They all have remotes. HUGE remotes that look like they come off the set of Transformers. I'm not an unstable person, but sometimes I get the sense that they could easily morph into a ten wheeler or something.
Anyway...
Total number of buttons: 213.
213 buttons.
What the frickin' f**k is that about?
Ben tried to placate me saying I need to cope better.
Cope? COPE?
213 buttons.
In a typeface that makes it frickin' impossible to read without a microscope.
They're frickin' remotes!!! Wha? Why the frickin f**k do I need a an FM/AM button on a I-Don't-Frickin-Know-What-It's-Called-That-Controls-Sound thing? Or a T-Shift button whatever the frickin f**k that is? And what the frickin f**k is PDVD? or RAN? or Test-Tone?
Seriously you guys who design these things.... Take your hand off your... T-Shift... and think about your target market. For the most part all we need is:
PLAY. PAUSE. STOP. EJECT. UP-VOL. DOWN-VOL.
Seriously... If anyone works in the 'things-that-make-you-life-work-nice-at-home-industry' then please, I'm begging you, have pity. Please. Pity.
PITY. Please. Please. I really, really don't need an aneurysm right now.
We have a Mac Mini that served as our TV controller for quite some time. It was retired when we got a replacement and a Drobo. It was sitting in my office for some time turned off. I decided it was time to configure up a nexus repository for it. So I turned it on.
Keyboard failure. Frickin' bluetooth thing. They're too small to be useful in my not so frickin' humble opinion. But I bottle it up. Like most stupid UX things that happen on a daily basis. "Must Bottle It Up. Must Bottle It Up. Must Bottle It Up. Can't Make A Scene."
Anyway, we figured out that one of the batteries had leaked internally. So after much mucking about we got the batteries out and cleaned out the awful mess. Took ages. Luckily we have a fully stocked tool kit of weird evil looking screwey things and filey things that look like they belong in a dental surgery that made it possible.
Still no luck. iBrick.
So I found a replacement bluetooth keyboard. Popped new batteries in. Turned it on and up popped a window on the Mac Mini:
"Trying to connect to keyboard 00:c3:78:86:82:28:37:91:87:29:17:29:37:19:27:91:27:39:12:70:01:23:34:45:67:78:89"Ok. Ok. I'm exaggerating. But you get my point.
Then:
"error: trying again in a minute"What?
No luck. And again. And again.
So I chucked a wobbly. Shouted at the machine:
"It's frickin' there. Look! You stupid pile of shit! Look. Where I'm pointing! Right there. 2 frickin inches away! You've got a camera! Use the frickin thing!"No luck. Stamped my little feet, grabbed the keyboard, removed the batteries and chucked it in my 'frickin stupid hardware box' and went off to get a *wired* keyboard.
Worked first time.
Now. To the title of this article.
I went downstairs to watch a movie. I found myself staring at our coffee table. Not that I do that often I might add, but at that point and given I was about to have an aneurysm it just seemed to me that that this small table seemed to be groaning under the weight of TV remotes.
I lost my rag.
I probably need valium.
Or more Wild Turkey.
Or both.
Why the frickin' f**k do manufacturers create remotes with such massive over the top stupid frickin' complex devices that rival the devices they control in size?
We've got a TV, a DVD and a I-Don't-Frickin-Know-What-It's-Called-That-Controls-Sound thing. They all have remotes. HUGE remotes that look like they come off the set of Transformers. I'm not an unstable person, but sometimes I get the sense that they could easily morph into a ten wheeler or something.
Anyway...
Total number of buttons: 213.
213 buttons.
What the frickin' f**k is that about?
Ben tried to placate me saying I need to cope better.
Cope? COPE?
213 buttons.
In a typeface that makes it frickin' impossible to read without a microscope.
They're frickin' remotes!!! Wha? Why the frickin f**k do I need a an FM/AM button on a I-Don't-Frickin-Know-What-It's-Called-That-Controls-Sound thing? Or a T-Shift button whatever the frickin f**k that is? And what the frickin f**k is PDVD? or RAN? or Test-Tone?
Seriously you guys who design these things.... Take your hand off your... T-Shift... and think about your target market. For the most part all we need is:
PLAY. PAUSE. STOP. EJECT. UP-VOL. DOWN-VOL.
Seriously... If anyone works in the 'things-that-make-you-life-work-nice-at-home-industry' then please, I'm begging you, have pity. Please. Pity.
PITY. Please. Please. I really, really don't need an aneurysm right now.
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