October Year: 2009

Abnormous Thursday List

29th Oct 2009 · · Link

As most people know me my mind can ping things into existence that are quite strange (try living with an over-active imagination, it can be a challenge).

One such thing this week is Pulp Fiction (The Movie). Why are those guys eating a burger for breakfast from Big Kahuna Burger when most burger places don't sell burgers until a specific time (let alone open). (Email Schlotts@opanoid.com if you have an explanation.
Other things that are popping into my head (and scaring me) are movies that are now officially 'old'. This is depressing and makes me feel like and old man.
The Abyss - 20 years old
Heathers - 20 years old
The Karate Kid - 25 years old
A Nightmare of Elm Street - 25 years old
Alien - 30 Years Old
Monty Python's Life of Brian - 30 Years old
Blazing Saddles - 35 Years Old
MASH - 39 Years Old
The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ 24 Years Old

And the third thing was at a early morning meeting.
Whilst sitting their listen to people talk about their company I started to daydream into a scenario (which is common for me). I still here and take in what is being said but I imagine things happening or about to happen in and around the room. This time in came Special Forces smashing through all the windows at the same time and holding everyone at gun point.
Except me. No I had a bomb strapped to my ankle that had been put their by someone to kill everyone in the room, but someone in the room was responsible for this bomb hence the special forces holding them all at gun point (it was quite cool the entrance I can tell you).

Anyway Long scenario short I managed to torture the culprit until he told me the combination.

The guys presentation was quite good despite all these distractions.

(Number 1, Just Before 2)
Hot Dog

Yup, They Might Be Giants Again :)

(Number 2, Just After 1, But Before 3)
Stan Lee Interview

Number (3, Way After 1, Right After 2, But Before 4)
Black and White in Colour
Nicely done.

(Number 4, Way Way After 1, Way After 2, Right After 3, Just in Front of 5)
Upside Down Dogs

(Number 5, Can Hardly See 1, Way Way After 2, Way After 3, Right After 4, Just in Front of 6).
Dont look down
Yup, my legs went twice looking at these, worst one, the dog on the edge of the cliff strangely.

(Number 6, Can't See 1, Can Hardly See 2, Way Way After 3, Way After 4, Right After 5, Just in Front of 7)
If you don't laugh at this, your missing a part of your brain.


(Number 7, Where is 1, Can't See 2, Can Hardly See 3, Way Way After 4, Way After 5, Right After 6, Just in Front of 8)
Jokes
Definition of pressure:
A wife, a mistress and a mortgage.
All one month late

Today my doctor told me I was constipated.
I couldn't give a sh1t.

I'm doing community service at a funfair but today I stole a wobbly mirror.
I just hope it doesn't reflect badly on me.

Why did the chicken hold a seance?

(Number 8, 1 Is a Gone, Where is 2, Can't See 3, Can Hardly See 4, Way Way After 5, Way After 6, Right After 7, Just in Front of 9)
Photo Manipulation. Some very nice professional stuff here.

(Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number9)
Music - This has widely been regarded as Claire's Favorite Song in the World Ever. Or the one that she seems to hear all the time on Radio 1 and Hates it, I forget which.




Windows 7 [Torrent] Party

23rd Oct 2009 · · Link

Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party - watch more funny videos

Sprouty Thursday list

22nd Oct 2009 · · Link

Sod All has happened to since last week, which is odd, usually something happens to me that is either amusing or just downright odd, oh no wait, just remembered someone farted in my face, just remembered that.
I dropped a load of slips at a meeting on the floor and as everyone bent down to pick them up the woman in front (facing away) bent down and farted (loudly) right in my face as I was also bent down.

Come to think of it I've never been face-farted (copyright opanoid.com) before by a woman, males yes as part of a joke, but woman no.
Nothing like a sprouty (See if is a word, but I use it to mean something else!) fart to put you off someone.

Bringing forth the List.

Splurgg - Darth Vaders Armor
Splurgg and Mooog - 6 Things your body does that can't be explained.
Mooog and a Tartch - Pixar The Truth
Tartch and a Feloi - Deja Vu
Feloi and a Nistrab - Ikea Hacker
Nistrab and a Togarth - Singing in a Shop is baaaad
Togarth and a Dimbrel - High Fives, I really want to try the escalator one.


Been waiting for this song to have a video and had feared it would have no embed option, but I must give it to Paolo Nutini for letting the video be embedded (others take note!).
Paolo Nutini - Pencil Full of Lead


Very very good video, at least I think it is. But then what do I know, well more than some people but less than other people. A little bit more than him but slightly less than him. Anyway, watch it and make your own schizo mind up*.


Well I'm off to cheer up the Brawn GP Team.

* Sorry if your Schizo this is meant as a joke.
No it isn't.
yes it is.

Aggie Thursday List

15th Oct 2009 · · Link

Had a business challenge today. Didn't do great myself as I hurt my back yesterday playing football and felt I could't give my normal 110%, but we won something for a particular game for fastest time and one of our team won for best shooting (100% which was amazing) so all in all it wasn't too bad.

We had a quiz to fill out through the day, and the cool thing is we were encouraged to use our phone to get the answers (100 questions, half the questions were half way up a climbing wall that had to be read out by climbers, suffice to say I didn't climb, but I did go down a zip wire twice :).

So I was looking up a particular answer to a phobia question and typed it into a wiki app on my iphone. Second option comes up with a title and brief description. The answer I was looking for was in the description so no need to go to the wiki article.
I hand the phone over to the guy and girl next to me who are writing down the answers for them to look at it feeling another one answered and we can move onto the next.

However they both just look up at me a bit bemused.
It seems the correct answer was the second option, but the first option that popped up was Homophobia.

Did I mention they were both gay. Luckily they were able to see the funny side, phew!

Listing Listing forever Listing.

1. Always wanted to know what an Aggie was - Now I know.
2. Just remember, your partner is out their somewhere. You just have to be lucky like these two.
3. This is a bit more for the US audience, but I thought it was an excellent idea (the UK have a minimum 5 quid spend for free shipping I believe).
Free Amazon Shipping
4. Beers, Boobs - MANswers

5. Not sure if this is a good thing to post or not, PlaySEGA is exactly that, SEGA games to play online.
6. Need some Motivation?
7. Strange video I've seen this week definitely goes to this, the third one (the woman) actually freaks me out a bit:

8. End on a song - Chipmunk - Oopsy Daisy


Well i'm off to tell people to get their Post out earlier rather than later.

Let It Snow X Screensaver for Snow Leopard

10th Oct 2009 · · Link

Updated the screensaver for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (due to popular command I'm glad to say).

Simple screensaver of falling snow down the screen, the screensaver takes very little resources to run.

Download the Screensaver: Let It Snow X


Bathos Thursday List

8th Oct 2009 · · Link

Jumping right into it this week:

1. Certainly an interesting project: Star Wars Uncut
2. In my never ending efforts to look cool I've been thinking of a nice Bookshelf
3. I'm sure everyone is getting tired of this, but a fundamental part of being a human is pointing out other's mistakes. Movie Mistakes
4. Spectacular Wedding Theme Photos - !Genius
5. Careful who you pick on - Great quote from the article "The cage fighters were then seen teetering away in their high heels, stopping only to pick up a clutch bag they dropped during the melee.".
6. Quite High and more to the point the sound they make every time on entry into the water brings a tear to my eye.
Boat Lift Jumpin'

7. Ok first a warning, I'm not condoning this, but it is very interesting to see the reactions, the ones that are 'that is offensive I'm reporting you' are fair enough but the rude offensive swearing ones are actually quite shocking. NSFW Language and Racism and just about everything else language wise that could be deemed bad. Warned much?
Ok then, Halo 3 Criticism on GamerTag 'Jesus Died LOL'.
8. I've recently been in contact with various people to update my screensavers (i get emails all the time for things to add in), one such guy was quite interesting and after a few conversations it turns out he wrote the follow up to Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum. Not only that, but it's available on-line to play. Join The Jet Set. Now that takes me back.
9. Jokes (all stolen blatantly from www.sickipedia.org )
Cheap guitar for sale, no strings attached
People may laugh at us, but it's not easy being a child in Norwich.
I've no idea what to get my brother for Fathers Day.
I bought my 7 year old nephew a 2000w spotlight for his birthday. He didnt seem too happy at first - then we plugged it in - how his little face lit up.
11. First This Which I thought was cool.
But properly lets have a bit of this from the Foos:



Bathos - A Ludicrous descent from the sublime to the commonplace.

Aster Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard Screen Saver

5th Oct 2009 · · Link

This is a homage to Asteroids on the Atari, and came about totally by accident as I was working on speed issues with OpenGL on the Mac Platform. As I'd pretty much created a working model thought I'd put it up as a screen saver. I changed the original idea from being a computer running game as I didn't want to have any copyright issues.

Click to download Aster, size is fairly small 37KB download 123KB actual uncompressed size.


Fast Food Thursday list

1st Oct 2009 · · Link

Each week I tend to treat myself to some fast food, and usually it's a McDonalds (someone told me something about KFC that has put me off them).
So the other day whilst out in the car I pull into a McDonalds to get my meal of choice, give my details into the talking box and make my way around to the 'First Window'.

Pay the girl and am then stuck in the same position behind the cars in front.

next thing I hear is "I'm talking to you....".

"Me?" says I, "..sorry thought you was talking on your headset, what did you say.".

"I said I shouldn't work here as I find it difficult to calculate people's change.".

I fain a smile and reply "I' think I'd get bored, do you get to change roles through the day?".

"No, just this, if it's quiet I go and have a sit down, that's why sometimes it takes a while for the Intercom to work when people drive up to it".

Ah, I'm learning something now.

"Either that or I just steal food or drinks to eat".
She's possibly starting to tell me more information than she should.

"On really slow days I specifically short or over change people to see if they notice".

Alarm bells are now going off in my head. Not only is she bored in her job and a slacker but she also rips people off. And then it happened, she says:

"Fancy going out tonight?".

I dove forward. And didn't enjoy my food.

The List

10 Unanswered geeky plot holes

Skeleton Dog

Bad Drivers - I checked I'm not listed :)

Ever wonder about phrases people say, I do, and one such phrase I heard today appears to be untrue - Black Hole of Calcutta.

I knew it!!.

I'm sure I am the last to ever see this, but it just leaves me speechless, Retired.


Joke
I see Terry Jones has become a dad at the age of 67.
Good to see the old Python is still active.

Michael Bays Nightmare on Elm Street. Now I love the original movie and all the ideas behind it, but this might actually be quite good.
A Nightmare on Elm Street in HD


Just to make me feel young for a second (it's my eldest's 5th Birthday Tomorrow):

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
by Nirvana

Fill The Void List

Six days ago · · Link

Sooooo busy, but thought i would post what has been gathered this past two weeks, enjoy:


Cee Lo Green - F You (the original isn't bad either


Strange Photo

Patience (stop motion)
I'm patient, but I don't think I could do this for a living.

Do you do this?

Still not using it

Jumpin'


Lucky F'ers.


Extended Version of Prince of Bel Air
It's just not right. (lyrics follow)



And the lyrics:
Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air

In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground is where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys
Who were up to no good
Startin making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air'

I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suite case and send me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.
I put my walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'.

First class, yo this is bad
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass.
Is this what the people of Bel-Air Living like?
Hmmmmm this might be alright.
I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I can say this cab is rare
But I thought 'Now forget it' - 'Yo homes to Bel Air'

I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later'
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air



GeoTagged List

20th Aug 2010 · · Link

Afternoon all, Jesus tees off first hitting his ball straight into the water hazard. He simply walks across the water and hits his ball just short of the green. When Moses tees off, he hits his ball into the same water hazard. So, he parts the water and puts his golf ball just shy of the hole. As the old man tees off he hits his ball with tremendous power, but hooks it badly. It bounces off a tree and hits the caddy shack. It then rolls down a path to a pond where a frog eats the ball and swims to the other side of the pond. Suddenly an eagle swoops down and grabs the frog and flies off. As the eagle is flying over the green the frog drops the ball. The ball drops directly into the hole for a hole in one. Moses turns to Jesus and says "I hate playing golf with your Dad."

As the world quickly scrambles to change their FaceBook Profiles to disable Location settings I bring you the List:

Wow

Think Shes a Keeper

Remember kids, always Tip Your Midwife - ?!?!

YoYo Champ - And rightly so


Thanks to Kev for this one, Missy - Genius, I've sent this to 3 designers, they all rang me within 10 minutes laughing.

From the 'How to talk to the geeks about things and not have them laugh at you' Section: HTML5 and what it's all about

Katy B - On a Mission


Drivin' Fast.
Almost a quarter of drivers think it is acceptable to speed if they think the limit is too low - Tick that's me.
Drivers still distinguish between 'ordinary, safe speeding drivers' and 'dangerous speeding drivers' - Tick That's me too.
Motorists caught racing through motorway roadworks ended up being hit by more than £5m worth of speeding tickets last year. - Not been done on this, thankfully.
Of all the speeding offences 90+% are fixed penally notices. - Tick, got done by this.

Thought of the week.
Apple is very closed, they are right, everyone else is wrong (suppliers). However it was noted on a website that Apple have sent an update out for OS X that fixes graphics issues.
This is pretty much due in part to Valve releasing games for the Mac. It's further rumoured that the uptake of the games is astronomical.
Nothing Like a shit load of money to make Apple stand to attention.

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