Posts by Anonymous IV 839 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Apr 2011
> I noticed she omitted to wipe the injection area with alcohol beforehand, presumably slightly increasing my chances of an infection, but I didn't say anything.
I've done 'finger-prick' blood tests at least four times a day for the last 12½ years without pre-wiping the location with alcohol. Perhaps I am now dead?
> I thought it was interesting that there is a "Society for IT Managers" that was stating this.
Perhaps they are henchmen of the spectacularly-pretentiously-named "Worshipful Company of Information Technologists" which never fails to amuse me on the rare occasions they come out of the woodwork?
Or maybe it should be "hench-organisation"...?
Hovercrafts weren't all wine and roses: in 1985 the Princess Margaret hit the breakwater at the entrance to Dover Harbour in high winds, killing four people and injuring over 50 of the 370 passengers. The hovercraft captain lost his job...
UPI report - note that this says only two died, which I think is incorrect.
More photos of the Princess Margaret and some technical data.
1) This convoy is going to be implemented by wireless technology.
What could possibly go wrong? :(
2) Presumably the 'guard' in the cab of lorries 2..n can be paid the minimum wage since s/he will just be sitting there, admiring the rear of the lorry in front. No need for any driving skills or experience.
And soon, like for trains, guards will no longer be necessary...
> Dundee City Council said in a statement: "Following the discovery of this crime, Dundee City Council has taken action to prevent a fraud of this type from happening again in the future."
Well done, chaps and ms-chaps! Lessons have been learned. Nothing can ever go wrong, now...
Back to the office for tea and medals.
> One look at any photo and it's obvious as hell the sub was a lot longer than "26 feet", snort. It's pretty obvious the length was 26 METERS. God help us from idiot writers who don't know the difference between feet and meters. Who gives length in feet of anything anywhere in the world outside of the the US?
You're quite right! "Feet" is a measurement of length, and "meter" is a measuring device. You probably were not thinking of "metre" since you spelled it wrong twice.
Who's the idiot writer now?!
> I'll give Sumatra a go, once I turn down the brightness on my monitor. I hope the app is friendlier on the eye than their website.
If you want to change the lurid yellow background to a friendly pale blue, add the -bg-color parameter after the executable in your icon Properties, such as:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe" -bg-color 0xF0F8FF
"Your 0xRRGGBB value may vary."
> About a decade ago, I ran across an acquaintance I hadn't seen since 1970/71. Like me he had become bored every ten years and commenced a new career. One of them for him had been prawn farming in Queensland.
Since this sub-thread could clearly do with being lightened up a bit, might I suggest that the reason for your acquaintance's new career choice was that he wanted to come the raw prawn?
Didn't one of his songs have a deep and meaningful end section relevant to this situation?
Ah yes...
"I'm goin down, down, down, down
I'm goin down, down, down, down
I'm goin down, down, down, down
I'm goin down, down, down, down
I'm goin down, down, down, down
I'm goin down, down, down, down
I'm goin down, down, down, down
I'm goin down, hey bopa d-d-down
I'm goin down, down, down, down
I'm goin down, hey bopa d-d-down
I'm goin down, down, down, yeah
I'm goin down, down, hey bopa hey bopa
Hey hey mmm bopa bopa well down
Hey babe mmm bopa bopa said down
Hey hey mmm bopa bopa well down
Hey hey mmm bopa bopa say
Hey unh say down, down, down, down, down
Hey down now, say down, down, down, down, down"
> They said that irony died when Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
For "they" (always a weasel word in a quotation) read "Tom Lehrer"; for 'irony' read 'political satire'. The real factual quotation is:
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."
> Ad blocker use rises 30% worldwide in the last year, reported by NY Times Dec 31 2017.
Looks like Trump has some justification for complaining about fake news.
Especially when it happened ten months into the future...
PS to El Reg headline writer - "guilt" is not a verb.
Since Wikipedia says "Stuckism is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art" I suspect the answer is "No".
On the other hand, I may have missed the extremely obvious and amazingly funny joke...
You are not familiar with Hockney's iPad drawing/colouring-in from 2012?
See, for example, How David Hockney Became the World’s Foremost iPad Painter.
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