Posts by Little Mouse 1449 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Dec 2014
Ditto. Learning more about Venus would be my ideal number one, but not like that. Come up with a better approach than crash-and-burn, blink-and-you'll-miss-it, and I'll vote for it.
Call me weird, but I quite like all those plucky little probe and rover missions that drag on and on and refuse to die that we've been seeing of late.
There's definitely more to the story than meets the eye. Overqualified veterans of almost 40 years don't end up back on the 1st rung of the career ladder unless something somewhere got seriously messed up.
Regardless of who was to blame, I can't imagine anyone in that position turning up to work everyday with a smile on their face...
Poking management with a sharp stick is probably the only way he makes it through each day.
"Safe for any part of the body.."
If that's true then I really could have done with one of these a couple of months ago. Because - well - cough! - hmm - never mind.
Let's just say that "downstairs" razor burn is no laughing matter. Well, I wasn't laughing anyway...
I watched a colleague do this once, when the "sluice" in question was the hot water stream from a kitchenette water boiler. The laptop keyboard in question instantly curled up, permanently ruined and completely warped to buggery.
I had considered warning him, but I figured (correctly) that it would be funnier not to.
Good luck finding any sympathetic professional photographers who are willing to licence you their photos now, guys.
Or have you thought this through and actually decided that you won't be needing any? Ever again?
It'll be boring stock photos only for you from now on. That or copyright infringement. And wouldn't that be ironic?
As someone who has been "shot" by paintballs on pretty much every part of the body you could care to mention, I can scientifically* confirm - ...drumroll please... - that, yes, the end of one's cock is indeed the most sensitive part of mythe body when it comes to localised trauma.
Man, that hurt. On the plus side though, it did swell up a bit, though not for long.
Do I get a prize?
"Hey, I've got cassette games that still work! :-)"
Same here. At least they did work last time I checked. They've managed to outlast every cassette player in the house and the hardware the games are supposed to run on. I still can't bring myself to throw them away though.
3D Monster Maze - FTW!
I remember those "ready meals" of 20 years or more ago. The range was not great, microwaveable lasagna and the like - and a "meal for two" only really contained enough food for one (A large one, admittedly, but the meals for one were noticeably small)
I always thought the reason for that was because it was harder for the manufacturers to shift meals for one due to the social embarrassment of standing in the checkout queue with nothing but a microwave spag bol for ONE (Look at the Sad & Lonely Person Who Has No Friends!!!). Just call it a "Meal for Two" - problem sorted.
Hence the skewed portion-size figures over time.
"he gets a little credit for that"
Lewis is OK in my book. (Though I prefer his earlier fuinnier stuff about military contracts and bombs and shit)
For those that want it, these articles always provide food for thought, and over-the-top opinions for those that don't. Lewis is a professional journo who is well aware that his audience are, for the most part, reasonably intelligent people who are capable of forming their own opinions, yet he's writing about a polarising subject where common sense all too often takes a back seat.
It's impossible to approach this subject without some personal bias - same as with religion. And the fact that Lewis does so with such a heavy bias tells me that he's simply playing to the audience. Sure, he believes what he's saying (the personal bias), but it's the way that he's saying it that I always take to be a bit of an in-joke. And one that we are all in on.
Except some people obviously aren't.
He held a knife to someone's neck, but he may as well have left it hidden in his pocket for all the difference it made to the sentence - "two attempted robberies and possession of a blade".
He may be disappointed by the short sentence, but I doubt he's as disappointed as his victim.
Jigsaw. Ah man - that was the business. And the O-Men were the best thing about it. Pants-wettingly funny.
I still feel bitter about never receiving my sheet of stickers though. ALL correct answers were supposed to get sent a sheet of stickers. The answer was "S.I.M.P.L.E.". I got it right so where are my stickers? It's been 35 years, FFS.
Unless it was Pepper, not Salt that Noseybonk sprinkled on his sandwich. In which case the answer would have been "P.I.M.P.L.E.", but I don't think it was.
Mrs Mouse says I should "Forgive and forget", but that's easier said than done.
It's true that PCs are often not used to their full potential, but it's not a new phenomenom. I'm reminded of an old Harry Hill quip (from the last millenium, no less):
"I like to use mine with the screen turned up to full brightness. As a light."
Though I guess these days you could include "Heater" as well.
Spider Plants are the answer to the Terraforming debate. Once a ubiquitous presence in every student's bedroom, they thrive and multiply under the harshest conditions imaginable.
Mankind has been able to keep them at bay and become the dominant species here on Earth mainly thanks to a quirk of evolution that left them crippled with a white stripe on every leaf. If they'd been capable of photosynthesising at 100% capacity then we'd still be living in caves, cowering in fear before our green and leafy overlords.
Drop just one on Mars and, with no natural predators, the whole surface should be covered in greenery before the year is out. Probably.
My mate had a Mario Bros hand-held LCD game featuring both Brothers. I'm not sure exactly where in the timeline it sits, but my time-addled brain assures me it must have been 1982 or earlier.
The Bros had to bounce people to safety from a burning building with their fireman's trampoline.
Blimey - I haven't thought about that in years. I've certainly never seen it mentioned in articles like this one, in all the years since.
According to my ISS tracker App, the ISS will be flying over my gaff whilst the capsule is docked, but it's not going to be bright enough for me to photograph.
I've taken a couple of snaps of the ISS in the past where the basic shape of the structure is clear to see, but have any commentards managed to do the same whilst a caspule was docked? Were there any visible differences?
@A/C: So you prefer to stick loaded guns up your cavity of choice deadly-end-first?
Fair enough - that would make the initial insertion more comfortable. And the handle would of course be more accessible when it came to removal.
I just can't help thinking that there might be other factors to consider...
@Alien Overlord
Well, the universe is expanding, and we can determine at what rate. We can see exactly how quickly galaxies are, and have been, moving away from us / each other. I'd guess that it's no great leap to extrapolate that information backwards to year zero, and see how long ago that was.
Genuine science has been used to come up with a value for the current age of the universe. Not guesswork.
With the whole setup seemingly contained within your own four walls - monitor upstairs, smartphone/tablet downstairs, everything hooked up to your local WiFi - you can understand how many people might not realise that the internet is a factor, or even consider that there may be security implications.
It makes me glad that I dodged this particular bullet by a few years. The worst thing that happened to me with our baby monitors was picking up the very faint, crackly sound of someone else's crying child.
I can testify that hearing a "ghost" baby crying as if from miles away, over the speaker when you're particularly sleep deprived at sod O'clock in the morning, can be seriously unnerving.
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