:: GussetBLOG ::

:: Saturday, January 18, 2003 ::

hairy cat soap does exactly what is says on the tin.

:: popcorn 18.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Lads, I forgot to tell you. I'm a student again! Soon to be (well, a few years) DipSci, BSci (hons).
Thrid time lucky, that's what I say.

Don't know how Clare will react to the endless alcohol abuse and "bed-a-fresher week" tho'

:: popcorn 17.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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The mass of the drive doesn't change:

if a 1g drive can hold 1GB of data, then you would need a drive sooooo big it would create a new black hole.

edit: sorry were you being sarcastic?
ooooh, it's getting cramped in this atom.

:: popcorn 17.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Only 1077 atoms in the universe, wow. The world population is 6,302,309,691 people, so if all the atoms in the universe were distributed equally between all of those people there would be 5.9 million people per atom. Not to count all of the Cats, Dogs, Moose, Giraffes, Ants and Fish that would also go in each atom as well. It really is a small world isnt it!?

Why does the mass of the drive change when you write data to it?

:: Dan 17.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Call me a geek, but I've just been reading about using prime numbers in cryptography and was amazed at some of the stats:

There are approximately 10¹⁵¹ primes 512-bits in length or less. There are only 1077 atoms in the universe. If every atom in the universe needed a billion new primes every microsecond from the beginning of time until now, you would only need 10¹⁰⁹ primes. (not sure where that 1077 atoms thing comes from)

If someone creates a database of all primes, won’t he be able to use that database to break public-key algorithms? Yes, but he can’t do it. If you could store one gigabyte of information on a drive weighing one gram, then a list of just the 512-bit primes would weight so much that it would exceed the Chandrasekhar limit and collapse into a black hole, so you couldn’t retrieve the data anyway.

If you're sad, like me, then you can go here and read more

:: popcorn 17.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Popcorn: Thanks, you gotta get what you can.

:: Spokesy 17.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Full of CD goodness.


Sean: While on holiday I went to this shop, but it was only elephant brand, not elephant sized. The biggest they had was 4" and I thought you wouldn't want to upgrade by only 1"

:: popcorn 16.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Oi Feck-st1cks!

Check The Gusset Site for news of our first release (or should that be discharge?)

POPCORN: Unfortunately, I have to keep that M$ sh1te for work. I'll be careful with it as well.

:: Spokesy 16.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Did you read the artical about the bloke who burned his wang with a laptop? Well someone always has to go one better

Mr Perkins, take note!

:: popcorn 16.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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RIAA Cartoon

:: Dan 16.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Not the disk of Sandpaper, but you could own a very expensive replica! Puts our idea of calling the next Gusset e.p. "Very Expensive Coasters" to shame.

Having fun with the laptop Sean?

:: Dan 16.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Topical cream for my facial herpes.

:: Spokesy 16.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Sorry, I missed that. You've got what?

:: popcorn 15.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Oh and I've removed the Magical Mangina!!

:: Spokesy 15.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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It has to be seen to be believed!

:: Dan 15.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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I have no idea what joinging is Dan, but it sounds like fun.

Welcome new peeps :)

:: popcorn 15.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Hello everyone. I very happy to be here. I am enjoying your English senses of humour. Is good, yes?

:: Simon 15.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Hello Slim!
Sit back and enjoy the Blue Jam Bar Guide

Only one outstanding invite now. Sean, is the Magical Mangina ever going to get round to joinging?

:: Dan 15.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Er... Am I doing this right. Oh yes, there I am!

:: Simon 15.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd
multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull.

THE AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create clever cow cartoon images called Cowkimon and market them World-Wide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows. Both are mad.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.

A HINDU CORPORATION
You have two cows. You worship them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.

A WELSH CORPORATION
You have two cows. That one on the left is kinda cute!

:: Dan 15.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Metaphors

Metaphors from Student Essays [phrases taken from actual essays]

And our future is based on these students...

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other
sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
underpants in a tumble dryer.

3. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't.

4. McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag
filled with vegetable soup.

5. Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

6. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the centre

7. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

8. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

9. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you
fry them in hot grease.

10. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across
the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having
left York at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from Peterborough
at 4:19p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

11. The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the full stop after the
Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.

12. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had
also never met.

13. The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin
sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.

14. The red brick wall was the colour of a brick-red crayon.

15. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only
one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

16. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

17. The plan was simple, like my mate Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan
just might work.

18. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
eating for while.

19. "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a student
on 31p-a-pint night.

20. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but
a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine
or something.

21. Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can
tell butter from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."

22. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes
just before it throws up.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg
behind her, like a dog at a lamp post.

24. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated
because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge
at a formerly surcharge-free cash point.

25. The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating
electric fan set on medium.

26. It was a working class tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
with their power tools.

27. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as
if she were a dustcart reversing.

28. She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.

29. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was
room-temperature British beef.

30. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

31. Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation
thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.

32. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it
to the wall.

:: Dan 15.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Sean, thats Amandas brother Phil, you do know him!

I've got the new photos and Winrar extracted the others OK (finally!)

:: Dan 15.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Don't mean to be rude but who the fuck is Phil?

PS: Hi Phil, Nice to meet you.

Hope you enjoy the BLOG.

Popey download this

:: Spokesy 14.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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National I.D. cards:
"You will not be required to use a card unless you wish to work, use the banking or health system, vote, buy a house, drive, travel or receive benefits."


Go here and vote

Similar vien, but funnier and less infringing on your rights

:: popcorn 14.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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And so it begins >:-(

:: popcorn 14.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Hi Phil,
Just read though the older posts. It shouldnt be anything too scary! You can post anything you like here for the select few to enjoy. We're thinking about making it public (ie linking it from the Gusset web site) in the long term but for now not its fairly well hidden.
You could always try to pull the general tone up a little if you like...
Enjoy
Dan

:: Dan 14.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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What have I just joined ...

:: Philip 14.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Dan: winrar

:: popcorn 14.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Microsoft at it again.

I meant to blog this last week, its not so topical anymore, and you might have noticed this anyway, but didn’t the media do a great job on the Ricin sales pitch? Everybody and anybody is going to want some after all the hype it got... for defensive purposes of course.

Sean, I tried extracting that RAR file with PowerAchiever but it came up with a CRC Error on every file! Should I try with something else or could you ftp a Zip instead?

:: Dan 14.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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..or your favourite arm chair? come off it, let the fat fucker sit on the floor.

:: popcorn 13.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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what the...

:: Dan 13.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Are these on eBay yet?

Hmm, my memory isn’t what it used to be. “Not since the accident” anyway!

:: Dan 13.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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That's odd, I'm sure the first time I saw one was at your house! free rar extractors all over the net. fetch.

:: popcorn 13.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Ahh, I don't think I've come across RAR before, I'll see if I've got anything to extract it. Any recommendations in case I do need to download something?

:: Dan 13.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Dan: Looks like a rar archive.

:: popcorn 13.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Friday’s gig at the Thekla went well... we enjoyed ourselves anyway! Not many people there so early on but still a good turnout compared to our previous Thekla gig. Most of those who were there were transfixed by the video playing of a girl licking a shower wall and dripping honey on her feet. That was great, and it fitted nicely with out stuff, thank you Lucy, whoever you are!

Leafcutter John's set was good. Fascinating to watch. He started of simply by hitting a triangle fed through a massive delay, then started hitting some funny homemade looking red plastic squares with sticks, they had some sort of transducers attached. Then he did all sorts of stuff with a laptop and was controlling something with a joystick (class!) so I can’t really tell you what he was doing there. He also picked up his guitar once, scraped the strings a bit, and then put it down again. But it all sounded great, some really nice atmospheres, great broken beats and a nice warm throbbing.

Justin^TM (who DJed between all of the sets downstairs) dropped a nice collection of Mu stuff in, lots of the criminal e.p.s etc., and there was some IDM played upstairs just before Leafy, but I can’t remember who was playing that.

Sean: What file format is that?

:: Dan 13.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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8.3ltr 400mph motorbike

:: popcorn 13.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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To: popcorn you are spending too much time on the net!

By the way how are you? Did you have a good x-mas and new year's?

To: Dan "my pipes need filling" Pope,

Here are the photo's you require of those hookers we banged in Rio. I couldn't believe that yours was Dennis Norden.

If Burger King are the King of fast-food retail outlets, what does that make Wimpy?

:: Spokesy 13.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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Why? Why? Why?

:: popcorn 12.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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RIAA hacked again.

:: popcorn 12.1.03 [Arc]    ::
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