:: GussetBLOG ::

:: Friday, June 06, 2003 ::

and I quote "If anyone wants an account then leave me a message as I've not setup the mail routines properly".

'tard


Gimme a minute or two and I'll set you up.

[Edit - You expect me to read stuff? Dan]

:: popcorn 6.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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I tried to register for popcornix early this afternoon but I still don't have a password email. Seems pretty lame to me ;-]
Is it all just an excuse to run a site that has an "I am under 13" button on it? And is that years or months?

The Clippy the Bastard Paperclip assisted suicide thing came up in work again today, it's been around a few times but somehow it seems funnier every time.

:: Dan 6.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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Niffty, if somewhat useless, tool. If you thought that was a poor thread on Mu, then you can't have read many Fark threads (I think it was funny, in a 11yr old humour kind of way).

popcornix is just somewhere where I can rant & vent spleen without feeling like I'm highjacking GussetBlog :) that and it's somewhere I can leave any potatoswaping/3d stuff/code/flash stuff I've done. It was just a damn sight easier and cheaper to host it at home as my bandwidth requirement will be limited. I'll post that flyer art I was telling you about there, when I've found it again. Expect lots of links to net based tutorials on computers and CGI.

:: popcorn 6.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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Thanks Popcorn. I will repay you with this text cut-up remix tool. Quite amusing. (Brought to my attention by this low light of the Mu phorum)

So whats that Popcornix about then?

:: Dan 6.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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I found that Quantum computing whatsit on securityfocus. It's that chasing the wind thingy., no idea which chapter sorry :D

:: popcorn 6.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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Who ever said that a computer games degree was "mickey mouse" has obviously never heard ANYTHING about the games industry. Which last year had a bigger gross than the film industry.

I wonder if the Filmography of Miss Ryder includes CCTV footage?

:: popcorn 6.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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I was glancing through the American gutter press’s Enquirer the other day and stumbled across this article. And I though UK Unis were offering strange courses (Warning: mostly tory propaganda)

Enquirer article:
TAKE A CELEB TO COLLEGE
Keanu Reeves has a lot of class and he can prove it!
The Matrix Reloaded star and his films have been the subject of courses taught by Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design, exploring modern cinema and philosophy.
Here are other celebrities who are the subject of college classes:

• Oprah Winfrey, the Tycoon is taught at the University of Illinois.
  
• Ohio’s Oberlin College offers The Filmography of Winona Ryder, The Mythology Episodes of the X-Files and Life and Times of Drew Barrymore, plus a look at the sexuality of American women as depicted in the HBO series Sex and the City.
  
• At Berea College in Kentucky, students can sign up for Philosophy and the Simpsons, evaluating Homer and Bart against Nietzsche and Aristotle.

:: Dan 6.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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It's slow, it's still in beta, but it's all mine: popcornix
It might be *really* slow sometimes as it's sat on a knackered old box, with very limited upstream bandwith, in my dinning room.
If anyone wants an account then leave me a message as I've not setup the mail routines properly (yet) nor have I rustled up the nice design I've got planned.
Well, I did say it was beta

:: popcorn 6.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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I told you there was more to They Live than a former wrestler trying to act!

:: Spokesy 6.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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I was driving to work listening to Today on Radio 4 as normal this morning, when something strange happened. Today's Thought for the Day (text not available yet) made me think! Not think about God or Love or anything like that mind. The biblical story of Jacob wrestling all night with an unknown adversary, a divine spirit of some sort, and come dawn refusing to let it go until it blessed him or something made me think "did this inspire that ridiculously long fight seen over the alien seeing glasses in They Live?"

:: Dan 6.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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Would you like to see various horrible ways you may leave this mortal coil built lovingly out of Lego? Then visit www.blockdeath.com. The domestic incidents are my favourites.

:: Dan 5.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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Geeky one here:
The new scientist reports on California Institute of Technology's new Fast TCP, which allows 925 megabits per second data transfer over standard internet hardware only capable of 266 megabits per second using standard TCP. Better than the improvements offered by the Internet 2 scheme which has TCP running at 350 megabits per second, and there's no reason why you couldn't combine the two new systems.

:: Dan 5.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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Memories of the North

:: Dan 5.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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The thing you were doing, Dan, was a nice rolling endo to face slide with a head tap on the steel fence. Classy.

We realy thought you were joking for a few minutes.
Us: "Dan! you OK?"
Dan: "I think so."
Us: "Sit down. Does it feel like you've broken anything?"
Dan: "My face." *grin*
Us: "Doesn't look like you've broken anything, you didn't scream when you walked."
Dan: "Have you got a hanky for this blood?"
Us: "There's one in your pocket."
Dan: "Oh yeah. Wait. This isn't my hanky, what's it doing in my pocket?"
Us: "Haha, very funny."
Dan: "This isn't my hanky."
Us: "Haha"
Dan: "I've never seen it before."
Us: "Haha, stop it."
Dan: "Seriously! This isn't my hanky!"
Us: "oh fuck."
James: "Dad's going to go mental."

If I remember right though the pain didn't kick in untill we got back to your house.


Then there was my turn for bike acidents with Dan and James.
James: "Jump off that."
Me: "ok."
-aims, rides full pelt, chickens out, puts breaks on
James: "Naallllggg."
-aims, rides full pelt, decides to *really* go for it, jumps, flys, lands on gravle path, part company with bike, slides, removes skin from arm leg and torso.

I've still got the scar on my side!

:: popcorn 3.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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Rocket Built In Shed

:: Dan 3.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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A recent spate of skateboarding injuries in the office has led to the inevitable "my injury is worse than yours" arguments that men cannot possibly allow to pass. This led me to scan the picture taken a couple of days after my mountain bike in skate park accident when I was 18. I still don't really know what happened, although Popcorn may be able to fill in some of the blanks as he and my brother, James, where both present. The first I remember of all of this was waking up in the Bristol Royal Infirmary minus about three month's memory and apparently having had about a dozen X-Rays of my head. I couldn't remember returning to college after the summer holidays; I couldn't remember going to see Pink Floyd at Earls Court, and so on.
From what I understand:
After playing BMX polo in the back lane one morning we decided to ride up to the skate park on Dean Lane (that's Dame Emily Smyth Park, Bedminster, Bristol, I can't find any pictures of it, if anyone can find any please let me know) and go bomb holing on mountain bikes. After some time in the park I was discovered sat on the ground, bleeding from several places on my arms and face, glasses broken, bike several meters away. At the time I apparently didn't lose consciousness, but I did suffer from concussion as my memory seemed to drift away afterwards. I kept asking what the time was and found things in my pockets I insisted weren't mine. We made our way home, taking my bike into Garlands on North St for repair on the way, and bleeding over their counter in the process. Once home my memory got worse and worse and my dad came home from work to drive me to the hospital.
My lost memory slowly retuned to me over the coming weeks, except for the actual day of the accident, of which I only remember receiving my driving test appointment in the post that morning, and what happened in the hospital after I woke up.
Now let that be a lesson to you: DON'T DO WHAT EVER IT WAS THAT I DON'T REMEMBER DOING THAT APPARENTLY CAUSED THIS.

:: Dan 3.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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Bacon? WTF?

:: popcorn 2.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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I had fun at work today. If you want your IT bods at work to have fun then simply follow the recipe that some little scrote cooked up for me today:


Denial of Service Pie.

Preperation time: 5-20 seconds
cooking time: Almost insantanious (Works best with a win98 network)
Best served: When all of the tech dept. apart from one are off ill.

Ingredients:
1x Cat5 Network cable with RJ45 plugs (any patch lead will do)
2x RJ45 Ethernet points.

Cooking instructions:
1. Take one end of your patch cable and instert it into one of the network point.
2. This is the difficult bit, pay attention. Insert the other end of your patch cabel into the other network point.
3. Leave. (or preferably get your teacher to move the class to another lab and back again because you've brought the entire network down and no computers work!)


Watch as your techies run around franticaly, tearing thier hair out trying to isolate the flooded link and trace it back to your cable.


I thought about it and it would be easy to knock up a single RJ45 plug and two wires, to replace the cable and one of the network points. The face plate may even close, then your techies could have even more fun!!

:: popcorn 2.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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What is your ideal job. (200k xls file)

:: Dan 2.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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Bizarre Bacon news.

I'd forgotten about the Plastic Jesus song. That's a classic!

:: Dan 2.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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If you folllow GromBlog the you might have read the "hippy to punk in a day" self hair cut article on dogbomb, but check out the country and western songs on the front page. Such timeless classics as "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy", "I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones", "I Don't Care if it Rains or Freezes 'Long as I Have My Plastic Jesus Sittin' on the Dashboard of my Car" and the very Gusset "I Made Up The Title, You Make Up The Song" ;)

:: popcorn 2.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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I just came across this old Mulholland Drive analysis, quite interesting if you’re still questioning anything in it (which you should be cus there are bits in it I’m sure aren’t supposed to make sense and no one involved would be able to explain).

Geko tape looks great. Can't wait to get some of that. Although I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. Should have plenty of time to decide though.

:: Dan 2.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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Do you want to be Spiderman? or how about driving up the side of a plate glass building? Geko tape may be the answer.
Quote: "covering a person's hand with the material would be enough to let them stick to the ceiling".
And you thought velcro was a good invention.

:: popcorn 2.6.03 [Arc]    ::
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