December 2007
Kangaroo Assembly Day →
[Tried to post this yesterday but Flickr refused. So posted from Youtube instead!] Had Christmas lunch hosted by squigglyruth and truecatachresis with oxfordslacker, and mr_snips. Goose was eaten, we deployed the card tabke and sorted out the German postal system after a bout of Zombie Fluxx. Our hosts showed us the Wii version of Guitar Hero, and tonyjo discovered she seems to be a natural at...
No Punchline →
I have just watched the 1938 movie Holiday, starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn—all except the last minute, which given the ancient habit of not resolving the plot until the last line of the movie, and placing all the credits at the start, means I have missed the end of the story. Argh! This is a problem I get a lot with the BBC, because Tivo records programmes according to their scheduled...
Tough Guide to the Known Galaxy →
âThese pages are, of course, a shameless ripoff of Diana Wynne Jones’s The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
Oh, that sounds so crass. It is much nicer to say that they are a sincere tribute [OMT] to the original. Not only nicer, but every bit as accurate
The Library Problem (Hackito Ergo Sum) →
‘We needed to get organized. We needed a way to store all of our books so they were easily accessible.’
Water-strider-o-tron →
Scientists Discover How to Make Robots Bounce on Water illustrated with a picture of a robot that WALKS on water. (Via Slashdot.)
