Today’s xkcd cartoon rather amused me:
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Animator vs Animation
Found this on DeviantART, and thought it was worth sharing here.
An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself.
A stick figure is created by an animator with the intent to torture. The stick figure drawn by the animator will be using everything he can find – the brush tool, the eraser tool – to get back at his tormentor. It’s resourcefulness versus power. Who will win? You can find out yourself.— This took three long months.. i think it’s worth it.
Grr, MySQL and enum types….
I want to stab MySQL between the eyes. Or rather if MySQL had eyes, I’d stab it squarely between them.
It just wasted far too much of my time with this bit of annoying behaviour. I’ll admit it was also my fault, but I still think MySQL reacted in a retarded way. (But then from a “database” system which on its default settings is happy to silently mangle data however it feels, that’s not too surprising).
Some silly puns
Batman came up to me and he hit me over the head with a vase and he went T’PAU! I said “Don’t you mean KAPOW?? He said “No, I’ve got china in my hand.”
I went to the local video shop and I said, “Can I take out The Elephant Man?” He said, “He’s not your type.” I said “Can I borrow Batman Forever?” He said, “No, you’ll have to bring it back tomorrow”
I told my girlfriend I had a job in a bowling alley. She said “Tenpin?” I said, “No, permanent.”
I went in to a pet shop. I said, “Can I buy a goldfish?” The guy said, “Do you want an aquarium?” I said, “I don’t care what star sign it is.”
I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said “Analogue.” I said “No, just a watch.”
My mate is in love with two schoolbags. He’s bisatchel.
I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can’t remember his name, it’s P something T something R.
I phoned the local ramblers club today, but the bloke who answered just went on and on.
I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, “Nearest the bull goes first” He went “Baah” and I went “Moo” He said “You’re closest”
I visited the offices of the RSPCA today. It’s tiny: you couldn’t swing a cat in there.
I was stealing things in the supermarket today while balanced on the shoulders of a couple of vampires. I was charged with shoplifting on two counts.
Woman cleared of criminal negligence in dog attack
BBC News reports that a woman accused over a fatal dog attack on her five-year-old granddaughter has been found not guilty of manslaughter.
OK, this woman was supposed to be responsible for a 5 year old child. By her own admission she had consumed two bottles of wine, and smoked ten joints – that alone likely means she would have been in no fit state to responsibly look after a child. But, she then chose to allow a dangerous pit bull dog into the house, which then killed the little girl.
The dog was illegal (under the Dangerous Dogs act) and had already been involved in two previous attacks. The dog’s owner has been given a prison sentence but the woman has been cleared of manslaughter by criminal negligence. Why? Did she really think that allowing a vicious dog (pit bull terriers are banned precisely because they are vicious, dangerous dogs bred to fight) was a good idea?
Comment spammer with a conscience?
Lately I’ve seen quite a few comment spams in my Akismet caught spams list starting with “Sorry :(” – is this a comment spammer who actually feels bad about abusing other people’s blogs to advertise crap? (But he still does it – so his morals aren’t that strong :)).
Three Valleys Water cont’d
I already wrote a post about how Three Valleys Water randomly decided to remove our meter.
We’ve just had a bill through from them, with a meter reading that they took on the 28th August, billing us £82 for three months usage. That figure is utter crap, it’s way too high. Not to mention, there was no meter attached to our supply on the 28th August! That’s a day or two after I noticed that the meter had been removed.
They’ve put the bill on hold (just as well, because I was going to instruct my bank not to pay the Direct Debit) while they send an engineer out to see what’s happened, then when they get the report back they’ll “adjust the bill”. I can suggest a suitable adjustment – stick the thing up your fucking arse!
One hell of a gift voucher!
I placed an order with Amazon today, and applied a gift voucher to it. When I added the voucher, I was quite amazed by the saving it offered:
I had no idea I’d received a 9 billion pound voucher! Unfortunately, it subsequently changed to the correct figure of £20, otherwise I’d have added all of Amazon to my shopping basket :)
Delightful irony
Went to metcheck.com to see what the latest on all the rain + flooding (of which I’ve seen no flooding at all), and see:
Heavy rain and flooding has is causing problems with our processing servers at the Gloucester server farm. Technical peeps are working on this at the moment. This is affecting all data updates to the Metcheck servers.
There’s something delightfully ironic about that :) “We can’t tell you whether there’s any flooding, as our servers have been flooded” :D
Misplaced adverts
A nice set of amusing adverts, taken from a post on Visordown: