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Now I have seen a few people with a Thundercats logo on their shirts and it's starting to piss me off. I was wondering whether they were purchased by the girlfriend initially to confound or subdue a boyfriend. Perhaps it's an underground army of antagonists set to suddenly provide us with a flash mob of Thundercat shit. I would prefer the later however I would suspect that stupid people are actually buying this shirts with the Thundercats logo on thinking they look cool. Whilst I don't look cool shopping in my big coat and my normal trousers, a Thudercats Logo does not and will not make me look better or younger.
Grow up.
23:08 24 Dec 2009
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I was busy doing nothing when I saw the latest headline on the BBC News website
This is good news for most people post-mortem. Not only do you not have to worry about those fiddly things like breathing after death but your chances of getting Swine Flu after death is in now way affected. I personally am a little disappointed. I would have thought that after my death then my chances of getting most if not all diseases would disappear down to zero, so perhaps not such go news for dead people. Mind you I suspect that diagnosis of Swine Flu after death may be confused by symptoms already given out by those who are dead meaning that the reported cases of dead people catching swine Flu might only be the tip of the iceberg.
20:58 16 Jun 2009
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A few years ago I decided that fortune cookies gave quite an accurate description of your state of being. The cookie I received said “You are properous”. Now we all know that this is a spelling mistake and I was sure that it really should have said “You are preposterous”.
Just last night it was completely confirmed that these things are clearly bunkum. My fortune cookie last night said “Tomorrow you will wake up happy”. Now whilst I am happy to entertain a few small deviations from reality this was so bad that even my table guests found it funny.
Come on Fortune Cookie people get some reality into you cookies such as “It's possible or impossible for you to wake up happy next morning”, or perhaps “Anything worth doing can be done, or perhaps not” or even “He who hurries can not walk with dignity, unless you have mastered walking with dignity whilst walking quite fast”.
21:59 19 Mar 2009
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What with the Credit Crunch I shan't talk about it because I suspect you like me are crunched out. So in a bit nonsense I have some stuff that is un-crunch worthy as I am carrying on as normal.
A couple of weeks ago I bought a Sondigo Sirocco and I can quite completely claim that it's excellent.
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Well for me the answer is simple. For a start I can't be arsed looking for CDs in the rack to find that track because I have all our CDs on my laptop, and that was the main reason. Since getting the thing it turns out there are other reasons. One of the reasons is that when your darling other half wants to play all the Prince tracks we have (nightmare) then all you have to do is a search, select them all and play. Of course there is that time when you know you know you don't have the track you want to listen to but “last.fm” does, well before Sirocco it's PC speakers but with it you have that track on your stereo at last. In effect it transmits the sounds from your PC to your stereo.
If you're still reading then then you'll want to know the minus points of this device and there are a couple.
For a start it's all buffered up and for best results for me it's about a second. This means that you can start playing something on the computer and you only hear it a second later, and that's fine for music with no pictures but I suspect that if you wanted to play movies on your computer then you would have a problem (See update at the bottom). There is a setting for movies but I tried it with music and when the sound gets complicated it cuts out and using the one second buffer will make the movie and sound totally out of synch to be unwatchable.
The final thing (and it's small) is that it doesn't recognise channel 13 as a wireless channel. I have been using this channel for ages because it's the best channel in my area in that no-one else is on it. So to use this I have to change so Net Stumbler comes out again to check and I'm on another channel. It's just a pity really because I'm pretty sure I've heard of a few devices that don't like channel 13 so it's a good one to be on.
I must admit my Wife thought this was a toy when I bought it and in some ways I thought so too. I suspected it would remain switched off for it's existence but from the last two weekends I think it to now has be got rid of. I have spent the last two weekends listening to my wife's rubbish music that we have and on “last.fm” and YouTube all of which can be played loud and proud.
Update:
After getting a comment from Neil I decided to try out the Sondigo Sirocco with a TV program just out of interest with buffering set to 100ms. I had previously assumed that a 100ms buffer would be unwatchable because of sound cut up but no. I watched a 50 minute BBC IPlayer program and all was OK. Sure it dropped out a twice when the sound just cut up a little but you could still understand what was going on, though I did need to rewind once when the cut up was bad but it was better than expected. I'll be honest, at the same time my router was being killed by another operation on the network but I'm not sure that would have affected things as the router should act like a switch but perhaps not a fair test. I must admit when I tried it on 100ms I did think it looked out of sync but to be honest I think I was just expecting things to look bad, but after the first fifteen minutes when I had forgotten to look for problems everything seemed fine.
My final test was changing buffering to 200ms and I'll be honest, that is bad so don't bother with this for TV at this buffering level, but 100ms is a thumbs up.
00:05 21 Jan 2009
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I think my wife and I have decided that our daughter has no common sense. She has definitely got to marry someone exceptionally rich so that she doesn't have to face the world of work. Alternatively she will just have to find a career where a lack of common sense helps... like first line support for broadband or perhaps she could work in an estate agents.
This was highlighted last year when we were in Spain. We put the TV on whilst we were getting ready to go out. Luckily at the age of seven, getting ready for going out takes you two minutes, all you need are shoes, t-shirt and trousers whereas my wife and I need a shower and I need the conversation that start “Is that what you're wearing?” and ends up with “wear whatever you want” with “what do you want me to wear?” in the middle. So during getting ready we put the TV on and what was on was Futurama in German. A true gem I think you might agree. After a couple of minutes my daughter said “Can you turn the TV up because I can't hear”. Well you can imagine the conversation but no amount of explaining could get it through to our seven year old that turning the TV wouldn't help.
A similar bit of nonsense happened tonight. My wife was out at a Christmas do and I was sat relaxing watching the TV and the phone rang. I was personally glad it was a wrong number... “Can I speak to Ian?”. The call was short as I explained to the chap that there was no Ian here and he had a wrong number so I put the phone back. Settling back I carried on watching Strictly Come Dancing (not out of choice but I was recording something else and I was recording Strictly Come Dancing and couldn't switch... oh why didn't I get a PVR with three tuners!). As I sat back my daughter asked me, “Who was that”, so I said it was a wrong number, something you could have guessed if you overheard my end of the conversation but my daughter doesn't do overhearing unless it involves chocolate. I also then made the classic mistake of over elaborating and said that they wanted Ian. A few seconds passed and then my daughter asked “Ian who?”, at which point I turned round and said “Does it matter? Do you know an Ian?” which is obviously another classic mistake because the answer was yes. This is the point where I lose as logic has left the building.
23:16 13 Dec 2008
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