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New definition of ‘teenage’

A somewhat novel definition of teenage, on the BBC news website.

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2009 07 21 james comedy
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It’s good to be wrong.

A highly skilled person has disproved a long-held opinion of mine: that it’s impossible to put a transport category aircraft down on water (from flight speed) without massive structural failure. As always, credit should also go to the hundreds of people who design things like APUs, ram-air turbines, hydraulic pressure reservoirs, and the other boring pieces [...]

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2009 01 16 james aviation Comments (0)

The special relationship

Joerg Haider, showing, even in death, that rabid, right-wing political extremism in no way precludes the man love.1. But clearly not to be admitted to whilst in, or angling for, positions of power, lest your supporters or colleagues get all twitchy [↩]

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2008 10 23 james Uncategorized Comments (0)

Stupid Squared

The BBC has a charming story about Birmingham city council cocking up and using a photo of Birmingham, Alabama in a leaflet sent to residents. Oh, those silly councils, etc. But, this was to thank the residents for the city meeting its recycling targets. Because nothing says ‘environmentally conscious’ like posting a leaflet through 720,000 people’s door. [...]

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2008 08 14 james comedy Comments (0)

Bzzzzzzzz

Caution! There are bees! Also, apparently we’re transporting bees around to pollinate crops? That’s got to warrant a new haz-mat symbol – the lorry ahead of you on the motorway could be filled with buzzing, stinging death! And also delicious honey.

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2008 07 01 james comedy Comments (1)

Unclear on the notion of ‘fiction’

Deary, deary me. (and thanks to Lum for the catch). Presumably all the previous Indy films had totally believable plots, what with crazy Gestapo guys scouring the middle east for religious artefact …. damn. Still, I’m sure there’s never been any crazy human-sacrifice cults in India. Pretty sure.

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2008 05 29 james comedy
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Hope these become a production part quicker than OLED.

HP have implemented some decades-old theory and built resistors that have modifiable impedance. Which has some interesting implications, especially for persistent memory design. As an aside, the rather sparse Wikipedia entry says they can also be termed ‘flux capacitors’ – either a hoax edit, or really lame. Not that ‘memristor’ sounds much better.

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2008 05 02 james geek Comments (1)

Just like the roads, then

Apparently Edinburgh Council have been ‘busy’ at the airport as well, by the sound of it. Oh my.

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2008 04 23 james aviation
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Priorities.

Unimportant thing: arguing with your partner. Important thing: oncoming large metal object. Also, how do you even end up having an argument there in the first place?

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2008 04 16 james comedy Comments (0)