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09:18 pm
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Old Macs
A great, well-photographed gallery of old Apple hardware [flickr link]. One day my collection will be this well presented!
P.S. Don't forget to join me in the Royal Oak tomorrow at 5pm so that I may get older.
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08:32 pm
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Getting Older
On 10th Feb, I will be going to the Royal Oak after work (5pm-ish) to celebrate getting older. Feel free to join me. Or not, obviously. :-)
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11:36 am
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Dear Lazyweb...
I am going to California at the end of this month.
Can I buy a USB data stick here in the UK (e.g. this one from Vodafone), buy a SIM of some variety in the USA and use them together for internet access?
Cheers!
Tags: lazyweb
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08:10 pm
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Bike Lust
Oh wow. Someone has put Alfa Romeo's fantastic V6 engine in a motorcycle. And fitted a frickin' *kickstarter*. I think I'm in love.
Crossbreed Alfabeast
I'm sure it'll handle like a 3 legged hippo, but I imagine the sound makes up for it...
Tags: motorbikes
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09:34 pm
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Brrm
( No comment required - image under cut )
Tags: motorbikes
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12:54 am
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Fun Ways to Die
Another fun way to die:
Excavator Waterskiing. (direct link to Youtube video).
Or, in my case: Commute by bicycle in Oxford at the moment (Youtube link). It was more slidy this morning (Wednesday) than it has been all week. I should probably have invested in spiky bicycle tyres.
Tags: funwaystodie
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01:02 am
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We've Left the Valley
This video is beautiful in its own right [Vimeo link, requires Flash], but the secret behind it is utterly amazing.
( Cut for mild spoiler... )
Don't believe me? Check out this breakdown of the video [another Vimeo link].
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01:42 pm
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I'm melting! Melllllttiiiiiing!
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Tags: melt, melting, ohwhataworld, snow
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01:16 am
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A Cat! In Snow!
Mumu in the snow (Youtube link).
There is now quite a lot of snow in Oxford. Pics tomorrow no doubt. :-)
Tags: cats mumu snow
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08:43 pm
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Questions Meme
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) burkesworks kindly set me some questions. Here are my answers:
1) Was driving that V8 Vantage all it was cracked up to be?
I think I'm going to have to say yes (it was the new V12 Vantage, incidentally - their most powerful engine in their lightest and smallest car). Being used to a Mazda MX-5, I was expecting it to be large and unwieldy, but the car feels surprisingly nimble behind the wheel. And quick. Mind-bendingly, warp-speed quick. As to whether it's worth the sticker price of £135,000 I'm less sure. Never having bought a house, I don't have a good handle on that sort of amount of money - it would certainly buy me a very large number of slightly lesser cars. However, what *is* clear to me is the craftsmanship that goes into making them. I have been to the factory twice now, and the attention to detail in all areas is as impressive as the car is fast.
2) Should I have bought that Austin 3-litre Westminster in 1988, or would I have found myself with a big lemon on my hands?
Well, they appear to be quite spendy now, but I think as with most old Brit cars, unless you had somewhere warm & dry to keep it and barely drove it, it'd mostly be made of rust now. However, my top tip for the future is a Morris Marina or Ital - there's around 250 of each left on british roads and, provided you can convince the seller you're not a Top Gear researcher, they might be a worthwhile investment. ;-)
3) Have you ever thought about getting a Hindustan Ambassador?
Actually, yes. I discovered this website, but in the end, they're quite pricey and I already have a Morris Minor, which isn't far off from their driving experience, I suspect...
4) How long have you been using Macs, and which models have you owned?
First Mac I ever used was a Mac Plus my father bought, probably circa 1986, for some ridiculous amount of money - it included a whopping 20MB external hard disk and Imagewriter II dot matrix printer. Whiled away many happy hours with Macpaint, until I discovered games like Crystal Quest and the Dark Castle series...
When he upgraded, I inherited that, and that pattern continued for a while - my next was an LC, then Performa 630, then Power Mac 8600/200, which was my first one bought new for me. Then followed the original Bondi iMac, Powerbook 2400c/180 (only available in the US and Japan, so I bought it while working in the states in '98). Then a Powerbook G3 Pismo. Finally, iMac G4 anglepoise cast off from work, followed by 13" aluminium Macbook and 24" aluminium iMac, which are my current machines. This doesn't include the castoffs I've picked up in the meantime for collecting rather than use as a main machine. You can see those here, on Flickr and a more exhaustive but out of date list on my website. I think that's it. Glad you asked? ;-)
5) Which is your favourite Oxford pub?
That's a tricky one. When I was a student it was always the Radcliffe Arms, which was friendly and had good cheap food. It's since turned into "the Raddy", a football pub with TVs everywhere and no appeal for me any more - though it seems popular. Current favourites are probably the Royal Oak, work's regular pub, and Far From the Madding Crowd, popular among ox.ac.uk geeks.
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12:05 am
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GIP
Thanks, rejs ;-)
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11:50 pm
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Pollage: Part 2
Poll #1506476
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 3In 2010, brrm should: (only viewable by me)
Comments screened, for good measure.
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11:48 pm
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Pollage: part 1
Poll #1506474
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 3In 2010, brrm should: (viewable by all)
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10:46 pm
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Fun Ways to Die in the Next 10 Years
First of all, a very happy new year to y'all.
Secondly, Travis Pastrana jumps a WRC Car 250ft: Youtube link.
Not much margin for error in the runoff lane, I must say...
Tags: funwaystodie
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09:11 pm
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Gadgetry
It struck me this evening that this decade has seen the popularisation of quite a number of gadgets now indispensable to many:- the smartphone, the mp3 player, the digital camera (SLR and compact), portable Satellite Navigation units. Have I missed any?
The 1990s saw sensibly-sized laptop computers, mobile phones and DVDs take off, but I'm struggling to think of others.
What's in store for 2010-2020? The above functions are converging into one device, the smartphone, which more and more people will have. But what new devices will we see?
Gaze into your crystal ball and make your predictions in a comment!
Tags: tech
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05:15 pm
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Happy Thing
A very happy Christmas or nearest-equivalent to all!
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06:49 pm
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Fun ways to die
Fun ways to die: photographing a drag race. Yow.
Tags: funwaystodie
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05:58 pm
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Ansel Adams' Lost LA
A collection of photos of 1940s LA by Ansel Adams, recently unearthed.
"I don't recall what I was searching for when I came across the Ansel Adams photographs of Los Angeles at the beginning of World War II..."
Via Kottke.
Tags: photography
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08:44 am
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Noughty noughty, very noughty
Like all good ideas, this one is stolen (hi Jon!).
So:
What is the best album of the 2000s?
The best film?
Pick a couple if you can't decide/if you think there are some worthy mentions.
Tags: film, music
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12:47 pm
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Toys
Where were toys like the Casio EX-F1 when I was a kid, eh? (Ignoring the price tag for a moment):
Slow motion Youtube video of toy cars being blown up
In other news, I went to the West Oxfordshire Shooting School this weekend with some people from work. Great and pretty affordable fun. Kablam!
Photos here. Apologies to those who already saw this on Facebook.
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