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Hell, is it even possible to travel by sea anymore in something that isn't a luxury liner disigned for vacations? I'd love to travel by ship (at least one way) for my bi-annual-must-visit-the-parents-in-New-York trip from London.


-Colin

Just curious, but do you have a source for that opinion of Twain's?


-Colin

And so the sun sets on a great nation. Farewell Japan, I will miss your innovation after you finish building this device.


-Colin

I saw one of these at a cemetary in London. Just one on its own was interesting and poignant, but I couldn't imagine a whole plot full of them -- I'd feel like I was in an electronics store.

That being said, I know that in Nunhead Cemetery there is a section where people have their photograph included on the tombstone. It's very unsettling to look at all the old people looking back at you. This is just the next step.


-Colin

Grandparent: If it is possible to become 'invincible' in the game, its not the fault of the person who used it, its the fault of the gaming company for allowing it to happen.

Parent: Same logic: If I stab someone, it's not MY fault, it's the fault of the government for not outlawing knives.

No, it's God's fault for making people who want to stab people.


-Colin

Watch, Watch the 17th of March.

Only Jean Luc Picard could pull that off.


-Colin

The spokesperson, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, denied that the delay had anything to do with the movie's subject matter or the current political climate.

I'm not buying it that a movie about terrorism in London just happens to get delayed at this time.

-Colin

Twinkle twinkle little star
V = I x R

Splishy splashy in the sea
P = I x V

It got me through many a physics class and come September I'll be teaching it to my students. They'll think it's lame, just as I did, but they'll remember.

-Colin

In the case of Lion vs Some Stupid Kid, I find in favor of the lion. Case dismissed.

-Colin

This is NOT the time for (deliberately) anomalous behaviour on public transit.

OK. We'll have everyone sit on their asses doing nothing interesting until when it IS the time. How long should we wait? One month? A year? Five years?

-Colin

I keep an online dairy (I also hate the word blog) as a way to keep in touch with friends and let everyone know what I've been up to. I'm terrible at writing letters/emails to people I care about individually but I can manage to write one letter for everyone and make it public so those who are interested can read it.

Why not just email my whole address book? Two reasons: 1) I don't want to presume that they all want to know about what's going on and 2) people whom I've lost contact with can easily find me (which has happened a lot). Admittedly it's a lot less personal that way, but it's a price I'm willing to pay. Also, to my endless suprise, other people are actually interested in the journal and I've made a few friends through it.

-Colin

In grade four, I was lending novels to my teacher, and was surprised at how long it took her to bring them back.

Perhaps that's because a grownup woman has a lot more that needs to get done in a day than an eight-year-old boy.

-Colin

Just curious, but if the internet is the #1 time waster now, what would have been the #1 thirty years ago?

-Colin

I honestly don't see the point of an online diary.

I keep an online dairy (which I have not updated in months, but that's a side story related to work) as a way to keep in touch with friends and let everyone know what I've been up to. I'm terrible at writing letters/emails to people I care about individually but I can manage to write one letter for everyone and make it public so those who are interested can read it.

Why not just email my whole address book? Two reasons: 1) I don't want to presume that they all want to know about what's going on and 2) people whom I've lost contact with can easily find me (which has happened a lot). Admittedly it's a lot less personal that way, but it's a price I'm willing to pay.

-Colin

...So anyone know where London's geek ghetto is? : )

-Colin

Everyone should always assume that anything they post on the internet will be somewhere forever

The problem with that assumption is when things change in your life that you didn't expect. I've been operating under the everything-will-be-on-the-internet-forever model for most of my online life and things have been fine. But recently I've become a teacher. Now there's a lot of stuff I don't care about my friends/family/co-workers reading... but my students? That's a whole other story.

-Colin

A sarcasm detector? Oh that's useful.

-Colin

I guess you haven't checked the exchange rate for the dollar since around the time Bush came into office have you?


-Colin

I have a feeling we will see it again on the front page tomorrow as well.


-Colin

Before you jump to conclusions why not try reading it first?

Because that isn't as fun.


-Colin

A sarcasm detector? Oh that's useful.


-Colin

The UK is known for many things, great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women.

...and for complaining about absolutely everything in a sarcastic manner.


-Colin

"Linus is the devil" gets 0 resuts btw.

Until now.


-Colin

for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy cigarettes, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy alcohol, we shouldn't allow them to go to stores and buy video games

Yes we really should apply the same rules to a (fun) poison and a carcinogen that we do to porn and videogames.


-Colin

So why shouldn't I be allowed to voluntarily enter into a contract that restricts my own speech? Should I not be allowed that freedom?

For the same reason you shouldn't be allowed to enter into a contract that makes you a slave.


-Colin

2.5 million is HUGE numbers. In Haiti thats like a 3rd of the population. I might hate enterprise but Jesus christ give it a break with figures that high. -


-Colin

FoxGoo sounds much better ;)


-Colin

Don't forget that aside from companies choosing to go naked, bloggers are also pulling down their companies pants in public and feeling the repercussions.


-Colin

They could probably use more mirrors for the 22MB movie.

You could do something useful and make a torrent before posting the story to slashdot.


-Colin

I believe in a kind and loving God. Keeping that belief is hard usualy because of the acts of man. Let the flames begin.

Can someone explain to me why religious people seem to think they are some sort of repressed minority?


-Colin

That pretty much sums it up - blogging for a feeling of self importance. Blogging turns people into serious attention whores.

And so what? I'll admit that I'm an attention whore on my own blog (notice the attention whoring link) but I'm not making you click the link and read it. If people have a place to vent their thoughts and feel like they matter, what's the problem?

We need better blogging out there, not more of it!

Well, assuming that the quality of blogs is a bell curve, then more blogs means we get more quality blogs -- they're just harder to find. What I think we really need in a better way of finding the worthwhile blogs.


-Colin

"People don't understand that time is hydraulic," he said, meaning that time spent on the Internet is time taken away from other activities.

Perhaps it's because hydraulic is a stupid word to use in that sentence.


-Colin

From the smeagol-and-gollum-in-the-same-body dept


Err... they are in the same body anyway.


Colin

I'll see your corporate plutocracy and raise you a fascist theocracy.


-Colin

Yawn. I'll be impressed when it's available in esperanto.


-Colin

Non-linkified because I'm going home from work soon and I want to go there sooner.

the affidavit: http://www.rawstory.com/images/pdfs/CC_Affidavit_1 20604.pdf

his website (basically a big rant with a link): http://www.justaflyonthewall.com/

his vote changing program: http://www.justaflyonthewall.com/votefraudprogram. htm

code: http://www.justaflyonthewall.com/VoteFraudCode.zip

That took me to the count of 63 seconds to linkify. That includes 2 previews for the forgotten [BR] tags and removing the spaces you added to the links.

But I trust you fully enjoyed those 63 seconds of quality time at home.


Colin

My idea (and I'm completely serious, I think this would work if it caught on!) is to get people to use IM and chat room clients that check the grammar and spelling of anything they type, and then refuse to transmit anything that's incorrect. People will over time develop impeccable linguistic skills!

It worked for email.


-Colin

They just pimped a new Sony camera that you'll see next month, yet you were being nice... Personally, that doesnt bother me, cause it doesnt feel like advertising.

Now that to me is the worst kind of advertising there is. I live in London (might as well shill my blog in a story like this one) and I take photos for tourists all the time. But if I ever found out that one of them was just trying to expose me to a new product, I'd be very upset. What right does mega-corp have to take advantage of me being a nice guy?

Government Code Collaborative Falls Short

[sarcasm] =-O [/sarcasm]


-Colin

Does anybody else who is under 30 still write in cursive, other than when they made you do it in elementary school?

I'm 23 and I use both print and cursive. I use print for anything that someone else will have to read (very rare) or for things people make me write that I don't really care about (taking notes in class). Cursive is used for things I want to write. For example, all the first drafts of my London Journal are done in cursive in a notebook I always keep on me.


-Colin

In science, an animal is a chimera if the cells throughout the animal are from two different animals. This is accomplished by mixing the zygotes (see the geep). You don't get a chimera through organ transplant.


-Colin

How will this affect evolution?

Not at all since the reproductive cells are not affected.


-Colin

Yesterday I fantasized about a generator of matter... So I fantasize about it at work and what do I see in the Wired News newsletter? 'Any product, any shape, any size -- manufactured on your desktop! The future is the fabricator.' Heh.

So what? You think you're the oracle just because you had an idea that many people had before you and coincidently saw a magazine article about that same idea?


-Colin

Why hasn't anyone mentioned teaching the kids about logic gates?!

Because they are twelve years old.


-Colin

Not only would you have lag over the network, but alsothe lag of the light getting to your eyes : (


-Colin

Well, at least I still have my bobby kennedy pez dispenser.


-Colin

Hey! You there with the pop-up blocker! You're next buddy.


-Colin

It should also be noted that the chick in the middle of this picture is kinda cute.

I dunno, I think I like the chick from Hanson better.


-Colin

Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.

Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?

Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!

Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.


-Colin