By nemo, on June 7th, 2011
Sometimes lazy bloggers just quote IRC…
<QuantumNinja> if I ever decide to start a queer core band I am making sure to do a tour entirely in katters district
<Screwtape> In *both* pubs!
* Screwtape wonders what kind of core “queer core” is.
* Screwtape checks: grep ‘ard$’ /usr/share/dict/words | sed -e ‘s/$/core/’ | less
Continue reading getting to the core of the matter
By nemo, on March 1st, 2011
Launceston long-distance runner David “Davo” Brelsford will soon be attempting to double-cross his adopted state of Tasmania in an attempt to raise money and public awareness of the deadly Motor Neurone Disease.
The Motor Neurone disease is an incurable disease that basically prevents the muscles from working – including the heart. Some famous people . . . → Read More: Davo Double-Crossing Tasmania For Charity
By nemo, on January 18th, 2011
A friend recently noted he was lacking in cultural awareness of Star Trek:TNG, and so struck up a conversation about what eps should be watched.
And I got thinking about that. I watched all of TNG many years ago, and have long held the view that I wont watch it all again. Just not worth it, too many crap episodes. But there are many good episodes too, and so it solidified a thought I’d had for a while – to compile approximately a season worth of episodes from the 7 seasons produced, that would cover the best that TNG had to offer.
Continue reading TNG: Condensed?
By nemo, on November 10th, 2010
It’s that time of the year. Movember.
Anyone who has ever grown a moustache knows there are some key milestones in its growth, and anyone who has seen Movember come and go before will know that it, too, has its key moments.
But for the uninitiated in the ways of growing and wearing a mo’, here is a handy timetable that I have prepared… Continue reading Movember timetable
By nemo, on August 21st, 2010
It’s time to vote, and as always, voting ‘below the line’ is tricky.
This year a nice website made things easier… https://www.belowtheline.org.au/qld/
So, armed with these links, I decided to mine some data and work out what I call reverse preferences…
“Reverse preferences?” you say – “What’s what?”
…well, I’m glad you asked…
Continue reading preferences in reverse
By nemo, on August 20th, 2010
thanks to recent nautilus (I assume is responsible – as seen in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx) ability to view the iPhones file paths, we can try this (typing this as I go, so this is draft on-the-fly quality notes) Continue reading my experiment in custom iPhone ringtones via linux