Kendrick Curtis

lieutenanth @ 2009-11-10T16:09:00

2009-11-10T16:10:35Z

It's just struck me that Livejournal attempt to charge you for the privilege of blogging, whereas Blogger, if you set up Adsense ads on it, will actually pay you for blogging.

Interesting that both business models work.

lieutenanth @ 2009-11-03T17:26:00

2009-11-03T17:27:36Z

I notice thanks to Nathan Fillion via rhube that Richard Castle's new book Heat Wave is available for pre-order on Amazon.

My head hurts.

(If you're not watching Castle then I recommend that you start.)

In Soviet Russia, bus misses YOU!

2009-10-21T15:15:28Z

(seen here)

lieutenanth @ 2009-09-27T21:39:00

2009-09-27T20:42:56Z

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is wrong - I realize this is a popular trope.

Specifically, cheese straws should be made with self-raising flour, not plain flour, and with roughly grated cheese (50-50 red leicester and strong cheddar works well) nor finely grated cheese. If you do it how he recommends, you end up with oblongs of dense, flat pastry. Do it my [sister's] way, and you get light, fluffy straws with nobbles of melted cheese throughout. Lovely.

cuteness

2009-06-06T13:26:25Z

Baby anteaters!

lieutenanth @ 2009-04-20T10:14:00

2009-04-20T09:12:23Z

Strathclyde Police have 10 Jedi in their number. However, according to the article there are 390,000 Jedi in a UK population of ~65m people, which is an incidence of about 0.5% - Strathclyde Police have 8000 officers, so having only 10 Jedi is 0.125% - clearly, they need to recruit more Jedi to better reflect the people they are policing :)

lieutenanth @ 2009-02-28T12:26:00

2009-02-28T12:27:25Z

I'm not sure which is more worrying - the fact that nuclear-grade duct tape exists or the implication that someone already tried regular duct tape and it wasn't good enough.

lieutenanth @ 2009-02-17T10:49:00

2009-02-17T10:46:51Z

Indict Blair for war crimes. Spread the word.

lieutenanth @ 2009-02-09T12:12:00

2009-02-09T12:14:04Z

Guardian "Bad Science" columnist Ben Goldacre is being threatened with legal action for posting an audioclip from a radio show of, well, basically, a crazy person denying the efficacy and safety of the MMR vaccine.

Hilariously, this comes in the week that it is revealed that Andrew Wakefield faked his MMR-autism trial results in the first place.

Dear authors of the GIMP

2009-02-07T00:52:17Z

Yes, you put in lots of your time for nothing. Well done. Have a cookie. Now sort out the window management in Windows. Opening dialogs *behind* the image and then disallowing them from moving on top is retarded.

lieutenanth @ 2009-01-25T00:00:00

2009-01-25T00:14:21Z

The crash in the value of the pound may help my overseas sales of randomviolence (I've had two so far, ever) - I've raised the price to £20 from £15, but in euros and dollars I can still actually reduce the price a little bit from when I last set them (more than a year ago).

There is a new version - of course, always a new version - now sold in a shiny A3 plastic folder with A3 full-colour maps, photorealistic character art, totally revamped equipment artwork, new missions and a new 2-player campaign. You can see some lo-res artworks here: http://www.randomviolence.net/images/ingame

Intl

2009-01-22T14:39:34Z

Clive Owen versus The Man: this is going to be awesome.

lieutenanth @ 2009-01-08T00:17:00

2009-01-08T00:26:24Z

stackoverflow knows *everything*. Well, everything programming-related. Very impressed!

Rabid

2008-12-26T21:02:05Z

I'm trying to publicize the boardgames / wargames group I go to in Bath on the 1st Saturday of every month (though it's 17th Jan due to the organizers getting married, aw!). If you know anyone who'd be interested, please pass them my details!

The group meets at Hedley Hall, in Oldfield Park: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=hedley+hall+bath&ie=UTF8&ll=51.383995,-2.378798&spn=0.027908,0.077248&z=14&iwloc=A

It's 6pm-9pm, and £5 (though less if more people turn up, so help me get more people to turn up!). If you need transport let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Choir

2008-12-08T11:16:41Z

I'm going to join in with the chorus saying "no Christmas cards, thanks" - though I notice Hannah managed to sneak one in before I got around to this announcement, thank you!

It's not just that they are a bit of a waste of paper, it's also that I'm bone-bastard idle. It's not that I don't love you, I'm just a lazy sod :)

Holy

2008-11-28T20:16:36Z

Vegetarians! I recommend doing this with Cauldron Lincolnshire sausages. It was really nice...

lieutenanth @ 2008-11-12T22:35:00

2008-11-12T22:35:59Z

Vista 64 bit? y/n

lieutenanth @ 2008-11-10T23:11:00

2008-11-10T23:11:28Z

Saau Kyuuute!

JCVD

2008-10-12T11:58:14Z

Oh. My. Why doesn't this have a UK release date???

lieutenanth @ 2008-09-29T22:42:00

2008-09-29T21:43:04Z

Dolphins blow bubble rings. Amazing.

Read

2008-09-16T07:47:33Z

Some book recommendations from my sojourn:

-- The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross, particularly for mysterycult: it's roughly equal measures James Bond, X-Files and the IT Crowd. Yes, you read that right.

-- A Short History Of Islam by Karen Armstrong; it is short indeed at under 200 pages but informative if a bit dry towards the end. Still, if you want a rough overview of where Islam is at and what the historical and philosophical differences are between Sunni and Shiite this is a good, quick read.

-- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell; I can't recommend this highly enough. Alien life is discovered near Alpha Centauri. While the UN dithers, it's the Jesuits who send the first contact mission. It's a sort of heartbreaking suspense flashback mystery thing.

lieutenanth @ 2008-09-02T14:42:00

2008-09-02T13:38:44Z

Now I remember why I dislike FF3... on Mac at least, the tabs are upside down. What kind of interface metaphor is that, exactly?

lieutenanth @ 2008-09-01T10:50:00

2008-09-01T09:47:29Z

Y'know, sometimes even if you do believe that God exists, you might just have to accept that he doesn't like you...

For God so loved the world...

2008-08-24T23:04:38Z

(More here - this one is nice and pithy)

lieutenanth @ 2008-08-24T23:38:00

2008-08-24T22:39:22Z

Pro-life == pro-McMuffin.