Sean’s joined us in the 21st century, and got himself a blog. Go read it, he’s a smart guy, a good friend, and he linked to my embarrassingly-wrong prediction about the iPhone. I think it was probably out of pity.
After scanning and posing the previous one, Mica asked me to post this one. It’s one of those things that have been translated from Japanese to English via Estonian, Gaelic and Martian… and by far the funniest I’ve seen. It’s on the back of a box containing a flying toy called “Spaceman: Amused!” (or “Amused Spaceman”, depending on which side of the box you read). It seems to be part of a set of figures: this kind of silvery spaceman thing, and Batman.
This will appeal to people who enjoy putting witty and/or pithy sayings into their IM status messages. I still haven’t figured out the real use for Twitter, but the website sure is pretty. Join in the Web 2.0 compliant fun, gentle reader – perhaps you can tell me what it’s really all about.
I’ve got an iPhone!! And you can have one, too.
It’s apparently “actual size” – if that’s right, it’s smaller than I thought it would be, even after seeing the official measurements on the Apple site. It’s thinner than my first generation iPod (and my Siemens S55 phone), about as wide as the iPod and slightly taller. I could see myself carrying that around. I hope by the time they release it down here, it’ll have HSDPA. Outside of the US, EDGE is so old-skool. I’m waiting on 3 to turn on their HSDPA network in Melbn – I’m looking forward to iChat Video from the tram on the way home from work.
This is brilliant. Melbn has a tunnel that goes under the river and a bunch of land, which joins the traffic jams of the East with those of the West. It cost half a billion dollars, and Transurban, the company operating the tunnel, is suing the construction company because the walls are too thin.
But! Get this. In the very same breath, Transurban is saying the tunnel is completely safe!
Let’s review:
Transurban is suing because the tunnel is not built properly.
Transurban says the tunnel is completely safe.
And the government agrees!
Am I missing something here? How can something that’s not built properly be “entirely safe”?
I’m not sure if this is a global phenomenon, or simply limited to Melbn, but we have people who call themselves “emo”. They, you know, are like totally emotional. At least more so than everyone else, because they’re teenagers and anyone older than 20 (or who does not dress like a goth who dislikes lace) just totally does not understand the weight and depth of their emotions.
Been there, done that.
I have trouble with that word though. “Emo”. How does one pluralise it? One can talk of all those people hanging around the steps of Flinders Street Station, but as soon as there is more than one emo, the spelling gets difficult. So does walking up the stairs without laughing, but I digress.
One might think it’s correctly spelt “emos”, but adding the s makes the o react with the e, shortening it. Em-oss. No good. Unless you’re setting up some kind of Web 2.0 online moss selling site.
It’s certainly not “emo’s” with an apostrophe, because that makes it into a possessive: “the emo’s makeup was obviously purchased from the cheap arse bin at NQR and applied with a trowel”.
So perhaps one should use the “potato rule”, and add an e before the s. Therefore “emoes”. That just looks dumb. Any ideas, gentle readers? Maybe someone ought to ask Emo Phillips. Or Brian Eno.
Full credit to my mate Jason for this one.
Victoria (indeed, much of Australia) is facing a water shortage now. This year is particularly bad, with severe water restrictions in place (no watering of lawns, no car washing, garden watering only twice a week, etc). Jason gave me a great idea on how to keep the garden green: put a bucket in the shower with you. The bucket will collect some of the water that would ordinarily just go down the draiin. Use the water from the bucket to water the garden! Brilliant. We’ll be doing that, starting tomorrow.
I’m quickly remembering why I dislike eBay. Some joker clicked my “Buy it Now” and forged a PayPal email to me, assuming I’d just go and send the iBook over to them in the USA. Sure, not a problem, I’ll just assume this obviously fake email is from PayPal without checking my account myself. Yeeeaaahhh. Reporting it to eBay resulted in another soul-less form letter. I really dislike their customer “assistance” group.
Here’s where the scammer wanted me to send the iBook (suspiciously obscured by clouds on Google Maps ):
Name:Charlotte Palmer
Address: 1304 Galaxie Dr
City:Dothan
State:Alabama
Zipcode:36301
Country:USA
So I’ve had to re-list the iBook. This time, I’m requiring immediate payment if someone clicks “Buy it now”. Let’s see what happens this time.
Well, everyone was saying this was going to happen someday. They’re a couple of decades late though, and they picked an odd target: Wyoming.
Get the scoop from CNN.
