D'you know what's weird...

having a different song in each earphone.

'specially when one's Nyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanyanya(etc) and the other's Paradise city




by the way...

YouTube Player

On June 16th, 2011, YouTube enabled a custom flash player for the original Nyan Cat video that showed an animated mini Nyan Cat flying across the progress bar with a rainbow trail. A screen shot was posted to Reddit^[21] the same day. On 5th of July 2011, YouTube made a global update on video player user interface and to everyone’s disappointment the Nyan Cat custom progress bar was permanently removed.

YouTube’s progress bar ports

Nyan Cat became an inspiration for many theme artists and programmers, who managed to design themes and homebrew modifications featuring this popular meme on a wide range of platforms. Quite remarkable are the efforts made by some developers to recreate YouTube’s progress bar and integrate it to different operating systems as a fancy replacement for some user interface elements. On June 24th, 2011 InstantElevatorMusic (@instantelevator) released Nyan Cat Progress Bar, a modification for Windows default progress bars.^[24]




Also, on 19th of July 2011, Nikos Lykousas (@dummydev) released NyanSliders for jailbroken apple devices, a tweak which aims at replacing any slider in iOS with an animating Nyan Cat leaving rainbow trail, just like the original YouTube progress bar.^[25][26]


(nabbed off http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nyan-cat-pop-tart-cat#fnr17)

overheard conversation of the day:

"... so, when did you realise you were mad?"
"when I woke up married to a pineapple - an ugly pineapple..."

Rememberance

Isn't silence loud.

I've been occupied.

Yep. Anti-capitalist tent dwellers have pitched up on my site.

Ah, well...

Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles on a Thundering Typhoon

Here's some Captain Haddocks:

Tintin was fantastic. Better than the trailer made it look. The animation cleverly makes the characters look real but with Hergé faces (noses in particular), it's got everything you expect from Tintin; action (look out for the dockside cranes and a couple of car-chases...), adventure, humour, Captain Haddock shouting creative insults. I'm not going to tell you too much in case I give the story away but- (as you may know) it combines The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure with elements of The Crab Withe The Golden Claws there are references to the other books too and several characters (even fairly minor ones) are included and faithfully copied from the book. The title sequence is brilliant as is the very beginning of the actual film- Tintin is having his portrait done by an artist in a market; the artist holds up his portrait- it's a proper Hergé Tintin (like the books) it's at this point you realise the pictures pinned on a board in the background are all characters from the book or Hergé-style people at least, then I realised- the artist looks like Hergé, I like that. Other things I liked; Haddock as a Scotsman, Tintin's typewriter collection, Snowy (etc, etc.). I think there's one thing I didn't like Bianca Castafiore (who has an asteroid named after her- 1683 Castafiore) isn't singing The Jewel Song (oh and the 3D wasn't really necessary).

Anyway- Go Watch It - NOW

 

They really should make another one, perhaps based on Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon...



4 of the best Belgian Things

In no particular order

• Tintin
• Poirot
• Smurfs
• Chocolate

I mention this as I'm going to see that new Tintin film later... will it live up to Hergé's brilliance?

I'll tell you tomorrow!

my new favourite band are puppets

It's the Muppet rock band Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem

look 'em up on the you tubes

Today's 'Today' was a good 'Today', today...

This morning's Today on radio 4 was of those funny ones I like: John Humphries was compared to a man who, annoyed, once kicked a piano off stage- apparently John did something similar to a computer; John also introduced a piece on rugby saying something along the lines of "the big rugby news has been England being knocked out of the world cup, but there's been other news- blink and you'd've missed it- Wales WON!" (he seems humourously annoyed at the lack of coverage of welsh rugby"; then there were several jokes in a piece on inventions; and John, interviewing a woman about women in 'the boardroom', asked Sarah Montague her opinion, turning int into a 3-way conversation rather than a simple interview.
what funs!

my new favourite thing:

it has KITT, and a transformer/clown-thing and Yogi Bear and some Mr Men, and, and...

Wünderfull!

I like Google...

It includes this option when doing some google account/profile form thing I did the other day

oooh.

I'm going to enter a cartoonist competion in i, I could get published in a NATIONAL NEWSPAPER!!! (if I win)

There are funny things available on the interwebs...

...like this (from a fun site I just discovered) http://mycardboardlife.com/2010/10/23/bff-application/ It's a sort of friendship application form- you can buy them!! (four quid I think it is, for fifty)

I was sat at the side of the street, reading my paper...

... when a black Vauxhall Vectra (I think) covered in stickers of various cities, and with what looked like a Google Street View camera set-up on top drove past playing Dire Straits, rather loud.

This isn't the one, but it was like it, only I don't think Google was written on it... (and the camera paraphernalia was a bit different...)

Get your money for nothing and your chicks for free (We got to install microwave ovens, Custom kitchen deliveries, We got to move these refrigerators, We got to move these colour T.V.'s etc...)

Sometimes I wonder why I do things.

My dad emailed this to me...

THREE QUESTIONS:

1. 
   
   What was he looking up to find this?


2. 
   
   Why was he?


3. 
   
   And why did he think I would want it?

Just got this response fom the BBC

"Dear Audience MemberReference CAS-609612Thanks for contacting us regarding 'Lark Rise to Candleford' broadcast on BBC One.I understand that you were unhappy with one of the recent storylines in the programme.I am sorry you were disappointed with this. As a publicly-funded broadcaster we serve the whole of the United Kingdom providing programming to a hugely diverse audience with differing tastes and preferences. There will always be some programmes, or aspects of a single programme or storyline, that do not appeal to some people and this is the nature of broadcasting whereby we are serving many different people with many different expectations.We’re guided by the feedback that we receive and to that end I'd like to assure you that I've registered your complaint on our audience log. This is a daily report of audience feedback that's circulated to many BBC staff, including members of the BBC Executive Board, programme makers, channel controllers and other senior managers.The audience logs are seen as important documents that can help shape decisions about future programming and content.Thanks for taking the time to contact us.Finally, I have attached an invitation from BBC Audience Services' Head of Communications & Complaints, asking you to participate in our customer survey. We would welcome your views on our service.Kind RegardsMark RobertsBBC Complaintswww.bbc.co.uk/complaintsNB This is sent from an outgoing account only which is not monitored. You cannot reply to this email address but if necessary please contact us via our webform quoting any case number we provided.__________________________________________Dear Audience MemberThank you for your recent email to the BBC. It is our aim to provide the highest standard of responses to emails we receive. To help us do this, I am writing to ask you to complete a customer satisfaction survey which is being conducted by the research company Ipsos MORI.Your response will help us to judge how your most recent email was handled, so we'd be grateful if you could rate the service you received and the quality of our response. We aren't expecting you to rate the BBC, its output, or any previous contacts you may have had with us. The purpose of this survey is to help us understand the level of service we currently provide when responding to emails and to ensure we achieve the highest possible standards. We may use your individual responses to help in our staff training and performance management.The questionnaire is very straightforward to complete and should take no longer than 5-10 minutes. You can log onto it in two ways, depending upon the email system you are using. You can either click onto the following website address, or paste it into your address bar (where you normally type in a website address). You will be guided through the questionnaire automatically once you have logged into it.Website Address: http://survey2.infocorp.co.uk/webprod/resources/bbcinfo/start.asp?st=5&pass=CAS-609612-2YN6J1Thank you very much for taking the time to assist us.Keith JonesHead of Communications & Complaints, BBC Audience Services______________________________________________________________________This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System.For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________"


so, basically-- they're doing nothing!

from aforementioned booshwiki

"In Nanageddon he [Tony Harrison]is knocked off a flying carpet by Saboo and spends the rest of the episode falling to Earth. It is unknown whether he survived. He hates Saboo he is a 'SLAAAAAAAGGGG' "

this is fun...

The Mighty Boosh Wiki

have just sent this to the BBC

click on it to get biggerer

a picture or two or more, er.. some pictures

oh dear
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oh dear, oh dear
(not only do you get music you get syphilis!)
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charity shops- always at the height of fashion (...*ahem!*)
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Oh hurrah...

...for the pisstaking opportunity that is Simple English Wikipedia

• pie: "A pie is a type of food. Pies are usually baked, and often made in the shape of a circle or an oval. On the outside of a pie there is a sweet or savory crust, and on the inside there is a filling. Pies can be filled with sweet fruit filling, meat, or vegetables. Pie is great for desserts because of its delicious sweetness. Pie is also very delicious with its wide variety of available fillings." http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie
• oval (entire article!) "An oval is a shape. An oval is a figure that looks like an egg.
  An oval can look like an egg or an ellipse. It is not well defined and can describe many different shapes." http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval
• yoghurt "Yoghurt has a lot of protein, calcium, riboflavin, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 in it. It is better for you than milk is." http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoghurt
• owls "Owls are good at looking at things far from its eyes, but it cannot see anything clearly within a few centimeters of their eyes. Owls use small feathers on the beak and the feet that help it feel the prey it catches." http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl

Isn't it funny...

... when the interweb takes you on a Hyperlink Mystery Tour...
todays example:

1. "converted Morris Minor"
   http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=converted+Morris+Minor&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
2. "morris minor on IMDCB"
   http://imcdb.org/vehicle_108619-Morris-Minor-1000-Traveller-1957.html
3. "what's this?"
   
   
   
   
   
   
   "Curse of the Queerwolf"
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   http://imcdb.org/movie_94930-Curse-of-the-Queerwolf.html
4. "what could that be about..?-- Let's google it"
   http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Curse+of+the+Queerwolf&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

• "hmm..."
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094930/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Queerwolf
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094930/usercomments

turns out it's a low-budget 1980's film where someone's bitten by a trensvestite- thus turning them gay... how that works I don't know...

The person to the left is slightly reminding me of my thought process when it's unsupervised. Should I worry?

(now read the comic (from xkcd) then answer)

A funny...

and a random link to a morris minor based thing: http://autopendium.com/vehicles/188-1954-Morris-Minor

my Dad emailed me a comic someone drew

I like it.

Overheard Conversation of the day...

two guys talking to a girl on the bus:

guy1- "are you a lesbian, or a bisexual?"
girl- "I'm a bisexual"
guy2- "thats when you're gay and a lesbian, isn't it?"
mix of many words from guy1 and girl of which the basic point was- "gay and a lesbian? That's the same" and a bit of "wouldn't you have to be a hermaphrodite!"
girl- "It's when you're straight and a lesbian"
guy2- "straight and a lesbian- how does that work?"
girl- "it's called bisexual... ...remember?"
guy2- "oh, um, oh yeah...!"

based on hearing this my brother and I came to the conclusion that hermaphrodites have to be bi.

It struck me whilst walking past some water...

...that whilst I can't swim I know how to, what to do and how it propells me along (I just can't make it work) but if I were to fall into that water would my knowledge of the... the... um "theory" of swimming suddenly sort itself out and stop me drowning?







what if there were sharks?

oh.

nothing, it would appear

that's better!

um....

what does this do?

I don't thing the times right on this thing.

I'll try and sort it- I'm pretty sure it's not 9 in the morning!

What I don't understand is...

... wehre this was going!

hello again.

the library's blocked twitter.
So I'm Blogging.
I have little or nothing to say.
So why am I bothering?
Hard to say really.


ah, well.