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!