Random musings of an unoccupied mind led me to enquire the following: why is stealing a car after evicting it’s present occupants known as carjacking? After all, you don’t “planejack” an aircraft, you hijack it.
The sequitur concerned the derivation of the word hijack. Thanks to the newly revamped (but still pop-up [...]
Archive > August 2006
Bank Holiday Puzzler
The Graphics Card Saga
Because I have little else in my life that’s quite so important.
I wondered what I’d be reduced to playing with my backup graphics card today. It’s a NVidia GeForce 3 Ti 200, with 64Mb of video memory and a DirectX 8 level card. So I checked the stats on some of the games [...]
Reasons Why I Hate Computers #127389
In between going to weddings, getting drunk, sobering up, getting drunk, going on the wagon, not getting drunk, going to the zoo and changing nappies, I decided that changing the PSU on my PC would be A Good Thing ™. Unfortunately I had to find out what PSU meant first but after discovering that [...]
Travelling tips
If you need to travel home by train after a night out on the beers, resist the urge to sit down on as hard as you can and stand instead. Unless you’re particularly skilled, you won’t fall asleep and miss your stop.
Exactly the sort of advice that would have been useful last night and [...]
The Final Countdown
In a little over three hours I shall be unemployed. I can’t help but feel a little smug.
Okay, so I won’t actually be unemployed except in terms of not being on anyone’s payroll nor getting any benefits other than those gained from spending quality time with my family and looking after the hatchling. [...]
Next Gen Console
Already own an XBox 360 but want to broaden your horizons? Not sure whether to hold on for a Playstation 3 or Nintendo Wii?
Perhaps this video will help you make up your mind!
For my next trick!
The post came early yesterday morning. In amongst the usual detritus of loan offers, double glazing promotions and big prize draw entries was an A4 envelope containing the details of another little event I’ve entered. The Original Mountain Marathon, formerly known as the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon (while said company was the primary [...]
Cash also works
From the slightly bendy mind of Warren Ellis comes Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E., now on issue 7. View the first couple of pages here.
Fantastic! Absolutely hysterical.
(via Rossingol)
Theoretical conspiracies
After last weeks terrorist scares and multiple arrests, there has been a variety of cynical and conspiracy-theory ridden posts about the “convenient” timing of these arrests and musings about whether or not there’s some Orwellian (as opposed to Channel Fourian) Big Brother style scheme to subdue and placate the general populous into giving away what [...]
Brokeback Mountain (USA, 2005)
Well it was all very pretty and the acting was great but – and feel free to call me uncouth – I don’t see what the fuss was about. There seems to be a lot of hype about Brokeback Mountain that probably stems from the fact two young Hollywood bucks “get it on”, as [...]
