If you happen to have a spare $200k lying around, you might like to know that in December this year, Jet Pack International are hoping to begin selling the first production version of their T-73 Personal Jetpack.
Just in time for Christmas!
(via Team Geared Up)
Archive > June 2007
The ultimate toy for boys!
Development Tools
Just curious but of those of you who develop websites (especially those who do it commercially), what tools and packages do you use?
And you think you’ve had a bad day!
Mother Nature can be a cruel and harsh mistress. Here’s the reality of live in the wild, as caught on film. WARNING: if you’re squeamish and like to think of furry animals as being cute an cuddly, don’t watch what follows.
Signed up to Facebook, found out I can’t hide, signed out again. Not before having a quick wander around and finding a stack load of people who I wouldn’t want to know I was on there. Mostly relatives. That is another story, however, and one likely not to get told here.
To the [...]
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What sort of fucking error message is this? Despite my firm conviction that Twitter is, well, pointless, I am beginning to use it more because it’s less mundane and tedious than my average day at my current contract. This morning I was greeted by this error message. All well and good and [...]
The Motorcycle Perils
Aquaasho asked what I meant when I earlier twittered about having had 3 close shaves with death this morning. (It’s nice that someone cares!) For once, they weren’t my down to my incompetence on the bike. They were, in order of happening:
A bus, intending to go straight across the mini-roundabout I was turning [...]
Paradox of hate
A couple of days ago, were were discussing writing CVs. A colleague (let’s call him Dick) was asking whether or not he should include a photo on his CV. I commented that I’d never seen a photo on a CV and would never consider including one. It’s not necessary in our line [...]
Suck on this, squarehead!
Found a video of edited footage from one of the Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War expansions set to “I’ll Meet You In Poland Baby” by Foetus while cruising the YouTube channels. It’s rather splendid.
Unless, of course, you don’t like Foetus.
Or video games.
Movie news
Notice how there hasn’t been much in the way of movie reviews recently? No. Oh well. Perhaps they’re not being missed. Might add some soon.
However, a couple of tidbits of movie news to share. First is the recent reveal of two new aspects of next years Batman film, “The Dark [...]
8 out of 10 rats
Posts and conversations about MMOs and online gaming will be happening less here as I have been taken on as a contributor to the popular MMOG blog “Kill Ten Rats“. (Well, they needed someone to lower the tone!) I know some of you are occasionally interested in that topic so if you want [...]
