July 2011
18 posts
Two cheers
I was excited a couple of months ago when the publishers of Analog Science Fiction and Fact told me they were in the late stages of planning an iPad subscription to the magazine.
It seemed a good forward looking move for such a magazine, and in all honesty, I can’t be arsed to have a dead tree subscription any more.
So I was thrilled yesterday when I checked this page and found that...
Breakfast Review: Burger King
Inedible. The only flavour present was from the floury ghost-like bun. This is not so surprising when you discover that the centimetre thick slab of egg and overflowing bounty of bacon in the picture above the counter actually looked like this:
I know: the food is never the same as the photo, but I expect it to bear some relation. Second cousin, perhaps. Even the one they keep in the attic...
Sweetie Review: Rowntree's Randoms
4/10. The lowest you can score as a sweetie without poisoning me.
It’s always tough launching a new type of sweetie onto the market. You’d think a company as large as Rowntree would decide which sweetie to launch and put their marketing money heavily behind it. Instead they went down the ‘Revels’ route and launched all the sweeties they could think of, packaged together...
YouTube
In the next few days I’m going to embark on a substantial exploration of YouTube. A tool I’ve neglected.
Expect posts.
Uncrispy crisps.
Since I was a boy, Walkers salt and vinegar flavour have been my favourite. now I am, alas, no longer a boy (and worse still, no longer able to shove all manner of goodies into my face safe in the knowledge I would gain not a single ounce) I have to be discerning about my snack foods.
The key is don’t eat them often but make them good when I do. a proper treat. So it’s even more of an imposition...
Here’s hoping Nasa’s spacecraft doesn’t get ‘Marooned Off Vesta’ (a little literary geekism, there. Sorry)
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Book Report
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Philip Pullman’s The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ.
Just finished reading the latest book to download on my iPad. Which leaves me in something of a quandary: Do I talk about the iPad, the iBooks ‘experience’, or the novel itself?
I’ll do the novel today:
Pullman’s latest religion baiting seems to have done the trick, with the...
Swoon!
I’ve long been a fan of Jaguars. Classic Jags. Pre-Ford Jags if you want my real prejudices to show.
I was a fan long before my faithful 5.3L v12 X-JS gave its life for me on the A329 10 years ago. So when I’m browsing on the iPhone for pictures of car dashboards (yes, really) and stuble on pictures like these, I just want to share.
Here: enjoy!
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Off the beaten track
Social media is a funny old bird, in that a network with 1000 people is more than 10x as useful as a network with 100.
It’s about connectivity. Each of those 100 may have 99 connections making 9900 possible paths for comment, recommendation, and so on.
Each of the 1000 have 999 potential links, making a total of 999000 possible connections. A network 100x as complex.
Yet smaller, less...
What you see...
How do you show what you’ve done, when what you’ve done is
a) Not publicly available, or,
b) Being used by others.
Tough call, but clearly this is where I’m falling down at the moment. I feel a digital book coming on. A compilation that will illuminate.
Could have a lot of fun putting it together, too.
