Landing, stepping, jumping, jump.

[reddragdiva]

• Wikipedia: Sylvanus Stall, H. L. Mencken's Sunday school teacher, who released what may be the first audiobook ... about the perils of masturbation.

• RationalWiki: Food and Drug Administration, 187 Fake Cancer "Cures" Consumers Should Avoid, Bentham Science Publishers.

Froze ourselves to icicles at Walthamstow Winter Wonderland today, but at least Freda had fun. Raar!

If you're ever suffering an excess of joie de vivre or delusions that there is any goodness or hope in the universe, try cleaning a keyboard instead of throwing it away and buying another. Makes ichneumon wasps look like prima facie evidence of a loving God. I wonder if this is what sent Lovecraft over the edge. And it didn't actually fix the keyboard (I suspect a broken trace). We're eBaying a replacement. Next time I KILL IT WITH FIRE.

"PONPONPON" is a virus, but the writer/producer, Yasutaka Nakata, has a proper band, Capsule, of much higher quality. Sort of Japanese Daft Punk. (With a bit of cheese in there. Well, a lot of cheese on the earlier records, which were hipster indie pop.) "Jumper", "World Of Fantasy". "Jumper" is ridiculously good. I'm quite surprised they're all but unknown outside Japan. This sort of thing should do really well in the UK.

Oh, that relentless shiteating grin. Tim Ferguson on Don't Forget Your Toothbrush in 2000. If you looked closely, every word he was actually saying was "Please kill me, for pity's sake. Bullet to base of skull. Take me out. Fuck."

It's always cheering when a new vendor we send data via SFTP says they only support user/password, not public keys, i.e. a fundamental part of SSH since it was invented. Said vendor also demanded a zip file as they couldn't handle it gzipped. I wish I wondered what operating system they are processing this on.

Comments

[gths]

Yeah, well Tim Ferguson has MS now (I guess that's mentioned on his article). Not sure if any of them have retained their edge, Richard has blanded out on ABC Local and Paul is riding the GNW horse to death.

[reddragdiva]

This came up in discussion of whichever of Lano and Woodley it is who the "for pity's sake please kill me" grin has also happened to.

[greylock]

Roy (or is it HG?) has sunk do doing the remake of It's A Knockout.
Just so you know.

[alexbayleaf]

I don't believe you were around the Netizen office the time thorfinn cleaned out one of his keyboards and discovered it was full of pubic hair and feathers?

[reddragdiva]

I heard about it. Strong evidence in favour of the KILL IT WITH FIRE theory.

[hellsop]

Do Model M keyboards still face replacement rather than cleaning?

[reddragdiva]

Probably worth dealing with Cthulhu. Membrane keyboards are a different kettle of shite.

Hell no.

[hennes]

My model M will stay in use until it falls apart. And it gets at least a yearly cleaning.

keyboard cleaning

[spz]

You have a small child, I'd expect you to be immune to being grossed out by a bit of dirt. :-)

I cleaned my Mac Pro keyboard last weekend (the one with the transparent case) because it was a bit grubby, it's all shiny like new now.
It didn't contain worse stuff than amazing quantities of cat hair, though.

Re: keyboard cleaning

[reddragdiva]

Keyboard: dirty. Small child: dirty. Small child's keyboard ...

Re: keyboard cleaning

[spz]

.. needs a vacation in the dishwasher once a week

I've bought myself one of these cheap watertight floppy keyboards for fun (and as a emergency keyboard for the tablet). Something like these, but child hand sized, would probably be perfect if it exists.
Note that typing on my toy keyboard if it doesn't lie flat on a rigid surface doesn't work particularly well.

Re: keyboard cleaning

[reddragdiva]

They are cheap and floppy, but they are NOT watertight. We got caught by that too. (The kid's previous keyboard was one of those.)