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Friday 26 August 2011
Wednesday 24 August 2011
Hokey-Cokey-ism
I am now the proud founder of a religious sect called Hokey-Cokey-ism based on the well-known children's song. I believe that, hidden in the lyrics and accompanying actions, deep truths about the way we live our lives can be found. The words are as follows:
What should be borne in mind is that these are the English lyrics. The American lyrics are lies spread by false prophets.
What meaning you derive from the song is up to you - I don't wish to indoctrinate anyone. However, I think the answer to all life's problems can be found within these seemingly innocuous lyrics.
You put your left leg in
Your left leg out
In, out, in, out,
you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around
That's what it's all about.
Whoa, the hokey cokey!,
Whoa, the hokey cokey!,
Whoa, the hokey cokey!,
Knees bent, arms stretched, rah! rah! rah!
What should be borne in mind is that these are the English lyrics. The American lyrics are lies spread by false prophets.
What meaning you derive from the song is up to you - I don't wish to indoctrinate anyone. However, I think the answer to all life's problems can be found within these seemingly innocuous lyrics.
Sunday 14 August 2011
Rodent Scale
I propose a new measurent of height based on the number and type of rodents that can fit within that height when piled on top of each other. For example:
Small adjustments could be allowed for by adding 'tall' or 'short' e.g. a tall mouse would be 3.5cm and a short rat + a short mouse = 10cm
N.B. Some of these figures have been worked out working out the length ratio to the mouse and then multiplying this by the height of the mouse because I could not find their height but only their length. If any of you happen to have a rodent to hand, please leave a comment with its height so I can add it to the list.
- mouse = 3cm
- rat = 8cm
- rat + mouse = 11cm
- rabbit = 13cm
- rabbit + 2 mice = 19cm
- capybara = 50cm
- ...
Small adjustments could be allowed for by adding 'tall' or 'short' e.g. a tall mouse would be 3.5cm and a short rat + a short mouse = 10cm
N.B. Some of these figures have been worked out working out the length ratio to the mouse and then multiplying this by the height of the mouse because I could not find their height but only their length. If any of you happen to have a rodent to hand, please leave a comment with its height so I can add it to the list.
Thursday 19 May 2011
Of Balloons and Code
You may remember a while back that I wrote about my balloon project. I'll give you a moment to think back... right, let's get started.
Having finished all my Uni work now, I'm left at a mild loose end. So I thought what better time to get started on the I Found A Balloon website?
This was yesterday, and such is my boredom that I have now finished the first stage - the HTML and CSS. You can have a look here.
I decided to try LESS for the CSS code. LESS describes itself as a 'dynamic style sheet language'. Basically, it extends basic CSS with things like variables, operations and functions to make it a more dynamic language. You can take a look on the website for more examples - it's probably easier than me explaining it. It just makes CSS development quicker and more efficient.
I've also used a couple of CSS3 properties which you may or may not notice - border-radius to make the corners round and RGBA values for the semi-transparency. I was hoping to add the balloon and the cloud using the :before and :after pseudo-classes but for some reason that didn't work
So that's the layout and design pretty much done; now for the <sarcasm>fun</sarcasm> bit - PHP.
Someone said this morning that I wasn't a geek until I made a website for fun and then blogged about it, mentioning several geeky things. Here they are:
Having finished all my Uni work now, I'm left at a mild loose end. So I thought what better time to get started on the I Found A Balloon website?
This was yesterday, and such is my boredom that I have now finished the first stage - the HTML and CSS. You can have a look here.
I decided to try LESS for the CSS code. LESS describes itself as a 'dynamic style sheet language'. Basically, it extends basic CSS with things like variables, operations and functions to make it a more dynamic language. You can take a look on the website for more examples - it's probably easier than me explaining it. It just makes CSS development quicker and more efficient.
I've also used a couple of CSS3 properties which you may or may not notice - border-radius to make the corners round and RGBA values for the semi-transparency. I was hoping to add the balloon and the cloud using the :before and :after pseudo-classes but for some reason that didn't work
So that's the layout and design pretty much done; now for the <sarcasm>fun</sarcasm> bit - PHP.
Someone said this morning that I wasn't a geek until I made a website for fun and then blogged about it, mentioning several geeky things. Here they are:
- You were eaten by a grue
- Myst
- C-basic
- 0100001001101001011011100110000101110010011110010010000001001110011101010110110101100010011001010111001001110011
- Cyborgs, pff, what do they know?
Saturday 8 January 2011
Movie Piracy Ad On DVDs
This time I thought I'd talk about something which really annoys me. You know those adverts about movie piracy on the beginning of DVDs? There are a lot of different types but the one I'm specifically thinking of is this one:
One thing which recently struck me, and has annoyed me ever since, is that you only get these adverts on DVDs which you have legitimately bought whereas you would not get them if you pirated them. Ironic, isn't it? So the people who are watching these all the time are not the people it is really aimed at. Now is it just me or does that render the whole thing pointless? It's just a waste of 30 seconds of our lives every time we put a DVD in. And then there's loads of other things on the DVD to get through before you get to watch the bloody thing!
Anyway, there we are, that's what's been annoying me. And remember, children, movie piracy is stealing and it kills fairies and cute fluffy bunnies.
One thing which recently struck me, and has annoyed me ever since, is that you only get these adverts on DVDs which you have legitimately bought whereas you would not get them if you pirated them. Ironic, isn't it? So the people who are watching these all the time are not the people it is really aimed at. Now is it just me or does that render the whole thing pointless? It's just a waste of 30 seconds of our lives every time we put a DVD in. And then there's loads of other things on the DVD to get through before you get to watch the bloody thing!
Anyway, there we are, that's what's been annoying me. And remember, children, movie piracy is stealing and it kills fairies and cute fluffy bunnies.
Monday 27 December 2010
Christmas Is Over
Well that was another Christmas. The season of peace and goodwill to all mankind has nearly finished. This makes me think, 'why can't it always be the season of peace and goodwill to all mankind?'. Why should it stop after Christmas? Let's try and keep peace and goodwill alive all year. Just give it a go for the whole of this next year. We may fail but we can try.
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