Pete_the_Viscous

I don't know about favorite, but I think Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here is pretty good.

I'll drink to that -- especially if I get to do it in low gravity. That'd be great. As for terrorism: I don't see that any way I behave can change they way those people think. Short of my behavious paying a short, sharp visit to their head and bringing their thinking to an abrupt halt, of course. As this is not going to happen, however...

Mind you, if it were any longer, it should really just be called "work". The idea is that one gets a taste of what it's like, [cynicism]probably to scare people for some reason[/cynicism].

Hear, hear. I went to the computer control dept. of a big medicine company (GSK, to anyone who knows of it), and was sat for about 4 days doing nothing. The thing is, if a business isn't geared up to have work experience people come, then they just get in the way and slow things down. At least, this is my understanding of it.

Now, I'm not entirely sure this can be classed as a one-hit-wonder -- some sites I just looked at gave a big list of other things done by the artist; I did see it on a one-hit-wonder programme once, however. The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown -- Fire. That's a great song.

Going by sellings, it is without a doubt still the Beatles. Going by what people listen to now, it'd be hard to say -- what with people listening to (ill-gotten) MP3s, there's no way to accurately tell who listens to what. (So what I'm saying is that it's not enough now to go by how many CDs/records have been sold). About Tupac... I have a feeling he's more popular in the US than elsewhere. I've only really heard about him on t'internet. The Beatles and Elvis were hugely popular in China, India and Japan, whereas I would imagine that Tupac is less so. On the subject of the Beatles saying that they were bigger than Jesus: takealookatthis. An xbo must have!

Did someone just mention The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy? Good point. It wasn't that it was a bad film -- which it verged upon being. It was just that it was so unlike the other incarnations of HHGG. I read -- actually, I'll get a link to it... here it is. -- a review that just about sums up my own opinion of the movie. Don't let this put you off watching it, though -- you might disagree.

Yeah -- the only thing that puts me off counterstrike is that online I'm up against those guys who play it 25-7. Against people over a LAN it's fine. Haven't done that for years -- haven't done it with Source at all.

Shsssh -- you're not meant to expect it. Yeah, well schools are stupid when it comes to computers. People who haven't any idea when it comes to computers seem the most eager to run the show when it comes to who can do what. It's a shame, but that's how it seems to happen. I bet they're the type to use all the new buzzwords, too.

I actually meant that there would be swarms of the little blighters all trying to get in, and that it would be an almost impossible challenge to get rid of them. Your interpretation sounds more fun, however.

Easiest way might be to just turn the lights off at the front of the house. There's something more fun about trying to get rid of them by other means, though... Know the scene in Starship Troopers where all the aliens are attacking the fort thing? Kinda like that.

It's like all those accident claim adverts that sprang up a while ago. Scratches don't just appear of their own accord: there has to be something doing the scratching. To paraphrase Bubsa from another topic, common sense should be exercised when dealing with something like this.

I have yet to do so. I don't plan on it; if I can, as Mercifull said, get an actual CD, then that's what I'd do. If there's something I can't find anywhere else -- as unlikely as that would be, then I'd have nothing against using iTunes to get it, I suppose.

It depends on how long for, but I usually don't bother locking the back door -- it's a small town, and I just can't see someone breaking in. The front door has a yale lock, so I don't have to worry about that.

Probably so that you and I can feel superior :). I'll tell you what I would like to try: one of those projected keyboards I saw on a gadget programme. Shines a picture of a keyboard onto a surface, onto which you type.

The only mnemonic that stuck in my head for that was: Some Of Her Cats Are Happy, The Others Aren't I don't know why. It was just one of several written on a poster in a maths room. Anyway, I used to have a huge mental block about what to do with all that business -- glad I got that out of the way.

The keyboard on which I'm typing this is from... (checks label) 1985. That's older than me. It hasn't stopped working yet and I don't want to risk making it do so by cleaning it any more than necessary. That's the sort of thing I'm talking about. Such a great keyboard. The only thing that stops me from painting over the key-caps so that only worthy people can use it is... well, two things: one, that I might forget where the h key is -- which would be disasterous -- and not wanting to deface such a great keyboard. Saying all that, though, I have cleaned it fairly recently, and will continue to do so when it needs it -- if it's survived 20 years of button-mashing, I think it can handle a bit of a rub down every now and then.

If you ask me, it's the work of a vengeful god! Repent, sinners. Bubsa, respect yes, fear no: nature is, on account of being natural, like, everywhere -- it's not healthy to live in fear constantly.

Something about that screams difficulty at me. It looks like he's using nice, grippy rubber tyres there, which of course he'd have to, lest the square wheel slip slightly out of place and cause it all to go wrong. Anyway, the normal contact force between wheels and track is going to change direction all the time, which is going to make it a weird, lurchy ride. With a round wheel the bike is always pushing down on the ground, and the ground up on the bike; with this, the bike pushes... all kinds of crazy directions like "left" and "right" and so does the track. The effect of that would be that, anywhere other than at the bottom or top of the round bits, the bike would be being pushed backwards or forwards. ...Then again, if the wheels are -- and it looks as thought they might be -- big enough to touch both sides of the "valley" parts then it wouldn't matter quite so much.... I'll shut up now. Probably I'm wrong, anyway.

I heard a nice tribute to him on the radio today. It was at the end of a Dead Ringers thing -- one of them did his mispronunciation speech thing, having adapted it into a tribute to him.

Yeah, that was an amasing thing about him and Ronnie Corbett: the way they could speak like that the whole time. I can hardly read some of those things aloud, let alone remember them correctly.

What a shame. He was great. So doff your cap I pray......

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The last film I saw was Cube Zero, prequel to Cube. If anyone out there hasn't seen Cube, watch it right now: it's fantastic. Slight spoiler alert -- don't worry, though, it won't ruin it for you if you have yet to see it. Basically, it's about this futuristic cube prison/dungeon, and how a group of people try to get out of it. The thing itself is a giant cube shaped structure -- think giant rubik's cube -- made of little cube shaped rooms. Each room has a door/hatch in each of the walls, the floor and the ceiling. A large number of the rooms are also trapped. The prisoners wake up scattered around the cube, and start trying doors -- each door leads to the adjacent room -- and of course some of them walk unknowlingly into rooms that are trapped. A group of them meet up and try to escape together, throwing their boots into rooms to test whether or not they're trapped. It's pretty bloody, but, though it's classed as a horror film, I wouldn't say it's at all scary. One of the interesting things about the film is that a lot of characters die. I didn't guess which character was going to be the one that survived -- I could tell it was going to end up with just one of them alive, however -- until pretty near the end. It's rather like a good old fashioned "character death real"* game, such as Nethack, where everything seems much more dangerous than usual. Anyway, I really recomend it to anyone wanting something fun/exciting to watch. Wow, I just noticed that there's another film, Cube 2: Hypercube. I'd better watch that. It was made in between the two I've mentioned... *one can save the game, but if the character dies, the save is wiped. Makes things much more interesting and intense.

They look like capers to me.