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After the last summary, Ashley Pomeroy called it 'gorgeous', although Collin Forbes wondered how people would react to the summary being referenced in the summary. So in the words of Starship Troopers (apparently) "I'll take the job, until I die, or you find someone better to do it." http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010212/032824.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010212/032862.html http://us.imdb.com/Quotes?0120201 # not there There was quite a lot of talking about films. Simon Wistow posted at length on Battle Royale, a scary Japanese film, and Dave Cross got a DVD player, wasting time on Gladiator, prompting Ashley to talk about Oscars and Ridley Scott's failings as a director. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010212/032835.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010212/032872.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032888.html Clive Murray helped further mutate the ongoing 'getting old' thread into the subject of sneezing and other liberating bodily emissions. Victoria McDonnell pointed out puking doesn't fall into this category. This came back to ob(void) with a reference to a classic 80s game later in the week. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010212/032854.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032886.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/033199.html Chris Heathcote started a thread on programming and the youth of today, asking what they did now languages weren't as exposed as they were on 8-bit computers. Modding existing games, developing web sites and programming with visual and scripting languages (like VB and Python) were all mentioned (see URLs for credits), as, perhaps lightheartedly, were open source OS projects. The thread mutated slightly into a discussion on alien-seeming constructs in languages, like Perl's @$#. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032891.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032895.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032901.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032902.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/033032.html After Arp pointed out the list was quiet, it wasn't. The thread diverged into a discussion on photography, prompted by a photo Celia posted and Chris Heathcote's Lomo camera. Chris Devers posted a handy 'howto do photography', while a parallel discussion figured out why one hack for cheaper, better digital cameras wouldn't work. There was also talk about visual defects and other eyesight based wierdness. http://www.shadowgirl.net/stuff/holloway_sunset_sm.jpg http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032937.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032944.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032957.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/033014.html Meanwhile another part discussed walking around London, disused industrial areas, guidebooks, viewpoints and constrained walks before finally turning into the organisation for a (very enjoyable) impromptu meet. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032925.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032940.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/032958.html Ashley drank too much caffiene and wrote Galloon Bombasour. As a result, we learnt the difference between mass and weight, and that the imperial measure of mass is the slug. Ashley was quite intruigued that this was the apparently interesting bit of his post. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/033045.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/033056.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/033105.html Alex Robinson posted another linkfilled infoburst on curvy guns, which sparked definitions of 'cake and arse party' and a review of books by SAS members. There was also discussion of this week's Grammy awards and their inevitable missing of this year's actual talent. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/033101.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/033126.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/033159.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010219/033154.html There were a few more bits and bats, but I feel I'm running out of space, so on to links 'o the week, from Ashley, Celia and Niklas. http://www.ashleypomeroy.com/ramshoal/index.html http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk/jobs/jobad/0,,-8888103959,00.html http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=95778 Next week: I'll see if I can squeeze in some of the stuff that dropped off the end of this digest. This message has been brought to you by Billie Piper Mail, the letters O, M and G and the number 24. |
