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>>> that feeling <<< Simon Wistow wanted to talk about that feeling you get when you know something you've made is just right. You know, the one that's hard to put into words, which makes writing about it difficult. Steve Mynott suggested that "understanding what is going to work and what doesn't particularly comes with experience." http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010827/044708.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010827/044719.html >>> the t word <<< Arp suggested (void) should start up a tshirt company: "It would be a comment on branding." Alex Robinson came up with a new angle, and meta-slogans: http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010827/044743.html Chris Heathcote and Richard St Richard provided instruction on home-printing t-shirts: http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010827/044718.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010827/044760.html >>> spoiling young Minds <<< Simon Batistoni was brought up short by unexpected violence in an Iain M Banks book, and questioned whether art was, in general, too lulling; not dark enough; too escapist. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010827/044716.html Arp talked about the moral nothingness in Bret Easton Ellis' 'American Psycho' and, er, L'Oreal adverts. Because he's worth it. Simon Batistoni couldn't decide whether moral nothingness was more shocking than outright evil. People talked a lot about Iain M Banks' Culture movels. Simon Batistoni came up with a potentially interesting plot for a Culture novel - the story of a renegade member who hacks on Minds. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010903/044795.html There was lots of discussion and even more spoiler space, which Arp satirised. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010903/044868.html Phil Gregory asked if anyone had recommendations for starting points for Iain (M) Banks books. Todd Larason and Ian Malpass offered theirs. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010827/044724.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010903/044899.html >>> tube geekery <<< Steve Mynott posted a link to a site on abandoned tube stations, acknowledging Giles Turnbull's list as the source. Giles pointed towards the Daily Chump weblog for more links. http://www.appleonline.net/pendar/Transport/index.html http://gilest.org/gorjuss.html http://pants.heddley.com/ Arp posted some similar pages from (void) past. http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/holborn.html http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/front.html Someone mentioned the book "London under London" by Richard Trench. It's enjoyable, but the perfectionists among us may find it inaccurate. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010903/044824.html >>> PDA email apps <<< Matt Jones asked about email apps for his PDA, providing a nice summary of what's out there. David Cantrell likes multimail; Giles Turnbull recommended top gun postman for sending and receiving. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010827/044742.html http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/ >>> blogs and journals <<< Robert Jones told us he'd started a blog, and Paul Mison talked about blogs and journals and one of Richard Clamp's Very Useful Hacks (TM). http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010827/044762.html http://www.unixbeard.net/~richardc/lab/journal_to_mail/j2m >>> stones and peaks <<< Collin Forbes sent us pictures of piled rocks, which led to Mike Jarvis mentioning a place called Pike's Peak. Arp asked, "Who is Pike, and why did he get a peak named after him? Isn't that a bit rude? I can imagine his friends asking him how his 'peak' is doing today, and whether it's 'firm'. Or not." http://www.broken-keyboard.com/piled_stones/ >>> hi-tech things <<< Arp sent us a link to a piece he's written about high tech homes. http://www.ashleypomeroy.com/hitech.html Matt Jones normally pays good money for an expression like the one on this woman's face: http://www.ashleypomeroy.com/hitech4.html. Matt is a strange lad. He has a couple of old Laserdiscs pinned up on his wall. Sometimes he takes them down and pretends that they are CDs and he is in the Land of the Giants. People talked about dishwashers and freezers. And phones. A lot. UK and US stats were traded: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html http://www.statistics.gov.uk/products/p5748.asp Arp reflected on the value of MPEG blockiness: "It was quite refreshing to be able to just sit and watch a still image. Television isn't big on still images. It's just bang-bang-bang one image after another, without time to look at things properly." http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010903/044949.html >>> summary <<< Harl got back from travelling. He asked for a summary of the last three month's traffic in less than 80 characters. Simon Wistow responded: "DO NOT MAKE T-SHIRT SLOGANS UP THEY ARE NOT REAL IAIN M BANKS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHED WITH A LOMA SMENA OUT OF MY WAY SMALL LIBERTARIAN" >>> *macintosh* <<< Harl asked how to switch between applications and windows on a Mac, and how to terminate its errant processes. Paul Mison and Alex Robinson responded. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010903/044828.html http://www.zplace.com/crashtips/ People made gags about mouse buttons and ade fucked with our machines: http://stub.org/fuck.sit Harl then asked for our favourite Mac tip. Paul Mison provided the most comprehensive response. I hereby award him with the promised night of passion fruit with Arp. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010903/044892.html People talked about using shortcuts in terminal windows. Should the conventions be determined by the interface of the desktop environment, or the terminal environment to which you're connecting? I don't think we came to a conclusion. Ade told us how to activate URLs in NiftyTelnet ssh. Later, in private correspondence, he revealed that the discovery of this feature had made him fall unconscious. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010903/045069.html >>> gurlpages <<< Arp made procmail burp. Simon Batistoni teasingly suggested he use Mail::Audit (see http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/17/mailfiltering.html). >>> sack me. please. <<< Stuart Wyatt wants to be sacked. Chris Ball encouraged him to "hand in a piece of paper with ':q!' scrawled on in blue felt-tip and walk." Evil Dave reminded him to look after Number One. Matt Jones was Matt Jones. http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010903/045021.html >>> memetastic <<< Simon Wistow posted the Ballmer music video: http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/stuff/ballmer_funk.mov (also at http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ballmer_funk2.mpg) Matt Jones read about one man's campaign to "save Britain's takeaways" in the Metro. Chris Heathcote told us the story was just "ironic" marketing. http://www.saveourtakeaways.com Alex Robinson suggested that we reconsider The Metro's "60 second interview" as a modern classic, and gave us rubbish science to go with our rubbish journalism. http://pix.cloudband.com/alex/metro/metro_60_seconds_dr_fox.jpg http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010903/045044.html Al Snell and Lee Maguire worked as a team (woohoo) to give us QA Confidential. http://www.leisuretown.com/library/qac/. Bob made Paul Mison laugh out loud. http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif >>> uvver stuph <<< (void) b0rked for a while on Thursday, which confused everyone. It was f1xx0r3d by the evening, though - The Great (Void) Outage of Christmas 1999 is yet to be surpassed. Arp re-took some of his photos with his Game Boy Camera, "as an illustration of how different things would look if you were a robot". He watched Buffy or the first time and wondered why the vampires don't just shoot her. And he spent more time at Everything2. http://www.ashleypomeroy.com/contrasts.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010827/044717.html http://slab.org/mailman/private/void/Week-of-Mon-20010903/045034.html Phil Gregory wondered if ability to do surreal irony and vitamin deficiencies are inversely related, and briefly thought that Arp was editing his paragraphs with Photoshop. John Melesky liked the film 'The Thirteenth Warrior', but not because of the cow urine. The admission may have brought him bad karma - later in the week he was robbed at gunpoint. People talked about what's mushroom, and what's non-mushroom. Flapjacks makes Arp strong! Duncan's flatmate has disappeared. Al Snell is changing jobs. Keep Lee Maguire away from RMS. I'm Ed Winchester. |
