Reading time: < 1 min Spotted in the Metro this morning was a piece on space elevators (lifts to those in the UK). Seriously. They would be anchored on a sea bed and carbon nano-nodule cables* would run up through the atmosphere and out into space. Just imagine these great elevators would shuttling people into space, I wonder if they…
Reading time: 2 mins A gentleman who likes soft furnishings admits that he doesn’t understand why people watch sport. Reading that it suddenly struck me how much sport I watch, on TV, and how little I mention it here (I don’t even have a “sport” category for my posts). Sure I comment on the footie now and then, basketball…
Reading time: < 1 min We have a drinks vending machine at work. It spews out hot beverages it claims resemble various types of coffee, americano, expresso, cappuchino and the like. Personally I wonder if a mug of lightly warmed sewage would taste better (not willing to test that theory though…). Thankfully we also have a kettle. We DO have…
Reading time: 2 mins Apparently, this site is one of 14.4 million other similar sites. Presumably, and I’m certain someone far smart than me will be able to formulate this better, of those 14.4 million, only a portion of them can be directly compared to this site. Of that portion, there will be other factors that will set my…
Reading time: < 1 min Ain’t it funny how you are just pootling along, getting things done, ensuring that the six different projects you are working on don’t interefere with each other and basically enjoying your work when BLAM!!! your calendar fills up and four different projects collide on the same few days. Bad planning? Cosmic retribution for past life…
Reading time: 2 mins Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an odd thing for me. I read the books as a child and can still remember both enjoying the original movie and being completely befuddled by it in what was my first experience watching a movie of a book I’d already…