Well, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that my personal blog Sunday Funnies continues from strength to strength, the bad news is that I now have independent posting privileges on Skepticlawyer and am not afraid to use them [insert demonic chuckle here].
As a former British tech journo now living in Scotland I have a distressingly broad exposure to UK media so source material is never difficult to find. With this in mind I’ll try to restrain myself and upload only the best one or two cartoons of my personal week on Skepticlawyer. If you have a higher tolerance for my levels of bitter sarcasm feel free to wander across.
You’ll probably notice that I often link to BBC News stories – this is not because I particularly value the Corporation’s objectivity, accuracy or execution but because their site seems to be archived for all eternity which reduces the amount of link-fixing I have to do. I’m also fond of Channel 4 News because they seem to take the news about as seriously as I do. As you’ll probably soon notice, I know absolutely nothing whatsoever about Law though I do have a perverse curiosity about the workings of Parliament.
Also, be warned that I may occasionally blog about disability and/or Assistance Dogs (I was once a proper WRITER, you know…). If you happen to be on Facebook you can’t be Friends with me, only my dog.
The Macquarium I nicked off Flickr … but I do aspire to have one just like it one day. (And a black angelfish, called Sushi).
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And here’s me mistakenly thinking it was an ueber cool retro screensaver…
That’s one cool fish tank!
Hah! Overclockers (geeks who speed up the chips in their computers faster than they were designed) have actually made their PC’s water-cooled, hooking them up to a fish tank to hold the water. Some extremists even have to put dry ice in the fish tank to stop their PCs letting the smoke out.
Somewhere, sometime, at least one of these overclockers must have put fish in one of those aquaria. So… fish in your computer when it’s working… well you could look at it that way… although they wouldn’t be behind glass where the screen used to be.
Only it wouldn’t be a “cool” fish tank… it’d probably suit tropical fish better.
If you have a higher tolerance for my levels of bitter sarcasm feel free to wander across.
You almost make that sound like a bad thing.
I remember when Mac Plus was the latest thing (Wow that makes me old dunnit)
Adrien: I remember when punched paper tape was the standard thing – wasn’t any good for fish, but cats and dogs loved the stuff. And MONITORS were the latest thing we heard about but never saw for years.
Hands up anyone who can remember colouring-in cards in pencil to run programs in BASIC?
DEM@6: Having a sheet of graph paper with squares representing bytes in memory (you had about 128 bytes to play with) which might be data or might be “chip” instructions (i.e. lower than assembler) – in binary. Try doing that with a book of exercises to complete. And you “ran” the program by moving bits of paper around the sheet of graph paper or with pencil and rubber.
And I’ve had to use Hollerith machines.
Having toggled up PDPs 8/10, I qualify as someone from the Elder Days, but not quite from the Iron Age.
Veterans of the analog/digital wars (finishing a couple of years before I started), or like friends, winders of core, or programming with patch panels are free to trump me.
http://xkcd.com/378/