Posts by Anonymous Custard

Re: Sorry...

Well played sir!

GNU TP.

"I mean, what the fuck do you say when confronted with such a situation?"

"Could you pass me the salt please?"

Or perhaps "Ah yes, sausage would work with the dish" (or chipolata if you're feeling mean).

Me, lazy???

For the price they seem to charge for the things (even leaving out the subscription), I'd expect them to come with someone to pedal it for me too...

From what I read elsewhere, that's more or less the issue here.

The nearest US salvage ship capable of trying to hook it back is about 10 days away from it, and the batteries in the transponder won't last that long.

So by the time they get there, the thing will have stopped calling out and it's going to be a basic game of hide and seek at quite a depth. And then the fun comes of actually getting it back on deck.

Re: Age makes one ...

Hell, better be prepared. In a hundred years you will be a goner.

Speak for yourself.

Personally I plan to live forever. So far, so good...

Re: Repairing the cable

It's been covered here before in the Geek's Guide, but a great place to learn about this kind of stuff (and indeed the history of communications generally) is the Museum of Global Communications in Porthcurno in Cornwall.

Spent a very enjoyable day there a few years back, including a short stroll down to the nearby coast to the actual point where the transatlantic cables used to come ashore.

Adding to that the Goonhilly station also reasonably close by, it's a very rewarding place for a short visit (or a longer one, Cornwall is lovely).

Re: I say it's plausible

Having occasionally had to park my car beneath a tree that is the favored haunt of the local flocks, I would have to say it wouldn't take long at all...

Re: What Derek needed to do...

And good deeds never go unpunished...

And the way things are going, they'll be sales of Easter eggs and hot cross buns...

Re: I miss the jokes

And not forgetting the Bamboozle quiz pages on C4, with Bamber Boozler and co.

Re: ALs?

Well they were calling him...

Re: Soooo many examples I could offer here

Of course what the PFY would say regarding senility when they walk in and find you talking to a piece of paper or a coffee mug is probably not worth recording...

Talking to cats or dogs is generally acceptable, at least as long as they don't start replying.

Re: Hedgepr0n

If you did it around here, at least you'd also probably have a fly-tipped sofa to sit on and fridge for your beer to hand in the same undergrowth...

Re: Batteries not required

Have been a business traveler (current COVID and Brexit situations not withstanding) for over 2 decades, and that was one of the first things I ever learned. Whenever I go away, I have a little folder tucked into my laptop bag with very much the list you mention.

And likewise, more than once it's been more than useful in averting delay and disaster.

So an upvote to your wife, which you can of course share.

Re: Obligtory xkcd

@ Normal N - have to totally agree (and thumbs-up).

Any site dumb enough to put a Molly guard on the commonly used default button with a harmless action like opening the door deserves all they get for misoperation of dangerous buttons that are guarded for a reason..

I would ask if people are really that stupid, but I guess manglement and beancounters would also be involved in such a specification, so it would be a rhetorical question.

You get spam adverts for bushes and trees to go behind?

Re: Elementary perhaps

Then you just have to work out which room it was in, and whether it was with the candle stick, the gun or the rope...

Re: The best typos, of course...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm

That one?

Re: a "sudden, unplanned release of a clamp band"

Sounds to me like it had an unexpected gravitational interaction - aka they dropped it...

Re: It can take a remarkably long time to notice that the alert mailer has stopped working.

Oh yes, one of those times when an unexpected silence screams louder than any alarm or siren...

Re: Backroom Boys

And there was Mrs Custard wondering aloud (as such superior beings tend to do) about what to get me for Christmas this year. A most timely recommendation methinks...

Re: An MP today would lose their seat for that

So by this thinking, the House of Lords must be a prison?

At least that seems to be where most of these crooks end up once they get caught too many times to stay in the commons?

Or go to your friendly neighbourhood BOFH and borrow the cattle prod?

Re: The old days

Personally I always preferred type-written for item 2 than hand written.

But that says more about my handwriting legibility than anything else, and could easily introduce another source of unwanted variance and typo's into the mix.

A mate back in the uni days had exactly this. His halls room was quite nearby to the university NMR centre (this was UniNotts in the 90s, where they pioneered the things under Prof Sir Peter Mansfield).

His room was basically a couple of hundred meters from the 6T magnet NMR machine in the building, and he could always tell when they were running at full tilt as both his TV and computer CRT monitor went temporarily screwy and occasionally even needed degausing to remove all the pretty colours that were left behind after some runs.

Never once did he have any issues with floppy disk corruption though, at least that he mentioned to me.

Re: "They docked at the ISS this week."

"Debbie does Houston" ?

"Star Whores" ?

"Deep Space Throat" ?