Posts by MyffyW

Someone over there - bare chested and riding a horse, with small man syndrome - may have put him up to it.

Can they protect one's beaver from being goosed by a Canadian*?

[*In the interests of balance I do appreciate that most Canadians are a well behaved lot. And a pair of full height briefs can be had from Marks and Sparks for under a tenner]

Re: Ginger Baboon getting dangerously in on the picture

Maybe they hoped the lightening would be attracted to the hydrochloroquine-quoffing braggard?

Re: How about...

You are ... number 6

In 1945 we sent two brand new jet aircraft to the Moon to check on the cheese rumour. All we got back was Double Gloucester (Meteors).

Re: Remodelling

Is that 5 lbs to LEO, GEO or Lunar NRHO?

To be accurate, Werner von Braun didn't actually murder anyone (as far as I know) but acquiesced in being part of a system that did on a frighteningly efficient and horrendously large scale, sometimes to the direct benefit of the programmes he worked on.

Re: Thought for the day

I dribbled, let's not say any more than that shall we...

Re: Barbie Time!

Personally I was always more of a Sindy kind of girl.

Re: Add to the singing ban

I'm really trying hard not to sing Let It Go

Re: Is this Standard WhatsApp?

Sounds like an upgrade to me.

Apollo 13

I am reminded of the moment where they cobbled together an air filter adapter with gaffer tape, specimen bags and cable ties, thousands of miles from earth. In a leaky tin can.

There is, of course, the danger of us indulging the how difficult can it be school of engineering...

Re: Electric cars

@AC the arguments can be rather polarized, can't they?

Learn from my past mistakes

Under no circumstances can I recommend wiping your arse with wide-carriage Pascal listings. Not only do the perforated holes chafe your, ahem, holes but the damned stuff absolutely fails to flush round the u-bend.

Re: You spin me right round baby, right round, like a record baby...

I've eaten worse...

Re: Fools and their money

Even in the best of times I can always find time to ... ahem ... invest ... in El Reg commentarding

Re: Raining molten iron?

Some kind of hat would be advised.

Re: A lot can happen in 11 months!!

maybe it will have kitted itself out with variable-geometry narcelles and bio-neural circuitry?

Re: LA Science museum

Given the toll in human lives from it's lost sister ships, that is a sound enough injunction.

Re: Black arrow is red and silver?

I once bought a lippy called "Blue Streak" and found there were simply no clothing options that coordinated with it.

That could have been one chilly night out...

Jack's 1st law

Take the total number of likely fatalities and multiply by the average out-of-court settlement. If that number is less than a recall, don't do a recall.

Re: The Apple II was aimed at hobbyists

I think "Catalysed" is the right word - Apple II participated in the reaction but remained itself (largely) unchanged. Apart from all those upgrades.

What are they spending it on?

the web… using mouse… mices… using mice. clicking… double clicking…

the computer screen of course, the keyboard… the… bit that goes on the floor down there…

Re: Ambitious

... and in subsequent missions offer wiper blade and bulb replacements and a 4 for the price of 3 tyre service?

I suppose you could set up an entirely new IP network segregated from what we term "The Internet" and not governed by the United States.

I mean, you could.....

Re: HMRC : Singlehanded incompetent.

@AC I see Amazon's Mechanical Turk is working well.

Re: Um, not sure if he's thought this through

Problem isn't the 2000 year old book per se, it's people brimful of the letter of Christianity and empty of it's spirit.

Re: Well that's embarrassing

Have I read this right, that if you keep your cycle to work scheme below a grand in value (to each employee) you a can avoid the FCA entanglements?

Because I don't know about the beautiful south, but a grand buys quite a lot of bicycle where I live.

Re: Expenses..

@Jellied_Eal Your example is both Artful and Audacious...

Re: Forget the 'Osborne Effect':focus on the "Upton Effect".

There's lots of things to get angry about in the world, but the peripatetic nature of the raspberry pi really isn't one of them.

Re: Galileo?

@Aladdin_Sane That's right - super Ali - go ballistic

What use is silicon without software?

- sealant

- lubrication (but not that kind of lubricant)

- giving ones bust a little lift (a poor use I'll grant you, especially now that saline has been proven)

- As a material for, ahem, toys

I can see I'm tacking far too much into my comfort zone. As you were.

Re: I get an early 1980s home-computer vibe from the picture.

I thought this was a retro computing article. Instead it looks to be far too relevant to my day job so I'm going back to ...... zzzz

I was tempted to wheel out the Adam Smith quote about Joint Stock Companies again, but John Ruskin took possession of me (and very fetching he looked in my floral blue dress):

"now, every fool in Xerox can be in HP, and every fool in HP at Xerox: which you think a lucrative process of exchange – you Fools everywhere"

Re: I though Ethics

I thought he was the onetime sweetheart of Queen Lizzie I