Boing Boing: Ridiculous product - toothbrush with replaceable bristle attachment 
I don’t see what is so ridiculous about it - I used to use a similar product about 5 years ago. It was great! I was really diappointed when Colgate discontinued them.
I’m trying to get some steel channel manufactured - I ordered some through Home Hardware (it was manufactured by Fielders), and when it arrived, not only was it the wrong amount, but one side had a horrible ripple, making it unsuitable for the purpose. The edge that was rippled needs to sit flush up against some timber, and the ripple would have stood out like “dog’s balls” (ironic, considering Home Hardware used a similar quote in an advertising campaign not too long ago). So, I returned the steel, and have been trying to find some other supplier. The guy from Home tells me “It always has a ripple like that,” which I think is a load of shit, considering the other side was perfect. Having done (and taught) sheetmetal fabricating, I know you can get bloody good results. So, I googled for some other suppliers. I’ve heard of TrueLocal (I’m refusing to link to it), which is a plan by News Limited to try and break into the local tradesperson market, and one of the hits came up. Eventually, I went back to this hit, and had a look. The first thing that annoyed me was that I needed to choose my local area. Surely, in the age of the internets, it is possible for a half decent search engine to figure out what my local area is. Google manages to do it well (and not just by pointing me at Google Oz, but also pinpointing where I am to within the state, if not city!). Still, I had to click “SA”, “Adelaide”, “Adelaide - City” before it even gave me a list. And then, what a list! I didn’t recognise most of the names, but was surprised that:
Your search for Sheet Metal Products Manufacturing in ADELAIDE, SA matches 200 businesses.
Wow! I didn’t realise there were so many manufacturers in Adelaide. Let’s have a look at a couple of them:
Okay, they sound fine. But then, a little further down:
Hmm. I suppose they could manufacture sheet metal photo frames. Maybe.
Okay. I’m fairly sure Flash don’t manufacture sheet metal. IIRC, they don’t even make that good of a coffee! Maybe their metal manufacturing plant is out the back. Oh wait, maybe TrueLocal is crap! Oh, and there were other stupid entries, so it wasn’t just like it’s Flash’s fault. Definitely something crazy going on there Mr. Murdoch. And I remember hearing a Podcast about how News Limited is getting ready to take on Google. My money is on the big G.
Boing Boing: If you love that goat so much, why don’t you marry it?
A guy in Sudan was caught having sex with a goat.
Reminds me of the old joke.
I worked for ten years building boats, but do they call me Pepi the boat builder? No. I worked for ten years painting houses, but do they call me Pepi the house painter? No. I worked for ten years fixing cars, but do they call me Pepi the mechanic? No. But you fuck one goat…
My results: I am Spider-Man
You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.
Gravatars are now working well on Blogsome: {$comment->comment_author_email|gravatar:"default":"size":"rating":"border"} This needs to be inside the {foreach} inside comments.html in your template. For example, to use no default image, and limit the size to 40x40 pixels, you’d use: {$comment->comment_author_email|gravatar:"":"40":"":""} Notice the double quotes where the argument is missing, and that (in this version) you actually need to include all of the arguments. This may be fixed at some stage.
#1 Song on This Date in History This is cool: you plug in your birthday, or any other day, and it tells you what the #1 songs were on that day, back until about 1940. On the day I was born:
December 1963 (Oh, What a Night) by The Four Seasons
On Jaq’s day of birth:
Disco Lady by Johnnie Taylor
At least I’ve heard of my birth-song!
With no radio in the car at the moment (I broke the automatic aerial again, and it’s too expensive to justify buying a new one just yet), we tend to put 6 CDs in the stacker, and listen away. At the moment, we have:
I know, I know, it’s a pretty Early 90s set of discs, but, hey… Now, the interesting thing is that we are sick of Frank Bennett already - he did a couple of albums that are covers of modern songs, in a Lounge/Swing style. We must have listened to them too much when we first bought the CDs! The big surprise for me was just how much I love Sheryl Crow.
I remember her being big with Tuesday Night Music Club back when I first started Uni (1993), and I still knew most of the words to most of the songs upon first listen. I tend to over-analyse song lyrics, after listening to too much Paul Kelly and Ben Folds, and people of that ilk, who really pack a lot of meaning into their songs, so this may be a bit over the top, but there’s one aspect of one of Sheryl Crow’s songs that made me look at the whole song a different way.
No One Said It Would Be Easy by Sheryl Crow, from the album Tuesday Night Music Club (1993):
It’s obvious the trouble we’re in,
When your father pulls up in a Mercedes Benz.
He says he just happened to be in the neighbourhood.
But before he leaves he slips the Landlord the rent.
You say, “It’s just a question of eliminating obstacles.”
As you throw your dinner out the kitchen door,
You say, “I know how you try,”
“But honey, let’s eat out tonight.”[Chorus]: No one said it would be easy,
But no one said it’d be this hard.
No one said it would be easy,
No one thought we’d come this far.You can’t seem to ever fold up a shirt.
I bring it up and you think I’m a jerk.
But I think we’re here to stay,
I can’t imagine it any other way.[Chorus]
Sometimes I wonder who he’s picturing,
When he looks at me and smiles.[Chorus]
Oh, and look we’ve come this far.
Without being too anal and looking at the whole song, I’m just going to talk about the chorus. Pretty straightforward:
No one said it would be easy, But no one said it’d be this hard. No one said it would be easy, No one thought we’d come this far.
I originally (probably correctly) thought that the last line had the meaning of:
No one thought we would come this far.
But think about the song, and how the meaning changes if you instead think about it as:
No one thought we had come this far.
Suddenly, the song changes meaning. In some ways, it makes more sense. Instead of it being a statement that “We’ve done better than anyone thought we would,” it becomes “We’ve come too far to quit: no one else thought we were as deep into this relationship as we are. It’s too late to get out now, not without losing too much.” And the final line:
Oh, and look we’ve come this far.
BREITBART.COM - Young Canadians prefer ‘virtual sex’: survey Apparently, around 87% of young Canadians prefer online sex. I just think maybe they aren’t doing it properly offline.
ABC Radio National’s All in the Mind recently broadcast a series of four programs entitled “The Emotional Brain.” Unfortunately, I missed the first two episodes, and they’ve since disappeared from the website, or rather, the MP3s have.
I wouldn’t mind getting hold of the missing two episodes, if anyone has them floating around on their hard disk still… I’ll repeat my mantra that the ABC should keep all of it’s programs available online, for eternity. Storage is cheap.
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