I have noticed that this blog has been a bit light on images recently. And all words and no images makes things boring, so to keep you going heres a poster of Abby Sciuto from NCIS.
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Archives: February 2010
Schrodinger’s Snow
Feb24
I have a new theory!
R: “You say you have a new theory about the brontosaurus.?“
GN: “errr No. I said I had a new theory! nobody mentioned a brontosaurus.“
R: “Right, Got You… So What’s your theory about the brontosaurus.?“
GN: “Arrrrrggghhhhh!” ::sigh:: “OK, This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end; much, much thicker in the middle; and then thin again at the far end.“
Ignoring that mindless drivel. I have a new theoretical supposition involving the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. (impressive right?)
Let me set the environment for this eureka moment.
- Warm bed.
- Early Morning.
- Work Day.
So there I was all warm and comfortable when my alarm went off telling me it was time (Give or take several hits of the snooze button) to get up and get ready to go to work.
Now the previous evening/night it had been snowing rather heavy and at the time I had last checked before going to bed, the snow was a couple of inches deep. If the snow had continued over night then there would be no way I would be driving to work, so would be working from home. This would mean I could go back to sleep for an extra hour. On the other hand, If the snow had changed to rain then the pre-fallen snow would have been destroyed leaving the roads clear for traffic.
So at this point the availability of an extra hour lie-in is dependent on the situation outside my building. Has the snow blocked me in, or has the snow gone? The only way to determine the quantum state of the snow (Snow or Water) is for the observer (me) getting up and looking outside to observe the current state.
The problem with this is :- If I get out of bed to go check outside, then I am already up and about so any chance of a lie-in is destroyed.
On a side note. I think I need an Network Camera so I can check the conditions outside without leaving my bed.
R: “Pah! I proffered the theory about the brontosaurus.“
GN.
Missing Person: My Muse
Feb23
I would like to report a missing person.
Well to be more accurate I would like to report a missing Anthropomorphic personification of an idea. (Try saying that when your drunk). Basically my muse has gone missing, and I would like to find her again.
Yes, My muse is female. Its my imagination, my story, and I intend to entertain myself. So for you my dear reader to keep up to speed just imagine Selma Hayek as the Muse Serendipity in Dogma, and we are up to speed. “Oh wait a second. Best imagine her naked offering beer!”
I started this Blog many years ago (When it was on LiveJournal) in an attempt to entertain myself in work, and to try and get back into the habit of writing so that I could be more creative and kill the apathy I had got myself into. Which it did help with a lot. Only for the last week, I have had complete writers block on anything to write.
My mind is blank of ideas, which is a scary thought as my brain never ever shuts up. It talks 24/7, if I want it to or not. So for it to go silent on ideas is a bit weird.
So if anyone sees my muse, can you please send her home.
Many Thanks
GN
Poem: Heart of Stone
Feb17
When out we must stay apart,
in case thay see the love in my heart.
I’m always watching from afar,
at night i wish upon a star.
For in our group, i feel alone,
I wish i had a heart of stone.
If only love would die,
and tears i would no longer cry.
If only i did not care,
when beside you he is there.
And i must stay apart – alone,
if only i had a heart of stone.
My heart is dying in my chest,
i no longer know what to do for best.
Why do i love, why do i feel,
how long does a heart take to heal.
I lie at night in the dark alone,
Praying for a heart of stone.
A heart of stone wont break,
and stone will never feel ache.
But i have a motral heart,
that aches when we’re apart.
Alas for being flesh and bone,
why cant i have a heart of stone.
Bloody Small Yappy Dogs!
Feb15
While most of you were spending the weekend celebrating either “Valentines Day” or the “Chinese New Year” I was not celebrating, Not even Wales winning the Rugby could cheer me up. You see I had to get rid of one of my Dogs the weekend.
I have (or Had) Two large Labrador’s, Now being responsible they were not allowed to run about on the roads free. A lot of effort was made to fence up the gates and hedges around the property to prevent them escaping. Anything that could have been done to keep them contained was. And its not even like they were aggressive dogs. They would bark if people came too close to the gate, and at the odd passing dog. But that was all.
Till this Friday.
Some inconsiderate person who lives down the hill from me was taking her two small fluffy yappy dogs for a walk. They were not on leads, or controlled. One of them decided to bark at my dogs, then when mine started barking back, it stuck its head through the fencing on the gate. The woman just stood there and let it, as it barked and snarled at my dogs.
Now One of my dogs, A female so protective of its turf decided it did not like this attack, so grabbed the small yappy dog by its head and pulled it through the small hole in the gate and proceeded to eat it. Now the woman decided to take note, and start screaming murder.
Luckily there was people there to stop the attack and take my dog indoors, leaving the now none yapping dog lying in a pool of its own blood. Now being nice we drove the woman and her dog to the vet, and as a nice gesture even paid the bills.
Unfortunately, now the dog had snapped once and tasted blood as they say, we could not really trust it not to snap again. I know if was not her fault, she was just defending herself and her land. Only we get lots of kids and small children walking past the gate on walks with their parents. and they like to stick their hands through gate to pet dogs. And the thought that one of them may get mauled is not a nice one. So My dog had to go to kennels.
And to top it all the woman who owned the yappy dog is blaming us. Right. My dogs were in an enclosed grounds. hers were wandering the roads unleashed. Hers started barking and pushing their way only my grounds. Hell we paid her vet fee’s and got rid of a family member. And its our fault?
What does she expect if a dog about nine inches tall decides to take on one about three foot tall. She should have had her dogs on leads, or at least under control. Now because of her irresponsible behaviour I loose a dog.
People who want small yappy dogs should be banned from owning dogs for life. There is something not right about them.
You’ll be missed Goldie
Don’t go out tonight, It’s bound to take your life. There’s a bad moon on the rise.
Feb11
Last night I did something I regret, now I am not going to go into the details as to why I did what I did since the reasons are slightly questionable on the legal front. I will only say in my defence I did it to be Helpful and nice to someone else.
“What was it I did?” I hear you ask……………………
I hear you ask……………………
I can wait all day!……………..
R: ::mutter:: “What was it you did? Happy Now“
I watched the film “Twilight – New Moon”.
I have not read the books, So I did not know what the big hype was about. I had seen the first film since I am a fan of the Vampire genre, and did not realise its a teen angst emo mopey pile of depression.
And I have to say, the second film was even worse. I kid you not, after the two hours I was happily considering hanging myself to make the depression go away.
Seriously. at one point they just had the mopey girl sitting in a chair moping as they put month names up on screen to show how long she could keep a good mope up for. And it was infections all the other characters caught it.
At one point they stopped the teen emo angst for an action scene (about two minutes long out of the two hour film) This they then ruined by doing it to a mopey soundtrack.
At one point a friend who had read the books asked on IM what part of the film I was up to, and got the following plot description “The annoying mopey werewolf just told the annoying mopey vampire that the annoying mopey girls dad was organising a funeral“ I think that sums up the whole film nicely.
The film needs a health warning at the start.
WARNING: If you suffer from depression do not watch this film as it contains scenes of a depressing nature which could cause suicide.
GN
a=b; a=b; a=b; ad infinitum
Feb10
I did have a different post that I was planning on writing today. I just figured that what I’m seeing on my Desktop Screens deserved sharing. I’m doing some work on a site, and have copied it to a development area so my work does not affect the live site. Unfortunately the site URL & Document root are hard coded across the site, So before I can start I’m having to fix this.
So I find an include file full of variables. Which is a good way of doing it, since if you make any changes you only need to edit one file. Here’s an example of said file.
$site_name = ”****************;
$site_email = ”****@*******”;
$site_url = ”http://********************/”;
$ip = ***.***.***.***;
$site_path = “/*****/******/*****”;******** to protect customers privacy.
OK. Seems fair right? That’s only a small snippet of set variables There are dozens and dozens of them. Now, every other file on the site starts off with including this variable file. They then go on to reset all the variables in it to the same values. e.g. :-
<?php
require(**included file**);
$site_name = ”****************;
$site_email = ”****@*******”;
$site_url = ”http://********************/”;
$ip = ***.***.***.***;
$site_path = “/*****/******/*****”;
??? WTF ???
Now, I know the original person who built the site did it all at the same time. so that discounts it being an extra file added at a later rebuild, and the variables per file had not yet been removed.
And as for the coding in the rest of the site, Lets just say I have begged to be allowed to rm -Rf * the whole directory and start again from scratch as it will be quicker/better.
It’s this stupid movie. It’s called “Coffins from Hell.”
Feb08
Just a quickie post: The Blog equivalent of a Knee trembler on the fire-escape at the back of a night club. Or if you was a Tiv Regular back in “the good ole days!” then a quick visit to that middle floor seating area.
Hang on… I’ve gone of topic slightly, and to be fair any mention of the Tiv deserves a full blog post for itself. Maybe someday… Right, for now back to “the Big Picture” of this quick post, and the lesson for the week that I wish to impart to you.
One Last tangent: 10 Film Geek Points to anyone who connects the post title to the content. (easy one)
R: “You know for a <quote>Just a quickie post</quote> you have so far “babbled” for 112 words?“
GN: “You actually counted them? Sheeeesh, you have way too much time on your hands!”
R: “Duh!!!! If I did not, I wouldn’t be reading your blog would I?“
GN: “Fair Point. I’ll give you that. Now Back to the story…..“
To tell you the truth, I’ve now forgotten what I was going to post about, “Hey it is a Monday morning. I can be forgiven!” The Big Picture, that was it.
This morning as I drove to work I was stopped on a hill by the car in front of me wishing to turn right, and was waiting for a break in the oncoming traffic or a nice driver to stop and let him cross. We were there for quite a while as a silly amount of cars came past in a constant stream. After about five minutes the driver gave up and drove on, planning on taking a different longer route to where he wanted to go.
Now if he had looked at “The Bigger Picture” or at least ocular mapped the area, he would have realised two important things.
1) The reason there was so much traffic coming down the hill was due to the road works slightly higher up the hill, which were on Red for us, Green for them.
2) If he waited for lights to change he could have turned with no problem.
As it was he drove past his turning and got stuck in the row of cars waiting for the lights to change.
So people, Always look at the big picture. Take that extra few seconds to look outside of your comfort zone. See why things are as they are, and how they affect you. You could end up saving yourself a lot of hassle and problems.
Remember Rome was not built in a day. But with modern technology we could flatten it in minutes. It makes you think!
Sell Out! By Yours Truly
Feb05
Well dear Reader I have a confession to make.
R: “You mean, Your finally going to admit to stealing that Grade 3 listed street sign to give to a girl you liked?“
GN: “errrr. Not that kind of confession!“
The confession I have to make is…. I have finally Sold out. I have had websites for a very long time now, and have never had any advertising, sales, etc. on any of them. And if you consider at one point my main site was getting several thousand individual visitors a week, I had a few requests for such.
Especially on an Insanity Test I wrote way back in 1999(ish) which had people from all over the world sitting it, from general people, military, governments, and so on. Well after finding a FaceBook Fan site dedicated to the test, I decided to sell out. and make a simple logo, and put some items up on a CafePress site for sale.
If nothing else it will add a bit of advertising for when I finish the book I’m working on that’s a collection of Very funny emails sent from people sitting the test and answering questions 138 & 139.
138 Have you ever mailed ‘pen@penddraig.co.uk’?
139 If so did you announce your undying love to this person?
So I apologise now.
Time Waits for No Man. But What if he doesn’t turn up?
Feb03
The Masonic Season starts again this month, And last night I was dutifully at Rehearsals. Well it was needed as everyone moved up a rung on the ladder at the last meeting, and this is the first ceremony we will do in our new positions.
So We all start turning up at the Lodge at 7pm, greet each other and start chatting in little groups while we are waiting.
TIME PASSES
The groups slowly move about as people move to greet and chat with others, catching up with people not seen since the end of last years season.
TIME PASSES
At this point I’m chatting to the Candidate, who has turned up for the start of rehearsal before leaving when we do the bits he can’t yet see. At some point he asks me how long the rehearsal will go on for, as he has to go back to work afterwards. I point out that he can only stay for the start and then he gets to go. So it wont be long after we start.
TIME PASSES
So we’re discussing the age old discussion Linux/Windows/Mac. When he asks what time do we start. I point out we’re just waiting on people then we’ll start. It was only when he asked me who we were waiting for that I realised we were all actually there. It was just no one had noticed, or suggested we start.
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