Be Excellent To Each Other

And the latest on this from last night is that the original person was not just shot but shot 6 times (including 2 head shots) and to break up the demonstration yesterday the police fired rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowds before the curfew (apparently the police had been attacked beforehand) and there is video from various places who were streaming the police of a policeman telling a reporter to get out otherwise he will be shot

Autopsy info :

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/us/mi ... ckage&_r=0

Mmm yes, nothing says peaceful legitimate protest like rioting, looting, and molotov cocktails.

Or as they call it in Redcar, "Christmas"

Just the first name? If it is the full name, that dude's dead.

Maybe we can look forward to the escalating adventures of NotKern in addition to the ongoing hilarity of NotTrooper.

Whole name, and to a Gmail. If I hear anything more, I might introduce Not-kern to Not-trooper for a not-beexmeet.



I could take up Motorcross in his honour and to screw with people's minds, but I don't like motorbikes.

Speaking of which, I got this this morning.

"Hi Neil,

Please give me a call when you are ready, if I will touch base with you next Monday to see how your car search is going.

Kindest regards,
Ben Harris
Car Buying Consultant"

we have a new starter at work who I have been helping to train who is a real space invader. Because he has shown no interest in writing down, making notes or learning any of the things he should be picking up he keeps sliding up alongside me and breathing all over me whilst I work, and it is freaking me out. I'm half upset half pissed off, and had to go to the loo to escape.

Notkern has sold someone a handbag on Ebay. I don't have any to send to the buyer. Think I'm going to have to contact him.

Or post a housebrick with "LOLZ" written on it.

Or a plastic bag with 'Gucci' written on it in felt tip.

I have a guy who keeps using my email address to book Apple Store appointments in LA and Tesla test drives. The shit.

I have a tarred cloth haversack, but I assume Notkern does Confederate so would want a linen one.

I've heard back from Notkern. We do indeed share a name, but I don't think he does motocross.

Tell him you do.

I like to imagine a ten year old Legolas, fresh from getting his daily beating at school, talking to his mother.

"Mommy, why did you call me Legolas? All the other kids tease me and beat me up."
"Well, when you were born our favorite movies were the Lord of the Rings trilogy"
"You named me after a stupid movie person"
"There were books too... We didn't read them"
"Mommy? The other kids are right. You are a daft cunt. "
"Don't use that language in front of your little brother, Iron Man."

Is Legolas American or Glaswegian, he doesn't really seem sure?

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/505354.html

Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Vandalizing Soviet Monuments


love The Joker.

£90 to just "register" so I can get some pre-paid business reply stickers printed? Client's be getting stamps like it's the nineties, yo.

Oh, but you can buy online stamps that you can print on labels BUT YOU HAVE TO POST THEM THE NEXT DAY? Fuck outta here Royal Mail. Time limited stamps just cause I wanted to print them on a nice label? Fuck right off.

What I particularly like, is the online postage printing service for things like Special Delivery and that, where you can do it all through the website but still need to not only visit a post office (which I can understand, as you need to drop the parcel off somewhere) but wait in the queue and see the counter clerk, who will just go through the same process with you to make sure the postage is enough!

Most larger post offices have a fast track queue to accept pre-paid registered/SD items.

And a machine to weigh / pay for your postage without dealing with the queues.

They have the machines in Fareham and its fine until you have to get proof of postage (virtually everything) or are sending something special delivery and then have to join the fast track queue.

The issue is the fast track queue is also the lottery / postal supplies queue so is often just as long as the normal queue :-)

just in case people haven't seen it yet:

guy very lucky in motorbike crash

http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2014/08/ ... ash-video/

There seems to be a lot of hype around the 'new' facebook messaging app, is it as bad as it sounds?

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2 ... taite_ama/

This may interest some of you. Jewel Staite does a Reddit AMA.

I read that as "Jewish State" and thought, I bet that gets a bit heated.

It's bad for me as it is poorly coded and kills my battery life unless I force kill it just after I use it. The facebook app was bad for that, but this is exponentially worse.

I only installed it the other day being pretty new to the whole Facebook thing, I'll keep an eye on my phone and if it's a battery killer it's getting ripped off.

Also known as 'Facebook codes messenger app badly so that people stop messaging and instead have their interactions out in public for extra interaction, dramas and ad potentials.'

Hmmm, the app wasn't running as I hadn't used it since the last reboot of my phone so I launched and then minimised it and it's grabbed 3% of overall battery usage since my last post. That's not great really.

wow, that is bad. I have refused to load it on my phone, as I don't get many messages, and don't want another always on app running (esp if this bad at battery life).

I was put off for a while by the horrendous list of permissions but a few of my mates kept using it to arrange nights out so I'd only know what was happening whenever I went and refreshed the website. Now I've switched onto the Facebook app (which is a shitload more usable than the website on my phone) I'm completely screwed if anyone messages me and I don't have the Messenger app installed (as I understand it).

So, in summary: bollocks.

But it's cool, because Zio's going to fix all this of course.

yes it was the permissions that seem a bit OTT.

Yeah, but you've only read the permissions because of the scaremongering stories. Go look at a sample of other apps, like WhatsApp. Same permissions. Because Android doesn't have granularity of permissions between 'obviously needs this to allow you to take a photo and send it' and ZOMG IT CAN USE MY CAMERA WHENEVER IT WANTS. The wording off the permissions is a bit terrifying, but yeah. It asks for what it needs to be able to do the job it does.

No, it's just because I'm a bit iffy in general of Facebook plundering my phone contact data. The website's fine because it doesn't have access to anything in my Google account but I was always a bit worried about the Facebook app which meant I was looking at the permissions for the Messenger app with the same suspicion. Although I can't remember why I was suspicious of the main Facebook app now. I think I read something years ago about it not being very clear that it was going to harvest your Google contacts and make connections based on that data, or something, which they've probably fixed now anyway.

There is a great system in teh PO near us. You pick up a deli-style ticket by visiting a little electronic terminal which issues you a deli-style ticket according to the service9s) you require. You then take a seat and a screen system filters you into one of a number of queues depending on the sevices most under demand and those that require various amounts of time/expertise to deal with.

I haven't noticed anything awful aboutthe messanger app, and it hasn't affected my battery life. My only complaint is it seems to have increased the number of people sending me messages, and half of them i have no interest in chatting to.

Actually, you aren't, just log into the website from a web browser and you can see them all.

Yeah, that's what I do now. You don't get notifications though if you do that.

Well, yeah, but the context of my comment there was with me having moved to use the app almost exclusively to access Facebook, and that won't tell you about messages as it assumes you've installed the separate Messenger app. To reliably get messages you need to either (a) use the Facebook website for general access or (b) install both the main Facebook app and separate Messenger app.

I have notifications turned off, but the widget lets you know there is a notification, and then you load the app and if it is a message you log into the website. Not ideal, but if the messenger is as bad as people say, then ...

Ooh yeah, I went into one like that in Central London. Expected sending a parcel to take ten minutes or so, actually I was in and out within two minutes.

The Reading one like that does a great second hand ticket trade, as people give up waiting after half an hour and walk out. They have a person on the door to collect their ticket from them and hand it out to a new person who arrives

Scotland! I am in yies!

Where exactly are you?

So we know where to send the gunmen obviously.

He's just come in to get voting rights.