Be Excellent To Each Other

<really, really wants a beer now>

Do you like Guinness?

he was good in Scrooge, but a bit wooden in Star wars.

HAHAHA.

Seriously, I'd love any booze right now. I'm writing a pretend application form.

Me. It looks braw. Please remind me when it happens as I'll inevitably forget

yes!!

I'm watching The Secret Millionaire, and the guy has volunteered for some youth work. There's currently a cocky little ginger* kid is throwing the guy's advice and tutoring back in his face entirely because he drives a shit car (downgraded to a Nissan Sunny for the purpose of the show.) It's hilarious.


*this is definitely relevant.

I've never watched that show just because I'm so cynical that the concept appals me. From what I understand it just seems to be a massively rich person being filmed going around a flicking a few crumbs the way of some poor people in order to feel wonderful.

I was cynical like that to start with, but I've seen the 'millionaire*' on more than one occasion get genuinely emotionally involved in the charity projects in the area. But mostly I watch it to see that there are some other, really nice non-rich people in the world, helping people without asking for anything in return; struggling from day to day to improve others' lives.

You do usually find the millionaire has a completely different attitude from the start of the show to the end.

Can anyone help me identify an old arcade game that I played once years ago?

It was a top down walking about beat em up (Like Gauntlet) and you played the role of a heavy metal type dude with a guitar. You swung the guitar to beat up the bad guys…. Who might have been mummies in the first level, or they might not. I can’t remember.

I think the intro scene saw the band actually playing a song but again, my mind might be playing tricks with me and I might be thinking of Chuck Rock.

Anyone got any ideas?

Yeah my missus has said similar but I'm stubborn and also just use it as an excuse to toddle off upstairs and play on the PC for a bit.

I quite enjoy It when I remeber it is on..

I very rarely watch TV on the TV itself. Non-OnDemand stuff is too inconvenient for me most of the time, so I just use iPlayer/4oD etc.

edit: I can also do other things while I watch them if I do it on my computer, so I don't feel like my time is wasted so much.

I have a shitty attention span due to Things, so I can't commit to sitting down and watching something at [x] o'clock. On demand is great.

I use Sky+ a lot, so I hardly watch a TV program when it is on, as the adverts annoy me..

BBC News Fail - Stories 2 and 3

If anyone has Google Wave invites to give out by the way, I'm happy to kill for one, or whatever.

Did you sign up for an invite?

I would do terrible, terrible things for one.

However I read somewhere that, at this stage, if you're one of today's lucky 100,000 people you don't get any further invites you can use. You can nominate people to receive invites, but they are not guaranteed to be accepted.

Itis a quiet day for me... although i am trying to learn about Teleradiology...

Has anyone else noticed how Half Life 2's Barney looks like a middle aged myp?

Well I don't actually know what myp looks like so now as far as I'm concerned he looks exactly like that, complete with the dead, spooky eyes.

he's not dead, he's just sleeping.

I hate you all.

For comparison.

'I'm sleepy weepy'
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New avatar time.

I don't know what Barney looks like, so if you could post a pic of him for comparison purposes, that would be grand.

So, I'll be doing some recording onto my PC in a few days.
Does anyone know the name of the PC program that turns a digital camera into a web-cam?

Umm, I think only a few digital cameras do that and they provide their own drivers and that? I could be wrong though.

If you've got a camcorder with a firewire port and firewire on your PC, that should just work, it does on the mac anyway.

Yeah, camcorders, soz. There's a handy program I used for this.

[edit]Found it! http://orangeware.com/endusers/webcamdv.html

Hmm, that's for camcorders, which I agree will work (even if you need 3rd party software to do so on the PC).

You said digital cameras

Recorded things are alright for evidence in court, yeah?

There are lots of rules about what you're allowed to film - especially if it's a) off your property and b) drunk polish men.

Um, sometimes.

Basically, I think the cleaner is stealing my stuff.
I want to catch her doing it. If she's just taking food, that's okay, I'll just fire her.
If she's taking money, that's a different matter.

So the film would be taken in my flat.

Pretty sure that's fine isn't it? Seen enough telly programmes where they do exactly that.

A likely story. You're just panicking after inviting Scotch bezzies to your birthday party, aren't you.

Well, no, I'll be there for that.

Now I need a program that picks up movement on the camera and starts recording.

Again I'd suggest the superb SecuritySpy for OS X, if you've got an old mac kicking about.

But ISTR that you don't

You seem to know a great deal about perving security, Kalmar.

ConquerCam will do motion detection on webcams, and is generally a pretty good webcam package.

I've got two, but a USB camcorder.
Actually, I think it does FireWire. I'll dig one out and have a look. Is SecuritySpy free?

[edit]THIRTY QUID FUCK OFF
I think I might follow this, as suggested by Doccy G.

I'd have thought that would be admissable evidence, but La Revanche would be your man for confirmation there.

It would be bloody typical if you weren't allowed to use it where you don't have big signs saying "CCTV IN OPERATION!", mind.

I think it's free for a month. May be enough for your purposes.

Throw a sickie, spray yourself gold and stand in the lounge.

Do any London-ites know of anywhere awesome to go out for drinks and food of a late afternoon/evening anywhere near St James's Park?

Grim...'s flat when he's out?

Just don't eat the food..

St James's Park is good for a kip if you're struggling for somewhere to sleep.

So I've heard.