Bits & Bobs XII

nickachu · **Posted:** Sat Sep 26, 2009 22:48

Mimi wrote:

[I think it is freshers' week, perhaps? Hopefully it will calm down.

It is freshers week.... well at Brum and Sheffield I know for sure....

It wont calm down for a good few weeks

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

nickachu wrote:

throughsilver wrote:

I hate students.

:(:(

Okay: I hate students at Leeds University or Leeds Metropolitan University. :munkeh:

nickachu · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 1:02

throughsilver wrote:

nickachu wrote:

throughsilver wrote:

I hate students.

:(:(

Okay: I hate students at Leeds University or Leeds Metropolitan University. :munkeh:

Haha... but they do get some good gigs there....

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Mimi wrote:

throughsilver wrote:

I went to the optician's today. It took about ten minutes to walk there. There was so much vomit on the pavement. I hate students.

At least your eyes were not so bad that you couldn't see it - that would have been grim... Really, that sounds horrible though. Strangely, I live in a town that is a student hub, and I have never seen vomit on the floor ?:|

Maybe they have been poisoned by pot noodles

I think it is freshers' week, perhaps? Hopefully it will calm down.

Apols - didn't see this til now. Yeah, it's freshers' week(s). Just have to ride it out til they run out of cash. It's normally bad anyway, but especially so at the moment.

[edit] Just want to clarify: the journey didn't take ten minutes because of the vomit. That'd have been really nasty. Wading through it and all. It's just that I saw so much vom on that ten minute journey.

In other news, The Wildhearts were great tonight. :metul:

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

That's quite alright! I am having an invisible day anyway.

I keep clicking on your little flower to your blog, by the way. It always wants to be clicked on - it's s bright and cheery

My music knowledge is poor, so I am clueless about what I am reading, but I enjoy reading it regardless

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Mimi wrote:

I keep clicking on your little flower to your blog, by the way. It always wants to be clicked on - it's s bright and cheery

My music knowledge is poor, so I am clueless about what I am reading, but I enjoy reading it regardless

Aww, thanks! I keep meaning to write more on it, but am lazy. Do you like that video (most recent post), by the way? Fun, fun stuff. Very friendly - if strange - band too.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

I thought you'd just got hold of the CCTV feed from my flat - it looks like a pretty average day

Actually, it is good fun. I actually clicked towards the end of the video and saw the music section before the little dramatic bit, and I might have disliked it, but I saw puppets so watched from the beginning, and that made it wonderful

I like that your little youtube windows are pink. I've never seen that before. it actually elevates you to the very top of the internet.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Mimi wrote:

I thought you'd just got hold of the CCTV feed from my flat - it looks like a pretty average day

Actually, it is good fun. I actually clicked towards the end of the video and saw the music section before the little dramatic bit, and I might have disliked it, but I saw puppets so watched from the beginning, and that made it wonderful

I saw them perform in front of about seven people, in the cellar of a local pub, the other week. They're mad. But they were rolling round on the floor and dancing energetically, even with so few present. It was nice.

Quote:

I like that your little youtube windows are pink. I've never seen that before. it actually elevates you to the very top of the internet.

You're too kind. I love pink. Partly because it provides such an effective juxtaposition with my usual musical diet of heavy metal, and partly because I just love pink.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:39

Can anyone rewrite this bit for me, please? I'm having brain thunderstorms over it, for some reason.

Quote:

Interests:
Surfing,motorcycling, Rock climbing, Mountain biking. I have also travelled to the Middle East, Far Fast, Europe and the Americas. I sang as a bass in the Cornwall Youth Chamber Choir, and other choirs and have instructed others in first aid, navigation and camp craft as part of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, and have performed as a Morris Dancer.

TIA.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

MaliA wrote:

Can anyone rewrite this bit for me, please? I'm having brain thunderstorms over it, for some reason. TIA.

Quote:

Interests:
newt-tossing, butter surfing, Where's Wally books, goat-herding. I have also travelled to Putney, the Tesco store in Putney, Putney Bridge and Scunthorpe. I dressed as a giraffe in the Cornwall lovers of Putney group, and have excelled at dressing as other long-necked animals including eels, diplodocus and the Loch Ness Monster. I have instructed others in cheese-baiting, leaf-tasting and some really camp crafts including 'straw-craft' and 'making pictures and jewellery out of dry pasta shapes' as part of my community service, and have performed as a body-popping salamander.

Any better?

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:57

You're a diamond, Miims

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 13:02

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 16:32

I've just found someone on True Achievements who's used "walla" instead of voilà. Tickled me, that did.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Mimi wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Can anyone rewrite this bit for me, please? I'm having brain thunderstorms over it, for some reason. TIA.

Quote:

Interests:
newt-tossing, butter surfing, Where's Wally books, goat-herding. I have also travelled to Putney, the Tesco store in Putney, Putney Bridge and Scunthorpe. I dressed as a giraffe in the Cornwall lovers of Putney group, and have excelled at dressing as other long-necked animals including eels, diplodocus and the Loch Ness Monster. I have instructed others in cheese-baiting, leaf-tasting and some really camp crafts including 'straw-craft' and 'making pictures and jewellery out of dry pasta shapes' as part of my community service, and have performed as a body-popping salamander.

Any better?

Solid gold.

Nemmie · **Joined:** 13th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1643

Baby is big Beyonce fan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqA-YGa9 ... popt00us0c

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 19:42

stuck in a hotel in Portsmouth. Now watching xfactor. Can life get better than this?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

KovacsC wrote:

stuck in a hotel in Portsmouth. Now watching xfactor. Can life get better than this?

Go outside and walk down the street shouting "Saints rule".

Please post with results.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 20:06

I doubt it would be good

sdg · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 20:36

superdupergill wrote:

I'm going to a 31st birthday party tonight and the theme is 'rave', so we have to dress in 90's neon style. I have a purple and yellow top witha bright pink visor (the visor part is see through) a bright pink necklace, neon wristbands, neon heart earrings, a glow stick and whistle to wear around my neck and glow bracelets. We have to walk through Saltcoats wearing this to get to the party. This is very much not my style, I hope I don't see anyone I know.

Best. Party. Ever.

It had tons and tons of dancing with everyone trying to pull off the most outrageous dance moves, loads of drinking, excellent outfits and glow sticks everywhere. It also had great conversation, loads of laughs and a wee bit of drama ending with me literally taking a guy by the scruff of the neck and marching him to the front door which I then threw him out of. Excellent stuff. Here's a pic of my visor.

Attachment:

Rave.jpg

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 20:41

need more on the eviction story

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 20:46

I've been enjoying these (maybe not safe for work, I du nno, not seen them all) fashion do's and don'ts.

Also: Harper's Island on in a 18 minutes.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 20:50

Dimrill wrote:

I've just found someone on True Achievements who's used "walla" instead of voilà. Tickled me, that did.

I use "walla" all the time. Not in that context, though.

kalmar · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 20:57

superdupergill wrote:

I'm going to a 31st birthday party tonight and the theme is 'rave', so we have to dress in 90's neon style. I have a purple and yellow top witha bright pink visor (the visor part is see through) a bright pink necklace, neon wristbands, neon heart earrings, a glow stick and whistle to wear around my neck and glow bracelets. We have to walk through Saltcoats wearing this to get to the party. This is very much not my style, I hope I don't see anyone I know.

Best. Party. Ever.

It had tons and tons of dancing with everyone trying to pull off the most outrageous dance moves, loads of drinking, excellent outfits and glow sticks everywhere. It also had great conversation, loads of laughs and a wee bit of drama ending with me literally taking a guy by the scruff of the neck and marching him to the front door which I then threw him out of. Excellent stuff. Here's a pic of my visor.

Attachment:

Rave.jpg

Epic! Jen looks suitably off her face in that pic too

sdg · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 21:15

KovacsC wrote:

need more on the eviction story

It was some drunk guy that no one seemed to really know very well. I had already kicked him out of the gazeebo because all the girls plus a gay guy were out there for a wee while and he kept trying to chat up my sister despite everyone telling him she was married (to Jack69hoops) and her telling him where to go, then he had a go at the gay guy because he found out he was gay and he was being really agressive and getting in the gay guys face. All my friends told me not to make a fuss though because at that point we didn't know who he was so they said if we just warned him then it would give him a chance to behave.

Later on though we were inside dancing and he came barging through everybody and grabbed my cousin around the neck from behind her and pulled her backwards then didn't let her go despite everyone shouting at him, so I grabbed him and dragged him through the house to the front door, opened the door and chucked him out onto the grass. Keeping in mind the fact that my friends had told me to try and be calm, I then very kindly told him that if he wasn't fit to walk I would call him a taxi although he would be waiting outside for it. He had the cheek to then say he'd happily get a taxi if I was going home with him so at that point I lost my patience and shut him out. none of the guys had known about the first instance of him causing trouble because they hadn't been outside so the girls were telling them while I was kicking him out so all the guys thought it was hilarious when I came back in and matter of factly told them that he wouldn't be causing any more trouble

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sun Sep 27, 2009 21:27

awesome,. That made me smile.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:29

Property Law and Practice, Business Law and Practice and Civil Litigation await me, before seeing THE MAN at 2pm and leaving for home at 2.15pm.

Am going to stick my pushbike in the back of the car, and drive to the park and ride where it's free to park, and ride to college.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:37

I am off for a swim now.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:05

Colchester is now safe at night

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10078

Quote:

Dr Insomnia said: “It may sound a bit childish, but we class ourselves as real-life superheroes. We take the law into our own hands, but we do this in a way that is not breaking the law.

Quote:

Dr Insomnia said: “I wear a hood, a long coat

Hoodie terrorist!

NervousPete · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:39

MaliA wrote:

Colchester is now safe at night

Sometimes at night I can hear Colchester screaming out for a saviour...

/stupid-fast-beat-tense-wakkawakka-drums

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:05

I wonder if they have to provide their own pillow case full of door knobs?

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:31

Tiny font (3 pixels high!), for colour LCD monitors:

http://typophile.com/node/61920

The ensuing nerdly argument about who did it first is also entertaining.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:33

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/09/ ... 35738.html

Looks like AP released a memo as news.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:35

And Central Perk is in London, if you liked Friends: http://www.warnertv.com/friends/

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

kalmar wrote:

Tiny font (3 pixels high!), for colour LCD monitors:

http://typophile.com/node/61920

The ensuing nerdly argument about who did it first is also entertaining.

How can you possibly differentiate N, M, and H with 3 pixels?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Craster wrote:

How can you possibly differentiate N, M, and H with 3 pixels?

Take a look. It's very impressive. But don't forget, as long as you are reading English text, your brain will do a decent job of figuring out which letters are which based on context.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Craster wrote:

How can you possibly differentiate N, M, and H with 3 pixels?

Take a look. It's very impressive. But don't forget, as long as you are reading English text, your brain will do a decent job of figuring out which letters are which based on context.

What, you mean actually click the link?!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:45

Craster wrote:

kalmar wrote:

Tiny font (3 pixels high!), for colour LCD monitors:

http://typophile.com/node/61920

The ensuing nerdly argument about who did it first is also entertaining.

How can you possibly differentiate N, M, and H with 3 pixels?

By using the position of each pixel element in relation to each other, the colours used to trick your eye into filling in the blacks and 666 bummed and slaughtered goats.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:46

Myps, if you paint your left bollock red your right bollock green and your cock blue we might be able to make out your tackle.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:45

Attachment:

fav.png

(right click and view that, it's blurry in the preview for some reason)

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

kalmar wrote:

Tiny font (3 pixels high!), for colour LCD monitors:

http://typophile.com/node/61920

The ensuing nerdly argument about who did it first is also entertaining.

OK. I've looked at that, and had a good zoom and things. Am I missing something fundamental, or is it not just impossible for those letters to be 3 pixels high?

Look at 'E' for example. At it's very basic, you need to be able to define the horizontal bars using five pixels of height - on off on off on. I can't see any way that you could possibly not be doing that.

I've attached the letter 'E' from the site, zoomed (not resized). It is quite clearly 5 pixels high - so I don't understand.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:52

Craster wrote:

OK. I've looked at that, and had a good zoom and things. Am I missing something fundamental, or is it not just impossible for those letters to be 3 pixels high?

Look at 'E' for example. At it's very basic, you need to be able to define the horizontal bars using five pixels of height - on off on off on. I can't see any way that you could possibly not be doing that.

I've attached the letter 'E' from the site, zoomed (not resized). It is quite clearly 5 pixels high - so I don't understand.

I think that might be because of the rules of type. I assume a 3px font is defined by the lowercase letters without ascenders or descenders.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Oh. I've invented a 1px font - but only for the full stop.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:54

Yeah, you're right. It's the minimum readable size, then anti-aliased to be more readable.

The 3 pixels high definition is possibly how fontographers define the size, like the height of the body of the lower case letter without ascenders and descenders, or something.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:55

kalmar wrote:

The 3 pixels high definition is possibly how fontographers define the size, like the height of the body of the lower case letter without ascenders and descenders, or something.

GTFO.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:56

Spooky!

myp · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:57

Something to do with ascenders and descenders.

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:58

Ascenders and descenders were first invented by Apple in 1978.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:59

Myps: Something to do with genders and benders.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Craster wrote:

OK. I've looked at that, and had a good zoom and things. Am I missing something fundamental, or is it not just impossible for those letters to be 3 pixels high?

It's using subpixel rendering to cram 9 pixels of information into 3 normal pixels of height. This is why they look coloured when you look closely -- because they are coloured. The E looks blue, for example.

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