Ugly old guy 27 Oct 2008 Readers: if you haven’t eaten lately, hover your mouse over the Snowflake avatar to the left. Give it a bit of time and you will see what I look like when I shave. Clicking on it merely takes you to Barcelona Zoo’s page on my avatar. Administrative Humor
Administrative Me-mail 21 May 2011 I hate moving, so the Universe has kindly arranged that I must do it around once per year. Despite having pared my possessions down to a begging bowl, loin cloth, and several thousand books, it is still a royal pain. But the worst aspect of it is that you have… Read More
Biology Around the internets 23 Jul 2009 Razib has a post on a paper in BMC Evolutionary Biology that shows, fairly well, I thought, that Australian aborigines are most closely related to relict populations of indigenous Indian tribes. They are touting this as evidence that the “southern route” from Africa was the one taken by the Australians… Read More
Administrative I’m traveling and moving… again. 6 Dec 2009 So for the next week or so I will be either in New Zealand at a conference or moving to Queensland. I cannot say how much internet I will have at my disposal in that time, so the best I can do is follow the example of Granny Weatherwax: I… Read More
C’mon! There’s nothing funny about a fat old ugly guy? American cartoonists have been having a field day with the current FOUG presidential candidate.
Argh. Barcelona Zoo needs to put their web designer in a cage with an angry predator of some kind. How to make a hideous web UI in 4 easy steps: 1. Confine the entire page to a small area that doesn’t resize. 2. Resize the browser window to fit the page, rather than the other way around. 3. In the tiny content area, present monolithic chunks of text. 4. Use non-standard scrollbars to make scrolling as awkward as possible.
Ah, John, but your avatar matches the tone of your posts so much better than your real picture. 🙂 Still, you’ve added a cool feature to the page.
Ah, John, but your avatar matches the tone of your posts so much better than your real picture. 🙂 Still, you’ve added a cool feature to the page.
That was a cruel and unusual punishment for the unwary amongst your loyal readers. Must remember, never hover over the big ape again :o)
That was a cruel and unusual punishment for the unwary amongst your loyal readers. Must remember, never hover over the big ape again :o)
That was a cruel and unusual punishment for the unwary amongst your loyal readers. Must remember, never hover over the big ape again :o)
That was a cruel and unusual punishment for the unwary amongst your loyal readers. Must remember, never hover over the big ape again :o)
So when someone like Larry riles you enough, instead of turning into a green hulk, you do a shirt-splitting morph into an 800lb gorilla? It’s certainly one way to win a debate.
Love the BOFH stories, by the way. I haven’t come across them before. I’m assuming you could do that sort of thing if you wanted but are basically not ruthless enough. I must have unwittingly offended one of them which is why I’ve been waiting for over a year for an extra 256K RAM which would prevent my work machine taking 10-12 mins to boot up, log on to the network and launch the software I need to use – eg Lotus Notes taking 30 secs to a minute to fully load.
Love the BOFH stories, by the way. I haven’t come across them before. I’m assuming you could do that sort of thing if you wanted but are basically not ruthless enough. I must have unwittingly offended one of them which is why I’ve been waiting for over a year for an extra 256K RAM which would prevent my work machine taking 10-12 mins to boot up, log on to the network and launch the software I need to use – eg Lotus Notes taking 30 secs to a minute to fully load.
And I hope your new image turns out to be the missing link for your first impression during job interviews.
Personally, I also preferred the gorilla. I’m merely giving advice from the 800-pound gorilla in public relations.