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 More of me in Spanish, and information again 4 Aug 200818 Sep 2017 A blog post by the incredibly multilingual John Wilkins (who knew he spoke French, Portuguese and Spanish? OK, it’s by proxy, but it’s nearly as good as actually speaking it) is now available in Spanish. Gee but he looks like he knows whereof he speaks… Thanks to Eduardo Zugasti for… Read More
General Science Orb spiders 26 Oct 200818 Sep 2017 I love golden orb spiders – they are among the prettiest spiders you will find in Queensland, and the largest [click on the pic for information]. You’ll come across them in the oddest places, too. I once nearly stepped on one on a footpath (sidewalk to non-English speakers) in the… Read More
Administrative Go vote for Grrl 12 Sep 2009 GrrlScientist, who blogs at Living the Scientific Life, is in third place to go to the Antarctic as guest of a tour company’s competition. She’s catching up on second place, which is currently held by a son of Donny Osmond. She needs your vote, so if you have already voted… 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.