Jo S. Wun's Blog, page 21

There's a table for that

It seems my previous post, imported from my Wordpress blog, has been stripped of some formatting. There is a table of results in the original but it looks like it's collapsed here, sending the items it was supporting crashing to the floor in a fairly meaningless pile.

If you are interested, the post is a vaguely humorous comment on the UK National Election.

Heads I win, tails you lose

Breaking news…

Party
Seats

Votes Cast

% of Votes




Incumbent
89

2,657,951

28.7


Done it all before
87

3,048,641

32.9


Upstarts
13

1,916,285

20.7


Not worth worrying about
7

150,355

1.6

After the government declared the results, the national elections held in The Republic of Inner Pyjama have been widely derided as a sham. An Incumbent Party spokesperson, when asked to comment on the apparently anomalous results, suggested the result was beyond doubt, saying "the electorate ...

Chickens hit deadlines

I was idly observing a squidgy pile of ready-to-cook chickens when it struck me that there must be an awful lot of chicken feathers floating around. What do they do with them all? There must be billions of them. I know chicken poop is used as fertilizer but what about the feathers?

Hmmm..let's think. We could make things out of them. Here's some possibilities:

DustersPaperFiltersHydrogen fuel tanksBoatsCar partsBiodegradable plastic wrapElectronic circuit boardsAnimal feedFertilizerBiodiesel

Oh ...

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How does he do that?

This guy is simply amazing. My skeptical nature says there has to be another player off camera but it seems he's quite capable of doing it all on his own. Adam DeGraff…stunning.

Hat-tip to Signal vs. Noise

Beasle wacknid obus jaynah

I've spent a few days away from it all. Well perhaps not all, but quite a lot of it anyway. Very nearly disconnected too. That's if you don't count the net access I can sometimes get, out in the wilds, on my trusty old N95. I don't really count it because while, signal permitting, I can usually check my email, the thought of using the keypad to write emails is, well…its ok 4 txt msgs but sumhow it fils r0ng anywer els. Ryt?

While on my travels, I met a man who was quite drunk. Not unusual at F...

If you like 'real' music…

Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean I want to talk about writing or books all the time. And besides, would anyone really want to read about the trials authors face when converting their works from Word Processor produced files (Open Office, in my case) to the HTML files required as source documents for eBook production?

No, I thought not. Wanna listen to some live music instead? Try this…

Ethical considerations behove me to state that the fellow sitting furthest from the camera is the...

Brain Damage beep boop

I seem to be featuring a lot of videos of late. Here's another, although there are no moving pictures in this one – it's about the music. An uncharitable person might say "someone's got too much time on their hands" but I think that would show an ignorance of, or disdain for, how much attention to detail went into making these tracks (the whole album is on YouTube). Game of pong anyone?

Mark Twain on YouTube

Not sure if this post will feed properly from WordPress via RSS, but it's worth a look to see Mr Twain 'waddling' around his house…

Slow, slow, quick-quick slow

There's an article up at New Scientist by Linda Geddes which suggests there is hope for me yet. Apparently, people who are not much good at the tango  are slow-witted  are slow on the uptake have slower connections in their brain, have a tendency to be more creative. It's all to do with the 'integrity' of the white matter in your brain (yeah..I'd only heard of grey matter, too).

Read the full article here or just spend a bit of time pondering this image entitled 'White matter writ large'...