10 posts tagged “internet”
Penguin (beret?) with two pistols aiming at both the Windows and the Apple logos, which of course each have arms and legs and are aiming pistols at both the penguin and each other. The penguin should be searing slightly. Large caption above should read either "OS" or “Soft revolution?” Even larger captions underneath this scene should read "Go on, make my day!"
And yes, The subversion of the peaceful trope is intentional. And with luck I could probably sell the idea better than I could sell actual tee-shirts.
Google adverts; using an arbitrary computer program to assign adverts to pages based only on what other pages link to them and the occurrence of certain keywords....
You add one Gay guy to your friends list on Vox and despite the fact you are heterosexual they stick adverts for gay dating services in the bottom of your blog... Dammit, this could lead to awkward questions...
I chose to buy my train ticket to got home for Christmas today. Very foolishly i thought that doing so on line would be easer and less stressfully than simply schlepping all my luggage down to the station tomorrow and asking for a ticket on the next train heading in the right general direction.
After battling with the illogical National Rail Enquires website to find out how to tell it i had a rail-card and stop it charging me full price, it then transfered me, by custom, to the First Great Western Rail website were i had to do the whole proses again. it then declined my card on the basis i once questioned the security of the website and so they had my card on record as being linked to "security concerns".
So i started again from scratch with my other card.
This time i got as far as the button labeled "purchase tickets", which i very foolishly pressed.
First Great western then sent me to Natwest online banking so my bank could check my card was my own as part of their anti-identity theft drive. So i needed to enter my online banking number.
As this is my emergency card i have never used it for online banking, and so had no online banking password for it. hence i had to register order to get a password, which meant the bank could no longer put me back in contact with the first Great Western website except to direct my browser to a screen that said "transaction canceled" so i could not find out if i had actually purchased my tickets or not.
Start all over again....
After another quarter of an hour i got to the "purchase tickets" button again and pressed it, then entered my online banking password which it accepted on the second try.
I then saw my tickets. it had got them and referenced them to me.
Twice.
Despite the fact it said "transaction canceled" the first time, it had in fact charged me for both sets of tickets.
Go to help menu "refunds and canceling tickets." Dispite the name of this page, there is in fact no way to cancle tickets, only an arcane and frustrating refund system.
This helpful page will inform you that although you are in possession of no actual ticket, and dispute the fact the website charged to for a service you did not want nor ask for, they are "here to help".
This must be why they charged me a meer £10 Cancellation fee for the 30 pound ticket that i didn't want but they never-the-less charged me for without at any point saying on their website "you already paid for this, but we wont give you the deatails on how to collect your ticket unless you go thought the whole procedure again, thus buying another ticket as well."
Here are web-comics i like, or at leas all the ones i am prepared to admit to seeing my sister can read this blog.
http://www.rcsitravel.net/Archives.html
Code name Hunter: Odd but fun, picture James Bond but played out in a fantasy land of magic that is hidden in plane sight and policed from London.
http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000001.html
Dinosaur Comics: same artwork ever week, relies on good writing to be funny. Has Easter Eggs Too.
http://legostargalactica.comicgen.com/d/20020825.html
Legostar galatica: A sci-fi epic! In lego! join the crew and thier indestructible red-shirt as they boldly go...somewhere. and cause lots of chaos. Has lego and blatantly mocks Star Trek, 'Wars, and 'Gate as well as Naruto and other Manga. also has occasional crossovers with Irregular webcomic. Occasional swearing.
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20000612.html
Shlock Mercenary: A space-opera with a gelatinous life-form that shoots things, eats things, blows things up, and has a plasma gun that goes "ominous hummmmmmm" as it warms up. Very funny, very violent but non-graphic. very fun.
http://www.xkcd.com/1/
http://www.xkcd.com/123/
Xkcd: geek culture at it's finest. Science jokes, nerdy references, centripetal force, stick-men! black and white! it has it all! ALSO look up "men in hats" a webcomic that explains why the stickman with a hat is evil in this webcomic.
http://www.frozenreality.co.uk/comic/bunny/index.php?id=0
Bunny. Just plain weird. Surreal, welsh and with no plot or continuity really, but hilarious, insightful and deep at the same time.
http://www.angryflower.com/
Bob the Angry Flower: Truly the product of an utterly mad mind, and brillant as such. No continuity, no plot, no Mercy! the characters are Bob, the eponymous angry flower, a sentient plank of wood, and a levitating foetus. Need i say more? Probably not suitable for kids. Or adults for that matter.
http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/digger.php?view=archive&chapter=5028&mpe=1
Digger: One of the best comics on the web ever. Funny, with pop-culture and Pratchett references and excellent footnotes and reader comments. Also surprisingly emotive at times and contains the best working definition of evil you will ever find in a comic. Contains Wombats, and is black and white perfection.
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00001.htm
Freefall: funny, deep, hard-sci-fi in wonderful grey scale (later strips in colour never as good, stick to the grey-scale option) with enough science, humor, emotion and charm to float a boat if not the USS Ronald Regan. A kleptomaniac Alien, a childish robot and a moral Bowman's Wolf try to play their part the the human colonisation of a new world.
http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1.html
http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/cgi-bin/comic.pl?fivelast=1063&theme=6&bytheme=next
Irregular Webcomic: the pride of the interweb. with the the nerdy of nerdy, geeky of geeky. Lego men and role playing models, occasional drawing and tons of photoshop magic combine to produce something funny, political, intelligent, geeky, Australian and brilliant! Roll-playing! Death of insanely overpowered fireballs! the Allosaurus! Cthulhu! Nazi science sneering! A podcast! Genuinly funny and insightful Polls! Not one but two other webcomics run by the same guy (DMM or Dangermouse). It has it all!
Right now 13 people the world over will be reseaving the folowing massage under the same e-mail title as this post.
"I have just done a Tibetan personality test at this website and I am supposed to share the answers with 13 people. Here is the site http://memoriter.net/flash/test.html
Either that or I am not aidan and this is a cunning-as-a-Tibetan-fox spambot sending e-mails to try and get you to click on virus ridden links. Could be either. Use your judgment. My answers are
Horse, tiger, sheep, cow, pig,
Faithful, intelligent, cunning, rich endless,
Kat B, Rob Smith, Kim, My sister Imogen, my step-mum Helen.
13, Friday.
Thanks all.
Aidan."
I think a month away from my usual technology over the course of that dig has killed most of my love for all things computer related and i am now desperately behind on my fanfic and out of practice at computer games. It's not like I have gone out to play in the sunshine either; in the absence of the computer all i do is hide in my room and read, only coming out when food or beer calls to me. So here i am posting in a desperate attempt to remember what this big screen perched on the desk does again. hope to be posting regularly again from now on. have some music on me.
With all original spelling mistakes intact. Major themes include prog, poker (and it's illigitame child texas holdem) Rob's nosensical lecture notes, and general sillyness
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
i want to sleep but i cant! My astma has gone spaz and i sound like darth vader with a nose full of sandpaper!
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
ouch
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
i want to revise but i can't, brain won't let me for some reason.
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
yea
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
ouch
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
my lungs apper to have rebeled and are atempting not a cpoupe as usual, but are protestin g outside all the other majour organs.
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
and i have really weird notes. such as this gem: "bloke from llantrisant set light to jesus, his son. dr price - druid"
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
...
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
i'm copy and pasting that foir prosperity.
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
hahahaahh
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
i think your talking about some saits conversion to chistianity, but that is still fecking genius.
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
no idea why though, these are egyptian funerary notes
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
yea. i know. its the only exam you have soon
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
that coment may have made sence sast week before vikings but dude...
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
now that is just the sighn of a dessised mind.
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
so feel happy!
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
hahahahah
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
yay!!!!11!!!one11eleven
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
stop that!
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
lol
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
funny...
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
http://volcanogeorge.spaces.live.com/
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
gotta love adverts!
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
hahahahaaha
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
i was watching that one earlier
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
i know.
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
tyranosoaurs allen is a ok guy.
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
misunderstood i think
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
i can imagine having a pint with him
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
mind you, he looks like a lightweight
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
stupis extinct Thlid.
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
"oh nose, i've only got little arms..."
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
"feck off lizzard boy, you love the volcano so much you go aqnd amrry him!"
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
lol....7 cans and i am a creative genius!
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
hahahah, no cans and an attempt to avoid revision and i'm sat here trying to play Camel's guitar harmonies
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
o-kay. good luckwith that.
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
hahaha, cheers. much harder than it sounds
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
yea, hence the two word o-kay or uncertan doom
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
at least with certain dookm you know where you are.
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
true
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
speeking of prog, i've got all my Rush on random.
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
had 2112 three times in a row... think its borken.
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
soooo...
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
i can't say i'm getting much work done here. apparently the guys are gonna get a game of poker going soon, i may just go and play a few hands
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
pokier or texas holdem?
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
holdem
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
dammit
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
wuss yquankie poker.
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
lol
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
like the hispanic spelling of yquankie?
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
i've been on tropico again.
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
damn mexicans.....
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
lol...tom clansey gost recon advanced warfighter...
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
fight in mexico city...
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
so on online games, loads of texas running aroung shouting "remeber the alimo dogsbrateat>die-foregner-die111 ect.
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
so fun to see yquankies in a vertual mechecio city
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
lol
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
they make such nice house guessits :-)
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
anyways... okm kl cya round dude.
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
catch you later dude
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
pin some non-poka yquankie game for me!
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
win not pin
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
will do man
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
and remeber... small blind has a sitatistaly small but mentoinabel theroetical advantage.
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
indeed
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
kl.cya man!
Rauðúlfr Steadythews - I have your favourite butane says:
t'ra!
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
adue/
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
well, cya
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
not adue/
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
unless a metoir hist or anyting, but you stoped listening two posts ago... so retrospective good lick. that is to say i am giving you lick now when you are playing, but in the past when you read this.
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
anyway....
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
by the way...., listen to 2112 some time...
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2112_%28song%29
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
Tra'la!
"lupus put the gun down for god's sakes!" BWawawawWAWWAwWAwAHahahahahahahahahahaHAhAHAHHAahahhahaHAhaHahHAhaHAhAHHAHAh!!!!!!!!!!! says:
(you'd think they would make the song 41 seconds longer for symbolic reasons... but still...cya!)
I just found some fun quizzes at this site. http://www.brainfall.com . Apparently I am a cross between Ariel from the little mermaid and Pocahontas (what Disney Princess are you quiz) Stewie and Peter Griffin (family guy quiz) and Jack from 24. The mere thought of such a blasphemous chimera frightens me. But, inspired by this I have decided that when I finally set up my own website it will have a "what character for Watership Down are you" and "what character from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy are you" quiz and poles on other Webcomics.
What do you do to ensure you get a good night's sleep?
Submitted by Jacob's Ladder.
Sleep? Is that the stuff they had before the Internet?
