UK Watercooler 16: Barely Legal

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Don't blame me for the title, it was FP's idea.

No F**tb*ll (I'd say No B*g Br*th*r, but I think it's over.) Lots of spacerock and prog and bitching about work and complaining about our databases and random photos of DDBs for all.

Kate is queen and what we say goes. Bow before us! And fetch us some more coffee while you're in the kitchen.

Now check your feuds at the door, please.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

I made a cheese and onion quiche yesterday and bought it into work . . . anyoen want some?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

And here is a picture of Benjamin to start the proceedings:

http://www.thenitmustbetrue.com/sm/sm19.jpg

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmm, quiche, yes please.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

what WE say goes?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

Oh noes, Ryan sitting opposite me just had the last bit! Sorry my dear, your own fault for not being in the same place as me.

I'm making lardy cake tonight . . . super-yum!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

The Royal We. As in, "we are not amused".

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Lard, yuck. Can I have gingercake, please?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Lardy cake is amazing! I don't use real lard (simply cos it's a pain to get since I have to trek over to the butcher) but the lard+butter combo gives it this amazing moist texture. It's my new favourite cake.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

OK, speaking of Muse, the one thing that irritates me about them is that they seem to have claimed the phrase "supermassive" for their own, which is annoying because it's the first popular usage of a common astronomical term but it's now associated with them. Bah. I was using it in my screen name in, what? 2004?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

I must educate you in the ways of parkin and lard, oatmeal and flour based cake, heavily spiced.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

I hard many good thigns about parkin, but I have yet to try it.

Oooh, delia's got a recipe!

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/traditional-oatmeal-parkin,1586,RC.html

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Stop talking about lard, or I'll, or I'll... post THIS!!!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000F7D.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Why the lardhate? Veg lard won't offend your vegibilites, and it's nice in everything!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Because I had to make ... errr, what was it? Something christmassy that required vast quantities of lard and suet and stuff when I was a young girl in 4H. And I got up to my elbows in lard and it was gross.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

Lard is great.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

you're insane.

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

I never had cookery lessons in school, which is unfortuante, since I'm sure I'd ace it.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

From another Galaxy, far awayish...
Right, I finally upped and ordered the single!
Ooh, it'd better be good! :)
-- M Grout (mark.grou...), August 31st, 2006.

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On Ed's stereo... well, Ed's stereo sounds SOOO NICE that everything sounds good on it. But well, it was the first time I'd actually listened to it and really felt... PROUD.
Like, "wow, we made that!"
So if you don't like it... get a better stereo! hah! :-P
-- masonic boom (kateotheremail@yahoo.co.uk), August 31st, 2006.

Wellp. Just arrived this lunchtime and gave it the car stereo test. And it's pretty damn great! Hooray!

And even if you'd said "Don't say Stereolab", I wouldn't have said that anyway. It has a tune for a start. And a fuzz guitar fadeout.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

I LIKE IT when people say "Stereolab"! Benjamin said we sounded like Stereolab! OK, he was talking about Noyfriend, not Stronger, but still.

Wow, you have a record player in your car?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, went home lunchtime, recorded it onto minidisc, played it on the way back to work. Imagine: living that close to work.

Caveat: "Noyfriend", by it's title alone, should sound like Stereolab.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and it had a nice autograph slip in it. From "John Brainlove" admittedly but hey.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

Bleurgh, that just put me off my lunch.

I want cake. I just had a piece of Finnish candy and I need to get the taste out of my mouth. I didn't mind the saltiness of it, but it was LIQUORICE flavour which is revolting.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

liquorice is delightful, as is aniseed, ouzo, sambuca, and anything else of that bent. :p

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

Euuw, eeeuuuw, eeeuuuuw!

I had a traumatic childhood experience with it. I find it revolting.

Like lard... hrmmm. What is it, gross out Kate with food day today?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

Salmiakki

Its Scandinavia's joke on the world.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

Salmiakki isn't nice. I had a bottle of it once. We kept it in the freezer and bought it out when we wanted pain.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

God, why did I look at the fashion thread? Compared to that, quantum theory is simple.

I'd start wearing a burkha if it wasn't for the political and religious assocations.

Where can one get sackcloth in this day and age?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

there's a fashion thread?

i'm considering going on there and posting the word "SHORTS".
it's a laugh, no?

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

I have that Lard EP!

Lard the food product sucks though - you want some beef dripping.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:39 (eighteen years ago)

Dripping si great for roasts, less good for cake. I've never had the fabled dripping on toast tho.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

PLEASE NOTE: Unless otherwise posted, admittance restricted to 18 years of age or older. This includes infants and toddlers.

From the Toronto Film Festival website. Presumably they meant to type 18 MONTHS old.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

No, I think that means all the audience are to be 18 years and older - no exceptions for infants.

When I was young, my mum was always just taking me to R rated films and stuff, her excuse being "oh she's a baby, it will go just right over her head."

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Did it?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

It did when I was a baby, obviously, but she persisted, even as I got past the toddling stages. I think by the time of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Being There, I was starting to ask questions and she realised that I was getting too old for the movies to just go over the top of my head.

Still took me to Garp a few years later, anyway, and I was way too young for that.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

Only in 3D

bah xpost

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

lol@3D

― i'm not teh_kit, ffs! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

Over her head:

Amber age five, on watching Rock and Roll High School for the first time: "What's that white powder that man's just dropped? Why was he smelling it?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

then she sold me her Mustang?

― i'm not teh_kit, ffs! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Amber hasn't got a Mustang!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

I GET CONFUSED. they both start with A.

i want Mustang so bad, i don't care who owns it.

― i'm not teh_kit, ffs! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

Stealing Mustangs from babies, honestly, Kit!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

i said sell! not steal!

besides... i'm not teh_kit.

― i'm not teh_kit, ffs! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

OK, quick question: What does Alice want more than her Fender Mustang?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

whatever it is, i'll find one.

― i'm not teh_kit, ffs! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

the answer is:

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

this is why i hate the world.

― i'm not teh_kit, ffs! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.starfire.tv/nothing.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

i have sweaty palms. waht does this mean??

― i'm not teh_kit, ffs! (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

WAR

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 350 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

From the side:

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/castleresize2.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

The view from my office:

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/castlegardenresize.jpg

― g00blar (gooblar), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm... I will have to join this fun later this week. Morning, all.

Dogmatic anything is a drag, but those Flying Spaghetti Monster people are cra-a-a-azy!!

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/photos/sc4.jpg

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:11 (eighteen years ago)

Have Kingmaker reformed?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:28 (eighteen years ago)

Yay TV!!!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:00 (eighteen years ago)

have ysi'd it if anyone didn't see it (10M):
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=2686A62B3BB4067D

is divx4 so you may need a new codec (22K Windows):
http://www.digital-digest.com/software/download.php?sid=620&ssid=0&did=1

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

wow that was fast, thank you!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:13 (eighteen years ago)

seven more pics on my website as well - same url as the pic of kate above with sc1.jpg to sc8.jpg and an audio copy at sc.mp3

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:25 (eighteen years ago)

DivX for Mac (QT)

http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/codec/

For a Mac/Win/Linux player that will play it off the bat:

http://www.videolan.org

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:42 (eighteen years ago)

I got my T.C. Lethbridge record yesterday, and the Stan Gooch EP, which is fascinating.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/97/242228608_0d84dca0d7.jpg?v=0

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

OMG, ha ha, I am a double chinned ROCK MONSTER!!!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:51 (eighteen years ago)

I know enough Icelandic to recognise the word "the" in that sign.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:53 (eighteen years ago)

That's a Masonic star on the left. Are there masons in Iceland?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:57 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's the logo of the technical university in Reykjavik. Conceivably there are masons there.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:58 (eighteen years ago)

HAHA seeing the word 'masonicboom' on BBC. i think my head exploded.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

OK, someone remind me, which one is Pop Idol?

(never mind why I'm asking.)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/sets/72157594282288877/

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:05 (eighteen years ago)

Has it been youtubed yet? I can just about manage youtube.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYZrORXQ7kQ

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:10 (eighteen years ago)

youtube tells me i'm too fucking eager

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

have a look at this cardboard bass whilst you wait.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to put the YouTube video on our MySpace!!! How recursive is that? I feel like I'm in a Borges short story! A video on MySpace of us talking about MySpace on the telly, showing the MySpace! Ha ha ha!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

xp
ok, was expecting the fish but disappointed he never 'twirled' it around?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

It's like how they got the live footage to play fullscreen on AMP's laptop!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

If you have more than no bandwidth and diskspace, Koogy's YSI is the way to go. I can't stand Youtube's smeary effect.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

So Kate's been on radio and tv now. What next? A cinema ad?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

The movies... :-)

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

youtube's smeary effect is a function of the bitrate they use. the ysi was 400kbps i'm guessing theirs is half that. it didn't help that the bbc had put some kind of filter on the original footage, probably to make it look 'edgey'.

the laptop thing kinda makes me angry - they are inserting their content over other peoples'. some company in america offers you the ability to do this in real time, supposedly to enable you to replace adverts in the background with your own.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

lolol i saw kaet dancing in my computer screen HOW DO THEY DO THAT?

How-D everybody. i had a day off yesterday! hurrah!
i played Civ4 all day. amazing!

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

Eh? I thought the laptop thing was clever and funny and well done. The only content that would have been there would have been AMP's page about "disgustingly underage boys" so I'm glad it was us dancing instead.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

Also the Shockwave/Flash video codec that they use is complete Arse, but it is by far and away the best way of making videos universal and integrated into the web page. Hopefully codec support within flash will improve as time goes on.

This is a very dull 3D DVE effect and has been possible in real time since at least the mid 90s.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:46 (eighteen years ago)

tbh i kinda wish i'd been more productive with my day now.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

too serious, kit!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

God, I have to work now. I DON'T WANT TO!!!

How do you expect me to concentrate on dead rates and stuffs when I was ON THE TELLY THIS MORNING?!?!?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, wtf. i'm totally pounding on the Incas with my Jaguar warriors, 3 boatloads every 2 turns, so who gives a shit? i'm totally gonna take over a new continent. er xpost.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

would you be up for a little play by email action?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

is clever, yes, but evil, have seen it used to make it look like people are watching things they obviously aren't. (and by real time i mean in live footage. think i first read about it on slashdot a few years ago and the example they used was rebranding times square during NYE celebrations)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

that could be done, Ed, but be warned that i am notorious for never finishing anything i start.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

nice iceland pics btw. although i it looks like they should rename it waterfallland instead though. have always wanted to go after seeing the cover of Porcupine.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

poor mrs teh kit

xpost

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

BE SERIOUS

― teh_kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

Should have some more when my dad uploads his.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Looks like our MySpace has poxy fuled.

Bloody typical...

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

No, no, the Cooler is still working fine now. ILX has been surprisingly Poxy Fule free lately!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

No, no, the Cooler is still working fine now. ILX has been surprisingly Poxy Fule free lately!

(I spoke too soon, it just froze as I tried to post that.)

:-(

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

Teh cooler!

What is wrong with you?

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

No cooler, no credibility!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

What, is this working now? I posted that over an hour ago!

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

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