Good customer service

Last week I transplanted my Parrot CK3000 carkit from the floor of my bedroom, where it's sat since I was removed from my 206, and was fitted into the Bora. Unfortunately in the process of doing this I lost all 3 of the clips, somehow. On the off chance I might get somewhere I email Parrot UK sales on Sunday afternoon. By 8 the next morning I had a response, and by Tuesday morning I had the clips in hand.

So, Ken Taylor of vstore.co.uk, who appear to be the UK authorised distributor for Parrot UK, thank you very much.

Childhood dreams

Earlier today I managed to find time to watch Randy Pausch's last lecture (Randy is sadly suffering from terminal cancer), entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". I'll try not to give away too much, just incase you might want to see it, but it's certainly one of the most interesting, and moving, lectures I've ever had the pleasure of being able to watch.

Randy talks about the lessons he's learnt and gives advice on how to achieve your dreams, by recounting his experiences in life. I honestly found this upsetting, as I don't really remember what my childhood dreams were. I think at one point I wanted to be a super-hero, but what boy doesn't? Unfortunately as I'm not into cosplay, and I'm not an actor, I don't think this is entirely acheivable.

Maybe it's time to get some new dreams...

My thoughts go out to Randy's family, and I appreciate the time the Carnegie Mellon staff and Randy himself put into making this lecture publically available / possible. It's really made me consider things very carefully again.

Jubblies

Another great satrical animation from Yahtzee vocalising every single rant I've ever had, about most Tomb Raider games, with pristine perfection.

Can you make my laptop run on fresh air?

A new episode of LugRadio is out (infact, it has been since Monday - yes I'm slacking), covering the conferences they went to over their summer "break". Well worth the listen in my opinion.

Jono has also announced that season 5 starts on September 24th.

Never put a sock in a toaster

Probably best not to ask on that one.

I've also discovered putting beans into an omelette isn't a good idea. It's structurally unsafe for the omelette, and you just end up with a pan full of egg and odd looking things that you hope probably were beans.

Other than that, and sorting out my entire data partition, I've managed to basically do fuck all tonight. And I'm somewhat proud of myself.

Lunch consisted of trying to peel a boiled egg in less than 10 seconds. Yes it's possible!

  1. Wait for it to cool slightly, so the egg contracts and is able to be held without burning the operator
  2. Remove a small section of egg shell at the "north and south pole" / "the pointy end and the diametrically opposite end", by tapping and peeling
  3. Place the pointy end / north pole against lips
  4. Blow. Hard and fast. Be prepared to catch the egg as it comes out the otherside

Cool party trick, right up there with the "is the circumference or the height of the glass longer in length?". Unfortunately no one else is going to want to eat the egg you just unpeeled.

With a bit more arsing around, not looking at the ToDo list for a few days, and potentially finding a bodymod artist for some work I want done, I might actually get a decent nights sleep..