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Yes! Also jellyfish, and flying manta rays, and penguins... They're a pretty big engineering firm that make custom machinery and automation for people. I like that they put some of their profits into supporting this kind of research

That reminds me of this: http://www.helpmesellmorebooksthanjustinbieber.com/head.html Except not done so well.

That's interesting. The Jehovah's Witness thing means wearing a suit has associations for me with submission and misery. I know from the reactions of others that there's nothing external about that though, people react really well to smartness, which makes me ambivalent. The way self perception and associations grow into and from clothes is really interesting. Especially as they're something we invented.

We're about to have such a weird couple of decades: nnR8fDW3Ilo

Congrats on the promotion Kingz! Weird isn't it? You just put yourself through a fuckload of changes at once, and while we tend to want to say "the way you look isn't important", actually the way you present or perceive yourself is going to have a really profound effect on you. If you start wearing something really different to your usual wardrobe, then any uncertainty you feel can become insecurity and make you hypersensitive to the responses of others. It takes a while for that to settle down. Orvidos is right, there's no uniform for adulthood. You may have changed your wardrobe, but there's no reason you can't make that look more interesting and cooler in your own eyes. As for understanding why actors go crazy, absolutely. I was once mistaken for a contestant who got really far in a national talent show. We basically have the same face. He was well known for a while and everywhere I went people either whispered or came over to shake my hand. It lasted about a month and one point it started to freak me out, because the expectations of others who looked at me with recognition implied to me I was someone else. Hard to explain, but I think I know where you're at. As well as all of the stuff you mention, a lot of your social connections at the company are likely changing, and that's a pretty traumatic thing to integrate. That sucks, but it's a fact of your environment. Maybe with you looking clean cut and being competent, they'll come to rely on you instead. You obviously do a good job, so don't conflate your situation on clothes and clients with his competence situation. Not that you'd do it consciously, but that sort of identification is the kind of fuck up our unconscious minds specialise in. You are not a member of his tribe. Whatever you decide to do on clothes, it would be worth underlining that to your colleagues in your dress. Also worth thinking about how the sudden change affects your connection to the people now working under you. Dress down days are not necessarily a superficial thing. Good reasons to tweak the way you dress until it's something you like. As far as selling out is concerned, this Dave Eggers (Not the Thumbs one!) piece is fantastic: http://students.ou.edu/M/Eric.C.Mai-1/DE.htm Something really good has happened to you, but elements of that have also made you feel perhaps manipulated and like a victim. You're closer than you were to things that make you uncomfortable. In thinking it through and making rational decisions, you can take control of those feelings, adapt to all of your external changes and come to feel like your entire life and identity is your own again.

:0 My friends' excellently named film club, Kneel Before Zod, is showing The Room this month, and made this excellent poster for it.

It appears so.

It is a way better way of building tension than a flashing health bar or a booming robot voice saying "OUCH. MY DIODES". I suspect for every person nitpicking it, there are many more not.

M-m-m-m-monster post. I was away for a while. wARB2COiwZc Comment from friend on seeing this: "The man inside is jizzing continuously. Tomorrow, he will be dead" rTUwqxHpXMY Someone in Japan made this to explain Fukushima and reassure children. It gets extra surreal after 1.30: 5sakN2hSVxA Also, Robert Florence has been working on a new series of Burnistoun and posted this today: YcwuS7v6vQI

I hope I'm wrong, but years of working with mods and looking at indie game submissions gives me the feeling they're showing almost everything they've got right now. Really looking forward to it though

Attack and criticism are different things. "I hope you get an eating disorder and bleed out after cutting yourself" does not count as the latter. None of us are claiming it's a good song (it's not, IMO), but the response to it is atrocious. She doesn't deserve it.

Putting badminton racket heads on them is an excellent idea iF4ci-opxEA

^ So much sense in such a short post. Charlie Brooker took a dig at the people bullying her last week, kicks off at them properly around 2.45: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhu4fe_10-o-clock-live-charlie-brooker-on-rebecca-black_fun

I don't find the bird too bad, just some spans. (Argh 35.7)

Bloody hell Scrobbs Keep getting stuck around 18m, but this is really excellent.

I dislike a lot of US series, particularly when they're billed as seasons and have 23 or so episodes that meander around a lot from 10 - 20 (*cough*Heroes*cough*). I've only caught odd episodes of Warehouse 13, and it made me laugh. The characters are also fallible and goofy, which makes them quite likeable. Maybe I'm just a bit infatuated with Claudia. Imagery doesn't usually affect me like that, but... rrr. It seems to have the slightly low-budget production values of something like Stargate but with just enough silliness thrown in. It's ridiculous, but upfront about it and coherent with it. Probably as close as US TV gets to Doctor Who. Super powered underpants:

D-d-d-d-double post! Missed this: Second this. Renting gear is only worth it the first time to see if you enjoy it; once you know you do it's well worth having the comfort and consistency of your own. Sounds similar to Chamonix in early February. It was hot, and the pistes were icy in the mornings and slushy in the afternoons. Lots of rocks to dodge too. Lower pistes on the north of the valley were closed altogether, and people out there for the season said the snow wasn't like that until May most years. It's nice to go and see glaciers before they're all gone.

Glad GoG sorted that out so fast with you Thunderpeel. I kind of wanted to dislike Warehouse 13 the way I do a lot of US series, but it's strangely compelling cheese.

Fucking lovely happy song: KbCLaGnR_vY Album here, but this song is so much more upbeat than the rest.

Provisionally, I am in for this It was a little bit J Nash. As was the above

Hope you're still ok Kroms, and thanks for posting firsthand videos. -- I've had a busy month since leaving my last employer. Setting up my own company, talking to clients and potential clients, and a few months ago I prototyped an add-on for a video camera just because I had the idea and wanted one. It got so many comments at Maker Faire UK, and from other snowboarders and mountain bikers, that I'm looking into manufacturing costs and might be selling kits soon. I think I could even manage really small runs profitably thanks to CNC machining.

Whales on a Plane.

Very interesting summation Rodi. The people using the term theft are pretty much preaching to the naive and the converted, but I don't think they will ever make headway against culture. I haven't heard this before:

toblix is hopefully right, that sounds exactly like what happened when a workmate thought his iphone was fucked. If so, the fix will cost you: One paperclip.

Yeah, I was wandering in some tunnels on a different server the other night, thought "What's that sound?", saw slimes for the first time and was almost immediately killed by them. They're still around. Someone else on that server corroborates what Thompson says above: they're client side only, and as a result invincible.