James

I would like it to be known that I strongly disapprove of the shoes-without-socks look.

Two posts in the thread; two diametrically opposed forum faux pas. Nice going, me!

Somebody posted this on Facebook. I hope you haven't all seen it before: 9C_HReR_McQ

If you aren't this Pete Worthington of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, that's a serious motherfucking coincidence. If you are, how dare you not immediately infer what I'm referring to from my whopping great one-word post? Frankly, I'm insulted.

Happy birthday, dawg.

Two consecutive instances of the same digit representing different letters? Surely a transliteratory faux pas!

I sometimes wonder how many people manage to first see Psycho these days without having some sort of awareness of most of the key scenes; that is, how many people are able to experience the same surprises that the original audiences did. It's an almost paradoxical element to it being such a classic.

Well it's mainly games, but the inconvenience of having to track down and re-download all your games and SWEET WALLPAPERZ is also pretty annoying, and I believe stuff is occasionally removed from the PSN Store (although I'm not sure whether that includes being removed or made inaccessible from account history). I also had one of those PlayTV things, with a bunch of films waiting to be watched. Like I said, it's more a matter of principle than anything else. Actually, now that I think about it, I don't think you can actually restore PS3 backups on a different system, so your only option is to subscribe to PlayStation Plus and copy all your saves to the cloud.

The ease with which one can transfer data between 360s is the reason I upgraded to a fancy new one when my old one broke. The inability to recover data from a bricked PS3's drive is a large portion of the reason I never replaced mine when it got a YLoD, even though that happened about a year earlier. My old saves don't really matter that much, but I refuse to reward Sony for making things awkward for me. PS3 owners, back up your data!

True majesty.

I don't know any Dutch, but I do this in Afrikaans: "O die pyn". Someone at work says it a lot.

I find this sort of thing grimly fascinating, but frustrating and depressing if I expose myself to it too much. At first I enjoy seeing the idiotic things people think, but after a while I just wish they'd see some sense. I'm pretty disturbed to imagine how you could have discovered your dad was into sexually degrading women, though, and the effect that would have had on you. I can only hope I'm misreading that, because it sounds extremely messed up.

One of these days one of my friends of fifteen years or more will lend me five pounds and I will leave the country, never to be seen again. I'm expressed this intention numerous times.

That thing is delightfully absurd. And on the subject of Delia Derbyshire, I heard a programme on the construction of the original Doctor Who theme on Radio 4 once and found it weirdly moving. What a brilliant thing to do.

I've had all sorts of sleep and suspend problems in both Windows and Ubuntu. I suspect at least some of it was driver problems. I had a netbook that for about half its life wouldn't resume wireless connectivity after waking from suspend, but would from full hibernation. Then I updated Ubuntu and suddenly it would resume wireless connectivity after suspend, but wouldn't wake at all from hibernation. Or something like that. Stupid technology.

As I read it, it's not the last original print of Jurassic Park, but the last showing for that original print of Jurassic Park. There may be many others.

Wait, which is ass? Muscle or hormones?

I was going to say that Sweden is bloody full of them, but then I realized that the place I was actually thinking of was ICA. There are still definitely 7-Elevens in Sweden, however. Sixty percent sure, yes.

I am not Rodi. Yeah, I used to pass a 7-Eleven all the time when visiting my grandmother in Stockholm.

Well I was smiling pretty much throughout, but I don't really trust my own tastes, so there isn't much reason why you should. OH WHATEVER, Ben is wrong. It's charming and lovely.

I don't think I'll ever really understand open relationships. The very idea makes me feel quite uneasy. How tediously possessive of me. Kroms, all of those cousin anecdotes are excellent. Occasionally my similarly-aged nephew will come out with some verbal gold, but those are right up there among the best of his.

I keep forgetting to try that. How does it compare to TinEye?

How about Vasily Livanov?

It's weird how physical a reaction betrayal can evoke. When I think about it, my reaction doesn't make a great deal of sense to me, but I find myself even feeling vicariously terrible about other people's experiences, even fictional ones. Stupid brain. Anyway, I hope you're feeling better. I have no advice beyond that already offered.

I had an audiobook of Douglas Adams reading Restaurant at the End of the Universe, which was also very good. But to be honest, those books are such easy reads that you could blow through all five in no time at all. I certainly did, in my early teenage years, and not being the fastest of readers. Also, I like how the quotation-imposed italics rendered my command even more emphatic.