Things that made me laugh this morning

Quote from uni-era flatmate Alex on Facebook, who crossed LOTR and Fear and Loathing to get:
"We were just outside of Hobbiton when the power Of The One Ring began to take hold."

Which crosses over nicely with a Tuesday night dream, where I was Aragorn, waking up on the morning of a major battle with The Forces Of Evil to find that I'd somehow mislaid Narsil...

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-27-2009

• Poster telling people about Edinburgh Tram woes
  Dated 1897...
  (tags: Edinburgh trams)
• Why he broke up with you
  Or won't commit to you.
  (tags: relationships men women)
• NSFW Video: Gay Anime Characters Defend Sylvan Turf
  Wow. I love how...odd bits of the internet are.
  (tags: strange gay naked NSFW computers video game)
• The A-Z of awesome
  Now complete!
  (tags: fun comic design)
• Shit my Dad says
  Possibly the finest Twitter feed in the world
  (tags: twitter funny dad parents family)
• Giant Cowboys Stadium LED wall caught playing Xbox 360 during downtime Update
  Because if you had a 72x160 foot LED wall you'd play XBox on it too!
  (tags: xbox games video game)
• Stick A Spike In Caprica: James Marsters Joins The BSG Prequel
  Apparently some people didn't know...
  (tags: JamesMarsters Caprica bsg)
• People who do surf the Internet for fun at work - within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office - are more productive by about 9% than those who don't
  Alternatively - people who are productive also have the kind of mind that needs occupying from time to time :->
  (tags: productivity internet work research statistics business)
• Boycott Scotland!
  Pass it on!
  (tags: politics funny scotland UK parody usa)
• Why a broken heart really does hurt
  Researchers have found a genetic link between physical pain and social rejection, which means that breaking up with a partner really can be painful.
  (tags: relationships pain genetics psychology emotion)

This is what happens when I take my eye off the ball.

Julie recently bought a desktop - and got a quad core processor, which I thought sounded pretty high end.

Until I just went and took a look at processors, and realised that you pretty much can't buy single-core CPUs any more - dabs has three uni-core cpus, versus thirteen dual-core and twenty one with 3 or 4 cores.

Desktops still seem to be maxed out at four-core - but I do wonder how much longer that will last, and whether there's much point scaling beyond that for most people, without something that uses that much CPU, and isn't heavily hard drive dependent.

Things that amused me today #2

These, in a collection of (presumably fake) letters to Viz magazine:

* We should remember the tremendous contribution of the Queen Mother to the war effort: as the BBC pointed out, she "bravely remained in London beside her husband" during the war. This contrasts sharply with the actions of my grandfather who, on the declaration of war immediately left his wife and children and pissed off, first to France , then North Africa , Italy , France (again) and finally Germany . The shame will always be with us.

* Like the Queen Mum, my grandfather was a frequent visitor to the East End during the dark days of the blitz, but he was never hailed as a hero by the people of London . That's because he flew Heinkel bombers for the Luftwaffe. Werner Hoffman, Munich .

* I would just like to say a big thank you to all those wonderful young people who stand on motorway slip roads (and in any weather) holding up boards telling us motorists where they lead to.

* Never mind ventriloquists like Keith Harris and Roger De Courcey. What about Professor Stephen Hawking? I saw him on telly blathering on about galaxies for hours and I never saw his lips move once. Genius

* The person who coined the phrase "as different as chalk and cheese" obviously hadn't tasted Kwik Save's cheddar.