Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[fatcatstu]

This all reminds me, i must go down and watch it getting filmed again. Although it will be all the poorer an experience as our Rachel has been told to cover up cause some whinging old gibbers have been moaning she is too sexy. sigh.

[Claw75]

An Octochamp in action.

sigh - missed this on here earlier now it looks like i've copied you on the funny clips thread, which was actually prompted by a totally unrelated countdown discussion.  countdown rules, obv.

[gatso]

found his reasoning for not putting the D on the end of shitface, nothing to do with hyphens

One might expect a student of Mr Hurst's abilities to have spotted the remaining D, which can be added to the end of the word to form a concept most undergraduates are familiar with. "I did see that," he said, "but I knew I couldn't put it on the end. Shitface is a noun not an adjective."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/could-you-make-an-eightletter-word-out-of-f-i-d-e-t-c-a-s-h-2125744.html

link may contain spoilers

[EvilPie]

An Octochamp in action.

sigh - missed this on here earlier now it looks like i've copied you on the funny clips thread, which was actually prompted by a totally unrelated countdown discussion.  countdown rules, obv.

Don't worry Claire I thought I may have copied you when I looked at the funny clips. Didn't check the times so I don't know who got there first.

I'm happy to call it a draw.

[MereNovice]

This may interest some people: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11773791

"Trekkies" mainly, I guess

[The Camel]

Still waiting for that email

[Laxie]

Still waiting for that email

Good job yer young.

[The Camel]

Still waiting for that email

Good job yer young.

Many years since I've been called young.

[Ironside]

I'd be quite interested to see who created the Page,

mrs c she created one for each of the major shareholders when blonde launched with the facts in your blonde bio on the main website

[tikay]

Still waiting for that email

Sorry Keith, I'v been absoutely flat to the Boards, with next door, here, some busines stuff, travelling, this & that. I need to do less, & better.

I've not forgotten the question thogh, there's just so much stuff spinning round in my head right now.

As to the question, I get a Daily Summary of all the bigger & P1, 2 & 3 bets placed, & the numbers quite surprised me, with 5 figure bets being quite the norm.

I'll asemble the facts & PM them across.

I hope you & yours are well, & young Jake is revved up for Christmas. In fact, I hope even more that you allow & encourage him NOT to celebrate Christmas (unlesss he is a practising Christian, or you'd like him to be), & his life will almost certainly be enriched in so many ways for swerving all that nonsense. Probably not a view that will find much favour anywhere, I freely admit.

[tikay]

This may interest some people: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11773791

"Trekkies" mainly, I guess

It's the positron emission tomography which worries me, tbh. Sainsbury's don't stock them.

I've just, for the first time in my life, read one book three times running - "Massive" ("The hunt for the God particle") by Ian Sample.

I can't recall a more riveting book, a more fascinating book, or a subject matter (excuse the pun...) which I less understood. I also read "Collider", ditto ditto, though not quite so well written. Both were purchased inadvertently, I was looking for somthing about the actual physical construction, the Civil Engineering if you like, of CERN, but I cannot find anything. Those two were just awesome, though.

I think I need to see if I can go visit CERN, the scale of the thing is beyond my imagination. But I'll never have even the merest grasp of what they are doing, & a little teeny bit of me still suspects the whole thing is a sort of Emperor's suit of clothes.

I believe Professor Higgs still lives up in Edinburgh. He prophesied "his" boson all those years ago, everybody agrees it is there, somewhere, what it does, how it does it, & why. They have yet to actually even prove it exists, but a whole sub-science has been built around it.

All above me, but fascinating all the same.

[Dingdell]

http://weblogs.hollanddoc.nl/higgs/2007/07/27/27-july-%e2%80%93-43-years-later/#more-20

This is a great blog from some filmmakers following the construction of CERN and meeting Higgs in Edinburgh.

[tikay]

Stunning documentary on BBC2 last night about bottled water, & the bottled water industry.

More gasps per minute than almost anything I've watched in years.

A preview of it is here.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11813975

And the i-player link is here.....

http://bbc.in/fibYGl

Example. They bottle water in Switzerland, truck it to a port, load it on a boat, sail it to America, load it on another lorry, & sell it all over the USA for a dollar a bottle. Becuase Americans want variety. But all water is pretty much the same thing - water.

Imagine Evian's carbon footprint! But luckily, they are an eco-friendly Company. Their Wiki page says......

Evian has also taken the initiative to cut their own energy and water use by incorporating post-consumer recycled PET plastic into the bottle sizes that receive the most sales

Eh? Did I read that right? This Company that sells 100's of billions of litres of a natural & completely free resource - water - & transports it all over the world, wants a medal for saving water & energy?

We have all gone mad.

[byronkincaid]

[TightEnd]

Never underestimate the power of marketing budgets/pervasiveness of modern advertising cultures. Bottled water, and bottled water brands, are a prime example of this