Friday Hates You. Really, it Does…
Nah don’t be daft, of course it doesn’t. Friday loves you. It loves your Mum too. Does your Mum have great tits? I reckon she probably does.
Today technology is King. I remember my first few days being properly employed and how far away the things we take for granted really are. I was working on concepts for this kind of stuff years ago, and it may not have ever come into production, but it’s amazingly exciting to see the future actually happen, right before your eyes. Honestly, we would sit and have meetings on just how feasible video calling was and how much the ubiquitous ‘do-it-all PDA’ would be able to do for you. It’s odd to look back on because now, pretty much all of it is here.
Yesterday I saw my silly old folks on Skype. I have an iPhone too, which means that despite the mild embarrassment of being an iPhone person, I can always reach people. It’s downright bizarre – basically technology has overtaken the popular imagination in the last few years, and now all these things which seemed downright stupid a year or so ago now seem kind of sensible. And many of them exist already.
Had it not been for technology like email and SMS messages Mrs. Toad and I might not be together at all. For the first two and a half years of our relationship I lived in London and she in Edinburgh, so texts and emails pretty much held us together during the week, as we waited for the chance to travel 400 miles on the weekend to see one another. I know social networking sites have their critics (mostly idiots) but their capabilities are pretty amazing, when you think where technology was even just five years ago.
So, erm, good luck with the rest of your lives and hopefully this week’s technology-based five will be up your street:
1. Name your favourite scientific theory. Or just name one – any one.
2. Favourite gadget.
3. Do you know what the term ‘anecdotal evidence’ means? Why the FUCK NOT?
4. Most Star Trekky bit of technology in common use today.
5. Which technology on the ‘coming soon’ list are you most looking forward to?
1. Trips & Falls – In Real Life He Wears Corduroy Pants
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2. Clem Snide – The Dairy Queen
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3. Maxwell Panther – Too Many Magazines
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4. The Men They Couldn’t Hang – Going Back to Coventry
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Haha! No. 1!!!
1) Evolution! Still the best. So in some state or another the school board was lobbied by angry parents to make sure it was labeled ‘The Theory of Evolution’. The teachers union agreed but rather brilliantly suggested that all ‘theories’ should be preceded by the same qualifier. This was agreed to and immediately elevated ‘evolution’ to the same status as ‘the theory of gravity’, the ‘theory of relativity’ and ‘the theory of thermodynamic’. Scientists rock.
2) Whirlwind Qbox. Google it. The thing is great. No one is going to but it is the single coolest thing in the world. Not shit. This one is just for me then.
3) Cool your jets hotrod, most people do!
4) My wife springs to mind.
5) Nope. It’s pretty much the best.
1. Capitalism – it’s misguided and ends in all sorts of nasty unintended consequences (yeah right), but it’s a pretty successful theory for a while
2. Magic Wand – no, not the fairy tale one, the one made by the kind folk at Hitachi
3. I am a social scientist, you know. And if we abolished ancedotal evidence my mother-in-law would have nothing to talk about. Sounds like a great idea, Matthew, get right on that, thanks sweetie!
4. Good god, you’re making us choose!?!! That’s so very British of you!
5. Chocolate because both really should be devoured in moderation or you end up really sorry. It’s actually very wearisome being someone’s perfect everything. At least that’s what I’ve been told
now tell us how many pictures of tits you went thru to find that one!
1. What’s the one that Nicola Tesla used to make a coning/transportation machine in The Prestige? I like that one.
2. My iPod. Not anyone else’s, just mine.
3. Yes. The existance of an external world relies entirely upon it.
4. Yes.
5. Yes: the person who thinks you’re the best thing in the world actually being attractive and not, say, some hideous little gnome with the social skills of a demented hyena.
*cloning. Not coning. Cloning.
I must work on my pronounciation.
BOOOBS.
1 – Quantum Superposition. Alice and Bob 4eva.
2 – My Xbox 360. It provides so much joy.
3 – Anecdote THIS. *smack*
4 – Most trekky device? Why just the other day I had a sonic shower.
5 – I’m looking foward to space diving becoming a proper sport. I won’t DO it. But I would love to see it. I guess I would also like to see commercial sub space flight too….then eventually a lot of idiots will see how small this planet is, eh? Humble bastards.
And, is it just me, or did these questions change by the time I got round to writing this?
Hey, did anyone else see this?
The bit I especially like is where he got arrested for taking a photo of some cops.
I wrote the whole lot last night whilst completely hammered, so I edited them this morning for reasons of basic sense. Sorry to Tart and Ben, whose answers may look a little odd now.
Arse – RULES!
1. String Theory.
2. My MacBook.
3. Yes.
4. Electric doors? Those phones that flip up and look like a communicator?
5. Fusion – it’ll change our lives, but isn’t likely to arrive anytime soon, so I’ll go with those funky nanobots that have no moving parts and are driven around the inside of a human eye using magnets. They’re so small and accurate they can drive back into the same needle that injected them, thus leaving no scars or anything… amazing!
1. Yes, I think evolution wins this one, just because it makes so many stupid people so angry. Although the ideas behind the maths of emergence rather rock too – the idea that such simple rules can create patterns so complex, and that they routinely do so.
2. At the moment I have to confess to loving the iPhone, despite my hatred of Apple. So much clever stuff in such a wee box.
3. Yes, but I am always amazed how compelling we seem to find it. No matter how much we know that it’s misleading, we seem to find isolated anecdotes incredibly persuasive.
4. I think video calls kind of count. The picture quality now, compared to even just three years ago, is amazing.
5. Erm, not sure about this one. A lot of medical technology just blows me away, particularly what is on the verge of being done with stem cells. ‘New immune system, sir? Ta-daaaah!’
glad to have saved you from TPM, toad. So what were the original 4. and 5.? Otherwise I’ll have to assume that Ben’s wife is an android. or perhaps an alien with an off the shoulder dress (the kind Kirk had such a thing for)…
1. I like that “many worlds” theory. Y’know, the theory which says there are “many worlds,” rather than just the one. The more the merrier I say.
2. The spoon is pretty good. I like cereal, y’see, and yogurt.
3. I do actually, or at least that’s what I’ve heard.
4. The push-up bra/micro miniskirt combination. Gene Roddenberry was a fucking genius.
5. Well, I’ve been experimenting with turning my hamster into a robot assassin. Coming along well, thanks.
He’s back! Hello C&B, you’ve been missed.
Tom, they weren’t really questions anyway, just me being an idiot. Again.
I like the whooshy doors one – how do they know when you’re ready to actually pass and not just standing there? There have been whole books written on the topic of the other-worldly intelligence of the doors on Star Trek.
1.Evolution. It’s the only one I know.
2. My iPod, but I need an upgrade. I will never have an iPhone though, can’t be bothered. I have an ipod. I have a phone. I have a laptop. The fact that they are three separate pieces of machinery hasn’t yet propelled me into the depths of despair, so I think I’ll get by. All that application nonsense, I put that in the same category as joining groups on Facebook. Or even having a Facebook for that matter. God I sound old. I’m sorry. Actually, screw that, I’m not sorry at all.
3. Ugh, yes I do, unfortunately.
4. Skype is pretty cool.
5. Ha! I’m not ready for the iPhone yet!
1. For me, evolution, nay scientific theories in general, are too much to process for my simple brain, and therefore, even trying to think of a thing that might make my head explode at any moment cannot possibly come to close to a favourite thing. However, the picture on this post is more my level. Something I understand, something I can get to grips with, something tangible. I’ll stop.
2. My Blackberry. Iphones are toys, Blackberrys are workhorses. Discuss.
3. See answer to (1)
4. A Monome: http://monome.org/40h. See it in use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqvCtjwfsy8
5. Robots who can do everything that I want to do with my life whilst I sit back smugly and get drunk.
1. I have a theory about film directors and haircuts. I do, however, doubt the scientific nature of this theory. Also, it’s based almost entirely on this photograph of Sergei Eisenstein.
2. Dunno, really. It’s probably not a gadget, but the bottle cap pick-up? It’s really cheap, you can get a nice sound out of it, and it’s literally made from a bottle cap.
3. I dunno about this, Matthew – someone told me there was no such thing.
4. iPhone freaks me out.
5. Hoverboard.
Cheers. It’s good to be back. I’ve damn well missed this place too. I wish I could bring back tales of wild debauchery to explain my absence. A drug-induced fugue perhaps, or better yet a kidnapping. But alas, it was just the old story. Work and an out-of-town holiday with limited internet connectivity. Back now.
My flatmate has a rather sweet Daft Punk app on his iphone. It does the beat for Harder, Faster, Fatter, Smellier or whatever its called and then you push buttons to make the robot voice say the appropriate words. It is much fun. Iphoners should try it (if you havent already). Oh – downloaded Secret of Monkey Island on Xbox Live last night. It’s still great. Anyone remember that? The advancement of technology is GREAT because it lets me play OLD games!
1. I just googled Scientific theories – a lot of conspiracy theories came up, like the polar axis shifting – interesting, or that the Mayans created a long count calendar, that apparently translates into the theory that the world will end in December 2012, probably due to a polar shift or similar phenomenon. Interesting again… (must be friday)
2. My lap top – sorry, obvious and dull, but I love it.
3. Em, yes… Dylan uses it a lot!! Haha
4. Haven’t really ever watched Star Trek, but haven’t they got some sort of virtual reality room where you can be anyone in any era? We kind of have that… don’t we? I am sure that there are more comprehensive, well researched answers… move on..
5. I don’t know if it is in the pipeline, but for all budding inventors, get on the case – I want everything I need to function to be controlled by my fingertips or eyeballs – locks, car, paying for stuff, calling people – so I don’t have to rely on shit that is easily lost – i.e. keys, bank cards, my memory for pin numbers..
Sorry couldn’t stay and get drunk too.. sleep was required!
also, think I just worked out who Madcow is.
Who am I Bartimus Maximus Decimus O’Reillius?
You’re Spunky Foxx.
1.Evolution – if it annoys the Christian right, it’s got to be a good thing.
2. My iPod.
3. Yes.
4. Don’t really watch Star Trek, but Skype must be fairly close, surely?
5. The iPod that can take 6 million songs.
The spunkiest of all the Foxxes…..eeeeew. “Jackpot”. I want to get a picture of a teenager dancing with two cats as my avatar. I have the picture. It’s REAL.
1. Probably something from Back to the Future.
2. It was my ipod, thats bust now so erm, the telly.
3. Yes.
4. Doors opening on their own (though still nowhere neer as cool as the revolving door.
5. Michaels brilliant talked up invension… the beanback.
1. E=MC squared. Don’t know exactly what it means, but I know that Einstein made it up and that it’s something to do with inertia.
2. My brand new MacBook Pro which I just picked up this morning. My first ever Mac.
3. Of course.
4. A remote control, on the basis that the original Star Trek is kind of goofy.
5. the hydrogen fuel cell: the sooner the electric car becomes a reality the better. listening to music in the car will be a much better experience for a start, and the environment or whatever i suppose.
PS those boobs look amazing.
boobs are so moreish.
Why is it that you can post a photo of tits and no-one gets upset when a failed attempt to, well, whatever that was, almost melted the internetz?
Anyway…
1. The Kevin Bacon one. Wouldn’t be as good if it was Tom Cruise but Kevin Bacon is cool creepy as opposed to Fucking Well Creepy so being separated from him by six degrees (I was once in an airport lounge with Matthew McConawhotsit so I presume that takes care of it) is okay. Its also probably bollocks but I like the sort of theories that result from government subsidised projects where scientists dropping buttered toast 30,000 time to see if it does land butter side down most times. What can I say, I’m a philistine.
2. I have iPhone envy. Bastards! As I have an entirely free work phone to use, I can’t upgrade unless the gnomes in IT allow it.
3. We live in a world where fat chicks with presidential jizz on their dresses don’t even dry clean them. Who needs anecdotes? Get the CSI kit out.
4. Not sure, automatic doors were cool on Star Trek but they are particularly unenthralling at say, O’Hare Airport. Flip phones are just shite and even those little talky bluetooth things which would have been cool in Star trek (being like the badge you talk to) are FUCKING LAME. Likewise, the introduction of that new Barclaycard that you just wave vaguely at the till and it pays for stuff is like we burned down the road to financial ruin under AK47 fire and enjoyed it so much, we’re all going to turn around to do it again.
Basically, cool technology is dreamt up by the cool, designed by the creative, manufactured by the dull and bought by cunts. Its a slippery slope.
5. Ritalin blowdarts for the gobby little 8 year old fuckers next to me in the airport lounge. Lord preserve me from spoilt middle class fuck trophies.
Even feminists love boobies, darling.
Ritalin blow darts have to happen.
Dav – I think BttF is probably the coolest futurey movie ever.
1. The Theory of EVERYTHING
2. My soon to be purchased Macbook.
3. Yes.
4. I have no idea.
5. Whatever there is to come I doubt I’ll be able to afford it so there’s not much point in looking forward to it, whatever that may be.
1. Time travel using wormholes is cool, and evolution, obviously. My favourite theory of all, which is a bit scientific, is the one from Flicker, that attention spans decreases in each generation at a rate which we can extrapolate into the future to a point where even the simplest narrative unit, a custard pie to the face, say, will be too much for people to understand, at which point a cadre of film scholars will be able to lead the revolution.
2. It’s a blah answer but it has to be iPod, as a strict gadget, or the internet which is pushing it in definition but is just wonderful.
3. I could tell you a story about this…
4. Almost anything. I think there’s a research project waiting to be done about the changing representations of futuristic technology in sci fi movies – the differences between the walls and walls of digital tape and flashing lights computers in the ‘proper’ star wars trilogy to the holographic stuff in the later films always makes me smile.
5. Something open sourced, sharing and free
1. That Michael Jackson is not dead.
2. My new loop pedal.
3. Don’t care
4. The mini dress
5. I’m not all that in to technology but I am looking forward to lying on my sofa all weekend!
Michael Jackson isn’t dead, Euan, we’ve got him chained up in our back garden.
So I’ll revise.
4) A computer that does crash!!! And that fixes itself. *(&&*!@^&@!!!!!!!
It’s been a long week at work…
5) A cell phone/internet device/keys/creditcard/drivers license/reader/word processor in one. My pockets are too full.
Also, the next person that tells me that mac’s don’t crash as much as PC’s is getting a fucking iphone rammed up their backsides!!! Funny that that’s never on the advert. “Hi, I’m a PC. I’m uninspiring but so long as your not a complete fuck-wit we’ll get on fine and work well together.” “Hi, I’m a mac and I’m just sitting around. I’ve decided to stop working and just chill but, there is no way I’m going to tell you why because admitting there is something wrong with me wouldn’t be cool”. That stoned hippie fucking slacker from the adverts could pull that off I believe.
Macs are cunty computers designed for retards. I hate them, their operating system is a nightmare, and they fuck dogs. You know the easiest thing to set up video calling with? My bloody Sony laptop. It just worked. If I was choosing computers again I would just go to Dell and ask them for the biggest, meanest bastard they could manage. Then I would be very happy.
iPhones are fucking clever little bastards though.
The back garden? How barbaric. I would have kept him in the attic to give the kids company.
They are clever because I can make these comments from the pub, whilst sipping my Friday lunchtime pint and waiting for some venison neck in the truly fucking wonderful King’s Wark – possibly my favourite pub in all the world.
Technology fucking rocks.
1. I heard one that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage
2. My Power Monkey, or my iPod
3. Not a scooby, even though Dylan does say it, I have no idea what he’s talking about
4. Skin tight Lycra, minging.
5. Cars that you can just programme a destination into, hit start and then have a nap. I don’t know if it’s coming, but it would make me happy.
Power Monkey?
Yea, it’s a little monkey that provides back up charge to practically anything, phones, iPods, laptops etc etc
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/917b/
2) I want to change this. My favourite gadget is my Bumblebee (from transformers) ipod speaker!
Wow – that power monkey looks pretty sweet. I am trying to justify owning one in my head. Its better than those woeful wind up chargers they try to flog you that DO NOT WORK.
I want Bumblebee iPod speakers!
Macs suck.
They’re pretty, but they’re fucking horrible computers.
Certainly are – all shit and no show.
About 6 or 7 years ago all the primary schools here in Victoria went through a big Mac phase and it drove me insane, I had to relearn a whole pile of basic skills just to accomodate Apple’s stupid need to be all different and special and whatnot.
And while we’re bagging out Apple, and I reckon I’ve said it here before, iTunes is a shit of a program also. No matter how many friggin versions they bring out, they still don’t get it bloody right.
Bumblebee ipod speakers rule. he also dances from time to time to the tunes and when you turn him on he plays the transformers theme tune…..genius.
1. Occam’s razor
2. my brand spanking Iphone
3. Yes
4. according to Bart it is the Iphone
5. a ‘you’re a cunt’ detection machine, then you’ll know who is worth talking to, and who’s not. This will save you loads of valuable time taking that you now waste speaking to people you later find out are cunts!
I have one of those detectors RCC. It’s called female intuition.
can i borrow it?
1. Boyle’s Law (wife’s maiden name)
2. gps heart monitor thingy. I can say thingy because I don’t actually have one. It’s still my favourite gadget.
3. I’m currently in Milton Keynes following a Basic English Law course (on lunch break just now). Might not prove that I know the definition, but it’s …….
4. The Spock grip
5. As a (trainee) patent attorney I’m not at liberty to say. Well, ok then, I have just run out of time / imagination. Hm, how about the West coast mainline upgrade? Oh, it’s already there? Ah-hum.
1. Chaos theory, even though it spawned all those godawful fractal images that were cool for about a nanosecond in the mid-90s. I mainly like it because the symbol for it (a circle with arrows coming out of the 8 compass points) is pleasing to my eye. If I’d ever been remotely tempted to get a tattoo, that’s what it would have been.
2. Not really a gadget person, although I have to admit to a sneaking temptation for the iPhone. Bumblebee speakers sound cool. But overall, probably something quite humble and non-techy but with life-saving potential, like the compass or the corkscrew.
3. Erm, yes.
4. I’m with you on Skype, except it’s a bugger when someone wants to talk to you when it’s Monday morning, you’re hungover and you haven’t washed your hair. Suddenly telephones seem sooo forgiving.
5. A fortnight or so ago, I would have said this:
http://cybraphon.com/
“Cybraphon is an egotistical, image conscious, moody beast of a band and the music it plays will depend on what mood it’s in.
Cybraphon obsessively checks it’s myspace page, youtube ratings, website stats and media coverage to see what people are saying about it. So just by going to it’s websites you will effect what mood it’s in and what kind of music it plays.”
Now I’m just happy that it exists.
Sure. It’ll cost ya though.
I’m sure we can come to a reciprocal agreement…
Come now RCC. You’re pretty good at spotting the cunts are you not?
some get through Euan….and it’s a total shitter when they do
1. string theory
2. gadget? fnah. laptop, or the humble microphone
3. but i do know.
4. i like the fact that futurama is so heavily influenced by it. but technology? that spaceship propulsion system being developed in europe – the ion drive. not quite ‘common use’ yet though…
5. good grief, i don’t look forward to expensive gadgets purporting to improve my life while merely complicating it.
Jake, are you married to the former Miss Boyle’s Law? That’s a most unusual surname.
“Meet my fiancé, mother: Heloise Boyle’s Law. I think Daddy knows her father.”
I think Chutters wins with Occam’s Razor. It’s similar to one of my own favourites: never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
yeah, i guess i should have explained what is Occam’s razor….it kinda sorta means don’t over complicate things….
In the late nineties I had a fight with Occam’s Razor. I’ve never been the same since.
1. big bang theory is pretty good.
2. go-go-gadget-arms
3. meh
4. uhura had the first ever bluetooth headset. although she somehow managed to wear it without looking like a massive dick.
5. the beanback. oh yes. the beanback.
1. Apparently, gravity remains an unproven theory, so in the meantime I’ll just float over there for a bit.
2. The G7th Performance Capo is a remarkably cool item.
3. It was once explained to me, but I may have forgotten the explanation.
4. I remember some crackpot company actually released a real working tricorder, but it doesn’[t seemn to have entered every day common use. Luckily, however,
someone has invented an iPhone app for it; but be careful if you iPhone users decide to download it, because it might just turn you into this guy
5. I’m going to have to agree with Coriander and say Cybraphon.
1. The Big Bang and Expanding Universe as opposed to Hoyle’s Steady State Universe (actually I always preferred the steady state theory and am a bit gutted that it seems to be wrong).
2. Electronic Cat Flap
3. Yup.
4. I suspect that David Cameron is a version of the android Data from the Next Generation series.
5. The steam engine.
Go-go-gadget-arms were shit, a fucking umbrella would pop up and even if they did work he’d only wrap himself around a bloody tree. Pennys video watch was the coolest thing going on in inspector gadget.
Cameron even looks like Data. I never noticed that – well spotted Titus.
how many star trek fans are there on this site?!
whats wrong with star trek exactly??
There’s a lot wrong with certain flavours of Star Trek. Are there any fans of Voyager, for example.
ive recently become obsessed with the original series. i just cant get enough of all the dodgy sixties attitudes. the women wear skimpy uniforms and are only ever addressed when being hit on or told to get the tea. its so wrong its funny.
1My dad is a physics teacher and his favourite saying is “better out than in” so I’ll go with that. I think it’s Newton’s 9th law.
2 My mac PowerBook. I like apple but I take issue with their “genius bar” and I refuse to activate the iTunes genius thing.
3 Ive heard of it. Something to do with Ronnie Corbett maybe?
4 never seen star trek but my favourite pun headline ever was an article in some magazine with William Shatner where he talked personally about his life. The headline: “Shat Himself”. That’s genius.
5 A list of every Scottish band currently touring outside the UK would be nice and a blog that had features on new Scottish music and sport and stuff aimed at Scots around the world would be awesome. Wait a minute……..
So in the name of blatant self-promotion I wanted to let you dear friends of Toad know that I’ve been inspired to do my own blog. As a Scot living in New York I find it hard to track all the new and old Scottish bands playing internationally. So our blog plans to take care of that.
I say “our” because we have Scottish contributors from all over the world now writing articles on music, sport, animation, photography. I’ll also have the odd review by Mr Toad. Not that his reviews are odd.
Anyway, I’m admittedly very new to the blogiverse or whatever it’s called, but feel free to stop by and say hello. All comments welcome.
It’s called Dear Scotland – http://www.dearscotland.com
And Deep Space 9!!! Get God out of my Sci-Fi you bastards.
Ok I had a feeling those overly sentimental and murky questions were alcohol induced, haha.
4. Can we say interracial sexual contact is a technological advance?
good, I’ll go for that.
And now I’ve complefy forgotten what number five is.
i like the next generation. everything else is pap. captain kirk (the original) is one of the most annoying tv characters ever invented. i blame shatner. picard on the other hand was a legend. as was ryker.
4: Covert Star Trek racism. They try so damn hard to have a token cast member of every conceivable racial minority, but even after a thousand bloody years of development and harmony the brown people still only fuck other brown people. It drives me round the fucking bend.
I liked DS9. Even the silly quasi-religous posturing toward the end was entertaining in a daft way, and was more than adequately made up for by loads of great spaceship battles in the last few episodes. And
Ezri Dax. Phwoar.
TNG was great, and even some of the Borg stuff on Voyager was good.
Loved the new movie.
But no, not a Star Trek fan.
Next Generation is some of the nest television anywhere. Ever.
We, also that there would be a few mixed race people in the future. As opposed to black guy, white chick, native American guy.
I think they misunderstood multiculturalism…
But more importantly: All Sci-fi is ruined when they introduce God! Get him out of my fucking schi-fi you arse-holes!!!!
Oh, I dunno. Warf was pretty brown, and he and the Dax woman fucked each other senseless in DS9.
And Ezri Dax was not even a patch on Jadzira Dax.
Another vote for Jadzira Dax.
With short hair.
Yowf!
The beehive was pretty spectacular too.
Beehive? For the love of god, on what pretence was that?
i always liked how ryker loved troy but she could read minds. dirty bitch.
It was for an episode called Trials and Tibble-ations. It took place within the origional Series The Trouble with Tribbles. The crew had to disguise themselves as members of the original Enterprise crew.
Oh look. My virginity just grew back.
That was a good one..
The original series episode that the DS9 crew went back to was called The Trouble With Tribbles.
Oh wait. You said that.
Duh.
But I’m glad someone else knew though.
A little something for you, Ben, by way of an apology.
Better than flowers!
1. Yes! Evolution’s hard to beat. And quantum thingy
2.Loved my ipod when i first got it, though the battery is shit really does my nut in now.
3. thought it was something about hearsay.
4. just been reminded lately how much i loved star trek! but what the bloody hell was going on with that last series? stopped watching as much telly around about then.
5. I want to be able to record a album entirely on a mobile phone
Jadzira Dax oh yes.
Schwiiiiing!
Nice to discover how to spell Ezri and Jadzira.
I seem to recall seeing an episode when the doctor discovered whether Ezri’s spots went all the way down.
I think it’s Jadzia, actually.
I can’t believe how fucking geeky this thread has become. What with the boobies at the top and the crazy Star Trek minutiae at the bottom is it a surprise to anyone that there are no ladies left commenting on this thread anymore?
Assuming titus is a bloke of course.
But Kirk-Uhura was the first interracial kiss in the history of American TV! The fact that aliens made them do it, and that Kirk didn’t close his eyes is simply beside the point. Now where’s my pocket protector?
The ’spots going all the way down issue’ was actually discussed in numerous…
You know what? I’m going to totter off to a Star Trek blog for a bit. Ruining the cool of an indie music site rather.
The one to five below is entirely irrelevant the main issue is just no people….7 of 9 at all times.And breath
1)Germ Theory, mainly cos it sounds like something snotty nosed kids invent but actually turned out rather splendid…well done Louis
2)The compass, it may no quite point in the right direction for north and at some point in time it will be upside down…..but anyone who really knows how to use one is an instant genius
3)A.E. is when you have a silly grin on your face and your girlfriend knows you are eiterh drunk or have been up to something
4)The Shush sound from the doors is best. Try it it freaks people
5)Electrodes on the head thought typing
7 of 9 by a veritable country mile
Did I miss the Slow Club album review? I’m presuming its well worth a tenner any thoughts? Its not been the same since Mrs Toad went away….structure that’s what’s needed.
I assert my blokehood.
And I have anecdotal evidence to prove it.
Haha!
Cogstar – still not written that one actually. Should be coming in the next week or so with a bit of luck.
1. Relativity
2. Hand blender
3. Yes.
4. Remote control
5. Quantum computing. Perhaps.
I thought the slow club record was kind of disappointing…
I am heading that way myself, just want to give it a few more listens first to be sure.
Grrrr. I did a five, tried to submit it, didn’t seem to appear, tried again, got told I’d already posted it, and now look what’s happened. Bastard wordpress.
Try again…
1. Relativity
2. Hand Blender
3. Yes
4. Remote control
5. Quantum Computing. Perhaps.
Oh, cock.
Good work! Three-post mentalism.
It had been snaffled by the spamulator.
‘Oh Cock’ wins on TPM, its a tremendous finish
Extra points for immaculate punctuation, too.
5. The switch for English speaking men that turns off Star Trek related chatter and gives me sweet silence and smiles instead
plus a remote control for those out of physical reach. (only C&B understands me, bless him, he’s been missed!!)
That really is a cracking pair of boobs.
Yeah, I’ve forgotten all about Star Trek all of a sudden.