this year's best space pics

I love astronomy. There's nothing like the vastness of space to put some perspective on missing your bus in the morning.

Plus it's amazingly beautiful out there. Check these out.

(via the presurfer)

what, no fish daemons?

Ok, so the movie will probably be a pallid interpretation of the glorious books but this is an interesting diversion:



I like how I (her? we?) am sociable and shy...

best reaction vid..

..to the interblagh 'phenomenon' of two girls one cup. No I haven't seen the clip (nor have I ANY desire to do so) but I think some of the (genuine) reaction clips are pretty cool.

This one is the Roots guys watching it. Warning: there is a lot of screaming. And an afro.


Via the Underwire.

documentary:

random cool stuff

Beng sadly monolingual I have no idea what this is all about but the... 'things' (sculptures? ornaments?) are pretty awesome.

This is a brilliant story with amazing pictures. Although I'm not sure about the cuddling the grouper bit. Almost makes me want to run away to sea. Well, actually, it doesn't at all - but I'm glad someone else did it.

Vote for Mister Splashy Pants!

Everone have a lovely weekend, I'm off to get drunk.

PS XKCD explains what went wrong with my week. Lucky I always carry shark repellent...

conan says.. what?

This is hypnotically hilarious:

Arnie explains.

Stolen from linkbunnies and like they say I've no idea why this as funny as it is.

back to the grind

...and the grinding noise appears to be coming from our servers.

After a delightfully drunken weekend away in Aotearoa for the wedding of good friends (spending $300+ on a fantastic suite to sleep in 4 hours, shower a couple of times and vomit occasionally..) I return to sunny Sydney and to a hufuckerous (adjective du jour!) shit-storm at work.

I really should have expected this since people always seem to wait till I get back rather than trying to fix anything themselves. Or even tell anyone else about the problems.

And I've figured out why servers are called servers - not because they provide 'service' or anything so helpful. It's because they serve as convenient scapegoats if anything goes wrong.

"The database is down"
"Sorry, the server is offline"

"I can't upload data"
"Server's refusing connections at the moment"

"Datalinking is working very slowly"
"The server just stepped out for a coffee"

"I just lost 22 marriage files!"
"The server hates you. Sacrifice a chicken. It likes honey-fried with bbq sauce"

also...

Best hating on critters ever:

How many animals have a cardinal sin named after them? Just the sloth: God's most evil creature.

Pilfered from linkbunnies.

not the show

But I'm glad to see ze back again, even if only occasionally:

wong... wong...

In attempt to lighten the mood after yesterday's discovery of the impending apocalypse here's a condensed version of Teh Return of da Jediz by Scaryduck. LOLZ.

Oh, and furry baby animalz to up the cute quotient:


Awwwww!