Posts by Tom Beard
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"They can give themselves an enema," he said. "They put the liquid form on a tampon and the ecstasy goes directly into the bloodstream."
Ooooookay, we're well into Brass Eye territory now. "Cake, the new killer drug from Prague, affects the part of the brain known as Shatner's Bassoon..."
"... you can puke yourself to death on this stuff - one girl threw up her own pelvis-bone... What a f*cking disgrace"
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marijuana's not drugs, it's a leaf
Cue Chris Morris quote: "People say alcohol's a drug. It's not: it;s a drink".
And her dad has revealed what tipped into hard drug use: marriage. Clearly, the authorities should look at banning that.
Hear hear!
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Anyway, one 'physical reaction' to someone getting in your face like that (assuming the allegation is true) is to detach yourself and walk away, not stage a confrontation.
Possibly a bit difficult if one is being grabbed by the tie. Unless Mallard had one of those detachable ties, and I don't think even he would be that badly dressed.
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Try Kids Programming Language.
Or LOLcode
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Re touch typing: I type like I live - fast, with a lot of mistakes.
I did a six-week touch-typing course when I was a teenager, primarily so that I could type in the BASIC and Assembly code that appeared in computer magazines. Every week we learned some more letters, but no numbers or punctuation. As the last lesson rolled around, I asked the teacher when we'd learn how to type numbers. The reply: "Oh, you hardly ever have to use those, so just look at the keyboard for those". Hence, I still cannot completely touch type.
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Where did you learn to do your tech stuff? Be honest now, was it at school or even on a course?
Well, I did take a course in BASIC at polytech when I was about 12 (there wasn't much tech education at schools back in the early eighties), but apart from the odd brief course in specific technologies (usually paid for by employers) pretty much everything I know I've learnt from online tutorials, books, mucking around and View>Source.
On the other hand, my maths degree has come in very handy in terms of learning to think abstractly and algorithmically, so I wouldn't completely discount the value of formal education. And I've been very lucky to be able to move sideways in several jobs to get involved in new technologies: there's very little chance I'd be able to walk off the street and get a job as a GIS specialist, Photoshop monkey or web guy without formal qualifications.
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I remember the first computer training we had at school. It involved punched cards.
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Ah, the open source approach to bug fixes.
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And, as noted elsewhere, http://nz.youtube.com/" target="_blank">the New Zealand YouTube gateway opened yesterday afternoon.
And perhaps proof-reading HTML would be a good skill to teach, too ;-)
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I'm still stuck with Woosh at home, since I've moved flat a few times and don't want to go through the hassle of installation and having to have a landline. It can grind down to dialup speeds at times, but can be acceptable at others. Nevertheless, things like streaming video and torrents remain exotic concepts to me.