Snippets #12

By Primal Sneeze | Sep 18, 2007

Eolaí is ar ais arís in Ireland after 8 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 3 days in Kansas. If it was murder he’d be out long ago. Anyway, pop over and say welcome home, or if you reading this elsewhere, ask him how it’s going.

Don’t ask him about the weather though. Touchy subject here right now. There was frost on my car this morning. Two brass monkeys came to the door looking for a welder. Yesterday’s weather was menopausal - hot and cold flushes. One minute there’d be glorious sunshine and you’d be sweating like Christy Moore. Then a lazy wind would come from the north and go straight through you rather than around.

Tom Raftery braved the weather to post on Wunbi, a new and free installer for Ubuntu. Excellent for those who are scared of attempting a Linux install without getting an adult geek to hold the scissors or turn on the gas. It’s completely point-and-click.

For uber-uber-uber geeks there is an excellent article in this month’s IEEE magazine, Spectrum, about new research into quantum computing. It really is a new approach! Upside: All the essential ingredients for a quantum computer have been realised. Now we need to integrate them. Downside: A practical quantum computer may be possible within the next few decades. I wonder who much they’ll cost? Will my pension stretch that far?

If I had a super duper rapid mutt’s-marbles quantum computers right this minute to track down the fekers who skimmed the sibling’s credit card this month. It is one of those fancy shmancy ones with no limit so it caused a bit of a panic. All credit (ha! ha!) to the issuer they refunded the money pending an investigation so there’ll be no interest penalty. More on this when I have it.

8 Comments so far

Conortje September 18, 2007 3:42 pm

I agree with Eolaí , the weather gods should be fired.
irishflirtysomething September 18, 2007 8:32 pm

There was frost on my car this morning. Two brass monkeys came to the door looking for a welder. lol!
Primal Sneeze September 18, 2007 8:56 pm

Conorín - They were. And look at the crap job their yellow-pack replacements are doing! Cutbacks be damned!

Flirty - Ok so. I thought the menopausal weather one was better.
JohnMC September 19, 2007 12:17 am

Shite. I’m headed home, I was hoping the weather would hold up.
Eolaí September 19, 2007 1:21 am

Thank you. And now that I have shoes I might go further out tomorrow. I should add that I like this miserable weather. It suits me.
Primal Sneeze September 19, 2007 6:21 am

JohnMc - Hold up, as in what? Keep raining? We’ve had the worst weather on record, CD and download!

Eolaí - Shoes are good. They’re made for walking, and that’s just what you should do. Then report back - I’m interested in hearing what changes you see.
Annie Rhiannon September 19, 2007 11:11 pm

I kind of like this “frosty” weather, I was getting bored of summer anyway, it’d had been going on since April, with a little gap in the middle for some rain.
Primal Sneeze September 20, 2007 6:16 am

Annie - I like the frost too. I used like rain better until this year. Oh, and best of luck starting back to school today. Break a pencil!

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