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Was asked if there was an easier way of pasting than stretching...

Thu, 31 May 2012 09:26:27 +0100

Was asked if there was an easier way of pasting than stretching fingers between ctrl&v… So i produced the paste-o-matic 5000. 😊 (Taken with instagram)

67 Million Xbox 360s Sold Since Launch

Thu, 31 May 2012 02:06:56 +0100

67 Million Xbox 360s Sold Since Launch:

However they also state that they have 40 million xbox live subscribers.
That prob’ly means that the extra 27 million consoles are replacements for all those RRoDs… Ō_ó

"We’re so glad to see so many of you lovely people tonight, and we would especially like to..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 06:22:39 +0100

“We’re so glad to see so many of you lovely people tonight, and we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois’ law enforcement community who have chosen to join us here in the Palace ballroom hotel at this time.
We do sincerely hope you all enjoy the show; and please remember, people, that no matter who you are - and what you do to live, thrive and survive - there are still some things that make us all the same. You, me, them, everybody. Everybody.”

- Elwood Blues, ‘The Blues Brothers’

Pondering a Nightwing/Riddler mashup costume

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:31:36 +0100

…then i realised- would the name for such a thing be ‘Nightwiddler’? Suddenly i’m not so enthused. :/

another gem from Spike Milligan (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 28 May 2012 05:25:49 +0100

another gem from Spike Milligan (Taken with instagram)

Fear me, for i am zombie Batman… (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 26 May 2012 19:41:31 +0100

Fear me, for i am zombie Batman… (Taken with instagram)

Accepting that my stolen xbox console is never returning, and...

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:15:50 +0100

Accepting that my stolen xbox console is never returning, and moving on… In style. #StarWars #R2D2 #xbox (Taken with instagram)

“no Stairway? Denied!” (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 26 May 2012 08:32:18 +0100

“no Stairway? Denied!” (Taken with instagram)

Lego's new 'Monster Fighters' range

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:01:25 +0100

It has come to my attention that Lego has a new original line of toys coming soon (ie not just a new license that they’ve got hold of to pump out overpriced Batman or Star Wars tie-in sets)…
…and it looks fucking awesome. It’s called ‘Monster Hunters’ and features a rag-tag bunch of partially-mechanically-augmented characters chasing after a load of universal studios monsters inspired baddies.
Basically imagine Dr Watson of Sherlock Holmes fame plus Van Helsing plus ‘Abbot and Costello meet…’

Check the source link and go watch the videos… so far i’ve spotted the vampire, werewolf, mad scientist and Frankenstein’s creation minifigs from the blindbagged sets; plus a vampire bride, swamp monster and more zombie minifigs!

The sets include (judging from the vids) a ghost train, the count’s souped-up hearse, a mummy tomb, a haunted forest, a graveyard and a swamp.
Needless to say, i may be purchasing all of these. Lego plus horror movies? FUCK YES.

It’s good to see Lego really stepping their game up and throwing out some really decent sets that aren’t just someone else’s license. I’m not sure at whom these sets are aimed (i doubt much of their usual claimed target demographic is supposed to have seen all these movies) but they sure seem to know who it is that’s gonna be paying for them.
Yep, that’s right- geeky kids that never grew up and now have spare cash to spend on horror movie Lego.

the Tambour Table, from Michael Bambino it’s basically a...

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:00:52 +0100

the Tambour Table, from Michael Bambino

it’s basically a roll-top table with storage and plug points in the revealed spaces underneath the table’s corners. sweet.

today's Google doodle celebrates Robert Moog's 78th birthday

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:48:36 +0100

and the doodle functions. go try it out, seriously.

Sleepytime vanilla tea. Now just need some smurfberry. (Taken...

Sun, 20 May 2012 15:33:14 +0100

Sleepytime vanilla tea. Now just need some smurfberry. (Taken with instagram)

Dallas Green busting out an encore (Taken with Instagram at...

Sun, 20 May 2012 14:53:55 +0100

Dallas Green busting out an encore (Taken with Instagram at Fremantle Arts Centre)

City and Colour (Taken with Instagram at Fremantle Arts Centre)

Sun, 20 May 2012 14:52:18 +0100

City and Colour (Taken with Instagram at Fremantle Arts Centre)

Hyphens are Evil

Fri, 18 May 2012 15:19:44 +0100

dereremit:

Have you ever been in the situation that you tagged your posts, but they won’t appear when searching for that specific tag? Then you might have used a hyphen in your tag, which is obviously a very bad idea on Tumblr.

As Tumblr is currently lacking off something like a “Posts by Author” feature in group blogs, I had to workaround that by creating tags on each single posts which are the same as the authors name to be able to trigger a tag search to show all related posts for that specific author. That worked quite well, excepting for one author and it turned out to be an annoying weakness of Tumblr: hyphens are evil.

Hyphens are getting interpreted as spaces which obviously break the search for the given tag - just to keep that in mind spaces are represented by a plus (+) - and results in a “no posts found” state. You might be one of the sharper knives in the drawer and try to workaround that by URL encoding the hyphen (%2d), but that would be to no avail.

The only working solution is to abstain from hyphens in your tags and additionally you should spend a thought or two on removing them from your username, because you will never be notified about posts with your username in the tags as long as the username carries a hyphen.

By the way, you will not find a single word about that weakness when checking the tag usage documenation of Tumblr.

…furthermore, from what i’ve read of other people’s complaints, tumblr’s ‘support’ on the matter is “change all your tags to not include hyphens”. UNACCEPTABLE.
why should users have to use incorrect tags (or refrain from using hyphens in usernames) because you fucked up the way that tags work?

they used to work just fine however far back it was i first set up my blurb, i know ‘cos i checked every link; tumblr at some point changed the behaviour of hyphen-inclusive tags. and THEY FUCKED UP, but refuse to acknowledge it.

Doctor, look out! #DoctorWho #Lego #TARDIS (Taken with...

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:54:00 +0100

Doctor, look out! #DoctorWho #Lego #TARDIS (Taken with instagram)

Spending friday night building a (not-)Lego TARDIS while watching Supernatural. Living life to the...

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:15:02 +0100

Spending friday night building a (not-)Lego TARDIS while watching Supernatural. Living life to the max.
Oh, and eating chilli and drinking red wine. Fuck yeah.
Doesn’t get much better than this.

From today’s feed: “wrong man was executed in texas,...

Wed, 16 May 2012 01:54:46 +0100

From today’s feed: “wrong man was executed in texas, yahoo!” #allaboutcontext (Taken with instagram)

I used to run a rather successful origami business until, due to the recent economic decline, it...

Tue, 15 May 2012 04:51:42 +0100

I used to run a rather successful origami business until, due to the recent economic decline, it folded.

Random thought: can ‘tumblr’ be a verb? Or would the appropriate verb be ‘to...

Mon, 14 May 2012 02:42:20 +0100

Random thought: can ‘tumblr’ be a verb? Or would the appropriate verb be ‘to tumbl’?