Disco Bro:Hoe Ratio?

I was getting worried that the new series of flight of the conchords wouldn't yeild many good songs. I guess things are looking up!

This Be The Verse

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
   They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
   And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
   By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
   And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
   It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
   And don't have any kids yourself.
   
  - Philip Larkin

Bored on the Bus?

You know what it's like when you're bored on the bus, you get your phone out and mess around. I did this a while ago and found myself playing with the burst function. The pictures were sitting around for a while until I was playing with mencoder, a nice video encoding tool. Anyway, It can make videos from a stack of ordered Jpeg files using the command:

mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -ovc lavc -fps XX -o XXX.avi

The X's, well, for the first two put in your desired frame rate, the others are just your desired file name.

Its not brilliant, but it give you an idea of how to get up Oxford Rd in Manchester!

Geeks Anonymous

I have a confession to make... I am a geek. I always feel better once somebody understands that about me! I have been trying to learn to program for years now. I've tried loads of different languages, with varying degrees of success. 

I started using Ubuntu Linux a couple of years ago. Now it is the main operating system on my home computer. It's nice, you can fiddle with everything, a geeks paradise. 

Anywho... after getting to grips with the whole Linux thing - A word to anyone thinking of making the switch, don't be afraid of the command line, it is your friend, and so are the people in the forums - I decided to have a crack at learning to program again. This time in the cross-platform language, Python. The reason I chose this language was well, because it looked simple and, happily, it is. When you write a program, or script if you're being pissy, it doesn't look like a spider has been tap dancing on your keyboard, it's nice and simple, just like me.

So once you have got it all up and running, I found the Python Homepage and this tutorial page to be a good place to start, you need something to program. For this, rather than working from a book, I found the Project Euler website. Here they give you maths problems that you need a computer to solve, perfect.

Alright, so now you know my geeky secret, I hope you have fun. 

And you thought you drank a lot at christmas!

So what do you do when you have over a thousand empty beer bottles and a free afternoon? Well, personally I think I'd be recovering from the worst hangover of my life. Some people make a youtube video that i just thought was cool.

Dropbox - Like an online USB drive but better

Righty ho then, this is a little service/application/thing that I have been using for a couple of months now. Basically, its one folder that sits in your My Documents, /home/you, or whatever it is on a mac. Whatever you put in this folder is synced to the interweb and any other computers when you have dropbox installed and running. I use it to keep all my current work backed up and synced... you can also share files really quickly with friends using it.

A free account gives you 2Gb free storage and the file size limit is 100MB. Not bad for free!

Jizz In My Pants.... Yeah, you did read that right.

A friend of a friend suggested this, I just thought it would be two girls one cup sort of thing and made the search with some apprehension!

Anyway, Here it is. There seem to have been some issues with embedding the video, but it works here, enjoy... the blurb below is from some website... I couldn't be bothered to paraphrase!

'Jizz in my Pants, a new song from Lonely Island about exactly what you think its about made its debut on Saturday Night Live (SNL) Saturday.

Lonely Island is Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, and the clip includes cameos from Molly Sims, Jamie-Lynne Sigler and Justin Timberlake. Samberg previously worked with Timberlake for “Dick in a Box.”

If songs like Jizz in My Pants tickle your fancy (no pun intended), it’s the first single from The Lonely Island’s debut album Incredibad due out February 2009.'