Posts Tagged ‘Fun’

How big are Whale sharks?

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

This sign was at the London Aquarium. Spot the maths mistake.

London Aquarium shark exhibit

London Aquarium shark exhibit

Job Adverts

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Is it just me or does anyone else see jobs advertised with the line

salary: neg

and think that neg means negligible and not negotiable?

UFO Sightings In Kent

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

The news of an MOD report into the existance of extra terrestrials has been all over the “Oddly Enough” pages of the news sites today. Reuters and the BBC had both been reporting on an investigation into the causes of the UFO phenomena by the MOD.

The full report is not out until the 15th of May but the conclusions have been reported on, perhaps a little disappointingly, as

Evidence suggests that meteors and their well-known effects and, possibly some other less-known effects are responsible for some unidentified aerial phenomena…

and

Considerable evidence exists to support the thesis that the events are almost certainly attributable to physical, electrical and magnetic phenomena in the atmosphere, mesosphere and ionosphere.

After a little searching around I found a list of reported UFO sightings since 2002 on the MOD site. I have included those that happened in Kent during 2005 below.

27-May-05 15:15 Kent
Was a small white object, that was moving parallel with an airliner.

22-Nov-05 Sheerness Kent
A ‘V’ shape of dim lights, that went into a straight line and then back into a V again.

22-Nov-05 Gillingham Kent
Five lights in the sky, that looked very strange. The lights were flashing.

24-Dec-05 21:20 Whitstable Kent
Three bright, orange lights in the sky, and then a forth orange light appeared and followed the other three.

27-Dec-05 Whitstable Ken
Strange lights were seen in the sky.

The descriptions from the report are somewhat lacking in detail which is disappointing. Kent only receives 3% of the sightings in the report. Either the aliens don’t think that we are interesting enough, or we just don’t get the unusual atmospheric weather conditions.

Shame.

Blitterbug Games

Friday, April 28th, 2006

A friend of mine has been working on some freeware games and has posted them on his website.

The games play well, are nicely presented and are well worth a look. I really like the attention to detail in the homage to Pac-man called Cac-man. The sound effects are spot on and brought nostalgic memories of the original flooding back.The author, Blitterbug, has even been seen playing Cac-Man himself during lunchtimes. I have suggested that he could add networked highest score table so that we can see how well we perform against other players, but I think this project is considered complete and something new is probably in the pipeline.

The games can be downloaded from here.

Beer Festival Dates

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Very exciting news is that it looks like my crowd are going to descend on the May Beer Festival at the Halfway House in Brenchley. Mendip is proposing attendance on the Saturday or Sunday, as by Monday the best beer will be gone (and Sunday has the added bonus of a traditional pub roast).

So, I will blending in with the Real Ale stereotype by wearing my Linux guru beard and sandles.

Careful what you buy on eBay

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Fancy a chuckle.

Take a peek at Adam Sweets Blog.