Steven Hanley
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Fri, 19 Jan 2007
Google Underwear - 12:04
So Kristy
suggests Google
should indeed hand out underwear, and we have noticed a tendency with
Mikal the past year or so. It appears he
has only worn Google T-Shirts in that time, sure he always had the tendency to
only ever wear vendor/free T-Shirts. Anyway we have suggested from time to time
he is probably wearing Google Underpants (if nothing else Google selling
Underpants may explain them turning a profit...)
Now although I really do not want to know more about Mikal's underwear it is
interesting to note he lives in the US and has admitted to owning and wearing
Google Thongs.
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The kernel hacker culling plan - 11:13
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Linus riding along on Geoffrey's Segway (fullsize)
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Back in 1994 when Linus visited Andrew Tridgell and Canberra, Tridge took him
out to the National Aquarium and tried to kill him off with a bunch of
rabid penguins
biting him. Then a few years
later after an lca Alan Cox came to Canberra for a visit also and Tridge took
him horse riding, he fell off a horse, more proof that Tridge is trying to
kill off the kernel hackers. I suspect this is a large part of why Linus did
not want to come back to Canberra in 2005, apart form having been there before
he was wary of being near Tridge on his home turf.
Anyway at lca this year Linus and
various other Kernel hackers are in attendance. However because all Kernel
hackers are trained to be wary of Tridge at Kernel hacker school Tridge had
to get someone else to do the culling effort this time. In this instance it is
Geoffrey Bennett with his
Open Source/Hardware hand built Segway vehicle.
Geoffrey has mentioned to a few people that if you go too fast on his it can
cause a face plant or other problems as it does not yet back off correctly
when it hits top motor speed. He will I am sure have that fixed soon, however
he left that feature off here so the experienced kernel hacker Segway riders
may be tempted to take it for a fast spin and possibly have an incident
furthering Tridge's Kernel hacker cull.
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5 Small Cats - 09:21
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5 Small Cats (fullsize)
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Apparently their names, from left to right are Pecker, Cowboy Western,
Dulcimer, Cornbread, Crockpot. (maybe I should take a photo in sunlight to get
them in focus)
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The new camera - 08:04
As I mentioned
last week I purchased a new digital camera. A Panasonic DMC LZ5, I have
used it a fair bit so far, on the
Friday morning
mountain bike ride last week,
riding up to
Sydney and for various other photos in the last week.
I like the camera, and I took the above photos of both cameras last week just
to show them off, the new one is a bit smaller and definitely lighter. It was
just as well I had two cameras last week or I would have had a chicken and egg
problem, how do you take a photo of a camera if you only have the one
camera. (okay so a mirror is one solution, but I am ignoring that for the
purposes of this
lame chicken and
egg reference).
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