nobler in mind to suffer
Most people with a ken for finding out about this whole Loonix thing have heard of Ubuntu by now. If not, please come out from that dark cave that you’ve been inhabiting and venture forth into the sunlight… it won’t burn. much. Anyway, of all the bizarre ways in which a person can advertise their love (or lust, thereof) for the Ubuntu Linux distribution, wearing a branded thong has to take the cake. Not that I go around looking for branded underwear in Cafepress (I don’t ok? honest!); but a BBC article on Clinton’s recent visit to the Labour party conference yielded a news story on the word Ubuntu. Check out that Ubuntu Linux thong halfway down the page.
Gents of the world, rest easy. In addition to bringing about world peace, making Linux accessible to mere mortals and any number of other miraculous tasks; Ubuntu Linux-ware can now protect your nadgers. I gotta also concede that it was a ballsy *cough* move by the Beeb to run that particular image. Here’s hoping that this doesn’t become standard dress at LUG meetups though. Ubuntu. Is there anything it can’t do?
Two links doing the rounds recently; 25 signs that you’ve grown up. Ok, lots of that stuff didn’t apply to me. One thing, however, did strike a chord. “I just can’t drink the way I used to,” replaces, “I’m never going to drink that much again.”. This is so completely true that it’s scary. Somewhat related. “A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer “pretty good stuff”.. So, imagine my disgust when I took the beer quiz and got Guinness. There’s something not quite right about that picture.
For entertainment, I am happily hunting down the list of book recommendations sent by Sin. I’m also on one of my periodic downloading sprees so everything from Aphex Twin and Aphrodite to Sting and assorted trance on the playlist. Productivity has zoom climbed.
On 02-Oct-06 at 7:22 am,
sage wrote:
Haha. Corona. Haha!
On 02-Oct-06 at 8:26 am,
Forge wrote:
Sigh. Heineken.
“Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you” is the creepiest thing EVAR. Old people should just shut the fuck up about that shit.
On 03-Oct-06 at 5:17 am,
N wrote:
Dammit Heineken…can’t stand the shit…gimme a Tsing Tao or a Lion stout anyday!
Bugger, I fall down on 15, 16, 18, 22 and 24…though I dont get why drinking at home is a sign of getting old…wouldbe it be more true to say the older you get the more money you have = more drinks out? Hmmm….makes me have doubts about the veracity of that test.
On 03-Oct-06 at 1:50 pm,
drac wrote:
sage: You totally rigged that!
Forge: Umm. Heineken? and yeah, I guess it depends on how old the old relatives really are.
N: (Wait. N? Not Co25 anymore?) I didn’t buy that thing about drinking at home either… Not sure if it’s about the money or about the “Oh, I can’t be arsed tanking up beforehand” angle.
Lion stout? Eeek?! Isn’t that just slightly better than a lukewarm mouthful of that bitter medicine they called Bison XXX?!
On 03-Oct-06 at 2:50 pm,
sage wrote:
i so did not rig that. it’s crazy how i so did not rig that. but they got it all wrong. they said Corona wasn’t a real beer. wtf right.
dude, Lion stout is nasty stuff. but it grows on you.
Forge?! Heineken?! is this really coming from the BeerIsCamelPiss guy?
N is such an awesome pseudonym. it’s crazy how awesome it is.
On 03-Oct-06 at 7:14 pm,
Forge wrote:
Beer *is* camel piss. However, in every man’s life there comes a time when he must drink camel piss.
This conversation is leaving me with a distinct thirst, however.
Or else I blame the stoopid quiz. Stoopid quiz.
Drac: vilely, disgustingly old is what you should be picturing here.
On 04-Oct-06 at 2:36 am,
elric wrote:
On 04-Oct-06 at 6:01 am,
N wrote:
formerly known as co25 mate..yes Bison was bloody horrendous…is it still produced? But stout is heavenly, trust me…
On 04-Oct-06 at 10:31 am,
drac wrote:
sage: Corona is not too bad… Everyone seems to have started on the “beer with a lime twist” route though (Fosters, I’m looking at you). I cannot believe you are defending Lion Stout, though.
Forge: You’ve drunk camel piss? Was this in Egypt? Do I remember this story from somewhere else? *snigger*
N: Dunno if it is. It might be, there were plenty of masochists in SL who drank it because they got buzzed faster than with the normal variety. I err. might have been one of them in my young and foolish undergrad days
It just tasted vile without being super cooled to the point where no taste registered.
By the way, I have had lukewarm Bison. We went on this road trip and some genius forgot to charge up the icebox (not me!). We were near this lake in Kurunegala and had no choice but to glug down room temp Bison. We tried the old “dip-in-the-lake” method, but I remember that the water in the lake was probably about the same temperature. My taste buds still wake up screaming in the middle of the night after that trauma.