Found this while trolling around. Surely there’s nothing worse than a geek with too much time on his/her hands.

QED.

This was sent to me by my friend Jessie (who you may remember from previous adventures in Beijing and Edinburgh). Apparently they’d had 4 days of 40+ degrees in Adelaide, and someone found this overheated beastie in their back garden…
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I think I just wet myself. Why can’t the comments in *MY* blog be this funny?

Joss & Warren Ellis Flamewar

There are few things funnier than two nerdy writers having it out in a public place, albeit a nerd-form public place.

Joss Whedon and Warren Ellis, literarily posing for the crowd of geeky gawkers, it doesn’t get much better than this.

I suppose I HAVE to watch my copy of Global Frequency now. It’s been sitting on my hard drive, frightfully neglected for such a long time, I’d pretty much forgotten about it. But no, really, it’s great to see that Warren Ellis isn’t bitter about what happened to Global Frequency, really.

*grins*

All this obsession with blogging about the iPod has brought about a terrible bout of neglectfulness from my real blogging duties. I forget to mention enough just how magnificent this town is, in every way. The architecture, the history, the weather, everything.

From where I work, I have this brilliant view out across the Forth of Firth to Fife. It blew me away when I first saw it, but at this time of year when the sun tracks to the south, and the buildings are all lit up by sunshine even when it’s raining, makes for some pretty spectacular sights. I happened to have my camera in my bag when this happened one day:
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So after much deliberation and websearching, I decided to downgrade from the iPod Video to the Nano, and have not looked back. It’s been totally stable, no jumping, no random acts of resetting, no crashing. And I’m convinced that despite the fact that they’re notoriously scratchable, they are very very solid little beasties. Click here to have a look at the stress testing that it was put through by one review site. They ran it over with a car TWICE and it was still playing, bless it.
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