Berlin Mauerweg
I decided it was a good idea to cycle the entire length of the Berlin Wall (Berlin Mauerweg). 160 km’s later, and I feel a tad wrecked, but it was definitely worth the effort 🙂
Random JavaScript question
Solved! Special thanks to @Japh and John Blackbourne for figuring out where I went wrong 🙂 I’m trying to abstract some strings from a JavaScript file, but I can’t get it to work. I’m hoping some kind soul somewhere out there on the interwebz can tell me what stupidly obvious thing I am missing. The […]
Laterjet procedure
Almost three years on, and my shoulder feels great. My left arm will never have a full range of movement, but it is at least stable.
Flying turtle
Fat Ryan after running 6 km
I’m fat and out of shape. This is what I end up looking like when I attempt to get rid of the lard by doing an evening run.
Time to lose the fat!
I realised on Saturday that I am officially a fatty! That gut isn’t being poked out in this photo, that’s just what it looks like when I’m standing.
The gods
Those gods you name, are mere false idols. The real gods will strike down thee with furious vengeance and anger. Thy kingdom come; Thy pasta will be done; as it is at Dominoes. Amen.
Ruined business model
In reference to my business being ruined: I had a business which was obliterated by WordPress including it’s functionality in core (it was menus). My plugin became mostly irrelevant overnight, as the implementation in core was much better than I had in my own plugin. I saw that as more of a failing on my […]
New Google Maps “Digital Timeline”
Comment by yours truly: I think this will be very fascinating in 40 years time. It will be fascinating to look back on where I currently live, even if it is bulldozed and upgraded in the in the mean time. It could be particularly fascinating to look back on your neighbourhood from when you were […]
Afternoon at Scheissmeile
Skating at Tempelhof
Awesome time was had skating at Tempelhof airport in Berlin today 🙂
Ze wabbit
Go home Facebook, you’re drunk
Wisdom from Kermit
We take cash!
In Germany, it is extremely rare for shops to take cards. In New Zealand, the shops need to emphasise that they do indeed take cash in case people assume they don’t.
SmartSpy RC aircraft
Some of you may have heard that I bought a new Radio Control aircraft the other day. It came with an onboard video camera and even included an SD card. As far as I was aware, this aircraft was “made in Germany”. My German skills must be worse than I thought, as I can’t understand […]
Penis picture taken in our hallway
My new apartment has some stunning artwork on the walls. This particular master piece was created by a former tenant and improved upon by my lovely new Russian flatmate 🙂
Familiarity
This feels oddly familiar 😛
A cow
Kebabnorsk
I learned a new Norwegian word this evening, kebabnorsk. This literally translates to “Kebab Norwegian”, which means the language spoken by people in kebab shops in Norway. I’m pretty sure I’m fluent in kebabnorsk 🙂 Jeg tror at jeg er flytende pä kebabnorsk 🙂
Elephants in Berlin!
I’m just walking along, minding my own business listening to music in Berlin. Nekkminit, I look through a fence and see an elephant. It seems there are interesting things at every turn in Berlin!
Sony products in water
I own a pair of Sony headphones which went through the washing machine once. They still work just fine. I wonder if it works with Sony Vaio’s too?
Venus flytrap flowering
This image of a venus flytrap about to flower really captured my attention today. There’s some truly appealing about it, but I can’t quite pinpoint what.
7up, 10up, co-up!
Me, drinking 7up, whilst working for 10up, at co-up!
Ridiculously addictive
Thanks to Harriet for finding another ridiculously addictive thing to keep me from doing things I should be doing 😛 http://geoguessr.com/
Response to global warming alarmists and deniers
The problem I see with analysing climate science for the masses, is that almost all data presented to the common person is manipulated either for or against climate warming being a problem. Most of the junk I see flowing through my Facebook feed alerting to the horrors of global warming, is nothing more than fear […]
US vs regular keyboard
The top one is my current keyboard, the bottom one is the US equivalent. I always thought the keys were identical between countries! I guess not :/ Does anyone know if NZ computers come with US keyboards? I know the layout is typically set to US, but I’m wondering about the actual keys themselves.
OpenVPN on Ubuntu
Tutorials I’ve followed trying to get OpenVPN working in Ubuntu (none are working for me) … http://naveensnayak.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/ubuntu-openvpn-with-ovpn-file/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/187511/how-can-i-use-a-ovpn-file-with-network-manager https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/459675:configure-linux-clients-to-connect-to-openvpn-server
Typing test result
Hmmm, it seems my typing speed has improved lately. That was with no warm up, no double take. Just randomly decided to do a test and out popped that result 🙂 Typing test result
God jul!
Giant fruit in Germany
I saw this giant monstrosity of a fruit in a small stall in Berlin. I’d have bought one, but I don’t think I would have managed to finish it 😛
Cute lamb
Holidays spirit for the terminal
Install Ruby and run this … ruby -e ‘C=`stty size`.scan(/d+/)[1].to_i;S=[“2743”.to_i(16)].pack(“U*”);a={};puts “33[2J”;loop{a[rand(C)]=0;a.each{|x,o|;a[x]+=1;print “33[#{o};#{x}H 33[#{a[x]};#{x}H#{S} 33[0;0H”};$stdout.flush;sleep 0.1}’ Thanks to Chris Laing for sending this to me.
Bounce, jiggle, wobble :)
Thanks to Milan for pointing out this terrifically informative video. I learned a lot about bounce dynamics from it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2-9k519Gs
God/Jesus in a nutshell
Basically the old testament tells you how inferior you are to God and all the things you have to do to make it up to him. Then the new testament says, “Scratch that. This dude died for your inadequacies. Follow him and be saved.” – via @ronalfy
Anyone able to help with my VIP Quickstart problem?
If you don’t know what VIP Quickstart is then this post is not intended for you 🙂 Edit: I’ve been reading the Varying Vagrant Vagrants page, which says that version 4.2.16 of Virtualbox is incompatible with Vagrant. That is the exact version of Virtualbox which I’m using right now, so I’ll try downgrading and see […]
Cute pigs
What to do with a naked man
What is the most appropriate response to the following scenario … You wake up to hear crashing and bashing in your apartment. You figure one of your flatmates is just drunk and ignore it. The bashing goes on for a while. You keep ignoring it. Then someone walks straight into your room (no knocking, just […]
Vigilantism
If people had the right to seek vengeance for things they saw as an injustice, society would become a very scary place. You may feel you are justified in seeking vengeance upon others, but I’m sure others feel justified in seeking vengeance for things you would not agree with. I recommend not setting an example […]
Kristall weiss
I’m currently sitting in a teeny tiny pub in Bonn (Germany), drinking something called a Kristall weiss, which according to the bar tender is apparently like a regular weissbier, but it’s filtered so it doesn’t have the cloudy weissbier thing going on. Imma starting to feel a little drunk 😉
Ross Ulbricht, alleged owner of Silk Road has been arrested
At 29 years of age, Ross William Ulbricht has been charged with running Silk Road. What confuses me, is that these are supposedly the ways he got caught. All of which seem like trivial things that he should never have been doing. He avertised Silk Road on drug forums and bitcointalk.org with the username “altoid”, […]
Woohoo! We won the beer pong.
My awesome team won at beer pong this evening 🙂
Elevator of death
Arghhh! Frost!
Darn it. Winter is coming! I took this photo on my way to work this morning.
WordPress geeks in Oslo!
https://plus.google.com/110903788122203327516/posts/QVSWv7p1QDz
Norwegians
2000
Thanks to @georidersmtb for becoming my 2000th follower 🙂
Vegetables
I ate almost nothing but vegetables for a week and felt awful. I ate nothing but carbohydrates on the weekend and now I feel great. I think I’ll stick with the carbohydrates from now on 🙂
When dead
God sent this to me.
I broked it :(
I think it bent out of shape when I was going downhill. I was nonchalantly leaning back whilst cruising down the hill, and I think it was that point I noticed something was odd. I initially thought I was just imagining it and the handlebars had always been that far back. Then I noticed it […]