So first I saw this I thought … “haha, that so must be a prank”. Then I starting worrying that it might actually be true! So for those mad explorers who go only equipped with their crappy camera ‘phones … you can now starting bring some quality to your blurry shots ;-).
Personally I reckon two for every day of the week seems like a polite balance ;-). I love retrotastic watches and must admit I’m rather taken by these new G-Shocks from Casio. Anyone want to buy me a nice green one for when I’m out exploring, though some of the places I go to get so little light the solar panel will never have a chance to do its stuff!
When I’m out exploring there are the sorts of hazards you might expect. Rotten floors … you learn to check things out first and walk on the joists where you can. Heights … just be sensible and anything serious should use some sort of fall arrester. Glass and other sharp nasties … good shoes and a pair of leather palmed kevlar work gloves. Absestos … a P3-rated half mask. Security guards with dogs with sharp pointy teeth … stealth, cunning, and a fast pair of legs. All things I’m prepared for and carry gear to handle in my exploring pack, along with first aid kit, multi-tool, and a multitude of torches.
However, there is one hazard you can’t really prepare for … other people! Using the current UK vernacular, the groups of feral “chav” kids, and the gangs of “pikeys” stealing all the metal work they can rip out of a building with their stilsons, crowbars and gas cutting gear. A lone explorer with an expensive camera is an easy target for anybody given to aggression and theft, hence why they are the hazard I fear most and the one that I’m very careful to avoid at all cost!
Not that I’m in anyway advocating a more armed response but the following torches unsurprisingly caught my eye …
Here it is … a snip at 159 bucks!
#1 - stick it in your gob.
#2 - use it for looking down the FSM tube on ROC posts when out exploring.
#3 - #101 - far to rude or disgusting to mention ;-).
So I’m not lucky enough to own an iPhone. The upside of IBM paying for my bill is that apart from my personal call costs, I’ve nothing to pay. The downside is that the perpetual ‘phone upgrade junket that many are on simply doesn’t feature in my world. I have an old SE T630, it works and the battery lasts for ages, and that’s enough.
Anyhow, I was looking for some iPhone stuff related to a possible bit of project work I might be involved in, and I found this simulator. Superbly authentic!
… to think that this is fucking cool, but it is fucking cool!!! Then again I’ve got a Nixie clock, wear various LED watches, and come from a family of scientists!
Well I would have done in the past! However then I discovered this!
… courtesy of my buddy John! Get it here and then see whether you think Eve looks hot too ;-).
Courtesy of my office mate Christopher … just how cool is this upcoming game? I’ve just downloaded the earlier free version of it, and now all I need is a funky rotating screen Lenovo tablet please!
Update: Arrghh … it’s so addictive and annoying! Download it now!
So I’d previously read about how reCAPTCHA were using humans as a free resource to help digitize texts that were failing to be digitized by OCR. So the CAPTCHA that you get asked is actually a word that couldn’t be recognized by the OCR software and you do the job the software couldn’t do.
However, the following story made me laugh given instead its ingenious use of humans to unknowingly crack the CAPTCHAs on behalf of the spammers they’re supposed to stop. So see smut … help the spammers create accounts to spam from … but digitize a historically important text too … all in one hit!