Thermal Blog http://thermalblog.co.uk It's just a lot of hot air... Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:19:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://feeds.feedburner.com/Thermal?format=skin57.26682.1877http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gifThermalhttp://feedburner.google.com Bug Me Some More http://thermalblog.co.uk/bug-me-some-more/ http://thermalblog.co.uk/bug-me-some-more/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:19:52 +0000 Chris http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1671 There are some awesome webcomics out there, with XKCD being my No.1, but with the dozens I Stumble across, there are few that keep my attention for any length of time.

Recently I was lucky enough to find the Bug strip, by Adam Huber, and it hooked me instantly. I spent the next hour after finding it crawling the archives and it was time well spent. It’s beautifully drawn, and the simple expedient of using the bug characters makes it stand out from the raft of stick-men XKCD clones. It also helps that Adam has a wry sense of humour, and is somehow able to get his bugs to display their emotions so clearly. Real life observations mixed with a touch of the absurd, like the downside to being  a vampire shown below, keep you coming back for more. So far it’s being published pretty much daily (he must be mad) so pop over & get bugging…..

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]]> http://thermalblog.co.uk/bug-me-some-more/feed/ 2 One Advantage Of Parenthood http://thermalblog.co.uk/one-advantage-of-parenthood/ http://thermalblog.co.uk/one-advantage-of-parenthood/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:16:34 +0000 Chris http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1666 Click here to view the embedded video.

Is that you get to watch some occasionally good films in amongst the dross like Alvin & the bloody Chipmunks [shudder]. I still have ‘Nam-like flashbacks over that abomination. Anyway, How to train your dragon: Top film, if you haven’t seen it, watch the trailer above then go see. Very good use of 3D as well, none of this poking things out of the screen rubbish, just an immersive landscape. Still have to wear cruddy glasses though.

Just don’t forget to steal your kids popcorn……

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]]> http://thermalblog.co.uk/one-advantage-of-parenthood/feed/ 1 An Inconvenient Truth http://thermalblog.co.uk/an-inconvenient-truth/ http://thermalblog.co.uk/an-inconvenient-truth/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:02:41 +0000 Chris http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1662

Wait for all the screaming Apple fanboys to protest. I’m no Microsoft apologist, but if they came up with a product this expensive, yet so functionally inadequate, you’d never hear then end of it from the muesli-knitting, goatee-wearing Mac brigade.

In all the (mostly critical) articles I’ve read about this high tec brick, the most common defence from the Apple-opolgists  is; “Yeah, but you wait for the next version, it will have all those features and more! And be extra shiny!”.

Right, so why buy this one, and are you now finally admitting that Apple have been siphoning cash out of your wallet for years with upgrades that could have gone in the original product?

(Are you impressed that I made it this far without referencing its name to female sanitary wear? Whoops……)

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]]> http://thermalblog.co.uk/an-inconvenient-truth/feed/ 10 If You Only Take One Thing Into The Shower http://thermalblog.co.uk/if-you-only-take-one-thing-into-the-shower/ http://thermalblog.co.uk/if-you-only-take-one-thing-into-the-shower/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:33:22 +0000 Chris http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1657

If you don’t think this is funny, then you won’t like Unintentional Sex…..

But I think I know my audience ;-)

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]]> http://thermalblog.co.uk/if-you-only-take-one-thing-into-the-shower/feed/ 6 Tree Lobsters! http://thermalblog.co.uk/tree-lobsters/ http://thermalblog.co.uk/tree-lobsters/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:33:35 +0000 Chris http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1653 As the tagline says, you can’t prove they don’t exist….

Continued…..(with some very good points!)

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]]> http://thermalblog.co.uk/tree-lobsters/feed/ 0 Living In The Future http://thermalblog.co.uk/living-in-the-future/ http://thermalblog.co.uk/living-in-the-future/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:36:07 +0000 Chris http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1649 Occasionally amidst all the dross, caption catz, and lols on the interweb, you come across a website that’s an informative, amusing and downright interesting way to spend a few minutes and I was lucky enough to find one today.

Back in 1972, Geoffrey Hoyle (son of Sir Fred Hoyle) wrote a children’s book about 2010:Living In The Future.

Being that we have now reached the future (so to speak) what better time to see what came true, and what didn’t, and that’s exactly what Daniel Sinker did at this site: 2010: Living In The Future – The Book.

The site’s well worth a read, and Daniel’s commentary is very amusing, whilst always affectionate. Geoffrey Hoyle did get a few things spot on, while a few were somewhat wide of the mark, though I do fancy that dedicated bacon oven and the throwing toast machine…..

So after you’ve read that; what are your predictions for 2048? Jumpsuits are a given ;-)

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]]> http://thermalblog.co.uk/living-in-the-future/feed/ 0 The Hell Of Printing http://thermalblog.co.uk/the-hell-of-printing/ http://thermalblog.co.uk/the-hell-of-printing/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:11:36 +0000 Chris http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1645

If you too believe printers were sent from Hell (and plenty of mine were obvious lieutenants of Satan) then you’ll enjoy the rest of this strip over at the rather excellent The Oatmeal.

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]]> http://thermalblog.co.uk/the-hell-of-printing/feed/ 3 It’s Snow Joke http://thermalblog.co.uk/its-snow-joke/ http://thermalblog.co.uk/its-snow-joke/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:38:52 +0000 Chris http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1639 Boom, and indeed boom. Following on from last photo, here’s a few shots from the recent snowfall here in Scotland. It’s beginning to thaw now, but as recently as last weekend it was 2 feet deep on the lawn. Feel free to mock/be amazed depending on your latitude…..

This was the fruits of nearly 2 weeks of constant shovelling. Four foot piles of snow that will probably be still with us in July :-(

The back garden: check out the snow on the playhouse roof! Normally in front of you here is a rockery + some solar lights that are around 2 feet tall.

Thankfully these fellows went quietly as they were right above the front door. One of these straight through the top of your head could ruin your whole day…..

Anyway, that’s Winter done and Spring is just round the corner…… well, almost :-0

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]]> http://thermalblog.co.uk/its-snow-joke/feed/ 7 Freeze Frame http://thermalblog.co.uk/freeze-frame/ http://thermalblog.co.uk/freeze-frame/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:00:31 +0000 Chris http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1635

08:30 I had to get up for this and will you thank me? Well, Kristin probably won’t.

It was cold, and the drifts were up to my knees, but it was pretty. But it can melt now, and Spring can start if it’s all the same to you. What do you mean that’s 3 months away?

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]]> http://thermalblog.co.uk/freeze-frame/feed/ 2 Slip Sliding Away http://thermalblog.co.uk/slip-sliding-away/ http://thermalblog.co.uk/slip-sliding-away/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:31:08 +0000 Chris http://thermalblog.co.uk/?p=1633 Click here to view the embedded video.

For all that’s holy why did they get out?

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