Why is this site called Affable Lurking? Well there are several reasons… First off, several personal sites in the alf.fan.pratchett fandom take the form affordable-X where X depends on the site owner. I didn’t want to follow this convention for my new site (not really being an AFPer as such) so I went with Affable. …
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A thought occurs to me…
The Pope has been dead for a while now and he has been sitting at room temperature out in the open for a day or so. I’m guessing that the temperature inside St Peter’s Basilica must be pretty high, due to lots of people passing though it. Isn’t the Pope going to be a bit, …
Ahh Spring.
Spring, when a young pisshead lady’s fancy lightly turns to sitting outside Heathway station shouting out “Slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag!” and “Oi! Frigid!” and “Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooor!” To any other young lady that dares to walk past. This coming from two aspiring young alcoholics wearing skirts so high and tops so low they were on the verge of exchanging places. …
I was on a roll as well…
Earlier today I picked up an Intel StorageStation networked disk storage box for £3. I got it home to find that the disks are missing and that the OS was stored on one of the missing disks. No real problem, google shows that the device runs FreeBSD and an OS image was on Intel’s website. …
RCA cleaning silicon
I’m sure the RCA process for cleaning silicon wafers was invented when Werner Kern got drunk in the lab one day and decided to have some fun… How else would any sane man come up with the idea of taking a half litre each of several of the most corrosive things you can image then …