Archive for February, 2010

excellent problem solving skills

Friday, February 26th, 2010

blodgett commend to you this man:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8539560.stm

fine art

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

blodgett have some artwork to recommend to you at this time!

http://www.doghatesme.com/dog-hates-me/2009/10/its-friday-and-i-am-just-wasting-time-at-work.html
http://xkcd.com/614/
http://www.dweebist.com/2010/02/no-kicking/
http://www.dweebist.com/2010/02/questions/

TODAY blodgett is eating…

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

blodgett made a well easy food item. instructions follow:

requirements:
1 can peeled tomatoes
2 can kidney beans
8 sausages
3 small onions (or moar if like onion)
1 stock cube
3 medium carrots (moar if like carrot)

1 large pan into which may be placed all of the above requirements simultaneously

makings:
1. cut sausages into nommable chunks, chop onions
2. fry both of them in pan until cooked and onion nicenbrown
2a. while waiting for step 2 chop carrots and open cans, rinse gunk off kidney beans
3. when step 2 done, add carrots, crumble in stock cube, add contents of cans
4. rinse tomato can juice in with about half can of water, and smallen tomatoes if necessary
5. bubble until cooked, add moar water if needed
6. consume, possibly with pastafood or potatofood

OM NOM NOM

pancake day

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

on tuestag it was pancake day! blodgett made 8 pancakes but consumed only 7. the remaining pancake blodgett carefully dried and preserved for later scientific examination. it now present to you results of rigorous analysis.

note on general methodology: pancake drying reached steady state by fritag, but was kept under observation for a further 2 days in case of surprises

evidence 1:

pancake

pancake

observation 1: entirety of pancake warped, note well that there are FIVE (5) raised edge sections.
conclusion 1: all pancakes inherently desire to be pentagons.

evidence 2:

pancake

pancake

observation 2: some parts of pancake wrinkled up. is common knowledge that fingers and toes wrinkle up in the bath.
conclusion 2: all pancakes inherently desire to be in the bath.

evidence 3:

pancake

pancake

observation 3: edges are highly crispy.
conclusion 3: all pancakes inherently desire to be crisps.

analysis:
blodgett thus present what is theorised to be the happiest pancake in the world!

happy pancake

happy pancake

gerbils

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

after blodgett contemplating this picture:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/welcoming_the_year_of_the_tige.html#photo4

it thought that it would be good if babies were called gerbils. they seem to have many gerbil-like qualities, the word gerbil also suits well the concept of sprog.

ha ha stupid cat

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8517727.stm

paper daft

Monday, February 15th, 2010

blodgett feels this one of the least science-expanding papers ever published:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC459209/?tool=pmcentrez

rating: DUH out of 4

nutrition information

Monday, February 15th, 2010

at last! scientific proof that chips cause happiness!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/15/chips/

pure green

Monday, February 8th, 2010

blodgett have completed work on a most useful utility, it determine which of your pictures are most green.
vague apologies this amazing feature currently *nix-only as blodgett rather lazy with file paths

cods they are here:
http://blodgett.doof.me.uk/real/greenify.py

to use:
0) save script to disk, e.g. into home directory
1) open terminal
2) type without the quote marks the following:
“python greenify.py [image folder] [output folder]”
where the part [image folder] should be replaced by the path to the image folder you want scanned
and [output folder] should be replaced by the name of the folder you want the results in.

note! all subdirectories of [image folder] also searched!

for example, say blodgett has pictures in
/home/blodgett/pictures/artwork
and wants to put the sorted ones into a folder called ‘green’ in its home directory. blodgett would type:
python greenify.py pictures/artwork green

whereupon the folder called green would be magically created and filled with artworks, greenest first! yay!

exemplary conductance

Friday, February 5th, 2010

while we at the musica thing, whole of new year’s concert was awsum, partly because georges pretre is a DUDE of the highest degree. blodgett offers the following evidence to support this opinion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUH-zMfnFXk
(is an encore, skip first minute)