Sunday Things
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday June 3 2012
Right, time to actually post some links. Behold, links!
Bonus Inappropriate Taxidermy Corner (animal lovers beware):
- Dutch Quadrocopter Cat - former pet takes to the skies (audaciously offensive),
- The Badgermin - a badger theremin (obviously),
- The End of History - £500-a-bottle beer packaged in stuffed squirrels, stoats and a hare.
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2. Hylobates, Hoolock, Nomascus and Symphalangus
Posted by Cargo Cult at 10:49PM, Monday June 4 2012
Hylobatidae? Family comprising gibbons.
Why? When I was first setting out into the Glorious Land of Work, the existing IT persons at a company I'd done some odd-jobs for had been often compared with gibbons.
Declaring myself to be an altogether higher class of gibbon (cue monocle, top hat and twirling of moustache) I proceeded to storm through the Belgian IT world with such unheard of traits as 'vague competence', 'house-training' and 'being able to identify a terribly expensive server being connected to the terribly expensive network via a rickety old 10Mb/s hub'.
(The gibbons proceeded to install a new and terribly expensive 100Mb/s switch into the rack, which I then had to point out may have had power but didn't actually have any network cables plugged in. I was very popular.)
So there you go. The true story of why I ended up with this impossible-to-spell in-joke of a domain name - it's actually a veiled insult towards an otherwise-forgotten group of utter numpties.
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1. For the first time in my life I wish I understood dutch
Posted by Pace at 7:36PM, Monday June 4 2012
So, really then, what is a hylobatidae?