Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

The first 20 seconds of this are the most remarkable - the sheer acceleration is stunning. It’s followed by a lot of accelerating and frantic braking.

Mike Reed, well known to UK-ers, he of Eastenders, has died.

One of the TV shows from his past was a frantic quiz game for children called Runaround, the catch phrase he used was “Run around … now.”

That’s one thing he won’t be doing anymore.

Watch this video and marvel that these bods race flat out, up a mountain, with no crash barriers. Wait until 3:30-ish to see what would greet them is they were to slide over the edge.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve talked my Mum through how to send a text message, but in the six years that she’s been carrying a mobile phone, she’d never been able to sent an SMS.

Well today … she sent one!!! Amazing.

I’ve handed over the Emporia Life Phone for my Mum to test. Looks like it’s going to be a good review!

Nice - NASA intend to chuck out some of the unwanted stuff from the International Space Station today.

It just amazes me that the US regularly fails to see the PR damage that they do to themselves.

Not just that, but continue to shows a disregard for the population of the world …

The U.S. space agency calculates the odds of the debris hurting or killing a person at one in 5000.

I’ve been listening to a lot of this amateur-sounding pop and one of my faves is Abi Makes Music.

Clever and stripped down.

Abi Makes Music

Portsdown Hill - House - 28th June 2007

Originally uploaded by Scarlet Pimpernel

Brilliant house, nestled in the hills above Portsmouth.

The early video games, because of their technical restrictions - low-powered processor, small amounts of working memory, etc - were based on patterns. Programmers did their best at disguising these, pretty successfully in most cases.

Some people learnt the patterns and were able to transcend ‘normal’ players, clocking up huge scores.

These rules can now be learnt by anyone - thanks to the Internet.

Want to beat Pac Mac? You can if you learn The Ninth Key Pattern.

I’m lucky enough to have a Table Top Scramble machine, so must get around to digging out the equivalent for Scramble. The narrow maze at the end still defeats me, although I used to be able to get through it as a child.

(Amazing, you know I put this posting into draft in March 2004!)

You cannot censor what I choose to see

Originally uploaded by dramamath

Unsettling, but has a lot of the Indian mystic about it.

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Originally uploaded by Gu Benchi

Stumbled on this one today.

The rest of their photos are great too.