I learned at the weekend, that Gustav Klimt drew really lovely pictures of masturbating women.
I also learned that while the Tate is entirely happy for under 18s to look at all sorts of other nudes without the slightest warning, if they're touching themselves they put a sign up at the door suggesting that the content might not be suitable!
I learned that Canning Town contains a miniature wood. I also learned that I have a (very) vague connection to the area via Mansfield College, where I was a lecturer (the kind that tutors, not the kind that lectures) for a bit.
Oh! By coincidence I learned about the amazing usefulness of command-line HEAD just t'other day, but I hadn't extrapolated to GET and POST being unix commands too (d'oh). Thank you :)
Does "that OSS is broken in a way that causes significant annoyance to me and minimal perturbation to the people meant to be fixing it?" count? (It is a particularly interesting way of being broken, IMO.)
Otherwise, I vote for: describing Julian Lloyd-Webber as looking like a tramp who found a cello can make some people snort tea out of their nose in a very impressive manner.
Our headmistress looked like Andrew Lloyd-Webber. Dunno if you can see this but it was such a strong meme at school that there's now a facebook group about it.
That ragwort leaves and poppy leaves look very similar in young plants and had to pull up all the 'self-seeded poppies' yesterday when they revealed themselves to be yellow weeds.
I did know that ragwort was originally first planted in this country in the Oxford botanical garden in the 1600s. I'm not sure how long it took to migrate to Cambridge but I'm betting that it was only marginally slower than the X5.
Ragwort = yellow, pretty, & deadly poisonous to cows (or was it horses? -- anyway, I remember pulling it up from the sides of fields on the farm where we used to spend the summer when I was little).
I didn't know about it being planted in the botanical garden though!
I'm betting that it was only marginally slower than the X5
I didn't know hobnobs were milk-free, that's handy to know!
When I was milk-free there was virtually nothing biscuitty which didn't have whey powder or lactose or some other horrible faffy bit of nearly-milk which would set my allergy off. And I was so so grateful to the nice people at Rowntree who wrote back to my mum (when she asked about one type of bar/chocolate/thing) with a complete list of all their products and which of them were milk-free and what the ingredients were. And, joy of joys, plain Breakaways were milk-free! Real chocolate like what other people ate! :-)
IMLE it's not so much "unnerving" as "completely fucking hopeless" as there's so much interference/lag that it's ...... like....... likeTALKING.... hello? .... TO ..... someTALKINGone... LIKEhello? helDOWN A WELLlo? Hello? ....
Mind you my (equally limited) experience of iChat AV is that it's just as much fail but you get to see the lag as well, like bad dubbing. :-}
Do you know, I'm actually having to stretch to think of something.
My cheap crappy little MP3 player plays Oggs out the box. Which isn't mentioned at all on the box or in the manual. I am most pleased at this :-) Now I just want it to do m4a's as well.
Chlorine-based Mould and Mildew Remover seems to do what it says on the bottle, but not if you use it in accordance with the instructions on the bottle. It can also cause a headache if used in a poorly ventilated shower room - such as the kind of shower room where mould/mildew are inclined to grow.
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