Posts by James Butler
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Hard News: Vanilla Buffalo Yoghurt, in reply to Aidan,
+1 for panniers - they're essential for more than 30 minutes or so of riding when carrying a change of clothes + lunch. I made mine out of a pair of $10 school backpacks from the Warehouse.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Sacha,
“How can people drink nutrasweet when it tastes like electrical tape?”
And someone will ask how you know what that tastes like..
Because you needed to repair some wiring, and had to bite the tape into strips because you forgot the scissors. Obviously.
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Iz Caturday yet?
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Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Russell Brown,
Hang on … does this mean we’re like 4Chan now?
Oh we could be if you want...
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to James Bremner,
Prior to 1995 we were told that temp increase would accelerate from the rate of increase observed from the 1970s to the early 1990s, which of course is what started the whole shenanigans. And instead we got a lousy 1.2C a century!!
Consider that the entire range temperatures on Earth is only roughly -50°C to 50°C - that's a 1.2% change in only one century, which sounds pretty fucking significant to me.
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Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to James Butler,
Trying again as a jpeg.
ETA: Seems to have worked this time. FYI, the .png is 4.5Mb, the .jpg 534kb.
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Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Russell Brown,
I thought I did… trying again.
ETA: Damn - the file is OK locally, but I get an error when posting and it screws up. I will try to make the file smaller... -
Concrete prose.
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Hard News: Vanilla Buffalo Yoghurt, in reply to Hebe,
And Street Chant: what lovely young people.
Emily would lol at that, I'm sure.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Steve Barnes,
If that gene is the one that renders the seeds infertile [...] if that gene becomes widespread and dominant then we do have a problem.
My degree is in the wrong science, but on the face of it that scenario sounds... improbable. How could a gene become dominant if it codes for infertility?
