The beaver is a proud and noble animal

Katy and I sometimes watch Man V Food as filler TV. The show is about a man who roams the US to face food challenges that local restaurants host as a matter of course (like eating 5 pounds of chicken wings in 30 minutes to win a t-shirt, an 8 pound sirloin steak to get your picture on the wall, or a 6-pound hoagie with 2 pounds of fries). So yeah. One TV critic describes it as the food version of Jackass. Every time we watch the show, we’re half-and-half drooling at the food that’s being prepared and appalled at the waste generated and the idiocy of it all.

   

 

We decided to do our own version of the silliness today. I made us a one-pound burger, with a quarter pound of bacon and three slices of cheese, topped with fried mushrooms and onions, pickles, lettuce, mayo and reggae reggae relish all on a grand rustique loaf. It was really good. It was huge. The scary bit? It’s not even in the Man V Food league in meal size. Still, it’s not something that I’m planning on doing again any time soon. I’m still stuffed from the thing!

Current Mood: Full

German sausage lovers can now study for a master’s degree in their favourite dish. Students learn how to appreciate the white sausage at the Sausage Academy in Neumarkt, set up by Norbert Wittman. There are also diploma courses covering which lagers, mustards and types of music go best with different varieties of sausage. So far 1,300 students have gained the diploma.

Current Mood: Amused

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Current Mood: Amused

For reasons unknown, the database servers are being extraordinarily naughty at work and it’s getting impossible to get anything done. I’ve been trying to rebuild a biomart for the last 2 days and the scripts keep borking on me. Finally, it seems to be working now, but it’s sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

So, in the meantime, there’s naught else to do but browse on my new toy.

It’s bad. It’s really bad. I’ve already installed 6 games, a few productivity apps and the complete learner’s guide to the UK motorcycle theory test (which I need to study for because my exam is next Friday).

I love my phone.

Current Mood: Aggravated

There’s something very zen about watering your garden at 11:30pm when you’re high as a kite.

A conversation between two foxes:
- You ate your own cubs?
- You know, you get peckish, nothin’ in the fridge
- You had Muller rice!
- Yeah, but no spoon.
[later]
- Look what I just found, a spoon! It was just a waste of life after all!

Eat your Jesus biscuit! Eat it right up!

Current Mood: Weird

Since I started my livejournal blog in 2004, I’ve stored all of my random blog pictures in a single folder. Over the years, I’ve amassed a truly amazing amount of random shit. Going back on it myself, I don’t remember the context of half of those pictures. Still, some are worth a chuckle. Be warned though, a few are NSFW: http://flubu.com/images/LJ/index.php

Current Mood: Amused

Made me giggle.

Current Mood: Amused

I just had a very interesting phone call. It went something like this:

Phone: Ring!Ring!
Me: Hello, Proteomic Services.
Phone: Hi, I’m new to the field of proteomics and would like to know what the difference is between a full-length protein and a mature protein.
Me: Buh! Sorry, you just caught me debugging some code, so give me a minute to go into science mode.

In a nutshell, the person on the phone wanted to known which protein sequence to use to generate antibodies against. I explained the differences in protein sequences and steered him towards PDBe so he could use structure information to make sure the peptide he’s trying to raise antibodies against isn’t buried deep within the 3D structure.

The amusing bit came when I asked him how he got my contact information. Turns out my name is the first in the list when you search all staff in the proteomics team.

Hee hee, turns out 6 years of biochemistry hasn’t been wasted after all :D

Current Mood: Amused

According to Alexa, these are the top 40 sites accessed in/from the UK. What’s interesting is that, aside from the usual suspects, there are two porn sites in there :) For some reason, this amuses me to no extent.

1. google.co.uk
2. facebook.com
3. google.com
4. youtube.com
5. yahoo.com
6. bbc.co.uk
7. live.com
8. ebay.co.uk
9. wikipedia.org
10. twitter.com
11. blogger.com
12. amazon.co.uk
13. msn.com
14. linkedin.com
15. wordpress.com
16. guardian.co.uk
17. flickr.com
18. bing.com
19. microsoft.com
20. dailymail.co.uk
21. paypal.com
22. imdb.com
23. hsbc.co.uk
24. telegraph.co.uk
25. myspace.com
26. livejasmin.com
27. amazon.com
28. apple.com
29. mozilla.com
30. virginmedia.com
31. sky.com
32. rightmove.co.uk
33. pornhub.com
34. gumtree.com
35. timesonline.co.uk
36. direct.gov.uk
37. about.com
38. 1e100.net
39. skysports.com
40. barclays.co.uk

In case you were wondering, 1e100.net belongs to Google, and is used for some YouTube functions as well as Google proper.

Current Mood: Amused

Cinderella is like dis well famous story from when we was little and dat, so here’s our boi Matt Ed’s versh of this classic. Brap.

NANANAAIIIIIII!!! Innit!

This made me piss myself when I head it on the radio. A Radio1 DJ re-wrote Cinderella using the glossary of the Ndubz book.

Here’s what a critic had to say about the latest ndubz album:

Essentially it’s all about words you don’t understand, sung and rapped in accents you don’t understand, by youths you don’t understand, wearing clothes you don’t understand, made for other youths you don’t understand.

Current Mood: Amused