Comments on: Risky business

By: Mike

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:11:00 +0000

Probably multiply instead of divide.

And do I get a latest post thing? It was a year or so ago, but that still counts, right?

By: Curtis Jackson

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:18:22 +0000

Yeah, it’s dangerous when kids became bored. Then they start strolling around at night and robbing glasses…It’s a cruel world…
.-= Curtis Jackson´s last blog ..50 Cent Gives Two Cents On G-Unit Rumors =-.

By: sitting pugs

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:07:13 +0000

One degree = one person. If you know someone who knows the person in question, that's one degree away. If you know the actual person in question, then I guess you'd just say "I know the person." ^J^ .-= sitting pugs´s last blog ..College Football 2009: UGA munches on GaTech =-.

By: beemoh

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:06:03 +0000

A link that takes three years to do.

By: Tia

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:03:11 +0000

I’ve always wondered, what exactly counts as a degree?

By: Adam

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:24:45 +0000

Shall I show off?

I’m two degrees away from Gaiman.

Buscemi, no idea though.

So, to sum up. I know someone who is cooler than me, and have never stalked Steve Buscemi.

By: sitting pugs

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:03:20 +0000

We should all pool our networking resources and see what kind of Six Degrees of Buscemi and Gaiman results. Maybe they're within six degrees of each other! .-= sitting pugs´s last blog ..With these hands I can do =-.

By: Roo

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:55:00 +0000

Oh man, what a great idea. Can we get Steve Buscemi and Neil Gaiman together for a movie? We can bring McKean in to do the art, and Stephanie Leonidas to play teh leading role?

By: sitting pugs

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:52:38 +0000

Curiouser and curiouser. I'm envisioning flavors of Steve Buscemi in a Neil Gaiman short story. .-= sitting pugs´s last blog ..With these hands I can do =-.

By: Joseph Hewitt

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:03:37 +0000

I'm glad you didn't get a good kicking, although I suppose that also would've made an interesting anecdote of a sort. .-= Joseph Hewitt´s last blog ..Go On With You =-.

By: Ben

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:53:51 +0000

Gold Beemoh, pure gold. .-= Ben´s last blog ..eensy spider =-.

By: beemoh

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:03:42 +0000

Help you improve your writing, and look really good on a string, dangling from your neck.

By: Roo

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:33:59 +0000

Yeah… that dry sarcastic humour doesn

By: Lynda

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:26:48 +0000

HAHA, I had a similar experience, only it was a family member going, “YOU HAVE TO TURN EVERYTHING OFF ***NOW***!” …I wouldn’t trade ‘em for the world, honestly.

Ach, pedants help me improve my writing, and reading my original post again I didn’t really make it clear, sometimes I’m too dry for my own good.

By: Roo

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:42:22 +0000

Haha! The police live in a bit of a different world then the rest of us, I think.

By: Adam

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:11:14 +0000

How do I turn pedant mode off on this internet thing?

Sorry, I guess we missed the point there… I was once told to turn my phone off in a petrol station by a policeman. Aside from the fact that he didn’t really take to my reasoned argument, as above, he stood there with his radio on chattering away whilst he did so.

Now I don’t know… maybe police radios use different technology to mobile phones… perhaps they’re a bit special (seriously, if you know the difference, let me know).
.-= Adam´s last blog ..Risky business =-.

By: Lynda

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:21:33 +0000

…yeah, I was exaggerating for comedic effect. I thought. ^_^
.-= Lynda´s last blog ..More reasons why I am and always will be anti-bullet: http://bit.ly/4xycOt =-.

By: beemoh

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:35:14 +0000

There was also that episode of Brainiac where they proved it by filling a caravan with petrol, putting something like ten phones in it, and calling them all simultaneously.

By: Ben

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:55:25 +0000

I am surprised you survived a mugging in murder city.

By: Ben

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:42:05 +0000

You know, lots of cabbies don’t even have licenses. Many are illegal or barely legal immigrants with no proper training, so it is still an extreme sport.

By: Ben

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:33:23 +0000

Had a read of your comparison article. Very interesting. .-= Ben´s last blog ..eensy spider =-.

By: Adam

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:22:20 +0000

Indeed, this is true…

Apparently more fires are caused by static electricity from the human body than mobile phones.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4366337.stm

By: BucketBoy

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:09:42 +0000

I realise that it wasn’t the point of your story really, but it is actually an urban myth that phones cause explosions. I work in a pharmaceutical laboratory, and we have the “NO MOBILE PHONE” signs around our solvent stores, just like around every petrol station. I have never turned my phone off, because after some googling found that there was no support at all for the warning. I am on the site health and safety committee so raised the point there. Management couldn’t have been less interested. So we still have the signs, but when giving new people a tour I always tell them that the signs are bullshit. No-one died yet.

By: Roo

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:02:03 +0000

Ah, well, that could’ve turned out poorly. I must admit, Lancaster doesn’t seem like the sort of place for muggings, does it?

In Philadelphia, it’s advisable to always carry a few dollars, because if you get mugged, it’s likely to be at gun-point. And if it’s a failed mugging, there’s a chance you’ll get shot, actually. We don’t really get sport muggings over here though: if you’re being mugged, they’re probably reeeeally strung out, looking for drug money, or part of a gang, fund-raising.

A while back, I was out late in a not-so-great part of town with a couple of friends, after a night of bowling. I left on my bicycle, and they almost immediately got mugged. Two guys with pistols. They took everything too, including two nearly filled sketchbooks from K, which we never recovered. She was so angry. I still wonder if they were watching, and waited till I left to do it… no one else in the group was even remotely threatening looking. Although, I’m sort of surprised K didn’t do something stupid and get herself shot… I wouldn’t put it past her.

By: Erika Hammerschmidt

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:35:12 +0000

I also try to live dangerously by not sanitizing my hands all the time, but I think it's actually improving my immune system... .-= Erika Hammerschmidt´s last blog ..Abby and Norma #574 =-.