Thirteen differences in the unaired Buffy pilot and the official pilot. 1. Darla kills boy in the auditorium on a stage set, rather than in the hallway (could be a different boy too). 2. The Buffy font is rounder and not drizzly. 3. Berryman High rather then Sunnydale High. 4. Different actor playing Principal Flutie […]
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Thursday Thirteen #42
Thirteen links that I’ve found good recently. 1. http://www.optikvervelabs.com/ – here you can get a cool looking plug-in for Photoshop and the GIMP and possibly other image manipulation programs. Sadly it doesn’t work on Linux. 2. South Park Studio – this is just too cool! You can make your own south park characters, I might […]
Thursday Thirteen #41
Thirteen things from today’s driving course. 1. Most people don’t realise that driving is such a high risk activity. Apart from getting fat and developing diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, vehicular accidents are one of the most common causes of death. Every time we go out on the roads we put our lives in other people’s […]
Blech
Hmm, this morning I formatted my iPod for Mac because it was behaving very badly, only allowing about 600MB available memory (advertised as 1GB ) and somehow became read-only on my computer so that I couldn’t delete the half-transfered songs. This probably means I won’t get it working in Linux again until I format it […]
Crapheads
Has anyone noticed the spambots upping the ante? A lot more spam has been making it through my filters, causing me to make my settings more stringent, at the risk of blocking out real commenters. I’m also subscribed to a couple of comment threads elsewhere that have been getting spam that comes through on the […]
Thursday Thirteen #40
Thirteen *nerdy* things. :nerd: 1. One second is measured by the light emitted from an atom of Caesium (CS-133), the frequency of the light is 9,192,631,770 hertz (Hz = cycles/second), which means when that many oscillations of the light particle have taken place one second has passed. 2. The kilogram is the only unit of […]
