Archive for March, 2009

How did they know

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Alex sent me this story from news.bbc.co.uk.

Super Pud

An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60ft drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents’ £1million mansion in Berkshire. It was there for a year before his parents found out. They say he’ll have to scrub it off when he gets back from travelling.

Amusing but I have some questions. How did his parents know it was there for a year? How did they know that it was there son who drew it? Perhaps he ‘fessed-up to the crime?

Come on Aunt Beeb, give us answers!

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My MacBook made a watery sploshing sound

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

True story. Last week, my MacBook (April 2008 model) started making a weird sound like oars sploshing though water. I started shutting down apps to try and find the culprit but even after closing down all but Finder and Quicksilver, the sound continued. This was not a mechanical sound, it was comming from the speakers. Googling did not uncover any clues and it was all very troubling until I rebooted and happily carried on about my business.

Update: 9th March – It started doing it again and I know that I did something wierd involving closing apps just as it started sploshing… Now if I could just remember what is was that I did, it would make a great party trick

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