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Barnaby Walters

Arranging atoms and pressurising air in a variety of manners, such as:

Pronouns: they/he

  2. Today the office dog insists on playing catch with a tiny piece of paper, which goes something like this:

    HEY HEY HEY HERE IS A SMALL SCRAP OF PAPER MAYBE YOU WOULD LIKE TO THROW IT FOR ME HMM YES PAPER

    AH HA YES THANK YOU FOR THROWING THE PAPER I WILL NOW EXCITEDLY FETCH IT AS IF IT WAS THE FINEST OF TREASURE

    EXCELLENT I HAVE DISCOVERED THE PAPER AND WILL NOW BRING IT BACK FOR THE HUMAN TO THROW AGAIN

    HUMAN HERE IS THE

    …

    OH APPARENTLY I ATE IT SORRY I WILL FIND ANOTHER

  4. ↪ Amy Guy: People posting pseudo-legalese 'facebook does not have permission to use my images' messages... The poor things, if only they knew.

    @rhario I’ve often wondered how those things start. Are they the products of typical Facebook-overearnestness, or someone just joking around?

  5. Travelling around Europe always leaves me with intense motivation to learn languages. Currently riding the wave by getting back onto icelandiconline.is (low priority but I’m immersed every day) and starting German on Duolinguo (higher priority but no immersion at the moment).

  6. My 2hr Norwegian airlines connection from LGW to CPH showed a bunch of short films instead of a long movie. Amongst them was the single best piece of animation I’ve ever seen: Rabbit and Deer:

    Everything about this is perfectly executed — the story, the animation, the art styles. It almost makes me want to start animating again, except that it’d take years to make something half as good.

    Unfortunately, I didn’t hear the soundtrack on the plane because the armrest headphone jack didn’t work. At the time I was listening to “The Blackleg Miner” by Appletwig Songbook (here’s a different version), which created this bizzare mental association between an old miners song and this piece of animation.

  7. Shapeways, one of the most prominent places to order 3D printed goods, has a “My Little Pony” section in the top level navigation (note especially how visually distinct the nav item is made). As far as I can tell it’s not directly sponsored by Hasbro.

    Pretty sure none of the “3D printing is the future” visionaries saw that one coming.

  9. About to go to a French/Breton solstice dance wearing a huge knitted rat. So much for all those people who said I needed to “drink alcohol” to “lower my inhibitions”

  11. I love the way browser’s consoles allow us to do maths and simple programming directly alongside mathematical webpages. This can be so much better though — the computation and experimentation should happen interactively in the webpage itself

  15. Thoroughly enjoyed playing at Portið this Sunday and met a bunch of awesome people! Turns out that (probably for the first time in history) it was one of two concerts in Reykjavík on the same day.

  18. Anyone know the name/origin/lyrics of a probably English xmas-themed folk song with this chorus:

    Bring in the green bring in the green
    for it is our desire
    to celebrate the holiday
    with food and drink and fire

    Various google searchings reveal nothing, and I never got a copy of the lyrics.