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Category Archives: fives

Five Fireworks

Taken on 02/09, from Waverley Bridge. They had a soundtrack and everything, pretty cool. Bigger versions here.

Could do with a sixth eh

The Free Fringe Comedy Essence

Paedophilia. Probably then followed by a ‘wait, I shouldn’t joke about that, should I? Because y’know, I don’t actually fuck six year olds (I prefer girls about nine)’
Girlfriends (and lack thereof). Expect reference to (1).
Lesbians/Gays
Annoying international stereotypes, like Oriental looking folk not understanding English, cue hilarious nonsense from comedian
Black people, if comedian [...]

Five (+1) rules of style

These are from an essay written by George Orwell in 1946, available in its entirety here.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never [...]

Five distributed computing projects

Put your computer’s CPU to good use when it’s on but you’re not doing anything with it: distributed computing takes one massive task, splits into pieces and has different computers work on them. Then it reassembles the results and is happy. So run one of these projects on your computer and lend a [...]

Five videos

Rodrigo y Gabriela, simply incredible.
Gentle Giant’s Octopus medley, in all their ugly glory.
Male Restroom Etiquette. Give it a couple of minutes.
Curved Air’s Vivaldi.
Skipinder, the Punjabi kangaroo. I really miss Goodness Gracious Me.

<3 YouTube.

Five useful reasons for lateness

Thermonuclear war and your subsequent quest to repopulate the globe.
Nikita Khrushchev’s challenge to a game of Go and your inability to decline.
‘The dog’ ate my car.
Forgetting the 1777th digit of pi (9).
Waking to an existential crisis stemming from your total lack of cereal in your cupboards and milk in your fridge. Lots of pork [...]