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Pardon my French, but that's what I shouted (three times) when I saw this computer simulation of the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover), planned for 6th August, 2012:
Sometimes, we should try the impossible.
Eat that, Transformers! We are a totally awesome species for even thinking this might work.
Postscript: See also Curiosity Rover update.
Jen: Why do people ‘coin a phrase’, but ‘mint a coin’? Why don't they ‘coin a coin’?
Me: You're turning into me. Stop it!
(Personally, I Carter phrases.)
A list of some of the Google search requests that brought new readers to the Gruts website over the last month. I have excluded some of the more colourful queries. There are an awful lot of unsavoury people out there:
I am fed up to the back teeth of Apple™ fanboys harping on about how absolutely everything Apple™ does is utterly fantappulous. Yes, they make nice kit. Yes, it looks pretty. But yes, they are also a bunch of control-freaks, who insist on trying to prevent you from doing the stuff you want to do on your device.
But I digress.
The late Steve Jobs was apparently an absolute stickler for detail; something of a perfectionist. I'll have that. Good for him! Small details are important.
So explain this: when I fire up the iPhone calculator app, enter the number 5,318,008, and turn it upside-down, how come it doesn't look anything like the word BOOBIES?
Answer me that, Apple™. You've ruined everything.
Great news! Track 2 of my album Ambient Pap is now available for free download. Like its predecessor, it is designed to be played in an infinite loop. For what I hope are obvious reasons, the track is entitled Sulfa.
It's a gift.
Rebekah Brooks today:
One day, the details of this case will emerge and people will see today as nothing more than an expensive sideshow…
Hmm… Sideshow eh? Well, she should know.
Remember, you heard it here first.