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Cardiff at night – slideshow by Maciej Dakowicz

Laurent — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:54:04 +0000

Flickr user Maciej Dakowicz has a great set of photos taken on Cardiff’s St. Mary Street between 2005 and 2008 – interesting and funny. And rather sad. Best viewed full screen.

Click here to get an overview of the complete set ot to leave comments.

Does God really kill a kitten every time you masturbate?

And the ‘Pointless Label of the Day’ award goes to Tesco

Laurent — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:50:04 +0000

Thank you Tesco, I never would have guessed. What would we do without you?

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Homemade vanilla extract

Laurent — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:41:32 +0000

I usually have a small bottle of proper vanilla extract in my cupboard that I use to add to coffe, baking, etc… I love the stuff! But it’s so damn expensive. At the end of December I came across a post on how to make your own vanilla extract, and it’s extremely simple:

Here’s what you need:
6 vanilla pods/beans
500 ml/2 cups vodka

Split the pods length-wise, put them in the bottle, top back on and leave it in a dark cupboard for at least 8 weeks. That’s it.

I got a half bottle of Tesco’s cheapest finest. I used 4 pods as a half bottle contains only 350ml.

I couldn’t help myself and stick the finger in today to taste. And damn, it tastes very nice! I might have to go and get another (bigger and better quality) bottle to get ready just for drinking. Yumm.

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Wordpress 2.5 released

Laurent — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:20:54 +0000

Wordpress 2.5 was released yesterday. I’m just after upgrading and everything went smoothly as far as I can tell. Let me know if you see anything strange.

Son, why do you have horse rape porn on your computer?

Laurent — Thu, 31 May 2007 07:11:01 +0000

I’ve come across some weird shit on people’s computers when doing maintenance and repair jobs, but horse rape porn?!

Awkward much?

Why she insisted I be in there, I’m not sure. I guess she wanted me for moral support and to give justification to her actions if it came to that. After all I was the one who set this whole thing up, and even though I was getting paid I sort of felt obligated to help out.

I checked the log of websites he had visited. WWW.BANGBUS.COM struck my eye. I shuddered. She turned and glared at him.

“What’s this Matthew? Bang Bus Dot Com huh? You went to this website?”
“Mom, fuck, why do we have to do this?”
“Tell my son why this stuff corrupts his mind and degrades women.”

Then I thought of all the horrible, disgusting, mindfucking, degrading, scummy porn I had ever watched in my life, and karma laughed at me long and hard. I ended up giving a half-assed answer and made up some statistic about porn and kids who kill people or something. It was good enough I guess.

I deleted limewire at her command, which cant really be effectively blocked by a content filter on a mac. Then I saw it- the limewire shared folder. Oh, what horrors would lie within? I stealthfully trashed it, but I was caught. I played dumb and opened it up for her to see. Matthew, I saw, was cringing.

Read the full story. High cringe factor and hilarious.

Tattoo removal with a handheld sander

Laurent — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:49:03 +0000

Yes, you read that headline correctly!

Hanzi Smatter has a video clip of a guy getting a tattoo on his chest removed with a handheld sander – ouch. I don’t think the video’s a fake, it looks legit. And it sounds legit too. The ‘patient’ looks very calm throughout, he even smiles during the procedure.

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Giant chocolate muffins

Laurent — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:25:35 +0000

Giant muffins covered in thick chocolate, decorated with Belgian chocolates! I think today I’m finally going to break down and actually buy one (or two) instead of just standing drooling in front of the market stall.

How to properly load Vista

So What Really Is In A McDonald’s Chicken McNugget?

Laurent — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:21:09 +0000

I think I haven’t touched a McNugget since I was about 18. And after reading this I am pretty damn sure that I won’t touch another one for the rest of my life!

What else is in a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget? Besides corn, and to a lesser extent, chicken, The Omnivore’s Dilemma describes all of the thirty-eight ingredients that make up a McNugget – one of which I’ll bet you’ll never guess.

Have fun reading the rest. Yummy.

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Hold that log, boy

Laurent — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:24:09 +0000

Kinda disturbing.

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“I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC” ads landed in the UK

Laurent — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:26:53 +0000

I thought the Apple Mac ads that went out in the US were lame. The UK ones are no better. Not even Mitchell and Webb can make them any more interesting and get me interested in the over-priced hype.

I’ll stick with my (Linux) PC, thank you very much.

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