Graham Sergeant

Tra-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la. - Graham Sergeant

Church Rocks! - zeroinfluencer

$151.01? Balls. - zeroinfluencer

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads... http://www.motifake.com/image... - Graham Sergeant

The world shrunk to a point. The zero-dimensional space. - Graham Sergeant

"We considered patenting; we prepared a patent and it was nearly filed. Then I had an interaction with a big, multinational electronics company. I approached a guy at a conference and said, "We've got this patent coming up, would you be interested in sponsoring it over the years?" It's quite expensive to keep a patent alive for 20 years. The guy told me, "We are looking at graphene, and it might have a future in the long term. If after ten years we find it's really as good as it promises, we will put a hundred patent lawyers on it to write a hundred patents a day, and you will spend the rest of your life, and the gross domestic product of your little island, suing us." That's a direct quote. I considered this arrogant comment, and I realized how useful it was. There was no point in patenting graphene at that stage. You need to be specific: you need to have a specific application and an industrial partner. Unfortunately, in many countries, including this one, people think that applying for a patent is an achievement. In my case it would have been a waste of taxpayers' money." - Graham Sergeant

" The camera-equipped MDARS can scoot around pre-determined paths on its own, alerting flesh-and-blood guards when it encounters an intruder or a broken lock. In development by the Navy and General Dynamics since the early 1990s, the diesel-fueled sentry ‘bot can operate for up to 16 hours, and reach a top speed of 20 miles per hour. The U.S. military has experimented with using the MDARS machines to patrol some of its Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada. The bots have even been tested with automatic weapons — though I doubt that’s the plan at the nuke site" - Graham Sergeant

"inveigle [ɪnˈviːgəl -ˈveɪ-] vb (tr; often foll by into or an infinitive) to lead (someone into a situation) or persuade (to do something) by cleverness or trickery; cajole to inveigle customers into spending more [from Old French avogler to blind, deceive, from avogle blind, from Medieval Latin ab oculis without eyes]" - Graham Sergeant

"Power's notes state: "Complained yesterday evening of pain in the bottom of the belly increased on pressure, abdomen hard and swollen, picks her nose, starts in her sleep, bowels constipated, pyrexia, tongue foul, pulse quick, skin hot, great thirst. Her mother brought me a lumbricus [worm] this morning 87in long which the patient vomited."" - Graham Sergeant

"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" Edgar Allen Poe - Graham Sergeant

"You've got two options: tackle it with a knife and fork (the coward's way out), or dislocate your jaw in the manner of a boa constrictor swallowing a foal, and heave it into your gullet, driving it home like a Victorian taskmaster pushing a buttered eight-year-old into a narrow chimney flue, taking care not to let the top half of the snooty artisan bap smother your nostrils on the way in." - Graham Sergeant

Check the age difference between Dr Who and Gandalf. - zeroinfluencer

Google-fu reveals estimates of 600 versus a 1000? By what measure of time do timelords age anyway? Is there a measure of time outside of the timeline he traverses? - Graham Sergeant

From the diagram, I'm guessing the fish's water output & recharge input is actually a self contained loop, the design just creates the illusion of starving the fish. The article doesn't do a good job of explaining this. - Graham Sergeant

"There is a traditional shaped fish bowl in the Poor Little Fish basin. While using, the level of water in the bowl gradually falls (but does not actually drain out); it will go back to the same level once the water stops running. As well, the water from the tap is pure, as its pipeline does not connect to the bowl." http://www.yanlu.com/ - Graham Sergeant

"Japanese artist Takashi Murakami has filled 15 rooms at the Palace of Versailles with his first major retrospective in France" - Graham Sergeant

gay way to the dangerzone - Graham Sergeant

"In a world where labor does exactly what it's told to do, it will be devalued. Obedience is easily replaced, and thus one worker is as good as another. And devalued labor will be replaced by machines or cheaper alternatives. We say we want insightful and brilliant teachers, but then we insist they do their labor precisely according to a manual invented by a committee..." - Graham Sergeant

"The business meritocracy is in vogue. If meritocrats believe, as more and more of them are encouraged to, that their advancement comes from their own merits, they can feel they deserve whatever they can get. They can be insufferably smug, much more so than the people who knew they had achieved advancement not on their own merit but because they were, as somebody's son or daughter, the beneficiaries of nepotism. The newcomers can actually believe they have morality on their side. So assured have the elite become that there is almost no block on the rewards they arrogate to themselves. The old restraints of the business world have been lifted and, as the book also predicted, all manner of new ways for people to feather their own nests have been invented and exploited. " - Graham Sergeant