Hmm....

well what you gonna do about it?

Yeah, it does tend to crash often.

If you want banality, try Ceefax page 592, updated daily. Having said that, there was a plug for Time Gentlemen Please on there yesterday, which wasn't phoned in by me.

And on a musical tip, try page 452 of Channel 4 Teletext, for staggeringly wrong headed opinons. And then page 142, for people desperatly trying to be wierd and interesting. And then to wash the bad taste out of your mouth, go to page 481 - before 6am this Saturday - for Digitiser's marvellous history of the PlayStation, which to the unitiated doesn't look promising but is interspersed with a superb sub plot about a dead crow.

Although I do pity you poor individuals, coursework is an important form of both summative and formative assessment giving us teachers an idea of how well you are doing and what you can be expected to do in the future. Good practice dictates that this info should be fed back to you as a part of ongoing target setting.
Plus you have to do it as a part of the exam syllabus so tough.
And if you think its a pain having to write a few pieces every now and then, think how we poor, lowly teachers feel when we have to mark 70 odd pieces in a weekend like I am going to have to over the next couple of days.

>go to page 481 - before 6am this Saturday - for Digitiser's marvellous history of the PlayStation, which to the unitiated doesn't look promising but is interspersed with a superb sub plot about a dead crow.

It was actually a tramp, in the end!

Digitiser is possibly the best thing ever.

Digitiser doesn't seem to be as good as it was a couple of years ago -- not trying to show off or anyfing - but I suspect that the writers are branching out and spreading themselves a little thin. Anyone know when Bubblegun will start up again?

Digi is, to my mind, as good as now as it has been. It WAS better on the radio though...

>Anyone know when Bubblegun will start up again?

This from Mr Biffo in alt.digitiser earlier this month: "I dunno what's happening with Bubblegun to be honest. We got a nice
write-up in this month's Select magazine (even if they did misquote me
totally - sigh). We have a couple of unused features and a new design
mocked up, but it's a case that we don't really know where we're headed
with it, or have the time to work on it as we did before - we've got
too much other stuff going on,. It was kind of started as a fun thing,
and then people told us it could be money-making... we even had
investment lined-up, until the .com market imploded. But anyway... I
hold my hand on my heart and say I'm not any sort of businessman."

Tsk, eh?

I thought Biffo had given up on alt.digitiser, because they all started hating him? I gave up on it because it was a royal pain in the arse. Any better now then?

>I thought Biffo had given up on alt.digitiser, because they all started hating him? I gave up on it because it was a royal pain in the arse. Any better now then?

Well, for a short while, we hated him and he hated us, for a variety of reasons, all of which are extremely lengthy, detailed and - if listed in a forum other than alt.digitiser - hugely tedious. But everyone soon got bored with shouting at each and now we're all metaphorically the best of mates again. Except once it was all sorted out, Biffo kind of disappeared. Oh well, at least we can all sleep easier at night now our common differences have been resolved. Or something.

Stuart Campbell, though, left a.d. just before the Biffo flame war hit its peak, and is probably never coming back. Judging by the typically bad-tempered flame war he was recently involved in on other newsgroup since he left alt.digitiser, this isn't much of a bad thing, his journalistic and ex-Amiga-Power-o-person skills notwithstanding. We still have his ultra-whiney Panel 4 moaning obliquely about us all being a bunch of ungrateful wretches to remember him by, though, bless. Honestly, he's such an angry (petulant) young (old) man.

He's just upset because he wasn't the one in the Amiga power office that all the laydees lusted after.



...actually, *was* there anyone in the amiga power office for the laydees to lust over? hrm.

>Anyone know when Bubblegun will start up again?

I got an email, on the Bubblegun mailing list about 5 weeks ago saying that it would be starting up again very soon, but I've heard nothing since. One of the best bits on the site is the chat room, me and John used to have a great time winding up the idiots in there.

>He's just upset because he wasn't the one in the Amiga power office that all the laydees lusted after.
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>...actually, *was* there anyone in the amiga power office for the laydees to lust over? hrm.

If they were particularly aroused by Chris Evans lookalikes, big-haired hippies or fluffy Warner Bros. toys, then I assume the AP office must have been a veritable feast of hot, heaving hunk for them.

However, that may make them SICK LIABILITIES TO DECENT SOCIETY. We must stop them before they start lusting after men with beards, and civilisation collapses.

>If they were particularly aroused by Chris Evans lookalikes, big-haired hippies or fluffy Warner Bros. toys, then I assume the AP office must have been a veritable feast of hot, heaving hunk for them.

Phwoar, that little alien. Bet Campbell was just miffed no-one ever shouted at him on the street or asked for an autograph. Serves him bloody right for going out in disguise all the time, I say.


>However, that may make them SICK LIABILITIES TO DECENT SOCIETY. We must stop them before they start lusting after men with beards, and civilisation collapses.

*cough*
*mutter*
*scuffs feet*

I always wanted to cover Nash with edible stuff and remove it in a suitably erotic manner, myself. But it turns out he's a bionic virctorian zombie with a bee-beard. And a giraffe. But not a giraffe-beard, that's just stupid and absurd. What were you thinking when you suggested that?
*cuffs him round the ear*

Now, go and get me a chimney-sweep, it's time for the entertainment.

>I always wanted to cover Nash with edible stuff and remove it in a suitably erotic manner, myself. But it turns out he's a bionic virctorian zombie with a bee-beard. And a giraffe. But not a giraffe-beard, that's just stupid and absurd. What were you thinking when you suggested that?
>*cuffs him round the ear*

Nash is very thin. If you covered him with anything, it would all fall off. Unerotically. Also, I doubt he has a beard, as it would be twice his own weight (three times his weight when damp), and thus a logistical impossibility. Ah!

>Now, go and get me a chimney-sweep, it's time for the entertainment.

Egad.

>Nash is very thin. If you covered him with anything, it would all fall off. Unerotically.

You've tried, then? I knew those tabloid tales were true. Why, you evil hussy. Or something.

I may poke you later for proof of this "unerotic" thing. it sounds far too outlandish to be true.


> Also, I doubt he has a beard, as it would be twice his own weight (three times his weight when damp), and thus a logistical impossibility. Ah!

Perhaps if he cultivated the hair to grow inwards, it would cause him to be larger and heavier. Maybe then he would stop being blown away in storms. That's a very annoying habit of his, and I have no idea how to curb it. I even tried tying him to the porch, but apparently that's cruel.

>>Now, go and get me a chimney-sweep, it's time for the entertainment.
>Egad.

We must have chimney-sweep entertainment. It is Traditional. And also terribly fun, when they fall over their little feet and land in the pit of sharks.

Oh, go on. For little ol' me?