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musefan wrote: Only just remembered it's my turn. 
Is it Scrotum?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: Is it Scrotum?
Well... at least I don't have to post the clue now
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Michael Martin wrote: Is it Scrotum?
I think you've bagged it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night.
It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
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So you want to join the XMen at all cost? From one mutant to another: It usually is not worth it. What I got is absolutely useless.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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So ... what did you get ? I glow when I close my eyes, but it is useless to lighten up the dark, since ... I have to close my eyes.
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Four more bones than everyone else. The doctor looked at my left foot after a small accident and found two tiny dots next to my big toe. First he thought they were bone splinters that were left over from an older accident, but I never had anything like that. Then he looked at my other foot and found the same little bones there as well. Not really good for anything, so the XMen did not want to have me. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: So you want to join the XMen at all cost?
Gamma rays = the Hulk!
Hand in your nerd badge and lightsabre on the way out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But I get to keep the red shirt and the phaser?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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You actually want to be red-shirted?!?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Why not?[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I don;t know if you can find it in Germany, but see if you can find episode 3 of Our Guy in Russia[^] - he's a truck mechanic and motorcycle racer / tv engineering bloke, and it's ... um ... interesting. He has cojones! There is a bit where you are only allowed to stop for 20 seconds to examine the Sarcophagus and he's reluctant to leave that quickly despite a countdown and his alarm bleeping away merrily... Surveying Chernobyl - YouTube[^].
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: he's reluctant to leave that quickly despite a countdown and his alarm bleeping away merrily
This is just plain dumb, actually. Play with fire, speed, whatever, but radiations is definitely not a good idea.
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I agree - you wouldn't get me anywhere near something that you can only look at for twenty seconds without damaging yourself! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I got a radiation burn yesterday. Spent too much time at the beach.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Your guy in Russia got the country wrong :p
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Not really - it was in Ukraine, but part of the USSR when the accident happened. And it was a very "Russian accident" ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Bit Bizzar, but I can remember exactly where I was when I heard about it, a Day's Inn in Florida. The news had a thing on it for about a minute with a green cloud covering most of Europe! then they went to more important stuff about a farmer who had record braking calf!
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Yeah, me too.
Downwind.
(Although about 800 miles away, so I doubt I've been too irradiated, even though I was downwind for 4 years.)
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glennPattonWork wrote: a farmer who had record braking calf
I 'll bet that calf stopped in its tracks!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Did you see the elephants foot? 
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Glowing reviews :P
See if you can get hold of a documentary called Uranium: Twisting the dragon's tail. It's quite informative and the presenter also visited Chernobyl.
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Rage wrote: pparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago
Yes, only a month or two ago in fact. HBO's Chernobyl. It's actually a dramatized mini-series, not a documentary, but it's quite close to the facts. They took liberties with some of the characters for the purposes of telling the story, and it shows one or two scenes which only happened in anecdotal, and therefore unreliable, testimony. But it's very, very well put together and hugely gripping.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Rage wrote: so I took a tour to Chernobyl
So starting next week you'll probably want to change your profile name to "12 Finger Rage" or something like that... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Rage wrote: They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced
XKCD for reference.
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