What bemused you today?

[Jonathan]

Those are the headline shocker shots.

I went to the exhibition yesterday and it was just wonderful - some very very good portraits indeed.  Personally I wouldn't have picked any of the top 3 - IMO there were much stronger images.

But the readers wives one did exactly what the organisers intended.  I saw 2 very posh ladies look at it and say to each other "that's disgusting!" and then they spent a fair while studying it so they could be properly disgusted.

Oh and out of interest I did a quick count - more naked men than women in the exhibition.  But you'd never guess that from the publicity.

[bones615]

I dont know if I am bemused or shocked, caliper seal kit for my motorcycle. Basically 8 x 1 inch diameter rubber bands £46 

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I dont know if I am bemused or shocked, caliper seal kit for my motorcycle. Basically 8 x 1 inch diameter rubber bands £46 

You're bemused, because you're shocked?

[Graham]

I dont know if I am bemused or shocked, caliper seal kit for my motorcycle. Basically 8 x 1 inch diameter rubber bands £46  

 Is'nt there a hydraulic supplies company anywere near you? I'll bet you can get a box of 200 for a quarter of the price.
                         Graham.

[Mick]

I dont know if I am bemused or shocked, caliper seal kit for my motorcycle. Basically 8 x 1 inch diameter rubber bands £46 

Spose they've got you by the short and curlies, not being able to get the seals elsewhere.  I'm assuming they were genuine, and not pattern ones for that price?   Sometimes cheaper to get hold of a second hand calliper.  No guarantee how long that one will last though.

By the way, what bike have you got?

[bones615]

I prefer to buy genuine, pretty much guaranteed fit. Could have got them for 1/3 the price off Ebay but ive been caught out before when I bought some drop links for the car & all 4 rubbers perished within 12 months. Hopefully I have fixed the front brakes, they where binding on & with the icy weather coming it had to be done. @Mick - its a tired looking 600 Bandit.

Heres a pic of the expensive spares with an 8mm spanner for scale.

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I prefer to buy genuine, pretty much guaranteed fit. Could have got them for 1/3 the price off Ebay but ive been caught out before when I bought some drop links for the car & all 4 rubbers perished within 12 months. Hopefully I have fixed the front brakes, they where binding on & with the icy weather coming it had to be done. @Mick - its a tired looking 600 Bandit.

Heres a pic of the expensive spares with an 8mm spanner for scale.

Since the picture isn't 3D I won't say with 100%, but those look like o-rings to me. I have to agree with Graham, a Hydraulic supply would probably been a better and cheaper source. 

[bones615]

The pic does not show it very well but they are actually square section & the smaller one (dust seal) is has ribs on its inner face where it touches the piston. On the up side the front brakes have had a good service, copper grease almost every where, new fluid & even had the master cylinder off to check flow both ways before reading on the net that these seals get hard with age and cause binding.

Simon

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I was playing around with the Faces part of iPhoto. The things it "recognized" as a face. Heineken beer sign outside a pub, two sets of car wheels, a coat of arms. Two really blurry photos of who knows what. It pulled in the face of a garden gnome and more interestingly the face out of a framed photograph on my mantle. I'm seeing all sorts of faces from people I have no clue to, who must be in the background of shots. 

[picsfor]

maybe it was "iNebriated" 

But on another note - i was amused to be told that my mobile phone network is cancelling all of my contracts because they can no longer supply me with a service at my new abode.
This apparently is the result of them switching off the 2G signal and our phones not being able to find the 3G signal.

Amazing - this is the technology that had far greater redundancy than 2G with signal coverage and degradation - and yet is far worse where we will.
Suspect a bit of scrimping is going on with the infrastructure...

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maybe it was "iNebriated" 

Apparently spare tires on Jeeps look like faces and apparently I done a lot of photography where there was a jeep somewhere in the background.

Amazing - this is the technology that had far greater redundancy than 2G with signal coverage and degradation - and yet is far worse where we will.
Suspect a bit of scrimping is going on with the infrastructure...

Now that I think of it, there were no bean counters in the Star Trek universe. Explains why there technology was so amazing!

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I remember reading a report a couple of weeks back that said Spam was down, but Malware was on the rise. Guess the spammers took that as some kind of challenge because I've gone from 3 or 4 a day to 10 to 12 in the last week.  >

[Skhilled]

During the holidays, malware/trojans, etc. always rises...especially for websites. I've spent a few Christmas morns over the years helping others to get rid of it on their sites or help guard against it.

[Jonathan]

I remember reading a report a couple of weeks back that said Spam was down, but Malware was on the rise. Guess the spammers took that as some kind of challenge because I've gone from 3 or 4 a day to 10 to 12 in the last week.  >

3 or 4 a day?  I get about 200 a day.....

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I remember reading a report a couple of weeks back that said Spam was down, but Malware was on the rise. Guess the spammers took that as some kind of challenge because I've gone from 3 or 4 a day to 10 to 12 in the last week.  >

3 or 4 a day?  I get about 200 a day.....

Oops, didn't know a good thing when I had it.