Greetings,
welcome to another edition of the mighty TWIG. This new layout is image hungry so we will be adding a geeky image each week. This week the image is from Moonbuggy. If you find a cool one on your travels, please do send it through! There have been lots of fun things going on this week computationally such as discovering new datasets, playing with more strange code and finding new applications that I can’t sensibly use for anything but really like. Make sure you let me know if anything weird and wonderful and geeky has happened to you, and I will process it and output it to this blog 
Without further ado…
Cult:
Martian /n./
A packet sent on a TCP/IP network with a source address of the test loopback interface [127.0.0.1]. This means that it will come back labeled with a source address that is clearly not of this earth. “The domain server is getting lots of packets from Mars. Does that gateway have a martian filter?”
Please send:
The computer-controlled Climbstation vertical treadmill – It looks awesome, you can just climb and climb and climb…
InterView dual-LCD display - twin rotatable 17-inch LCD displays, what more could you want?
Samsung HMX-u10 – cool little camera that will upload to youtube via direct connection as well – handy!
Transformers cufflinks – not for me obviously, but a great gift.
USB cup warmer – I need one of these, gone would be the days of cold tea. Yes, I do drink it anyway!
Lexeme of the week:
Keyboard Plaque:
The horrible stuff that builds up in your keyboard. I would be guessing mostly food, dead skin, eyelashes and more horrible stuff.
Code of the week:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while($alive) {
seek(LIFE,LOVE,HAPPINESS);
study($life);
if($day=~”^S” or $weekend) {
sleep($longer);
tell $theworld, “HOORAY!”;
play();
have($fun);
cut $GRASS;
} else {
sub work {
seek(PROBLEMS,0,1) and study;
$solve and $analyze until $done
};
}
}
(By MrLynn)
Geek tweet of the week:
“OH: “users are like retarded monkies” (@danabrit)
Time-sink of the week:
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