This is the ultimate question: Which is better at cutting foodstuffs, your ordinary pair of kitchen scissors or the handy pizza cutter?
We simply have to know, and so we’re testing the ability of each to cut various foodstuffs and will be awarding a point to the winner in each case, based on the following criteria:
Ease of Cut-ability
Aesthetics of Final Result
Usability of Result
Food Retention
Blood Loss
The results will be documented here (a page you can also access via Scissors vs Pizza Wheel in the sidebar), where you will also find some background to the project along with photos and detailed analysis of the results as they arrive.
This is where you come in. We need suggestions of which foods to test next - ideas that stretch our utensils to the limit of their abilities. Remember that this is an important scientific investigation and that your input could be vital. Please post ideas as comments after this post, and check back for regular updates!
Ouch! I’ve seen this a couple of times now, and despite the knowledge that the screen survives the ordeal (seemingly) unharmed, I still cringe. Why would anyone even contemplate treating the lovely DS like that? Unless they had too much money to care.
Still, Nintendo seems to build stuff pretty solidly and I guess this is testimony to that. No I won’t be trying it with mine. Which is black by the way, and prettier that the one in the video
During lunch at work today, I read aloud the joke on my Penguin bar (for the record, the joke was “What did Pooh say to his agent?” -> “Show me the honey”). Naturally this caused much slight merriment in the audit room, and lead one of the girls to pose the question of who exactly it was who writes all these jokes?* After a moment’s contemplation, she came out with “I bet it’s someone like you”.
Well, there we go.
*We went on to decide that whoever it was must be the same person who does all the jokes that go inside Christmas crackers, and that they’ve probably cornered the market in a somewhat similar way to that company who does all the muzak that you hear in lifts/while sat on hold on the phone/coming out of palm trees in tacky holiday resorts/etc. etc…
Well, I wore these to work today. No one even mentioned them.
Disappointed.
In other news, I’m wearing Darth Maul ones tomorrow
Update 18th July 2006:
Well I had a least three comments on the old Gameboys at work today, all positive! One chap even went so far as to suggest that I had the “Best Cufflinks Ever”. Which of course I do.
Look what arrived yesterday! And they have little game cartridges for if I get bored at work. Shame they’re a little larger than I thought they might be when I ordered them, but still, I think they’re quite fun.
How cool am I?! If you fancy a pair yourself, OnYourCuff have a bunch more - including Gameboy Pocket, GBA and DS as well as other consoles, Micro Machines and some Star Wars stuff. Possibly a little expensive for what they are, but I wouldn’t have known where to get the Gameboys from to make my own.
I bought the new Mario game for Nintendo DS the other day. It’s brilliant! New Super Mario Brothers is a new (well, duh, it’s in the title) game in the classic Mario 2D side-scroll style. It’s graphically shinier and Mario has a couple of new moves but it retains the left-to-right race to the flag goodness we know and love and it’ll be my most played DS game for a while. In a surprising twist, Bowser kidnaps the princess at the start of the game and it seems to be Mario’s mission to rescue her.
I’m also enjoying Brain Training which I’ve been playing for a couple of weeks now. It’s pretty addictive in a fun-for-a-few-minutes-a-day kinda way, with some interesting and quite tricky puzzles to have a go at. I’m particularly impressed by the speech and handwriting recognition software it uses. Admittedly someone who’s not had much recent contact with these technologies, I was wowed by its ability to regognise any voice without the need to be taught. And reliably! None of the tedious messing about with trying to speak naturally into the microphone in an effort to teach it to understand your commands that you used to have to do (of course, no matter how casual and cool you tried to be when recording your voice, it never came out the same as when you actually wanted the damn thing to do something for you).
Given this drastic improvement, maybe soon someone will make some widely available voice software that will actually be useful…
Update:
Apparently Nintendo have sent George Bush a nice little present for his birthday. Brilliant!
Look what arrived yesterday! And they have little game cartridges for if I get bored at work. Shame they’re a little larger than I thought they might be when I ordered them, but still, I think they’re quite fun.
I bought the new Mario game for Nintendo DS the other day. It’s brilliant! 