British troops beating children
Thursday, November 30th, 2006I have nothing to add to what I said before.
Archive for November, 2006
Been wanting something from Amazon.co.uk…
Thursday, November 30th, 2006…but you didn’t want to pay the shipping?
Well, have I got a tip for you.
1) Order this book. (Don’t worry if you don’t want it, it’s going to be free.)
2) Order whatever other things you want from Amazon.co.uk
3) At checkout enter the promotional code “HELLMANAMZN2″
and suddenly the initial book is free, and you get free [...]
Drakemas: Worth several thousand words
Thursday, November 30th, 2006For those of you wondering about the cast of reprobates that might have shown up for Drakemas last week, I have some mug shots after the jump.
While I survived the night without significant hangover, despite some truly heroic interactions with the Master Of The Hunt, not everyone was so lucky: Birthday Boy appears to have [...]
Lithuanians are indestructible…
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006From PopBitch, quite a while back:
Vidmantas Sungalai.
Sungalai, a 41-year-old Lithuanian truck driver, was pulled over by police while driving his truck down the centre of a highway near Vilnius. He had 7.27 grams per litre of alcohol in his body - 18 times the legal driving limit. (3.5g/l is usually lethal). The police said Vidmantas [...]
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006Why haven’t I heard of this movie before? What appears to be a blue collar revenge noir, with both Milla and Aisha Tyler? I should have known about this.
The only trailer I can find is at Yahoo! Taiwan, but it works fine: Trailer.
I am quite pleased to see the return of Hot Milla to the [...]
I could be rescued by my Best Man!
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006My pal Ralph is now part of the Coast Guard’s volunteer Search and Rescue team.
If I were in a boating incident in his territory, he might have to find and rescue me.
However, since the only reason I would be on a boat in his territory is if I were on his boat, the chances of [...]
Yes, I can be in two places at once. Can’t you?
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006One reason posting frequency has dropped off is that for some reason I am tremendously over-scheduled at work. Not that I have a ton of actual work to do, just that I am constantly scheduled into meetings.
I thought a completely full calendar was a pain in the ass, but it’s nothing compared to being double-booked. [...]
Acronym awareness
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006Note: Reading this post in Firefox or any other browser that supports the abbr tag will be a much more rewarding experience than reading it in IE.
Working in the computer industry you develop a habit of talking in acronyms. I’ve often found it amusing how the acronym over time becomes the proper name for the [...]
You’re in the movie now
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006Naomi Wolf, she of The Beauty Myth, etc, has written a piece, “The Porn Myth“, for New York that sets out her position that the rise of pornography has essentially resulted in a devaluation of sexual experience.
For two decades, I have watched young women experience the continual “mission creep” of how pornography—and now Internet [...]
Hmmm. I would not have guessed this.
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006You are The Devil
Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession
The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.
Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, [...]
What Will They Be Thankful For?
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006The biggest risk we now face is that, if the United States withdraws from Iraq, the withdrawal will trigger a regional collapse. Iran will be sucked in from the east, as Iraq succumbs to a Sunni on Shi’ite civil war that threatens Iran’s own western population. Sunni insurgents trained in Iraq will flood the region [...]
xkcd
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006Another thing that was making me smile this week is the stick-figure webcomic xkcd.
Here’s my favourite one. It’s not often that a three panel strip encapsulates one’s entire philosophy. (That strip should be accessible to everyone, or at least to everyone who enjoyed, or might enjoy, The Big Lebowski.)
For the most part, though, the humour [...]
She’s a crooked sheriff in a real straight town
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006The early part of this week was kind of like the death of a thousand cuts. Lots and lots of minor annoyances, that threatened to pile up and overwhelm me.
Well, actually, as soon as I started to feel sorry for myself, and make a list of all the things that were going wrong, it occurred [...]
While I’m talking TV
Friday, November 17th, 2006Is it just me, or…
Moderate Rejoicing
Friday, November 17th, 2006And lo, there was moderate rejoicing throughout the land, as news that the Veronica Mars Season Three episode order has been extended again, pushing the fears of cancellation yet further back:
Just heard from Rob Thomas, and the CW has given “Veronica Mars” a back seven instead of the traditional back nine. This is obviously brand-new [...]
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