Archive for November 2008

Warning: Not to be taken

In Odd on 27 November 2008 with Comments Off

To take or not to take, that is the question…

I’m just not sure how long esven days is…

Gettin’ Crap Done

In Websites on 27 November 2008 tagged productivity with Comments Off

Al shared this with me this morn­ing. I’m not quite sure what his point is:

toothpastefordinner.com

All I need now is a desktop size ver­sion, a wall poster size ver­sion, and maybe a wee man to knock on my door every half hour ask­ing why they hell I’m doing THOSE THINGS when I have ALL THAT CRAP to do.

Welcome back!

In Odd, Websites on 26 November 2008 tagged awesome, video with Comments Off

Inter­rupt­ing a two day sleep-fest (something’s broken, but I don’t know what…) to tell you that I love this to pieces:

Wel­come Back from ImprovEvery­where on Vimeo.

Wall-e screenplay

In Things, Websites on 25 November 2008 tagged film, link, screenplay, wall-e with Comments Off

I’m not much of a film fan, mostly because they require a con­cen­tra­tion span of longer than six seconds. But, hav­ing just watched Wall-e for the second time yes­ter­day, I can con­fid­ently declare it to be my favour­ite film. Yep, it even beats Dot and the Kangaroo.

Should you not yet have the Wall-e DVD, which was released yes­ter­day in the UK and which I’m not lend­ing you because my need to stroke the cover and giggle is greater than any need you may have, you can make do with read­ing the screen­play.

BNP database leak reveals shocking truth about horse dentists">BNP database leak reveals shocking truth about horse dentists

In Odd on BNP database leak reveals shocking truth about horse dentists">20 November 2008 tagged bnp, leak, news with Comments Off

The BNP mem­ber list leak is, not sur­pris­ingly, fairly con­tro­ver­sial. Not least for the guy on the data­base who placed a “request for abso­lute con­fid­en­ti­al­ity”. But strip away the the basic per­sonal data and the polit­ical rev­el­a­tions, and con­cen­trate instead only on the “Inter­est­ing Notes” column, and what you get is a per­fect snap­shot of mod­ern Bri­tain, pos­sibly the only place odd enough to have Buddhist BNP members.

• Has two suits of medi­eval 14th & 15th cen­tury armour and can joust for rallies
• Dent­ist. Shop owner. Linguist.
• Hob­bies: eco­nom­ics: let­ter writ­ing to local/national papers.
• Semi-professional multi musi­cian (traditional/British folk). Pagan. Clas­sic motor­cycle enthu­si­ast. Huntsman
• Hob­bies: line-dancing, motor­cycle racing
• Hob­bies: walk­ing, Tai Chi Chuan. Buddhist, inter­ested in Daoism
• Mobile DJ with singing part­ner, snakes & spiders
• Model and pro­mo­tions girl
• Qual­i­fied fire­fighter, far­rier, equine dentist.
• Certs in skin/nail care. Hob­bies: sew­ing crafts, knit­ting, animal wel­fare, mil­it­ary history
• Hob­bies: crim­inal justice sys­tem, bowls
• Hob­bies: elec­tric gui­tar, tar­get shot­ting, recycling
• Hob­bies: astro­nomy, wild­life, ancient his­tory, handwriting
• Lapsed MENSA member
• Win­dow cleaner. Former pig farmer. Pagan prison chap­lain. Hob­bies: grow­ing mistle­toe, rune mak­ing (wood)
• Hob­bies: has own small wild life sanctuary

Look­ing fur­ther, at the “reas­ons for not renew­ing mem­ber­ship” notes, you get the fol­low­ing gems. I’m not sure what the spe­cific reports or rev­el­a­tions were, but I hope the people con­cerned weren’t too upset when they dis­covered that the party were, you know, a bit racist:

• took offence to news­pa­per reports about the Party
• objects to being told he shouldn’t wear a bomber jacket
• embar­rassed by rev­el­a­tions in Private Eye re. councillors
• took excep­tion to being asked to con­tact another sim­il­arly aged lady member!
• “Jehova God only real hope for mankind”

I have an innie

In Quotes on 20 November 2008 with Comments Off

You only have to look at Michael Jack­son to real­ise it’s prob­ably best to live with what you’ve got.

Who doesn’t have a belly button?