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The Great DanfangoplexFebruary 27 startrek mountaini know there are many things like this out there, but this one is particularly well done. http://www.jibjab.com/view/182192 enjoy. February 01 online shopping quite the best website i have seen all day. which is actually quite a compliment, when you consider how much time i spend stumbling upon things http://producten.hema.nl/?whatthefark if only i could make links that work. November 26 Secret SantaToday at work i formally kicked off the festive period with the beginning of submissions to Secret Santa. For those not familiar with the concept, everyone buys someone a gift, so that everyone gets a gift, and no-one has to spend millions on all their work friends. This year some of us are making lists, to serve as a guide as to what to buy us, as our department has been going through some changes lately, and we don't all know everyone very well. Due to the fact that i am currently feeling quite smug about it, i submit my list for your reading pleasure, below. I am most deeply sorry if your expectations were to find in this note a long list of notations detailing my wishes in language quite clear. I don’t make things that easy, but please, have no fear.
While this note does not state that my gift should contain some crystallised fruit or a model airplane, it instead is designed to guide, not to lead, toward forms I admire not things that I need.
While I can’t be described as a booze-addled lout, I do like a tipple. Of that there’s no doubt. In clothing I tend towards autumnal shades. Your best bet is knitwear. I’m XL, by the way.
My musical tastes are broad, but not deep. If the lyrics hold wisdom it’s something I’ll keep. I like science-fiction in all of it’s forms. I’m a geek when compared to society’s norms.
I own cutlery, crockery, some pans, and a wok. But when I move out (and imagine my shock) if I’m going to cook I’ll need cooking utensils. I also love things like blank books, and nice pencils.
Of course I don’t think that you’ll buy ALL these things. Such a pile would be a gift fit for ten kings. Instead, read my words, and let them suggest a few nifty ideas to give Santa a rest.
September 14 Ramadan-a-ding-dongHmm, I wonder if anyone is going to put a jihad on me for that rather flippant title... Here's hoping not. I am now quite a good way into my second day of fasting during the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, Ramadan. The idea is that from after your morning prayer (which lasts for an hour before sun-up, and which i haven't been doing) and before sunset, you don't eat, drink, smoke, have sex, have lustful thoughts, have violent thoughs, or bite your fingernails. The last is an interpretation on my part, but a bloody good excuse to have a go at quitting my nastiest habit. Yesterday i woke at 4am, went downstairs, and fixed myself a bowl of bran flakes, and watched a little telly. I then made myself some eggy bread, and ate that too, also while watching tv. Then i had some jam on toast, for "pudding". Then i read the Koran for a while (after dividing it up into 30 neat little chunks so that i can try to read the whole thing before Eid), then went back to bed. This was at about a quarter past six in the morning. Two or so hours later i got up and went to work. I was thirsty rather than hungry in the morning, no doubt due to a big old three-course breakfast, and one little glass of juice, all about 4 hours previously. I got a little joint pain in the afternoon, which may or may not have been related to the fast, but all in all I had no trouble making it through to 7.27 in the evening, when i was allowed to eat again. Due to how easy i found yesterday, today i tried to do the whole thing again, without any breakfast. So i just got up around eight, read for a while, then went to work. Today i was hungry. I remain hungry. But in another couple of hours i'll be eating dinner, and it'll all be okay again. Quite an interesting experience so far. July 15 what is going on here?http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/11808/medium.html and how can i find out more? June 15 I'll be there for GoatboyI love the disparity of my music collection. Okay, I will concede, this anecdote isn’t entirely musical in nature, but spoken word counts, right? I was working on some PLAs today (tech speak, don’t worry your pretty little head about it), and I had my mp3 player on. Up comes a sample of Bill Hicks, discussing the war in Iraq, and how America could plausibly have still won the war (this is the first gulf war he is talking about, by the way) by sending over just 80 guys, seeing as how American casualties numbered just 79, to Iraq’s 150,000. So anyway, Bill’s piece comes to an end, and the theme from Friends starts up, and it’s impossible to not immediately believe that there was once a very special episode of friends that started with the six of them at a Bill Hicks gig, and his diatribe was the pre-credits sequence. After the credits is a long scene where five of the friends try to explain to Joey what the gulf war was. May 13 So what went wrong...... with Buzz Lightyear? Was there some flaw in the factory process that created him that resulted in his seemingly unique (apart from others of his line) inability to detect that he was a toy? Because no-one else seemed to be confused at any point. Mr Potato-head did not worry about possible future sprouting. Slinky-dog at no point tried to chase his own tail, perhaps due to the futility of the exercise. Wheezy never complained about how warm it was. But of course, when we first met these characters, all but Buzz had already spent quite some time as toys. We discover in the second movie that Woody is probably about 60 years old. So they would have all had time to acclimatise themselves to the fact that they are merely miniature representations of what they, umm, represent. Perhaps once upon a time they all had to go through the transition that Buzz goes through. But then wouldn't they expect it? When they realise that Buzz thinks he is actually a space-ranger they respond with disbelief, incredulity, and at least one other word that means the exact same thing. You would think that if every toy had to go through the same rite of passage they would have some kind of procedures in place for birthdays and Christmas. "Someone wake up Etch, we're going to have to do the presentation again. Now, Buzz, have you noticed how your skin is hard moulded plastic?" I worry that the reason that Buzz, Buzz 2 and Zurg all seem to think they are real people is because they did something wrong in the factory. Someone should warn them. |
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