...
Found this through a link from a webpage and couldn't resist a look...
http://cdbaby.com/cd/captaindan2
... pirate hip-hop...!
And it's their second album...!
Love the idea, just not overly sure about spending money on something that I'd probably only use every Sept 19th... I'm a part-time, fairweather kinda pirate, ye see...
:-p
Sunday 28 September 2008
Saturday 20 September 2008
* Here's a conspiracy theory for you...
...
And I've only just come up with this one and haven't really thought it through or researched it, so some of the details might be a bit inaccurate, impossible, or sketchy...
... and it's kind of along the same lines as Spike Nesmith's youtube post 'The Spike Nesmith Rage Machine: "Predictions"'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsrLqbB3Mtk
... but here goes, anyway...
This article and its posts are about some of the bizarre stuff going on with regards to the state of John McCain's mental health:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/the-big-whisper-whats-up_n_127435.html
So, anyway, so...
... what if, last minute into the campaign, McCain dies or withdraws through ill-health, taking both him and Palin off the ticket, and the Republicans put up a completely new dynamic duo for the presidential race...?
That way, the Republicans have had the benefit of months and months of Obama and Biden and Demmy-krat bashing (and can blame the more questionable aspects of their campaigning on people who aren't involved anymore)...
... but there's no time left to do even remotely the same to the new Republican candidates...
.. leaving the choices as:
* 2 people who've had the media focused on them for months and so loads is known (true or otherwise) about pretty much every intricate little detail of their lives and families and associates and business
... or...
* 2 pretty much unknown quantities who haven't had mud slung at them or had their skeletons brought out of the closet in public or had every aspect of their lives and families and associates and business dug up and pored over and speculated over and lied about...
If you're the kind of voter who is easily swayed and goes for people over policies, who would you vote for...?
?:-/
And I've only just come up with this one and haven't really thought it through or researched it, so some of the details might be a bit inaccurate, impossible, or sketchy...
... and it's kind of along the same lines as Spike Nesmith's youtube post 'The Spike Nesmith Rage Machine: "Predictions"'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsrLqbB3Mtk
... but here goes, anyway...
This article and its posts are about some of the bizarre stuff going on with regards to the state of John McCain's mental health:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/the-big-whisper-whats-up_n_127435.html
So, anyway, so...
... what if, last minute into the campaign, McCain dies or withdraws through ill-health, taking both him and Palin off the ticket, and the Republicans put up a completely new dynamic duo for the presidential race...?
That way, the Republicans have had the benefit of months and months of Obama and Biden and Demmy-krat bashing (and can blame the more questionable aspects of their campaigning on people who aren't involved anymore)...
... but there's no time left to do even remotely the same to the new Republican candidates...
.. leaving the choices as:
* 2 people who've had the media focused on them for months and so loads is known (true or otherwise) about pretty much every intricate little detail of their lives and families and associates and business
... or...
* 2 pretty much unknown quantities who haven't had mud slung at them or had their skeletons brought out of the closet in public or had every aspect of their lives and families and associates and business dug up and pored over and speculated over and lied about...
If you're the kind of voter who is easily swayed and goes for people over policies, who would you vote for...?
?:-/
Sunday 13 July 2008
* a book and cover type misalignment
...
So I got on the bus to go into town yesterday and as it was a single decker it was already fairly busy (even at quarter past 9 on a Saturday morning), so I ended up going right up to the back to be able to get a seat.
As I sit down I become aware that across the aisle are a couple of ned-like individuals... all shellsuits and nasal and hungover and heavily gelled cropped hair plastered to their heads and acne and big ears, and they're already deep in conversation.
[was 'Acne' the 8th dwarf who didn't make it into the final cut of the Snow White story for reasons of ickyness?]
As I come into hearing range and my brain automatically starts to translate the tone and lingo and pace and articulation, I realise what I've just heard...
One of them had made a comment which involved their mate, and picking up a stripper.
* ew *
I know that young men often regale each other with tales of conquests both genuine and exaggerated...
... but * ew *
This is a bus full of families and old ladies...!
This is no place to celebrate the coupling of a greasy sub-educated yet clearly overpaid waste of oxygen with a female who can only be of loose morals and little standards, if that was her customer or her partner of choice...
Oh, just * ew *
And then I realise...
... they're talking about DIY.
Their mate was actually involved in the collection of a device of the steam-based-wallpaper-removing variety.
... oops...
Apologies, boys.
It might say more about me than you that my immediate reaction to your comment was the worst and naughtiest one.
Then again...
You go with what you know - and I've travelled that bus route often enough to know that given some of the parts of town that it travels through, more often than not my first interpretation of the comments would be the right one...
* ew *
...
So I got on the bus to go into town yesterday and as it was a single decker it was already fairly busy (even at quarter past 9 on a Saturday morning), so I ended up going right up to the back to be able to get a seat.
As I sit down I become aware that across the aisle are a couple of ned-like individuals... all shellsuits and nasal and hungover and heavily gelled cropped hair plastered to their heads and acne and big ears, and they're already deep in conversation.
[was 'Acne' the 8th dwarf who didn't make it into the final cut of the Snow White story for reasons of ickyness?]
As I come into hearing range and my brain automatically starts to translate the tone and lingo and pace and articulation, I realise what I've just heard...
One of them had made a comment which involved their mate, and picking up a stripper.
* ew *
I know that young men often regale each other with tales of conquests both genuine and exaggerated...
... but * ew *
This is a bus full of families and old ladies...!
This is no place to celebrate the coupling of a greasy sub-educated yet clearly overpaid waste of oxygen with a female who can only be of loose morals and little standards, if that was her customer or her partner of choice...
Oh, just * ew *
And then I realise...
... they're talking about DIY.
Their mate was actually involved in the collection of a device of the steam-based-wallpaper-removing variety.
... oops...
Apologies, boys.
It might say more about me than you that my immediate reaction to your comment was the worst and naughtiest one.
Then again...
You go with what you know - and I've travelled that bus route often enough to know that given some of the parts of town that it travels through, more often than not my first interpretation of the comments would be the right one...
* ew *
...
Tuesday 1 July 2008
* is that buzzing coming from the radio...?
...
With a headline like this, how can ANYONE resist...
"Lorry carrying 12m bees overturns"
This is the link to the story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7482609.stm
Basically...
"Motorists on Canada's biggest highway ended up with a bee in their bonnet after a truck transporting 12m of the insects overturned.
The lorry was carrying 330 crates of honey bees when it tipped over on a ramp in St Leonard, New Brunswick.
Bee experts were called in to help deal with the accident on the Trans-Canada Highway...The BBC's Lee Carter in Toronto says the bees had been used to pollinate a crop of blueberries, and were being transported home when the accident happened...."
And it's real, it's a real story and not from The Onion or Newsbiscuit or anything...!
Now, I've heard of a threat that involved "a jiffy bag full of wasps" - but a truck full of bees...!? Really...?!
It kind of makes sense when you read the article, but the idea of truck full o' bees is just weird... so is a "bee expert" like a bee wrangler or something like that to round them up once and get them all back in the truck once they've done their a-pollinatin'...?
Do they have tiny wee whips to head 'em up and move' em out...?
Do they have to do a headcount like on school trips to make sure they've not left any of them behind...?
:-?
...
Sunday 29 June 2008
* pick me (or it's against my human rights...)
...
So the summary of this story:
Is this:
Birthday party snub sparks debate
The case has sparked a debate in Sweden about civil liberties
An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party.
The boy's school says he has violated the children's rights and has complained to the Swedish Parliament....
Now, I can't be the only one who's thinking..."wtf...?!"
Isn't it a basic human right to be able to pick and choose who comes to your own birthday party without local or European governmental influence or rulings...?!
In fact, isn't it a basic rite of passage in childhood...?
To have that momentary God-like position...
... that power of veto...
... to actually get to choose something that matters and that has an impact...
... to be able to prove a point by NOT inviting certain people, or make yourself seem popular by having over-indulgent parents who allow you to invite loads and loads of people (therefore surrounding yourself in people and presents...)
So is it against human rights when, in reality TV shows, some people are chosen over others...?
(yeah, I know - those shows are so awful it's pretty much an offense to human rights that they exist at all...)
And what about the whole 'picking teams' thing...?
You know, where there would be some sort of game being organised in the playground and there would be 2 captains and they would each take a turn to choose someone from the attending throng to be on their side and you would wait and wait and wait and others would get picked before you because they were better than you and you knew that but you just wished that for once you wouldn't be picked last just because you had no talent and only wanted to be part of the game and the gang...
So does it turn out that that was all against my human rights, then...? The whole 'waiting to be picked and watching others get picked before me' thing...?
Cool!
Where do I sign up to sue for the emotional scarring that it clearly caused which has obviously and terribly affected me every day of my life since then...?
Or are we maybe just taking this whole thing just a leeeetle too far...?
Am I saying that we shouldn't protect children from being hurt or excluded or discriminated against?
No.
Alls I'm saying is - stop over-protecting them. Life ain't always fair: that's how you learn.
If you always get everything when you're a kid, then how and when do you learn to deal with not getting everything when you're grown-up?
If you're coddled up in emotional bubble-wrap all of your childhood, then you're not going to be equipped for being an adult when it comes off and you're suddenly expected to cope all on your ownsome in the big bad horrid world.
Kid 1 in the story didn't invite kid 2 to his party because kid 2 didn't invite kid 1 to his - t1t for tat, revenge, whatever.
It happens.
Lesson learned - be considerate of others, put yourself in their shoes, what goes around comes around, whatever.
But discrimination?
On what grounds, exactly...?
A childish falling-out over attending parties? How is that discrimination?
I can't think of any more extremes on this whole area - we've already got Health and Safety regulations meaning that the over-cautious are protecting themselves against the over-litigious in terms of school trips and playground games and pretty much curbing them completely, we've got age-old fairy tales and 50-year-old cartoons being edited and re-written to be more politically correct, we've got generations who are afraid to interact for fear of accusations of 'improper behaviour'...
Where do we go from here in terms of reclaiming childhoods...?
...
Monday 23 June 2008
* a wee experry-ment
...
I wonder if this will work from work...
I've heard of "phoning it in", but "emailing it in" is a new one on me...
:-)
*** UPDATE ***
So the emailing it in bit works... except that it posts the company standard disclaimer at the bottom... oh well, at least it's an improvement on not blogging at all...!
:-)
I wonder if this will work from work...
I've heard of "phoning it in", but "emailing it in" is a new one on me...
:-)
*** UPDATE ***
So the emailing it in bit works... except that it posts the company standard disclaimer at the bottom... oh well, at least it's an improvement on not blogging at all...!
:-)
Sunday 22 June 2008
* oops...
...
So I've been completely rubbish at keeping this up...
... sorry...
will try harder...
Am in a better job now, so it should be easier to post nonsense and links to weird stuff again, net-nanny allowing...
I hope...
}:-p
So I've been completely rubbish at keeping this up...
... sorry...
will try harder...
Am in a better job now, so it should be easier to post nonsense and links to weird stuff again, net-nanny allowing...
I hope...
}:-p
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