Samsara H.Q.

There are not enough Blue China Lions on the radio

2008-06-26T13:02:00.002+01:00

Laura Solon is my new favourite funny lady. She has a show on Radio 4 on Wednesdays at 11:30pm. I'm probably supposed to write some sort of witty comment here about china lions or late night radio shows or radio 4 listeners, but Raspberry Beret just popped up on my Songza channel and I can barely think straight because of all of the musical loveliness. You'll just have to settle for a Laura Solon

The Pencil, it is scary

2008-06-03T20:42:00.004+01:00

I have another new favourite video. It's the story of a magic pencil, which has but one life-lesson to teach. Learn to draw. Oh and another lesson, play videos with your speakers switched on so that you get the full effect of the creepy music. Actually there is a third lesson here. If somebody gives you cake, then take the cake and eat it. Things will only get worse from there on in....I got this

I MAY NEVER BUY ANOTHER DUFF(Y) ALBUM

2008-06-02T21:15:00.005+01:00

You know how you buy an album (perhaps one by a certain overhyped welsh 60's throwback?), after you've heard two or three songs off of it and then you get it home, play the rest of the album and realise that your Dad could write better songs than the rest of the filler on the CD?We'll I've just started listing to SongZa. It's lovely, and what's more it proves to me that the only half decent

NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT

2008-05-23T11:41:00.004+01:00

So apparently the image on this news report includes a baby who has had his face digitally altered. Except they missed...or something.I don't see why they even bothered. Babies that age change drastically from one week to the next. The only consistent thing about them up until they hit about six months is that they look like somebody grafted a raw chicken onto the head of Danny DeVito.

MY NEW FAVOURITE AD

2008-05-19T12:54:00.002+01:00

THESE ARE NOT NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS... AT ALL... HONEST

2007-12-31T13:48:00.001Z

I know that this is the time of year when people usually make resolutions, but these are definitely not they, if you catch my meaning.They just happen to be a few things that I want to do during the next year, and I just happen to be resolving to do them on New Years Eve. They're definitely not New Years Resolutions. Not at all.1). Draw every day and finish some paintings.2). Meditate every day.3

THE ONLY FILMS OF 2007

2007-12-28T15:12:00.000Z

It seems like every time I look at a magazine (infrequently), a newspaper (occasionally), or a website (more often than I blink frankly) I come across a best list of 2007. For this is the traditional time of year when journalists, columnists and bloggers forget all about integrity, inspiration or originality and write about their favourite things from the last twelve months. Well, who am I to

MY NEW FAVOURITE QUOTE

2007-12-21T09:04:00.000Z

If we did the work we're being paid for instead of just reading random nonsense the second our employers look away, then what use would Alt+Tab be?It's from Mil Millington of www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com

SOMETHING THIS LOVELY JUST HAS TO BE GOOD FOR YOU

2007-12-07T13:12:00.000Z

My new favourite song ever. Which is a bit sad really given that I'm a 30 year old male I.T. consultant

I SEE MANY DROPPED STITCHES IN YOUR FUTURE

2007-11-26T09:10:00.000Z

I was having a look at a fabulous blog called skip's acorn treasury when I came accross a post about the knitting tarot which in itself is the kind of bizarre crap one could only ever hope to find on the interwebs.On top of all this the blurb at the top of the knitting tarot site is pure gold;The book is too gorgeous for words. Even if it were a blank book, it would be too gorgeous for words. And

THIS ALSO I LOVE

2007-11-23T16:59:00.001Z

WELL, IT MADE ME LAUGH ANYWAY

2007-11-23T10:49:00.000Z

One of the funniest things I've seen in agesCyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

HONEST ADVERTISING

2007-09-18T14:08:00.001+01:00

APPARENTLY I'M A BOOK THAT I HAVEN'T READ YET

2007-08-16T17:13:00.000+01:00

You're Ulysses!by James JoyceMost people are convinced that you don't make any sense, but comparedto what else you could say, what you're saying now makes tons of sense. What people dounderstand about you is your vulgarity, which has convinced people that you are at oncebrilliant and repugnant. Meanwhile you are content to wander around aimlessly, taking inthe sights and sounds of the city. What

WORK WITHOUT STRESS?

2007-08-13T15:31:00.001+01:00

I’ve recently returned from a retreat at Padmaloka – ‘Going for Refuge and the Stages of the Path’. I had a good retreat on the whole. Parts of it were very intense. I hadn’t been on retreat since last autumn and so it was something of a shock to my system to reconnect with my faith so strongly and so quickly after what has been quite a ‘dry’ period. This reconnection fed directly into the rest

BRASS NAUTILUS SHELL

2007-07-12T13:40:00.001+01:00

Brass Nautilus Shell by ~Upholstered-Dave on deviantART

THERE CAN BE ONLY 3

2007-07-02T16:07:00.000+01:00

Remember the movie 'Highlander'? It came out in the mid-eighties. It was exciting and original. A story of immortal warriors, born into a world that didn't understand them, perfecting the art of sword-fighting over centuries and using it to battle their way towards a destiny which would see them granted untold power. It was a brilliant film, witty, stylish and well made. Smooth and slick with

COFFEE - DO STUPID THINGS FASTER WITH MORE ENERGY

2007-07-02T16:02:00.000+01:00

Some friends of mine bought me an espresso machine for my 30th birthday. It is loveliness personified (well not personified exactly, it's not a person, it's a coffee machine, but you get my drift). It makes lovely espresso with a nice crema on top. It does the whole frothy-milk thing and in fact it's only down side is that it when you switch it on vibrates harder than a rampant rabbit. This can

SEPERATED AT BIRTH

2007-06-27T17:13:00.000+01:00

HAPPY ACCIDENT DAY

2007-06-18T13:03:00.001+01:00

WAR IS LIKE SO GAY

2007-06-13T13:34:00.001+01:00

- Man down! Man down! give me some covering fire and get a medic, fast!!big army type dude runs over to where a comrade has been caught in the fallout from a bomb blast- Are you OK son?- I'm fine, some sort of bomb went off. Nothing I've ever seen before. There was gas coming out of it. Pink gas. I think I caught some of it but I'm...I'm fine....I think...I...I..Jesus Christ! What the hell am I

WHY I LOVE TEH INTERTUBES

2007-06-11T09:34:00.001+01:00

Things like this make me smile, but before you click be aware that there is a naughty word after the jump.

NOW WE HAVE TO LIVE OFF WATER AND RICE

2007-05-28T16:15:00.000+01:00

Because even more food is bad for you.

3 OUT OF 4 TIMES MY BRAINS WOULD BE ZOMBIE-FOOD

2007-05-28T13:48:00.000+01:00

28%Be careful, although this links to a cool zombie-survival quiz, that quiz is hosted by a dating site. Frankly if your idea of a zombie survival resource and a dating site are the same thing, there is probably a very good reason you need a dating site in the first place.If on the other hand you just think zombies are the coolest thing, like, ever then enjoy!P.S. I would also find it a little

FROM GEORGE CARLIN

2007-05-24T17:00:00.000+01:00

“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”Found Here

THIS TIME NEXT YEAR WE'LL BE MILLIONAIRES

2007-05-23T15:51:00.000+01:00

We just invented monitor paper, which is obviously going to make us extremely rich.There is no photoshopping involved in this image at all. (is photoshopping even a word?)

SPAM HEADER

2007-05-11T14:41:00.000+01:00

I just got a spam email titled Drink Pepsi or get the latest software its upto you nowI wasn't aware the the two things were exclusive. There's me drinking pepsi and being way behind on my version control at work. I guess if I stick to 7-up I might be able to use a more recent java platform.

EXCELLING AT STRESS

2007-05-11T09:26:00.000+01:00

Those of you who know me in real-life will know that I am a teensy bit anxious (in much the same way that Hiroshima after the A-bomb was a teensy bit untidy). So Vidyavajra, on a recent trip to a stately home (which he may even blog about, you never know) bought me a stress ball. It's full of lavender flowers. The idea is that when you get anxious you squeeze it to help you calm down, and at the

6.0, 6.0, 5.8, 5.9, 6.0,

2007-05-08T10:13:00.000+01:00

On Sunday evening I could hear a little girl crying and camplaining to her mum outside our flat. I went to shut the curtains 10 minutes later and they were still there, bickering. The girl had on a pair of trainers with wheels in the heels and as she bitched and cried she moved in circles around her mum.Tantrums nowadays are much more graceful than when I was a kid.

THE POWER OF HUGGIES COMPELS YOU

2007-05-04T11:48:00.000+01:00

Occasionally I come across things like this on the InternetNow it's not so much that this appears to be a post about the power of exorcism as a means of potty training that makes this site my new favourite bizarre thing. It's the incongruity (is that even a word?) of the link at the bottom of the page.

GRATUITOUS NIECE PICTURE

2007-05-03T15:48:00.000+01:00

30, JUST LIKE 27 BUT WITH 10% EXTRA 'OLD'

2007-05-03T15:35:00.000+01:00

I turned 30 a week ago. The fact that it has taken me a week to post about this calamity disaster milestone is due to my sheer psychological horror at the fact that I am getting oh so very old. down to the fact that my posting on this blog is about as sporadic as Dubya’s moment’s of clarity.The fact that I was on holiday during this world changing, epoch making event my birthday made things a

GIANT, GOLD SPACE-MUSHROOM BANGS NEAREST STAR

2007-04-20T11:38:00.000+01:00

One of these days I'll review a film and talk about how much I enjoyed it. I won't be cynical or sarcastic, I won't write pseudo-witty comments about how a film didn't live up to my expectations or was unbelievable or clichéd. One of these days I will do that very thing, but not today. (Oh and there are spoilers ahead, so if you haven't seen Danny Boyle's 'Sunshine' and plan to then you may want

2 OUT OF 10, MUST TRY HARDER

2007-04-19T17:07:00.000+01:00

I just had a phone call from the people I get my dial-up from.Useless telesales guy: Hi, is that (says my name)Me: YesUTG: I'm calling about your internet connection, you're currently using dialupMe; YesUTG:

AND NEXT ON MY WISH LIST....

2007-04-18T14:43:00.000+01:00

If only the lovely people at FromKeetra would actually mass produce these

NOT EXACTLY LOVELY

2007-04-09T12:38:00.000+01:00

30, NOT EXACTLY LOVELY So in about two weeks time I’ll turn 30. 30 years old, and ‘old’ is the operative word. In ‘Rage’ by Richard Backman he says that ’30 is when you stop being young, but you don’t realise this until you are 40’. Whenever I mention the fact that turning 30 is getting me down a bit, to anyone who is over 30, they laugh it off, or make some

INTRODUCING LUCY

2007-03-26T13:14:00.000+01:00

Here are some photos of my fabulous new neice Lucy. She was born on Feb 13th and so is now six weeks old.As you can see she is gorgeous, as I think you'll all agree. You can leave any comments with the link below. However only people with lovely comments should bother. If your comment isn't lovely enough you be striken off the face of the earth my christmas card list.Oh and congratulations to

JUST A DEVIANT ART TEST

2007-02-05T12:35:00.000Z

If this works you may be seeing a whole lot more of my loveley pictures in the near future. Now isn't that something to look forward to? Etched Mantra Ring by ~Upholstered-Dave on deviantART

LOVE GOD'S WAY

2007-01-25T17:24:00.000Z

Love Gods Way is my new favourite site. Here's a quote:"Love Gods Way Ministries specializes in Christian topics other Ministries do not want to talk about. We recently started working on the problem of Homosexuality and the issues the Gays face. We believe that they can be fixed and we have created a program to help them on their way to recovery."Tell me about it! I love getting fixed. In fact I

SOME PEOPLE I KNOW AND RESPECT HAVE MYSPACE PAGES

2007-01-22T17:25:00.000Z

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhh!

CHILDREN ARE EVIL - AINT IT LOVELY?

2007-01-19T11:53:00.000Z

From overheard in new yorkSeven-year-old girl pointing at a spinal column in glass case: What's that?10-year-old brother: It's a snake.Seven-year-old girl: No way... No, it's not...10-year-old brother: Yes, it is. It lives inside you. If you make it mad, it eats your brain.

MISANDRY, ISN'T IT JUST SO MUCH FUN?

2007-01-15T13:25:00.000Z

I was in the supermarket this weekend (buying stuffing and cookies, but that's a whole other story), and on the way out of the store I picked up a copy of the supermarket's free magazine. Now these things aren't exactly great reading, in fact they're not much more than a bunch of loosely strung together ads for stuff that you can buy in the supermarket itself, but often they have money off

NEW YEARS EVE MEDITATION - INTERNAL DIALOG TRANSCRIBED

2007-01-01T13:51:00.000Z

- And focus on the breath, whilst relaxing the body and letting any tensions go. Count 1, breath in, breath out, Count 2 breath in, breath out.- I don't like the colour they've painted this room much- Count 5 Breath in, breath out.- I wonder if this is the right thing to be doing on New Years Eve?- Count 5 breath in, breath out- Oh bollocks, I was on 5 last time- Count 1, breath in, breath out,

DAVE'S COOKING TIPS No. 83.7b

2006-12-15T13:19:00.000Z

CHRISTMAS CAKEYou will need;eggsflour of some sort or othereggssugarbuttereggsred dried fruitbrown dried fruitblack dried fruitorange dried fruitpatiencea flair for culinary artistry and a natural aptitude for baking.First mix up everything that isn't fruit. As you can see it's best to use a bowl that says 'canelloni' on the side, but one that says spaghetti or lasagne might work just as well.

12 MORE SLEEPS TO SANTA

2006-12-13T13:08:00.000Z

Mr Stokes got a chocolate fairy in his advent calendar this morning. He got a little bit over excited though because it's christmas soon and he can't wait for Santa to come and give him lots of lovely presents. Merry Christmas Mr Stokes!

JUST IGNORE THIS, IT'S TO HELP MY BLOG WHORING ALONG

2006-12-12T13:26:00.001Z

Technorati Profile

LOST HIGHWAY

2006-12-11T15:50:00.000Z

On Saturday we got 'Lost Highway' out on DVD. We went to 'Mr Stacey's most excellent video emporium' which, aside from sounding like somewhere that deals exclusively in porn (which it doesn't) has some truly excellent movies, decent films that have more going for them than a Hollywood 'star' or a big advertising budget. It's supposed to be an antidote to blockbuster and has a wall full of

THE 'JOYS' OF SHOPPING

2006-12-04T13:40:00.000Z

I did a bit of my Christmas shopping this weekend. I haven't quite got it all yet, but I'm getting close. Anyway, the worst part of the whole experience was buying my sisters gift. Y'see, Sarah and Edd are going to have a baby soon (yes folks, run for the hills , they've started breeding), and so Sarah wants a pair of maternity pyjamas for Chrimbo, for which I went to Mothercare on Saturday.There

DAVE'S COOKERY TIPS #74

2006-12-04T11:21:00.000Z

Tofu tastes exactly as good as it looks.

LINE OF SIGHT - CHAPTER 1

2006-12-04T09:27:00.000Z

Here is the first part of me rewrite of the novel that I worte for this year's NaNoWriMo. As a chapter it isn't complete, but I'm very pleased with how it is going and I'm eager to get some of my writing on this blog A.S.A.P.Any (useful) comments would be much appreciated.-- 1 --Mike awoke groggily, to a bed that was empty except for himself and a heap of crumpled, sweat-dampened sheets. It was

I AM THE NOVELATOR

2006-12-03T17:20:00.000Z

Anyone that reads this waste of web-space, vanity-project blog, on anything like a semi regular basis will know by now that it is not exactly fair of me to describe myself as a 'regular blogger'. In fact more than a few of my posts apologise for the amount of time that has lapsed since the previous one.This is not an apology, it is a reason. There is a subtle difference which I will not go into

WHAT BAD PEICE OF TAROT CARD THEMED ART ARE YOU?

2006-11-24T09:26:00.000Z

You are The High PriestessScience, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education.The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you

MY NANOWRIMO SO FAR

2006-11-14T14:44:00.000Z

We woke up on that first day just like it was any other. Well, almost like any other. Lise and I were a little bit hung over. We'd been to her baby sister's 30th Birthday party the night before. Quite a sedate affair for Lise's family really, which are generally the kind of events where you find yourself holding a glass of beer as big as your head and a chicken wing that looks like its come off

MY FIRST NANOWRIMO CHAPTER

2006-11-01T15:45:00.000Z

NO TITLE REQUIRED

2006-10-27T13:09:00.000+01:00

NANOWRIMO

2006-10-17T16:29:00.000+01:00

I've joined up for this years National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo) on this site. Essentially I'm going to write a 50 000 word novel in November. That's just about 1600 words a day for a month. Apparently on a small percent of entrants finish (really?), and given my posting frequency on this lame excuse for a blog, and the fact that writing a 24 000 word dissertation at the end of my

SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM

2006-10-06T09:36:00.000+01:00

The sole content of a spam e-mail I received this morning was;are under the Time, I was old mastahs the first floor, are there: is of the past politics, yet; sole control the FourI figure if I reflect on this for long enough I'll get enlightened, either that or I'll automatically gain a nigerian bank account, a lifetime supply of C1Al!s and a penis extension (not that I need any of those things

I FIGURE I SHOULD GET THIS AS A TATTOO

2006-10-05T09:36:00.000+01:00

From Abstinence Outlet, and seriously, whenever christmas or birthdays come around, buy me presents from there. It's my new favourite place.

FOR RUTH

2006-09-25T13:08:00.001+01:00

I SEE HAIR, PEOPLE

2006-09-19T15:24:00.000+01:00

My new favourite place on the interwebs is Vimrod

WHEN IS A COMMENT NOT A COMMENT?

2006-09-19T13:38:00.000+01:00

You may have noticed that the template for this blog has changed ever so slightly. That's because I've just gone onto blogger beta (Wahoo! I guess). Anyway, in doing this, I found a whole load of comments that I had to 'approve', sadly only one of them was spam offering to sell me porn, the rest were genuine, so I've let them through onto the blog. So if you posted a comment but didn't see it,

I BET THESE WOULD MAKE EXCELLENT CUFFLINKS

2006-09-13T09:49:00.000+01:00

Behold, I bring you Neuticles.

FINALLY SOMEBODY CREATES A NORMAL WEB-PAGE

2006-09-12T14:25:00.000+01:00

The First Post is a UK based web-magazine. It's really simply designed and everything fits onto a single page. (Just in case you're too lazy to use that tiny little scroll wheel). The news is really straight forward, and today it has a cool article about the lonelygirl15 phenomenon (hey I just wrote phenomenon without using spellchecker!). Apparently this 16 year old girl has been posting video

WHY I'LL NEVER BE A GREAT BLOGGER

2006-07-04T17:21:00.000+01:00

Notice how blogger picks up its top ten favourite blogs, or how the same blogs always appear in magazine articles or on the news whenever blogging becomes a 'now' issue (about twice a month). There are lots of reasons this will never be one of those blogs.I am not from Kuwait, Baghdad, North Korea or any other place where I'm likely to get imprisoned or have my ass blown to pieces just for trying

....GET OUTTA THE KITCHEN

2006-07-04T15:40:00.000+01:00

It seems like the hot weather is finally going to break. A little bit of rain and then we'll be back down to the mid twenties rather than the mid thirties (for the neanderthals amongst you who still think in Fahrenheit, that's from hot-enough to make ya puke, to hot enough to sweat like Jo Brand at the end of the London Marathon). This means that I might actually get some work done. It seems like

PIMP MY BLOG

2006-05-29T13:19:00.000+01:00

So, I just found a way to do cheats ToolTips using the way that html would usually mess about with image links. Now the idea is that I use this for something 'witty' and you all laugh much more than you used to and yadda yadda yadda.Or you just think to yourself what a bloody geek, writing about some tedious stuff he found out about html, when all I wanted was a movie review featuring bad puns

SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO 127.0.0.1

2006-05-26T13:48:00.000+01:00

OK, so if you don't get the pun in the header of this post, it's probably a good thing, you probably have a social life, and real life friends who you can speak to you without having to use MSN. You might even have a boyfriend/girlfriend as well (having someone you only ever see via web-cam doesn't count).However, if you do get that supremely witty bloody awful pun then you might also have

CASSHERN IS STOOOOPID

2006-05-15T15:56:00.000+01:00

Ok, so you can probably guess from the title of the post that my enjoyment of Japanese, cyber-hero movie Casshern was not as high as it perhaps might have been. Now perhaps I had unreasonable expectations from this film. Coherent plot being perhaps the strongest.Anyay here is a synopsis.1. Future Dystopian Japanese scientist discovers ‘stem cell’ analogy.2. His son dies3. His wife goes blind4.

OVERHEARD

2006-05-10T11:58:00.000+01:00

On the cambridge to Kings cross train. Two middle-aged, middle-class women pass a photo back and forth.'Her eyeballs are nice and clean, not much yellowing''Yes and her teeth are rounded, and seperate''And she's colour co-ordinated, she should fetch quite a good price'Turns out the photo was of a china doll, not a thai bride.

YOU KNOW HOW GOOD GAME TO MOVIE ADAPTATIONS ARE RIGHT?

2006-05-05T15:18:00.000+01:00

Last night I saw the Doom movie. Now don't let the title of this post mislead you. I knew exactly what I was letting myself in for. I didn't want a piece of great cinema, or a complex or involving story. I wanted a movie that was shooty. A movie with more exploding heads than a scanners anonymous meeting. A movie with more gore than a kindergarten rodeo. On this front Doom does not

STABBY TODDLER MOVIE REVIEW

2006-05-02T15:12:00.000+01:00

So I just watched a Korean film called PHONE. I'm assuming it was made in south Korea as it doesn't spend the best part of 3 hours telling me all about;The Joys of communismWhy the internet is evil (The web is banned in N Korea) How Kim Jong Il (whose name sounds just like a character from a bad Japanese RPG) is the loveliest man alive and I should be happy to let him torture me and my family and

5 WORD REVIEW OF GAME-TO-MOVIE, NEW RELEASE 'SILENT HILL' STARRING RADHA MITCHELL AND SEAN BEAN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHE GANS

2006-04-24T14:03:00.000+01:00

'The Ring' meets 'Hellraiser'.......Badly

.....FROM OUTTA SPACE

2006-04-11T09:48:00.000+01:00

Yes, I'm back posting after way too long away. I had to cut out a few old posts, specifically the video ones, as they were stopping the page from loading properly. Especially the iFilm 'West Side Story' Redux that was eating up bandwidth like a fat girl eats biscuits.Anyway, I'm in a bit of a ranty mood right now, and so whilst I calm down enough to write a post that doesn't offend half of the

NICE ONE BILL

2006-03-14T16:59:00.000Z

Turns out I have to compensate for the abismal excuse for a browser that is Internet Explorer YET AGAIN.Bill's crappy little browser couldn't handle an unformatted list of picture links, so now I've had to put line break tags in front of them all so that they make a nice pretty list. (You can just smell the geekiness coming off me, right?) For arse's sake it's like writing html for a four year

NOT BAD ENOUGH TO BE ANY GOOD

2006-03-07T14:28:00.000Z

You may remember this post about Boy Eats Girl, and I just saw it last night. I was expecting a really bad zombie horror movie. Y'know, plenty of cheap laughs, blood that is too red and a far too plentiful, and limbs or heads that come off just a little too easily. The sad thing is that this film just isn't quite bad enough. Now don't get me wrong, here, this film wasn't any good, in fact it was

TOO TOO CUTE

2006-03-06T09:33:00.000Z

So this American guy has a camcorder and quadruplets that laugh whenever he does. If this doesn't make you smile you are probably a being of pure evil (or something).

BEST MOVIE TAG-LINE THIS YEAR

2006-02-24T11:49:00.000Z

Recently seen at BlockBuster on the back cover of "Boy eats Girl", a zombie high school romantic comedy - "Will Jesse win back Nicole's heart, or eat it?"Expect a review of what will no doubt be my new favourite bad film, shortly.

SHINGO MAMA NO OHA!

2006-02-21T13:26:00.000Z

You know how there aren't enough Japanese transexual school-nurse pop-stars appearing with James Brown on the internet?

NOT SO MUCH 'FUN'

2006-02-07T12:15:00.000Z

Ok, so I just saw the new Jim Carrey vehicle, fun with Dick and Jane. It's a comedy about a bankrupt couple who try and make ends meet by committing major crimes, before defrauding their former boss. Sounds wholesome, doesn't it? I thought that after Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, it might actually be safe to start watching Jim Carrey films, and I was half correct. It was quite a safe

JAPANESE FOOD EGO RECOVERY

2006-02-01T16:38:00.000Z

A few weeks ago I posted about secret noodles and the noodles of shame. Tonight I am cooking good, substantial, wholesome noodles, with no emotional baggage attached to them whatsoever. I'm also going to be cooking Teriaki chicken (quorn) and the noodles will be in Yakisoba, with (fake) bacon, not totally sure that's authentic Japanese, but the book says to include bacon, and who am I to argue.

GONNA MAKE YOU HAPPY TONIGHT

2006-01-31T17:16:00.000Z

ONLINE PERSONALITY TEST

2006-01-31T16:36:00.000Z

Your Personality ProfileYou are dependable, popular, and observant.Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness.In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do.You are unique, creative, and expressive.You don't mind waving your freak flag every once and a while.And lucky for you, most people find your weird ways charming!Ok, so this is what I got on my personality test. Allow me to

INTERNET EXPLORER IS A LEAKY BUCKET OF TEPID CRAP

2006-01-31T14:25:00.000Z

It seems like every time I make even the slightest change to this blog, internet explorer decides to reformat it just so it looks crappy. Firefox can handle this thing just fine.If you are using IE to view this I have three suggestions.1). Use Firefox2). Start being ashamed of yourself. (I mean really, an actual grown-up using IE, what is the world coming to?)3). Start using Firefox.

IT'S TUESDAY, SO IT MUST BE ANOTHER ECO-DISASTER

2006-01-31T09:45:00.000Z

Two ships just collided in the English channel (English channel, not french, english english english). Everybody is fine, there are no major injuries. Except that now thousands of tonnes of phosphoric acid are pouring out nito the sea. On Radio-1 news this morning, a spokesman said they did not know what the effect of the spillage would be. Another spokesman on the BBC website says that the acid

MONSTER MOVIE MAYHEM MARATHON

2006-01-30T15:40:00.000Z

Don’t you just love alliteration? Anyway, I saw Evil Dead, Scream and Bubba Ho-tep this weekend. The guy at blockbuster confirmed my choices. Him - “So that’s Scream, Evil Dead, and Bubba Ho-Tep” for some reason he really emphasised the ‘Ho’. Me- “Yes” At which point he smirks at me and goes to get my disks. Smirking at the customer. That’s got to be a bad thing right? No matter how tacky

BLOG WHORING

2006-01-12T14:58:00.000Z

It seems (from the experiences of a few friends and collegues) that using blog syndication / catalog sites is a ridiculously succesful way of increasing the amount of hits that you get.I want that. More hits?.....yup, that's for me!Shortly, over on the right hand side of this page (unless of course you are reading this in IE, in which case, re: the location of this sites side bar, your guess is

BUT I'M WEARING THAT YOU!!!

2006-01-12T10:28:00.000Z

I walked into work today (looking damfine if I do say so myself), and on the way into the office, I see somebody dressed in a very similar way to me, except that I don't like the way he looks, although as I just said, I am looking wonderful.So obviously this makes me angry. Now I suppose if I was being a 'good buddhist' (a phrase which, despite its spelling, is pronounced 'sheeply victim') I

THE NOODLES OF SHAME

2006-01-04T10:13:00.000Z

The thing about secret noodles is that if you write about them on your blog, and those from whom you are keeping the secret noodles secret read your blog, your secret noodles turn into the 'you've been busted' Noodles of Shame(confused? read Jan 1st)

MICHAEL JACKSON MADE ME DO IT

2006-01-02T09:40:00.000Z

So, I meditated for the second time in two days (Wahoo!). Not only that but I can now truthfully say that I've meditated every day this year (Slightly-Shallow-Wahoo!). The thing is, I watched the 'Scream' Video, by Michael and Janet Jackson, & one of the $5 million sets is a meditation room, where the plastic faced one is sitting in full-lotus on a raised platform in the middle of a pool, that

THE NEW YEAR'S DAY OF THE SECRET NOODLE

2006-01-01T09:28:00.000Z

I got some cool Japanese knives and a book on Japanese food for Christmas, so we’ve been getting into Japanese food at home this last week or so. I bought some Konbu and Daikon and Ramen from Seoul Plaza and we had ramen soup in Dashi for tea. It was nice, but a little bit too seaweedy for my taste.Anyway I was originally going to be aloone in the evening, so I got some cheap tacky noodles from

NOT ALL AMERICANS ARE AS DUMB AS DUBYA

2005-12-22T15:00:00.000Z

A Pittsburgh judge has overturned a ruling to have intelligent design classed as a science so that it can be taught in schools. In the US schools are entirely secular (although there are Christian schools available as an alternative).He labelled inteligent design as 'Creationism science' and banned its teaching in Pittsburgh public schools. From NewScientist.com"Judge Jones found that intelligent

SEEN ON A BUMPER STICKER

2005-12-20T15:32:00.000Z

THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR! (OR SOMETHING)

2005-12-20T14:22:00.000Z

So, my little sister (basically a female mini-me, if you haven't met her before) got married (wahooo!), to a bloke called Edd, who is an independant mortgage advisor (but don't worry he isn't nearly half as boring as his job makes him sound). The wedding was held at Newstead Abbey just outside Nottingham (Byron lived there for a while, shortly before he went crazy, can't imagine why). As you can

SO REMIND ME WHAT THE INTERNET'S FOR AGAIN?

2005-12-20T12:43:00.000Z

Not for the easily offended

A QUOTE FROM ALICE KAHN

2005-12-15T12:16:00.000Z

'For a list of ways in which technology has failed to improve the quality of life, press 3'more here

INTELLIGENT? INTELLIGENT MY HAIRY ASS!

2005-12-13T14:49:00.000Z

OK so you need to know before you start reading that this post is going to be a bit of a rant. But it seems that every time I pick up a paper or turn on the news I hear about how intelligent design is getting more and more of a foothold. Can't explain what's going on? God did it. Science can't figure out an evolution map for the bacterial flagellum yet? God did it. Banana's are perfect for eating

WHAT A STRESSFUL JOB

2005-11-25T14:25:00.000Z

So, there are times in my work, where I'm up against deadlines, trying to get hardware replaced. Software licensed, version control simplified, all to historical deadlines, or deadlines that are so close, you can count the blackheads on their noses. Then there are other times when I take photos of finger puppets. Go figure.

THE JAYARAVA RAVE

2005-11-23T14:05:00.000Z

I don't usually post just to add a cool link to this page. (Although I used to do only that on Double Chocolate). But for this link I'll make an exception.Is it because this site has a beautiful new re-design? Is it because it has lots of excellent entries (including a truly bizarre story about a pumpkin cannon with a 1 mile range)? Is it because I'm friends with the guy who writes it?Well yes,

IF A WOMAN FALLS IN THE STREET AND THERE IS NOBODY THERE TO HEAR IT......

2005-11-21T16:07:00.000Z

This Saturday, I was walking back from the supermarket, when I realised that I'd forgotten to buy noodles,(don't even get me started on the forgetting to buy noodles thing) , so I went into a small papershop/general store that is on my way home. They didn't have any, so I left and carried on walking home.I'm about 10 steps away from the shop when I hear a sob and a bit of mumbling behind me. I

BUDDHA SKETCH UPDATE

2005-11-21T09:37:00.000Z