Well I had high, high hopes for this film because I really enjoyed the original. But, YARRR, this one disappointed. It’s not that it was terrible, but that’s a far cry from good sez I. The biggest failing was it was far, far, too long and lost its way in the middle never to be […]
Wow. I have tagged almost every post in my blog — manually. That took two days of detailed HTML editing because Blogger doesn’t really support tags. I’m not big into tags myself, but a careful experiment showed a tagged entry got 10% more hits than an untagged entry. Now if the visitors would all clink […]
This is an old, old, old joke from my Boy Scout days. Two friends-for-life, Bob and Jack, lost touch with each other during boy scouts when one moved away. By chance, they ended up in the same college. They decide to go camping for old-time’s sake and to renew their friendship. On the appointed morning […]
Legendary original Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett has died. The troubled Pink Floyd co-founder spent his last years in reclusive anonymity. A spokeswoman for the band said Barrett died several days ago, but did not disclose the cause of death. The surviving members of Pink Floyd – David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard […]
The AP is reporting (excerpted) FIFA will open a disciplinary investigation into Zinedine Zidane’s conduct in the World Cup final, when he was sent off for head-butting Italy’s Marco Materazzi. Zidane and Materazzi exchanged words after Italy broke up a French attack in extra-time of Sunday’s final in Berlin. Seconds later, Zidane lowered his head […]
Well, the World Cup is over, and Italy has won. I am pleased and glad as I didn’t want the French to win. And quite frankly, after Zindane’s brutal head-butt on Materazzi, the French deserved to lose. What a piss-poor example of sportsmanship in front the whole world. True the officials have been handing out […]
Every now and then I steal from my own website for a post. This is from the “CMOT TMPV” section and entitled profundity. 9-11-01. The unbearable sadness of life in the modern world. I still can’t watch those pictures. (I’m sure you know which ones I’m talking about.) The Challenger accident. It affected me deeply, […]
Wow. I realize it’s time I get some updated into this blog, so here’s a large collection of Random thoughts to bring us up to speed. I went to work this weekend but the DSL was down so I didn’t accomplish as much as I would have liked. My DirecTV has been out for over […]
I bought and read the third tome in this excellent series today. Each book is better than the one before it and this book makes author Heather Brewer three for three. The new book has my least favourite cover but it’s the best of the three, so I’ll forgive the irritatingly pouty cover. We have […]
In a previous blog entry (Airbus Crashes — Boeing Soars) I made fun of Airbus. That’s always good sport. I now have a follow up to the above post. It’s gotten worse for Airbus. Much, much, much worse. I direct my reader(s) to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5103642.stm to read the latest. BAE is bailing on Airbus, the French […]