September 2005
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Upcoming
Anyone used Upcoming? The end of the year is already starting to fill up, with concerts, birthdays and whatnot. So far (and I’m missing some birthdays off here): 24th Sept – Will and Fran’s Wedding Reception 29th Sept – Dad’s Birthday 1st Oct – Glasgow Blogmeet 8th Oct – The Go! Team at QMU 10th…
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iPod Nano
Our current (now “old) iPod is a 3G model. It holds 10GB of music, and is quite large and chunky. It’s not TOO big by any account and it does what it does well enough. The iPod Photo is nice as it has a colour screen but I don’t see me ever wanting to carry…
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Mork calling Orson
Louise and I aren’t really that big on birthdays any more. We’re happy enough that we have (had) each other for another year. Ohh we still buy presents but it’s not really a “big day”, which is probably a sure sign that we are getting old or something (would any of my older readers care…
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Offended
What’s funny and what’s offensive? The Aristocrats documentary falls short of any insight into the dividing line, although it’s universally acknowledged that the line is there and can be stepped over very easily, in fact there were two definite “not comfortable with this moments” in the documentary itself: One was a comedian telling his version…
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The Aristocrats
Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic The Aristocrats of the title are the closing line of a joke, a family act that feature in a joke so disgustingly offensive comedians rarely tell it in public, or at least that’s partly why. The beauty of the joke is that the “act” can be swapped…
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Catches win Matches
Before my Mum returned to work she knitted. A lot. But I’ve mentioned that before, so let’s move on. Cricket then, and yes there is a link between the two because my Mum spent a lot of time knitting she liked to watch something that she could follow whilst glancing up and down from the…