Month July 2006
Two things
Reading time: < 1 min Neither related in any way, shape or form, other than that they have made an impression on me and I thought I’d share them with you. 1. Random Homer quotes rule A couple of weeks back a few of us wasted our lunch hour downloading WAV files of his emminence Homer J. Simpson. Today, I…
Out of puff
Reading time: 4 mins The time has come to admit that I’m not as fit as I thought I was. Far from it. I’ve always thought I had a reasonable ‘base level of fitness’ (a term which may be wholly of my own creation). In fact it was some what backed up a few years back when, during an…
Thoughts for the day
Reading time: < 1 min (arrived via email from regular commentee “Splinter” (that’s not his real name ya know)) Life is a sexually transmitted condition. Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see one without an erection, make him a sandwich. Give a person a…
Blink
Reading time: < 1 min Blink by Malcolm Gladwell I’ve had this book sitting on my shelf for several months now, however I hate hate hate myself for buying it when I did, when it was the ‘in’ thing to read (in some circles) and so I’ve been avoiding it. The really annoying thing is, of course, that it’s an…
Dead Man's Chest
Reading time: < 1 min Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic It’s hard to be critical of a movie like this, a movie which is hugely tongue-in-cheek and which is the middle of a trilogy. As it happens this isn’t a bad movie, but I think it suffers from having to both live up to the mark set…