Random burblings since 1999
Well it seems like the Blogger guys turned on payment by credit card in February and it’s taken me this long to find that out. So I’m now a fully paid up Blogger Pro user.
Not that you guys will notice much, in fact bar the lack of permalinks for any posts before today, you will see NO difference at all.
Until I change everything of course.
Sent to me by a friend and guaranteed to make you smile (remember and listen after the track ends!). Cheers Keith!
Some heard before, some new, all far too clever to have originated with me…
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize that it was your money to start with.
Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding a stupid person that stops bright
ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
Karmageddon: It’s when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
Decaflon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
Glibido: All talk and no action.
Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an a**hole.
So I’ve got a new digital camera (found the ON button so all is well, thanks Gert). Obviously I will soon be dazzling you all with my profound images, and that, in turn, means I need to find some where to display them. Not being a MT user I will need to use my own skills to put a random thumbnail in the sidebar (a la Meg), but what then? I’ve looked at the navigation of the site (the bar across the top anyway) and wondered if I need all those separate links. I think the last ‘piece’ I’ve written was late last year. Should I just bung them altogether under ‘Asides’ (stolen from Vaughan) and be done with it. And so the reassessment of this website continues. What do I use it for? Why do I have it… etc etc.
Sigh.
In other news, I’m in a reasonably chirpy mood and might even get off my fat arse and get to the gym tonight.
Heart wrenching, or just ethically wrong?The story of the family who want to screen embryos to make sure their baby will be able to provide a bone marrow transplant to their critically ill son will no doubt divide opinion. However I’m not sure I agree with the tag line that has surrounded this story of wanting to pick a ‘designer baby’. They are not doing this for ‘design’ reasons (hair colour, eye colour etc etc) but to help save the life of their son. Surely that is a worthy cause?
Seemingly we (in Scotland) celebrate this for two days, however I can’t say I’ve heard of Taily Day.
Anyway, the tradition of practical jokes is alive and well, and our poor finance assistant has just been made to stand outside in the cold rain waiting for a ‘red van’ to arrive to pick up a vital document. I think they left out there for 15 mins before admitting that it was just a prank. Very cruel. Reminds me of similar pranks: the ‘bucket of steam’, the ‘bubble for the spirit level’, or the ‘rubber hammer for glass nails’ being common ones.
Ohh and when should the April Fool pranks stop? I say 12 noon. Others say 12 midnight (others say midnite… ;-), what say you?
(Aside: seems like Blogger is playing it’s own little April Fool by not publishing…)