Big thanks to my sis Natasha for filling her flickr account full of photos of our family from years ago. My mates are having a field day.
Course if I actually was embarassed I wouldn’t be mentioning them here. That’s my dad in our old car with Miranda the goat and I couldn’t be prouder!
In other [...]
Hot Fuzz is as good as I hoped and almost as good as Shaun of the Dead. It also provides a unintented metaphor for the Intelligent Design vs. Darwinism debate. It’s set in a quiet English village where the inhabitants live in a state of denial about the frequent deaths of fellow inhabitants, always attributing [...]
Have been reading Phantastes by George MacDonald. I haven’t read much in recent years besides Hebrew textbooks or academic books on the Intelligent Design and Darwinism, so it’s nice to be reading something very different, and a lot more relaxing. It’s a surreal story with fairies and goblins, but it’s the book that first inspired [...]
Am aching all over today from doing skirmishing yesterday for Jonny’s stag do. Skirmishing is basically outdoors laser-quest, with massive heavy rifles and camouflage gear. We were up on the hills behind Belfast with rain, sleet and gale force winds. Spent most of the day jumping into gorse bushes and ditches…but it was a lot [...]
Behold the amazing, Mountain Dew drinking, mashup DJ, Granny Sue Teller as she shows us how to “sync our beats” and “get our freak on”…
In this other episode she shows us how to customize our sneakers.
If I ever go back to the US it will be for the Mountain Dew.
If I make many more posts about Mr Dawkins you might think I’m obsessed, but this is too funny not to mention. It’s a spoof radio interview with a scientist who doesn’t believe in the existence of Richard Dawkins, and mimics his rhetoric, arrogance and accent perfectly. It’s also on YouTube here.
The news this week has all been about climate change. Here are two things I learnt this week:
1. Mars may be experiencing severe global warming without human influence. Which is good because maybe we can go live there…2. There is a movement called the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement who encourage people to stop having children [...]
