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Entries from May 12th, 2014

Today’s bright idea #9

May 12th, 2014 · Comments Off on Today’s bright idea #9 · Life, Technology

I was watching Mrs. Skuds playing one of those Facebook games the other day. It may be called ‘Tribez’. It looked like a generic Swords & Sorcery meets Sim City sort of game. It made me think that the way technology is going we can’t be too far away from being able to play Sim […]

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Village idiots

May 12th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Life

This is actually a serious question, I can anticipate the obvious, satirical, Mock-The-Week-style answers already, but what do posh people do with their idiots now? In the past they would just get the girls married off somewhere (whether idiots or not) and the boys would be found sinecures in the city, or commissions in the […]

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Days Like This

May 4th, 2014 · Comments Off on Days Like This · Life

Today must count as a good day. A small (£3) win from Friday’s Euro lottery Another lot of election leaflets distributed to a volunteer for delivery, which means that I now have a manageable number to deliver on my own. The back garden cleared of weeds and dog eggs so it is now presentable West […]

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Machete happens

May 4th, 2014 · Comments Off on Machete happens · Life

This evening I watched the film Machete Kills on DVD. What a strange film. I can see why it got so many bad reviews, but I’m not sure they are all entirely deserved because in many ways it is supposed to be bad isn’t it? It is either a pastiche of grindcore films, an homage […]

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