This evening I was looking at a PDF copy of a brochure for the Canon EOS 450D camera, which looks like a tasty piece of kit. I found pages eight and nine a little worrying.
Entries Tagged as 'WTF'
Doctor Wu
October 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
Prince Charles having a small part in Doctor Who is an interesting idea. But how much more fun to give him the main part when Tennant moves on… DOCTOR: So you’re a Dalek are you? And what do you do? DALEK: Exterminate!
Sad But True
October 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
There is something a little bit strange about deciding to read a dictionary from start to finish, and when the dictionary in question is the Oxford English Dictionary it is also an epic undertaking. The OED is not the 1300-page Concise Oxford Dictionary that is in many homes, nor even the two-volume Shorter Oxford English […]
Hot Corner
October 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Hot Corner · Life
Is there such a thing as ‘corn porn’?  if there wasn’t before, there certainly is now! See this clip from the Rachael Ray show on US TV. I may have to add “shucking” to the list of suggestive anti-spam words…
At Swim Two Birds
October 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on At Swim Two Birds · Life
Be on your guard: duck thieves are at large in Eastbourne. An alternative theory is that the two birds ran away because they didn’t like the implications of their names…. ‘Aromatic’ and ‘A l’Orange’.
Walk Like An Egyptian
September 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on Walk Like An Egyptian · Music
Yesterday I was listening to In Their Darkened Shrines by Nile and trying to work out a few things, like why I have it in my collection and why I haven’t listened to it in the 6 years since I bought it. The second question is quite easy – I don’t like it very much.
Diamond Dogs
September 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Diamond Dogs · Life
I am still finding this story hard to believe: a man had a seizure and his dog called the emergency services on the phone. It sounds like an unlikely fluke but, apparently, the dog is specially trained to do that. To put this remarkable achievement into perspective, even after years of the police getting such […]
Iron Man
September 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics
There are many reasons why I would like to see Barack Obama win the US presidential election this year, but this one really stands out: who would have thought that Obama follows the Irons?
Let’s Go Round Again
August 19th, 2008 · Comments Off on Let’s Go Round Again · Technology
I returned home from work today to find that Chrystal’s laptop had got it’s knickers in a twist and it was stuck in an endless loop of trying to configure updates to Vista. I looked into it and discovered that Microsoft has greatly expanded its repertoir of frustrating messages since Windows XP.
