One of this month’s offers from Amazon’s Vine programme was So I Said To This Bloke – a DVD of comedian Tim Vine performing in London. Here is what I thought of it:
Entries from October 19th, 2008
Save A Prayer
October 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
Jayne and I went down to the Sikh temple this afternoon. The words ‘temple’ or ‘gurdwara’ are a little grand for what is just a single-storey hut next to the Asda car park, but it is what is inside that matters. It was a strange event there: not strange for Sikhs maybe, but a little […]
Tags: Religion
Nobody’s Diary
October 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
I do like a good zombie film, especially those made by George A Romero, so I was dead chuffed to see a DVD in the shops the other day of Diary Of The Dead. After reading the back of the box I was in two minds about getting it, despite my great affection for the […]
Rockin’ In The Free World
October 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on Rockin’ In The Free World · Life, Music
Today was newsletter day for Amazon’s Vine program, and I got a lot more choice than last month, when I had the option of choosing up to two items from a list of two items. This time I had two books, eight DVDs and an electric toothbrush to choose from.
Computa-mensch
October 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Technology
I am going to have to give up any pretensions I may have had to geekdom. I only scored 7/10 in this quiz about old computers. My total lack of knowledge of anything from Apple was my downfall, along with ignorance about obscure games consoles.
Ebeneezer Goode
October 15th, 2008 · Comments Off on Ebeneezer Goode · Life
Over the years I have visited Letchworth many, many times. At first it was to visit our offices there (when I worked for ICL) and then to visit Dad when he relocated there from London. On nearly every visit I was told something about the town’s peculiar history: often the same little bits of information, […]
Tags: Town Planning·TV
Capital (It Fails Us Now)
October 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
Heard on Rick Wakeman’s show on Planet Rock: Q: What’s the capital of Iceland? A: £1.24
Addicted To Chaos
October 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
There was a programme about chaos theory on BBC Four tonight – High Anxieties: The Mathematics Of Chaos – which was a great disappointment. I found it interesting, but really it did not say anything new to anybody who has read a couple of books on the subject, and I don’t think it would have […]
Many Too Many
October 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Music
I am sure I have already railed against the modern fashion for choice. Probably about how we sometimes seem to be more concerned that the education and health systems offer choice than about about making them so universally good that choices are pointless. Or about how as individuals we are either bad at making choices […]
Tags: DVD·Pink Floyd
The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
October 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Politics
It is a tradition or an old charter or something that you do not speak ill of the dead, but every tradition has its exceptions, and one of them has to be Joerg Haider. He will not be missed.
Tags: Nazis
