Chrystal is still in touch via the interwebs with some of the people we met in Tunisia in February. Last night she was chatting to them and it turns out that some of them had just come back from Crete, where they were staying in the same resort and Jayne & I.  As it was […]
Entries Tagged as 'WTF'
Gazprom with attitude
July 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
The catalogue of brand-naming disasters got a new entry this week, when Russia’s Gazprom entered into a joint venture with Nigeria’s state-run gas company and decided to call the new entity… Nigaz. What could possibly go wrong?
Glasto
June 28th, 2009 · Comments Off on Glasto · Music
I did not see much of Glastonbury this year, not compared to last year anyway – although I have a few hours’ worth recorded for a rainy day.  One thing I did see was Spinal Tap singing Big Bottom, which was pretty bizarre. They had Jarvis Cocker joining them on bass guitar, but I’ll swear […]
Tags: WTF
Get your wellies on!
June 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Get your wellies on! · Life
Looking at the BBC News website today I found some Google ads displayed.  I’m still smiling over the juxtaposition of the last two…
Txt spk
May 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Technology
Do ‘the kids’ really use all these acronyms?  The article raises more questions than answers, not the least of which is – what the hell was number 15?
Tanzwut
April 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Music
Even better than listening to Tanzwut is reading the entry about them on Wikipedia: it is straight from the file marked couldn’t-make-it-up.
Covered in glory
March 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Music
I may have mentioned it before, but I do like a good cover version. I also like a bad one. Most of all, I like an unlikely cover version and delving into the recesses of Spotify I have found some crackers – combinations that you could hardly make up.
Clever but pointless
March 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Technology
If the internet did not exist we would not have this. How do people think of things like that? Not sure whether to be amused, impressed or just meh.
Two thousand??
March 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
I am finding this story hard to believe. I am not saying that I think it is not true – I do not know enough about truck specifications have a qualified opinion – just that it is hard to believe, in the same way that it is hard to believe that something the size of […]
Tags: Crime/ASB·Local Papers·WTF
There goes Concorde again
February 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Music
A work colleague brought in a song for me to listen to recently. He thought I might enjoy it so he brought in a minidisc of it… which ties in very nicely with the previous post about data formats.  I gave up trying to find the minidisc walkman that I know is around somewhere and […]
Tags: WTF
