Be Excellent To Each Other

BBC News website today is consistently reminding me quite how much I would love to nail Carla Bruni.

Well that was a waste of my time and money. Fucking Oxford and its parks. M40 is jammed, probably due to Moto GP and I am now at home by myself with only ITV and fucking Budweiser that I did not get to drink this afternoon.

I'm glad I wasn't intending to be down to ruin any more friendships this weekend then.

Depressing, isn't it? Special middle-class enclave schools funded by robbing the poor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010 ... -from-poor

I feel most angry about the expansion of 'academy' schools, as they exclude statemented kids... I was statemented, and lost out a lot out on almost a quarter my secondary education because the local schools with places didn't want me, and that was in the '90s!

I hear she likes tall men.

Off up north in a few. Ka is laden down with garlic, crossbows and silver bullets.

Had to reimage my works PC after the helpdesk helped fix it...

Nice surpirse though when I accessed my emails... I got my promotion at work..

From the 1st July I am a 'Information Systems Architect'..... woot!!

Ugh. Hangover and jelly tummy. Not good.

Nice one, KC!

What a pain broadband dongles are to setup. Just taken me nearly an hour of hair pulling and I'm still missing a 10 quid top up I paid when I bought it.

The dongle itself was easy, but getting an account setup with T Mobile wasn't. At one stage the process sends a text to the software with a PIN number. This took so long that I thought something had gone wrong. The registration process also demanded the dongles phone number which wasn't clearly provided either.

Works now and actually managed a 3G/HSDPA signal outdoors and upstairs despite being miles from the mast and only being predicted GPRS. Not that I will be using the dongle at home.

Congratulations.

Yesterday at work the person who recently interviewed me for a job within the company I currently work for has just prised open the window from outside and told me I haven't got it. Dignity at work, people!

Anyway, it was a job in marketing, so it I consider myself fortunate. That way leads to madness and a wardrobe of appalling suits.

We didn't hear from him again - so GazChap must've gone down with his ship! Does anybody know when the memorial service is?

I was knackered last night but I have posted this morning, albeit not in this thread

Photos to come, to prove we did it and that it wasn't some hoax to raise money for our own devious ends

Heh.

Just reading the matchcast on Yahoo for the Holland game and noticed this.



Sounds like an audiophile changing out his equipment

Lacist

I have nothing against laces. You should see what a pair of Tims do with none in !

Throw their shoes at Huns?

Ahh that reminds me - at some point in the past Nickachu was looking for info on using one of the MIFI dongles with an xbox.

I've just tried it and played a very quick game of ModernJamfactory2 and it worked fine , no obvious lag and connected without any problems.

Mine is the 3 branded one here : http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... 3+MIFI.htm
although its been upgraded to use any SIM

Arrived, watched end of match with FiL, had lunch, watched first half of next match with FiL. MrsA and MiL went off to see her sister, so I went and bought a magazine and had a couple of quiet beers. £2.75 a pint, fit barmaid, quiet pub and a decent chat about what was on and what wasn't. Elected for Ringwood Brewery's light summer hoppy offering. Beautiful.

Critical mass invasion of over 15 young loud, stamping, jeering jerks in the library here, mere ten minutes from closing.

Peachy.

Pfft.. anyone can get a hangover.

People need to be aware that T-Mobile now use 3's HSDPA network. I almost went with 3, but the deal from T Mobile was marginally better.

If T-Mobile get around to using the Orange masts as well, they may have a network that is head and shoulders above everyone else.

Oops. That was supposed to say KC.

After four cans of Carlsberg?

I'm special.

What's the name of that "band" that is two doctors singing satirical songs about medical related stuff?

cool scribbly thingy.
http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/scribblertoo/

The Who Who

zefrank's dance lesson videos are legendary.

The Amateur Transplants

I think they had an album called Fitness to Practice.

Ah, that's they. A colleague went to see them at a gig recently. I've heard one of their CDs and i had a coronary.

Thanks, chap!

Now that Myp is back - what the heck happened to Perkies and Dimrill?

They released a newer one aswell called Unfit to Practice. And it's as marvellous as the first. Wheezy on a Sunday morning cracks me up (song about smokers).

You don't wanna go down that rud.

Hmm to the new toothpaste ad.

"Go on.. Put it on the most sensitive part"

I can just see some one smearing it all over their most sensitive part and saying "Argh it stings !"

Flicking channels while dogsitting at ol' Rixondales and come across Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Man, the special effects are great. The model work is fantastic, the shots incredibly atmospheric and the bit where the probe starts lightning bolting around the bridge is genuinely nerve-tingling in its staticky atonal buzzing way.

The plot is incredibly slow though. Six hours to save Earth! Let's carefully examine all angles of this robot-alien probe thing here, and have a working lunch, eh? I've seen classic Tom Baker twelve episode plots with more urgency.

Still, looks amazing. And the Shatner is amusingly hammy.

My favourite Trek film. Honestly.

It's growing on me. It's really weird. Kirk's a man of action and yet he's pretty helpless, only able to observe and analyse. It's more of a genuine hard sci-fi mystery rather than the shooty-bang-bang of most of the others. It's nice to see a sci-fi film doing something different. The only problems are that it needs more of a feeling of threat and danger while they're uncovering things, and better pacing to the clues and answers so friend audience gets to join in. Also Kirk is hamming it up massively. I love his Ron Burgendy-style frustrated fist pound on the table when blonde haired bonus officer William fails to crack the mystery of bald woman after almost doing so.

But the film does look incredible. Enterprise has never looked better, in any film incarnation including the latest. Even little rooms are given big, interesting sets. The jet pack scene I've just seen is visually stunning and inventive, and the recreation room seems the size of my city branch library. Best effects until the latest film, and even then I'd argue that some of these shots out-match it.

I'm confused. I have no idea if this is really good or just highly polished silliness.

The longest Tom Baker stories are 6 episodes. You'd have to go back to The Dalek Masterplan with Bill Hartnell for a 12 parter and that doesn't exist anymore.

Damn it, sir! Poetic license!



I never watch TV really anymore. I'm enjoying the delights of late night adverts now. They're fantastic. The Gay Exchange adverts that made me chuckle so much as a lad are back! (Or never went away.) Pumping-Arm-movement-dance guy has gone and been replaced by sinister Martin Freeman who lays on a sofa with a phone, waiting, waiting, sinisterly waiting with unbearable ice-blooded patience.

Now there's an advert for an Advanced Hair Loss treatment that's going on for ages. It too is great, featuring ex-cricketers extolling its virtues.

And now there's an immensely bad taste advert for a 'documentary' on that recent mass shooting in Cumbria. Creepy music, shock vox-pops and almost leering description. Leaves a bad taste in the mouth, C4!

Ahh, back to Star Trek. Revelation ahoy! They've met the 'baddy'.

Damn impressive explosion! If you can call it that. This film looks more expensive than Return of the Jedi. Script needs several re-writes though. Finishes a bit abruptly.

Yay! Alexander Courage theme! And consultant Isaac Asimov?! Crikey. And effects by Douglas Trumball? That explains the lushness.

And done.

Ah, the joys of sitting at work still with powder stains on my hands and the faint lingering smell of gunsmoke after another fun weekend broiling in woollen uniforms. I think my colleagues understand.

I'd like to know what next door are building. There's been sounds of banging and drilling coming through the walls intermittently for about a month now.

Dear everyone in the UK:
IF YOU'RE NOT OVERTAKING, MOVE TO THE LEFT!

Cunts.

Yesterday was fucking appalling on the motorways for people going the same speed (or even more fucking slowly) than the traffic in the lane to their left. I got quite angry on the M11 and M25.

I was on the M11 too, at around 7:30 - 8:30pm.

The traffic exiting the MotoGP to head south on the M40 was a pain as it's clearly a good idea to queue RIGHT OVER THE ROUNDABOUT so anyone heading north to turn down the B4100 towards Bicester cannot make that turn. But I was only delayed briefly, so it wan't a big deal.

I forgot to avoid the M40 last night after warning others that it might be crowded. By 21:00 Junction 10 (the Silverstone one) wasn't too bad, but still pretty slow.

The A41 on bank holidays/summer weekends is always terrible as well. Due to Bicester cunting Village. In which, apparently, the shops pay their rent as a %age of turnover. I hate that place.

Star Trek The Motion Picture is lovely to look at. I recently got the first six movies on BluRay and that makes it even lovlier - visually, it's easily the best of the whole lot, except the new one. Even then, ST:TMP makes more of the size and grandness of the Enterprise than the new one can muster.

But, my God, the plot! It's not that it's a bad story, it's just that it's one that could easily have been told over the course of 30 mins. The remaining two hours or so of movie are just endless special effects shots. Someone, somewhere along the lines got confused and thought they were remaking 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than a movie based on Star Trek. And yeah, the Shat is bad in the movie. To be fair, quite a long time had passed since he'd last been called to play Kirk, but it is very much like he'd totally forgotten how to do the part. And the whole thing is so serious, only McCoy ever presents any kind of comic relief and that is very minimal. Basically, the problem is that it's an okay Sci Fi movie, but a terrible Star Trek movie.

Received a postcard from my yank friend with a 'Pony Express 150th Anniversary' frank on it, which was pretty neat. Apparently some people are retracing the route at the moment and stopped off at the museum in Wyoming where he's working. Of course, philately will get you-[BANG!]