Yesterday, I went bowling with my folks and brother. I finished third after a splendid start, proving that Wii Bowling has done nothing to improve my skills. What amused me, however, was the cartoon used to advertise bowling as a family day out. It depicted a family of pin shaped people going for a fun day out at the Bowl-o-rama:


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Welcome back. Well after that extraordinarily long commercial break (a 3 day long ad-break has got to be unprecedented) let's return to the awards. Entertainment! This category could well be the last one because our generous host hasn't come up with any more ideas, but let's crack on anyway ( Read more... )

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the first (and quite probably last) Mister False Name awards ceremony - the moment we assess Mister False Name's year and pick out the highlights, lowlights and generally concede that 2006 was, all things considered, a bit shit ( Read more... )

So I didn't get the job. Same old story, someone else was more experienced.

This is fine - I wasn't sure about the location anyway. What wasn't fine was their rude, patronising and frankly twattish email response to my request for travel cost reimbursement:

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For anyone who sees me regularly (which, now that I think about it, is just my family at the moment), there's a very quick way of working out exactly how active I've been in the job interview front lately, and that is by measuring my beard. Not with a ruler, I hasten to add, but just a general view of how well shaven I am will show you accurately ( Read more... )

Just checking into Livejournal because its been quite some time - there is no specific plan for this entry other than a catch up ( Read more... )

Last night I conducted an experiment in the aid of science. I'm recording the circumstances that led to its inception and the eventual earth shattering results, because people seemed genuinely seemed curious enough to join in... but I'm getting ahead of myself ( Read more... )

I'm a little late on the uptake on this story, because the event grabbed the headlines last week - but it's been a while since I've had a good rant and here is as good as anywhere else. Conservative party leader David Cameron has a webcam blog. He uses this to discuss the issues of the day with the websavvy youngsters removed from the political ( Read more... )

There's a really rather famous bit in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time which involves the protagonist discovering a long lost sense revealing a moment from his past in perfect clarity. Something similar happened to me today. Of course Proust's involved dunking a biscuit in a drink reminding him of childhood, mine involved the overbearing ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I went in to an employment agency looking for some temping work to spruce up my sparse CV in much the same way that one hangs fluffy dice in a car to make it look classy. As I filled out their form, I became more and more demoralised. The number of I.T software packages I had never even heard of, let alone used, was surprising for ( Read more... )