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Politics amused more when you don't get to vote...
I see, reading the press, that London's finest arrested a Conservative MP for being Tory in a built up area. Twenty years too late for that, thanks, Mr Plod. However, the squealing and shifting by the MPs is interesting. Many seem outraged that one of their number can be arrested for passing on information that may, or may not, be covered under ( Read more... ) -
and then there's comedy by repetition...
The Dead Parrot Sketch was merely a reworking of the Dead Slave sketch by those lovable Greeks, Hierocles and Philagrius, 1600 years before Palin and Cleese.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ -
Curry and Elections
I am currently on a course in rainswept Vancouver, learning how to program Load Test tools. More interesting than I had expected. My hotel is in downtown, and I have the pleasure of a 21st floor room, looking down over Robson street (think Oxford Street) in one direction. The mountains of to the North are within sight, and I can see touches of ( Read more... ) -
The Church of Tim Horton's opens downtown
Victoria now has, to the joy and rejoicing of some of my Canadian friends, a Tim Horton's downtown ( Read more... ) -
So I woke in Conservative country...
Not that I didn't go to sleep in one as well. As I am sure has been all over the Western free press, there's been a general election in Canada. What do you mean, it's not front page news in London ( Read more... ) -
Twin Peaks and more...
It's been a couple of weeks since I got back from my holidays in Washington and Oregon. Remiss of me not to give at least a quick post on it all.
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A song about Pippettes.
I saw this on PZ Meyers' blog 'Pharyngula'.
The product is the EpMotion automated Pippette system. The advert, some kind of genius.
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Notes from an Island
If you see the island rocking, don't come a knocking!5.5 earthquake came off the coast of Vancouver Island last night. I didn't feel a thing (that's what she said...), and the experts say "too small to cause a tsunami." I live on the edge of an earthquake zone, where I can on a good day see an active volcano on my way to work, and also in a ( Read more... ) -
My sub-conscious troubles me.
So, I dreamt there's this sequel to Dirty Harry, in which Callahan retires and becomes a lawyer. He gets into court, and utters the line:
"I know what your thinking. Did he file six subpeona's or only five? Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kind of lost track myself."
I think I should eat less cheese before bed.