a little restraint

Homer Strangling Bart, yo. Doesn't happen often enough!As I’m waaaaay over on the West End lately, taking a course, I’m often stuck using public computers during the daytime, as it is too far for me to walk home and back on my lunch hour and between appointments where the government dicks me around, and yea verily, I am very tired of taking the limo.

There is a problem with public computers, however.

The public. 

If they could just use the computer without poking the monitor with a greasy finger, presumably to stabilize themselves, while making “huh-huh” Beavis and Butthead noises, perhaps I could continue to use the computers which the government has, after all, put there for the citizenry such as myself to use.

Seriously, though: the next time someone repeatedly mutters to himself while seated next to me at a public computer station, I will rip out his tongue, tie it around his neck, pull his eyes out and tuck his dangling optic nerves under the tongue/cravat which I have fashioned, I will pop the eyeballs one by one into my mouth and swallow them whole, praying that they are still somehow transmitting messages to his brain as they slowly dissolve in the cauldron of sulphuric acid to which I have sent them, and then I will suggest that he request that the Ministry provide him with a specially-equipped custom laptop for his own personal use, as he qualifies for one now that he is disabled.

He’ll thank me later. And so will you, if you ever have to surf these terminals of despair. Just keep your mouth shut if you know what’s good for you.

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Mooseball!!!

See, North Americans love soccer too! We just play it differently.

The funniest thing about this video is the way the moose gets so pissed off when the ball gets caught in a shrub. You just know that as he stomped away he was cursing that shrub and muttering moorosely.
via Defamer, the Hollywood Gossip site. And no, I don’t know why they went with this when they could have posted Helen Mirren reading lines from Borat, but oh well.

Webjunk, from whence Defamer stole it, has helpfully provided a translation of the anguished dog’s commentary.

“You are ruining my life. Stop it stop it!!! Why? This is all I have. Oh sh*t, dude you are stepping on my tail. Oh – that’s better. Hey Moose, stop. Please, that has my scent on it. Make him stop, I will never leave it outside again. Kill me. Kill me. Why?”

That said, we are huge dog lovers (no, we are not Korean) and we find this hilarious. Is it because the pain is so real?

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tag clouds improve visibility

which, to the daughter of a pilot such as mine fine self, is counterintuitive in the extreme, but there ya go. The world don’t make no sense. Deal.

So here, without further ado, is the tag cloud that engtech rigged up for us WordPress users. I could paste this into a page, but what the heck, it’s not dynamic anyway, and nobody ever reads my pages except bitter Midwesterners and confused Bristolliacs.

Tag clouds, if you’re not finding the concept listed on the Weather Channel, are indices of the tags/categories used on a blog, with the size of each directly proportional to the number of uses of the tag. I had no idea I posted about politics this much!

By the way, I didn’t tag this with every tag that’s relevant, because that would be spamming the tag system, and we all know how I hate that. At least, those who crossed me once and now have to keep changing their names, yeah: they know how I hate that.

That this particular version of the tag cloud is all overlappy-like is on the one hand a bug, but on the other a perfect metaphor. You doubt? Read more of this blog and all will become clear.

Tag me, bay-bee!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Created by WordPress.com Tag Cloud Generator by //engtech

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one reason to love blogger

and ONLY one.

And that, only for the literal-minded.

I get a chuckle and a gleam in my eye every time I see the following. Can you guess why?

Blogger comment box

Here‘s a clue.

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