Do you… speaky eengleesh?

Observations of Life | penge @ 01:20, December 31st, 2005.

Earlier in the week, I was subjected to a real life Mission : Impossible. There was no Tom Cruise, no multi-million special effects budget, not even a thrilling soundtrack from the original 1966 film. I was set the daunting task of teaching someone how to connect to the internet, look at web pages and check [...]

King Kong (2005)

Movies | trench @ 00:58, December 30th, 2005.

In brief: Kong… good.
At length: Despite at times it’s own best efforts, King Kong is one hell of an entertaining flick. A sizeable amount of my viewing pleasure came from unintentional hilarity as much as sheer spectacle, but even so I would give it a 9 out of your Earth’s ‘10′ for entertainment alone.
But for [...]

Asparagus and chicken pizza.

Food | Horror | Observations of Life | trench @ 21:45, December 27th, 2005.

An abomination.

Christmas christmas christmas christmas

Insanity | Linkage | penge @ 11:35, December 25th, 2005.

It might not work, and it might infringe on all sorts of copyright issues, but here goes… a special christmas gift from randomlinkage.
Clicky here for giftage.
PS – It might take a while to download, just go with it…

Merry Xmas from randomlinkage.

Imagery | Television | trench @ 01:20, December 25th, 2005.

Merry Xmas from trench, penge and A.L.F.

Christmas is coming, and I have become fat

Food | Observations of Life | penge @ 22:41, December 24th, 2005.

It’s not even Christmas and I’ve got so much food to get through it’s quite astonishing. Chocolate, nuts, sweets, crisps, cake, mince pies, all are rapidly adding a great deal of inches to my wasteline. If anyone would like to take any of the above mentioned foodstuffs off my hands then you can get stuffed, [...]

We will fight him in the Guinness factory…

Music | Service Announcement | penge @ 17:49, December 22nd, 2005.

In case you hadn’t noticed, Christmas is in a few days, and at work we’ve been having christmassy music played to us. How very festive it is too. Thing is, I wasn’t prepared for something that could have made my ears bleed had I not taken precautions and run screaming from the room.
From the CD [...]

Po-faced scientist dismisses Kong island ecology as “pure fantasy”, misses point.

Movies | Science / Technology | trench @ 12:01, December 22nd, 2005.

After careful thought and consideration, one scientist has announced what everyone thought possible.
That the ecology of Skull Island, fictional home of King Kong and other giant sized animals, is not within the relams of actual science.
“The notion that dinosaurs could survive on a tiny mid-oceanic island is preposterous,” said John Terborgh, a professor of environmental [...]

“It’s still real to me dammit!”

Comedy | False Role Models | Insanity | Sports | USA | trench @ 18:00, December 21st, 2005.

Pro-Wrestling, mostly harmless viewing for the under twelves.
However when that youthful enthusiasm for men in tights does not wane as you pass into middle age, something scary yet undeniably hilarious happens.

Sharks? They’re the deadliest animal in the marine kingdom.

False Role Models | Imagery | Linkage | Movies | Science / Technology | trench @ 20:39, December 20th, 2005.

Shocking imagery has revealed what we all suspected to be true, sharks are in fact mechanical creatures, all part of some 30 year long marketing campaign by Steven Spielberg. Well rest easy readers, because now it is safe to go back into the water.
Although, this of course means these shark creatures cannot be harmed by [...]

D.I.Y.? N.F.C.

Observations of Life | penge @ 22:29, December 19th, 2005.

Take into the fact that I am now a home owner, and a male, and you will see that I am permitted to do D.I.Y. at any time, in any place, in any style. Shall I build a wall in the garden tomorrow, or should I do some electrical work? Oh, the choices.
In fact… to [...]

T-t-testing, testing, 2, 1, 3

Observations of Life | penge @ 12:34, December 18th, 2005.

Every thursday morning at work, we have the fun ritual of the fire alarm test. The test involves making the fire alarms ring for a few seconds. They work, they go silent, all is well and the world continues to turn. In order to stop us all fleeing the building in a frenzied, but orderly, [...]

Sweet language

Food | Observations of Life | penge @ 22:23, December 14th, 2005.

Imagine a bar of chocolate. Imagine the wording on the wrapper. Nothing fancy, maybe the word ‘delicious’ or ‘delightful’. If it’s an upmarket fancy chocolate it could well say ‘delectable’, or perhaps even ’sumptuous’.
Lindt chocolate people have achieved something great. On the back of the boxes for their fancy ‘Lindor’ chocolates, they manage to use [...]

Attention scummers.

Service Announcement | trench @ 18:48, December 13th, 2005.

In an effort to stop the filthy blight that is spam, you will now need to be registered and logged in to leave comments on posts.
Luckily the whole affair will take about 10 seconds and then your password will be carried to you by the magical e-mail nymphs.
Become part of the internet’s smallest online community [...]

Pryor.

Comedy | Observations of Life | trench @ 18:39, December 12th, 2005.

Richard Pryor 1940 – 2005
During a stand-up routine in 1992, he asked:
Is there a doctor in the audience? No, I’m serious. I want to know if there’s a doctor here.
After some nervous laughter from the audience, a hand finally went up. Pryor continued:
Doctor – I need to know one thing. What the [expletive] [...]