Archive for September, 2008

Religion is dangerous

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Religion | No Comments »

Religion has proved once again to be hazardous to health. 150 people died at a stampede during the Hindu Shravan Navratras festival where the "divine mother" is worshipped. This only ... Read more..

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Birds | No Comments »

Continuing the recent death theme, I thought I would share these fantastic pics. Herons are big buggers, as can be seen. They are also opportunistic predators, taking what they can ... Read more..

Paul Newman death spike

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Death List | No Comments »

The above graph shows my daily hit rate. The sudden increase was caused by the death of Paul Newman and my post from June selecting him as a candidate for ... Read more..

Clean again

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 Posted in Thoughts, Watches | No Comments »

I was last clean on the CC in January - it didn't last due to the "Year of the Rolex" happening earlier than planned and a couple of other bits ... Read more..

Star bollocks

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in Humour, Rants | No Comments »

A fine example of woolly thinking. Nicole Kidman has credited a waterfall with bringing about a flurry of pregnancies - including her own - on the set of one of her ... Read more..

In Tesco

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in Humour, Rants | 2 Comments »

I was in Tesco the other day and I noticed three things I thought I would share. The smell of vomit in aisle 7 (wines and sprits) was particularly pungent this ... Read more..

October 5th

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Rants | 5 Comments »

I received an e-mail today from Interflora, informing me that October the 5th is Grandparents' Day and that because, Grandparents tend to always look after everyone else so take the opportunity ... Read more..

Galaxy Zoo

Monday, September 15th, 2008 Posted in Photos, Religion, Tech Stuff | No Comments »

Many years ago, I used my computers' spare processor cycles to analyse radio signals for SETI. This was quite fun as your Mac could display a lovely graph of the ... Read more..

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