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THE END

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Don’t pick up for these numbers

The following numbers place telemarketing calls to your mobile phone:
+1.251.957-6108
+1.773.549-3987
+1.732.526-0150
This is illegal and is a waste of your minutes, if you ever get a call from one of these number, hit ignore.

Kicking up the leaves

‘Cause you had a bad day
You’re taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don’t know
You tell me don’t lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
Daniel Powter (link)
This has been an atrociously bad day. First this, then this, and now this. [...]

Product Review: Second Life

Lately a significant internet craze has focused upon a virtual online world called “Second Life“. Second life is created by a company called Linden Lab which I suppose hopes to “monetize” it or some other such ill-defined voudu affectation.
In a nutshell Second Life is a three-dimensional virtual world, termed the “grid”, which is served from [...]

Eh, What?

The BBC has always had a knack for headlines, Once loudly proclaiming the patently nonsensical “TURKEY-PROBE-DINK-SUSPECT-VIDEO” Even though that was quickly changed to “probes” it still didn’t make sense.
A few months later I was dumbfounded to learn that “DOLLY THE SHEEP PIONEER KNIGHTED“
Today the BBC news website greeted me with this lovely headline:
HIGH CALORIE DIET [...]

Jazz, Calumny, and Silly Hats

There are two sorts of Liberal Radio in the United states, NPR, the White Boring Liberal network and Air Ameirca, the White-Trash-Liberal network. In now way can this be understood as a good thing.
NPR liberals despise Air America’s populism, high-octane calumny, and shallowness; in return Air America liberals resent NPR’s dowdy pedantry, slow pace, and [...]

Knowing Versus Computing

“Stop! You are Under Arrest. Civil Codes 1233 and 3321 are in violation.”
Jake looks down at the Police-droid below him. He rolls his eyes, ever since National Dynamics persuaded the government to replace the incompetent human police with these new Y86 robots he kept getting caught, if this kept up he’d loose his NETLINC privileges.
“All [...]

Review: War Horse

Plays are tricky things.
Explaining them is even trickier.
I cannot properly explain this play. Words tumble around in my head “Minimalist”, “Stage Machine”, “Horror”, “Masculinity”. I suppose I should say something about the set.
The best part of the set is that there is no set. There is a floor with some rubber mud on it and [...]

Review: Cyberworld

Today we had the opportunity to visit a 3D IMAX presentation of the 100% Computer Generated Animation film “Cyberworld”.
Cyberworld consists of a sequence of unrelated animation demos connected by ditsy linking narration.
The animation of the film left something to be desired, as I was watching I could not help but think “This looks like something [...]

Ode to Davina’s Bathroom

It’s Beautiful…
It’s Beautiful…
It’s Beautiful, it’s true.
It’s were we get dressed…
Comb the hairs on our chest…
And Powder our nose too…
Noone’s got a nicer loo…
Yesterday Davina talked quite extensively about a bathroom in a place she used to live. In particular how she used to change the rugs and curtains to different colors some of the time, [...]