October Year: 2008
ee-hah how-nah List
31st Oct 2008 ·
· LinkHalloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living
Halloween I found out is actually Irish (possibly a touch Scottish too due to the Celtic origins).
The Pumpkin has become popular due to it's size is america and been adopted elswhere, originally it was a carved turnip.
Ok the breakdown is:
Ireland - OÃche Shamhna (pron: ee-hah how-nah)
Scotland - Samhain (Pronounced Sow-win)
England - All Saints' Day (All Hallows Day)
Wales - Nos Galan Gaeaf (the beginning of the new winter)
USA - Halloween (it only became a holiday in the 19th centure, however more seems to happen in the USA than anywhere else now!)
Mexico - Only since the 1960, people knock the door and say "¡Noche de Brujas , Halloween!" ('Witches' Night-- Halloween!')
Australia and New Zealand - Hardly celebrated due to the light, private parties carry on but not on a grand scale.
Netherlands - Only since the 1990's has it become popular, but it interferes with St Martin's Day on November 11th where children ring bells to sing in return for treats.
Romania - This one's cool, Halloween is celebrated around the myth of Dracula. In the town of Sighisoara in Transylvania there are many costume parites. Sighisoara was the place of many many witch trials.
Sweden - Halloween is celebrated on the first Saturday of November. This believe it or not was an admin error when the retail business got it wrong in the mid 1990's.
Japan, Germany, Spain and some South America Countries all celebrate Halloween as a fall out from it being popular in the USA.
Ok more normal stuff now :)
If you are fed up of the coverage of the US election, then this might be your answer. (via b3ta.com's image challenge).
Another election theme, and a risky idea, and why the hell is Borat on this?
Just for those that can't read things at work, 7 ways to access blocked websites.
Their is a wiki for most things nowadays, I had to check this just in case I was on it, Dickipedia.org.
I do believe this webpage and article was created just for me :) Pointless questions answered
Gmail is trying out SMS sending apparently, article has details about it (I have not tried this!).
Zero marks this week for MTV who have re-invented all there websites with youtube style videos of music.
Pity most of the videos are only available in the US. Dickheads.
Well I like them anyway :) It is likely the above won't work, in which case you'll have to do it the old fashion way and go to Youtube to see it.
Cannonball Wednesday List
29th Oct 2008 · · LinkCracked.com often has a 'something something top list' and although written in an odd way (at least I think they are) they are very pleasing, none more than 6 Creepy Urban Legends.
Not much to say about this other than you need to read it, Haterz. Not sure if it would be cool to be so hated that a word is named after you.
This is neave, and is supposed to be revolutionary, I found it odd (but did get to see a bit of 2001 A Space Odyssey.
My mother (whom I don't believe anything she says now I have kids) last night told me that Jeep stands for 'Just Enough Essential Parts', and you know what, she's right.
For those that still use their consoles the Xbox 360 is bringing out a new Dash, and it looks pretty cool.
Frankly I think the new logo is pretty boring, and at the reported cost ( 1 million dollars) of it plus 5 months for the design, wow.
Find more videos like this on AdGabber
Got to go now, but i'll leave you with what I considered to be the best song when I was growing up.
Fridays Twother list
24th Oct 2008 · · LinkI like a good new word me, and they don't come more exciting than Twother.
A Twother for those that don't know is two thirds of a pint, and it may be brought in to pubs for us to use.
I prefer the word Craptham myself, which I've made up.
A Craptham is a flat pint poured with no head dripping everywhere and gets spilt onto your hand as the stupid bar woman (or man) passes it over to you.
- "Two Twother's of Craptham please."
- "8.50 please"
Other news, I bet Dr. Pepper didn't see this coming.
For those interested the two songs I've heard from the album (Of which the first is Chinese Democracy and the second Shackler's Revenge) they are unmistakable Guns N' Roses, Shackler's Revenge being the better one, but it's not pushing the boundaries enough for me.
Before you watch this, a quick word, if something like this happened in my presence I would have shouted and at least tried to avert the problem, not these guys, they are far more content with having a snigger :)
Massive Shopping Cart Fail by Two Morons - Watch more free videos
Stupidity is everywhere, Here, Here (sorry lee-list you will already have seen this). and Scarlet:
Ouch.
Sort of lost my way a bit so this had better be good.
Did you see what I did their :)
The press machine that is Madonna's agents have been very quick to point the finger, clear the air and all sorts of other things, and frankly I think Madonna is slowly coming out of this badly (and looking very old). Guy Ritchie on the other hand is dating Kelly Reilly (google her) and the general idea is she is way better than Madonna. Nicely done.
As the world is doomed, we are all broke and banks are collapsing now is the best time to look at The Wired top 100 hottest upcoming products because none of us can afford it (apart from Lee who seems to own HSBC).
I love this song, think it's better than Kissing a Girl :)
And the Wordage.
You change your mind
Like a girl changes clothes
Yeah you, PMS
Like a bitch
I would know
And you always think
Always speak
Crypticly
I should know
That youre no good for me
Cause youre hot then youre cold
Youre yes then youre no
Youre in and youre out
Youre up and youre down
Youre wrong when its right
Its black and its white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up
You, You dont really want to stay, no
You, but you dont really want to go-o
Youre hot then youre cold
Youre yes then youre no
Youre in and youre out
Youre up and youre down
We used to be
Just like twins
So in sync
The same energy
Nows a dead battery
Used to laugh bout nothing
Now your plain boring
I should know that
youre not gonna change
Cause youre hot then youre cold
Youre yes then youre no
Youre in and youre out
Youre up and youre down
Youre wrong when its right
Its black and its white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up
You, You dont really want to stay, no
You, but you dont really want to go-o
Youre hot then youre cold
Youre yes then youre no
Youre in and youre out
Youre up and youre down
Someone call the doctor
Got a case of a love bi-polar
Stuck on a roller coaster
Cant get off this ride
You change your mind
Like a girl changes clothes
Cause youre hot then youre cold
Youre yes then youre no
Youre in and youre out
Youre up and youre down
Youre wrong when its right
Its black and its white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up
youre hot then youre cold
Youre yes then youre no
Youre in and youre out
Youre up and youre down
Youre wrong when its right
Its black and its white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up
You, You dont really want to stay, no
You, but you dont really want to go-o
Youre hot then youre cold
Youre yes then youre no
Youre in and youre out
Youre up and youre down
The missus says I have a short attention spanners are great aren't they?
Freshly Picked Nipple Scabs Wednesday List
22nd Oct 2008 · · LinkFor those that don't know, Jogger's Nipple is caused by friction from the repeated rubbing of a t-shirt or other upper body clothing against the nipples during a prolonged period of exercise (for example 10k runs).
Jogger's nipple is known also by other names, runner's nipple, raver's nipple, big Q's, red nipple, weightlifter's nipple, and gardener's nipple.
I'd like to add my own name to that list:
ooooooowowwwwwwwwwwwwwwf@ck1nghelllllllllllllllllllll nipple.
I thought I new pain, but until I had jogger's nipple then my nipples scabbed over THEN I ran again and at first had to run through the breaking off of the scab, then being left with freshly picked nipple scabs (that combination of words is genius) then had to run through the pain of the sore nipples I really didn't know pain at all.
Still I managed 10k :)
Thought of the week, When you scratch your ear why is it not as loud as hell.
I've been thinking of growing a beard, long history of beards, this has almost convinced me to do it.
I do believe the answer to arguments has now been solved, and so simple.
Fell upon this website that will Allow you to control your PC with a WiiMote you will need Bluetooth though. No Mac version, but as the WiiMote's are Bluetooth I wonder if they will connect to the newer Mac's that have Bluetooth built in (will try this tonight).
I always thought this video was genius.
Via www.sickipedia.org so don't blame me.
An elderly man is lying on his death bed when he smells freshly baked chocolate chip cookies coming from the kitchen. He gathers up all of his strength, rolls out of bed, and crawls on his hands and knees towards the kitchen. Just as he is about to reach for one of the cookies, his wife comes in and smacks his hand with a wooden spoon and says, "Get away from those! They're for the funeral luncheon!"
Noel Edmonds has a special TV Program for Comic Relief from Africa, It's called Meal or No Meal.
SDSaver screensaver for Mac OS X
21st Oct 2008 · · LinkThis is more of a proof of concept for a screensaver and is currently in it's early stages. As a result it can be quite processor intensive (especially if you have lots of other things going on with your mac).
The saver gets various details about the mac and shows it on screen when the screensaver is activated.
Currently all the details shown on screen are retrieved every time the screen is updated, this is not ideal but for now is how the screensaver works.
My next step is to clean up the code and make the viewing more efficient.
For a download click Here.
Any comments should be emailed to Schlotts
Freeview aerial HD
19th Oct 2008 · · LinkOk so next year HD will be available by freeview by tv aerial with a HD set top box, which is currently not available.
And it will be rolled out by 2012. No word as to the roll out.
So not only are set top boxes not available, but the roll out is not guaranteed in your area (my current area doesn't even have the full range of channels on freeview for example, which is mute because I have sky, but not sky HD).
I now can understand why Sky won't drop the 10 quid extra for HD channels, it's the only way of getting it for quite some time.
Friday and the list
17th Oct 2008 · · LinkI learned this week to only go running with a baggy top, my nipples feel like someone keeps jabbing them with a needle. But at least they have stopped bleeding now.
Anyhoo this is cool, a side by side comparison of the Trek's.
Also those that don't listen to Chris Moyles will not have heard that apparently someone gets a bit sick on one of the voyagers of the new Star Trek movie and has to go into a bathroom. Bathroom's in Star Trek genius.
This bloke is not right!
His T-Shirt is cool though :)
Sore linky linky linkies:
No matter what happens to me I am not going to wear any Mantyhose and that's that.
Have I ever mentioned that putting an image online Can cause hilarity.
Men have it easy
And the strangest website of the week goes to Entrances to hell.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
The structure of the wall was incorrect
So he won a grand with Claims Direct.
And finally:
This was the first ever song I heard to do with rap. I've been an LL Cool J fan ever since (although this does seem a bit dated!)
Pretty annoyed Wednesday list
15th Oct 2008 · · LinkLet this be a lesson to backup your backup's, my hard drive became corrupt so a re-install of OS was needed, not to worry all my files had been backup up.
Except the backup files were corrupt already (I didn't know this).
I've lost every project I've been working on for the past 3 years, including 2 books, software and websites (luckily websites I can get from online, but original files are lost for graphics).
These things are sent to test us, and test us they surely do!
On a more lighter note I went to a party last Saturday of Jason's (his birthday), and got, well, quite quite drunk. I didn't really remember the walk home but flashes of what I did became apparent. The party was spent mainly on a Nintendo Wii playing Tennis and bowling and after much laughter (at other peoples expense) I called it a night (almost last in the house, I think).
I remember staggering up the hill from Jason's then nothing until I got to a corner nearing my house and I remember stopping to get some tic-tacs out of my pocket (why I wanted these I have no idea, probably because I smelled like an alcoholic) I proceeded to pour said tic-tacs into my mouth.
Problem is someone appeared to have moved my mouth. Showering my head and face and body with tic-tacs I can only be thankful I wasn't stopped by a policeman and asked where I had been and what I was doing. "I've been playing tennis....." whilst downing some kind of tablet drug and staggering around with tic-tacs stuck to my face would have been the reply, I'd have been locked up (this picture is somewhat relevant I think, note it's not me).
My two kids picked 3 tic-tacs from my hair the following morning, I felt a bit ashamed, but no hangover until I got to golf in the afternoon then for some reason I had no strength left and played like Frank (sorry Frank :)
As you know I am now far to old to play computer games, but this one does look pretty cool (and in fact better than the last Spider Man movie).
Feeling quite annoyed and aforementioned data loss I was at the time up for a barney. This kept me calmed.
And with England playing again (badly), I thought I'd look at some even worse football:
Oh and found a pretty cool Tattoo, mentioned to my mom about getting one, she didn't look pleased!
Frankly I think this song is great from Miley (Denise Hope) Cyrus, very poppy, but great.
I can hear my cool points dropping.
And finally things you'll never hear a wife say (stolen from Sickipedia)
I'll swallow it all, I love the taste.
Are you sure you've had enough to drink?
Shouldn't you be down the pub with your mates?
That fart was great! Do another one!
I've decided to stop wearing clothes in the house.
You're so sexy with a hangover.
I'd rather play Virtua Fighter than go shopping.
Let's start subscribing to Penthouse.
Just for a change, can we try anal sex tonight?
I really like football, can you take me to a game.
You'd better drive. You're far safer than I am and besides, everyone knows women can't drive.
Actually we shouldn't have been given the vote, we're better off in the kitchen.
I think a big motorbike is a good idea.
I don't care if my bum looks big in this, let's just go and get pissed.
We haven't gone out with your mates for a while, shall we all go to Stringfellows.
Why can't you let your hair down and have a few vodka chasers with me.
Aim where you like, it's really good for my skin
You know, I've been complaining a lot lately. I don't blame you for ignoring me.
The new girl in my office is a stripper. I invited her over for dinner on Friday.
Microwave food again? Brilliant.
I liked that wedding even more than ours. Your ex-girlfriend has class.
I love hearing stories about your ex-girlfriends. Tell me more.
Let's just leave the toilet seat up all the time; then you won't have to mess with it anymore.
It's only half time; you should get a few more beers in.
I'm so happy with my new hairstyle, I don't think I'll ever change it again.
I love when my pillow smells of fags and lager. You passed out before brushing your teeth again, you big silly.
Let's go shopping so you can check out the womens' arses.
I'll be out painting the house.
I love it when you play football on a Sunday. I just wish you had time to play on Saturday too.
Our new neighbour's daughter is sunbathing again. Come and look.
No, I'll take the car to have the oil changed.
Let me pay.
Your mother did a great job raising you. She's so much better than mine.
Do me a favour and forget that stupid Valentine's Day thing. Save your money for buying beer.
I understand fully. Our anniversary comes every year.
Oh, not shopping again. Let's go to the new all-day strip club instead.
Look, I make enough money for both of us. Why don't you retire and get that nagging handicap down to a seven or eight.
Stop getting up for night feedings. You need your sleep.
I just signed up for Yoga so I can get my ankles behind my head just for you.
Fill The Void List
Six days ago · · LinkSooooo busy, but thought i would post what has been gathered this past two weeks, enjoy:
Cee Lo Green - F You (the original isn't bad either
Strange Photo
Patience (stop motion)
I'm patient, but I don't think I could do this for a living.
Do you do this?
Still not using it
Jumpin'
Lucky F'ers.
Extended Version of Prince of Bel Air
It's just not right. (lyrics follow)
And the lyrics:
Now, this is a story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I liked to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air
In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground is where I spent most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And all shootin some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys
Who were up to no good
Startin making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air'
I begged and pleaded with her day after day
But she packed my suite case and send me on my way
She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.
I put my walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'.
First class, yo this is bad
Drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass.
Is this what the people of Bel-Air Living like?
Hmmmmm this might be alright.
I whistled for a cab and when it came near
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I can say this cab is rare
But I thought 'Now forget it' - 'Yo homes to Bel Air'
I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo homes smell ya later'
I looked at my kingdom
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air
GeoTagged List
20th Aug 2010 · · LinkAfternoon all, Jesus tees off first hitting his ball straight into the water hazard. He simply walks across the water and hits his ball just short of the green. When Moses tees off, he hits his ball into the same water hazard. So, he parts the water and puts his golf ball just shy of the hole. As the old man tees off he hits his ball with tremendous power, but hooks it badly. It bounces off a tree and hits the caddy shack. It then rolls down a path to a pond where a frog eats the ball and swims to the other side of the pond. Suddenly an eagle swoops down and grabs the frog and flies off. As the eagle is flying over the green the frog drops the ball. The ball drops directly into the hole for a hole in one. Moses turns to Jesus and says "I hate playing golf with your Dad."
As the world quickly scrambles to change their FaceBook Profiles to disable Location settings I bring you the List:
Wow
Think Shes a Keeper
Remember kids, always Tip Your Midwife - ?!?!
YoYo Champ - And rightly so
Thanks to Kev for this one, Missy - Genius, I've sent this to 3 designers, they all rang me within 10 minutes laughing.
From the 'How to talk to the geeks about things and not have them laugh at you' Section: HTML5 and what it's all about
Katy B - On a Mission
Drivin' Fast.
Almost a quarter of drivers think it is acceptable to speed if they think the limit is too low - Tick that's me.
Drivers still distinguish between 'ordinary, safe speeding drivers' and 'dangerous speeding drivers' - Tick That's me too.
Motorists caught racing through motorway roadworks ended up being hit by more than £5m worth of speeding tickets last year. - Not been done on this, thankfully.
Of all the speeding offences 90+% are fixed penally notices. - Tick, got done by this.
Thought of the week.
Apple is very closed, they are right, everyone else is wrong (suppliers). However it was noted on a website that Apple have sent an update out for OS X that fixes graphics issues.
This is pretty much due in part to Valve releasing games for the Mac. It's further rumoured that the uptake of the games is astronomical.
Nothing Like a shit load of money to make Apple stand to attention.
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