Eclipse IDE How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I loathe thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I …
Category Archives: Funny
Blogging
Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.
Talk like a pirate day … Arrg!
What can I say? It’s awesome when ye have th’ right WordPress plugin enabled.
Random bits
A couple of news stories on the English “Daily Telegraph” news site caught my eye. First one that said: Legal bid to stop CERN atom smasher from ‘destroying the world’ The world’s biggest and most expensive scientific experiment has been hit by a last minute legal challenge, amid claims that the research could bring about …
BBC Writing Prompt
The BBC Website reported Distinctively odd For the past 30 years, the Bookseller magazine has awarded a prize to the oddest book title it can find. The first ever winner was Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice Mind-boggling as that is, it is far from the strangest. Now the top prize has …
I am…
I feel somehow dirty. See, I really dislike Alanis Morissette and will leave the room if her music is playing. It was “hate at first sight” – she appeared on the Jools Holland show back in 1995 performing “You oughta know” – I remarked at the time that she sounded like an angst-ridden little harpy. …
Send & receive email
Zawinski’s Law of Software Envelopment Every program attempts to expand until it can read email. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. — Jamie Zawinski
“Nooligan” by Roger McGough
As much as this poem is humour, pointing out the teenage bluster and posturing inherent to boys of that age, it was also a profound learning tool for me. I came to see, and mentally label, school bullies and violent idiots as “nooligans”. I saw through their mask. So, here’s proof that poetry has had …
“The Lesson” by Roger McGough
Before anyone leaps in here and applies 21st century knee-jerk American moral values to this, I remember this poem from when I was a kid. Its at least 30 years old and written as satire. Look up “absurdity” and surreal humour too – the fact that the images in the poem are so vivid and …
Youtube madness
Hot Butter – Popcorn In 1972 Gershon Kingsley composed the classic dance track “Popcorn” that was recorded by a band called “Hot Butter” (read more). Versions of “Popcorn” have appeared periodically ever since. I was in a mood to go searching and found a bunch of them (wonka / techo version) http://youtube.com/watch?v=mvbrgeE69yg (crazy frog) http://youtube.com/watch?v=xXrnKGSShMk …