Several new posts tonight of varying levels of intelligence. It's been a while, I know, but I do care, really!
Enjoy.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Too funny not to blog...
I'm going to be in trouble for posting this one, but if you have seen Clue! you should get the reference. The name of the person concerned has been omitted to prevent total embarrassment.
Had a "Can somebody help me -- please" moment just now.
Was coming back into the office with a cup of coffee in one hand and a cup of water in the other when my crochet (holey) waistcoat caught on the doorhandle - self-closing door, so there I was, trapped inside the office with my waistcoat hitched on the door handle outside!
Naturally, no one was about (thank goodness!) Just had to drop the water and disentangle myself!
Had a "Can somebody help me -- please" moment just now.
Was coming back into the office with a cup of coffee in one hand and a cup of water in the other when my crochet (holey) waistcoat caught on the doorhandle - self-closing door, so there I was, trapped inside the office with my waistcoat hitched on the door handle outside!
Naturally, no one was about (thank goodness!) Just had to drop the water and disentangle myself!
From the Weirdshitorium
Whilst in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, I found a little tea shop called "The Paragon". Most readers will immediately know why it caught our attention.
Anyway, I was reading another book today, and this time around I noted the name of a tea shop used - The Paragon. In the thanks at the end of the book, the fictional location is based on the one in Katoomba.
A random link between my two favourite series, via a random real-life location half way around the world.
Anyway, I was reading another book today, and this time around I noted the name of a tea shop used - The Paragon. In the thanks at the end of the book, the fictional location is based on the one in Katoomba.
A random link between my two favourite series, via a random real-life location half way around the world.
Friday, September 07, 2007
Hee, might be worth a try I guess.
Goats sacrificed to fix Nepal jet
Nepal's state-run airline has confirmed that it sacrificed two goats to appease a Hindu god, following technical problems with one of its aircraft. Nepal Airlines said the animals were slaughtered in front of the plane - a Boeing 757 - at Kathmandu airport.
The offering was made to Akash Bhairab, the Hindu god of sky protection, whose symbol is seen on the company's planes. The airline said that after Sunday's ceremony the plane successfully completed a flight to Hong Kong.
"The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights," senior airline official Raju KC was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Nepal Airlines has two Boeing aircraft in its fleet. The persistent faults with one of the planes had led to the postponement of a number of flights in recent weeks. The company has not said what the problem was, but reports in local media have blamed an electrical fault.
Nepal's state-run airline has confirmed that it sacrificed two goats to appease a Hindu god, following technical problems with one of its aircraft. Nepal Airlines said the animals were slaughtered in front of the plane - a Boeing 757 - at Kathmandu airport.
The offering was made to Akash Bhairab, the Hindu god of sky protection, whose symbol is seen on the company's planes. The airline said that after Sunday's ceremony the plane successfully completed a flight to Hong Kong.
"The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights," senior airline official Raju KC was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Nepal Airlines has two Boeing aircraft in its fleet. The persistent faults with one of the planes had led to the postponement of a number of flights in recent weeks. The company has not said what the problem was, but reports in local media have blamed an electrical fault.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Just Because.
37 years ago a witch done put a spell on me
A spell where when I'm talkin' I'm singin' it with glee.
When you're always singin' you got to live alone
That's why I made this mountain shack my home.
And when you're on the mountain, you got no guarantees
That life will turn up roses or turn out as you please.
When you're on the mountain, there's lots to be a'feared
That's why this here old mountain goat's prepared!
Be prepared, be prepared,
This lesson must be shared,
This lesson must be shared,
Be prepared!
Be prepared, be prepared,
And unless you got a spare,
You got one life, so handle it with care!
(goat yodelling)
I got horns that open bottles,
And I got horns that hold my keys,
I got horns that when you turn 'em right, they help me watch TV.
I got horns that open pickle jars,
And horns that come with hair,
I got horns that hang my other horns -
I always come prepared.
Be prepared, be prepared,
This lesson must be shared,
This lesson must be shared,
Be prepared!
Be prepared, be prepared,
And unless you got a spare,
You got one life, so handle it with care!
Yeeeheeeee! Keep your hands and feet inside of the vehicle at all times!
(goat yodelling and more)
Ooooooh, an avalanche is comin' and I do not feel prepared,
It's rumblin' like a mountain lion - I must say that I'm scared,
And if not for the witch's spell you'd hear just how I scream,
But since I'm only singin', I'll just yodel 'til we're creamed!
(goat yodelling...)
Baaaaa!
A spell where when I'm talkin' I'm singin' it with glee.
When you're always singin' you got to live alone
That's why I made this mountain shack my home.
And when you're on the mountain, you got no guarantees
That life will turn up roses or turn out as you please.
When you're on the mountain, there's lots to be a'feared
That's why this here old mountain goat's prepared!
Be prepared, be prepared,
This lesson must be shared,
This lesson must be shared,
Be prepared!
Be prepared, be prepared,
And unless you got a spare,
You got one life, so handle it with care!
(goat yodelling)
I got horns that open bottles,
And I got horns that hold my keys,
I got horns that when you turn 'em right, they help me watch TV.
I got horns that open pickle jars,
And horns that come with hair,
I got horns that hang my other horns -
I always come prepared.
Be prepared, be prepared,
This lesson must be shared,
This lesson must be shared,
Be prepared!
Be prepared, be prepared,
And unless you got a spare,
You got one life, so handle it with care!
Yeeeheeeee! Keep your hands and feet inside of the vehicle at all times!
(goat yodelling and more)
Ooooooh, an avalanche is comin' and I do not feel prepared,
It's rumblin' like a mountain lion - I must say that I'm scared,
And if not for the witch's spell you'd hear just how I scream,
But since I'm only singin', I'll just yodel 'til we're creamed!
(goat yodelling...)
Baaaaa!
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
LoveFilm
If any of the UK Hobblings are interested in getting film rentals, then I can benefit from referring you to LoveFilm. Just follow the link!
Any questions should be on the site, I've been using them now for several months and have had no problems at all.
Any questions should be on the site, I've been using them now for several months and have had no problems at all.
Archie sighting?
From Aero-news.net...
Kansas Aviation Museum Investigated By Paranormal Researchers
Looking For Things That Go Bump In The Night... And The Day, Too
Great Plains Paranormal Investigations recently spent a night investigating one of the burning questions of our time: Is the Kansas Aviation Museum haunted?
Ok, well, maybe it's not burning, exactly... but it is kind of interesting. Lead investigator Sam Tyree and his team had heard a lot of stories about the facility... like of the man wearing a fedora that appears in front of you then vanishes, 40s style music playing somewhere, voices of a crowd in a distance -- where there are no people.
At the Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, such goings-on are apparently pretty routine.
Tyree was so intrigued by the stories; he requested permission to spend a night at the museum. He also wanted to perhaps validate a picture he took there. It shows this wispy looking little orb that could be something on the lens or…maybe not.
Museum Director Teresa Day thinks that kind of stuff is fun.
"From my perspective, we are doing this out of curiosity," she said. "It could bring attention to this old building and make it more interesting. At the same time, I don't want people thinking we are off track from our mission."
Back in the day, the Wichita Municipal Airport (ICT) was a major stopover for the airlines and was one of the busiest airports in the nation with something taking off or landing about every 90 seconds in the 1940s, according to the Wichita Eagle.
Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh have been said to have graced the facility, as well as Fred Astaire and Gregory Peck. The airport was eventually closed, after the military took it over and ran off general aviation first, then commercial airlines, and it was turned into an aviation museum.
So, Saturday night, Tyree and his team arrived and set up camp brining audio and video equipment and an electromagnetic field indicator and stayed until 4 a.m.
Tyree said they heard sounds like public announcements from another era.
"Stone buildings can sometimes get events recorded and under the right conditions will replay themselves," he said.
Is that all?
"We did have an exceptional experience," Tyree said.
He said the electromagnetic field indicator gauge needle began jumping when readings were taken near the skeleton of a 1931 Stearman. The aircraft went down in Alaska many years ago.
"We asked emotionally charged questions and it responded to our questions for 10 minutes," Tyree said. "We need to go back in and double-check but we believe it's the pilot who died in the plane. He was a crop duster and did not want the plane scrapped. He wants it restored to flying condition."
According to Tyree, the pilot said the accident wasn't his fault and a defective engine brought the plane down.
"It's definitely unusual," Tyree said. "You normally don't get that level of interaction."
Museum volunteer Cyndi Rhodes has had some weird experiences herself in the museum. She recalls one instance while working in the gift shop.
"It was quiet that day yet I could hear voices in the next room," Rhodes said. "It was a babble of voices. They were happy."
The she heard a door slam upon returning one night after closing, "like somebody was really irritated, but there wasn't anybody there," Rhodes said. "I decided we must have disturbed the ghost for whatever was planned that evening."
Tyree denies being a ghost hunter, he just uses scientific methods and equipment to rule out what has explanation and document what doesn't. Anything that cannot be explained is "preternatural."
"People talk about the supernatural," he said. "The supernatural only refers to God. Preternatural is everything else."
The team wants to return for further study.
Kansas Aviation Museum Investigated By Paranormal Researchers
Looking For Things That Go Bump In The Night... And The Day, Too
Great Plains Paranormal Investigations recently spent a night investigating one of the burning questions of our time: Is the Kansas Aviation Museum haunted?
Ok, well, maybe it's not burning, exactly... but it is kind of interesting. Lead investigator Sam Tyree and his team had heard a lot of stories about the facility... like of the man wearing a fedora that appears in front of you then vanishes, 40s style music playing somewhere, voices of a crowd in a distance -- where there are no people.
At the Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, such goings-on are apparently pretty routine.
Tyree was so intrigued by the stories; he requested permission to spend a night at the museum. He also wanted to perhaps validate a picture he took there. It shows this wispy looking little orb that could be something on the lens or…maybe not.
Museum Director Teresa Day thinks that kind of stuff is fun.
"From my perspective, we are doing this out of curiosity," she said. "It could bring attention to this old building and make it more interesting. At the same time, I don't want people thinking we are off track from our mission."
Back in the day, the Wichita Municipal Airport (ICT) was a major stopover for the airlines and was one of the busiest airports in the nation with something taking off or landing about every 90 seconds in the 1940s, according to the Wichita Eagle.
Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh have been said to have graced the facility, as well as Fred Astaire and Gregory Peck. The airport was eventually closed, after the military took it over and ran off general aviation first, then commercial airlines, and it was turned into an aviation museum.
So, Saturday night, Tyree and his team arrived and set up camp brining audio and video equipment and an electromagnetic field indicator and stayed until 4 a.m.
Tyree said they heard sounds like public announcements from another era.
"Stone buildings can sometimes get events recorded and under the right conditions will replay themselves," he said.
Is that all?
"We did have an exceptional experience," Tyree said.
He said the electromagnetic field indicator gauge needle began jumping when readings were taken near the skeleton of a 1931 Stearman. The aircraft went down in Alaska many years ago.
"We asked emotionally charged questions and it responded to our questions for 10 minutes," Tyree said. "We need to go back in and double-check but we believe it's the pilot who died in the plane. He was a crop duster and did not want the plane scrapped. He wants it restored to flying condition."
According to Tyree, the pilot said the accident wasn't his fault and a defective engine brought the plane down.
"It's definitely unusual," Tyree said. "You normally don't get that level of interaction."
Museum volunteer Cyndi Rhodes has had some weird experiences herself in the museum. She recalls one instance while working in the gift shop.
"It was quiet that day yet I could hear voices in the next room," Rhodes said. "It was a babble of voices. They were happy."
The she heard a door slam upon returning one night after closing, "like somebody was really irritated, but there wasn't anybody there," Rhodes said. "I decided we must have disturbed the ghost for whatever was planned that evening."
Tyree denies being a ghost hunter, he just uses scientific methods and equipment to rule out what has explanation and document what doesn't. Anything that cannot be explained is "preternatural."
"People talk about the supernatural," he said. "The supernatural only refers to God. Preternatural is everything else."
The team wants to return for further study.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The Apocalypse cometh
Thou art the whisper in the gloom, The hinting tone, the haunting laugh:
Thou art the adorner of my tomb, The minstrel of mine epitaph.
- Lionel Johnson, "The Dark Angel"
I haven't posted anything on here about the new release of "Apocalypse" that is coming this autumn. Partly as there were so many rumours on Warseer that it was hard to really see what the new rules would bring.
Recently, more information has been 'leaked' at the recent conventions in the US, and I'm finally getting excited.
Okay, those of you who aren't gamers (and that is probably almost all of the people reading this) won't get the attraction at all.
Anyway, most games use a fixed points limit for the game, usually up to 2,000. However, many veteran players have collected armies of considerably more points than this, from which we can pick selective forces for a particular game.
Games Workshop have realised that there are a lot of players out there in that situation; so they have compiled a variation on the game that does away with the points limit. Basically, you field as much as you have.
Enter Apocalypse.
The game is designed for games of 5,000 points upwards, and goes back to the basic gaming intention - lots of fun. Grab yourself a team mate if you haven't enough points, add some really nasty strategies (orbital bombardments, reinforcements...) to make up any shortfall and off you go.
To enjoy gaming you need a good imagination. From watching media like Starship Troopers, Halo, Halo2, Star Wars, Gladiator, 300, you name it, there is plenty of imagery of mass armies landing on the battle field from space-launched drop pods, troop carriers, multi-launch rocket systems firing salvo after salvo.
Now, I get to control them all.
I can launch a drop pod assault with the entire Fifth Company of the Dark Angels Chapter, over 110 men, supported by assault troops landing from low flying transport ships and batteries of tank weaponry.
I can defend against an unstoppable green horde of Orks charging the last stand of a heavily outnumbered force.
Yes, I am a sad geek, but right now I don't care.
I'm waiting for the Apocalypse.
Thou art the adorner of my tomb, The minstrel of mine epitaph.
- Lionel Johnson, "The Dark Angel"
I haven't posted anything on here about the new release of "Apocalypse" that is coming this autumn. Partly as there were so many rumours on Warseer that it was hard to really see what the new rules would bring.
Recently, more information has been 'leaked' at the recent conventions in the US, and I'm finally getting excited.
Okay, those of you who aren't gamers (and that is probably almost all of the people reading this) won't get the attraction at all.
Anyway, most games use a fixed points limit for the game, usually up to 2,000. However, many veteran players have collected armies of considerably more points than this, from which we can pick selective forces for a particular game.
Games Workshop have realised that there are a lot of players out there in that situation; so they have compiled a variation on the game that does away with the points limit. Basically, you field as much as you have.
Enter Apocalypse.
The game is designed for games of 5,000 points upwards, and goes back to the basic gaming intention - lots of fun. Grab yourself a team mate if you haven't enough points, add some really nasty strategies (orbital bombardments, reinforcements...) to make up any shortfall and off you go.
To enjoy gaming you need a good imagination. From watching media like Starship Troopers, Halo, Halo2, Star Wars, Gladiator, 300, you name it, there is plenty of imagery of mass armies landing on the battle field from space-launched drop pods, troop carriers, multi-launch rocket systems firing salvo after salvo.
Now, I get to control them all.
I can launch a drop pod assault with the entire Fifth Company of the Dark Angels Chapter, over 110 men, supported by assault troops landing from low flying transport ships and batteries of tank weaponry.
I can defend against an unstoppable green horde of Orks charging the last stand of a heavily outnumbered force.
Yes, I am a sad geek, but right now I don't care.
I'm waiting for the Apocalypse.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
More than meets the eye (spoilers - beware!)
I forgot to add a mention on here about Transformers. I guess you either love it or hate it, and I suspect anyone who loved the generation one toys and film will be in the former group.
Apart from the robots losing too much of their disguise (not enough bits that were obviously car body panels, and so on) it looked great. Getting the original voice for Prime was a Good Thing.
I've seen it three times now, and still enjoy it. Definately one for the DVD colleciton later.
Best bits...
- The Spectre opening a large can of whoop-ass on Scorpinock.
- Bumblebee dinging the door of the VW Bug next to him in the car sales. Take that, Disney!.
- Bumblebee going off in a huff when called a heap, then returning as the newer model.
- Those memorable lines from the original cartoons that found their way in.
- The Decepticon Jar Jar Binks taking it's own head off by mistake with a blade.
- Ironhide threatening the 'rodent'.
- The Autobots (including Optimus) trying to hide from Sam's parents.
Apart from the robots losing too much of their disguise (not enough bits that were obviously car body panels, and so on) it looked great. Getting the original voice for Prime was a Good Thing.
I've seen it three times now, and still enjoy it. Definately one for the DVD colleciton later.
Best bits...
- The Spectre opening a large can of whoop-ass on Scorpinock.
- Bumblebee dinging the door of the VW Bug next to him in the car sales. Take that, Disney!.
- Bumblebee going off in a huff when called a heap, then returning as the newer model.
- Those memorable lines from the original cartoons that found their way in.
- The Decepticon Jar Jar Binks taking it's own head off by mistake with a blade.
- Ironhide threatening the 'rodent'.
- The Autobots (including Optimus) trying to hide from Sam's parents.
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