Because the Mighty Thor says so dammit!!!

Happy belated 4/20!!

Holy crap!!

This week's Bajanism - Flim

Pronounciation: \ˈflɪm\

Etymology: Barbados

Definition:

1.

a. A thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin, coated with a photosensitive emulsion and used to make photographic negatives or transparencies.

b. A thin sheet or strip of developed photographic negatives or transparencies.

2.

a. A movie.

b. Movies considered as a group.

Editor's note: The usage of the word 'flim' in bajan culture is one has always managed to escape me. I've never understood it's derivation from the original word 'film' and I can vividly remember pointing out to people, "Look, see! it's spelt F-I-L-M", to no avail. Strangely enough, it's used exclusively in reference to those definitions above and not extended to other items that are covered by film e.g. membranes, thin layers etc.

I ♥ tank skeet

The Earth station

Last weekend while driving around aimlessly, the guys and I decided to have a look in at the Barbados External telecommunications' now defunct earth station.

I don't have a whole heap of information available now as I really wanted to get the photos up, but, as luck would have it, both founding members of the house of T here have extensive knowledge of the complex, so I'll fully update this post after the interview. Hopefully later.

This week's bajanism - bygone days

I received these photos in an email over the weekend and I've decided to share them.

I can't, for the love of God, tell you exactly what year(s) the photos are from, but my guess is about late 70's early 80's (That colour one with the 2 St.Michael's schoolgirls in the shot looks like it might actually be an ageing bus in the mid-eighties) .

Anyone that can shed some light here, your assistance will be very much appreciated.

One Operating system to rule them all, One Operating system to find them, One Operating system to bring them all and in the darkness bind them........

This just in, a russian student studying in Pyongyang has posted/leaked screenshots of the DPRK's home grown operating system.

That's 2 more hours off the ol' CPD

So they're dismantling a tower crane right next to my office and given the cowboy nature of the contractors involved, I find myself hoping that it doesn't come crashing through the roof.

I'd have liked to compose my own time-lapse of the event but they're also painfully slow at it. So here's a link to a similar crane being dismantled you'll get the idea.

Happy Easter/ Zombie Jesus day

Better late than never.