Throwback monday

Straight out of the vault comes this classic CBC production from god knows how long ago. I remember it from my primary school days, so you're talking at least '87 or so. Feel free to correct me if anybody knows the exact date.

Interlude

Crop Over!!

I know this isn't even bajan music, I'm just amazed at the fact that someone deemed it "fit for airplay" back in the day.

Excuse me

I think I'm developing separation anxiety with Fukuoka city

Tadaima!!

I'm back from what seems to have been the shortest vacation on record. Lots of things to post about so there are plenty (more) drafts sitting in my dashboard, but for now I'll leave you with a few of my personal favorites from random locations across Japan.


No what?


There's always Bob to be found even deep in JP countryside..
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Please what?

First!!

Have a good look. Here's a copy of the first photo of the ISS docking with a the USS Endeavour. (Released by NASA on tuesday) courtesy of this guy.

And on another note: I leave for Japan today.........hilarity will ensue

Note to self

One day, Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know." Alice answered.

"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

-Lewis Carroll

Oh noes!

It's zombie apocalypse day now, I mean, this guy's been wrong before....but, are you gonna take that chance??

Green wars

So apparently there's a major debate on at the minute as to what artificial sounds to apply to Electric and Hydrogen powered cars. You can read the article I found on the beeb here.

May I produce to you, the car sound of the future!!


*UPDATE*

should that not go over well with the masses I have found an alternative!

Top 10 H.L. Mencken quotes brought to you by the sarcasmist

10. Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

9. A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

8. An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

7. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

6. For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

5. I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

4. I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

3. Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

2. If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

1. We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Courtesy of the people over at the sarcasm society who'd just love to hear what you have to say.

T.G.I.F

The days after

I'm back!!

2 years in the making

Jesus!! after 2 years of trying and countless headaches (ESPECIALLY in the last 4 months) I've finally been confirmed to travel to Brazil later this month for some capoeira workshops. It'll all have to be done on a dental floss budget (nothing new there) so needless to say there's no room for error and/or wanton spending.

Interlude

I so need to see this the next time I go to JP

More news!!

In other significant events, Brisbane is decimated by flooding after a 36 hour downpour, LAYyYYy-zar cannons are being brought in on the fight against somali piracy (sidenote: I may be oversimplifying this but what happens when the pirates pop down to the local mogadishu DIY for a 4' square mirror?)

And the icing on today's cake;

A man Shot accidentally in Naples by a stray bullet SNEEZES IT OUT WHILE WAITING TO BE SEEN IN THE ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY ROOM.

You just couldn't make this stuff up.

!!News!!

The chong-gou ren are coming!!don't ask me how I found the embed code!!





*UPDATE*

Ok that link appears to have crashed (no pun intended), so here's some other flight footage.

2011 - New year, new mistakes to be made

Curses!! It's back into the fray!! The construction break is over even quicker than it began, and much like Peer in Grieg's most famous piece, I feel as though I'm forced to evade the trolls who'd give anything to kill me.

oh and btw, Happy new year ;)

It is officially Christmas!!

Today is shutdown day for most of us in the construction biz, it doesn't really help either that I attended another surveying practice's party last night. Needless to say, "There'll be a whole lot of nothin' goin" on today

That grant pitch might not be so difficult after all...........

Lol, the Sunday Times ran a story back in 2007 that discussed research findings that suggested that walking to the shops did more damage to the planet than if you drove a car (you can find it here).

notable points include, but are not limited to:-

• Traditional nappies are as bad as disposables, a study by the Environment Agency found. While throwaway nappies make up 0.1 per cent of landfill waste, the cloth variety are a waste of energy, clean water and detergent

• Paper bags cause more global warming than plastic. They need much more space to store so require extra energy to transport them from manufacturers to shops

• Diesel trains in rural Britain are more polluting than 4x4 vehicles. Douglas Alexander, when Transport Secretary, said: “If ten or fewer people travel in a Sprinter [train], it would be less environmentally damaging to give them each a Land Rover Freelander and tell them to drive”

• Burning wood for fuel is better for the environment than recycling it, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs discovered

• Organic dairy cows are worse for the climate. They produce less milk so their methane emissions per litre are higher

• Someone who installs a “green” lightbulb undoes a year’s worth of energy-saving by buying two bags of imported veg, as so much carbon is wasted flying the food to Britain

• Trees, regarded as shields against global warming because they absorb carbon, were found by German scientists to be major producers of methane, a much more harmful greenhouse gas

All of these discoveries can be found in - Goodall. C (don't know the year) Defra; how to Live a Low-Carbon Life, Absorbent Hygiene Products Manufacturers Association; The Times; BBC

Also, If I may be so bold as to add my own research discoveries. I have found that Environmentalists damage the planet less when they are dead.