Archive of 2008 February
Does this look like a man who irons his underpants?
on February 29th, 2008 in General by Dan | 18 CommentsIt’s 10pm on the 29th of February and I’m sitting in another service station, this time on the northbound carriage of the motorway. Other than “somewhere on the M1″ I don’t actually know where I am. My attitude towards the M1 has always been “just keep going until you see…
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Making a leap
on February 29th, 2008 in General by Dan | 19 CommentsSo it’s Febuary 29th, a day that exists only once every four years. The kids are at nursery, I’m not working today, and I’ve a hankering to do something outside my usual routine. At first I thought I’d be really adventurous and get a early morning plane to Amsterdam. I’d…
Continue reading...D.O.U.S (Duck Of Unusual Size)
on February 28th, 2008 in Uncategorized by Dan | 16 CommentsWhen earthquakes attack
on February 27th, 2008 in General by Dan | 15 CommentsWe had an earthquake last night. It measured 5.2 on the Richter scale. Now that may not sound much to the Americans, particularly those Californians amongst you. But it was big enough to wake me up, and I’m a man who has slept through fire alarms. We do tend to…
Continue reading...Locate TV
on February 26th, 2008 in Uncategorized by Dan | 1 CommentLocate TV. Type in the name of your favorite show and it will search the tv listings to tell you when it’s next on. Very useful for finding out when you can get your next dose of Columbo or the like. Has versions for both UK and USA viewers. Bookmark…
Continue reading...On Wednesdays I never feel inclined
on February 26th, 2008 in Uncategorized by Dan | 9 CommentsPhil over at A Family Runs Through it has just wrapped up a week of posts based around music he and his family enjoy. Never being one to let a good idea go by unpilfered, I thought I’d share some music that we’ve been enjoying recently at our house. They…
Continue reading...Love, Hate, and Indifference
on February 25th, 2008 in General by Dan | 12 CommentsWe didn’t have satellite TV in our house until I was about fourteen. Up until that point my parents had avoided poring their pennies into Murdock’s coffers, but the lure of tennis on the sports channels became too much for my mother and she relented. I quickly became addicted to…
“It’s all Greek to me” Sunday
on February 24th, 2008 in Uncategorized by Dan | 10 CommentsHere’s how it works. I’ve take a short film synopsis from the listings page of a TV guide and fed it into Bable Fish, an online translating service. I then translated the synopsis from English into Greek, and then from Greek back into English. The resulting gobbledygook is posted below…
Continue reading...Funds
on February 22nd, 2008 in Uncategorized by Dan | 14 CommentsThis is Oli. He likes cake. There are many ways that Oli is my superior. He understands how to use his camera flash, has 448 friends on facebook, and has an extensive knowledge of marine biology. And if that all weren’t enough he also has marginally more hair than me….
Continue reading...In which I cunningly avoid having to come up with any original content
on February 21st, 2008 in General by Dan | 25 CommentsI recently sent Jeff a parcel of delightful English delicacies as reward for winning my “About me”competition. Here is his video review of some of it’s contents – a sample pack of Marmite (the moment of truth is around the six minute mark). ———- Which all put me in mind…
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