>Leaf peeping

Posted on 22 September, 2009 by jb

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Now all you need is a forecasting module to let the innkeepers optimise their pricing structure…

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>Not being nasty, or anything…

Posted on 20 September, 2009 by jb

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…but I’ve been wondering all along whom Michael Hartmann, the SPD candidate for Mainz in next week’s general election reminds me of.

(That’s him on the right, by the way. Or is it the left. Not sure. The one without the bolt through his neck, I suppose.)

And it just came to me in a flash – Hermann Munster (above left) from the 1960s sitcom, The Munsters.

I think it’s the smile.

Not that I’m going to vote for him, of course.

(Not that I can, anyway…)

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>Private Eye

Posted on 19 September, 2009 by jb

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Who else..?

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>Headline: Jackson’s breast under review again

Posted on 18 September, 2009 by jb

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Oh, HER.

For a moment, I thought they were dig up poor old Michael.

But it just goes to show what a puritanically voyeuristic society America is, with adverts for condoms banned, but constant gratuitous tit (oops..) illation in the mainstream media.

And the FCC has to dig this up again after FIVE YEARS?

Can’t they just watch it on YouTube like me everybody else?

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>"H" as in "Humbug"

Posted on 18 September, 2009 by jb

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New Zealand is nothing if not politically correct.
The New Zealand Geographic Board has recommended that the city of Wanganui be renamed to Whanganui.
This is, of course, nonsense on stilts.
Given that the Maori language had no written form until the arrival of white settlers in the 18th and 19th century, the original spelling varied wildly, based either on creative oral transcription or the marginal literacy of the scribe.
It’s been Wanganui since 1872
But changed it must be, despite overwhelming (82%) public sentiment for its retention.
And it doesn’t stop there, of course.
Headline in the Nelson Mail:
“A controversial recommendation to put the ‘h’ back into Wanganui could have a flow-on effect to other regions, including Nelson”
So it’s going to be what – Nhelson? Or Nelshon?
W*at the #$%&?
* Letter “H” donated for a good cause
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>Too good to miss – Pink Floyd on the accordion

Posted on 17 September, 2009 by jb

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A new hit. A new hero. He knows Tulibu Dibu language and sing many rock hits using that well known language. 

Pissed, I can imagine.

Sober, I can’t

Bulgaria.

Need I say more?

Reminiscent of “Radar Love” by Golden Earring.

Urban legend has it that they sang phonetically, none of the band having an adequate command of English

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>Another reason to buy an iPhone (As if I needed one…)

Posted on 17 September, 2009 by jb

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This is what David Hockney does on his iPhone with Brushes

All you need is $3.99 and endless talent.

Think I’ll leave it for a while, then.

Although I could probably come up with the $3.99.

At a pinch.

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>Winston the Pigeon

Posted on 17 September, 2009 by jb

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A Durban IT company pitted Winston, an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick, against the ADSL service from the country’s biggest web firm, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles.

In the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.

Full story from the Beeb here

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>Too cool

Posted on 16 September, 2009 by jb

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Arthur Ganson makes the most excellent machines.

This one takes a motor rotating at 212 rpm and via a series of 50:1 reduction gear sets (12 in all) reduces the final drive output to 1 rp2,000,000,000,000 years.

The output drive shaft is attached to a concrete block.

Irresistible force meets immovable object.

I think I’ll hang around to watch

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>I’m very sorry about this….

Posted on 16 September, 2009 by jb

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Private Eye, of course
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