Archive for February, 2006

The End of Civilisation as We Know It (part twelve of ???)

Posted on in Science, The World.

“… reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

— Richard Feynman

If you thought that biological evolution was the only science being attacked by the religious nutjobs in the US, think again. A Bush appointed fuckwit in the NASA press office is trying his best to wedge religion into astronomy: [via Bad Astronomy]

The Big Bang is “not proven fact; it is opinion,” Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, “It is not NASA’s place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator.”

Makes me want to hit something.

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe….”

— Albert Einstein

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Don’t mention the rugby

Posted on in My Life, Sport.

First half was okay. Second was just painful. :-(

Okay, okay. England did play well – powerful, accurate and fast. Wales need to take the way they played in the first half, add that little extra oomph, and then keep it up for a whole match. From what I saw of Italy – Ireland it doesn’t look like a very promising start for the Irish either. So let’s see how France and Scotland fair tomorrow, but, so far, if the English keep this up all through the tournament then there won’t be any stopping them.

In other news I got my hair cut today. First time since the wedding; that’s five months. Lettice will be sad – she would like to turn me into a James May clone (except younger, non-smoking and less sexist, I presume) – but at least it’s now somewhere near to controllable.

On the telly box

Posted on in TV.

I think the best thing about Channel 4′s new sit-com The IT Crowd is the trailers for the new series of Green Wing.

Second best thing was the way the continuity announcers shifted from saying “the I.T. crowd” to “the it crowd” at some point over the past few weeks. Whoops.

… you post a little and then you die

Posted on in Blogs, Memes, My Life.

I haven’t been posting much recently. So little in fact that pink_weasel has stolen all my funny stories for herself and put them in a friends locked post, so not much point in me linking to it.

Anyway, here’s a small victory for reality:

After you die…
In the Ground

After death, you will cease to exist. In all likelihood, your carcass will be deposited in the ground.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

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