“It was a mix of dark humour and horror
…
The CD I made didn’t work on the player at the crematorium.
…
So the drag queen came on to Ave Maria rather than Get The Party Started.”

Very True Mood:  curious

Via Pharyngula, I really hope this is a spoof¹ but Marry Our Daughter has to be seen to be believed.

1. The Testimonials page more than edges me towards that opinion².

2. See also Snopes.

Very True Mood:  cynical

For the second time I got an invite to do a YouGov survey, only to discover after a couple of questions that it was about the work of my employer.

Oh well. 50p is 50p and I did ‘fess up in the free text answers.

Very True Mood:  mellow

I saw this Build Your Own Stonehenge kit in the shop yesterday. A miniature Stonehenge. How Spinal Tap is that?

And on Amazon: “20 used & new available” … does anyone want a second hand Stonehenge?

ObWargames: Not sure of the scale but I suppose it would work quite well with 6mm or smaller figures. Or with a 28mm rock band…

Very True Mood:  amused

Via sharikkamur, ( Offensive Religion Meme )

Very True Mood:  confused

So there’s this news story that everyone’s blogging about and I’m not. I’m not even commenting on it on other people’s blogs. I was writing a comment to make a minor factual point about a background issue when I realised that it would either be the most boring comment ever or seem to be a comment on the main issue. So I gave up and wrote this instead.

Very True Mood:  contemplative

I’ve previously posted that Dr Dino was banged up and now his appeal has been denied so I’m going to gloat a bit more.

Considering that my previous post produced some classic fundiemoron comment trolling, I wonder what this one will bring up.

Very True Mood:  content

Which of the following characters from the following science fiction movies/ programmes do you think is the most attractive?

• Seven of Nine (Star Trek Voyager)
• Princess Leia (Star Wars)
• Rachael (Blade Runner)
• SuperGirl (SuperGirl)
• Barbarella (Barbarella)
• LeeLoo (Fifth Element)
• Padme (Phantom Menace)
• TX (Terminator 3)
• Lt Uhura (Star Trek)
• Sil (Species)
• Don’t know
• None of these

Having watched Vengeance on Varos last night I read Sil and had a very different image leap to mind than the one they intended. Has anyone see if there’s an equivalent question about the boys?

Sign up with YouGov and get paid to do dumb surveys.

Very True Mood:  amused

I must post the conclusion of the City Link saga and an unexpected piece of good customer service from another company that happened soon afterwards, but for now it’s enough to know that I got my new computer and have been busy installing software.

First thing I installed was anti-virus (that’s a lie, first thing was Opera to make downloading all the other things less of a pain). But so far I haven’t installed a firewall, so I’m running with AVG Anti-Virus and Windows Firewall. I’d like a better firewall but I don’t know what to pick.

On my old laptop I’ve been using Kaspersky Anti-Hacker which is a bit old but reliable. This came as part of System Mechanic which I’ve found to be very handy. But, Iolo have produced a new version of System Mechanic and I get a spam pop up everytime I start it. I e-mailed them asking where I could a change log for the new version and they haven’t replied, but from the web site it looks like Kaspersky is no longer part of the package. I’m not sure whether to buy the latest Kaspersky product, or the latest version of System Mechanic, or both, or something else entirely. Any advice for a free or cheap firewall for a Windows XP machine?

I also have installed a BitTorrent client yet. The one built into Opera downloads much slower than the standalone ones I’ve used before. Which have mainly been Azureus, but that seems to have a memory leak in it somewhere ‘cos even when I shut it down completely the system is still clogged up until I reboot (or use System Mechanic to reclaim the RAM). I keep on hearing about μTorrent, is that any good? What’s your BitTorrent client of choice?

Finally, is there a site out there that could be described as LibraryThing for DVDs? I’ve found DVD Spot but it’s not really tickling my web 2.0 fabcy in the way that LT does. I could use Squirl, indeed I could use Squirl for just about any collection, but I’d like to see if there’s anything a bit more specialised first.

Very True Mood:  curious

The executioner has arrived. Our loft full of pigeons will soon be no more.

I’ve made myself scarce. With guns (well, an air rifle is still a gun) and noxious chemicals around there’s no place for spectators. Luckily for me.

Air rifles aren’t very loud are they? I just realised that the clicking noise I thought was his step ladder is actually him doing the deed.

I’ve lost count of the number of shots. As most of the adults would have escaped through the hole in the roof he must be shooting the ones that can’t fly.

Is anyone reading this whilst eating? Sorry.

[update]
Oh boy. He says that he’s been chucking some of the bodies out of the hole in the roof. The roof slopes towards the alleyway (i.e. our front door) not the road.

Killing done. Just the cleaning up to do.

[update]
I’m going out for a bit, I think I need some fresh air.