Updates

Sorry for the missing post last week but all creativity got used up writing a six page essay on the ethics of naked short selling. So here is a bunch of updates on previous entries

Gadget Crisis.
In go - go gadgets I discussed my over-stock of gadgets. Well one thing has changed since then. Through a bizarre series of events I found myself selling my 5th Gen iPod a few days before leaving on a trip to England. Despite my promises to cut back on expenditure I couldn’t face the airport/aeroplane routine without an MP3 player and so I took advantage of the moment and bought a 2nd Gen iPod Touch.
Put simply the iPod touch has the best UI of any gadget I have ever had. It does have its problems but I will save comment on those until I have installed V2.2. However, for music, movies and game play the iPod Touch has usurped the Palm already. Now if it only had a GPS chip … More in a few weeks.



Speedy and Sparky
Given the financial issues we are all having I have started to wonder if there is a parallel acorn crisis. Our Tamias striatus friends might have fallen foul of some drop in the fruit and nut index and had their burrows repossessed. I feel this because we have not seen anything of them for a few months now. Of course if Nostradamus is right then the update below maybe why we are not seeing them; they are busy plotting again.



The End of world (new date)
So after my South Korean soothsaying Santé Fe incorrectly announced the end of the world last May, the calendar inside the car has just been quietly and repeatedly counting up from February 0 to February 9 all Summer. Then a month or so ago I noticed it had slipped past the 9th and started up to the 28th or 29th. Then a couple of weeks after that it passed the 29th and now sits proudly on February 42nd. That means the end of world will be held on January 20th 2009. Which is awesome, ‘cos it’s after Christmas but before we have to pay the credit card bills. Party Time people!!!!





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Bazza

Goldilocks and the Three Books

We all have to read text books, schoolbooks or manuals sometimes. Most of us don’t enjoy it too much. Over the years I have discovered there are three distinct types of these books

1. Ultra sticky
2. Just right
3. Ultra slippy

Ultra sticky are the ones where each word is so sticky it takes ages to move on to the next word. Typically though, you do retain something. But god! It takes forever.

In ‘Just Right’ books each word holds you up just long enough for it to sink in. reading is fun and you feel better for reading it.

With an Ultra Slippy all the words become one long string and your eyes slide along each line without any hindrance. The words flash beneath your eyes and before you know it you have slid to the end of the line. Often you find yourself having to climb back to the top of the paragraph or even page to try again.


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Bazza

The original version of this was posted to the DePaul student discussion board September 08

Brotherly love and Sisterly affection - Philadelphia

Last weekend my wife and I went to Philadelphia – here is my stream of consciousness.

Friday Afternoon/evening

It’s great when a city has only one team and they win something – no Yankees/Mets or Sox/Cubs split. The whole town gets happy!
Those steps that Rocky ran up? Piece of cake!
Why are these bars so crowded? (see first note :) ). Yuengling, Great beer!
There’s a lot of homeless people - very like San Francisco
Shut up outside my hotel! I know the Phillies won but it’s four in the morning and I want to sleep now.

Saturday
I’m tired. Weather is beautiful.
Is that street theatre outside Starbucks or are those two fat women gonna have a fight at 10am in the morning.
Does this pub show the Chelsea game? 5-0 :):):) Yuengling.
Tourist time – a walking tour!
Oh god, the guide is in a kilt.
Liberty Bell, where the constitution was written, Ben Franklin’s house, church and grave. Bestsy Ross’s house (why the cat statues?). What do you mean you dressed as a Red Coat and demanded all the tea in the local Starbucks?
That ankle is hurting. Yuengling.
Get to Coldplay! Listen to Coldplay. Get really really close to Coldplay. Yuengling.
Have trouble getting cab – go to pub and it’s full of Texans watching College ball!! Yuengling.
Tonight we sleep Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Sunday
Coffee, pack, head out.
Bye philly. Well done Phillies! Oh god! We have to drive through New Jersey and New York
No more Yuengling :(

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Bazza