Category: Personal Posts

Headlines That Make Me Stop

“Water Found on Mars” So went the Evening Standard on the Tube on the way home from work last night. And that’a a pretty momentous announcement (assuming the ESA are 100% sure of the readings). So much better than somehting politial or an announcement of another tube strike. Water on Mars, eh. IMagine how much Volvic can sell that for…

Round San Diego With A Fridge

Oh boy. I’m sitting at work reading Tony Hawk’s “Beating The Moldovans at Tennis,” where he makes a strange bet that he can beat the Moldovan National Football Team at Tennis (individually), and one of the Engineers mentions that “you were looking for somoething to do in San Diego, what should we bet that you can’t do?” The suggestions (some of which I’m never posting here, some will go up later) are pretty good. But to give me some chance, I’m only going to choose one of them. I’m also going to open it up to anyone reading this Diary.

Christmas Pictures

Vikki Writes… I’ve finally got around to sorting through all the pictures and updating Eilidh’s website. Unfortunately, a lot of the pictures haven’t come out at all well, so there’s quite a lot missing. There have been a lot of pictures taken on other people’s cameras though, so hopefully I’ll be able to come back and fill in the gaps when they’re developed. The new pics are through the last three links at the bottom of the list. There are some cracking pictures in there :)

Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s The Muppet Show!

I had my eye on this box set before Christmas, and thanks to a little bot of Christmas Money, and HMV dropping the price to £25 I was able to pick it up. It’s 28 episodes of The Muppet Show. Just look at this list: Roger Moore, Lynda Carter, Christopher Reeve, Mark Hamil, Sylvester Stallone, Peter Sellers, Debbie Harry, Shirley Bassey, Andy Williams, Steve Martin, Bob Hope, John Cleese, Bruce Forsythe (yeah!), Danny Kaye, Brooke Shields, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch, Peter Ustinov, Vincent Price (yeah again!), Gene Kelly, Elton John, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, Alice Cooper, Twiggy, Liza Minelli, Julie

Channel 5 Are First

Congratulations are in order as Channel 5 become the first UK terrestrial TV channel to show “The Towering Inferno” since the World Trade Centre was struck by Saudi terrorists. Of course a group of us watched it on September the 14th, and wondered how long it would be till it could be shown on tv. Now we know. And remember kids, it’s a fire. All fires are bad.