Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89
Rock on Sir Patrick!
Just Sayin’
Y’ha-nthlei is Deeper than they know…
The festive season is definitely upon us – I can’t get It’s Beginning to look a lot like Fishmen out of my head.
Still, I suppose it’s better than getting earwormed by the original version…
Thoughts for the Day
1: People who can’t tell the difference between ‘balmy’ and ‘barmy’ should be shot.
2: Kim Deal’s vocals on Here Comes Your Man remind me of the high school sweetheart I never had.
3: The government’s new National Broadband Network ads look like the containment grid’s broken down again.
That is all
One of these things is not like the others – Redux
As my trivia challenge from last week seems to have stunned everyone into silence, the time is probably right to provide the answers…
* During the cold war, the United States deployed nuclear-warhead tipped bazookas.
TRUE! It was called the Davy Crockett, and was one of many insane weapon systems designed to defend the Fulda Gap.
* While Governor of California, Ronald Reagan launched a dressmaker’s dummy into orbit.
FALSE! This was however a plot line from the short lived Brother Power the Geek.
* Pope John Paul II was a member of the Harlem Globetrotters.
TRUE! The Globetrotters hand out honorary memberships to all kinds of people, including the late Pontiff.
* Alfred Hitchcock had no navel.
TRUE! Hitchcock was, of course, born with one, but by the time of his death he’d had so much abdominal surgery that it had completely gone missing.
That’s it! Go make your own entertainment!
Kullervo it Ain’t
Been dividing my time between feeling horribly run down and depressed, and building my knight titan (it’s actually starting to look pretty good). Neither are leaving much time for blogging.
But hey, worse things happen in Finland…
(It’s probably sad that I immediately identified this… thing… as being Finnish from the shots of the Sibelius Monument).
Astro Kitteh!
One of these things is not like the others
Can you pick which one of the following wacky facts is not true?
* During the cold war, the United States deployed nuclear-warhead tipped bazookas.
* While Governor of California, Ronald Reagan launched a dressmaker’s dummy into orbit.
* Pope John Paul II was a member of the Harlem Globetrotters.
* Alfred Hitchcock had no navel.
I’ll reveal the truth…. later on…
God Bless You Akismet
Over the last few months, the Wyrmlog has been getting more and more comment spam. I’ve been deleting it as it comes in, but when I got up yesterday to find 83 c0mments, all linking off to cialis and (for some reason) designer shoe sites, I decided enough was enough, and signed up to Akismet.
From the moment I activated it, not one spam has come through. God bless you Akismet!
(I’m assuming of course that legitimate comments are still getting through – haven’t had one yet to see…)
On another subject, Blondie released possibly the greatest song in rock-pop history back in 1999 and I’ve only just been informed? Inconceivable!
Frenzied
I think all of us in the Australian web industry – except in the abode of the guilty – can raise our heads a little higher today. ‘It’s okay,’ we can tell ourselves, ‘We didn’t set up Click Frenzy.’
