Grand Theft Carriage

This made me laugh out loud. Might need to order myself this in t-shirt form from married to the sea.

I don't often talk about football

... but when Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (altogether now "there's only one..." ) scores 15 minutes into his debut I felt I had to mention it. The wife had 2-1 down on her Predictor score and over-confident me had 3-1. Doh! Amidst all the hoo hah I felt sorry for wee Kenny Miller. The bloke has knocked his pan in since coming to us, but its not happening for him in front of goal (football parlance used to sustain the illusion I know what I'm on about). He gets subbed early in the second half and sure enough his replacement tucks one away before he's slipped on his tracky bottoms. Heartbreaker. Anyhoo, looks like the SPL will be chock-full of inconsistent Old Firm performances if the first few weeks are anything to go by. 'mon the hoops', as its appropriate to say at these moments.

About 3 years behind everyone else...

I have now got a (second-hand) P900 and have discovered how to fire across mp3's and things to allocate as user-specific ringtones. The smile of joy across my face as the title theme from 'Super MarioWorld' rang out when Jules called was priceless. How great is it having admin rights on your office pc? ;-)

Dopiaza.org

I found this website which adds yet more Flickr functionality - better get that pro membership paid for now. As someone who loves good photo's, I absolutely adore Flickr.

What is it with horror movies?

Almost all of my mates refuse point blank to watch horror films and I think they're missing out on something really special. My Gramps once lent me a video he'd taped off Channel 4, 'you'll love this one - it's a cracker' and he said no more about it. Audition begins like a sweet love story, then maybe sixty minutes in it descends into complete and utter madness. I like a shock as much as the next Carstairs patient, but I watched most of the end through my fingers. Amazing. Ok these aren't going to win any Oscars, but for adrenalin rushes they are hard to beat. Recent favourites include Cabin Fever, Wrong Turn, Jeepers Creepers, The Hills Have Eyes, Hostel, Wolf Creek, Hard Candy, Texas Chainsaw and Saw. See for yourself, there is a load of trailers here.

Cheapskates paradise!

I was rummaging in the Pound Shop today looking for crappy folders for putting dvdr's into, and saw one of these. Something you have hanging on your keys to stick in the trolley at ASDA's (in lets be honest, the rougher areas of town) saving yourself the somewhat dubious inconvenience of reaching for a pound coin (thats sitting in your pocket). Not sure I'd want my house keys hanging off the trolley though, particularly in the supermarkets where they INSIST you pay for one before coming in... rough.

Todays wee thing of beauty!

I could see me buying one for these nite glow rings to go into the back-up collection of emergency chrimbo gifts (for blokes, obviously!). Its smaller than a AA battery and lasts for 10 years! I love wee gadgies like this so much. I used to have one of those credit card thin black flashcard torches back in the day, and remember how cool it looked (albeit for a very short while before the battery faded and it got tossed).

Ok, the proof of the pudding...

... is in the posting. Today's thing of moderate interestingness is instructables, and this is chock full of quirky novelties. Like those age-faded Blue Peter 'projects' involving kitchen rolls and lots of tin foil. Recently I bought some mints from M&S and according to instructables there should be something Ipod-related I can convert this covetable little green metal tin into: usb mobile phone charger, wireless router run on pound shop bulk-pack watch batteries, that sort of thing. But will I? I can see a post coming on about vicariously enjoying 'activites'. We all watch Ainsley cook, Sarah redevelop houses and Monty garden but do we actually do anything?

At long last I've decided that there may be a point to all this....

Following on from my unsuccessful first attempt at this kind of thing, four posts or two years or so ago, I decided to give it another go. Mainly just as a home for interesting links - and these seem to be getting more frequent, and just asking iand to link to them isn't really the solution - he's got enough of his own crap going on!