Being Mr. Kenny

Well, I’m currently watching The Ring. (You know it’s actually a bad thing that I now watch the TV with a browser open (altho this is the first time I’ve done it) I think the internet is becoming part of me. Anyway.) It’s the proper Japanese version, mind you.

I’ve seen the American version before, so I know what happens, kinda. I’m enjoying the scary atmosphere without being actually scared… Well, maybe just a little :)

It reminded me of a horror movie I watched in first year (2002) with my housemate. We switched onto this documentary about these four guys, one of whom was some sort of magician. Anyway, they go off in search of some kind of monster, the Jersey Devil, which involves a trip into a forest.

Three of the guys die and only two of their bodies are recovered, the third never being found. Anyway it progresses as normal, following their last few hours, and piecing together what happened to them. The survivor, the magician guy, was charged with their murders. He kills himself in jail, and the documentary ends there.

However it starts up again when a box of video tape arrives on the doorstep. Just a big box of loose tape. He takes it to some restorer or something, and they go through it as she restores it. Bear in mind that me and Tim have been watching this up until now, thinking the whole thing was an actual documentary about real events. Anyway, as they go through the tape, more of the story emerges, with lots of scary shots of people seeing things behind the camera and running away. Then the camera being dropped and the cameraman running away. Very scary indeed. The final bit they restore starts of with a gray blob. Then, bit by terrifying bit, the gray blog begins to take shape into the face of whatever or whoever it was that killed the three other guys. I won’t tell you what it was, you should watch the film and find out. Anyway, the next shot was of the documentary maker killing the video restorer.

It was at this point that me and Tim exchanged glances, checked the paper and found that it was a film. How foolish we felt! But still scared. Neither of us were able to sleep that night…

Anyway, the official website offers some interesting snippets.

Ooh, The Ring just took a turn for the scarier…

Well, I am currently watching Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s School Dinners, his attempt to change London kids’ school dinners.

I’ll be honest and say that I used to hate him. Well, when he first appeared I quite liked him, but then he did all those ghastly Sainsbury’s ads and my opinion changed quicker than you could say “public opinion”. But now I’m watching his show, and I think what he’s doing is completely incredible. I have nothing but the highest respect for him. Some kids’ diets are nothing short of shocking; high fat and low fibre. They just showed an X-ray of a child’s intestine, showing the compacted food. The paediatric dietician said that the food got so packed up that some kids brought it up out of their small intestines — actually bringing up semi-formed faeces, it’s actually disgusting.

I’ve got to the bit where they ban the bad junk food in the school kitchens, and the kids are complaining their little faces off. Fair enough, tho, I’d probably have done the same ;)

I found his diary, which looks interesting, and this news item.

I’ve just come back from a lovely trip to Doolally’s coffee house. I had white hot chocolate, which was very sweet and slightly disgusting. I recommend that you stick to the normal variety. Anyway, Abi introduced me to the concept of being sick in people’s eyes, which I thought was a hilarious concept.

On the way back we saw a wheel locked to a bicycle stand. Perhaps someone nicked the bike? I thought it was pretty funny…

You can bring disaster on any website you please! Wanna see beingmrkenny.co.uk attacked by dinosaurs? Sure thing!

It’s been really weird of late. Since working on Open Space (which, do you note, I link to in pretty much every post) my web design standards have taken a bit of a knock. I mean, I used to be seriously bothered about having my code look perfect, and be super-efficient, and have everything really nicely indented and everything. Then along comes something and the whole thing goes to pot. (Still a validation fascist tho, which pleases me).

Anyway, I have decided that I need to have some more content, it’s just taking its sweet time getting here. And this blog is rapidly filling up with posts about nothing. Well, no, I guess it’s not. Never mind.

I think Open Space is just about ready to be called “not in the design stage any more”. A good website is never finished (a finished website is a dead website), but I think OS is now ready. So go and have a look and then make sure you all come back and leave lovely comments about it!!! People don’t realise how hard it is to make websites; it’s a lot of work! I mean, taking the blog design and applying it to wordpress was bloody difficult! And I managed it in only a few hours!

(The WordPress template I modified (modified cos I know nothing of PHP) happily split the page into about 15 different constituent parts, each compiled (most probably by magic, but I will concede and say PHP has something to do with it) and then styled using CSS. It took a while to work out which constituent did what, but now I am the master! Huzzah! I shall never go back to using blogger.com again! BTW, can you put whole paragraphs in brackets like this?)

So, I am happy. I’m very pleased with myself about the OS site, ha ha! Time to end this rambly, off-the-point post.

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Well, guess who’s still alive? Me. Obviously.

Just come back from a trip to Grandma, who lives in Colchester. It was funny being there because it wasn’t how I’d remembered it. I don’t know when I was last there, but it must have been some years. At one point I knelt down to see if it made a difference, and it did; suddenly everything fitted again. So it must have been some time ago!

Anyway, made some progress with my Spanish. I can now conjugate regular verbs for each of the three persons (“Thank heavens for that,” I hear you cry). I also finished two books while I was there. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code which was absolutely mind-blowing, and Terry Pratchet’s Mort, which is hilarious and wonderful, as expected.

I set myself the task of finishing the latter before the car stopped outside our house, and, achieving it all too soon, found I had a rather boring journey left, what with my sister reading too. Played with the dog a little (which was an excellent idea - bringing her along for the trip) but that game got tired after a while. Dogs only respond for a certain period. Then they get bored. Tried annoying my sister, which worked, but that got boring and a bit worrying when I realised how old I was. In the end I settled for sweets, crisps and staring out of the window.

Anyway, I’ve just fixed WordPress up on open-space.org.uk. I am overjoyed with it. So overjoyed, in fact, that I’m going to make the switch and do the very same thing with this blog, as soon as my beigetower hosting comes through.

Ooh, btw, has anyone seen that awful Casanova of late? Isn’t it completely dreadful? For a moment I thought the BBC had been taking ITV lessons. I was nearly sick, it was that bad.

That said, did anyone see the final episode? What happened…?

Which OStan are you?

You are Apple OS9. You have been pretty much supplanted by your new sister, but you’re still around to help her out, and those who know you remember you fondly. You hate Windows with a burning passion.

Mine’s rubbish. What’s yours like? Leave comments.