May 31, 2006 • 7:25 am
Parasites are, generally, hated creatures. They take resources but they never give back. That’s actually the biological definition of a parasite: an animal or plant which takes resources (food, energy, etc) without bringing any benefit to its host.
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May 30, 2006 • 6:35 pm
I have never been able to stand Ross, from Friends. This makes me a bad person.
It’s not just the fact that the character just straight off annoys me. If only it were that simple!
But no, the truth is that, well, I hate his stupid face. And, of course, his stupid face belongs to a real [...]
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May 28, 2006 • 4:06 pm
Print them out and swap them among your friends for the ones you don’t have! Or just print them out! Or just don’t!
Glyn
Special Powers:
Stares, Welsh-speaker
Fun facts:
Glyn doesn’t actually have any nipples. The ones you see on television are actually stick-ons that he buys down the market.
Other lies I made up about him:
Glyn is a huge [...]
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May 27, 2006 • 10:18 am
I found this advert on a website a while ago.
I don’t have an opinion about it, but posting this makes me political.
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May 26, 2006 • 8:19 am
Kevin McCloud, pictured below (if he had one eye, and if he looked like that), is a presenter on Channel 4. He does a lot of those house programmes, where someone converts an outside loo into a library, or builds an extension made out of hay. Usually in the country-side.
He’s great, he was once interviewing [...]
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May 25, 2006 • 8:22 am
Most people’s lives … What are they but trails of debris? Each day, more debris, more debris: long, long trails of debris. With nothing to clean it all up but finally death!
Mrs Venables, Suddenly Last Summer
I don’t agree with her, I just like the melodrama.
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May 23, 2006 • 7:48 am
I’m talking about spam of course! What else could possibly produce such wonderful phrases as that below, and yet be such mindless drivel.
(The title of this post comes from the closing words of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and is applied here frivolously and irrelevantly.)
Anti-spam defences have very effectively wiped out 99% or more [...]
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May 22, 2006 • 7:42 am
Via IbaDaiRon’s blog. ありがとうございます。 (That’s supposed to mean “thank you” but who knows if it’s right.)
Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even [...]
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May 21, 2006 • 10:31 pm
So I turned 22 a while ago (in March, to be precise). 21 was quite strange, a little bit older, but 22 feels like I am now a bone fide adult; it just sounds more mature.
Accompanying this entrance in to adulthood are some changes. Namely BO and halitosis. (This is one of those gross, personal [...]
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May 19, 2006 • 8:21 am
How’s about a little good news to brighten a day? It turns out the Open Space website won the best website award in the recent Activities Award Ceremony at Sheffield University Student Union!
Open Space news item
Sheffield Union’s “Golden Gnomes 2006” page
There’s no money or chocolates, more’s to the pity, but it’ll look good on the [...]
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