Archive for August, 2008

I’m sure you’ve all heard that “no word in English rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple“.
Well, I’ve found one that rhymes with purple, and it’s courtesy of Jack Kerouac in chapter 2 of his novel Desolation Angels…
… why ask questions or tear hair or weep, the burple blear purple Lear on his moor of [...]

I’ve been working through the mountains of photos I took in the 10 days Mum and Sam were over and stumbled upon this one I took at the Eden Project. I literally just cropped it and increased the blacks and this is the result: an accidental “Photo of the Week”.
I think I need to [...]

Well, the power of the South Africans on the internet has been proven. We’re taking your women, jobs and now board games too.
The big push by various South African bloggers, me included, to get the most beautiful city in the world - Cape Town - onto the World Edition of Monopoly has paid off. [...]

Check it out folks, over 500 miles to a tank of petrol and with absolutely no motorway driving at all - this is just over 2 weeks worth of to work and back:

Despite what the reading says, the fuel economy is actually about 44.15 mpg (6.39 litres per 100km) as I could only squeeze in [...]

Interesting links for 24 Jul 08 - 19 Aug 08:

Just right for the garden: a mini-cow - Forget getting a dog: get a mini-cow. You'll a secondary income (thanks to 16 pints of drinkable milk a day), a lawn mower, a friend, a pet and finally some awesome steaks in a couple of years [...]

Wow!!!! Usain Bolt is incredible, check that margin of victory, and he wasn’t even trying in the last 10m. Usain Bolt won this race at 90m, cruised across the finish line and still SMASHED his old record to pieces in a new time of 9.69 seconds. Imagine how quick he would have been had [...]

I’ve had the unfortunate luck of having to work the last two weekends in a row (my own fault), but it hasn’t all been bad as I’ve listened to a lot of great music for free and without any adverts or DJ chat thanks to Last.fm.
I’ve been a last.fm member for quite some time, but [...]

Go to the gym, grind out 3 sets of 6 reps of deadlifts at 120kg and finish feeling amazing and like you’ve accomplished something good in your workout. Then look up at the telly and see the women hoiking weights in excess of 120kg over their heads in the Olympic women’s weightlifting competition.

Life is already far too complicated with all the choices we can have when we go shopping: Branded or not? Organic or “normal”? Free range or battery? Fresh or frozen? High fat, medium far or low fat?
Well, Sainsburys have complicated matters further in the milk department. We’ll ignore the whole branded/unbranded and organic/normal choices [...]