Randi and 800 Other Amazing Skeptics: BLOG: SciAm Observations

Randi and 800 Other Amazing Skeptics: BLOG: SciAm Observations: excellent stuff, read it when I have time...

The Cleverest.com

The Cleverest.com....some rather amusing things...

What can I say...usual bonding games at work which can involve anything from walking up to someone, farting silently (then walking away), a passing tickle or, rather cosily, a quick squeeze of whatever part of the anatomy presents itself. Very odd. Reserved swedes, I think not.

Waiting for: Interview on thursday morning.
Reading: Mainly about insect sex in Perdido Street Station.

YouTube - Johnny Vegas On Top Gear

YouTube - Johnny Vegas On Top Gear...Vegas:" I'd like a people carrier" Clarkson: "People carriers are for people who have given up" Vegas "look at me!".

Ahh, another weekend swings into a close (which makes no sense whatsever)...I'd love to write more but, as its coming up to my bedtime i.e. 2100, I need to catch some zs. Today was most excellent at work, id card stopped working meaning I shivered in sub zeros temperatures outside the factory until someone let me in. Good part was part of the glass machine going mad and, before anyone could stop it, smashing loads of glass in a really impressive way...all the recruitment company boys looked on and laughed as the production line boss tried to stop the machine. excellent.

Välkommen till Malmös nya stadslopp! Swedbank Malmö 10 KM - Lördag 16 juni 2007

Välkommen till Malmös nya stadslopp! Swedbank Malmö 10 KM - Lördag 16 juni 2007

So thats that then, the post dangerous period of time for the human race since Hiroshima...

read more here...

BBC NEWS | Europe | Severe storms hit southern Sweden...the photograph accompanying this article is of the seafront a few seconds walk from where we live, rather stupidly - though the storm was dying down - I took E out to see the sea. Fortunately his screams of terror, as a result of the howling wind and thunder of buildings being torn to bits, did not attract the police and I was able to get him home safely.

The spam I get in my hotmail account has increasingly strange titles, which actually warms me towards the people sending them. I've had the usual banal stuff of 'our date tonight' but also the rather cheerful 'meet greet with small meat' and the surreal 'unwillingly frantic jacobite'.

Knackered. My throat hurts. Which is probably the onset of glass workers lung, or something. On a brighter note, the interview went really well but in my innocence I did not expect there to be a second one - so we'll see if I get invited to that, but I have to wait a week or so...

Pleased with: Bold step of removing clips from bike and suddenly being able to bunny hop and sidehop better than before. Bike now almost completely trashed.

Jobs I have done....paper boy. Grocer. Pizza chef. Production line monkey. Night club security. Government Researcher. Company Director. Communications Officer. Production line monkey. i.e. if there's any symmetry to my career I should dig out my apron. Shifted fucking tonnes of glass today, my hands ache.

Reading: Ghost World.

Mulligan and O'Hare - Google Video...hmmm, with a slightly rippled underside.

oofff. 0400 start this morning, as the shift moved to the morning slot...only slightly nasty, and not nearly as nasty as the nightshift. I actually felt almost excited as I drove to work, but this is probably more to do with relief at not being unemployed any more rather than any sense of fulfillment in shifting truck loads of glass around. Incidently, in Swedish glass - as in the clear substance one drinks from or looks through is spelt 'glas'. The soft cold food product that we call ice cream is spelt 'glass'. The two words are pronounced differently, as you might expect, but its quite subtle (long vowel sound in 'glas', if you must know). Thus, with my mangled swedish I have said to more than a few people than I work in an ice cream factory. Which specialises in ice cream for volvo and saab. As they are usually polite swedes they just nod and then slowly back away.

Reading: Everest Boys....still excellent.
Excited about: Job interview next week.