That's a trio, then...

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Politicians get younger by the day...

Nelson Mail 30.8.2010

Standing room only........

"Even after adjusting for body mass index (BMI) and smoking, the researchers found that women who sit more than 6 hours a day were 37 percent more likely to die than those who sit less than 3 hours; for men, long-sitters were 17 percent more likely to die. People who exercise regularly had a lower risk, but still significant, risk of dying."
 Chicago Tribune 

So THAT's why so many people die.

Chairs need to have warning labels, then.

Just like cigarette packets........

Too right

The way things work

Sewing machine
Too choice for words

HT http://kottke.org
Source: http://mytechnologyworld9.blogspot.com/2010/08/complicated-mechanisms-explained-in.html

Speechless

And I need a Ph.D to work that out..?

And people still wonder...

..why churchgoing's on the decline?

Letter to the editor

"And let's face it, do we really need more 'thought provoking art' about violence, war, and murder? It's not like we are all ignorant of what's going on in the world....maybe a nice cheerful picture of a sailboat and some seagulls would be more inspiring."

Nelson Mail 21 August 2010

The search for the Holy Grail

Aka Sauvignon Blanc.

Now that Jürgen Hofmann has run out of the 2009 and Pfannebecker in Worms told us that "but we'll be harvesting the 2010 soon", we've been forced to enter uncharted territory.

Viz: "Margaretenhof" in Schwabenheim.

"Looks like piss" I said.

"I'll let you into a secret" said Mrs jb "Tastes like it too......"

Keep searching.

(Cake was nice, though......)


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Double glazing option priced upon request

Checking out window options on New Zealand websites.

Nice cedar bifolds, 4 frames wide, around $4500.

"Double glazing option priced upon request"

In this day and age?

Bugger me....

Being British

A sad (but true...) tale

Bunch of 40 years old guys

       "Let's go down to "Hooters" - they've got a REALLY hot new waitress"

10 years later

       "Let's go down to "Hooters" - they do REALLY good steaks"

Another 10 years

       "Let's go down to "Hooters" - they've got Monday Night football"

Another 10 years (They're 70 at this stage ..)

       "Let's go down to "Hooters" - they've got mobility access"

Same bunch of guys - now 80..

       "Let's go down to "Hooters" - we've never been there..."

Blond too, I bet

A gaggle of geese, a nest of rabbits... #9

..a shitload of postcards

Staithes, Yorkshire

James Cook was apprenticed as a shop boy to the local grocer here.

He went on to captain the "Endeavour", a converted coastal collier a mere 100 feet long and a crew of 94, with which he

• Circumnavigated the globe between 1768 and 1771
• Observed the transit of Venus in Tahiti
• (Re) Discovered New Zealand and accurately mapped the coastline
• Became the first European to discover the east coast of Australia 

Murdered by Americans* in 1779.

*Hawaiians then, actually, but they're Americans these days....

Well, yes.....

Y'all unnerstayand thiyus?

I found an interesting article on Gutenberg that I wanted to share with my Alabaman friend Virginia.

Couldn't find a Google German:Alabaman translator, but they do have one for Georgia, which is right next door to Alabama, so I suppose it'll do.

Not that it makes a lot of sense, but then I hardly understand anything she says anyway.

Y'all...

RunKeeper gets it wrong

RunKeeper is a nifty little App for the iPhone that lets you keep track of your fitness activities.

Ideally suited for the 100 meters, marginal for the 400 meters and useless for anything over 3 hours.

Which is how long it takes to run down the battery, shortly before which it COMPLETELY screws up everything and tells you that your average speed was close to 400km/hour.....

Today's effort was more like it - 60km cycling, a quick swim ferry trip across the Rhine and a double espresso at Moguntia on the market.

AND I've worked off enough calories for almost 9 beers tonight....

A guy walks into a bar...

HT VJ

Akcagoze. Turkish for....

..."Ooops..."

A groom accidentally killed three relatives at his wedding in Akcagoze, Turkey when he fired into the air with an assault rifle in celebration, according to reports. 

The groom unleashed a series of rapid aerial shots with an AK-47 rifle to celebrate his nuptials, but quickly lost control of the weapon and accidentally shot his guests, the Anatolia news agency said.  


His father and two of his aunts died in hospital.

Talking of Hiroshima...

Take the time, watch all 15 minutes and be terrified

It gets better by the minute....

Those garages.

No-one bought them (surprise, surprise...), so the council has them on the market to rent.

Do a quick NPV calculation on the metrics (Cost: €42k, Revenue:€1.56k per annum) with a discount rate of 3% and you're STILL negative to the tune of €20k after TWENTY YEARS.

(A word to the wise: If your NPV isn't positive, you should be doing something else with your money.)

All €170k of it

You COULD go NPV-positive in about 20 years, but you'd have to charge €300 a month.

Not much less than you'd pay for a small-ish apartment....

She can't HELP being older than me....

...it's just that she was born earlier.

Constantly moaning about it and saying "Yes, but I'm only A BIT older than you" doesn't work.

Older is older.

Talking about my cousin Ruth Margaret Benn whose mumble mumble birthday it is today.

Happy birthday, dear.

Hope you like the card.

It was cheap enough.....

"Well, I guess I can die happy now"

Said Professor John Kannankulam, Professor of Political Science and lead singer with Ska Trek, a local reggae/rocksteady band as he finished opening for Toots and the Maytals last night at the excellent (0.5l Hefeweizen €3.50...) Central Station in Darmstadt.

Great little high-energy band with a pneumatic female lead singer in a sprayed-on glittery black dress and the aforementioned Prof. skanking as if his life depended on it.

And then Toots.

Kicks off (KICKS OFF, ffs) with "Pressure Drop" (here's Robert Palmer's reading for reference) in the slinkiest groove you can imagine, he's got the audience with him within a minute flat, no-one's standing still, there's a significant risk of cardiac failure in the mosh-pit and it goes non-stop for 2 solid hours with "Monkey Man" at about the half way mark until he winds it up with "24-54-46 was my number", by which time he's shaken hands with most of the audience and distributed the best part of a truckload of mineral water.

Not the sort of stuff you get served up at the Boathouse in Nelson.....

Ace backing singers btw - one a skinny bird on happy pills with moves you just would NOT BELIEVE; the other Toots' daughter who didn't smile all night.

In the best tradition of daughters mortified by what their 65 year old father is getting up to in their presence....

A gaggle of geese, a nest of rabbits... #8

.. a shitload of postcards.

When I was at school in New Zealand in the 1950s/60s, one of the annual school treats was a trip to the Bridgeway movie theatre on Northcote Point.

Usually a National Geographic film with the notoriously staged mouse:snake/gazelle:cheetah confrontations, sometimes Jacques Cousteau and "Calypso", occasionally (for the 6th form English class) a black and white Russian production of "Hamlet" (powerlines in the distance included at no extra charge).

I have no idea who was responsible for sneaking the short film on Alexander Calder into the programme (Dougal Page, probably), but I was hooked fror life.

Imagine then my joy when I entered a room at the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington DC FILLED with Calder mobiles.

Slomo

HT BoingBoing

Only in America. Reloaded

The story here.

HT BoingBoing

A gaggle of geese, a nest of rabbits... #7

...a shitload of postcards

From the Linndesign 2006 desktop calendar

Pun of the day

What on earth lead him to do it?

Groan....

HT BoingBoing

How much do Germans love their cars?

This much.

Our county town, Nieder-Olm built some double garages a while back in a new subdivision and now has them on the market.

For a mere €41493.55 (sic - I asked them and they told me that they're charging at cost. AT COST!), you can be the proud owner of 45m2 in which you can stow your car

That's about US$55k.

It's also about what a 45m2 apartment in a high-rise will cost you.

Only in America