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Kate saw the Queen on Friday.  She (the Queen) was in town to officially open the new children’s hospital.  I missed her, it’s a big hospital and it took me too long to get from my end to the other end (10 mins fast walk).

Next time Queen, I will see you…

It’s Friday, and you know what that means. Narcoleptic daschunds.

Ernie from LYD isn’t posting that much these days. But he can still be profound, say, when he’s pondering the passage of time.

Today is my 32nd birthday. If the human race only had two fingers, we would live in a fantastic world based on binary and I would be 100,000 years old today.

Thankfully, humans have ten fingers on each hand, thus making my birthday completely insignificant. (That said, I’m not too crushed; it would be really difficult to hold a fork to eat your birthday cake if you only had a finger on each hand.)

That’s awesome.

Oh, and hey, do we remember Duct Tape Man? (Well, I know there’s a couple photos of him somewhere…) Maybe he should have gotten together with Duct Tape Girl (N precisely SFW)

For those hockey fans out there, you know that some NHL teams seem intent on jazzing up their image to compete with other major sports.  The Canucks have their puck bunnies (and rabbits) to clean the ice — but Vancouver is still a bit of a purist sort of city, so I mean, the real attraction is still the hockey.  Not so in Atlanta, where I imagine that hockey is a third rate sport at best.  They’ve got “the Blue Crew“, and I’m sure the double entendre is intended.  I’ve got to wonder what goes through the mind of those ladies — I mean, do you think they grew up with skating?  In that?

More random thoughts if the poor things don’t die of starvation.

So, when people logged into the new XBox NXE thingymajiggy, and they were creating their new avatars, did they not see that you could have a monocle? Cause frankly, I don’t want to live in a world where somebody could choose to have a monocle, but then decided not to.

Is the farmer dude from Babe:

Actually ZOMBIE COPERNICUS!!!!!11!! OMG!!

In this image provided by the Kronenberg Foundation in Warsaw on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008, a computer-generated reconstruction of what astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus may have looked like on the basis of a skull discovered in the cathedral in Frombork, northern Poland, is seen. Polish and Swedish researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton they have found with that taken from hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer’s books.

I report, you decide.

I’m fascinated by pirates. I love pirate movies (yes I enjoyed all of the Pirates of the Caribbean - sad but true), I also loved the Disney ride “Pirates of the Caribbean”.

The latest news that an oil tanker holding about US$100M of oil has been captured off the coast of Somalia had me reading all about modern day pirates and their hijacking exploits.

Turns out it’s really common, there are almost 100 yachts and cargo ships, currently under pirate control in this area, undergoing ransom negotiations. The political unrest in Somalia means there is no real government to step in. These pirates are living a lavish life of wine, women and song on their profits too.

I do find it strange that the US military isn’t making a move to help out this tanker. It is a private ship, but it was headed to the US with it’s oil, you’d think they’d been keen to get hold of that eh?

The romantic idea isn’t making me want a change in career though…

The wife points out that as long as I’m missing some of my hearing, the exclamation “what?!?” should not be used to indicate surprise.  “My goodness gracious” or “oh my” will cause less confusion.

Although I suppose, I could substitute “why yes please, I’ll have a glass of wine” for either of those two phrases as well…

When friends drop by there are two things you can do. 1) Lock the doors or 2) let them in. I might have foolishly taken the wrong action when I let them in. Before we went to France Brad and Wolf graced us with their presence. It was a short but “entertaining” visit. I rented a car for a long weekend and we went places. As you know (or can see) neither Wolf nor Brad are light weights… until it comes to a few pints! I wanted to rent the smallest car I could (something like a Ford Ka) to travel around in just to see how “comfortable” an affordable economical car can be. I didn’t succumb to temptation though, so we were travelling in relative luxury in our Vauxhaul Vectra (Holden Vectra if you are from Australia and an Opel Vectra if you are from the rest of Europe).

So taking the fellas around we found some pubs…

We also found some sheep.  Wolf+Sheep = ??? photo of course!

 (he’s taking a photo with his iphone…)

More photos of entertaining things like pubs and the Royal Berkshire Show can be found here

The photo on our patio is of us having the beer that made them miss their train to Amsterdam.  Good times…