I was scrolling through the list of categories I have created for this blog, and spotted on called Top Fives. I seem to remember last year doing a couple of top fives, one on cheese and one on something else. Since the Phantom Ice Cream van post, I thought I might as well do my top five ice cream flavours. My mostest favourite flavour is a bit of a cheat, because it’s actually two flavours in the form of a milkshake. It’s Baskin Robbins (oh and here manufacturer’s count as well) 1 scoop Rocky Road and 1 scoop Gold Medal Ribbon in a milkshake. Since this is moving quite some way from the top five list, I am not including it here.

The Skelly Rocker’s Top Five Ice Creams:

1. Co-op Truly Irresistible  Chocolate Ice Cream
2. Baskin Robbins Rocky Road
3. Haag and Daz Pralines and Cream
4. Ben & Jerry’s Cookie Dough
5. Mackies Vanilla Ice Cream

Suprised that a super market chin comes top of that list? you obviously haven’t tried it. What’s your top five?

TSR.

Maybe it’s the early mornings, but I was thinking how complex life and society is. I’m on my way to New Foundland for a week of meetings and work, and I was thinking about the sum effort required for me to get there and do my job. The result of all this effort started long before I left the house, actually it started long before I was born. Simply getting up required centuries of science and technological development to make sure that my alarm clock went off in time (GMT) to make sure I didn’t miss the flight. Read more

If there’s one thing that really ticks me off in this weather, it’s people who don’t take the time or effort to properly clear the snow from their cars. Invariably they are 4X4 drivers who possibly feel that it won’t matter if they leave 6 inches of snow over the bonnet and roof of their over-sized cars, as this won’t present any problems to them getting where they feel they need to be. However, for most of us driving normal sized cars it’s a real pain as the snow flies off and onto the windscreen or road, increasing the danger of already hazardous driving conditions.

The other day when I was heading home, foot long chunks of ice a coupe of cm thick were sliding off the back of the trailer of an articulated lorry. At every roundabout, some would slide off the side and onto the pavement. Anyone who would have been hit by this flying ice would have had a nasty whack and possibly a serious injury. OK so it’s not so easy to clear the roof of a curtained sided trailer, but 4X4 drivers have no excuse. A long handled, soft bristled broom would do the job without damaging the paintwork of their death wagon. Why don’t you get the hell out of bed five minutes earlier and take time to make the roads a bit safer for everyone you selfish bastards!

TSR.

A Great Big

Happy New Year

To All & Sundry

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No, wait. that should be: Help Spider Robinson! And more specifically his wife Jeanne who is dying of cancer and are fighting to pay the bills.

If you have ever stumbled across this blog by acciedent  (I know it’s the only way I ever find it) and looked at the links page you will see a link to the StarShipSofa podcast a once amateur and now highly acclaimed podcast of “all things sci-fi” A not infrequent contributor to this i-mag is Spider Robinson, a man whose literary talent cannot be fully expounded in a lunchtime blog. Suffice to say I still blame him for losing my toenail in a Madeira swimming pool. He was in Vancouver. He’s that good!

Anyway I digress. Those of us who love sci-fi and the short form of the genre are always locking phasers over at StarShipSofa, when the original call went out from Larry Santoro (also see links page). 100% of any money used to purchase Larry Santoro’s excellent e-book, “Lord Dickens’s Declaration,” will go directly to the Robinsons. Here’s the link: http://www.starshipsofa.com/shop/lord-dickenss-declaration/
December the 30th is the last day to buy this so get moving. Anyone familiar with Larry’s work will know that this is going to be a fantastic tale and for an excellent cause. Don’t hang around here any longer – get over to StarShipSofa and buy the damned book.

TSR.