A long time ago, thought sadly not many posts, I had started blogging on a bunch of themes provided by Matthew Sanbourne Smith, him of the One Thousand and Hairy Mango fame. One of his suggestions was to write about chestnuts. I have no idea what it would be like to have nuts on your chest and don’t really think I could comment on such an abnormality.
TSR.
[This post closes out all the drafts I've had sitting in the queue - I thank you]
Every now and then I get a little bored. It happened to day and I deliberately deleted most of the pages attached to this blog.
All the information on EVE has gone. The pages for Downloads and Photos have gone. The Laboratory has been shut down. While the current template allows for rather neat drop down menu, I have removed the child pages so a new custom template can be deployed with minimum interference.
TSR.
Update – transformation complete. With Spring coming up I thought a new fresh green theme would be nice. The copyright stuff has gone. I figured anything worth copyrighting wouldn’t appear here anyway. So has the iPhone wallpaper – although some will appear here from time to time. Attempts to post once a week this year have proven futile. Skelly Rocker Fail.
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:
Suprised that a super market chin comes top of that list? you obviously haven’t tried it. What’s your top five?
TSR.
Progress with The Death Bogle is slow, and I am still only on Episode 6. My intention now is to finish writing the whole thing in Pages, and then post it on a weekly basis (all nicely set up so I can forget about it). Once the last post goes out – I have no idea how many Episodes there might be at the moment – I will put the whole thing on the site as a PDF for download, so that you can read it all in a oner.
In the meantime, here is a complete Simon Tan story – short sharp shock if you like. Not sure I’m happy about the ending, but I promised at least a blog a week and I am rapidly running out of days. Continue reading »
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. Continue reading »
The cold snap currently being experienced in the UK is turning into a frozen round of applause. I can’t say a smug smile didn’t pass over my face this morning as I crawled past three separate incidents on the road to work. No one was hurt, only the pride of the Chavs in their ridiculously modified Citroen Saxo’s and Vauxhall Corsa’s. While I’m sure the cars themselves would have survived the journey at the hands of someone with more experience and less testosterone, these pre-pubescent, Burberry clad numpties clearly weren’t about to let a little thing like skating rink conditions on the roads stop them from driving like complete assholes. It was wonderful to watch Darwin’s theory of evolution in action.
Of course, these kids are too young to remember a harsh winter, like that of ’79 – never mind driving in one. At least it’s thoughtful of them to give their insurance companies a nice New Year’s gift – higher premiums.
TSR.
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.
Looking out at you,
Old man Winter,
You look like I won’t be warm again.
Your cold sharp heart,
And blinding sun,
Your razor wind,
And eternal ice.
Your time is coming, sunshine,
will warm our hearts.
Today is cold,
And tomorrow maybe.
But you are nothing more,
Than a seasoning.
A condiment of a year’s feast.
Don’t think that you,
Are the only thing,
On the menu!
With only a couple of days to go before the next decade, I thought I would lay down some new year’s resolutions which I can break come February. I have broken them down into various categories and will revisit later in the year. Continue reading »