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Jen & I are trendsetters!!

13 07 2009
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This poster has been selling like hotcakes during the recession
(according to this*)

* Mon 13/7/2009, 09:40 Wartime slogan proving a hit in the current recession

Mark Coop is selling posters, tshirts, bags etc with an image from a WW2 poster, which says Keep Calm and Carry On – the products have been a hit, and the reassuring slogan is proving especially popular in the current economic climate.

We’ve had one on our kitchen wall for ages…

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Love the lyrics…

10 07 2009

NOFX "Idiots Are Taking Over"

 

It’s not the right time to be sober
Now the idiots have taken over
Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

Mensa membership conceding
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson, it's really elementary
The industrial revolution
Has flipped the bitch on evolution
The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer
The world keeps getting dumber
Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason

Darwin's rolling over in his coffin
The fittest are surviving much less often
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
And I’m starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston
Stranded on a primate planet
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
With generals and the armies that obeyed them
Followers following fables
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions

What are we left with?
A nation of God-fearing pregnant nationalists
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
Pass on traditions
How to get ahead religions
And prosperity via simpleton culture

The idiots are taking over [x8]

Copied from www.plyrics.com

Thanks to Ken Rockot for these lyrics

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 2nd

2 07 2009

These are my links for July 2nd:

  • Influenza – Immunisation & Vaccination Info, NSIG New Zealand
  • Public Health Surveillance
  • Git – Fast Version Control System
  • Secure source code hosting and collaborative development – GitHub
  • How to Make a Brazilian Bikini Photo Gallery With Drupal and AJAX | Webmaster Tips
  • drupaltherapy.com | Helping you help yourself
  • Youthinmind Homepage
  • Sam Ruby: OpenID for non-SuperUsers
  • OpenID
  • WordPress Plugin Database
  • A List Apart: A List Apart
  • Cariboo Baby Furniture – Home
  • Lifehacker – Five Best Free System Restore Tools – Disk image
  • GParted — Live CD/USB/PXE/HD
  • How to Dual Boot Windows 7
  • What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You? – NYTimes.com
  • UltraSurf
  • Freegate | Dynamic Internet Technology
  • Influenza Statistics
  • WHO | Influenza (Seasonal)
  • ECDC – Influenza
  • Apple – Support – New Zealand
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Roger Ebert is back on form…

29 06 2009

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090623/REVIEWS/906239997

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Will I be a Geek Dad? 20 reasons Jen thinks I might be…

22 06 2009


Adapted from Kathy Ceceri (http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/06/top-10-ways-you-know-you%E2%80%99re-married-to-a-geekdad/)

1.       I think that maintaining the computers, game systems and home network is just as important, if not MORE important than doing dishes or cleaning the bathrooms.

2.       She never knows when she’ll walk into the dining room to find the table covered with a computer broken down into all its component parts.

3.       I’m a packrat, keeping every spare cable, screw and or slightly damaged electronic part for a future project.

4.       I am thinking of removing the TV, cancelling Sky, and replacing everything with a large screen computer because all the good shows can be streamed on the Internet.

5.       I spend a lot of time maintaining my personal blog(s).

6.       I have considered installing stilts under the legs of our bed so my comic book boxes can fit underneath.

7.       Our kid’s college fund consists of boxes of first issues of my favourite comic books.

8.       I would like to sit down with the kid and read through the first issues (when he or she is old enough to treat them with respect), college fund be damned. (Well, maybe not Preacher #1.)

9.       Every computer in the house has its chassis half open…and is still running.

10.    I may pause any movie at any time to make sure that the colour temperature and brightness are set just right.

11.    I think nothing of having the laptop on the dining room table to share funny stories and pictures I’ve found with the family.

12.    Our house is colourful, and not because of paint, but because of toys, models, and my collection of videos and comics.

13.    I have dissected a new appliance just to see how it works…

14.    At times I have debated  the relativity of fictional characters and or logical outcomes to movies and television shows.

15.    A Periodic Table placemat for our child would be neat (and instructional!).

16.    I am more than happy to attempt explanations of obscure scientific answers to “why?” questions.

17.    It pains me to limit the kid’s computer time.

18.    She’s not sure if the new Lego sets are really for the kids or for me.

19.    I want to build my own robot.

20.    I spend lots of time “helping” the kid play videogames.

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