Off By One

A friend of my co-worker, call him “A”, is the subject of this post.

On Canada Day, “A” was stabbed.

“A” is a chef, by trade.

Odds are good that “A” will be receiving one of these, delivered to him more-or-less anonymously.

Life is full of the funny, sometimes.

I’m in a particularly bad mood, this evening. As a consequence of some poor planning, on my part and that of others, I’m at loose ends for the evening, every plan I had — in sequence — having become obsolete in some fashion or other.

This is primarily due to work, today and yesterday. This isn’t a condemnation of my job, by any means; that’s still excellent. Rather, I blame WebSphere. More specifically, I blame certain extension methods for its security infrastructure that are rendering me insensible.

Ah well. Such is life.

On the more amusing site of the software world, someone who is as geeky as me (and as interested in software design methodologies) should read the conference site for Waterfall 2006. This is some seriously good stuff. Trust me.

Just something that caught my eye:

From here.

act, the complete works of (the non-evil) Sir Willy Shakespeare can be… energetic. Three Fools Company put on an amusing show consisting of 37 plays… in 97 minutes. Given that Hamlet on its own took 40 of those, that’s no mean feat. They did take advantage of the similarities between the bard’s comedies to mash 16 of them into three minutes of simulcast babblery, but I’d say that Titus Andronicus as a cooking show takes the cake. Figuratively speaking, of course.

Good times were had.

Apparently, although this is news to me, March 15th has become the “International Eat an Animal for PETA” day. (Via Instapundit)

It doesn’t have the same linguistic flair that, say, Talk Like a Pirate day does, but it’s still something that I’ll approve of. Apparently, joined by many others, although most of them have left the blogging thing — or at least re-done their links — since they participated, so no links.

I guess this stems from an ad campaign that PETA used a year or so ago associating animal slaughterhouses with the holocaust, which is pretty nasty even to my jaded eyes. So, eat some meat for PETA on the 15th! Hell, why not start today?

Alright, it’s not Nimoy doing Bilbo Baggins, but this trailer is by far the most amazingly shitty bit of cinema I’ve seen since I made the mistake of renting The Phantom. Although I strongly recommend that anyone with eyes and a brain give the movie itself a miss, the trailer really does have to be seen to be believed. (extensively mocked here)

Update

It seems that the link to the movie is no longer working. Trust me, you’re better off that way. If you still really need to see something bad, just follow the “Bilbo” link. You’ll do just fine.

The above is true, to be sure. Catblogging, basically a modernized version of homepages with pictures of the writer’s cat, is everywhere. A weekly thing at some sites, a constant at others.

Wankery.

However, in the name of being a wanker myself, here’s a couple of pics Char and I took of our weirdest cat last night. Tell me, has anyone ever seen a cat do this?

(click for enlarged versions)

Well, this might be fun. A bit of link-hopping late last night has left me thinking…

What the sexes really need is a little bit of misogyny and …

Hm.

Now… what, precisely, does it say about the two sites linked above when I can’t find commensurately misandristic websites? Kinda makes you wonder.

Bear in mind, the two sites i link here are extremes, and I’m not professing agreement across the board with them at all. The first one, to NiceGuy’s page, I have to admit i’ve seen a lot of those behaviours before. And the media portrayal of men he points out is pretty much bang-on: Men in the media these days are mostly emasculated and/or moronic.

That being said, mostly what’s funny is the sheer amount of bile being spewed. It’s all well and good to get a feeling that you’re a bit hard done by. But this guy… There’s literally hours of material here.

Before someone crucifies me, though…

It’s funny. Laugh.

Update

On reflection, this would seem to be a good comment, wouldn’t it?

Char informs me that, for the sake of everyone that reads this blog, i should post “this”:http://turnpikefilms.com/spots/nutrigrain.html link.

So there it is. Comes from “this”:http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/31367 post on metafilter, and this site has some of the funniest commercials I’ve ever seen, anywhere.

Since we live in an age of opinions — they’re like assholes, we’ve all got one, and they all … well, you get the idea — it seems to me that every time we turn around, we get another story spurred by some sensationally paranoid fool.

So, in the interest of avoiding more incidents like the moon incident, i give you this:

Science Made Stupid

Hope you find it interesting h4. Update

Oh.. You might like “this”:http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/decon.html too. I did.