nutty's stag night

just want to say a big thank you to my mates for a great evening. 

i love you all.

and 'cutty'-wise, the really good news was that there was absolutely no vex'in.

...i'll be dealing with bheesh's absence from nutty's stag night in a separate blog.

clash of the titans

today, the sporting world's biggest match up isn't in baseball, or even tennis at wimbledon.

no, it's tri-nations rugby and australia vs. new zealand.

given new zealand's form, i'm giving this one to the all-conquering all blacks.

update: australia 20- new zealand 15

the photo above is of new zealand's rugby team performing the haka in 1905.

for a great site on the history and a tribute to rugby, visit:

http://rugby-pioneers.blogs.com/

below: Staniforth provided the finishing touch to a superb attacking move.

Apple's iPhone makes it to stores

how desperate to be cool are you?

Some people have been queuing for days outside Apple and AT&T stores across the US to ensure they get hold of one of the devices.

Hundreds more began queuing during the day because stores will not start selling the iPhone until 1800 local time (2300 BST).

Car bomb found in central London (make that two)

wow.

a lot of factors played a role in averting catastrophes here. including luck.

no matter what the politicains around the world may say, it's impossible to stop terrorists from striking. you can only get lucky so many times.

sooner or later societies will have to face up to the root causes of terrorism as opposed to blindly trying to stamp it out.

people aren't strapping explosives to themselves because they're bored with what's on tv...

it's really strange, but you never hear of terrorist attacks in, say switzerland, for instance, do you?

...perhaps that's because the swiss don't: 

(insert your own reasoning & rationale here) 

just a thought.

Blair resigns as prime minister

Tony Blair has stood down as UK prime minister after 10 years in the job.










He handed in his resignation to the Queen during a private meeting at Buckingham Palace.

His long-serving Chancellor Gordon Brown is now at the Palace where the Queen is asking him to take the job and form a new government.

...failure to be his own man.

failure to push the united states on climate change.

failure to put any pressure on the warmongering idiot in the whitehouse means tony blair will have a tainted legacy.

middle east peace envoy? a brit who rubber-stamped george bush's disaster in iraq? yeah, that should work for everyone in the middle east...

nobody messes at my pool party

victorious scrabble swimming

don't see this outside of your bedroom window every day.

(click on image for larger view)

technical info:

canon eos 30d with a canon efs 17-55mm f/2.8 usm lens at 17mm.

iso 100, 1/200 sec at f/7.1

06/23/07
09:19 am

study the bible & become stupid

that's great, love, but do you really think it's a good idea to sit in a chair in the sea with your laptop?

and exactly how do you mange to read the screen, because i actually understand something about light and optics, and i know for a fact that all that reflected light coming off the sea means that it's virtually possible even see the computer screen. and where's her wireless connection?

like the rest of the bible, apart from historical fact:

false hope & bollocks.

see:
http://www.oneyearbible.net/

e-mail to UPS - what can brown do for you...?

hello,

i would like to know how a package that arrives in laurel, maryland because of a late train at 5:15am, sits there all day, and doesn't has a departure scan until 5:15pm, but where's it going to go?

because laurel, maryland is only 20 miles away, so how come it's going to take 3 more days to get my package?

not exactly the service your tv adverts would have us believe, is it? because according to them, you can get a package delivered across continents in a single day, but it apparently will take UPS 3 days to go just 20 miles according to your online tracking information.

Vatican has Ten Commandments for drivers

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Tuesday issued a "Ten Commandments" for motorists to keep them on the road to salvation, warning drivers against the sins of road rage, abuse of alcohol or even simple rudeness.

The unusual document from the Vatican's office for migrants and itinerant people also warned that automobiles can be "an occasion of sin" — particularly when used to make a dangerous passing maneuver or when used by prostitutes and their clients.

And it suggested prayer might come in handy — performing the sign of the cross before starting off and saying the rosary along the way. The rosary was particularly well-suited to recitation by all in the car, it said, since its "rhythm and gentle repetition does not distract the driver's attention."

...since the pope stands up in a boring, slow-moving chariot, just so he can show off his papal robes, the catholic church has a long-standing history of being in touch with the modern world & hasn't ever been embroiled in moral misgivings involving choirboys and members of the clergy, etc...fucking hypocritical bastards.

ah, the catholic church. there's a real winner! last time i checked, there weren't hundreds of legal cases of sexual abuse against children by atheists...

so, in a full two fingered salute, i give the vatican church the original -

ten blokey commandments!

The Ten Blokey Commandments

1. Thou shalt not wear tights

2. Thou shalt not wear luminous clothing

3. Thou shalt not act like a girl…

4. …Yet thou shalt covet hot girls

5. Thou shalt not cock-block

6. Thou shalt not becometh a fat Christian

7. Honour a good beer with thine mates

8. Thou shalt not turn down the bass

9. Thy shalt indulge in sporting passions

10. Leave thine basement

nutty @ drum & bass party at #501, july 3^rd & 4^th, 2005


...or in other words, why don't dont you shut the fuck up, and put your own house in order before telling everybody else how to live their lives.

update:

i just found an e-mail for the vatican, so i've just sent them the ten blokey commandments :)

VATICAN PUBLISHING HOUSE (LEV)

e-Mail: lev@lev.va

i've got photo fever!

while i was waiting for the sky to darken and to get a shot of the moon, i took this shot of a bus and people at 16th & mass. ave. from our bedroom window.

(click on image for full size)

technical info:

canon eos 30d with a canon ef 70-200mm f/2.8 l usm lens at 200mm + 1.4x extender.

orion skyview pro mount.

iso 100, 6 secs at f/11, - 1/3 stop

06/20/07
20:59pm

first astro photo taken with our new camera

not too bad considering it's from our bedroom window.

(click on image for full size)

technical info:

canon eos 30d with a canon ef 70-200mm f/2.8 l usm lens at 200mm + 1.4x extender.

orion skyview pro mount.

iso 400, 1/160 sec at f/4.0, -1/3 stop.

06/20/07
21:51pm.

Truck Bomb Hits Baghdad Mosque, and 61 Are Killed

BAGHDAD, June 19,€” A suicide bomber barreled a truck filled with cooking gas and explosives into a square bordered by a large Shiite mosque in the heart of Baghdad on Tuesday, just as worshipers were finishing midday prayers. The Interior Ministry said at least 61 people were killed and 130 wounded.

Many Iraqis, beleaguered at every turn, said they saw the bomb as an attempt to aggravate sectarian strife and as one more piece of evidence that the Americans could not protect them from extremists. Many of those who live near the site of the destruction said they had concluded that the Americans must be helping the suicide bombers.

"€œThe Americans know everything, they can do everything, they can repair the space shuttle without touching it, why do they let these things happen here in Iraq?"€ said Abu Muhammad, 55, one of the custodians of the bombed mosque.

...i'd say that's a pretty fair question for someone to ask who has seen his country suffer four years of bloodshed, his friends killed and torn apart, and all because the united states decided it didn't want saddam hussein in power any more.

flyover tonight of the international space station

...lucky for us that it's cloudy, so we won't see a bloody thing...

you can find out what's going on in the skies above by logging onto this site:

http://www.heavens-above.com/

FBI tries to fight zombie hordes

from the bbc:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/67528

The FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals.

The initiative is part of an ongoing

project to thwart the use of hijacked home computers, or zombies, as launch platforms for hi-tech crimes.

The FBI has found networks of zombie computers being used to spread spam, steal IDs and attack websites.

The agency said the zombies or bots were "a growing threat to national security".

Signs of trouble

The FBI has been trying to tackle networks of zombies for some time as part of an initiative it has dubbed 'Operation Bot Roast'!.

as you can clearly see from the photos above, i think i may already be a victim...are these not a couple of hot asses?

Sam Perlozzo dismissed as Orioles's manager

from mlb.com

BALTIMORE -- With the Orioles mired in an eight-game losing streak, the club decided it was time for a change.

Orioles executive vice president of baseball operations Mike Flanagan announced at a press conference Monday at Camden Yards that manager Sam Perlozzo had been replaced on an interim basis by bullpen coach Dave Tremble.

...that's great, because i've been watching these games and it's the bullpen that's been imploding, along with the bats not hitting. starting pitching has been holding up until the seventh or eighth inning and then in comes certain defeat from the bullpen who couldn't manage to strike out a blind ten-year old with his hands tied behind his back.

so what does the front office do? sack the manager who isn't throwing  the baseball and replace him with the guy responsible for the very same bullpen that has the collective baseball ability of a bucket of plastic bricks. 

...fucking brilliant.

america's pastime:

the fields are of different sizes. no testing of amphetamines until recently. the player-unions agree on suspensions set. franchises are uprooted and sold. no salary cap, so we all know which same teams will feature every year in the playoffs. the barry bonds home run fiasco. the so-called world champions don't even compete in international competition...

and las but not least the hall of fame. 

why does america sports have to keep patting itself on the back? other countries don't have hall of fames for their sports. and they compete in international competition...

america's pastime is nothing more than a sporting joke.

america's pastime is the nfl.

Hamilton on pole at US Grand Prix

alright, can he make it seven?

he's already rewritten all the record books. he's already done what no driver has ever done before, and the fact that he's from england makes it even better.

the united states will probably not 'enjoy' a formula 1 grand prix for very much longer.  only one driver (scott speed - who can't seem to finish a race without crashing into someone) and the tv network's obsession with the incredibly fucking boring, redneck nascar (yawn), means that i give it a maximum of two years before f1 disappears from america and international motorsports and the united states grow ever further apart.

if lewis hamilton mangages a top 3 finish it will be amazing. if he wins, it will be incredible (and will not make his world champion team mate alonso very happy)

...there's also world superbikes going on in italy.

the move to safari

as from now, i'm using safari as my default windows browser.

nothing wrong with mozilla's firefox, but i really like apple's appearance and now they have a windows browser, i have no reason not to use it.

http://www.apple.com/safari/

Wylie