Two^Sixteen

Lasers are cool right? We all know the red laser pointers that are readily available at markets and such. Well how about…

A GREEN LASER.

Images below.

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Yes, run for your fallout shelters.

I have ordered myself a laser.

Let World Domination Commence!

WD-40 is incredible stuff. It should be part of every persons toolkit (I was going to say man, but some women have toolkits).

(I figured people would get bored of video games, so I’m looking at random things. Last week a bus, this week a lubricant. Fear not, probably a video game review next week! If anyone has any suggestions just leave a comment.)

Here comes the obligatory picture:

Picture from Wikipedia Article on WD-40 [Wikipedia.com]

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Okay, what is it with matcho gun wielding people in movies leaving unconscious women lying around?

I watched Demolition Man on TV the other night. The main character (a cop who supposedly killed 30 hostages when he blew up a building who was then frozen as his punishment) knocks the female second character unconscious and leaves her.

LEAVES HER IN A BASE FULL OF UNCONSCIOUS (well some were dead, but I doubt they all were) BAD GUYS.

They’re angry, injured. They’ll be on the look out for anyone to get some revenge on. That’s just asking for trouble.

Hell, it’s not even the gun wielders. They do the same in back to the future (the second one). They leave that girl on a dumpster in an alley, asleep. Some thug could just come along and take advantage of the situation.

It’s just plain stupid, and I don’t think anyone, regardless of how matcho and tough they are would actually leave an unconscious person somewhere unless they know it’s safe. Or at least has a lock or something.

Yeah, I’m struggling today. As I write this my clock ticks ever closer to Saturday. So, today is the 406 Bus from Epsom to Kingston.

Picture taken from a blog about london buses [londonbuspageinexile.wordpress.com] (more…)

Deezer [Deezer.com] is a website that allows you to legally stream music of your choice.

There are a limited number of artists available right now, and only signed artists are listed (as far as I can tell).

There is something for everyone on  Deezer with bands ranging from Lacuna Coil to The Plain White T’s to Pink to Soulja Boy.

They have the entire plain white t’s album up to listen! For free! And it’s legit!

They also have both the She Wants Revenge albums (I mentioned them in an earlier blog post, now you can listen to all the tracks on the album rather than just samples).

Go forth and listen to free, legal, commercial music!

Today I started what may possibly be the greatest job ever.

I took the purple shirt (although it’s not arrived yet) and started working in PC World.

I get an early bus in the morning (few people on it), stand around talking to customers about computers, then get a late bus home (again with no one on it).

It’s excellent. It is, however, a full time job, which means I might not be able to write as much stuff on the blog, I’ll still try and do Review Friday and at least one other post every week, it depends how I feel when I get home at half eight.

Anyway, if you are up this Thursday and Friday night, go outside, the Geminid meteor shower peaks! You may see up to 2 or 3 ’shooting stars’ a minute.

This week I look at the newest shiny gadget I bought. The Asus EEE PC 4G. This small PC has 512Mbyte of RAM, a 4Gbyte flash drive, a 7″ 800 x 480 screen, a 600mhz Via CPU (900Mhz, but underclocked to save power). It also has plenty of connectivity features, such as wireless, 10/100 LAN, MMC/SDHC reader and 3 USB sockets. It also has a webcam and microphone.

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Yes, I sound like the Grinch. Is my heart two sizes to small? No. I just hate Christmas.

Now I don’t hate the idea of Christmas, a time of year where relatives and friends can get together and celebrate something. I don’t hate the gift giving, and I must admit children seem to enjoy it. It gives them something to look forward to apart from their birthday and easter (must suck if your birthday is between those two though, as you’d have to wait 9 months for the next gift giving time of year. A good birthday is in August I think.).

I hate the commercialization. I mean it’s all about shopping now. The adverts all want you to go out and spend hours and hours and a lot of money buying the shiniest most ‘must have’ toys of the year. And I hate it. Most people would be happy with a smallish sort of gift, maybe even something you made yourself. But the media makes everyone think they want whatever the top 10 list of gifts are. Traditionally people got oranges, a lot of small fun things (balloon helicopters, bouncy balls, parachute men, anything that can make a noise at 3AM on Christmas day). Now they get disappointed if they don’t get at least 20 presents the size of cars. I know, my cousin is like 7. I see the look in his eyes when the present doesn’t need a crane to carry it in. Other cultures used to give small amulets, bracelets and trinkets.

I hate is how long Christmas goes on for. I first saw Christmas cards in July. I mean… that’s a whole 6 months before the big day. It’s stupid. Admittedly that was just one shop, but it still reminded me that one of the most commercial holidays of the year was still to come. Then around September other stores began to sneak out little bits and hints that Christmas was coming up. Since then it’s snowballed. Then came the Christmas songs on the radio. TWO WEEKS INTO NOVEMBER. There are only a few dozen Christmas songs and we’ll all be bored of “I wish it could be Christmas everyday” and “Dreaming of a White Christmas” before the end of the first week of December. Christmas shouldn’t be spoken about until at least the first of December. No decorations, no adverts, no carols, no mention.

And where did this jolly fat fellow come from? He was never mentioned in the pagan traditions. YES CHRISTMAS IS A PAGAN THING.

I hate that the nice pagan tradition has been bastardized.

First the Roman church hijacked it to ease the rest of Europe into Christianity (as they did with many other things.). We still give ‘yule’ tidings right? Well that’s a left over from the pagan times. Yule is another name for the winter solstice or shortest day, which happens around the 25th of December (well, 21st or 22nd. Except in the southern hemisphere where it’s in June. But no one lived there until the Europeans arrived. The natives don’t count. So that’s why the south never had Christmas until the Europeans arrived).

Where did the tree come from? Jesus wasn’t nailed to a fir was he? Pagan traditions again. They brought a tree into the house to remind them that life would return shortly. I don’t mind decorating a tree. Sometimes they look pretty.

I hate the effect it has on the environment. I’m not a vegetarian or a crazy green freak that makes love to trees. But Christmas is a time of excess. Excess food, excess packaging and excess lights. What a waste. Think of all the paper that’s used for a day then discarded. All the packaging that gets torn apart. All the food that gets thrown away. All the electricity used by the thousands of tiny bright lights. Most aren’t even tasteful. They are these monstrosities that depict Santa breaking into peoples homes or badly parking his sleigh on top of a garage. I’ve no problem with several hundred white or coloured lights, or light tubes or anything like that. I myself will decorate the front room for the sake of tradition. But those horrific things that decorate the fronts of some

So there you have it. Some of the reasons I hate Christmas.

I’ll try and avoid the obligartory submarine pun.

Okay, I won’t. Subway is now a con*. There. Happy?

They recently added 20p to make your subway a foot long, and added to the price of their range of subs. It might only add upto 60p or so, but it stops you getting lunch for under a fiver, and you end up a pocket full of change. Change is normally good, except in this case.

*The con is the fin on a submarine, for those who don’t know.