Dave’s Adventure into Boredom - Possibly the greatest TV advert ever made?
…shown on ITV1 last night just before the England World Cup match. Apparently, they’re only ever going to show it the once. Thankfully I caught it, as the quality of the version on [the] website just doesn’t do it justice, in my opinion.
What hath LOTR wrought?
Peter says:
This is SO you, it’s not even funny:
WorldGlobes.com - Old World Table Top Bar Globe
Ah, he knows me well, that guy.
Poisoned Minds - Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design
Yup. That about covers it.
Is that a Mac picture? It looks weird.
Amongst the Mikasookee I’m known as ThreadKiller.
Haha
No Peter asked if I saw it when he got home last night (he never checks the blog anymore since he started the new job) and I said yeah I put it as a Peter Recommends and that Half left a comment that it looks funny and is it on a Mac or something and he said “Well it’s a PNG” and then he muttered something about somebody not able to support it, which was pretty funny given the subject matter.
Could you not see it at all?
Ima was making bad joke. All gawds chillun can see a portable graphic file. No wait… that, damn, what year is this? Where’s my LBM converter?
/har! Once sent a 2.6 meg .tiff file over a 32K modem. Luckily I still smoked.
Okay, Peter showed me this this afternoon, and I’m having a hard time believing it. I’ve verified it though with both Wiki and an Australian (hi Brett!), so I suppose I’m supposed to. But I’m still having a real hard time.
It’s not the bird - David Attenborough’s a ventriloquist.
I’m worried that we’ll end up with a forest full of David Attenborough impersonators.
Yes we could run out of wildlife for them to film, just like we ran out of places for Alan Whickers to visit.
I presume that Michael Palin has run out of ways to circumnavigate the world?
How about doing by countries that don’t have an “R” in their name, like for months and oysters? Spain, Italy, Slovenia…. Quite how one would get from Indonesia to New Zealand without going through Autralia is a puzzle.
Probably New Guinea, Solomon Islands (bring own food), Fiji -> New Zealand (Air New Zealand have an office, I am reliably informed).
Oh, I forgot, he has to go by Yak, or outrigger canoe or something. No planes. Still, the original Pacific Islanders came from Taiwan (no R!) by canoe, so I suppose he could do the same.
Papyrus boat across the Atlantic landing Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, back on the boat to Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, United States (sic) Canada… Someone ought to pitch him the idea.
Hehehehe you guys kill me.
And admit it you were looking at an atlas to do that.
How about doing by countries that don’t have an “R” in their name, like for months and oysters?
Gottem special redneck calendar: Mary, Jurne, Jurly and Aurgust.
Bring me another double dozen!
Er, lots of people know the United States is between Mexico and Canada. Ain’t no great thing to know that.
I’ll have a double dozen while you’re at it. Couple of bottles of Guinness?
Business Week - The Best Buildings of the Year](http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/aiaarch/index01.htm)
The American Institute of Architects announces its Honor Awards for architecture
The 11 projects recognized with this year’s AIA Honor Awards for Architecture include several museums, as might be expected given the undiminished power of museum mania. But there are also an equal number of libraries and government buildings — a happy sign that municipal agencies are increasingly respectful of good design.
There are two from Western Washington, oddly enough. One of them looks rather, uh, old, really. The other one’s in Ballard.
Update:
Okay, because he admits himself it’s
Not the most amazing architecture I’ve seen
(I mean, the Presidential Trailer Home?!)
He’s also sent this fun little tidbit:
Free Mac Blog - Apple Sponsors In The Piston Cup Circuit
Hehe.
Which museum would you live in?
I’ve considered Falling Water, but’s it’s too croweded and being rebuilt. The Ringling Museum in Sarasota is nice - but too religious. I could hang out at the Junior MU on Lake Bradford tho.
Well, I’m a fan of the Guggenheim in New York because, and I know this from experience, it’s wonderful fun running down the ramp if you’re in a hurry to catch your bus.
Wheeeee!
But I think I’d like an apartment above the National Portrait Gallery in London. Walk past the Tudor portraits on may way out every morning. Tip my hat to the Queen Mum on the way down the stairs.
Or, if it counts, one of the towers in Edinburgh Castle, which is basically a museum, these days. My own turret. That would be cool.
And I saw some really lovely palaces converted to museums when I was in Naples… One of the rooms overlooking the gardens.
Yes! I’ll look for something in Florence, that’s the ticket.
The Doria-Pamphilj Gallery in Rome is just wonderful - Velasquez’s Pope Innocent (the power portrait) two Caravaggios including my all time favourite, sculpture by Bernini and two real-life love stories connected with the place that one frankly couldn’t make up. Oh, and a lovely Italian version of an English tea room downstairs. The Guggenheim’s great fun, though. And the NeuesDeutchesKunstGalerie (hope that’s the word) in Berlin designed by Mies has the whole sequence of Munch’s paintings up to and including The Scream. The pathology of art.
The Smithsonian: The Engineer’s Museum
The USAF Museum at Wright Patterson - a B-52 hanging from the ceiling! And a B-47, and a B-36.
I gotta go! I’ve never seen a flying cigar.
It’s a wonderful place. Also the SR-71, B-29, B-58, F-4, F-104. And a Hawker Hurricane, for some reason.
If you lived in it, could you convert the flying cigar to your bed? Like those car beds they make for little boys? But hanging from the ceiling?
A b-36 (the cigar in question) would do for a house if you didn’t have many kids. I’d turn the central gunner’s station into a combination breakfast-nook look out and use the slaved 20mms to blast away at neighborhood children trying to encroach on my propity. Pocketa! Pocketa! Pocketa! Bant!
I can just see chez Half featured in House and Garden. You know everyone will want one, Half?
Yeah, comes with the territory Mr. Red, people have been following me for years. Especially one rather nasty B**ch, stumpy, orthpedic shoe type, but very strong, knows leverage tricks.
Sounds like Nurse Ratched. Something to tell us there, Half?
She knows me by my real name.
Hey, Napoleon VII, are you any relation to Napoleon XIV? Half brother?
“They’re coming to take me away ha-ha!”
The crazed Corsican was an original, first person to think he was Napoleon and noone could gainsay him.
Peter:
This is the general sentiment about Google I was talking about a while ago:
TechCrunch - Google to add Albums to Picasa! And I Need to Vent
And no, it has nothing to do with China. Although that’s also in the news. Apparently Sergey is sidling up to a mea culpa.
Okay people. It’s time to start thinking about my Official Residence.
Update:
Hmm… Prescott’s given up his Buckinghamshire mansion. Can we add it to the list?
I think the first story I read here was about a Japaneese tiny house - things have changed.
Hey, we all need a retreat.
Don’t think Dorneywood’s really you, ninme, it’s not all that old and not at all distinguished architecturally, though the grounds are nice. Hold out for Chevening, the Foreign Secretary’s pad.
Ooh I like the sound of that.
ninme gets her paddle ready
June 26th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
When you birthday?
June 26th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
“Drink?”, he says casually, but with a look that causes her to catch her breath and stutter her reply, “Su-sure”. He turns to the olde world globe, a sly smile starting to form as he opens it and selects a 2002 Black Label. Suddenly, a dreadful noise fills the room… “What the …!”, as he turns around and there is his date, writhing on the floor in what seemed like hysterics, but which could be some form of epileptic fit… What to do?
June 26th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
August and that is freaking hilarious.
June 27th, 2006 at 1:59 am
He wasn’t wearing a dinner jacket at the time, was he?
June 27th, 2006 at 3:11 am
Bean. Mister Bean.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:56 am
I really ought to make more of an attempt to keep up.
June 27th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Hey, I’m not totally sure what’s going on either but it sure is funny.