Friday, April 28, 2006

Things I never knew

 Did you know that every hour 1712 mobile phones are upgraded in the UK alone? 

There’s a really interesting exhibition on at the Science Museum in London about cellphones and what happens when people get rid of them. It’s called Dead Ringers and the BBC has 10 fascinating pictures from the exhibition online. If you’ve ever wondered what weird & wacky things they were going to make circuit boards out of next, then take a look.

The Science Museum also has a lovely little website for the exhibition and it has a game. What fun!

Update - the game is fun and informative, I feel like I’m at primary school again and it’s GREAT!! Plus it uses the word “blingtastic”, now that’s a cool word!!!! Fully recommend it!!!!!

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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Frustrating blog problems

Blog.com is being frustrating, I’m having problems updating my picture and I wanted to upload a photo of Wellington but it won’t work!

Grrrrr!!!!!

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Friday, April 21, 2006

Pumpkin Soup

I got pumpkin soup in my eye . . . It jumped up from my bowl and into my eye. Lunchtime insanity!

There are no good pumpkin soup recipes on the net that I can find. Does anyone have a lovely pumpkin soup recipe?

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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Movie Review

Now that I’ve mastered the “read more” button, I’m going to do a movie review of Hable Con Ella (Talk to her), a spanish movie by Pedro Almodovar.

I’m not sure I’d “recommend” this movie, it’s a great Almodovar film and is very interesting but I found it to be a little odd. I’ve seen quite a few Almodovar films now and I’m starting to see a pattern, but I definitely wouldn’t suggest anyone watch it as part of movie night.

(Only read more if you want to know the plot . . . it’s well worth knowing!)

The movie begins with two spanish guys (Marco and Benigno) sitting next to each other in a theatre, watching some type of funky modern ballet that involves crazy people running around a stage and making moaning noises. Marco cries, he cries a lot all throughout the movie, no matter what the circumstance. Months/years pass and we see Benigno caring for a young women in a coma in the hospital. He has been contracted to massage & clean & etc this girl full-time. It would appear to be a very odd job and I really hope I’m never in a coma, or have a friend or family member in a coma for a long long time.

Marco tries to interview a female bullfighter and they end up together, I can imagine that happening. Marco goes to his ex-girlfriends wedding (it took him 10 years to get over her) with female bullfighter (who likes weddings) and then they head off to a bullfight. During the bullfight, the female bullfighter gets attacked by a maniacal bull (surprise surprise). She ends up in a coma.

The main plot is the story of the two guys caring for their women in comas. Unfortunately, Marco discovers that his woman has been back with her old boyfriend for a month so he stops visiting her. Meanwhile it appears that Benigno is totally obsessed with his woman, and has been since before she was in a coma. He is convinced that he and his woman should be married, because they have a better relationship than most married couples. Marco points out that the woman is in a coma.

Someone rapes Benigno’s woman (you don’t see that, it’s not kinky like that) and the hospital and her family suspect him. Although you never definitively find out that it was him, this seems incredibly likely. He is jailed, waiting for trial. Meanwhile Marco’s woman dies while he is in Jordan writing for a travel guide. He goes back and discovers Benigno is in prison. He finds out that Benigno’s woman’s baby was a still birth and that Benigno’s woman has woken up from her coma. He promises not to tell Benigno because otherwise who knows what he will do. Benigno takes too many pills, so he can be in coma with his love, and kills himself. Sad.

Marco meets Benigno’s woman at the theatre and they eventually get together.

I told you it was an odd film. Oh yeah. There’s a kinky silent film in the middle. It’s very very kinky, and I would recommend skipping that bit when you get to it, should you want to see this strange movie.

Oddly, I quite liked it.

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Problems for Limerick

Limerick (the one in Ireland) has a problem.
 
An exodus of rugby fans from Limerick threatens its status as a city, and the European funding that goes with it, when a population census is taken on Sunday.
 
Diarmuid Scully, the mayor of the Irish city, says that as many as 20,000 fans could follow Munster to Dublin on Sunday for the Heineken Cup semi-final against Leinster. Many could stay on to celebrate - or to drown their sorrows - knocking Limerick’s population of 54,000 below a crucial threshold of 50,000, he added.
 

“At the time 23 April was picked, it probably seemed like a quiet night,” he said. “Unfortunately for Limerick people, quite a lot of us won’t be at home that night. Quite a number would stay on to celebrate if it’s a Munster victory.”
 
Scully called on Limerick rugby fans to return home after the match. “Should the population drop below 50,000, then Limerick wouldn’t be considered a city anymore by European standards, and we’d lose out in terms of European funding.”
 
Scully said census rules allowed forms to be completed on the following Monday morning. “I’m asking for a flexible interpretation of the morning - let morning stretch throughout the day.”
 
Gracias a
Scotsman.com
 

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Reading More

YAY I got the read more thingy to work! YAY!

What a smart little editor blog.com has now :o)
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Gnomeo and Juliet

I’m not kidding. They’re going to make a Disney movie called Gnomeo and Juliet. Two garden gnomes fall in love with each other, although their families are sworn enemies.

Miramax and Sir Elton John’s Rocket Pictures are producing this film, expected to be out for Christmas 2008. It will star Ewan McGregor as Gnomeo, Kate Winslet as Juliet, Judi Dench as Nurse and Greg Ellis as Tibault.

I don’t know whether to be excited or be scared.

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Just too cute

Ok so maybe 2nd grade children didn’t write all the answers but they’re just soo cute!

Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions:

 

*Why did God make mothers?*

1. She’s the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.

2. Mostly to clean the house.

3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

 

*How did God make mothers?*

1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.

2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.

3. God made my Mum just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

 

*What ingredients are mothers made of?*

 1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in the world and one dab of mean.

2. They had to get their start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

 

*Why did God give you Your mother & not some other mum?*

1. We’re related.

2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people’s mums like me.

 

*What kind of little girl was your mum?*

1. My mum has always been my mum and none of that other stuff.

2. I don’t know because I wasn’t there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.

3. They say she used to be nice.

 

*What did mum need to know about dad before she married him?*

1. His last name.

2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer?

3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

 

*Why did your mum marry your dad?*

1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my mum eats a lot.

2. She got too old to do anything else with him.

3. My grandma says that Mum didn’t have her thinking cap on.

 

*Who’s the boss at your house?*

1. Mum doesn’t want to be boss, but she has to because dad’s such a goof ball.

2. Mum. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.

3. I guess Mum is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

 

*What’s the difference between mums & dads?*

1. Mums work at work and work at home & dads just go to work at work.

2. Mums know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.

3. Dads are taller & stronger, but mums have all the real power ’cause that’s who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend’s.

4. Mums have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

 

*What does your mum do in her spare time?*

 1. Mothers don’t do spare time.

2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

 

*What would it take to make your mum perfect?*

1. On the inside she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.

2. Diet. You know, her hair. I’d diet, maybe blue.

 

*If you could change one thing about your Mum, what would it be?*

1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d get rid of that.

2. I’d make my Mum smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.

3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her head.

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Friday, April 14, 2006

New fav song

Jamie Cullum’s song Photograph is definitely my new favourite. I get it. Wrote a similar blog post quite a while ago which I’ve just reread. I like photographs . . . and memories of a time gone by.

Photograph - Jamie Cullum (Catching Tales 2006)

Her name was written on the photograph,
right next to her red, sunburnt face,
it all had happened in that long tall grass,
about a mile from her old place,
and I can’t remember how it started and if it lasted that day in the sun.

We said that we were going to study hard,
we held our books instead of hands,
she held a blanket over cans of beer,
I can’t deny I was so full of fear.

It’s just another story caught up in another photograph I found.
and it seems like another person lived that life a great many years ago from now,

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life,
I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.
when I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life,
I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

And there’s the first time that I tried that stuff,
I think I look a little green,
I remember throwing up behind a bush,
and I found it hard to use my feet,
and who’s that easily led little boy who’s really off his head?

It was the same night that I kissed that girl,
the tall one with the auburn hair,
I remember laughing coz to kiss me,
she had to sit down on a chair!
she tasted like the schnapps she’d drunk,
and the cigarette she’d stolen from her mum.

And it’s just another story caught up in another photograph I found.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life,
I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.
When I look back on my ordinary ordinary, ordinary life,
I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Maundy Thursday

Happy Easter everyone!!

 I am going to spend my Maundy Thursday with Snoop Dogg, and personally I can’t think of anyone more appropriate at this time . . . well . . .

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