Monday, February 04, 2008
Reasonable
To cut a really long and boring story short, our office is in the throes of a massive and deadly serious chair war. I thought I had managed to keep out of until I got to work last Tuesday and found that my comfy chair had been pinched.
I eventually found out who did it, but what to do? To kick up a stink about chair theft is pretty infantile, but you can't let this sort of thing stand. After some thought I responded in the most mature way I could think of - I hid his and replaced it with a serviceable but slightly inferior model:
I understand he tore it to bits with his bare hands. Some people eh?
I eventually found out who did it, but what to do? To kick up a stink about chair theft is pretty infantile, but you can't let this sort of thing stand. After some thought I responded in the most mature way I could think of - I hid his and replaced it with a serviceable but slightly inferior model:
I understand he tore it to bits with his bare hands. Some people eh?
Sunday, February 03, 2008
It's the Cops
Saw The Police last night, as part of their reunion world tour.
I never really got into The Police; for a band with rock pretensions, they never really "rocked", at least not in the sense of The Who et al. For example, they named their second last album after an existentialist book Sting had found interesting - not exactly driving a Rolls Royce into a swimming pool or chucking a TV out of a hotel window.
However! Such earnestness has a flipside - songs about the troubles in Northern Ireland still retain the same artistic cred as when they were first performed which is more than you can say about lyrics such as "I hope I die before I get old".
Their show was good, and most importantly they were entertaining in their own right and not merely some kind of travelling historical freakshow, such as the Rolling Stones.
Also, Andy Summers is 85 years old or something. I never knew that.
PS It appears I have mistaken the average t-shirt price for Summers' age. Summers is, of course, 95.
I never really got into The Police; for a band with rock pretensions, they never really "rocked", at least not in the sense of The Who et al. For example, they named their second last album after an existentialist book Sting had found interesting - not exactly driving a Rolls Royce into a swimming pool or chucking a TV out of a hotel window.
However! Such earnestness has a flipside - songs about the troubles in Northern Ireland still retain the same artistic cred as when they were first performed which is more than you can say about lyrics such as "I hope I die before I get old".
Their show was good, and most importantly they were entertaining in their own right and not merely some kind of travelling historical freakshow, such as the Rolling Stones.
Also, Andy Summers is 85 years old or something. I never knew that.
PS It appears I have mistaken the average t-shirt price for Summers' age. Summers is, of course, 95.
I See Wedding Bells for Vanna White and Teddy Kennedy
http://www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=538&cid=683&id=350:
I suggest next time the psychic play it even safer, such as "slight weight gain each year" or "there will be evenings when there is simply nothing to watch on TV".
"WINNER DEFIES PSYCHIC PREDICTION TO WIN LOTTO
31 January 2008
A 40 year old woman has defied a psychic’s prediction from nearly 20 years ago that she would “never win Lotto” to scoop a $666,666.67 Division One win from the Australia Day Lotto draw."
I suggest next time the psychic play it even safer, such as "slight weight gain each year" or "there will be evenings when there is simply nothing to watch on TV".
