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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
5:06 pm - Burning bibles on Halloween
It's what Jesus would have wanted!

Marc Grizzard, of Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina, says that the first King James translation of the Bible is the only true declaration of God’s word, and that all others are “satanic”.

Pastor Grizzard and 14 other members of the church plan to burn copies of the other “perversions” of Scripture on Halloween, 31 October.


They're planning a barbecue as well. Presumably using the burning gospels to grill the sausages.

I'm not a Christian, but I'm pretty sure they're doing it wrong.

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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
6:37 pm - I can hear lots of fireworks.
... oh, it's Diwali.

Happy Diwali!

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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
9:38 am - Talk like a pirate day
Maalin wanaagsan!

I'm afraid that's all the Somali I know.

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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
12:51 pm - The world is a noisy place
Wow, it's noisy.
I had a few kilos of ear wax splurted out of my ears this morning after being almost deaf for 2 weeks. I can hear birds singing again.
And this keyboard sounds very loud.

My left ear is still a bit deaf, apparently it's water. Should be okay once it's dried out.

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Monday, September 7th, 2009
10:28 pm - It's a thing, for your thumb!
You know the way you hold open a book with your thumb?

Buy one of these and enter the world of 21st century efficient thumb-usage:

The ThumbThing!



Seen via http://unclutterer.com/

current music: None. Still deaf!!!

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Friday, August 28th, 2009
6:35 pm - Honest, the moon's made out of wood!!
A treasured piece at the Dutch national museum - a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing - is nothing more than petrified wood, curators say.

It was given to former Prime Minister Willem Drees during a goodwill tour by the three Apollo-11 astronauts shortly after their moon mission in 1969.


Oops.

So either:
(a) the moon's made out of petrified wood, or
(b) the USA played a mean trick on the Dutch, or
(c) THE MOON LANDING WAS A HOAX!!!!!!!

or, I guess someone screwed up.

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Monday, August 24th, 2009
9:53 pm - Currently reading...
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich.

Picked up second-hand a while ago, but just got round to reading it.
Awesome stuff.

Interestingly, Venice had a state provided health service by 1335.

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Monday, August 17th, 2009
1:34 pm - Snail Apocalypse
I cut the hedge in the back garden today for the first time since we moved in 3 years ago. I hacked it right back, hopefully it'll recover. It's rather brown and woody, since most of the leaves have be chopped off.

And it was FULL of snails. They ended up scattered over the lawn and patio. There's something a little tragic than the sound of snails getting squashed underfoot... I think I'll sweep the surviving ones back under the remaining hedge.

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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
10:43 am - Wot I did on my hols
I'm back from holiday.

It was very good despite some slightly dodgy weather. Considering the summer we've had it we were lucky not to get rained on every day, but we only had 1 or 2 soggy moments and I managed to get sunburned.

We spent a week in St Ives in Cornwall down in the far south west of Britain, about a 300 mile drive (which is nothing for USA people, but really quite a long way for us Brits). It was (as usual for us) a walking holiday with organised walks (so we didn't get lost, and so the kids had other kids to play with).

There were mostly cliff top coastal walks (lots of ups and downs) and some field & woods walks (lots of blackberries). Daniel did a fair bit of walking considering his age, but I carried him on my shoulders a bit more than I would have liked (he's heavy!). Thomas clocked up 25 miles over 5 walks, not particularly long for him, but then we did some really short ones because of Daniel.

We also did some beach stuff - Daniel got sand *everywhere* - and a visit to an animal park (mainly birds).

It simultaneously felt longer than a week and much much shorter, which I think is a sign of a good holiday.

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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
9:39 am - Waistcoat
I have a sudden hankering to wear a waistcoat. A big, bright, brocade waistcoat.

I fear that watching Desperate Romantics is affecting me...

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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
12:00 pm - VCR broke
Our VHS player/recorder seems to have died. Or at least dying.

And we have lots of kids videos we can't play any more.
I wonder if they even sell VCRs nowadays...

Hmmm... maybe I'll check ebay.

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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
9:09 pm - Swim boy
Thomas had his school swimming gala today. He was in two races and came 3rd and joint 2nd (out of 6).
His team came joint 1st!

He doesn't get it from me, I only drink like a fish. :D

My foot still hurts a bit. Maybe I broke something after all. It's a little late to bother going to the doctor though.

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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
11:14 pm - kid stuff
Thomas had his school sports day today. Daniel and I went along to watch, cheer and get wet in the rain. Thomas was in the 'football slalom relay' and 'hockey slalom relay'. His team won the hockey relay and I think they came second in the football slalom (he wasn't sure either).

His team won the overall prize. :-)

Daniel has turned into Mr Grumpy-Bossy-Pants. I mentioned that the sky was blue and he started insisting that it was, in fact, green. He then got upset and outraged once he went outside and saw it was BLUE! It's like reality is conspiring against him!

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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
12:37 pm - Purple toze all in my .... sock.
My little toe (the one I banged on Sunday) has turned purple. It's not very fetching.
It doesn't hurt much, but the rest of the foot has started to ache because I'm walking strangely to avoid putting pressure on the sore place.

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Monday, June 29th, 2009
9:56 pm - Yum
Fizzy red wine is rather good. And 14% ABV is quite strong.

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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
7:27 pm - Book Meme
Don’t take too long to think about it.
Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you.
First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
Copy the instructions into your own post.
nicked from donnickcottage amongst others...

In no particular order )

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Friday, May 29th, 2009
2:55 pm - Swan-fu
Man uses live swan to beat up victim

Obviously, purists prefer the twin mallard technique.

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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
9:27 pm - Playing with Javascript
I've been trying out some JavaScript coding.
To my surprise it's actually a decent language with some very nifty features.

Anyway, here's a few things I've thrown together:
A bunch of very naughty, independent letters... you can change the text.
This uses the same principles but is a bit more basic...

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Monday, May 11th, 2009
6:03 pm - Piggy Flu
A local school (the posh private one) is closed for a week due to a suspected case of swine flu.

So the next door neighbour's kid has a week off.

He's in our front room at the moment, playing with Thomas. I can't hear any sneezing. :-)

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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
8:17 pm - Mutant Cakes
Here's some of the cakes Daniel and I baked.
piccy under here )
They tasted better than they looked.

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