From the Orient

Don’t do it. Installing RPM’s appears to be like having your teeth pulled out by your dentist. Only the dentist will stop half way through the painful experience.

He will say “Sorry, in order to pull out the rest of this tooth I need to cut off one of your fingers. But you have to guess which one”

You pick a finger. He chops it off. After attempting to pull the tooth out again, he will stop and say “Sorry, in order to pull out the rest of this tooth I need to cut off one of your fingers. But you have to guess which one”.

Repeat until you have to type out your rant with your blooded stubs ruining the keyboard.

Thank god for Ubuntu and it’s Life on Mars coloured package manager.

Joss Whedon’s western in space, Serenity has been voted top sci-fi movie in an SFX polls, says the BBC :-

“The TV show may have been cancelled, yet the Serenity universe clearly struck a chord with fans, thanks to its likeable characters, witty dialogue and amazing special effects.”

Is it really that good? The DVD sits on the shelf at home and quietly whispers at me “watch me, watch me” every day. So far I have resisted. Ok, I haven’t had time. The Star Wars box sets get watched quite often by myself and my son. Serenity is better that the latter 3 Star Wars films, but the originals have turned into timeless classics that will not be beaten.

The excellent new episode of Doctor Who has inspired me to start up regular Who episode postings here (like I used to). Expect some more “what my son thought of Doctor Who this week” to appear.

Psst. Anyone still subbed to this feed? Thought not.
Anyway, I’ve started a diary/blog type things. It’s here.

Fresh start and all that.

Called Mild Peril and its all new and Wordpressy 2.0

Diary entries/parenting advice/stories of children inspired stress/how to survive 3 children whilst an entension is being built and you are in debt/living without money and how to change your lifestyle and do what you really want to do with your life — well that’s the plan anyway.

Here’s a teaser :-

I rushed over as soon as I could and went into the baby room to find a lot of worried looking faces, and one very sad looking Gabriela. “We didn’t want to worry your wife, but she fell over backwards and has lost a tooth,” explained one of the carers. She showed me a small bundle of tissue paper which I presumed contained a little baby tooth. I picked Gabby up and gave her a big cuddle.

See you over there, comments are open.

I’d decided never to update this blog again[1], but I couldn’t let this one slide.

Despite gilmae professing his hated of the sport (and if you watched Australia at football, you’d think it was boring too), today, we are all Italians.

I am hopeful that in return, gilmae will never be Portuguese. At least let him be Argentinian.

As an aside, Liverpool fans will be not very astonished to learn that Harry Kewell has risen to new heights in match avoidance. Apparently, he had gout.

7 Swiss football fans are recovering in hospital after last night’s thriller put them into a coma. They were revived by Graham Poll reading them their last rites three times.

And finally, rain fell in the south of England for the first time in 6 months. Global warming experts believe the only way to avert a UK drought is to play Wimbledon 365 days a year. Can all the football flagged car driving band wagon jumpers now piss off and watch the tennis, please? Come on, Tim!

[1] Hence the adverts. If the only traffic is from Google, let them pay for it.

Just after picking up my daughter from school, I overheard a conversion between a boy and his mother.

Boy: “We played Doctor Who again at playtime. And I was the Doctor.”
Mother: “Who[1] did you play with?”
Boy: “Jack. And he was the baddie.”
Mother: “Was he a Dalek[2]?”
Boy: “No, he was a Cyberperson”

I like that. A Cyberperson, not a man.

BTW, my son loves all the new episodes of the series, especially the K9 one and the Cyberman one.
Personally, the best so far has been the Girl in the Fireplace.
There was something wrong with Ri:SE Cyberman. It had no soul.

[1] Was that a joke there, I wondered?
[2] Showing she is up and hip with the kids

Back from some small holibobs and nothing much to report. World still turning, no new Doctor Who yet and slightly closer to Earth Death. Note to self: find way to disable ITV from being viewable on Sky. ITV News is just so annoying; reporting live from where a dead swan died over a week ago and setting up a Bird Flu Expert Trailer for callers to ask stupid questions like “Can I catch Bird Flu from a toilet seat?” This is reminiscent of ITV Premiership’s “Andy Townsends Analysis Van” which was just as stupid.

We flew to Norn Ireland and it was a perfect service from Easyjet; not bad at all for £4.98 return per person. We did have trouble was at security where George’s bag (a Shrek rucksack) was stopped and had to be checked for a suspect object. It turned out to be “Thunderbird 3″:http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~ajhs/hobbies/tbird3.html which is a bit long and a bit pointy and international terrorists could perhaps poke the pilot in the eye with it and thus bring the plane down.

Luckily the security officer decided that George was too small to reach up to the pilot’s eye, and let us through.

We were not so lucky on the return journey, where Emilia’s collection of small stones was confiscated. Emilia was assessed and it must have been decided that she could perhaps fashion a catapult from her hair bands and disable the crew.