How I feel at the monent
Poap Joan
Dire!I don't often get the urge to walk out of a movie. I usually figure that Chrissy is probably enjoying it and just close me eyes and design some software. This time I know that she was enjoying it less than I was.
And, for the first time in over two decades, not only did we not watch the credits through to their end but, as soon as they started, we shot out of our seats without any consulatation and rushed out of the theatre (to Harry's bar)
Don't!!
Foliagot captcha!
Yes mum, bubblegum
(don’t forget to bring a machete to school tomorrow)
I was sitting in Harry’s bar at Anguilla Park enjoying two of my favourite pastimes – drinking beer and reading a good book.It was early afternoon and the place was deserted apart from a barmaid who was busying herself with barmaidy things. But there are only so many glasses that can be washed or lemons that can be sliced and soon she was looking around for a distraction.
I buried my face in my book, but to no avail, and she started to chat, oblivious to my ignoring her … until she told a story that made me realize that when Churchill described the UK and USA as two nations divided by a common language, he had never met anyone from the Philippines.
Here’s her story:
When I was in the fifth grade we had a garden at school an we would plant the seeds an grow the rice an the beans.
One day the teacher tole us “tomorrow we gonna cut down a tree, so don forget to bring a machete to school tomorrow”. An I said “yes mum, bubblegum (an you know thas very naughty)”
So the teacher she said “you’re gonna fart tomorrow” an she tole me to bring my mum to school tomorrow.
So my mum come to the school very early the next day an the teacher tole her what I said an she beat me very hard on the bum an I nearly farted.
Inception
Forget the rave reviews.Forget the fanboyz.
It's utter fucking shite!
Luddite dick-headery
(Is this guy subsidized by Rand McNally ?)
House OKs bill to strengthen penalties for 'virtual map' crimes
A Senate bill to toughen penalties for crimes committed with the aid of Internet-generated "virtual maps," including acts of terrorism, won quick approval Monday in the House.
By an vote of 89-0, lawmakers approved Senate Bill 151 by Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, sending the measure back to the Senate for approval of clarifying amendments made by a House committee.
Adley's bill defines a "virtual street-level map" as one that is available on the Internet and can generate the location or picture of a home or building by entering the address of the structure or an individual's name on a website.
Rep. Henry Burns, R-Haughton, who handled Adley's bill on the House floor, said that if the map is used in an act of terrorism, the legislation requires a judge to impose an additional minimum sentence of at least 10 years onto the terrorist act.
If the map is used in the commission of a crime like burglary, Burns said, the bill calls for the addition of at least one year in jail to be added to the burglary sentence.
Does that frighten you? It frightens me! That's the logic of people who make laws. The internet is evil, but if you consult Rand McNally then that's just dandy.
I-wish
Funny, but I've never seen the need for an I-phone …
Wrinkles? Whatever. Teens turn to Botox
Reality TV fixture Kim Kardashian may have raised a few (unfrozen) eyebrows with her recent admission that she’s already used Botox at age 30.But for some young women, the question seems to be, “What took you so long?”
“I wanted to be cute, to look cute, but I had these ugly lines in between my eyebrows and on my forehead,” says Stephanie Torres, 19, of New York. “So I asked if I could get Botox. My mom paid for it. It was like a little birthday present.”
Torres, who went under the needle at age 18, is one of many teens and early 20somethings who are turning to Botox in an effort to not only smooth existing furrows, but fend off the aging process itself.
“We do a lot of Botox, and there’s definitely a propensity for younger people doing it,” says Dr. Glenn Vallecillos, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. “I’d say 30 percent of my clients are 20 to 25 years old and probably 5 to 8 percent are under age 20. The trend, at least at our offices, is younger people.”
Statistics also suggest Botox use is trickling down even younger.
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Skin and beauty
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Image: Lindsay Lohan
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Facing the future: How celebs will age
Youth may be on the side of today’s stars but will time be cruel or kind as they age? Cosmetic surgeon Dr. Tony Youn weighs in with his predictions.
In 2009, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reported 12,110 Botox or Dysport (another wrinkle-relaxing shot) procedures performed on patients 18 and under (in 2008, the number was 8,194) while the American Society of Plastic Surgeons found 11,889 cosmetic Botox/Dysport procedures were performed on patients age 13 to 19 (an increase of 2 percent from 2008).
Cos. lile, I only ever ordered one item in my entire life
Dear valued customer,
10 days have passed since your item was shipped. It should be soon to come to you. (In normal conditions, it takes around 14-25 days from CN to USA)
When you receive it, we sincerely hope that you will like it and appreciate our customer services. If you have anything you feel unsatisfied with, please do tell us. So we can know what we should do to help you. In the meantime, we will get to know where we should improve.
We’ll follow up with the transaction between us until you’re satisfied. Please kindly let us know once you have any concern, we’ll be glad to help you to solve the problem without involving eBay/PayPal.
If you are satisfied, we sincerely hope that you can leave us a positive comment and four 5-star Detailed Seller Ratings, which are of vital importance to the growth of our small company.
Besides, please don’t leave us 1-4 DSR or 0-8 NPS score if you’re satisfied with the transaction. Because 1-4 DSR or 0-8 NPS both mean Negative Feedback.
Thanks once more for your purchase.
And I hope you can have a well buy experience from ebay.
Yours Sincerely,
Best regards
Minus ten million points for "Best regards" - whatever that means (and it comes second only to "kind regards"), plus and extra gazillion for coupling it with "Yours Sincerely" and a few googols more for capitalizing "Sincerely".
Ok, let's see if/how they reply to this …
Dear sir or madam,
it might surprise you to know that I have ordered more than one product recently. It is quite possible that I have ordered more than one product from you. For that reason, your warm reassurance that my product has shopped, while comforting, is not particularly enlightened As a professional software developer I would be happy to show you how to "mail merge" and include details of the product in your form emails - for a surprisingly modest fee.
Yours, comforted, but unenlightened,
Graham
p.s as a language nazi, I feel compelled to point out the following (no offence is intended).
- one should not mix nuemrals and textual descriptions of numbers, as in "four 5-star". This is a crime second only to repeating textual description in brackets, e.g., "one (1)".
- having said "Yours Sincerely", it is not necessary to add "Best regards"
- the "s" should not be capitalized in "Yours Sincerely"
- there is a movement afoot to have the use of "Best regards" classified as a crime against humanity (second only to "Kind regards")
p.p.s why, yes, I am British, however did you guess?
p.p.s I hope that you have a sense of humourHave whatever kind of a day you wish to have.
Aww, shee-at. I went to send and saw that he has a Chinese name so might not have English a first language, so spared him my tirade and did not send the email (just call me "nice-guy Graham")
HTTPS Everywhere: Firefox plugin that switches on crypto whenever it's available
(What do *you* have to hide?)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Onion Router (TOR) project have teamed up to release a new privacy-enhancing Firefox plugin called HTTPS Everywhere. It was inspired by Google's new encrypted search engine, and it ensures that whenever you visit a site that accepts encrypted connections, your browser switches into encrypted mode, hiding your traffic from snoops on your local network and at your ISP. HTTPS Everywhere covers Google search, Wikipedia, Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, EFF, Tor, Scroogle, DuckDuckGo, Ixquick and other smaller search engines. It's still in beta (what isn't?) but I've been running it all morning with no negative side effects.Bacon makes everything better!
Amazon pricing for dummies
What is the world coming to?
In what might be the first case ever, a Singapore MRT train was graffiti’d while parked in the depot. Train painting has a long history tied to the origins of modern day writers and is fairly common in some parts of the world, but until now unheard of in Singapore. It’s easy to pass something like this off as simple vandalism but in a country which such well known policies against it this is kind of an exciting occurrence, as many people believe that graffiti is an example of the culture of a society being so active it literally bursts onto the walls. Active culture is a good thing in my book, and something that takes a little looking for in S’pore. Here’s a brief documentary about the Singapore Graffiti scene called The Art Behind The Vandalism.
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