You may have noticed that I like to filter my (in)Decision 2008 (”Cluster%^$#^%$ to the Poorhouse”) coverage through the Daily Show on Comedy Central (usually followed up by a reality check via the Colbert Report ).
This piece on the stupid vote is great.
By the way, as a ‘Resident Alien’ I can’t so I’m exempt.
No immense surprises here, but if anyone needs a little data to back up their finger pointing, here is some interesting info.
How SEC Regulatory Exemptions Helped Lead to (the current financial) Collapse
And so who is Christopher Cox, Chairman of the SEC and Bush appointee?
Hmmmmm.
Actually I have to qualify that the the original exemptions given were so done in 2004, before cox was appointed. That’s not to say he did anything to turn them around. Interestingly enough William H Donaldson was the Chairman of the SEC before Cox. He went to Yale and was a member of the “Skull and Bones Society” ………..
Russel Brand is big back home. I haven’t really seen enough of him to decide what I think of him. I did buy my 18 year old niece his Booky Wook for Christmas last year and she said it was very funny. There’s plenty more of him on YouTube.
Be forewarned some of his language may offend.
Sorry, you’ll have to click through to watch, Auntie doesn’t let you embed the player……..
Oh, Britney made an appearance too. Quality Television.
I’ve tried to watch some coverage of the RNC over the past couple of days but quite honestly I find it a little too depressing. So I’ve started to watch clips from The Daily Show website instead. End your day with a couple of these and you will sleep better at night.
Monday levity. I fist saw these guys on the back of the seat in front of me on my last trans-Atlantic trip. They are Kiwi’s (New Zealanders) and popular back home and have a spot here on HBO. Billed a s a “two man, digi-folk band”. Pritty funny stuff, espicially if you’ve ever mit any Kiwi’s.
In Ep.6 a Labyrinth era David Bowie Visits Bret:
Other fave clips:
Frodo don’t wear the ring - Hot Boom - You’ve got it going on
Hot on the heels of my last food review comes ‘The Bob’. I like the pizza at One-Eyed-Jack’s and had thought that the only vegetarian fodder until noticing “The Bob” Taco tucked away in a quiet corner of the Blackboard
(Chalkboard (AmE)).
Packed with freshly sauteed veggies (green pepper, onions, mushrooms), lettuce, slaw (red cabbage) and dressed with fresh Cilantro and a chili-lime sauce it beats the Bo Jangles out of the Hobo Pankcake I had earlier this week. Several varieties with dead animal flesh are also available.
Today’s Bob pictured opposite, it looked better before I started in on it.
For any restaurant owners out there that find this post, I am willing to write reviews in exchange for food. You know where to find me.
My rating, 4 flying rats out of 5
Word out on the street is there is a new Taco/Burrito vendor frequenting the corner of Market and Commercial. Today we managed to get a first hand report on the quality of the 3 bean soft taco with fresh salsa. The overall visual impression was favourable and the sprig of fresh Cilantro (Corriander (Eur.)) and slice of lime made for an appealing presentation.
Unfortunately this is one taco that didn’t score highly on the taste test despite a catholic measure of what the vendor was touting as a Salsa Picante and a dolop of Daisy. Your own reports on “Street Food” are welcomed, so let’s have ‘em.
Overall rating 2.5 flying rats out of 5.
I never fail to be astounded by the fact that these things are actually allowed to be sold to people. The worst offender contains a whole days worth of nutrition. They should all be illegal. You’d be better off with a pound of chips. Eat This Not That
Ever vigilant in the battle against those pesky Harvester Bots I have for many moons been using Hiveware’s Enkoder to obfuscate and generally mung my email addresses whenever I have to plop one into a web page. Unfortunately the web based form for Enkoder has been offline for a while and I’ve been searching for a replacement, temporary or otherwise. So if you’re looking to do a spot of mailto munging, give Obfuscatr a test drive. It even comes with a handy little dashboard widget. Joy!
I came across this in my recent travels. It’s an interesting take on the computer desktop. It does remind me a lot of the whole touch screen interactive technologies being developed by both Microsoft and Apple. This one is from an independent developer and it’s called Bump Top. I’ll be interested to try it out when it’s released which by all accounts will be soon http://www.bumptop.com/
