So, I was hoping to put up a new update this week, but as I’ve not done any work for… well, anything, I don’t have time for that. So, instead, here’s another filler post 
Back soon! Janek x
As yet, no progress July 31, 2009
Woops July 24, 2009
So, I’ve been at a conference, and then spent the week running around, and now just promised my supervisor that I’ve have my upgrade document ready for him to look at on Monday. So, I’ll be back sometime next week with some updates, after I have recovered. Damn side-projects.
Meanwhile, here’s something dishy I found on Guys With iPhones Enjoy
Serenity July 9, 2009
Fog.
An all-encompassing thick soup of fog.
The clock chimes 3.30, but few hear it.
The city is peaceful, serene, empty;
and yet filled with sleeping minds and distant dreams.
The smoke from my cigarette twists whistfully into the night,
a car speeds by on another street,
the moment seems mine and yet shared, invasively.
A child-sized bench sits damp from dew,
5c placed carefully on the arm, its owner long forgotten, or recent?
It matters no more.
The fog continues to sit.
the pub’s lights cut through, and yet the building is hardly visible,
the drinkers long ago having poured into their beds,
only the shadows remain.
Dew drops fall from the tree gracefully:
plop, into the steaming tea.
Nothing stirs. Nothing moves.
Silence.
Serenity.
Fog.
Palin Bailin’ July 5, 2009
So, everyone knows by now that Sarah Palin has decided to leave office. No one quite knows why. I don’t think SHE even knows why. Try listening to her resignation address, or her spokesperson’s interview with Anderson Cooper, and if you understand it, please tell me.
MacGyver to the rescue! July 4, 2009
As an engineer, you need only two tools. WD-40 if it doesn’t move and it should, gaffa tape if it moves and it shouldn’t.
Anon.
I’d like to thank Wired.com for this wonderful, wonderful link. As an engineer, I’m often called on to fix things. This is not how they usually turn out. There, I Fixed It! is a blog with a certain degree of… MacGyver-ness to it. Here are some of my favourites. Go there. Now.
A not so cool thing July 3, 2009
The whole business with DADT and rights of the Gays in America keeps dragging on, and Obama proves to not be fighting so hard. Here’s what was said by Alison Stewart and Keith Olbermann on the matter:
A Few Cool Things July 3, 2009
I read tonnes of things online every day, and here are some of my favourite videos (or links to videos) that I wanted to share:
Mrs Slocombe discusses her pussy
Web-Side Story
Those folks at CollegeHumor have put together this little ditty to the tunes from West-Side Story about, well, the internet: Link
Africa, complete with thunderstorm
Toto’s Africa is a well-known tune, and this group from Solvenia has put together a stunning performance.
Addiction July 1, 2009
I’m not one who usually latches on to things relentlessly, but I’ve recently become addicted to True Blood and Nurse Jackie.
True Blood
Sookie and Bill in True Blood
Sookie and Bill in True Blood
After Six Feet Under (a favourite of mine) finished, creator Alan Ball moved on to the Sookie Stackhouse Novels by Charlaine Harris, presenting this great, wonderful, brilliant show. With Vampires.
It’s very allegorical, with strong references between the freedom sort for by the Vampires as is seen in the struggle for rights of the queer community. It’s well done, which has reminded me of Buffy when she’s in full swing
But, most of all, it has the dishy Alexander Skarsard as Eric, Sheriff of “Area 5″, which appears to refer to the main setting, Louisiana. The disconnect from most usual settings, such as the New York/New England area, or on the West Coast around California way. It harks of what little I know about the “Bible Belt”, strong conservative Republican views of the area.
Nurse Jackie
This is a new show that I’ve just discovered about a pain relief-addicted nurse who has to deal with a child-like doctor, a gay male nurse best friend, and an affair that she’s carrying on with the head pharmacist. It’s from Rick Cleveland, who was a producer for Six Feet Under and West Wing (one of many). And it’s got Haaz Sleiman in it as the gay nurse.
What I love about Haaz particularly is that he is a really positive gay character with no obvious “flaws”. Lafayette in True Blood is also gay, but he is a drug dealer and has a poor website. It’s great to have prominent gay characters in both of these shows, though
