Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith - teaser. Oooh oooh oooh. Exciting! Whatever you think of the films, you’ve got to admit they know how to make a good trailer

A Friday list of things I like:

1. Chips
i. Imaginary numbers

So I was just watching French & Saunders. I’m trying sooooo hard. I really am. Everyone says it’s really funny. And it’s always really highly publicised. So it must be good. And I’m trying. But I just can’t. I haven’t laughed. At all. It’s just not funny. And I’m reeeeeeealy trying hard.

Rabbit of the day: The scary one from Watership Down. You know, the one that was frightening. I think it was a ghost. Black, it was. Wow, that film scared me. I must read the book, really, as I’m told it’s a big allegory.

Geez, and sometimes I think I have a bad day.

I am upset by the penguins. Either the webcam is broken, or they’re all stuffed. Either way, it sucks.

More penguins more penguins more penguins more penguins more penguins more penguins more penguins more penguins more penguins more penguins more penguins!!!!

weboggle
weboggle
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bog
boo
boob
web
gob
leg
leggo

EDIT: Not leggo. Stupid Andrew. Bash. Ouch.

I have conquered the simultaneous equation, and emerged victorious from the forests of factorising. I stand before you now, and accept your praise and lavish gifts.

Odds on Yasser Arafat being dead by morning? It seems very likely now. I hardly know anything about the Israel / Palestine dispute, so there’s not much more I can say.

I tried out the Messenger 7 beta and it was pretty buggy. I had trouble logging on, and I received error messages relating to the history saving feature. Also the new messenger plus doesn’t quite work as well as it did - the ‘away’ status messages don’t appear for a start - so I’ve gone back to 6.2, and would recommend you wait until the full v7 release.

Fireworks. I’m torn. On the one hand I love watching and (attempting to) photograph them. On the other hand, my overenthusiastic instincts kick in and I flinch at every. single. one. I’m sorry to sound like a whinging old person but they’re just too damn loud for me! And I don’t like it when there are fireworks, somewhere nearby, pretty much every evening between bonfire night and christmas. The pets get terribly scared and it seems a bit unnecessary. While I’m all for letting people have a good time, I tend to think that sales should be restricted to organised events. I like the fireworks show put on by Radio 2 every year. It only uses silent fireworks so as not to scare the children, and is broadcast for an hour on Terry Wogan’s breakfast show, accompanied by many ‘oooh’s and ‘aaaahh’s.

Nuts, nuts and nuts somemore. Nuts with hair. Bollocking nuts.

Ok, I’m done now.

No, I’m not.

Damn and blast it; rotten stinking bible-belt-voters; what’s with Florida; grrrr; and I stayed up till 0230 and have been knackered all day too; hellfire; rick rastardly; kakalot prongdignamo; wanking pants on a stick; kablooie jimminy ratchet snoop.

This may last a while. Maybe you should check back later.

Damn and pants

It’s just after 0200 and all the states so far announced have been very safe bets. The one solitary swing vote so far (from Maine) has gone to George Bush. I’d love to stay up all night but it’d kill me for tomorrow, so I’m giving it until half past then going to bed. The result won’t be known for a long time yet, maybe not even by morning. There are many swing states that should have announced their results that haven’t, which suggests it’s very very close. The democrats are very optimistic in interviews, I’ve noticed, while the republicans are using more cautious language and standard phrases. I’m hoping that’s a good sign

It’s US Election Day, which for part-time political junkies like me is quite exciting. Personally, I’m hoping for a Kerry win. I don’t like christian doctrine dictating national policies, which seems to have happened a fair bit in the last four years. For example: stopping stem-cell research; giving federal aid only to high-school sex ed lessons that push only abstinence and nothing else; advocating constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. That all seems to be going in the wrong direction, to me. I don’t like republican anti-gay, pro-gun, anti-abortion and pro-death-penalty policies. I don’t like drilling for oil in national parks. I don’t like the banning of the word ‘evolution’ in biology textbooks. I don’t think small government works as well as large government. I’m not totally liberal (banning smoking in public places and enforcing drug laws = coolness) but am a fair bit more so than the current administration, I think.

So there, that little tirade will make all the difference, I’m sure If you’d like to see how the ‘various’ (like Nader’s going to win) candidates stack up in terms of policies, see here. I’ll try to post something about the frankly bizarre electoral college system and the possiblity of a republican president and democrat vice-president later, if I get a chance.

Go Kerry.

There’s an MSN Messenger 7 beta out if you’re interested. Techspot have all the info on new features, inluding the ability to set status before you logon, and lots more flashy pictures…Mess.be says there’ll be a compatible version of Messenger Plus within a couple of days.