Due to a rather good offer through my work I have today ordered Sky HD.
What was the deal, I got the box for £99, free install and also get 12 months free subscription to the HD package.
We have to wait until the 1st November for an install but I can not wait. Really looking forward to getting the most out of the TV. Looking forward to a better picture from SD (Standard Definition) as well.
Now I have not ordered the movies and sports and have just gone for very basic 2 mix thing and have NOT gone for Sky+ for an extra tenner. Now if you was me would you get the plus feature?
The problem with Sky is that it all starts to add up !
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Monday, October 09, 2006
Max Art
Did this earlier but not sure if I did it before Joanna's Diary It's a pic of Max eating his jelly
I think it is really cool.
I think it is really cool.
Are you Dave Gorman?
I found this blog post that I never posted and was sat in draft, I did email Dave Gorman if he minded me me using his photo / link to his page but he never got back........... originally created in Oct 06
Earlier on I was looking at my flickr page and thought I would look at Flickrblog and save the site etc. etc. anyway I scroll down and see the following post:
Now show me a man that does not want to see a neon car wash sign with elephant in it ! So I clicked and looked... scrolled down and saw a photo that caught my eye on the first page.
Here it is...
URL Here
More interesting though was once I clicked on it I noticed the name of the photographer was Dave Gorman, thats funny I thought I wonder if Dave Gorman the TV guy knows there is a Dave Gorman on Flickr. Actually he looks a bit like him, well stone me it is him !
We saw Dave while we was in Melbourne during our year out in 2004 at the Comedy festival doing his googlewhack tour and a very funny guy he is too. I have also read his book Are you Dave Gorman? that he wrote with a guy called Danny Wallace and I have recently finished reading Danny's book Yes Man.
Well it freaked me out a bit anyway :-)
Anyway Dave Gorman's shots are very good and can be viewed HERE
Anyone else "know" any celebs on Flickr?
Earlier on I was looking at my flickr page and thought I would look at Flickrblog and save the site etc. etc. anyway I scroll down and see the following post:
I recently visited the car wash tag and discovered that there is a car wash joint in Seattle Washington whose neon sign is so photogenic that a cluster has developed around it: see tags/carwash/clusters/elephant-seattle-neon/. Link here
Now show me a man that does not want to see a neon car wash sign with elephant in it ! So I clicked and looked... scrolled down and saw a photo that caught my eye on the first page.
Here it is...
URL Here
More interesting though was once I clicked on it I noticed the name of the photographer was Dave Gorman, thats funny I thought I wonder if Dave Gorman the TV guy knows there is a Dave Gorman on Flickr. Actually he looks a bit like him, well stone me it is him !
We saw Dave while we was in Melbourne during our year out in 2004 at the Comedy festival doing his googlewhack tour and a very funny guy he is too. I have also read his book Are you Dave Gorman? that he wrote with a guy called Danny Wallace and I have recently finished reading Danny's book Yes Man.
Well it freaked me out a bit anyway :-)
Anyway Dave Gorman's shots are very good and can be viewed HERE
Anyone else "know" any celebs on Flickr?
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Haircut
OK I need another cut and I feel as though I should let a pro cut it rather then me again. For the last week at work I wanted to get it cut at lunchtime but have not had time. Anyway it got me thinking about this:
Why on earth do they have these poles so another google got me the answers that I knew I must have before I venture to the barbers;
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
barber pole is associated with the service of bloodletting. During medieval times, barbers also performed surgery on customers. The original pole had a brass basin at the top (representing the vessel in which leeches were kept) and bottom (representing the basin which received the blood). The pole itself represents the staff which the patient held onto during the procedure.
The red and white stripes symbolize the bandages used during the procedure: red for the blood-stained and white for the clean bandages. Originally, these bandages were hung out on the pole to dry after washing. As the bandages blew in the wind, they would twist together to form the spiral pattern similar to the stripes in the modern day barber pole. The barber pole became emblematic of the barber/surgeon's profession. Later the cloths were replaced by a painted wooden pole of red and white stripes.
After the formation of the United Barber Surgeon's Company in England, a statute required the barber to use a blue and white pole and the surgeon to use a red pole. In France, surgeons used a red pole with a basin attached to identify their offices. Blue often appears on poles in the United States, possibly as an homage to its national colors. Another interpretation of these barber pole colors is that red represents arterial blood, blue is symbolic of venous blood, and white depicts the bandage.
MMMMmmmm maybe I will cut it myself..
PS Max is lots better and if you buy a thermometer I highly rate the ear one by Braun, saves loads of time and I wish our other one broke sooner so we could of got one sooner. Max broke the other one by moving his arm ! Strong boy I tell you.
Why on earth do they have these poles so another google got me the answers that I knew I must have before I venture to the barbers;
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
barber pole is associated with the service of bloodletting. During medieval times, barbers also performed surgery on customers. The original pole had a brass basin at the top (representing the vessel in which leeches were kept) and bottom (representing the basin which received the blood). The pole itself represents the staff which the patient held onto during the procedure.
The red and white stripes symbolize the bandages used during the procedure: red for the blood-stained and white for the clean bandages. Originally, these bandages were hung out on the pole to dry after washing. As the bandages blew in the wind, they would twist together to form the spiral pattern similar to the stripes in the modern day barber pole. The barber pole became emblematic of the barber/surgeon's profession. Later the cloths were replaced by a painted wooden pole of red and white stripes.
After the formation of the United Barber Surgeon's Company in England, a statute required the barber to use a blue and white pole and the surgeon to use a red pole. In France, surgeons used a red pole with a basin attached to identify their offices. Blue often appears on poles in the United States, possibly as an homage to its national colors. Another interpretation of these barber pole colors is that red represents arterial blood, blue is symbolic of venous blood, and white depicts the bandage.
MMMMmmmm maybe I will cut it myself..
PS Max is lots better and if you buy a thermometer I highly rate the ear one by Braun, saves loads of time and I wish our other one broke sooner so we could of got one sooner. Max broke the other one by moving his arm ! Strong boy I tell you.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
SUBDERMATOGLYPHIC means
of or pertaining to the layer of skin beneath the fingertips' - Of course it is !!!
Why on earth would I know this or even "google" it is quite simple in a strange sort of way, We bought Max some foam letters that stick to the bath, 26 in total no letter the same. Yep now it's coming together, Subdermatoglyphic is the longest such word. I have also discovered that the term for such a word is called a isogram.
This seventeen-letter isogram is actually attested in a dermatologists' journal, but it was placed there at the suggestion of a word-buff, who asked the doctor to use it in print in order to claim it as the longest isogram.
Where would we be without the internet hey.
Max is actually quite poorly at the moment and has a high temperature, quite sure it is down to his teeth and the doctor has said not to worry and to just call if the fever does not go by tomorrow or goes above 40.
Why on earth would I know this or even "google" it is quite simple in a strange sort of way, We bought Max some foam letters that stick to the bath, 26 in total no letter the same. Yep now it's coming together, Subdermatoglyphic is the longest such word. I have also discovered that the term for such a word is called a isogram.
This seventeen-letter isogram is actually attested in a dermatologists' journal, but it was placed there at the suggestion of a word-buff, who asked the doctor to use it in print in order to claim it as the longest isogram.
Where would we be without the internet hey.
Max is actually quite poorly at the moment and has a high temperature, quite sure it is down to his teeth and the doctor has said not to worry and to just call if the fever does not go by tomorrow or goes above 40.
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