Just checking in
I’m at work and thoroughly exhausted. My New Years Resolutions have burnt out. The exercise thing hasn’t gone well, mainly because of the amount of work I’ve had - so at least one resolution has gone to plan.
The dwindling frequency of my posts makes me wonder if I should post them to one central location and just duplicate them here. Myspace is awful, Facebook less so but still not good nonetheless, but most of my non-geektastic friends would rather read my messages there. Their lack of feed support does not help my decision.
I’m not looking forward to the Wales-England rugby game I’m going to see in 3 weeks - Wales have been abysmally poor and England… well, they’re a one-man team. A good one-man team though, and so far playing better than we are. The cunts.
Escaped unscathed the other side of a work-related drama, in which I figured I was either going to get myself sacked or hand in my notice before a cooler head prevailed. It’s a long and probably uninteresting story that I won’t bore you with. Office politics, people sticking their oars in, too many cooks spoiling the broth, and many other cliched proverbs spring to mind.
Watched the entire third series (or ’season’, if you insist on being a Yank about it) of The 4400 in one day-long sitting last weekend, and it was great. I highly recommend it.
I also loved the Mike Judge film Idiocracy, which paints a pretty grim portrait of what society will be like in 500 years: Benefit-leeching council house dwellers breeding irresponsibly create a dumbed-down society such that a guy with an IQ of 100 is the suddenly world’s smartest man, the President of the USA carries an machine gun and has a harem, the top rated TV show is called “Ow, my balls!” in which the star just gets kicked in the nuts for half an hour, one can buy 6000-calorie burgers from a family establishment called Assfuckers, and no-one drinks water anymore, just soft drinks (and the soft drinks manufacturer employs over 50% of the American population). Watch it, laugh a little, then die a little inside knowing it could happen. Never mind climate change, address the human stupidity issue first and everything else will fall into place.