the archives of my old site. No longer regularly maintained.
Diamond Geezer! Every once in a while comes a new "in-memoriam" tribute that blasts its way straight through the usual morbid weirdness into the realms of something that actually seems quite fitting.
Lifegem created diamonds strikes me as one of these ideas. A Lifegem is a
diamond created from your cremated remains. The idea, which seems bizarre at first, seems to me to be quite a cool way to remember a loved one. Link found via
BBC Online News.
For non-Brits, the title, "Diamond Geezer", is a slang term used in London and the South of England and means "excellent bloke".
All your Zilla are belong to us! To continue the zilliness even further, how to
"Zilla"-fy any website. Try replacing "http://aardvarkdj.blogspot.com/" with your own URL for much hilarity. Link found at
http://www.davezilla.com/ (where else?).
Toast. This link made more sense under the old sub-title for this blog ("probably as boring as toast").
This guy's toast is anything but boring.
Comments. OK, this morning I removed and then changed the commenting system. Comments courtesy of Enetation.co.uk were seriously slowing down the load time of the page. By a factor of 100s. When I removed them the page started loading almost instantaneously. So I started fishing around and found a new system from
netcomments.co.uk. Hopefully this one will stay the pace.
Sponging off society. I finally went down to the Job Centre today and signed on to receive my crappy "Contribution-based" Jobseekers allowance. I get a total of £53 to support a family of 5. If I quit trying to be self sufficient and gave up doing discos I would be entitled to over £200. Kinda makes you wonder if it's worth the hassle. Currently my discos mean I work 14 hours a week. If that goes over 16 hours a week in any week then I lose the £53 for that week.
Meeting with the condescending "counsellor" this morning did kind of spur me into action and I spent a couple of hours trying to look for jobs outside of my existing career path. After a couple of hours the futility of it all got to me and Sharon and I decided we should take the kids out for a walk otherwise we'd end up locking them in their rooms (whoa........ not really!).
We're lucky enough to live a 5 minute drive from
Castle Ring on
Cannock Chase. We took the kids there for an hour and took a load of photos with the little Blink camera. Hopefully I'll get them on the website tomorrow.
How zilla is that? Regulars may have noticed the name change from "aardvark.dj". If you read a few blogs then you probably already know what's happening over at
davezilla.com. Davezilla
received a letter from solicitors representing the owners of
Godzilla (tm) demanding that he stop using the "zilla" and his reptile-like logo.
In support a large number of bloggers are zilla-fying their blogs. Things seem to be co-ordinated over at
Ericzilla. Those that are better at graphics than me are also incorporating some kind of logo that may or may not represent a lizard of some kind. Being as I haven't even got round to doing an aardvark logo I don't think there's much chance of me doing that.
In my minds blog............... For every blog entry that I get around to typing out and "publishing" there are probably 4 or 5 that I have thought out in their entirety whilst away from my PC. Unfortunately I have the memory of a retarded goldfish*.
In the twisted, distorted view of my recollection, it appears that the entries I forget (but don't forget
about) are all far more eloquent, intelligent and witty than the dross that I do finally get around to pushing on you. Commentaries on news articles, links to fascinating sites, information on subjects that captured my imagination as I went through the day and witty narrative on the events of my life. All lost in the time between my mental composition and my half and hour in the evening when I usually get to sit in front of the PC.
Ain't life cruel?
*I tried to find a link that had some kind of proof that goldfish only have a 3 second memory. All I found was site after site that referred to the fact that goldfish aren't the best animals to be running your appointment calendar for you. I wonder if this is just one of those urban myth pseudo-facts.
The un-named two word thingy. Catchy title ain't it? Courtesy of
bears-cave.com. I promised myself that I wasn't going to fill my blog up with other peoples quizzes and crappy
"What kind of cute pussy are you?" tests. The Monday Mission is an exception because it was one of the originals and actually asks some interesting questions.
Bear's little two word quizzes has an aesthetic, almost poetic appeal to it.
- You cry: more often.
- You shout: at kids.
- You laugh: not enough.
- You sigh: in despair.
- You smile: to myself.
- You grin: to amuse.
- You frown: when depressed.
Desire. I
want one of
these. The
HP Jornada 928 is the latest and, from what I can see, the best in the emerging market for combined PDA/phone gadgets. Currently only available through
Vodafone, I'm kinda hoping that
Orange pick it up sometime soon.
Envy. Do you have a weblog? If so, why did you start it. Me; I started it for the chicks. I thought good looking, partially clad women would be throwing themselves at my feet. OK, actually I thought nothing of the sort. I'm a happily married man. If a partially clad woman threw herself at my feet I would probably be so confused and scared I'd run in the other direction. But still, I can't help but be jealous of
this. A
piece of bread starts a blog and within days women are emailing him
pictures of their
cleavages. Why does this sort of thing never happen to me?
Monday Mission 2.33 From
PromoGuy.net
- 1. Many children have blankets, or a favorite nubby stuffed animal that they like to keep near them for security. Do you recall what you had for your "security blanket" as a child? When did you finally give it up? What brought that about? I don't recall, but I'm told I was a real thumb sucker. When I was 4 I sucked my thumb so much that the skin split and my Mum had to put a plaster on it. By the time the plaster came off I'd kicked the habit.
- 2. Now that you are a big kid, what do you have to give you that same sense of security? My relationship with my wife is what gives me security at the moment.
- 3. With a little over four months left in 2002, have you accomplished everything you wanted to for the year? Is there anything that you would like to accomplish before the year is over? Other than the arrival of our new son, Connor, my situation is worse now than it was at the start of the year. By the end of the year I would like to have a steady source of income. Preferably one that doesn't involve me being somewhere I hate from 9 to 5.
- 4. I don't know about you, but it seems to me children have it pretty good these days. Game systems, computers in the home, microwaves, cable TV, the internet, cell phones and pagers, they certainly have a wider variety of technology than most of us did as children. What modern convenience, if any, do you think it would be good for children today to do without? What would they gain? Television. Without television children would spend more time with their parents, spend more time in imaginative play and exercise their intellect more often.
- 5. Many of us have one thing in which we believe we excel. What do you do better than most? I am good a grasping logical concepts and using them for creative problem solving. This gives me a natural flair for maths, physics and other similar fields. I imagine I would be good at most fields of I.T. but I've not had the chance to delve any further than the basics.
- 6. In the United States, and possibly other countries, teenagers in High School usually wind up falling into several social circles or "cliques." Stoners, Rich Kids, Jocks, Cheerleaders, Band, Drama, Goths, and so on (though the names are probably different today). What High School "clique" did you find yourself in? Was it by choice or did it just happen? Did you look down on other groups? (Aw it's ok, it was/is High School, we all did dumb stuff)I kinda fell between the "in-crowd" and "the plebs". I could mingle with either but was never really a part of any group. I had a succession of "best friends" whom I hung out with as a two-some.
- 7. (it begins) I have great news! I won the contest and we now have plane tickets to anywhere in the world. The bad news is we have to pick a place now and leave in the morning. I can't decide where to go, so you get to pick. Where should we go, and what is the first thing we should do when we get there? Ibiza (I've never been). And get drunk.
- BONUS: Must I beg you? Either that or offer me money.
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