Pickled Dragon
No, seriously, a pickled baby dragon has been found stashed away in the back of someone’s garage.
Monthly archives: January 2004
Photographic proof
The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives were hyped so much at the start of the week that the site was overwhelmed. Now I can finally get to it but it’s just a holding page. I’ll keep going back because some of the stuff they released as promos was stunning.
Yippee Ki Ay, mother-fucker
Everybody else is talking about the Dean Scream, so I might as well join in.
Howard Dean came third in the Iowa caucus. (Now, we in casa Spinneyhead are still a little befuddled as to what a caucus does. I’m sticking with my original impression that it’s all about people voting to choose the people who’ll go on to vote for the people who’ll go to the Democratic convention to vote for the person who’ll be the presidential candidate.) Howie made an impassioned speech and ended it with a strangulated yell. Everyone’s decided that this one over-enthusiastic holler makes the man unelectable, which is rich in a country whose president has problems stringing coherent sentences together.
Some of the remixes are cool though. Finally some humour in the presidential race.
Menace?
Trawling through the photo galleries will show you that I have a soft spot for graffiti, so I’m a little ambivalent toward the council’s plans to “blast” it away.
Blogster
Vote for me a couple of times, just to get me started up the rankings.
The Hard Decisions, parts 2 & 3
Hard decision part 1 was moving my ISP, which wasn’t that hard a decision at all really.
Hard decision 3 was getting rid of my fancy expensive mountain bike that sits in the corner of the kitchen and rarely gets ridden because I’m so scared of breaking it. I just took it to Bike Doc and hopefully they’ll give me part-ex on a lighter hardtail that I can take for long back country treks. (I know there’s precious little back country around Manchester, but that’s what the train is for.) To be honest the Giant was a bit of a rebound bike, something I bought in an attempt to get over the hurt of having all my bikes nicked whilst I was in Surrey. It was pure lust at first sight and the relationship never really flourished the way it should.
Hard decision 2 was to have been quitting my course, but the closer I came to doing it the harder it became and the more obvious that it was actually a bad decision.
And as if all this deciding stuff wasn’t exhausting enough, Bad Clanger has developed another habit.
Noteworthy
Photo Friday now has a vote for noteworthy pictures. They’re currently judging last week’s (motion). Photos are listed in reverse order, Spinneyhead is number 60.
Captured
In the dynamic flow of a battlefield equipment can get lost or captured. A quick trip through captured and repurposed weaponry-
The world of captured planes
Captured Planes
Captured Allied planes (Warning- cheesey beyond belief music, which is a shame because there are some very useful images here.)
A collection of pieces about captured B-17s
Fleet Air Arm planes captured by the Axis
A gallery of tanks captured by the Germans
Modelling a captured Russian KV-2
Israel made good use of captured T54s and T55s and various other vehicles.
Russian tank museum, including many captured tanks.
Captured First World War tanks.
Ships captured by the German Navy.
Photo Friday
This week’s subject is Man. This guy is hanging around on the same square as the statue in my Woman photo from a couple of weeks ago.
Click on the image to see the whole picture.
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I had a really vivid dream last night, one of those dreams that you wake from and just know you should write down the details in the morning because your subconcious is telling you something incredibly important.
But now I’ve forgotten what it was about………
Don't vote for us
Homophobic action group the American Family Association had a poll about gay marriage on their site. No doubt they expected it to come out against any such rights for those horrible homosexual types and they could then present the results in support of their cause. Of course, the Internet is far too cool a place for that to happen, the poll was leaked and the result ended up two to one for gay marriage rights
Polisexual
Wannabe Democratic president Wesley Clark has given a cover feature interview to gay magazine The Advocate.
Splash of colour
I’ve been slacking on the photos front so far this year, but thankfully the Northern Quarter felt like helping me out today.
Push!
Blogrollee Blatant Optimism is about to become a father. Best wishes to Tom and Vicky.
Constructive Tourism
If you haven’t yet been to India, get out here now and check out the architecture. The golden triangle of tourism, Delhi-Agra-Jaipur is truly amazing.
Highlights include the Taj Mahal (obviously), Agra Fort, Fatipur Sikri, Humayan’s Tomb, and pretty much all of Jaipur (aka the Pink City).
Tomorrow, we explore the Amber Fort, which we are hoping to arrive at via elephant.
Between the two of us we’ve taken nearly 1000 photographs so far, with many of the highlights of Jaipur to go. Be prepared for long evenings of “What I did on my holidays!”
I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member
Emily is a bit miffed that her name was 2003’s most popular girl’s name. She wanted to be exclusive.
Checking the list for Spinneyheads- John comes in at 33, Ian at 53, Brian at 72 and Tim(othy) 96. Darren, Damian and Alan are nowhere to be seen.
If you look through the list it’s easy to conclude that there are some stupid and/ or malicious parents out there. Were all the girls called Trinity conceived during the long boring philosophical bits in reloaded?
Oh, peanuts!
Jimmy Carter did not see a UFO. So there.
Punting Penguins in the Park
Penguin baseball. You may need to refresh to get it to load properly.
From Tim, whose record of 323.5 is at least 12 ahead of me.