Baby Boom

I can all too easily imagine Green Fairy (nice site redesign, by the way) either frothing at the mouth, or simply despairing (more than normal) of the Tories saying that more babies are the key to solving the looming pensions crisis and to helping economic growth over the next 50 years. I’m not quite sure of the maths involved, being neither a mathematician nor a fuckwit politician, but I can’t quite get the theory to add up.

Of course, on a cynical basis, it has got the Tory party back into the news. I’m sure the Daily fascist Mail will approve of the plan.

Geeky Ego

I wonder, is it sad to be rather smug and chuffed when I’ve managed to get something working on the first go? Especially when it’s something that other people in the department have been working on for a month, and failing to be even slightly successful?

The sad thing is, it’s not even rocket-science stuff. Simply getting stuff on a webpage to appear/disappear at the click of a link – and they hadn’t been able to do it. I despair. Anyway, it’s done, worked first time, and yes, I’m feeling slightly smug and ner-ne-ner-ner, but also pleased that I can still get things to work properly.

Here endeth the session of own-trumpet blowing.

Who needs sleep?

Sometimes I wish I could have an out-of-body experience while sleeping, if only so I could see the position in which I sleep. Also, on days like today, it would be useful to know what sleeping position I’d used that’s making my entire left shoulder feel like someone dislocated it in the night, poured sand into the socket, then relocated the joint.

In short, it’s very very fucking sore. And I’ve no idea why, other than a nagging suspicion that when I finally got to sleep last night, it was with my left arm in a strange and potentially uncomfortable position. Any other information would be mere speculation.

The Festering Season™ starts early

I’d attempted to erase forgotten this from yesterday, but while I was out, I saw that Marks and Spencer have already started displaying their stocks of Festive Festering wrapping paper and so on. Their website has a section on preparing for the festering season. It’s not even bastard October. I could cry.

Decision

For those of you who still haven’t altered your bookmarks and blogrolls, I’m just going to say here (and probably remind on Friday) that I’ve made the decision that the original domain for d4d™, destruction for dummies, is NOT going to be renewed, and so it will be dying as of sometime around Saturday. Of course, because it’s on EasySpace they’ll probably take a few days to take it offline, but I just wanted to point out that at that time the original domain will be dead, deceased, and no more. Which, as a final convincing factor for me, will also immediately halve my daily spam count.

Underworld

Most reviewers have been saying that Underworld is a waste of celluloid – but all the same, I still wanted to see it. The trailers had looked good and the premise of the storyline – vampire vs werewolf (well, called Lycan in the film, but that sounds more like a brand of cling-film) – was something that appealed to me. So yes, I went to see it

And yes, it really is complete bollocks. Absolute utter 100% bollocks. And yet I thoroughly enjoyed it all the same. The storyline is – well, clichéd would be complimentary – and I found myself predicting at least quarter of the lines. The acting is, for the most part, the dictionary definition of risible. Visually, it’s an absolute stunner, which helps a lot – and the soundtrack is pretty damn good too, although the costumes owe one hell of a lot to the Matrix. Some of the effects (particularly one in the finale) are abysmal, while most are good. It’s a film that could’ve been SO much more than it’s turned out to be, and yet I still like it, and will almost certainly end up with it on DVD when it comes out too – although it’ll be loud enough to upset the neighbours when I do.

So – completely undecided about the film – but I’ll look forward still to seeing Van Helsing and LXG.

Helpful

One thing I find I get more and more ratty about now is the way “customer service” and being “helpful” now seems to get in the way of actually facilitating customer’s requirements. Mainly, this is down to getting through the tills. Now OK, I understand that most people are completely thick bastards, and simply don’t read the stuff on the shelves about “buy one, get one free” and so on, but so far as I’m concerned, that’s their problem – no-one else’s.

So – is it actually helpful to say to a customer “Oh, there’s a buy one get one free offer on this, I’ll just get someone to get you the other one” when there’s a queue of ten people waiting to be served. It just means you end up with ten very fucked off people who’ve also had to wait for the fucktard sales assistant to come over to the till, then try and find wherever the item on offer is, and then slop back to the tills with the extra product. In fact, it seems a pretty good way to lose ten customers in the name of keeping one. I will definitely think twice about using that shop again.