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According to this my ‘Birth Tree’ is the Lime Tree… For some reason it comes with the following description:
Accepts what life dishes out in a composed way, hates fighting, stress and labour, tends to laziness and idleness, soft and relenting, makes sacrifices for friends, many talents but not tenacious enough to make them blossom, often wailing and complaining, very jealous, loyal.
…. Does that sound like me?
I just did a search on google for Random task. BOO-YA, this site is top of the list!
Amusingly though, the snippets of the site presented to the searcher are as follows:
Random Task. Robs Randomness exposed … which, if previous experience is anything to go by, is a very bad sign.
Personally I found that quite funny 😀
This evening I’m going to a party, that I was invited to yesterday evening. Nice.
It’s taking place in a pub… Not sure if it’s been hired, or what. It’s 1920’s & 30’s theme which sounds cool.
I was wondering about the hiring of the pub and how it would go, I know that in the students union (back in the day) you only had to get a certain level of takings and the hire was free.
For some reason I would imagine the conversation going something like this:
Punter(Henceforth refered to as ‘Punt’):How much is it to hire this bar out for an evening?
Bar Manager(Henceforth refered to as ‘BM’):Well if the takings behind the bar are X, it’ll be free, other wise it’ll be £250
Punt:How much is X?
BM:Well here is an equation, rearrange and solve for X
Punt:*GASP!* Applied mathematics, why do you haunt me so!
Yeah.
Well I’ve seen it now, and I thought it was damn good to be perfectly honest. Some people had voiced concern about ‘hollywoodisation’ of the historical aspects. Well I’m no expert on the crusades or anything but it all seemed pretty good to me!
Also, Ridley Scott as a director is no Steven Spielburg, if you know what I mean.
I don’t want to give anything away but it’s definately worth seeing. Possibly not quite as good as Gladiator but deffinately getting pretty damn close. Orlando Bloom is a pleasent supprise in the film. I’ve always had doubts about Orlando, having only seen him in Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean. I personally didn’t see a great deal of difference in the acting style between these two films, even thought the characters are quite different (Elf versus Human for starters).
Anyway this doubt has been firmly dispelled by Orlandos performance in Kingdom of Heaven and I look forwards to his next film. As long as it’s nothing like Calcium Kid, a film I refused to watch on principal (it looked crap).
Well I had another job interview yesterday. I think it was the longest interview I’ve had to date, lasting a grand total of two and a quarter hours. It was long in a good way though. In fact towards the end, one of the interviewers (Colin) asked the dreaded question… ‘So do you see yourself as a leader?’
Just as I was summing up the reasons why my lack of leadership was a GOOD thing he and his colleague smiled and laughed, explaining that they’d read this website. Immediately the world seemed a much better place and we all had a bit of a laugh at the situation.
All in all I left with a very very good feeling, which, if previous experience is anything to go by, is a very bad sign.
As you can see from my sidebar, Kingdom of Heaven has been out in the uk cinemas for four days now. I still haven’t seen it. This isn’t so bad but what makes this fact worse is that I probably won’t be able to see it until this weekend, I’m just that busy.
That’ll have to be sunday too, seeing as on saturday I’m going to the breakin’ convention in London.
Not quite sure what that’s gonna be like but it should be fun seeing as I’m going with the university of surrey breakdancing society (meets every tuesday at about 7:30 in the main hall).
I’ll let you know how it goes!
Here’s a hint for you if you’ve got a gas cooker. When lighting the rings specifically. If the ring is going but the ignition system is not lighting it; it is NOT a good idea to just wait patiently for it to light.
I discovered this while cooking this evening, and all the hairs on the back of my left hand are now significantly shorter than they were this morning. Scary stuff.
I love bread, I think it’s great. Getting home from the shops with a freshly baked loaf, it’s a little treat to have the crust after I’ve packed away all my other food. This joy is only to be found with the whole loaves, none of this sliced rubbish. Which leads me to wonder about the saying ‘the best thing since sliced bread’.
Firstly I find that sliced bread is NOT the nicest bread, and secondly, in this day and age, surely sliced bread is a rather outdated benchmark of excellence?
This point does raise the issue that a more modern example of technical excellence is difficult to quantify, especially if you want to retain the snappy punch of the original saying. For example; ‘the best thing since the cheap and efficient mass production of the internal combustion engine’ does not roll off the tongue with quite the same grace.
I invite you, gentle reader, to suggest a modern day equivalent to sliced bread, and await your suggestions with interest (that is, after all the whole point of the comments system).
Back to staple foods though.
It is my personal opinion that the only staple food to top bread in the all time favorite staple foodstuff of the world top 5, is potatoes. This is mainly for their culinary flexibility. In fact I may well be in a unique position in that I enjoy potatoes in any cooked form they may come in; be it boiled, mashed, baked, sautéed, roasted or chipped, I love the potatoe.
Bread does have the quite obvious advantage of speed, grabbing a slice of toast, or slapping together a quick sandwhich illustrates this nicely. But where would some of the classic British dishes be without the humble potatoe. Bangers and toast? Sunday roast with a few croutons? Fish ‘n’ …?
Well you see my point.
So the current top five according to Rob starts like this:
1. Potatoe
2. Bread
… Haven’t actually thought beyond this. Pasta and rice would be there of course although perhaps not in that order, but then what?
A hint for you on modern day etiquette:
If you notice that someone near you is smelling noticably of moisturiser, the comment ‘You’re smelling moist today’ will NOT go down well.
Regardless of the circumstances.
Trust me.
Local Links section now available in the menu bar to your right ->.
At the moment all the styles are a terrible mish-mash at the moment, but I have a re-design forming in my head and it should be along in the next…. year.
So look forward to that.
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