A nice high layer of white fluffy stuff over the Castle this
morn, the lack of cold seems to have left by the rear exit and I will be able
to sit in garden without the big yellow thing melting my face.
The furnace is now performing as expected; the Nork who “serviced”
it forgot to tighten up the ‘test’ screw thingy and also forgot to turn the gas
back on, no wonder Blighty is in such a bleedin mess...
I see that LOCOG has taken over Auntie as apparently the
only “news” occurring in the world is the two week traffic jam known as the
Olympics.
It is now 12 mins past eight of the am and my tinnitus has
suddenly got a lot worse.
And the interweb thingy is still working to rule...
The BEEB has issued a 2012 Olympic 12-part guide to the UK
in 212 words each for those from other countries who are rich enough to attend.
A 17-year-old Arizona boy who is the 12th ranked yo-yo
performer in the nation said he is gearing up for next month's 2012 World Yo-Yo
Contest.
Tyler Goldenberg of Phoenix said he came in 70th at last
year's event in Orlando, Fla., and is hoping to place in the Top 50 of the
300-some competitors at the Aug. 2-4 competition this year, The Arizona
Republic, Phoenix, reported Thursday.
Goldenberg said he has been practicing his minute-long
routine 10 or 20 times per day during the past two months. He said he is
proficient with performance, choreography and originality, but his speed has
room for improvement.
The teenager said he is also looking forward to what follows
the competition.
"The rest of the time it's just a five-day party with
my friends from all over the world," he said.
I think the last sentence sums up the real reason....
NASA's next-generation rocket, a really, really big booster
expected to launch astronauts deeper into space than ever before, has passed a
major design milestone, space agency officials announced Wednesday (July 25).
The new mega-rocket, called the Space
Launch System, passed a series of reviews that laid out the technical,
performance, cost and schedule requirements for the heavy-lift booster. The
completion of the so-called System Requirements Review and System Definition
Review allows program managers to proceed into the rocket's preliminary design
phase, NASA officials said.
Apparently "This new heavy-lift launch vehicle will
make it possible for explorers to reach beyond our current limits, to nearby
asteroids, Mars and its moons, and to destinations even farther across our
solar system," William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for the Human
Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in
Washington, D.C., said in a statement.
The SLS rocket will be able to launch at least 70 metric
tons of material into space at first, but the agency is hoping to evolve the
booster to reach a launch capacity of 130 metric tons in subsequent upgrades.
The first test flight of the SLS is scheduled to occur in 2017.
Oh joy, just what we need-hundreds more Tonnes of metal
floating above our heads.....
The corpse of a mystery animal which washed up on the shore
of New York's East River has sparked a wave of conspiracy theories with online
debates asking whether it is the carcass of a dog, a pig or an altogether more
sinister creature.
The apparent 'monster' was found and pictured by an amateur
photographer who was walking under the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan on Sunday.
The lady who captured the images, Denise Ginley said:
"We were horrified by it and we took some camera phone pictures and then
finally we decided to come back with my camera and I got up the courage to
climb over the fence and get closer to it."
On first glance it appears that the animal is simply a
bloated pig – a theory the New York Parks Department insist is correct – but
closer inspection reveals that the animal appears to have toes rather than
hooves.
Online theorists speculated it may be a dog or, even more
worrying, a giant rat. Other online comments suggest it could be an aardvark, a
raccoon or something related to a possum.
One online commentator suggested the beast was from a nearby
government-run animal disease centre.
But the New York Parks Department is not budging from its
initial identification of the animal.
"It was a pig left over from a cookout," a
spokesperson told the Animal NY website. "We disposed of it."
Pressed further, the spokesman added: "It was a roasted
pig we threw it out. We didn't count its toes, we just threw it out."
It’s a bleedin Pig......
To our nearest and dearest neighbours, according to a “poll” that revealed that 97% of bus and underground passengers
had witnessed rude behaviour the French have admitted that they are rude - and
that it is time for a change.
Among the biggest
bugbears for commuters are loud conversations on mobile phones, jumping on a
metro train before passengers have a chance to get off and just general
"lack of manners".
The RATP campaign
features a series of ads showing "rude" animals tormenting
"civilised" humans.
One shows a hen shouting into a mobile while on a bus;
another depicts a buffalo fighting its way onto a busy train and a third
pictures a sloth uncaring and relaxed as it takes up more than its share of
space.
RATP has also put up a website
showing a range of scenarios that could happen to a traveller on public
transport, and suggested commuters add their own words as captions for the
pictures.
Wot-no frogs......
And finally:
Santa was in London yesterday - dressed in his usual red
robes, though with sunglasses on to open the Harrods Christmas department.
A full 151 days before his big night out It is the earliest
ever launch of the store's 8,000 square foot department Christmas World which
it hopes will be a big hit with tourists coming to the capital for the
Olympics.
He arrived in a Jaguar painted in Union Jack
colours, and inside unveiled a giant snowglobe village, a pop-up gingerbread
Harrods and a mountaintop ski chalet.
There is also a replica of the Tower of London that
will house a set of Christmas crackers priced at £1,299
Argggghh-fuck orf......
That’s it: I’m orf to trick an Iris
scanner
And today’s thought:
London ain’t burning Olympics.
Angus
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