A photoblog and other things

I’m bored at work, well, it’s 6pm and I feel like dribbling on my blog. You’re reading this so you must be bored too. Or maybe you’re finding something to kick start your day. Look elsewhere!

I like to start my work day with a bunch of questions and my objective is to get answers to all of them by the end. Today is not one of those days as I haven’t answered any of the questions and I actually have more questions than I started with. yay!

Michael Bolton. Now that you’re awake, it’s weird how you hear a name and then it keeps popping up. I hadn’t heard of this guy for ages and last night I watched “Office Space” and have been hearing his name ever since (Michael Bolton is the name of one of the characters in the movie). This morning I listened to the Chris Moyles show on BBC Radio One and the lead in was “How can we be lovers?”, i.e.

How can we be lovers if we can’t be friends
How can we start over when the fighting never ends
Baby, how can we make love if we can’t make amends
Tell me how we can be lovers if we can’t be,
Can’t be friends

What a power ballad! Whoa. I’ve posted up lyrics to a MB song on my blog. I could imagine Cartman from South Park singing this song…

Onto other stuff, I get along well with a couple of people here at work and we’re always finding stupid stuff on the internets. Has anyone seen the VW Golf GTI “Fast” commercials? “Fast” is a little devil sort of thing in guys that influences how we drive, if you girls didn’t know. I’m sure at some point they’ll tailor the ads for the ladies, but at the moment it’s a guys only affair. Here are some links to the ads:

“Hair”
“Take out”
“Streamlined”

Fellas, make friends with your fast. By the way, nice marketing VW.

More google videos that I’m enjoying:
Wicked electricity arc
More wicked electricity stuff
Substation explosion

Hold on… this is sounding a lot like last year.

Actually, this year was a little better. I ended up giving someone a Valentine’s gift, and I dropped it off at 7am on their front porch on one of the coldest Florida mornings I can remember. Of course, we ain’t getting blizzards down here so I can’t really complain.

So last year I actually listened to some Rammstein. Maybe if I listen to the right sort of music, I can actually convince myself that everything is ok. How about “I feel loved” by “Depeche Mode”?

It’s the dark night of my soul
And temptation’s taking hold
But through the pain and the suffering
Through the heartache and trembling

I feel loved
I feel loved

Yeah, that’ll do nicely.

UPDATED: Lou is actually looking normal now! He/she/it got rid of the buoyancy problem and is discovering the bottom of the fish tank.

I’ve posted about this fish before, but Lou’s resilience and battler attitude has impressed me. It’s a sign that even though something bad in your life may have happened (in this case, the swim bladder is all screwed up), then you can still keep charging along.

Or maybe the fish is just thinking “when the hell are they going to let me f#%ken die?”

There are online here. I kind of stuffed up the gamma in Photoshop… things were a bit iffy there for a while. Also the pictures were taken from the same perspective the whole night. There were lots of people in the club and some stupidly placed VIP tables. It was the best spot I could get.

Hey has anyone seen “The IT crowd“, a British take on geekism? I’ve just watched 5 minutes of the second episode before posting this. It’s not that bad! It reaches out to the geek lust buried deep within my tricuspid valve.