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Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Friday, 24 April 2009
More photo's
Loads of new pictures uploaded to the flikr account - if the weather holds for the bit of the weekend that I'm not working will hopefully get more shots in.
Biggest trip of the week: to Madingley to see the foundations of the Unversity's new wood. It's been planted in a figure 8 to celebrate Cambridge's octocentenary.
Unfortunately, due to the fact that the saplings are only about 3 foot high, it's pretty unimpressive at the moment (think: a large field with a load of tubes on it).
Biggest trip of the week: to Madingley to see the foundations of the Unversity's new wood. It's been planted in a figure 8 to celebrate Cambridge's octocentenary.
Unfortunately, due to the fact that the saplings are only about 3 foot high, it's pretty unimpressive at the moment (think: a large field with a load of tubes on it).
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
TiltShiftMaker
Been too busy at work (grrrr) but did have time to find/use the brilliant tilt-shift-maker website.
- For some that I've done go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/icphotographs/sets/72157616505820134/
- For a flickr group[ dedicated to these go to: http://www.flickr.com/groups/tiltshiftmaker/
- For the website and some other examples go to: http://tiltshiftmaker.com/
Monday, 30 March 2009
Wacky Jacqui Smith in trouble yet again
This is the woman who wants to criminalise men who use prostitutes. Whose husband watches 'adult films'. Can anyone now take her seriously? Her ministerial career isn't hanging by a thread, it's hanging by a G-String.......
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Oodles of Flikr Pix
There's now a massive number of my photographs available on Flikr.
Point your browser to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/icphotographs/
Point your browser to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/icphotographs/
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Bailing out the B(w)ankers - a question
How come the government has found a load more money to bail out the banks? The Treasury must have a stupendous amount of sofa's and Alastair Darling must be an international standard rummager to gather so much together from down the back of the aforementioned furniture items.
This money couldn't have existed for the NHS (e.g. paying for life-extending drugs, prostate cancer screening etc) or to provide more public toilets, improve the mental health provision of local councils. Obviously it couldn't have existed otherwise it would have spent on these things and a whole lot more besides.
So where did it come from then (apart from down the back of the chancellor's sofa)?
This money couldn't have existed for the NHS (e.g. paying for life-extending drugs, prostate cancer screening etc) or to provide more public toilets, improve the mental health provision of local councils. Obviously it couldn't have existed otherwise it would have spent on these things and a whole lot more besides.
So where did it come from then (apart from down the back of the chancellor's sofa)?
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Quote of the week
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."
Brian O'Driscoll (when asked about his relationship with England coach Martin Johnson).
There is something deeply Cantona-esque about this ......
Brian O'Driscoll (when asked about his relationship with England coach Martin Johnson).
There is something deeply Cantona-esque about this ......
Monday, 2 March 2009
Thought for the day
If a man speaks in the middle of a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
Thursday, 26 February 2009
80 reasons why it's good to be a bloke ...
1. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
2. Movie nudity is virtually always female.
3. You know stuff about tanks.
4. A week's holiday requires only one suitcase.
5. Match of the Day.
6. Queues for the toilet are 90% shorter.
7. You can open all your own jars.
8. Old friends don't give you crap if you've lost or gained weight.
9. Dry cleaners and haircutter's don't rob you blind.
10. Your arse is never a factor in a job interview.
11. All your orgasms are real.
12. A beer gut does not make you invisible to the opposite sex.
13. Guys in hockey masks don't attack you.
14. You don't have to lug a bag of useless stuff around everywhere you go.
15. People expect you to masturbate.
16. You can go to the bathroom without a support group.
17. You can leave a hotel bed unmade.
18. When your work is criticized, you don't have to panic that everyone secretly hates you.
19. The garage is all yours.
20. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
21. You can fart with impunity.
22. Nobody secretly wonders if you swallow.
23. You never have to clean the toilet. Or oven.
24. You can be showered and ready in 10 minutes.
25. Sex means never worrying about your reputation.
26. Wedding plans take care of themselves.
27. If someone forgets to invite you to something, he or she can still be your friend.
28. None of your co-workers have the power to make you cry.
29. You don't have to shave below your neck.
30. You don't have to curl up next to a hairy arse every night.
31. If you're 34 and single nobody gives a shit.
32. You can write your name in the snow.
33. Everything on your face stays its original colour.
34. Chocolate is just another snack.
35. You can understand the offside rule in football.
36. You can quietly enjoy a car ride from the passenger seat.
37. Flowers fix everything.
38. You get to think about sex 90% of your waking hours.
39. You can wear a white shirt in the rain.
40. Three pair of shoes are more than enough for most of your life.
41. You can boast about the number of people you've slept with.
42. Foreplay is optional.
43. Michael Bolton doesn't live in your universe.
44. Nobody stops telling a good dirty joke when you walk into the room.
45. You can whip your shirt off on a hot day.
46. You don't have to clean your flat if the metre reader is coming by.
47. You never feel compelled to stop a pal from getting laid.
48. Car mechanics tell you the truth.
49. You don't give a toss if no one notices your new haircut.
50. You can watch a game in silence with your mate for hours without even thinking "He must be mad at me"
51. The world is your urinal.
52. You never misconstrue innocuous statements to mean your lover is about to leave you.
53. You can play and enjoy computer games other than Tetris.
54. Hot wax never comes near your pubic area.
55. One mood, all the time.
56. You can remember the punchlines to jokes.
57. You know at least 20 ways to open a beer bottle.
58. You can sit with your knees apart no matter what you are wearing.
59. Same work....more pay.
60. Gray hair and wrinkles add character.
61. You don't have to leave the room to make an emergency crotch adjustment.
62. With 400 million sperm per shot, you could double the Earth's population in 15 tries, at least in theory.
63. If you retain water, it's in a canteen.
64. The remote is yours and yours alone.
65. People never glance at your chest when you're talking to them.
66. You can sit in a pub on your own without plonkers trying to cop off with you.
67. You can drop by to see a friend without bringing a little gift.
68. Stag nights are much more fun than Hen nights. So, so much more fun…..
69. You can buy condoms without the shopkeeper imagining you naked.
70. You needn't pretend you're "freshening up" to go to the bathroom.
71. If you don't call your buddy when you say you will, he won't tell your friends you've changed.
72. Someday you'll be a dirty old man.
73. You can rationalize any behavior with the handy phrase "Fuck it!"
74. If an other bloke shows up at the party in the same outfit, you might become lifelong buddies.
75. You can teach your friend's children swear words.
76. The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.
77. You never have to miss a sexual opportunity because you're not in the mood.
78. If something mechanical didn't work, you can bash it with a hammer and throw it across the room.
79. Porn movies are designed with your mind in mind.
80. Not liking a person does not preclude having great sex with them.
81. Your pals can be trusted never to trap you with: "So... notice anything different?"
82. You can't get pregnant.
83. Baywatch
2. Movie nudity is virtually always female.
3. You know stuff about tanks.
4. A week's holiday requires only one suitcase.
5. Match of the Day.
6. Queues for the toilet are 90% shorter.
7. You can open all your own jars.
8. Old friends don't give you crap if you've lost or gained weight.
9. Dry cleaners and haircutter's don't rob you blind.
10. Your arse is never a factor in a job interview.
11. All your orgasms are real.
12. A beer gut does not make you invisible to the opposite sex.
13. Guys in hockey masks don't attack you.
14. You don't have to lug a bag of useless stuff around everywhere you go.
15. People expect you to masturbate.
16. You can go to the bathroom without a support group.
17. You can leave a hotel bed unmade.
18. When your work is criticized, you don't have to panic that everyone secretly hates you.
19. The garage is all yours.
20. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
21. You can fart with impunity.
22. Nobody secretly wonders if you swallow.
23. You never have to clean the toilet. Or oven.
24. You can be showered and ready in 10 minutes.
25. Sex means never worrying about your reputation.
26. Wedding plans take care of themselves.
27. If someone forgets to invite you to something, he or she can still be your friend.
28. None of your co-workers have the power to make you cry.
29. You don't have to shave below your neck.
30. You don't have to curl up next to a hairy arse every night.
31. If you're 34 and single nobody gives a shit.
32. You can write your name in the snow.
33. Everything on your face stays its original colour.
34. Chocolate is just another snack.
35. You can understand the offside rule in football.
36. You can quietly enjoy a car ride from the passenger seat.
37. Flowers fix everything.
38. You get to think about sex 90% of your waking hours.
39. You can wear a white shirt in the rain.
40. Three pair of shoes are more than enough for most of your life.
41. You can boast about the number of people you've slept with.
42. Foreplay is optional.
43. Michael Bolton doesn't live in your universe.
44. Nobody stops telling a good dirty joke when you walk into the room.
45. You can whip your shirt off on a hot day.
46. You don't have to clean your flat if the metre reader is coming by.
47. You never feel compelled to stop a pal from getting laid.
48. Car mechanics tell you the truth.
49. You don't give a toss if no one notices your new haircut.
50. You can watch a game in silence with your mate for hours without even thinking "He must be mad at me"
51. The world is your urinal.
52. You never misconstrue innocuous statements to mean your lover is about to leave you.
53. You can play and enjoy computer games other than Tetris.
54. Hot wax never comes near your pubic area.
55. One mood, all the time.
56. You can remember the punchlines to jokes.
57. You know at least 20 ways to open a beer bottle.
58. You can sit with your knees apart no matter what you are wearing.
59. Same work....more pay.
60. Gray hair and wrinkles add character.
61. You don't have to leave the room to make an emergency crotch adjustment.
62. With 400 million sperm per shot, you could double the Earth's population in 15 tries, at least in theory.
63. If you retain water, it's in a canteen.
64. The remote is yours and yours alone.
65. People never glance at your chest when you're talking to them.
66. You can sit in a pub on your own without plonkers trying to cop off with you.
67. You can drop by to see a friend without bringing a little gift.
68. Stag nights are much more fun than Hen nights. So, so much more fun…..
69. You can buy condoms without the shopkeeper imagining you naked.
70. You needn't pretend you're "freshening up" to go to the bathroom.
71. If you don't call your buddy when you say you will, he won't tell your friends you've changed.
72. Someday you'll be a dirty old man.
73. You can rationalize any behavior with the handy phrase "Fuck it!"
74. If an other bloke shows up at the party in the same outfit, you might become lifelong buddies.
75. You can teach your friend's children swear words.
76. The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.
77. You never have to miss a sexual opportunity because you're not in the mood.
78. If something mechanical didn't work, you can bash it with a hammer and throw it across the room.
79. Porn movies are designed with your mind in mind.
80. Not liking a person does not preclude having great sex with them.
81. Your pals can be trusted never to trap you with: "So... notice anything different?"
82. You can't get pregnant.
83. Baywatch
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
The human body: some intersting facts
It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb).
The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
Women blink twice as often as men.
The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
Women reading this will be finished now - men are still busy checking their thumbs.
One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb).
The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
Women blink twice as often as men.
The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
Women reading this will be finished now - men are still busy checking their thumbs.
Monday, 9 February 2009
Personal Ad's & What They Really Mean
Women’s Ad’s
40-ish: 48
Adventurerous: Slept with all your friends
Affectionate: Irrationally possessive
Animal Lover: Mad cat lady
Athletic: Flat-chested.
Average looking: Ugly / Has a face like a basset hound
Beautiful: Pathological liar
Commitment-minded: Already picking out curtains.
Cuddly: Overweight skank
Contagious Smile: Does a lot of Ecstasy
Educated: Banged her Political Science professor / College dropout
Emotionally Secure: Medicated
Exotic Beauty: Would frighten a Martian
Feisty: Insufferable by the third date
Free spirit: Drug user
Friendship First: Trying to live down reputation as slut
Fun: Intensely annoying
Girl-next-door type: Fat, ugly, bitchy skank
Good Listener: Borderline autistic
Intelligent Blond: I got somebody else to write this
Light / Social drinker: Lush
Likes water skiing: You will have a big boat and a vacation house on the lake.
New-Age: All-over body hair, all the time
Nurturing: Smothering
Old-fashioned: Lights out, missionary position only
Open-minded: Desperate
Outgoing: Loud & annoying
Passionate: Sloppy drunk
Petite: Looks like an extra from the ‘Wizard of Oz’
Poet: Depressive schizophrenic
Natural Redhead: Shops in the Clairol section
Reubenesque: Grossly Fat
Romantic: Looks better by candle light
Social: Has been passed around like an hors d'oeuvres tray
Sophisticated: I know the difference between cream, ivory, and off-white
Spiritual: Involved with a cult
Stable: Occasional stalker, but never arrested
Weight proportional to height: Hugely Fat
Wants Soulmate: One step away from stalking
Widow: Nagged first husband to death
Young at heart: Mad old bat
Men's Ad’s
40-ish: 52 and looking for 25 year-old
Adventurerous: Open to kinky sex involvoing ropes and whipped cream
Athletic: Watches a lot of football
Average looking: Unusual hair growth on ears, nose, & back
Boy Racer: Drives a volvo
Easy-going: Doesn’t mind tour sh*t as long as get’s nookie
Educated: Will treat you like an idiot all the time
Ex-Model: Was an Airfix kit
Family man: Lives with his mother and enjoys it
Free Spirit: Wants to hump your sister
Friendship First: As long as friendship involves nudity & nookie
Funny: That’s what my therapist says
Good looking: Arrogant
Great Sense Of Humour: Less funny than a bout of diarrhea
Very good looking: Dumb as a board
Honest: Pathological Liar
Huggable: Overweight, more body hair than a bear
Likes to cuddle: Insecure mama's boy
Mature: Older than your father / Bald
Open-minded: Wants to sleep with your friends
Open To New Experiences: Wants kinky sex
Poet: Wrote ex-girlfriend's phone number on a bathroom wall
Practical: : Good with a remote and a six pack
Picky To An Extent: I would bone a donkey if no one would find out
Sensitive: Cries at chick flicks
Very sensitive: Gay
Spiritual: Got laid in a cemetery once
Thoughtful: Says "Excuse me" when farting
Wild Love Of Life: Carrying an incurable sexually transmitted disease
Young at heart: Toothless old coot
40-ish: 48
Adventurerous: Slept with all your friends
Affectionate: Irrationally possessive
Animal Lover: Mad cat lady
Athletic: Flat-chested.
Average looking: Ugly / Has a face like a basset hound
Beautiful: Pathological liar
Commitment-minded: Already picking out curtains.
Cuddly: Overweight skank
Contagious Smile: Does a lot of Ecstasy
Educated: Banged her Political Science professor / College dropout
Emotionally Secure: Medicated
Exotic Beauty: Would frighten a Martian
Feisty: Insufferable by the third date
Free spirit: Drug user
Friendship First: Trying to live down reputation as slut
Fun: Intensely annoying
Girl-next-door type: Fat, ugly, bitchy skank
Good Listener: Borderline autistic
Intelligent Blond: I got somebody else to write this
Light / Social drinker: Lush
Likes water skiing: You will have a big boat and a vacation house on the lake.
New-Age: All-over body hair, all the time
Nurturing: Smothering
Old-fashioned: Lights out, missionary position only
Open-minded: Desperate
Outgoing: Loud & annoying
Passionate: Sloppy drunk
Petite: Looks like an extra from the ‘Wizard of Oz’
Poet: Depressive schizophrenic
Natural Redhead: Shops in the Clairol section
Reubenesque: Grossly Fat
Romantic: Looks better by candle light
Social: Has been passed around like an hors d'oeuvres tray
Sophisticated: I know the difference between cream, ivory, and off-white
Spiritual: Involved with a cult
Stable: Occasional stalker, but never arrested
Weight proportional to height: Hugely Fat
Wants Soulmate: One step away from stalking
Widow: Nagged first husband to death
Young at heart: Mad old bat
Men's Ad’s
40-ish: 52 and looking for 25 year-old
Adventurerous: Open to kinky sex involvoing ropes and whipped cream
Athletic: Watches a lot of football
Average looking: Unusual hair growth on ears, nose, & back
Boy Racer: Drives a volvo
Easy-going: Doesn’t mind tour sh*t as long as get’s nookie
Educated: Will treat you like an idiot all the time
Ex-Model: Was an Airfix kit
Family man: Lives with his mother and enjoys it
Free Spirit: Wants to hump your sister
Friendship First: As long as friendship involves nudity & nookie
Funny: That’s what my therapist says
Good looking: Arrogant
Great Sense Of Humour: Less funny than a bout of diarrhea
Very good looking: Dumb as a board
Honest: Pathological Liar
Huggable: Overweight, more body hair than a bear
Likes to cuddle: Insecure mama's boy
Mature: Older than your father / Bald
Open-minded: Wants to sleep with your friends
Open To New Experiences: Wants kinky sex
Poet: Wrote ex-girlfriend's phone number on a bathroom wall
Practical: : Good with a remote and a six pack
Picky To An Extent: I would bone a donkey if no one would find out
Sensitive: Cries at chick flicks
Very sensitive: Gay
Spiritual: Got laid in a cemetery once
Thoughtful: Says "Excuse me" when farting
Wild Love Of Life: Carrying an incurable sexually transmitted disease
Young at heart: Toothless old coot
For woman, the perfect marriage prospect ....
is a man who has body piercings; they have bought jewellery and have experienced pain!
Friday, 6 February 2009
Monday, 2 February 2009
New laptop
Wooohoooo - just got a new laptop (Macbook 13") for doing photo's n stuff on.
Will post more when have got the hang of the thing.
PS - the snow's nice!
Will post more when have got the hang of the thing.
PS - the snow's nice!
Friday, 30 January 2009
Nothing happening
Not much going on at the moment as weather too poo to go out with the camera.
In the meantime I've been spending a lot of time on Flikr, uploading quite a few of my vast collection of images. You can view my photostream here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/icphotographs/
In the meantime I've been spending a lot of time on Flikr, uploading quite a few of my vast collection of images. You can view my photostream here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/icphotographs/
Monday, 19 January 2009
Questions, questions
Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
Is there another word for synonym?
Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"
What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
Why do they lock petrol station toilets? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to start speaking?
What was the best thing before sliced bread?
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown, too?
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
Whose cruel idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have "S" in it?
Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "assteroids"?
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
Is there another word for synonym?
Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"
What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
Why do they lock petrol station toilets? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to start speaking?
What was the best thing before sliced bread?
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown, too?
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
Whose cruel idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have "S" in it?
Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "assteroids"?
Friday, 16 January 2009
High Score
A photo of my high score - entered as 'LHD' (Left Hand Drive) as was using my left hand (see yesterday's post).
Thursday, 15 January 2009
Hi Score! Yay Me!
The Isaac Newton oub has one of those bowling video games and, up until yesterday, I was pretty pants (Lou, of course, is good at it). Last night, Lou asked if I wanted to have a game or two. Due to injury to right-hand (sustained burying poor Fidget) I was playing left-handed.
Not only did I get a 'turkey' for the first time ever, I actually managed it twice :-0
This lead to an unbelievable score of 230 points! I'll say that again, 230 points! :-)
That's the second-highest ever recorded on the machine and only 5 points off Jim's all-time record. Can't help but think that if I was able to hit a few of the pins that eluded the first bowl then I'd have beaten him (that said, I'd have settled for a decent score and, never having got past 200 before I was quite happy with that).
Interestingly, it turns out that Lou is a bit of a poor loser: she insisted that we play again as she wanted to beat me but unfortunately she didn't. I won by one point on the last go :-)
Not only did I get a 'turkey' for the first time ever, I actually managed it twice :-0
This lead to an unbelievable score of 230 points! I'll say that again, 230 points! :-)
That's the second-highest ever recorded on the machine and only 5 points off Jim's all-time record. Can't help but think that if I was able to hit a few of the pins that eluded the first bowl then I'd have beaten him (that said, I'd have settled for a decent score and, never having got past 200 before I was quite happy with that).
Interestingly, it turns out that Lou is a bit of a poor loser: she insisted that we play again as she wanted to beat me but unfortunately she didn't. I won by one point on the last go :-)
Friday, 9 January 2009
Cutomers are stupid - a great website
Found this site on the interweb and it proves that it's not just University of Cambridge customers that are thicker than a bowl of manky yoghurt ....
http://notalwaysright.com/
http://notalwaysright.com/
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Fidget
Sadly I have to report that one of our much-loved cats, Fidget, died this morning. He will be sorely missed by one and all.
:-(
R.I.P. Fidget our feline friend
:-(
R.I.P. Fidget our feline friend
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
It's bloody freezing
Third day back at work and it's still taking some getting used to: it's not nice to leave the house in the dark and trudge through the snow to sit in a cold office and then do the same on the way home.
Still, looking on the bright side, at least I only have to do this twice more this week :-)
Still, looking on the bright side, at least I only have to do this twice more this week :-)
Monday, 5 January 2009
Happy new beer!
Happy new year to one and all!
Hopefully in 2009 I'll get more time to post stuff on here both about the photography and more general guff (I'd like to do a post every day but that's both impractical and not much happens in any case).
Cheers :-)
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