Death to orkut

Finally had enough of bogus friend (and job) requests from Indian males and deleted my account.

Scientifically accurate ranting

There's something special in the finality of a movie review of "no stars" or "zero stars". I particularly like the way David says in a voice of stone "No stars from me". Margaret tends to be more apologetic about it. The condemnation of a "nul points" score in the Eurovision Song Contest is to me a thing of beauty.

However, sometimes that's just not enough. 0/10 brings me no joy. 'Minus a zillion' lacks finesse. Where to from here?

( Where indeed )

Bird news

( From the suburbs )

The theatre of the perverse

I've been pottering about all evening and channel flicked to the made-for-TV disaster flick Flood re the flooding of London. Since the flood in question is currently in progress, I had assumed that this gem was near its end. No such luck, there's nearly two hours of it yet to go. Oops, there goes Tower Bridge.

( I rant because I can. I cut because I care. )

EDIT: Did watch it to the end, only 30min longer than advertised. Just as anticipated, although my predicted rainbow/bird/ray of sunshine final shot wasn't entirely accurate. Final score: 3 black holes.