Mythbusters debunk the moon landing hoax

It's been done more effectively, but mythbusters just make it more fun

this link is to the torrent of the show

Torrent of Mythbusters Moon Landing Special

Opera users will be able to download it straight from their browser, otherwise you will need sme sort of torrent client.

Why is it

if you've upset someone, they wont tell you why?

I knew on thursday I'd upset someone, but it took until today to get an oppurtunity in private to find out why.

I'm still not sure what I've done wrong as I upset a friend of theirs, so I need to talk to that friend to sort things out. I will as I hate upsetting people, and when I know what I've done I will sort it out, apologise etc.

*sigh*

Don't sulk with me, I can take it, tell me!

The Hunt

For Gollum

A "Fan Flick" some 40 minutes long, I've seen the trailer and watched the first part of it. and it seems very good. Made with a budget of just £3000 and a cast of 160

There's an interview with the director on the Beeb here

BBC interview

And you can watch the full movie here

The Hunt for Gollum

Hope you enjoy it

It's the end of the world as we know it

And I feel fine

Server 5 (travian) has finished, my team won, I ended up with them more by good luck than good management I must admit.

The world wonder was impressive, can't believe the number of troops in the end, I grabbed a couple of screen shots.





I find it hard to believe I've been playing this game for almost a year, joined 1/5/08 and it finished yesterday!

Never again! it just gets to much!

unpleasant surprise today

A card arrived, red envelope, white heart on the front, my dad glanced at it and handed it over to me, my initial and surname.

When I looked at it I noticed it was to Mrs P rather than Mr P

My mum had my initial as well, but of course she's been dead 11 years.

Not absolutely sure what to think

silly adictive

sailing game

you can trade raid and do missions

http://www.freewebarcade.com/game/master-of-the-secret-sea/

I prefer the "free game" as opposed to the "story game"

but either way there's something strangley addictive to it, to the point of me having to print the map out and plot all the ports!

It's been found

Not in Temple Newsam as originally suspected

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7975434.stm

The UK's tallest tree

Not a redwood though? curious.

Paranoid agnostics

Do paranoid schizophrenic monomaniacal dyslexic agnostic insomniacs lie awake all night wondering if they ARE the dog that's out to get them?

I've just signed DoSomethingAboutIt.org.uk's petition for a British 'New Deal': calling on our government to supplement the banking bail-out with a stimulus package for other areas of the economy, which will create jobs now and lay the foundations for a greener, fairer society.

We need to send a clear message to politicians, telling them that they cannot spend billions rescuing the richest without investing in the rest of us.

Britain cannot go back to the pre-crisis status quo, with its growing inequalities and its dependence on the financial sector- we have to move forward to a socially and environmentally sustainable future. You can sign the petition by visiting www.dosomethingaboutit.org.uk. But act fast- the petition will close on 2 March.

Thank you!

The BBC and the DEC Gaza appeal

It strikes me that the BBC's refusal to broadcast this appeal has actually done more to raise the countries awareness of it then if they'd agreed to broadcast it in the first place.

Far be it from me to second guess what BBC executives are thinking, but a little part of me would like to think whoever decided to refuse the broadcast knew this would happen!

For those who want it, here's the DEC appeal web site

DEC Gaza Appeal

regardless of who is right and who is wrong, Israel or Hamas, innocent people are suffering.

In my humble opinion, blame can be placed firmly on both sides.

Drips revisited

Back in March last year I posted pictures of a drip of water coming off the porch roof catching the sunlight.

Here's a frozen revisit to to same scene

What to do

When it's cold and dark outside



Tuck up warm on the sofa with a good book!

Carloyn and Paul popped in to visit today

I took the obligatory pics!

Carolyn with M

Paul caught on Camera, a rare moment.

All the children squeezed onto the sofa.

It was a great afternoon, looking forward to them coming back soon, they are only about 50 miles from us, still a fair way to come. The children where pretty excited, chaos reigned of a rather pleasant noisy kind. I always love the sounds of a house full of happy children.

The View

From our bedroom window, over Brynmawr and across to the Coed-cae Mountain.

A little nicer than the view of Marshall Street Motors I lived with for 10 years!

Cold and Frosty New Year

There's been a freezing fog over Brynmawr and the surrounding area, spectacular but far to cold to be out for long!

Outside last night.





Up in the mountains.






It was too misty to see the other side of the gorge, somewhere in that mist is Alisons mum and dads house!



This is just before the roundabout to Brynmawr, The pot hole seems to extend under the roadbed itself, I've been meaning to get a few pics for ages, but when I saw the icicles I just had to stop.



Love this country, it does lend itself to some spectacular views, today though was too misty.

Let me ponder

The meaning of life!

My Children with their new baby Brother

They came for a weekend visit and love their new baby brother














It was a great weekend, shame it was such a short visit, they are coming back though, for new year.

Merry Christmas to anyone reading this

Had a rather nice day, spoilt only by a rather sad experience around 5ish which I will talk about further down.

Surprisingly, Alisons two children were up quite late for a Christmas day, in fact I had to go and shout a big Ho Ho Ho through their bedroom doors to wak them up!

We had a rather excellent Christmas dinner at The Hobby Horse followed by a trip up to see her mum, dad, sister and sisters boyfriend.

Then back here for Doctor Who, which I thought was a fine tale, cybermen, a mysterious 2nd Doctor played by David Morrissey, and Dervla Kirwan being a superb evil nemesis.

I'm now finally able to relax with a beer or two having been chaufer for the day.

The sad news is we had to watch what by all accounts was a good pub, the Rock and Fountain, burn down. I've never been in myself, and now it looks like I won't be able to for quite a while.

I spotted the fire from Alisons mum and dads house, some 700 feet down in the gorge below, and was just deciding it was a proper fire rather than a bonfire when we saw the fire engines turn up. By the time we had to leave the roof was completely gone across the top of the restaraunt part of the building, somehow I imagine they won't be open again any time soon.

It looked like the building was empty, so I am hoping no-one was hurt, I'm sure I will find out fairly soon.

Anyway, Merry Christmas again, and a Happy New Year.

Traffic Noise

It's probably just me, but there is something different about traffic noise in London compared to anywhere else I have been.

Maybe it's simply the constant traffic, but I am not convinced, it just sounds different to traffic noise anywhere else I have been.

Have you found Jesus?

Well? Did you?