Archive for the 'Asides' Category
3 songs I like today.
Monday, October 6th, 2008Oh Darling - Hey.Stay.Wait.Explode!
Wakey!Wakey! - Say It Ain’t So (Weezer Cover)
I Scream Ice Cream - Trust Tissue
Admittedly the last one is from the person who was part of Junior Senior. Still. I found them listening to the Hype Machine radio - which can be a mixed bag, but then that’s half the the fun sometimes. It saves having to listen to the radio, plus I’ve never really got into the radio type functions Last.fm.
Also Muller yoghurts are 5 for a £1 at Tesco (don’t go shopping there at about 7:30pm, there’s nothing on the shelves). Though I had a nice chat with the checkout girl about the fact she seems to be allergic to alcohol, apparently it made her really sick. Fancy that.
(As an aside, Tesco you shouldn’t really be giving 17 year olds money off vouchers for wine really. Shame on you!)
Wow
Monday, October 6th, 2008http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/earth_from_above_comes_to_nyc.html
Wow. Some awesome awesome pictures there. The world is so beautiful sometimes.
The Top 100 Things I’d Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord
Saturday, October 4th, 20087. When I’ve captured my adversary and he says, “Look, before you kill me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?” I’ll say, “No.” and shoot him. No, on second thought I’ll shoot him then say “No.”
It’s all those but why moments you get when watching films.
I think winter is coming
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008It is, it’s just a little bit colder in the morning. That video, just wow. Is she an evil genius or just not aware of what she’s saying.
See also, I’ll give $100 to charity everytime Sarah Palin lies. He’s up to $3700!
(Both from the awesome Chicken Yoghurt. I keep meaning to write a list of the sites I read mostest. That one is on there.)
Back in the day
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008http://www.google.com/search2001.html
Google search index from 2001.
New Facebook
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008You want to know why I don’t like it…
http://screencast.com/t/3w7lp8aBbM1
That’s me waiting 30 seconds for the status updates tab to load. Yeah, funnily enough I don’t use that anymore. I liked it more when I could see status updates straight away and just them. They’re the little snippets that are worth being nosey about.
Heads
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Women are taking fewer of the top jobs in teaching in England and Wales, an annual recruitment survey says.
Among head teachers appointed to secondary schools in the last year, only 32% were women, compared to 40% in the previous year.
John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said that it was too early to say whether the decline in the number of women getting head teachers’ jobs in secondary schools was “a blip or a trend”.
But he called for action to tackle obstacles that could explain the under-representation of women in the top jobs in school.
Fair enough, but then how is this then not requiring of action?
In primary schools, 75% of head teachers appointed during the school year were women, a lower figure than the female proportion of the teaching staff.
Maybe, all the women who want to be heads are in primary?
Reclaiming time
Thursday, September 18th, 2008We live our lives around the clock. We wake up at a certain time, work on a schedule and base our performance on the amount of time it takes us to do things. More things done in less time = good. More time needed? Deadline not met? Unacceptable.
But it’s not just the clock that gives us anxiety; it’s basing our worth on how productive we are. We have this false belief that if we just finish everything on our to do lists, we’ll be done. After that, we can finally be happy, right? Unfortunately, that time never comes.