rubbish like this just isn't worth the photons emitted from my CRT

i'm watching the one show on bbc 1. i've had the misfortune to catch this programme a couple of times now, and the concept has been the same each time i've seen it:

1) tv 'naturalist' kate humble has a look at some animals around the british isles (frankly i've had enough of that with the ubiquitous 'animal park' -- a show without any point, and it seems, without end)

2) some 'trendy' accountant or finance expert telling us we're borrowing too much, and how to save money on credit cards.

3) some rubbish about the latest health trend

4) some mind-numbing-time-filling-thoughtless-unintelligent chit-chat between the presenters -- more interested in their own wise cracks than any 'guest' they happen to have on the couch.

in the style of points of view: why oh why oh why oh why do we have to put up (and pay!) for this crap?

thoughts

does any one else think that the latest muse song sounds like the theme tune to howard's way?

crumbs, carrots!!

thank cosgrove hall! dangermouse is coming back!

can it be 25 years? i love 1981!

here is the wikipedia entry

the results

no cheese sandwich.

either:

(a) my future self failed to get to have a go on the time machine (perhaps it is too expensive, belongs to the military/space corps, etc.)

(b) time travel is not possible (at least within the next ~50 years or so)

(c) cheese sanwiches are no more in the future (bummer!)

(d) my future self forgot about this blog in the intervening years (damn my forgetful self).

an elegant proof of why time travel will not be possible in my life-time

here is an elegant proof of why time travel will not be possible in my life-time:

1) if time-travel becomes possible in the future (within my life-time), i will do my utmost to ensure i get to have a go on the machine

2) once in the machine i will set the time and location to 1635, ten minutes from now, back here in 311.

3) once back here, i will leave a marker (say a cheese sandwich) on the desk

4) thus, if in ten minutes a cheese sandwich does not appear, we can be sure that they will not have invented time travel within my life time.

i'll let you know the results in a minute.

trip to the library

me and john were going to take a visit to the can machine, but on the information from norris that there wasn't much in it, we decided to take a trip to the library shop. i told john that they did draught coke there. he was incredulous. i assured him it was true. when we got there the man said 'sorry lads, the machine is being cleaned'. we resorted to the can machine in the shop. i had a lilt and john had a fanta. totally tropical.