Creative worms
I’ve had an escalation in the amount of attempted worm attacks recently, and for some reason I find the fictional. world changing news headlines a bit amusing. This one, though, is in a class of its own:
One of those annoying little things…
This is probably not worth blogging about, but since it’s four in the morning and I don’t have anything better to do I’m going to do just that anyway. First – lacking good, noise free close-ups of it – here’s a blurred and generally weird image of my Chief Wiggum-like nose:
The image is partially to illustrate the affected area, but mostly a filler. Anyway, the whole thing has to do with shaving. I think a good shave often can be one of those good little things, it’s very refreshing, but there is one thing that can make it damned annoying: getting shaving cream up my nose!
I don’t know if my application process is particularly sloppy, but it seems to happen to me about every three or four times I shave. And, to me, having that dab of foamy stuff there is the tactile equivalent of a high frequency ambient noise or that sticky sweet taste in your mouth that sometimes comes after eating ice cream. Not to mention that feeling of a sneeze that never comes.
I could wipe it off, but usually I don’t notice it until I have rinsed my hands and am about to go on with the actual shaving, and poking around there could end up with me having to reapply shaving cream… so I just let it be and stress through the rest of the shave, sometimes managing the feat of cutting myself on a Mach 3 blade – so I can finally get rid of the blob that by then seems to be swelling to horror-film proportions in my nose.
Uhm, to make some sort of point to this… if there’s any representatives of the Gillette brand reading this I’m willing to discuss the sale of my idea for nose-plugs. Otherwise, stay tuned for more drivel. :)
Small change
Replaced “.net” on the logo with “&blog”. What an incredible burst of creativity…
Online watchmaker
I’ve always, for some reason, been fond of watches. Here’s a Swiss watchmaker that allows you to customize your timepiece online. Very neat. 121 Time
Currently reading
Finally got around to reading Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon. Been hearing about it ever since it was published, and yes, so far it’s brilliant. More about it when I’m done.
Are you, like, awar?
Saying “like” makes you sound stupid, according to the Academy of Linguistic “Awarness”. Link (Boing Boing)
Summer’s here…
Suddenly it got warm, like someone flicked a switch. Went outside, and the air felt like cotton in my lungs. And it’s only 25°C. I guess I’m of the weird minority who doesn’t like their weather too warm.
Mostly annoying?
I have ordered a new leather jacket, the old one mysteriously having become several sizes too large, and it got me thinking about how useful those online parcel tracking services that any shipment company with self-respect has nowadays really are. I really don’t have any use for the knowledge of where between points A and B my leather jacket is, but still I check the link every few hours to see what’s going on. Maybe it has a positive psychological effect on some people, but I’m not one of them. And especially not in this case, when there’s a weekend involved, and the status has read “The parcel is on the way to the recipient’s Post-agent*” since Friday. It could as well have said “Yeah, we moved your parcel to the right stack, but we decided to let it sit at the loading bay for a few days to annoy you, you restless twat” for all I care.
*) The Swedish Post doesn’t deliver parcels to individuals anymore, it only transports them. Shortly after it became a government-owned company in the 90’s, they decided to save money by closing all post-offices and delegate the consumer services like stamp sales and parcel-handling to local businesses like convenience stores and gas stations. I’m pretty sure they would have replaced the mailmen with trained monkeys if it weren’t for the animal rights-people.
When Johnny learns to love the bomb and dies hard again.
Last weekend ago I watched Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – one of the best movies ever, very brilliant satire, Kubrick was a genius and so on – but it had an annoying side effext, namely the tune “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again” (I found a midi here). It’s sort of the theme song for all the scenes taking place in the bomber. It’s quite catchy. Too damned catchy, to be honest. I had that fucking tune in my head for days, and after a while it got as annoying as having an itch on the nuts while standing in front of a crowd. I thought I had gotten rid of it yesterday, only leaving the question of where I had heard it before…
…but I got an answer to that tonight, when I had nothing better to than watch tv and the best thing on was Die Hard: With a Vengeance. Quite entertaining, both for an action movie and a second sequel. But there it was. And now it’s back in my head… Johnny marching back home again… well, with a vengeance. I need to find something to help me get rid of it, or I’ll go crazy. Really crazy. Any suggestions for good music I should listen to while trying to purge it? Any similar experiences?
Oh, and I’m mostly posting this because people have reminded me that I havn’t updated the blog in a long time. It’s not that I lack ideas of things to write about, but more that I have a black belt in the Art of Procrastination… I’ll see if I can find some CDs or books to review, or something.
And some links for those who feel inspired to get the movies or just to be infected with the tune themselves:
Amazon.com: Dr. Strangelove
Amazon.co.uk: Dr. Strangelove
Just thought of something
If you take the name Gyllenhaal, and pronounce it in Swedish, it would be GyllenhÃ¥l (“aa” substitutes our “a”-with-a-ring), which� means “golden hole”. So, starring in Brokeback Mountain, we have Jake Golden-hole. Haha. Get it, gay cowboys, golden hole… nudge nudge, wink wink?
Sometimes I crack me up.
