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I don’t usually watch the show but found myself in front of it last night. Kinda boring, no controversy to spice it up, not enough statues to Brits. But I did want to complain about Chris Rock. First, why the hell did everyone give him a standing ovation just for walking on stage? And whats the deal with the anti-Bush jokes in his opening monologue? I’m no fan of Bush but this is supposed to be entertainment, just because you’re a “celebrity” and have a captive audience doesn’t mean you should use it a platform for your views. Its just poor taste for the host to do it. Another low light – Dustin Hoffman presenting best film; was he drunk? high? asleep?? Way to spoil the big announcement, Dustin.

But there were some highlights: Natalie Portman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kirsten Dunst and Halle Berry were all mighty fine!

One casualty of the recent rains has been poor Santa Paula airport. As the following picture shows, you’d better have very good short field landing techniques to land there right now, or maybe deployable floats?

My mum has been diagnosed with a brain tumour.

In order to transition into WordPress 1.5 I am introducing a new blog to the guapacha family – my flying blog, though the URL will be shortened once I get it all working how I want it. For now, there is nothing there but the first post. Over the next few days I shall be experimenting with themes to provide a custom look, or at least a look based on someone else’s theme 🙂 Once I understand what’s going on, look for updates to guapacha and miniblog. Can you feel the excitement?

Click here if you want to see screenshots of the upcoming Star Wars 3 movie. It looks sweet. Update: link is no longer available.

And some sweet new iPods. Update: I’m sure gonna get me one of them there 30G ones. But the mall car park where the Apple Store is located is currently underwater so I will have to wait a while.

I’ll be upgrading to WordPress 1.5 soon so don’t panic if this site becomes even more useless than it currently is.

It seems tizzy tha idea just won’t go away, some states W-to-tha-izzant ta introduce a tax on tha miles you drive . Fo’-fo’ desert eagle to your motherfuckin’ dome. It seems tizzle by hatin’ thugz ta drive mizzy efficient vehicles, tha state is saggin’ revenue n needs ways ta makes tizzle up. So…. here’s. a tax on how many miles of road you use. The article raps also `bout tha price per mile being different gang bangin’ on tizzy of dizzy location etc. I thiznink its a diznumb idea, why not jizzy increaze tha tax on gas W-H-to-tha-izzich will keep revenues up n continue ta discourage messin’ gas guzzl’n cars . Im a bad boy wit a lotta hos. And if we really have ta have a pa-mile tax, why not jizzle have tha motherfucka read on a regualr basis? Pimpin’ a GPS in each ride is jizzay a recipie fo` abuse.

My thanks ta gizooglizzles fo` tha translation n ta Brian fo` weed-smokin’ it out

What is it about cars and stupidity? Friday evening on the way home and again this morning on the way to San Diego, I’m in fierce rain, near zero-visibility in the spray off the road and people are driving with no lights on. Apart from the fact that its illegal, its damn stupid, people.

And Friday night on the way home there are huge convoys of RVs heading for the desert as usual. But its rained for days and the forecast is for storms for the weekend and beyond so where do they think they’re going? Well, they end up spending the weekend in every large parking lot in town; Von’s, McDonalds etc. Near impossible to do any shopping with every space filled with RVs bigger than a house. How hard is it to look at a weather forecast and determine that leaving home didn’t make sense? I think all those diesel fumes must rot the brain or something. Its just stupid, people.

From the abacus to the Powerbook and beyond.

In the life-imitiates-art category, this story from Boing Boing tells of a dodgy transaction involving a sick parrot and a pet store owner.

Listerine can get you arrested for drunk driving. Ok, so you’re not supposed to swallow the stuff but its still one more reason why Pfizer sucks ass. Hopefully this week the FDA will announce their findings on Celebrex and Pfizer will go further down the flusher, sucks for my some of my 401k, but there are many many people in the company who deserve it. Of course the good people will suffer whilst the idiots will remain, blaming everyone else., but those of us still suffering the trauma of having worked there can smile a little. Better than therapy!