Dr Deviant

So there were the senate hearings, lightening strike, fire on board a recovery vessel, credit rating from hell, Brazil reviewing a $7bn deal with BP, BP shelling out for a bit of kit owned by Kevin Kostner, and my personal favourite the Belgian help offered for the Gulf is not allowed to help because they are johnny foreigners.

According to the Lloyd’s List (don’t ask why I have a copy to read):

The Belgian dredging giant Jan de Nul offered to bring an early end to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill by deploying its fallpipe vessel Simon Stevino, which has a much broader pipe than the funnel currently being used by BP. However, a law that restricts coastal traffic to US built and flagged vessels has frustrated their offer of help.

Barrack O-fuck-face, set aside the protectionist piece of shite Jones Act for them to help. Either you want this cleaned up or you don’t, personally I don’t give a shit, but stop beating BP for not being responsive enough when you won’t let people with legitimate offers of help actually provide it.

Something else that also tickled me today was that people are wanting Tony Blair to run BP. Obviously not British people as they remember what a shit job he did running a country. Maybe when Barrack O-fuck-face doesn’t get elected he can have a job in one of BP petrol stations, cleaning windscreens or something.

On a lighter note this new iPhone game has an amusing slice of hypocrital irony. There are specific terms in the Apple developers guide that say you cannot hate a specific entity (human or company) and since every bad thing that has happened to the US since September 11 is BP’s fault, this is obviously a case of Apple siding with the BP Blame Storm community. Or… (for the hypocrisy bit) you are not allowed to club seals but you can drown ducks… why?

While I really do hate football/soccer (Whatever) I had to tune into last nights fiasco. I watched it on HD – ITV 1 HD decided to cut to an ad break to support it’s costs… 4 minutes in to the game… oh, whoopsie!!!

Oh how I laughed. To be fair though England did play pretty well, and I guess we must have just felt sorry for the Americans so we had to level the score for half time. On the plus side you could argue that England did score both goals in the game.

The thing that annoys me the most though… On the radio yesterday afternoon, a Californian girl said that the final score would be 1-1 and that America would be happy with that, while the Brits would be gutted. First of all, Californian, second of all, Girl… what does she know about football? But she was right.

And so down goes my theory that Football would be a good way to resolve disputes instead of war. Nevermind.

Cue the Rocky music!!!

I have been silent on the issues unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico but I can no longer sit idly by while BP take s a right royal shafting by everyone with a shaft to poke. While I have no doubt that BP is big enough and ugly enough to take care of itself, and I have no doubt that they will survive this, there are a few things I would like to get off my not unsizeable chest.

Continue reading BP vs US

Last minute swing vote… or maybe not. I looked up the word bigot, and I think Gordy may not be up there with the literate classes… intollerant of others views… hmmm… Pot/Kettle anyone?

bigoted lady

Continue reading Someone in the labour camp look up the word bigot please.

I’m starting to get really hacked off with the old creationist vs scientist argument. I was fine with the thoughts of a scientist running for parliament:

Why the science candidate is standing for Parliament

Until the comment about “Wouldn’t you want to know that decisions are being made with by people who ‘do so from a position of scientific understanding’”
Continue reading Maybe I’m getting old, but…

Ok, so my absence this time is not so much nothing to say, more of the opposite really but a little too heated and personal to broadcast in the currently close quarters. On the other hand I have been playing with google Buzz – on the plus side it’s better for quick blogging, but it does make me realise that I only have 2 avid followers (and that includes myself).

Anyhow, this story amused me no end today.
Continue reading Thinning out?

Disappointingly underwhelmed by the introduction of apples new dohicky. It’s a big iPhone without the phone, or an expensive iPod touch… They could have done so much… Obviously they couldn’t blow the macbook air out of the water completely so they have taken a slow left hook at e-book readers… but it’s hardly the death nail for them either… So, what are you left with? A big iPhone and a hollow feeling inside

I dunno, maybe it’s worth the sofa surfing porn raid… you still have one hand free to pull yer keks up when the missus walks in, and there is no more squinting at a tiny screen, so it’s probably good for perving without the cloud of macular degeneration and the cost of surgery.

Phanbouy nirvana??? hmm… I think even the hardcore among us will be a little sad inside. I think that really it’s just a Newton version 2.

http://www.wired.com/news/images/full/newton_f.jpg

Maybe the third version will be better – you know, like the iPhone was.

So I read this today, and it amused me.

…are actually weakly genetic freaks and shouldn’t be allowed to breed.

But that also defines most Americans, French and people from Essex, but they seem to be allowed to breed. Another double standard perhaps?

I have had the bug to get a mac for several months now, but the price seemed to be a natural antibiotic. The next best thing… a hackintosh, but again the hardware compatibility means special buys, and you are not really going to save a lot… And some of the processes to convert your machine are VERY involved. Enter the Dell Mini 9 that I have. Apparently it’s a perfect match hardware wise (although I can’t use a 16GB SD card in the slot and my Mic is not working).
Continue reading Proud new owner of a hackbook mini

I am really starting to get pissed off with this whole “Women are hard done by” attitude going round at the moment.

I work for a large company that prides itself on being a “diverse and inclusive” employer, and even has a “Code of Conduct” for all employees that means you can get the sack if you are in any way ‘negatively discriminant’… positive discrimination though – that’s finer than the finest fine thing on a fine day in Fineville!!

So the company I work for, somehow managed to get a ‘womans’ network. Why? Are we no longer supporting our “Code of Conduct”? Or are women still so inadequate that they need support?

They probably get round the ‘Diversity’ issue by supporting pretty women, ugly women, fat women, skinny women and lesbians – and get round any ‘inclusion’ issues by “inviting” men to come along.

Or, are women playing on the “Code of Conduct” has the acronym “COC” so does not apply to them?

Because of the economic situation, our company also has the slogan “Spend company money like you would your own”… If this hypocrisy is allowed to continue, I’m gonna start buying shares in Brantano cuz it looks like we may be taking them over soon.