Humour

What’s weird about this video is that it appears to be culled from the same speech. Oh and that he doesn’t screw up once.

Do not disturb I am disturbed enough already

I just booked a flight to Oslo and noticed that under ‘Meal Options’ alongside ‘Vegetarian’, ‘Non-dairy’ and various religious preferences was the intriguing option of ‘Bland’ so of course I immediately selected it. I simply can not imagine how plastic airline fare could be made any more bland. Will a cabin stewardess really waltz down the aisles demanding ‘Did anyone ask for a bland meal ?’ Stay tuned.

Ricky Gervais is one of my favourite comedians (The Office, Extras) and has produced the first in a series of podcasts for The Grauniad with Stephen Merchant (co-writer) and Karl Pilkington (who has a hard time). The podcast is 30 minutes of chat and improvisation but very funny.

Recently, I was watching my daughter doing some homework on the PC and noticed that she was listening to music from a radio stream over the Internet, talking to her friends in real-time using Instant Messenger, uploading photos of her holiday to her Web page, ripping music from a CD ready to copy on to an MP3 player and integrating an chart from Excel spreadsheet into a Word document. A couple of things struck me:-...