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Found this and thought it was quite funny and VERY clever.

Until Next Time…

I had heard of this bit for a while and was told it was a classic so here it is.

Just how cool is that.. clicky click click below for more

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Back in the day, when Napster was the be all and end all of MP3 Downloading we in the UK didn’t really have the technology to take full advantage of it. Dial up connections was really as good as it got unless you paid mega money to have an ISDN line. Broadband was a fantasy unless you worked for a large company who had it installed. When I first got online I didn’t know anyone in the UK who had anything faster than a 56k download speed. There was rumours from my friends in America that there was such a thing as cable and T1 connections but I had no idea what they were talking about. As far as I was concerned the idea of me having broadband was equal to me getting a date with a naked Christina Ricci gagging for some some big poppa Paul lovin’, it just wasn’t gonna happen.:twisted:

That was until I went to the states to visit Linda and ended up staying for two years (another story that I will share soon). We soon got Cable TV and with that came Cable fast Internet. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. I could download whole albums in less time than it took to make a coffee, I could watch streaming video’s without having to keep buffering the picture. It was great.. I was in hog heaven.. until it broke and then I went through severe withdrawal symptoms. NO Internet NO TV. I was reduced to listening to NPR 12 hours a day. Looking back now, now that I have my Internet addiction under some kind of control, I should have and could have done so much with all that time, but I didn’t, so there.

Fast forward to today and I now have a faster connection that I did in America and it’s normal to me. When things go wrong now and with my isp it happens more than I would like, it’s frustrating, yes, but nowadays I can get on with other things whilst I wait for my connection to come back. I can write and wait. I can digitally paint and wait, I can read and wait. Basically I can do anything AND WAIT. NO, OF COURSE I AM NOT STILL ADDICTED. OK so maybe I have some dependency issues still lingering with the Internet.

I do spend too much time sat at the computer and I could probably use my time more constructively and spend more time with Linda. When I can I do spend time with Linda so please no email saying I shouldn’t neglect her because of the Internet. The computer is in the living room and we spend every evening talking and laughing. I just happen to spend it in front of the PC.. but I am not glued to my monitor. It has even been known for Linda to sit by me and watch me play around on the puter. We are as close as two people and a machine can get (without size c batteries that is)

Until Next Time…

It’s getting close to Halloween and I am getting excited. Halloween is not really an English holiday that is celebrated. It should be we have enough ghoulish history to play with, maybe that’s the reason we have to much of an horrific history.. people are sick of the horrific history.

For me Halloween is a good chance for me to revel in my weirdness. I get an excuse to walk around and talk about horror movies and scare little children. It’s all good fun, i just wish I could make more of it.

So where does this interest in the dark-side come from… Well, I blame my mother. She had my little brother and I desensitized to horror movies by the age of 7. We were allowed to watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street as a norm. Mum wasn’t afraid to let us see those films, because we knew that it was all fake (I would disagree with that logic now I am a grandparent.. but I grew up in more innocent times and both Nik and I knew there was no Fred Kruger or Leatherface back then)

While Mum let us watch all the slasher and gore movies we wanted, but anything that showed nudity was out.. Ski School and Porkies were out. It bugged me as a kid because I was missing out on naked women and I kinda rebelled I wanted to see skin on the bone not being ripped of it.. and I stopped watching Horror. I would occasionally watch a Freddie Kruger film but as a rule, I wanted to see boobies. It’s still the same but now I enjoy them both just as much as each-other.

These days I make time for as many films a week as I can. I can watch hours of TV a week and be totally unfulfilled but give me two hours watching a movie and BAM stick a fork in me, I am done. If you give me a choice I would watch film after film after film and never need the TV for anything but News and more films.

Maybe it’s because I am bored and have no real interest in the vast amount of soap operas that are on in my house that TV doesn’t really play a big part in my life. I can take it or leave it. Mind you there are always exceptions. For me these are classic BBC comedy and drama Dad’s Army and Spooks and DECENT American drama like Lost and The Sopranos.

In these days of TV Shows coming out on DVD, who really needs broadcast TV anyway. I for-see the day when everything will be streamed on-line. If you live in the UK you can watch BBC News on-line 24/7. Within the next 12-24 months you will be able to watch the majority of the BBC’s output through the web. The question I need to ask now is should I sell my TV now and invest in a larger monitor and save myself over £100 a year on the license fee?