South Africa vs Wales
It’s the Rugby World Cup! And you know what that means. Yes! Super-insightful and timely running commentaries on all three four of the Welsh games right here, on WYWG! As always in WYWG’s “live” sports blogs, the normal and amusing words like these are written by me, WYWG, and the [bracketed, italic, and dreary words like these] are written by WYWG’s close ally, Tom. Apologies for the delay in this first update. I know you were all eagerly expecting it on Tuesday afternoon. WYWG’s excuse is that WYWG was on holiday in Tuscany. [No excuse for neglecting WALES!] We hope to resume normal scheduling [i.e. just a few days late rather than a whole week] as of the Samoa game on Sunday.
I’m watching on ITV Player. What a novelty! The picture freezes during the Welsh national anthem. I’m not sure if the pause is in the video feed that ITV are using or if it’s just a glitch on my internet connection. Either way it can’t be a good omen.
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“ I do work on the road using a MacBook Air, not an iPad, because I’m one of those users for whom the iPad’s design compromises get in the way, and slow me down. But I like having the iPad as a separate device, for reading and video. ”
John Gruber, who obviously did get the memo that the iPad is only for consumption, not creation.
I love the way KFC isn’t afraid to mock its own customers for their sad, lonely lives.
Because what could be more seductive than lube?
These begonias just Will. Not. Quit. They are relentless.
Click to embiggen and for more great shuttle pics. (Copyright: Reuters/NASA)
This photo terrifies me. My greatest fear is floating stranded in space, only metres away from my spacecraft, but with no way of propelling myself towards it.
(via Shawn Blanc)
“ Oooh. Sick burn. Walt should give out some ointment with a burn like that. Walt
should smother a guy in industrial fire-fighting foam when delivering such a
third-degree burn. ”
The Macalope, in his Macworld column of June 11th, who has been on fire (no pun intended) over the past few weeks. I also loved the coining of the phrase “Dumb springs eternal.” the week before.
Surprising Discovery of the Day
The song Place Your Hands, by Reef has a break1.
Can’t wait for the first time I hear a DJ drop this in a breaking battle.
All You Care to Eat
I hadn’t been to the real USA for some time1 so I was surprised to see that many food outlets have rebranded their “All You Can Eat” buffets in a manner which is presumably intended to promote more healthy eating. As if somehow it were the wording used rather than the very concept of offering unlimited portions of food that has turned so many people into fatties.
I didn’t notice any difference in average waist-size of the clientele of the new slimline “care to” eateries vs the old-school “can” establishments, but I guess my sample size wasn’t really high enough to draw any scientific conclusions.
So wait, a few months ago Apple rejected tap tap tap’s Camera+ app from the App Store because of a setting which allowed you to use your iThing’s volume buttons as a hardware shutter release because “it uses iPhone volume buttons in a non-standard way, potentially resulting in user confusion”, and now they are touting that very same feature as one of the innovations in iOS 5?
You stay classy, Apple.
PLEASE RETURN TO SENDER
Dear British Gas,
Lady Holt is deceased. You know this, because I informed you of it when I phoned you on purchasing this house two months ago. And yet the number of letters addressed to her you’ve sent to this address since then is fast approaching double figures. You can keep posting them if you like, and I will keep writing “DECEASED, PLEASE RETURN TO SENDER” on them and returning them, but it’s not going to bring her back.
It’s time to let her go.
France vs Wales
It’s the final match of the final weekend of the Six Nations tournament, and WYWG is going to liveblog every exciting minute for you! By which WYWG means that WYWG will watch it on BBC iPlayer late on Sunday night, and post ~2,500 words on it several days after the tournament is over. As always, my words are unadorned, and those of WYWG-contributor Tom [are surrounded by square brackets and italicised, thus.]
The BBC have dubbed last week’s fiasco “ball-gate.” Ugh. They also still haven’t figured out that there are three reasons that the controversial throw-in shouldn’t have been allowed, or the difference between a lineout and a quick throw-in.
Wales have travelled without their defensive coach, Shaun Edwards [due to a mystery “disciplinary” issue]. Jiffy doesn’t think it’ll be a problem because they’re professionals. [Hmmm…] Martyn Williams is in the studio as an analyst. Let’s hope he’s as good at talking about rugby as he is at playing it. [That is a big ask.]
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