Up and Down

Just have to share these two links with you guys. I don't know how to paste them as proper links do you better just cut and paste them to your browsers. Sorry.

"UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him in to custody."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CdNgoC0cE&eurl=

I got to warn you, it's very disturbing - that is so long as you have a liberal - humanist view of the word.

Then there's this "The Best David Blain Trick Ever"

http://metadish.com/news/david-blaine/best-david-blaine-street-magic-performance-ever.php

This had me in a giddy knot on the floor. Only twice before have I laughed so hard.

Musicman

Hello, hello!

Well we went to see U2 do their thing in Adelaide last night. It was 13 years ago they were here last. Sure weren't they good, as usual. Nothing to run out into the streets and cry "Hurrah!" about. Although the local media are calling it as the "Best Concert Ever". That's little old Adelaide for you, so starved of international attention that any little thing sets them off. I suppose U2's gig was a big deal for this place, it is rather insular. Cold night though. It's ironic that the last time I saw the lads from Dublin it was in Landsdowne Road on a fine and sultry August night in 1997. In fact it was my first date with Vanessa. There you go.

Well on other music news I discovered Damien Rice this week. An excellent young artist from Celbridge, County Kildare. Check out his two albums O and 9. You'll recognise his stuff if not his name.

We're all throttleing toward Christmas over here. Vanessa and I are heading up to Queensland for our holidays. Going to spend some time with Vanessa's aunt and some time alone in the Whitsundays. Lord know we won't be able to do too much come April 2007.

Today we went and had the ultrasound for morphology. A bit of a flat even really. All I can tell you is that Skeletor McBean has the required number of kidney's, heart chambers, stomachs, bladders, brains, lips, eyes, legs, toes, arms and fingers (which from all the sonographs so far appear to be clenched into perpetual fists). S/hes a stubborn little one though! No matter how much prodding or pushing the operator did little McBean would not play fair. A lot of Hamilton there I reckon.

I better tell you why Skeletor McBean. Well, those of you with kid will understand this. Finding a name is HARD! Really!. I thought, like Vanessa, that a name would be easy. Sure we both had names we like for a long, long time before we fell prgnant. The thing is as soon as a child becomes a reality those name somehow loose all their power. Honestly it doesn't help that my family has managed to use up almost every name going! It's the Elliott's more so. Anyway S McB has come about because of a few reasons. One we don't know the sex, and don't want to know. Two, we just can't decide on a name and both of us deeply believe that to name the child before s/he's born is a very bad thing to do. Finally, it's a combination of how the baby looks to us right now - the first ultrasound showed us a tiny thing the size and shape of a butter bean, these days all we see is a little lump of chicken bones that makes us smile like our heads are flip-top bins! So there we have Skeletor McBean.

Later folks!

Malcolm

The Friday Bachelor

Hi folks!

I'm on my own this Friday. It won't stop me being the blog hog that I am. Nope not a bit.

Anyhoo..... Vanessa has gone for the weekend, over to Yorke Penninsula with Anne, a friend from her work. Although invited I took the escape route of "two girls one guy, I'd just be bored, in the way, out of the conversation" and so on. Many Hollywood movies have been made on the same premise, usually romantic comedy sort of stuff. I'd enjoy a movie with a character like Anne. She works for a bank and is pretty high up there too. The thing that freaks me out is that, and this is not me being a funny bugger, but she uses astrology to make all of her financial decisions! And it works! For her anyway. Just a look at her stock portfolio will convince you of that. Anne will sit down once a week surrounded by astrology books, cosmological charts telling her the positions of the stars for years to come, some writing paper, a pencil, a ruler and a calculator then she'll go trough the finacial papers and work out what the best shares to buy are based on her day, time and place of birth, or those of her client - all depends on who's buying the stocks. From that you are probably imagining some one in a black lace dress with lots of purple highlights and odd rings on her fingers. Maybe somebody smelling faintly of incense sticks and brown bread? ERRRRKK! Wrong. She looks just like you and me. Very normal and level headed - well aside from the crazy moon in Uranus stuff.

I'm still holding onto the hope that some more Hamiltons will begin to add to this fine site. I told my dad about it lastweek, but I can see he hasn't posted a contribution. And a few weeks ago Ita encouraged Sean Hamilton to get in gear. No result from that either. Well they say the world is getting smaller. In less that 24 hours you can fly from Dublin to Sydney, but it appears that people are becomming more distant. And yes, I was a sinner in the Church of Contact for a long time too. But now I hope I've seen the error of my ways, wicked or otherwise, and cleaned up my act.

Who are "they" anyway? Some mysterious committee somewhere who pass out verdicts on the world whenever somebody need to add gravitas to a fatuous argument? Well I for one am very grateful for "their" input. Sheesh.... I can't count the number of times "they've" helped me win alcohol burning discussions. I wonder if we pay "them" through our taxes?

Finally this weeks Malc Recommends.

On the 3rd of November 2006 I recommend these two websites. First up is http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/ it needs sound, so if you're at work where the boss is a bit sticky on such things then try it during quiet time. There's nothing rude but it is a little boisterous.

Next is the brilliant http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/ a site dedicated to bringing us the dumbest comic books ever published.

So long for now.

Malcolm