Monthly Archives: December 2006

Torn

My kids love this, subject to two clarifications: 1. Try to skip the gesture 21 seconds in – “He came around” – for obvious reasons. 2. The other dodgy gesture – “He” – is clearly referring to the fact that men have zippers in their trousers. Right?

Of Course

Why does this not come as a surprise? A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants…The Golden State Fence Company’s work includes some of the border fence between San Diego and Mexico. For the record, I think it is every nation’s absolute right to limit [...]

Driving

I was driving along a few days ago and was reminded how low the standard for driving can be. It was a little foggy, which meant that every third person on the road had switched on their rear fog light. Fog lights are great, but are specifically for conditions where traffic behind you would struggle [...]

Cake

We had a cake for my son’s birthday a couple of days ago, and I was reminded of one of the benefits of living in the UK – decent cake. It is, as with so many other things, possible to get good cake in the US, but you have to know where to go as [...]

Pachelbel

I wasn’t going to embed anything for a while to try and fix my layout, but I figure a picture is more likely to get you to watch this, so… I didn’t play cello at school – unlike everyone else in the entire country who learned the recorder (a nasty instrument in a child’s hands [...]