Monthly Archive for January, 2006

Phone Call

Published
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Anton
on January 26, 2006
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An American decided to write a bookabout famous churches around the world.

So he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to Orlando,thinking that he would start by working his way across the USA from South to North.

On his first day he was inside a churchtaking photographs when he noticed a golden telephone mounted on the wallwith a sign that read"$10,000 per call". The American, being intrigued,asked a priest who was strolling by what the telephone was used for. The priest replied that it was a direct line to heaven and that for$10,000 you could talk to God. 

The American thanked the priest and went along his way.

Next stop was inAtlanta. There, at a very large cathedral, he sawthe same golden telephone with the same sign under it. He wondered if this was the same kind of telephone he saw in Orlando and heasked a nearby nun what its purpose was. She told him that it was a direct line to heaven and that for $10,000he could talk to God."O.K., thank you," said the American.

He then travelled to Indianapolis, Washington DC, Philadelphia,Boston and New York. In every church he saw the same golden telephonewith the same "$10,000 per call" sign under it. The American, upon leaving Vermont decided to travel to AUSTRALIAt osee if Australians had the same phone.

He arrived in Australia, and again, in the first church he entered, therewas the same golden telephone, but this time the sign under it read "40cents per call." The American was surprised so he asked the priest about the sign. "Father, I’ve travelled all over America and I’ve seen this samegolden telephone in many churches. I’m told that it is a direct lineto Heaven, but in the US the price was $10,000 per call. Why is it so cheap here?"

The priest smiled and answered,"You’re in Australia now, son - it’sa local call".

Be sidetracked for a minute…

Published
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Anton
on January 19, 2006
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A koala is sitting in a tree smoking a joint when a little lizard walks past and looks up and says to the koala “Hey! What are you doing?”

The koala says “Smoking a joint, come up and have some.”

So the little lizard climbs up and sits next to the koala and they have a few joints. After a while the little lizard says his mouth is dry and is going to get a drink from the river.

The little lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the river. A crocodile sees this and swims over to the little lizard and helps him to the side, then asks the little lizard, “What’s the matter with you?”

The little lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting smoking a joint with the koala in the tree, got too stoned and then fell into the river while taking a drink. The crocodile says he has to check this out and walks into the forest, finds the tree where the koala is sitting finishing a joint, and he looks up and says “Hey you!”

The koala looks down and says

“Faaaaarrrrk dude…….how much water did you drink?!!”

Slowly does it…

Published
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Anton
on January 19, 2006
in Blogging, Cajun, Debian, Reading and TV
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So it has been quite a while since I have posted anything (although I have put a few links and an awesome movie clip). Even shogun has posted since christmas (No offence intended mate, but we both suck at regular posts…)

I will not bore you with christmas present lists, but I did get a huge jar of Nutella (3Kg in fact), and will post a photo of it for sheer impact later.

Lost has finished, so I am short of one awesome TV program to watch, but I suppose I will make do with a new series of Shameless and Desperate housewives as well as borrowing the complete set of Stargate SG1.

I did get an awesome selection of books for christmas (see the list of top 10 geek books. I have already read iRobot, by Isaac Assimov. It is rather unlike the hollywood film of the same name, but is an awesome read - especially if you are interested in the idea of A.I. robots taking over the world. It is more like a collection of short stories, but has some incredible insights into how controlling robots with the usual 3 laws of robotics would fail to work.

I also read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, which I must strongly reccomend to anyone that likes some good fiction. It has to be one of my favourite books, and the author will most certainly be getting some of my hard earned cash for another book - all I have to do is decide which one!

My game idea is coming along incredibly slowly due to other projects and work. I am trying to get cajun packaged up as a Debian package so that it is not only easier to install, but I am also tempted to make a Debian install CD specifically for installing it.
Speaking of Cajun, I now own a Dremel so am hacking away the front of my pc case to give it a wooden cover and make it look a bit nicer in the living room - it is coming along slowly though… I am also looking at making some changes to the software, one of which will most certainly have to be a new remote control module, as the current one is almost backward to set up. Then I will have a nice jukebox sat in my living room (and maybe one day I will give it movie playback and the ability to record from TV like a PVR/sky+)

I am also working on a new photo album program. Don’t get me wrong, I love Gallery and will continue using it here, but I cannot fit all my photos on this server, and as they are all automatically backed up to my parents house, I figured that having a program trawl through them and make an automatic gallery of them would be far easier than trying to add new ones to Gallery every time I go on a photo shoot.

While I think of it, I want to reccomend a firefox plugin (you do use firefox don’t you?
You really must install session saver plugin, as it not only remembers your tabs when you exit firefox (so when you open it it is like you never closed it), but it also lets you re-open a tab in case you accidentally close it! Now how useful is that?!