Ductacular

Sometimes you've just got to stretch and beat the wings...

Pacific Black Duck

James

On Days Like These - Two

This BBC advertorial ~ with a few problems* ~ has a classic mix - Alfa Romeos and Tuscan roads. The programme here. You get the feeling you could do better, which is probably the point... Enjoy.

Days like these - One.

* A reporter on a vintage car segment who drives automatic only?

University Research

I know this is true, I've tested it.

From the remarkable xkcd.

It's that mint sauce time of year...

So cute.

So ... ... edible.

Eyrey Mature Themes

It's official. Thanks to the movees, we now know Jane's got 'Mature Themes'.

Oh, and you might like to note that Charlotte Brontë's also got a 'bold new vision'.

Hmmm.

Dashing dusk dog

Toby in hot pursuit last night. Although not a perfect image, as an experiment I'm happy with it. I like the way the image 'rotates' about a fixed point on his hind leg.

James

Perfect Headline

Sometimes the headline is just sweet:

Woman uses stiletto to attack ATM

What's not to love? As you'd expect that's basically the best bit, although "The machine ... was struck 'almost 50 times' by a woman shortly after midnight on 2 July." is a pretty good sentence. Sometimes spending your carefully hoarded kebab money on that extra cocktail in the knowledge you can ~hem~ 'hit' the ATM is a mistake, particularly when the &^%$%# machine refuses to hand over the cash.

The article finished by saying that the Police would like a chat. I'd hope it would be for tips on grip and angle, and what kind of stiletto does the best damage.

James

For those who want the rest of the story, it's here, with video. I like how she hammers the thing, puts her shoe back on, goes 'beep boep boop beep' "No Cash" and then calmly has another attitude adjustment on the machine.