Random collection of musings...

Weakest Link YTD : +£27

That's been quiet because I've been flirting between 20 and 25 up for ages now, before I jackpot the machine for eight quid earlier. And with a pub crawl tonight, that's more than welcome.

Got to love Harry Redknapp's man management skills. According to today's Times, "[Redknapp] spent several minutes telling one of his overseas players [things] before realising he spoke no English." Jesus christ. Just shout the guy's name and if he says "que?" you might get the picture.

Something I was meaning to mention a long time ago - while handing in some criminal non-assessed, I noticed a sign on the door of the faculty board room - "Ed Bram will add 50p to the cost of each book". Now I guess that was from the start of term book sale. Now there's me thinking that they were doing that kind of thing for the good of the students. Nope, quick cash. I can't believe that they'd try to pass it off as hiring expenses either. If we tried to add rake at poker we'd be breaking the law.

Now with the closure of PC Cluster 1 in the library for no good reason, and the fact that nowhere apart from Mappin Street is open on a Sunday barring the library (and only because it's extended hours), computer space is a bit cramped. Hence I couldn't believe the cheek of two Rio Ferdinand lookalikes flanking my computer, downing tools at about 4 but leaving their bags and stuff and leaving themselves logged in, and coming back after the football! And what was worse that nobody waiting could be arsed to kick them off, even after I'd told them they'd been gone for over two hours! And then to have the cheek to come back and go on MSN and play solitaire... fuckwits. I hope they get face cancer.

Hattrick is going great. Just sold off the last of my crappy old trainees for a nice sum, and unless Blandford get a surprise win against a surely MOTSing steady's away (who need the win to secure the title, as they're a point ahead of mutinyclan who have got a brand new team to play), I can sneak third with what should be a guaranteed win. Nice. Solid coach will be in play when the £150K for the sale of John Felton clears. Getting a point away to Blandford with a murderous TS on a PIC while losing midfield by three levels is sweet.

yadda yadda yadda yadda what was that?

Considering the sparcity of updates recently, two postings in one day is somewhat of a shock. In any case, I find the irony of a couple of daft as fuck bints nattering on about every subject in the world during property 2 (not helped by David Townend's mic not working, bless his cotton socks), and then sadly missing the "no lecture next Friday" comment because of general noise level. What a pity, I do hope they turn up next week for no lecture, for great justice. The standards to get onto this course are now a frightening AAA (frightening because the department can teach OK but couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery), but there must be an implied term "and be as thick as pig shit". The number of people who can't work out how to turn off a mobile phone, or that if you want a conversation there's plenty of other places where you can speak without whispering and pissing off half the people in the lecture is frightening. Worse thing is that any students in any form of "power", and I use the word loosely, are just as bad. If our so called representatives can't distill at least six serious points of concern about the course down into a question in an SSLC meeting, what hope do they have about trivial matters like the amount of junk that's on the Law UG forum (see previous postings). The scary thing is that half of these people will end up getting well paid jobs. Crazy.

Space Cadets

I watched this yesterday. It seems like an interesting enough concept, were it not for the fact that all of the people seem as dense as two short planks. Probably too stupid - there's a rumour that I've heard from a few places that everybody is in on it, not just the two "actors" of the twelve and the rest of the supporting crew, and that the whole thing is a hoax on the public. Seems plausible enough - Endemol produce enough shite that it really wouldn't surprise me. I'll just take it at entertainment value alone with suspicion, at least it's better than fucking Little Britain which it clashed with yesterday.

It's also amusing that the speed of James "Rhyming Slang" Blunt backlash right now. I doubt anyone will be able to walk around with a copy of his album in February without being lynched, and rightly so :-)

Free ipod idiots

Christ, you'd think at a uni of the calibre of Sheffield there wouldn't be too many people lacking the intelligence to realise that these "free ipod" deals are all either illegal, scams, flood your inbox with junk mail, infect your computer with spyware, or all of the above. But there are, sadly, and they seem to be migrating from the for sale forum to the law UG forum (which is frequently like a for sale forum anyway). Sweet jesus. Idiots.