we went to london last night to see a charity gig comprising of 8 comedians at the dominion theatre. had a great time, laughed so much i got a headache. the line up was as follows...
Jimmy Carr
Adam Bloom
Robin Ince
Ricky Gervais
Milton Jones
Stuart Lee
Tim Vine
...and one other guy we cant remember the name of... will edit later
here is something my brother emailed me recently....
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like! Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fas t and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
little hint: you can't win! a company like McDonald's isn't sustainable: Once you have destroyed all the resources, made everyone obese and ill and corrupted the governments, you wont be able to keep up with the demand, pay the wages or find enough land that hasn't been polluted or over farmed...
Here is the 1st of a few clips of the amazing derren brown, magician, hypnotist, mentalist (you might be surprised that is actually a branch of magic - not a put down) my girlfriend, my brother, my sister and i are all going to see derren live in poole later next month, very much looking forward to it, check back for a review later in april:
Went to see the Mighty Boosh Live at the Pavilion in Bournemouth last night.
Great show, like going to a panto again, but in this panto the hero gets raped by a giant rabbit whilst wearing a suit made of mirrors... you had to be their i suppose... but it was very funny.
i'm going to have to get the dvd box set this weekend as i have only ever really listened to the radio show having only catching a few episodes from the 1st tv series on abc whilst living in Melbourne and then watching a cruddy realplayer rendition of one episode from the 2nd (this was back when i didn't have a tv and had worked out how to make bbc shows play properly on my mac).
go and have a look at some of the pics i took at the show here
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the new pod-cast (now classed as a audio book as it is charged for apparently) is now available from iTunes, more details on Ricky's site (link above).