ScottIsAFool

I'm glad I wasn't going anywhere this evening. And yes, this is the same family!

She just parked that close to the back of my car! It's not like she would have been blocking a driveway by being just a bit further back either!

Seriously! How fucking hard is it?! Yes, you are seeing correctly, they have parked on the bloody pavement!

"Ma, where's my hunting gun.?"

My friend Lisa has just got herself a new kitten (kitteh ) and I took a few pictures of her that I just wanted to share

I’m planning on doing a sort of social experiment with twitter, and would like some people to help me out (hence the social). My experiment is simple: I want to see what kind of tweets people are writing, and by that I mean are they positive tweets, negative tweets, or somewhere in the middle.

So for example, if I were to twitter the following: “Ugh, why can’t developers just release things properly?!”, then this would be classed as a negative tweet. Over a two week period during August, keep a tally of how many tweets you send (or make a note of how many you’ve sent already then take that off how many you’ve sent at the end of the two weeks), and make every time you make a negative tweet, add it to the negative total, and the same for positive and neutral ones. Replies and retweets also count towards this as do blog posts (if you tweet your blog posts).

Once you’ve done your two weeks, email me at scott[at]liveside[dot]net with the subject “Twitter Experiment” so I can collate the results. When emailing me, please include the following information:

• Your name
• Your twitter name (eg, @scottisafool)
• How many tweets were sent
• How many of those were positive/negative/neutral (the totals of these should equal the number of tweets sent).
• Whether you would like your name to appear in the results

Please feel free to pass this blog post on (or retweet my announcement tweet) to those who might be interested in taking part in this and please try and be as accurate as you can, although I know this is just a bit of fun I would like to get the results for all this done by the middle of September, so if you plan on starting your two weeks after the 17th August, could you please just drop me an email (above) and just let me know, so that I know to wait for your results.

Last night was the night. The night I’ve been waiting for for over a year since seeing some sneaky peek look at some clips (thanks mate you know who you are!) of The Dark Knight. Let me tell you, believe the hype! Forget that some of the hype is probably due to Ledger’s death and no-one wanting to say that his last fully completed film is crap, because Ledger as the Joker is simply breathtaking!

I think what makes his portrayal so good is how naturally he seems to play the role. He does things in the film, pretty bad things, but he does them with almost a cold casualness to them (think the pencil magic trick). For me, it’s also the little things, like the way in which he talks, the way his tongue always seems to be licking his lips (for want of a better description). The other factor is with most actors, no matter how good the performance, you could always look at them and remember other roles they’ve been in (although there are exceptions, Gary Oldman and Jonny Depp being two), but with The Joker, there is only one second in the film, just one second, where you see him without the white face paint, and so all you see through the film is the character, not the actor.

This is truly a great film, with a stunning performance by Heath. Of course there are other great performances in this film other than Ledger’s, but his is the one that really stood out for me.

The other thing I absolutely love from this film is Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack. The Batman Begins soundtrack was pretty good, but this new one for TDK is just so dark it’s brilliant, really captures the film well, and I just can’t get enough of it!

So now I have another wait: for this to come out on Bluray!

Yesterday I decided my hair needed cutting, it was starting to get unruly! So I got the trusty clippers out and asked Mel to do the honours, down to about a grade 2, something sensible like that. We started, but nothing was really getting cut off, so we lowered the clipper blades, still nothing, lowered more, still nothing, until we were at the shortest it would do. Still nothing. This was on the top of my head, where admittedly, it's at its thinnest. So Mel decided to try at the side: success! Or was it. we still actually had it on the lowest setting and I would have been left with a random patch of no hair if I hadn't then got the rest done to the same length.

So now I look like a convict/crazy ass biker! Oh, and balder than ever

In some of my tweets on Twitter, you might have seen me complain about how incompetent my neighbours are when it comes to parking. I should iterate at this point, by incompetent, I mean f*cking retarded and can’t park for shit!

So when I got home last night and discovered that the same people have parked like morons again, I decide to show you all what I meant, so I took a couple of pictures (and then stitched them with Windows Live Photo Gallery) and present that to you here (number plates blanked to protect the thick):

Seriously, look how much space there is between each of the cars! What you can’t see very well in the picture is the Astra (red car on the left) is actually parked at an angle!!!! But it's their daughter (green 106) that is the worst at the moment. Seriously, how hard is it to park sensibly and show consideration for the other people who have to park there. I should point out that all three cars (hippy wagon, astra, 106) all belong to the same family, so I’m guessing parking skills is not something this family possesses!

If this continues, then I will having words with them and telling them if they can’t park properly, to park elsewhere! 

Justice: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7441793.stm?

Yesterday was the release of the new Indiana Jones movie, and is the first of my “big four” films that I want to see this year. There’s been a lot of hype surrounding this film, and it’s certainly had its critics panning it. But I don’t [generally] care what an over paid film critic thinks, especially when it concerns one of my favourite film franchises

So needless to say, I was at the cinema last night watching the new Indy film, and I thought it was actually very good. Harrison Ford still did pretty well in the role considering he’s now 64! The only thing I didn’t really like was the ending. I will now talk about the ending, but it will contain spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the film and don’t want to know what happens, don’t read on! You have been warned!

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The thing I didn’t like about the ending was the aliens. I mean come on! Really didn’t like that, and the weird thing is, considering I’m not in the slightest bit religious, I would have much preferred some old legend or religious tale to have been used as the ending as believe it or not, I’d have found it more believable than some typical 1950s looking aliens and a bloody flying saucer (I’m not kidding!!). That really ruined the ending for me at that point. Next time guys, stick with the religious stuff, it kinda makes more sense!
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If you’re an Indy film, I would say you should definitely go see this film, but if you’re an Indy fan, you probably already have seen it

Over the last few days I’ve been having several problems with my internet and my BT Home Hub that has resulted in several calls to BT’s “Technical Support” (I quote that because they appeared thick as pig shit)! The trouble is that BT’s call centre is situated in India, not in the UK, so you have people trying to be helpful, but where English isn’t their first language, so you try and explain something to them and they just haven’t got a clue!

I was then watching the TV the other night, and an advert came on for a bank and one of the big selling points was “if you call our call centre, you’ll be speaking to someone in this country.” I couldn’t help thinking “how is that a selling point?” Has the situation with call centres got that ridiculous that companies are now offering UK based call centres as a selling point?! I mean, shouldn’t that be a given? I mean let’s face it, if someone in Germany calls a call centre for a German company, they’re not going to get someone in India saying “Guten tag, kann ich innen helfen?” are you! So why should we?

So again, how is something that should be a given become a selling point…?!