Gadgets
Sqweel of good fortune!
I received a press release for the Love Honey Sqweel. It’s a sex toy (hee hee hee). A SEX TOY. A patent pending piece of technology touted as being the most groundbreaking revolution in orgasms ever.
An eye on the future!
You know that queue you have to get in just after you’ve got off a plane. The one at immigration. The queue that folds back and forth making it impossible to judge how long it’ll take.
10 POINTLESS “i” GADGETS
iPod. iPhone. iTunes. iBook. Apple smashed the ball right out of the gadgetry park the day they created that glorious ‘i’ prefix. They may have started the craze, but that didn’t stop a lot of people cashing in on it, with frequently ridiculous results.
My Microtrack
I love it when a piece of technology changes the way I see the world. A good camera makes me view things differently. A good pair of headphones transforms walking under the feaces-covered railway bridge by my house into a gritty cinematic experience
Quotes
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Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes.
- Billy Connolly
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Two guys are talking and one says to the other: 'What would you do if the end of the world was in 3 minutes time?' The other one says: 'I'd shag everything that moved. What would you do?' And he says: 'I'd stand perfectly still.'
- Billy Connolly
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Never trust a man who, when left alone with a tea cosy, does not try it on.
- Billy Connolly
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Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex and men need to have sex to feel loved, so the basic act of continuing the species requires a lie from one of you.
- Billy Connolly
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What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find?
- Billy Connolly
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Marriage is a wonderful invention. Then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
- Billy Connolly
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On George W Bush: That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world. My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television.
- Billy Connolly
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Now the country is in a terrible state and you've blamed it on a number of things - unemployment rate, the value of the pound, and all that. It's actually because the national anthem is boring.
- Billy Connolly
I robot
While I write this, there is a Robot at home cleaning my house. Yep, the future’s arrived people. The future has arrived.
Parrot fashion!
L'Enfant terrible of design Phillipe Starck has designed a pair of high-end speakers for stereo company Parrot. But are they any good?
