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Oh bliss - I turn on the TV and they show one of my favourite South Park episodes (Ike's bris and Mr Mkay's drug experience). And now there's Blondie concert!

She comes in colours everywhere

I am currently listening to FashionTV. Yes, that's listening, not watching. While fashion shows often feature horrendous clothes, they usually have good music, so I'm listening to it in front of the computer while models strut aimlessly in the living room.

Occasionally when I pass through the living room I see something nice, but on the whole I don't find models attractive. I mean, why would I be attracted to a sulky, scraggy thing a foot taller than me? On the other hand, I chanced on an advert for the Pirelli catalogue, which cleverly, if not entirely subtly, juxtaposed pictures from the news (tanks etc.) with, well, breasts. This brings home the simple message "breasts are good." Compared to tanks, they certainly are, though I still fail to see what it has to do with tyres. Breasts make me want to revert to a simplistic G.E. Moore-type intuitive ethics: some things are simply good, and we know it without having to go into ethical calculus or Kantian imperatives. For more on this,see my old diary entry, Ethics on the Beach

Comments

It's funny what people comment on and what they don't. I can guarantee getting a load of comments by mentioning race or American politics, and I'm pretty sure an entry along the lines of "Today I tried to compile something from CVS, but I couldn't get configure to see the damn GLX libraries" will pass by uncommented. Otherwise there doesn't seem to be a consistent pattern. Not that I care - I'm a terrible intellectual narcissist, but even I don't measure my self-worth by LJ comments - but it's kind of interesting seeing what will provoke responses. Strangely, my long, serious (heh) ethnographic piece on rhythmic gymnastics and self-defence seems to have gone unread, which is a shame since it's one of the few things I really would like feedback on. Go on, read it, it'll make you giggle. And it's got pictures, too!

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Although I generally find McCaughey's style rather indigestible, she can be pretty witty at times:

[commenting on MTV] If women were to make [music] videos involving their sexual fantasies, it is doubtful that they would involve women who look as if they had not eaten in a week, grouped together, all fawning over a scruffy musician. (McCaughey, 1997:36)

Queen of Darkness

I'm hooked on a Turkish historical/fantasy TV series called "Karaoğlan" (pronounced "kara-owe-lan", just like Turkey's new eminence gris is pronounced "air-doe-an", not "erdoggan"). It's a Xena-style romp with some great tongue-in-cheek dialogue. In this scene, Karaoğlan comes face to face with the evil sorceress Zenka for the first time.

"So you're ... her!"
"Yes. I am Zenka, Queen of Darkness ... but you can call me Zenka for short."

BBSpot - Yahoo Erotica Editor Fired for Excessive Programming

Sunnyvale, CA - Fred Munk yesterday lost his job for excessive perl programming. Munk was hired for categorization and review of links to pornographic websites for Yahoo's Erotica department. He allegedly spent more time programming perl-scripts than looking for porn.

"He was fired for gross laziness" reports Diane Vice, Yahoo's Director of Consumer Porn. "I mean, it's okay to use company resources for fun stuff for fifteen minutes after lunch, to stimulate digestion by whipping up some nifty regular expression or obfuscating the break-condition in a for-loop, but this Munk-guy has a serious productivity problem. I told him get some professional help, but Fred didn't listen and continued to churn out code during work hours - compulsively, obsessively, just sick!"

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