Showing posts with label The Grand Whazoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Grand Whazoo. Show all posts
10/26/2009
9/10/2008
With less than Eight hours to go...
Until the end of the planet as we know it...
(Thanks to those crazy boffins at C.E.R.N and their very expensive and quite dangerous (if you believe certain kooky science types quoted on CNN and other major news-agencies) Large Hadron Collider which is to be switched on later today 100 meters below Geneva, Switzerland.)
...I sat down in front of my laptop with the intention of writing something intelligent, insightful and interesting about the faults and foibles of the human race in the hope that if scientific progress makes the planet go Boink my final words of wisdom could somehow sway The Grand Whazoo into giving the human race another go at life and what did I spend an hour and a half doing? I played with some of the FireFox 3 add ons.
First on the list was a neat little bit of technical wizardry called Foxsaver which allows you to have a screen saver type slide show of your pictures (or a stream of pictures from the web) right smack bang in the middle of your FireFox window. If you're anything like me and have a nice big folder of your favorite images sat in your drive then this little add on is a must have.
Next up was a nice little toolbar button add on that enables the full range of buttons for FireFox and allows you to pack all your vital things into your toolbar. I personally plumped for the Gmail button, Yahoo mail sign-in button, Wikipedia homepage button, FireFox Add-on button and a couple of others such as print preview button, clipmarks button, delicious tag button and the restart FireFox button. Because of these handy buttons my browser is now a lot cleaner looking as you can see from the screenshot below and is far more functional and easy on the eye.
I'd highly recommend whipping yourself over to the Mozilla add ons web page and grabbing both of these funky little add ons. As far as I'm concerned they're more than good enough to distract you from the end of the world.
(Thanks to those crazy boffins at C.E.R.N and their very expensive and quite dangerous (if you believe certain kooky science types quoted on CNN and other major news-agencies) Large Hadron Collider which is to be switched on later today 100 meters below Geneva, Switzerland.)
...I sat down in front of my laptop with the intention of writing something intelligent, insightful and interesting about the faults and foibles of the human race in the hope that if scientific progress makes the planet go Boink my final words of wisdom could somehow sway The Grand Whazoo into giving the human race another go at life and what did I spend an hour and a half doing? I played with some of the FireFox 3 add ons.
First on the list was a neat little bit of technical wizardry called Foxsaver which allows you to have a screen saver type slide show of your pictures (or a stream of pictures from the web) right smack bang in the middle of your FireFox window. If you're anything like me and have a nice big folder of your favorite images sat in your drive then this little add on is a must have.
Next up was a nice little toolbar button add on that enables the full range of buttons for FireFox and allows you to pack all your vital things into your toolbar. I personally plumped for the Gmail button, Yahoo mail sign-in button, Wikipedia homepage button, FireFox Add-on button and a couple of others such as print preview button, clipmarks button, delicious tag button and the restart FireFox button. Because of these handy buttons my browser is now a lot cleaner looking as you can see from the screenshot below and is far more functional and easy on the eye.
I'd highly recommend whipping yourself over to the Mozilla add ons web page and grabbing both of these funky little add ons. As far as I'm concerned they're more than good enough to distract you from the end of the world.
6/21/2008
"When the time is ready I shall send my only son to the earth to show them how to laugh."The Grand Whazoo.*
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And lo it came to pass that The Grand Whazoo did send his only son to earth. And you can join him in his quest to make the world giggle by joining him by clicking here.
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Family Friendly.
No service charge.
Tuesday is ladies night.
Special drinks promotions all week.
Happy hour all day.
Students of philosophy welcome.
Biker friendly.
No Scientists.
Please tip your waitress.
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No service charge.
Tuesday is ladies night.
Special drinks promotions all week.
Happy hour all day.
Students of philosophy welcome.
Biker friendly.
No Scientists.
Please tip your waitress.
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*During an acceptance speech for "Best god in a humourous role" award during the realm of gods, deitys and martyrs awards ceremony held at the Valhalla Holiday Inn. **
**(Tell them Marty sent you for a special reduction in rates.)
5/24/2008
It's saturday...
And it's the day I fly out to Florida.
In roughly five hours and forty five minutes there will be a phone call instructing me to get my arse out of bed and make my way downstairs to the car. Not that I'll be in my bed, oh no, I'll be wide awake and waiting expectantly like a kid at Christmas.
I've spent most of tonight whipping and ripping my favorite music onto my hard disk, finishing packing the necessities and pondering whether or not Florida, and the people of the state, will live up to my expectations. To put it more succinctly, all thoughts of Edinburgh could not be further from my mind.
My lucky t-shirt (I've never died while wearing it) sits on my armchair beside me in preparation for another test of its powers and my lucky mascot is safely stowed in my backpack.
That's him. His name is Jo Boo and he's the earth bound messenger of The Grand Whazoo, who as you all should know by now, is every God all rolled into one. And that's a damn good mascot to have on your side should the shit hit the fan.
I will, of course, be documenting my trip on this here blog and you can keep abreast of things by checking back over the next three weeks. Constant updates (courtesy of twitter) will be posted here on the main page, on my twitter page and via this rss feed.
In roughly five hours and forty five minutes there will be a phone call instructing me to get my arse out of bed and make my way downstairs to the car. Not that I'll be in my bed, oh no, I'll be wide awake and waiting expectantly like a kid at Christmas.
I've spent most of tonight whipping and ripping my favorite music onto my hard disk, finishing packing the necessities and pondering whether or not Florida, and the people of the state, will live up to my expectations. To put it more succinctly, all thoughts of Edinburgh could not be further from my mind.
My lucky t-shirt (I've never died while wearing it) sits on my armchair beside me in preparation for another test of its powers and my lucky mascot is safely stowed in my backpack.
I will, of course, be documenting my trip on this here blog and you can keep abreast of things by checking back over the next three weeks. Constant updates (courtesy of twitter) will be posted here on the main page, on my twitter page and via this rss feed.
1/13/2008
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