sacred underwear

By now just about everybody knows what scotsmen wear under their kilts. I've just discovered that Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or mormons, as they are more commonly known, have a similar secret - only quite different. Having completed a initiation ritual, adult church members wear "temple garments" - a set of specially designed sacred underwear. The garments don't excactly look that fantastic and considering the climate in Utah, I guess it must be a dying custom. Follow this link for a closer look.

Just a little piece of important info I thought you'd like to know.

yes but celery?

It seems that Chelsea, top british soccer team, has banned celery from its home grounds. Enthusiastic Chelsea fans have been throwing celery for years, but now club management has issued a statement saying: "In future, if anyone is found attempting to bring celery into Stamford Bridge they could be refused entry and anyone caught throwing celery will face a ban," according to Guardian Unlimited.

Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do - with or without celery.

computer therapy

Sunday, just before noon, my computer 'died'... It just stopped starting and after a couple of resets I realized that this was no ordinary glitch but a real disaster. It didn't exactly come as a surprise either. I had been ignoring the occasional you-should-do-a-surface-scan-of-your-disk warnings for a long time.
So I removed the hard disk from my machine and plugged it into our spare computer/printer server and started the surface scanning routine. No problem. Several hours later the scan was completed and I put the disk back in its rightful place. However the expected happy feeling didn't materialize: All I had achieved seemed to be to exchange the nothing that originally happened with an interesting combination of error messages.
Now I ain't exactly Einstein but I must be just a little smarter than the guy who once decided that it was a good idea to rename every file retrieved during a disk scan "file0001.chk, file0002.chk, file0003.chk". What had happened was that my entire windows directory had been transformed into 9999 numbered files. What the h... is one supposed to do with 9999 unidentified files? It should be technically possible to come up with a slightly more meaningful solution?
Yes I know I should have had a system back up ready. But I didn't. And I'm almost ashamed to admit that actually finding the Windows installation disk took me the better part of a day.
The good news is, that I didn't loose any important files and that my computer is up and running after a long session of open heart formatting and reinstalling windows (twice)...
The bad news is that my incredibly funny and intelligent piece on comic heroes in Hollywood lighting probably will have to be reconstructed from memory.

stuff happens - to the best of them

Everybody loves a hero but even the best of the best sometimes meet their match. That is what seems to have happened to Steve Rogers perhaps better known as his shield wielding alter ego, Captain America.
It seems that sales have been declining and something needed to be done. It's to early to say for certain what happens to the captain. Maybe some other guy will take over the comstume and that famed indestructible shield.
According to this ABC News article Cap was the victim of the socalled War of Terror.
Its predicted that issue #25, in which the tragic demise of mr. Rogers unfolds, will soon become something of a collectors item.

stuff happens - rather quickly

As far as I can tell no one was seriously injured in this £800,000 ($1,700,000) car crash. Except the driver's pride and wallet.
The Bugatti Veyron claims the title as the fastest production car yet with a top speed of 407 kmh (257 mph) motivated by a 1001 hp 16 cylinder engine.
So: it turns out it crashes just like any normal car - only much, much faster...

Indian illusions?

Once in a while one has to have one's illusions shattered: I've always enjoyed spicy food. - Except of course my mothers famous meatballs in curry, a Danish specialty consisting mainly of glue and compacted rice.
I used to think that curry powder was an Indian spice but, as it turns out, that is not so. Curry powder - that yellow powder you buy at your local grocer's - was invented by the British. Indian food - actual real Indian food - is made using a mixture of spices, none of which are actually "curry powder", and which may or may not result in a taste like the familiar yellow stuff.
In Denmark many different brands and special mixtures are available. Like "hot exotic curry powder", "Thai curry powder" and so on.
I feel cheated.
Link to Wikipedia / curry powder...