Tales of Drudgery and Boredom

Michel Vuijlsteke's Weblog. Altijd al geprobeerd een dagboek bij te houden.

I've moved
My new address is http://blog.zog.org.
Not because I was immensely dissatisfied with Radio, just because TypePad is the better service. That, and Robb's Law: I don't want to have a weblog (any website really) on a domain that I don't own.

Ik ben verhuisd
Mijn nieuw adres is http://blog.zog.org.
Niet omdat ik heel erg ontevreden was van Radio, maar gewoon omdat TypePad beter is. En omdat ik er een website kan hebben op mijn eigen domeinnaam.

  donderdag 3 juli 2003

Check out GONE BAD, a 3-D animated horror movie. Well, it's not actually a movie... looks like a few shorts so far, but the production is pretty damn amazing. There's a teaser, episode 1, and episode 2. Two is the best.

Er... right. No more drugs for me then:

A man has been found not guilty of removing 18 of his girlfriend's teeth while they were both high on the hallucinatory drug GHB.

Jason Morris, 30, denied inflicting grievous bodily harm on 25-year-old Samantha Court.

She was found in April at their home in Horwich, near Bolton, Greater Manchester, with her body covered in blood and 18 of her teeth either in a bowl or on the bed.

But she told Bolton Crown Court she had removed her own teeth in an attempt to stop a "luminous green and pink fly" from choking her.


I turned to face my bedroom wall and a luminous green and pink fly flew out and down my throat. That's when it started choking me.

Samantha Court
The court, sitting at Bury Magistrates, was told during the three-day trial that the pair had consumed enormous amounts of the liquid drug GHB.

Their hallucinations had included "seeing" witches, clowns and floating furniture

Father-of-two Mr Morris was accused of using pliers to remove his girlfriend's teeth.

But Miss Court said she had removed her own teeth.

'No pain'

She told the court: "I turned to face my bedroom wall and a luminous green and pink fly flew out and down my throat.

"That's when it started choking me."

She added that, after struggling with the first one, "the rest seemed to just fall out" and she had felt no pain.

The jury took just under two hours to deliver their not guilty verdict.

The couple, who are still together, have since stopped taking GHB. [BBC]

Binnen een beetje vervangen deze de teletubbies... ik houd mijn hart vast.

DirectX 9.0: Introducing the New Managed Direct3D Graphics API in the .NET Framework. Get an introduction to the fundamental concepts of the unmanaged Direct3D architecture [MSDN: Visual C#]

Herman Van Molle rules!!

Big blob baffles scientists

Mystery blobThe 12 meter wide remains of a sea creature, initially thought to be a whale, is baffling marine biologists. It was first discovered by the Chilean navy, and is now attracting a lot of international attention. It appears to lack a backbone, and nobody can remember having seen anything like it.

"We don't know if it might be a giant squid that is missing some of its parts or maybe it's a new species," Elsa Cabrera, a marine biologist and director of the Centre for Cetacean Conservation in Santiago, told Reuters news agency.

The mystery creature is currently stinking up the area, but I expect UFO nuts, conspiracy theorists and creationists to soon draw up a few stinking theories of their own.

Update: A number of scientists are now thinking the 'Chilean blob' may be of an Octopus giganteus, a giant octopus not seen since 1896, when scientists took samples, since lost, and photographed it. New samples are now being sent to DNA testing to solve the mystery.

[Secular Blasphemy]

Presentatie gegeven. Hoofdpijn with a vengeance.

En moe. Gr.

Zo. Presentatie af.

Hoofdpijn is er nog altijd, helaas. Wel vreemd: het is al heel de tijd kloppende hoofdpijn rond mijn slapen, maar nu is het verplaatst naar achter mijn oren. Allez ja, zo ongeveer ter hoogte van mijn centrum van Wernicke.

Straks eum, dinges, van spraakdinges, krijgen tijdens dinges, allez, geven, en ook mirgen doen niet doen. Dinges.

Leve Ghysbrecht! Broca, Wernicke, hemianopsie, het omgekeerde mannetje, IK ZAL U VERVOLGEN TOT HET HOF VAN CASTRATIE, displastie, de skinnerbox, haha, ik weet het nog allemaal.

Ikzelf

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