Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Toast

Hovis Best Of Both isn't very nice for sandwiches, but it's really good for toasting I have just discovered. So that's nice. I can feel another toast jag coming on as we speak.
Discovery got away safe and well, although I have never actually watched a launch with such a knot of worry in the pit of my stomach. What was cool though was that they cameras on-board so we could actually watch the launch from the POV of the external tank or whatever (although if you look something DID come off...). Sadly the quality of science journalism was as piss poor as always, with reporters asking utterly inane questions about the "bizarre forces" acting upon the shuttle (that'd be acceleration, very 'otherwordly' to be sure). Although to be fair the majority of television journalists don't really seem to know anything at all, no history, art, culture, language - not even the one they're broadcasting in, so I suppose the lack of science knowledge isn't exactly unexpected, but what irritates me is the way they portray science as something mystifying and baffling beyond the ken of mere mortals, and by virtue of its incomprehensibility it is rendered unimportant.
So, the hunt for Thursday's failed bombers continues. Interestingly, despite arriving on the scene within minutes of the incident the police have yet to actually find any of these guys, although they have tracked their movements in the following twenty four hours. Apparently they went home.
*blink*
Yep, at least two of the four most wanted men in Britain, devoid of any form of demonstrable intelligence, went home. And still the police can't find them! They're probably still at home, just lurking in the kitchen until the police go away. In other related harrangues, I note that one of the bombers received housing benefit, which is odd 'cos the local council here still haven't paid me anything and they owe me gettin on for two grand now! I do wonder how we failed these guys though. I mean at least two of them are immigrants into this country, one of whom was naturalised last year, so what did we do wrong? What was it that lead them to think that blowing up their fellow Londoners was a Good Idea? I wonder if we'll ever know?

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