Random – Page 8

It’s day-tah. DAY-TAH!

24/01/2008

What’s Brent Spiner’s character in Star Trek TNG called? Say it out loud.

That’s how the word is pronounced, dickheads.

Where people got this “dah-tah” crap from I don’t know.

News.com.au Photos of the Year

16/01/2008

Some brilliant photos, particularly towards the end. Picking a favourite was difficult, but this one got the best reaction from me: I smiled, and then wondered whether I should be.

Call that a fire…?

15/01/2008

Continuing the Crocodile Dundee theme.

MMM: Home-Made Heli

29/10/2007

I think I might actually prefer to be in this than the wonky-looking yoke on Celtic Helicopters’ website.

Yahoo: Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts.

“It took me eight months to build this one,” he said, sweat pouring from his forehead as he filled the radiator of the banana yellow four-seater which he now parks in the grounds of his university.

The chopper, which has flown briefly on six occasions, is made from scrap aluminium that Abdullahi bought with the money he makes from computer and mobile phone repairs, and a donation from his father, who teaches at Kano’s Bayero university.

It is powered by a second-hand 133 horsepower Honda Civic car engine and kitted out with seats from an old Toyota saloon car. Its other parts come from the carcass of a Boeing 747 which crashed near Kano some years ago.

Matryoshka Lamp

24/10/2007

Only €4k. I’ll have three please!

Bring me the head of the person responsible…

04/10/2007

…for the traffic lights and 60kph speed limits on the N25.

I mean, seriously, only a moron would put traffic lights in instead of a flyover when three large local businesses would be feeding into such a busy road, and only a complete moron would keep working on it when one of the businesses announced a two year delay.

Yes boys and girls, the scumbags in Amgen pulled the plug on the Cork plant. They say the project has been indefinitely postponed, but we already know they’re lie through their teeth, so that’s that. Now we’re left with a dual carriageway with traffic lights and a 60kph speed limit, that doesn’t actually deal with one of the major arteries into it.

Seriously, I want that guy’s head. I want to play football with it. I’m pretty sure I won’t have a problem putting a team together. I could probably start a tournament.

(BTW, I’m running a book on when the GardaÃ will start enforcing that speed limit. By rights they should wait a while now, but don’t forget that comfy little weighbridge shed at just the right spot. If there’s a kettle in there, the odds could rise dramatically.)

(Thanks for the heads-up Despod.)