Also...

... is "algorithm" named after Al Gore? It is important to the internet after all.

What are you trying to tell me gmail?

Right now I am in gchat... uh... gchatting with a friend of mine... and I noticed the advert that gmail has decided to place above my e-mails. I would like to point out that none of my e-mails, nor any of the chat session in which I am engaged, have anything at all to do with the matter of the advert.

The advert in question says:

Bedwetting problems - www.drynites.co.uk - Everything you need to know about bedwetting and how to approach it

What are you trying to tell me gmail? That you think that I'm so pathetic a male that you feel the need to claim that I am a bedwetter? That you see bedwetting in my future? That you see caring for a bedwetter in my future? Why do you think that I need to approach bedwetting at all?

Ah, the mysteries of algorithmic Google. You inscrutable mathematical bastard.

I am too tired to think of anything to say right now so here is a cool video.

This is where I wish I could draw

Earlier this evening I was thinking about Batman (via a route that I won't go in to, but I was chatting with someone and telling them about an on-line comic that I saw where Wonder Woman had basically broken Bruce Wayne and he was having to go in to hiding because he couldn't stop her super-powered amorous advances and I guess I just went in to it, oh well) and thought about Batman being very much about the whole "MY PARENTS ARE DEEEAAAD" thing.

I couldn't help but think that Superman's entire species is wiped out and you don't catch him being all emo about it. He seems positively chipper. Then again, being what is in essence a God probably cheers him up a bit.

"MY ENTIRE SPECIES (if we forget about my cousin for a bit but I try not to think about her, y'know) IS DEEEAAA... wait, I can fire heat rays out of my eyes? Whoah, AWESOME!"

"MY ENTIRE SPECIES IS DEEEAAA... wait, I can fly? Whee! Holy crap this is so cool! WHEEEEEE!"

I suppose that this could be another reason why Batman's so grumpy all the time. Superman's all leaping-tall-buildings-with-a-single-bound, y'know, for the times when he doesn't just fly over them, while Batman takes his car. A very cool car but a car none the less.

"Hey Bruce, Bruce! Even Hawkman doesn't use a car. HAWKMAN! And you know how the Green Lantern gets around? Jewellery. Damn, get it together, Bruce."

Sadly Batman's insistence that he's cooler than Aquaman doesn't make him feel any less of a loser.

Yeah, I think that this is why Batman's so grumpy all the time.

This has probably been all over the internet but I have only just seen it so I'm posting it.

Bloody hell.

Oh dear

The Father of one of the boys recently attacked by a Polar bear in Norway thinks the Polar bear attack 'inconceivable' but, thanks to the internet, the main thing that this makes me think is of stills from The Princess Bride.

I'm actually slightly surprised that the first I saw of this was the BBC story rather than a meme.

I wonder if it should be Inigo Montoya or a Polar bear delivering the line.

I should probably go to bed.

Just now

Just now I decided to stop lazing around and get myself some food. I'd been lying around listening to music and reading things on the internet for a little while and had become very comfortable in my cocoon of duvet and simulated contact so I was genuinely shocked when I got up and the music stopped.

The sudden silence led me to a slight panic that there might be something wrong with my, up until then, apparently functional laptop.

It took me around five seconds to work out that the silence was because I'd just taken off my headphones.

I could do with a job that doesn't cause my brain to be a puddle by the weekend.