gold.

i remember my first time.

i was working nightshift, on my lunch (aboot 4am) and it was just as it was starting to break.

it makes me think of chan. and what the internet was made for.

[edit]

worth watching the whole thing. what a channel.

another one via questlove

“for your health”

annoyed i hadn’t heard of this before.

very good.

cheers, bb.

listen to this.

heard this on jon richardson’s show i think.

aboot half way through the first season of mad men. thought this was cool (and best version i’ve found). but it doesn’t emded for some lame reason.

also didn’t know that rjd2 did the mm theme. here’s one of his best:

i like the harmonies, from the tape. as is…

only 55sec track song but the sample is dope, and the video is naked chicks cooking crack. win-win.

eat.

the big, fat, and ugly

“eat a big, fat and ugly in under 15 minutes and it’s free. this includes two rolls, four cheeseburgers, double cheesesteak, chicken cheesesteak, gyro meat, grilled chicken, bacon sausage, mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers, chicken nuggets, mac n cheese bites, fried mushrooms, jalapeno poppers, onion rings, hash browns, mini corn dogs, american cheese, mayo ketchup poppers and pizza bites.”

couponsherpa has a list of 39 other ‘gut-busting’ restaurant challenges for free food.

cheers, consumerist.

pron.

avn awards

some big shocks this year. i never would have picked ‘party of feet’ for best foot/fetish release.

and don’t even talk to me about the ‘best big butt release’ winner.

it’s all political man.

nsfw etc.

teach.

i resign in may.

i had last monday off because the boiler at school wasn’t working. so we stood out in the cold turning away parents and children. we then went back inside had a meeting in the freeze then they told us to stay and do planning etc. it was 5 degrees in one of the classrooms and the small portable heaters they had were only good for tripping all the switches and causing a power failure.

so we went home and didn’t do much. tuesday was a normal day at school and then came the snow. it wasn’t that bad so i drove into school to find that it was empty and saw the site manager who told me they’d shut it because no one could get in (lots of pomo schools did the same). i turned my phone on and saw the message. that was lame. on the plus side it meant i was back home by 9am and dominating battlefield 1943 by 9:30am. later that day i found out we had thursday off and sometime on thursday i found out i had friday off too. it was nice i won’t deny it, but didn’t really feel like having another week off. anyway, i spent most of the time hoping that someone would fail outside my window on the ice (it happened twice), i read two books and used my slow cooker for the first time (8 hour beef baby).

i sacrificed some goats and such in order that it would snow again today but no such luck and i dragged my ass into work. i caught up with another nqt, whom i regularly share venting of ‘god this place is wank’ / ‘i don’t want to be here’ with, and she told me that the year 5 and 6 teachers weren’t staying next year either. i suggested that the other year 4 teacher was leaving (she’s been dropping hints for a couple of weeks) and then it struck me. the nqt’s are going for sure (me included) and now the other senior staff might be leaving too. that’s every single teacher, other than the deputy head. the ultimate humiliation for the head teacher (who doesn’t actuallty teach). wtf indeed.

and then there was assembly, a crystallising moment. the dullest, most embarrassing fucking shit ever dude. he plays classical music as a way to ’settle’ them as they come in which only goes to serve as a cover for them to talk. throughout the assembly kids were talking, whispering, laughing, turning around- honestly, i’ve never seen anything like it. you have to lock that shit down in assembly by any means necessary, especially in a school with bad behaviour. he looked exhausted and the assembly served no purpose (going over the school charter – which i, along with the other teachers, don’t know or quote to the children). it was compounded by the fact that we teachers (who normally help control behaviour) didn’t do shit. it was a sign of our committment that we just sat there exchanging looks of our mutual boredom. personally i was fantasising about quitting, as i often do. a rewarded “screw you guys, i’m going home” – or “fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you’re cool – fuck you and i’m out”.

when you’re sitting in a meeting after school thinking (in a positive way) about being in a coma as a way to avoid work, or quitting and moving back in with your mum, you know it’s not the right jay oh bee. when we did come back last monday, a year 6 teacher tossed into the start of the meeting that she had thought about breaking her leg so she didn’t have to come in. an nqt then said “i thought about crashing my car!” – you could see the shock from the head teacher as he exclaimed ‘what!?!’ – of course i’d thought the same thing, but mine was to burn down the school (i never would of course, the layout would render any single fire useless and you’d have to start multiple fires across the school – that’s just too much organising and logistics – i’m much more of a ‘throw a molitov and see’ kind of teacher).

so there it is, a reason for the lack of posts and probably a reason for a lack in the future. i’m sure i’ve said it before but the gift that accompanies the punishment is the other nqt’s – being able to share (read: bitch) about school on a daily basis keeps us all sane.

the earliest we can resign is may (we have to stay, it’s an nqt year which is a probation but would look really bad on a c.v. if you left 1/3 of the way through) and the jobs haven’t started appearing yet.

patience.

cheers, tomorrow.sg

best.”before shot”.ever

that's don.

follow the link for the full size to really take in that expression.

i’ve just finished reading an article about new york ‘cavemen’ and one of the names mentioned led me to movenat.com.

you can read don’s ’story’ there.

fuck.yeah.

"awe.some."

i know i’ve been on about this type of thing before, but bad astronomy put it well:

“oh, baby. the cloud is only a few dozen meters across, and can’t be more than a few seconds old.

i love stuff like this. i tend to think of Mars as a stiff, still, unchanging place, but then hirise goes and slaps me in the face with something like this. mind you, this is an avalanche. on another planet. caught as it happened.

awe. some.”

and this is worth a watch:

milky time lapse

cheers, ba/break

lmfao.

sparklebox

came back to school today after some snow days. in our morning diary meeting we were given this piece of information. i burst out laughing.

portsmouth schools (as well as others around the country) have blocked access to sparklebox in schools. because?

“it is understood that a person who is on the record as an owner and director of sparklebox teacher resources limited (which appears to claim ownership of the sparklebox web site and children’s learning materials) is a registered sex offender who has recently admitted a second offence, is on remand in prison and is awaiting sentence in January.”

if you’ve never heard of sparklebox i’m not surprised but i guarantee you that if you ask any primary school teacher they will have either used it for resources or someone in their school has a classroom filled with it. it’s basically a free resource site that i personally don’t use because i find the designs lame, but others accept the mediocrity (and the fact it saves you loads of time making resources) and plaster walls with it. everything from days of the week posters to topic timelines.

sparklebox makes it’s money from advertising. advertising that is generated by visitors to the site and because of it’s popularity it does quite well i imagine (i mean seriously, ask any primary teacher). so a director has been earning his hefty wage to spend on paedothings. an income generated by visits from professionals taught and duty bound by law to protect children from harm.

must.not.choke.on.irony.

obviously i wouldn’t ever use the site now anyway, but was shocked to learn that some other teachers didn’t feel the same way, arguing there’s already so much up on the walls, it saves time, they like the designs etc. so i came back with “would you buy children’s books written by gary glitter – if they were the best books in the world?”.

you can probably guess what the answer was.

oh, almost forgot. sparklebox had a live, public blog. where children could upload photos of themselves.

[edit] zomg.

much more detailed background here.

listen to this.

in before ‘apparently he’s called superdude.’

what a showman.

the beats are fresh, his style needs a polish though.

reminds me a bit of paul barman.

[edit] pimp tea is now known as brockway biggs.

listen to this.

fuck.yeah.

looking for a hook for science next term and have just seen this clip and tried the experiment.

it works.

i love science.

be interested in this.

i was looking for some new chiara bautista stuff (below) and spent a while looking around at other art online. found a couple i like.

chiara bautista - 777

dean mcdowell - imperfect loneliness

valisticka - rock candy

found via society 6.

[update]

forgot to add this.

dash snow

i also came across the work of dash snow. so i thought i’d browse some images of his work using image ripper.

mistake. go onto google. click images. then type in dash snow. enjoy the 3rd image result.

this time of year you can imagine children looking for pictures of reindeer, typing ‘dash snow’ as a feeble attempt at ‘dashing through the snow’ and being very disappointed.

eat.

best. crust. ever.

cheers, bb.

seasons greetings from science.

cheers, bb.

onewordreview.

good.

impressive.

snorefest.

cheers, wiki/imdb.

i love her.

audrey kawasaki

preview of her show ‘hajimari’ on her blog.

awesome.

twat.

google ceo, eric schmidt.

“if you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

“the generous explanation for schmidt’s statement is that he’s revolutionized his thinking since 2005, when he blacklisted cnet for publishing info about him gleaned from google searches, including salary, neighborhood, hobbies and political donations. in that case, the married ceo must not mind all the coverage of his various reputed girlfriends; it’s odd he doesn’t clarify what’s going on with the widely-rumored extramarital dalliances, though.”

cheers, gawker.

listen to this.

only a few months behind

looking for some new music i came across the tape’s “albums of the decade” (from august). had quite a few but worth checking.

asher edition

gabo edition

tristan edition

henry edition

willie edition.

pron.

just seen a reality kings clip. set up is that guy goes into a dentists office, assistant bends down to get something and he grabs her ass. she freaks and says “you know that’s totally unappropriate, you know i could sue you for that”. she goes off and talks to the dentist. the dentist then freaks and says “that is like, totally unacceptable, that is like not tolerated in my office ever.” digging deeper to find out what happened she outrages that it’s “completely inacceptable…we should go in there and teach this young gentleman how things are ran in this office.”

they start the check up and brilliantly acted (with tools and everything) the dentist says “yeah we’ve got some inclusions going on, we’ve got tooth number 4, number 5 – we’ll need to put a watch on those teeth if you can make a note for me please.” teeth 4 and 5 eh?

don’t get me wrong, i enjoy the patter before the porn in these things, it’s normally tongue in cheek. but this time i lol’d.

(and btw about 5mins later she gets the dental lube out.)

be interested in this.

choose your own adventure.

some really well designed visualisations of choose your own adventure books. worth a read, although i broke mine up into a couple of sittings.

ethiopia’s vanishing tribes.

the picture before the picture

excellent series by brent stirton.

play.

borderlands & left for dead 2

aaahh steam. how much i love thee. i used to hate thee and remember lengthy conversations with iamthedemonamon and sleepingsloth about how shit thee was (about 5 years ago). but since i’m back online properly and getting legit games cheaper than usual (via steam), it’s so fucking sweet.

borderlands is excellent. i haven’t got the time to play dragonage and am not really bothered about call of duty mw2 yet, it’s a perfect combination of fps and rpg. i’m the sniper character. bloodwing is my hawk and there is so much fucking loot in this game it’s unreal.

left for dead 2 has changed the way i play online games. the cooperation element is unbelievable and i’m a little bit sad i’ve only just started playing, having missed out on so much in lfd1. saving and being saved from zombies is truly rewarding and the valve have already created a couple of unforgettable gaming moments.

in short, buy them both.

and yes, i still play battlefield after work. these 2 are just for the weekend.

be interested in this.

before there was ogrish, there was theatrum crudelitatum

yep. priests.

cheers, bibliodyssey.

japanese graphics.

great buddha of kamkura

animated stereoviews of old japan.

humanoid

some nice sci-fi illustrations by shusei nagaoka.

cheers, pink tentacle.