This is a self portrait that’s about half way complete. I did two of these side by side one of which I did while using the reference upside down to see what it would look like.
Acrylic Self Portrait
This is one of the first portraits I did, it’s an acrylic and it looks half finished, the reason I didn’t keep working on it was that Jenny said she liked it the way it was. The idea behind the composition was from a famous painting done by Gustave Courbet called The Desperate Man.
Started Painting
I painted for the first time tonight. The last time I remember painting I was in primary school in Mrs Orrs class with those cheap childrens paints. Tonight was no different, I bought some paint for the kids to create some paintings for Jenny for her Birthday which was fun and messy for all concerned.
Anyway, I’ve always wanted to try painting so after a few beers I had enough courage to try it, I painted a cartoon like snowman, it looks awful but I loved every minute of it. It was a strange feeling to just go at it. I might eventually post the painting here but it’s truly bad, maybe when I can actually paint I’ll have enough courage not to care.
Ziff Davis Spam House
For quite some time I have been receiving rubbish emails on various topics and they all originate from Ziff Davis. I have never subscribed to any of these so called magazine or whatever they are, they have obviously bought some email list that I was unlucky enough to have been on and then automatically subscribed me to every email list under the sun. This is extremely irritating. I’ve written an email to the following people to unsubscribe me.
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Since the bots will eventually pick this up I hope they get the same enjoyment from their own Spamming techniques as I have.
undefined reference to clock_gettime
I got this error when trying to statically link libevent2 so I could benchmark it. I just added -lrt to the Makefile and all was well.
Warren Buffet is not a speculator
Buffet is not playing the market like a typical speculator he’s buying stakes in companies that he wants to own, he’s not gambling and he’s acutely aware of the giddy feelings that rising prices create.
Don’t get caught up in companies who’s revenues are orders of magnitude less than their market caps, Tulip mania and the like is a real phenomena and best avoided.
Gillian McKeith
Sad that someone like this can get on TV and look like an expert when the real experts never get their 15 minutes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2004/sep/30/badscience.research
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/feb/03/badscience.uknews
Attack Back
I just love this sign. Pay particular attention to the two rightmost boxes. I need to get a better resolution one. This one does not do the original much justice. It was taken by Glen Scott. Have a look at a bigger one.
Male makeup
I have been waiting for this.In fact I think the whole world has been waiting for this. I just seen an advert tonight where 
Pierce Brosnan advertised Vitalift. I know we have had adverts for male perfume aftershave for a while now
but I think Pierce doing this is another step towards a truly liberated male fully in touch with their feminine side. Is it little wonder 007 had a way with the ladies, he wears make up, splashes perfume and wrinkles are a topic of conversation.
I wonder who’ll be the first male to advertise lipstick or am I not watching enough TV.