Tiger hits a birdie

December 11th, 2009

Tiger Woods announced today that he is taking an indefinite break from golf to ‘focus [his] attention on being a better husband, father, and person’.

So was his wife upset because he was spending too much time away from home playing golf?

Como su propio nombre indica

November 30th, 2009

El País nos cuenta en su artículo “La hora del ‘orgullo gordo’”, que la autora del libro “Salud en todas las tallas”, que dice que ‘hay que combatir mitos como el de que no se puede estar saludable siendo gordo’, se llama Dra. Bacon.

<3

October 29th, 2009

Today I learned that  “<3″ means “love” because it looks like a heart if you tilt your head to the right.

What a relief. I was tilting my head to the left as with most emoticons, and I thought it meant “penis and testicles”.

Now all those emails and blog posts make a lot more sense!

Llanito poem

October 28th, 2009

She cried a river till
desembocar en la boca
of he who
lloraba a mares

Ten-foot pole

October 23rd, 2009

Heard today on BBC Radio 4 at around 9.50am by James, about Roman Polanski:

The five-foot Pole you wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole.

Denial

October 14th, 2009

It’s hard to deny something that has not happened, and almost impossible to deny something you haven’t done.

The Metamorphosis (1)

October 13th, 2009

Stealing Harvard‘ metamorphosed into ‘My Name is Earl‘.

stealing-harvard-postermy-name-is-earl-poster

Quod erat demonstrandum

October 7th, 2009

The Telegraph reports (via Slashdot): “MoD ‘how to stop leaks’ document is leaked“.

The Defence Manual of Security [...] 2,400-page restricted document has found its way on to Wikileaks.

Definition – ironing

October 2nd, 2009

By J.M. Ambrose, house mate.

Ironing: A private humiliation in preparation for a public triumph.

The welcoming logo for Madrid 2016

September 28th, 2009

Who had the brilliant idea of using the universal sign of “Stop, don’t come here” as the logo for Madrid’s bid to host the Olympic Games in 2016? Why not the Vulcan hand sign?

Gallardón, rodeado de la delegación española, en Barajas | Efe

Gallardón (Madrid's mayor), with the Spanish delegation, in Barajas | Efe