A Bit Of Perspective

Ye Olde BOOJUM!
     Old by comparison, dear reader.  I was looking at old blog posts last night, and do you know, the ones from June were text-only.  No pictures or photographs.  Then Conrad discovered how to copy in pictures and Lo!  BOOJUM! became more entertaining.  Then Conrad discovered how to add in his own photographs, and So!  BOOJUM! becomes almost too exciting for mortal man*.
     What next? 

"So glad you asked ..."

 Tch!  Those Terminators - I keep telling them I have dibs on this planet, but will they listen?

A Little Light Reading

Frothy entertainment Conrad-style

As you can see here, I am getting in a bit of practice at this world-domination stuff.  Apparently watching "Pinky and the Brain" isn't sufficient.  I have now added the words "Narf" and "Poit" to my vocabulary, however.

This Post Is Unusual
     Any regular reader of BOOJUM! will know that the world of sport appeals to Conrad not at all.  Until or unless the Olympics bring in Atom Bombing The Moon as a competitive sport, that's how things will stay.
     And yet ... friends on Facebook who are Manchester City fans are gloating at the performance of the football team Manchester United FC.  Apparently they are doing woefully, and I wondered - is this because their previous manager, Alex Ferguson, departed?  Or did he see the fall coming and jumped before he got pushed**?
     There.  BOOJUM!'s only sporting post in 163 bloggings.  Let us turn to a pundit for a sustained, critical analysis of the question.

Quite.

Rhodomontade
     Once again we dip our toes into the waters of the English language, shiver and hastily towel ourselves dry.
     "Rhodomontade" is, pretty obviously, a species of orchid from China, one that can move about like a triffid, but only at night, and it - again, pretty obviously - feeds on blood.

Exactly!

 But wait! the dictionary defines it as "boasting".  That's it?  Being vain?  Tish.  Reality, you are boring.


How Times Change
     The BBC website has an article about a marine communications satellite being launched:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25199809


Take note of the location: Baikonur.  This is where the USSR sent up it's own rockets until there wasn't an USSR any longer.  Now the site is propelling Western commercial payloads into orbit.  Strikes one as ironic, no?


Righto, that zombie novel has been in limbo for weeks due to all my blog activity.  Off I go.

*  And woman.
** Don't bother answering, this is the living definition of a rhetorical question