All but the most religious of us have had them.
All but the most masochistic of us hate them.
I am sporting the perfect amount of one at this very moment.
I am quite lucky, amongst my fellow game states, that I do not very often at all get hangovers. Despite what can only be described as a legendary alcoholic intake level, resulting in a liver the size of a marble, The morning after feeling is not something I am overly familiar with. In fact this is my 6th hangover in nearly twice as many years. I am at work though.
Work is the wrong place to have a hangover. That is unless you work where I do and the producer makes you lunch as a thankyou for coming in on the weekend like a fuzzily viewed carrot dangling from the stick of overtime.
The cure for hangovers is a very simple one. Drink a pint or pint and a half of water before going to bed. The headache is caused directly through dehydration, but as we all know, drinking alot of water when hung over generally makes you feel a bit sick. The last thing you want when your head already feels like pandas have attempted to mate with your ears. The "full body ache" is also caused by dehydration. Obviously alcohol is a great dehydrater.
My hangover comes not from ignorance of the causes of hangovers, but from general stupidity. When waking up this morning, realising I was already an hour late for 'work', I saw next to my bed, the still full pint glass of water. Not only had I failed to protect myself towards the possibility of a hangover, but my body had failed me and given me one as well.
You win this time nature. Mark my words though, I'm coming for you.
Saturday, 13 December 2008
Monday, 8 December 2008
A Departure From the Norm
This entry is different.
This entry has no hate in it. OK well maybe just a little hate, but probably not until the very end.
There once was a band. A band that called itself D:REAM. Some of you may remember this band. They also provided the song "Things can only get better" for the 'New' Labour party of the UK to use in their rise to government. I cannot and will not hold this against them.
Don't get me wrong now. New labour turned out to be Old Labour in the proverbial sheep's clothing. They proudly trumpeted a move away from the old boom and bust economics of the previous Tory government, whilst attempting to keep private finance initiatives off the books, so as to maintain some sort of good book keeping, which eventually helped with the recession we now face. Thanks Gordon Brown!
But enough hatred of idiotic MP's, lets move on to the real meat and potatoes of this post. The keyboard player.
This is no ordinary keyboard player. This is the fantastic Dr Brian Cox. Thats right, doctor. Of particle physics no less. A professor at the University of Manchester. A man that works on the ATLAS detector at the non-black hole creating Large Hadron Collider.
He is also a television presenter, and was the scientific advisor on the seminal film Sunshine.
There have been to date, two episodes of the BBC educational/documentary series Horizon that he has presented. They are fascinating. Time and gravity, the two most elusive mysteries of mankind. He doesn't have all the answers. No one does. But he presents the theories behind them in a way that engages the viewer like no other. He has enthusiasm for physics. It lets you understand what you would previously not.
I would highly recommend them to any one and everyone.
In case learning the essential stuff of the universe is not enough for you, then have some 80's rock, with outrageous mullets. At 3:30 Brian Cox can be seen rocking out in true mullet style.
Rock on.
This entry has no hate in it. OK well maybe just a little hate, but probably not until the very end.
There once was a band. A band that called itself D:REAM. Some of you may remember this band. They also provided the song "Things can only get better" for the 'New' Labour party of the UK to use in their rise to government. I cannot and will not hold this against them.
Don't get me wrong now. New labour turned out to be Old Labour in the proverbial sheep's clothing. They proudly trumpeted a move away from the old boom and bust economics of the previous Tory government, whilst attempting to keep private finance initiatives off the books, so as to maintain some sort of good book keeping, which eventually helped with the recession we now face. Thanks Gordon Brown!
But enough hatred of idiotic MP's, lets move on to the real meat and potatoes of this post. The keyboard player.
This is no ordinary keyboard player. This is the fantastic Dr Brian Cox. Thats right, doctor. Of particle physics no less. A professor at the University of Manchester. A man that works on the ATLAS detector at the non-black hole creating Large Hadron Collider.
He is also a television presenter, and was the scientific advisor on the seminal film Sunshine.
There have been to date, two episodes of the BBC educational/documentary series Horizon that he has presented. They are fascinating. Time and gravity, the two most elusive mysteries of mankind. He doesn't have all the answers. No one does. But he presents the theories behind them in a way that engages the viewer like no other. He has enthusiasm for physics. It lets you understand what you would previously not.
I would highly recommend them to any one and everyone.
In case learning the essential stuff of the universe is not enough for you, then have some 80's rock, with outrageous mullets. At 3:30 Brian Cox can be seen rocking out in true mullet style.
Rock on.
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