Ben’s Musings

This is a really well made and funny video about how great Fatherhood is. I couldn’t agree more!

When I started this Blog, back in 2003 (yes this blog is 5 years old!) I did alot of Bush Bashing. Then Mary-Lou challenged me and reminded me we ought to love our enemies, so I was humbled.

There is a difference between abuse and criticism, and G.W. Bush deserves all the criticism he gets. This guy is deeply critical and you can tell he just wants to abuse Bush, but he holds a great balance of intelligence and eloquence and raging anger!

He ends with this:

“This last piece of advice. When somebody asks you, sir, about Democrats who must now pull this country back from the abyss … about the cooked books and fake threats .. about your gallant, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game … shut the hell up!”

It’s about 12 minutes long, but it’s 12 minutes you’ll be glad to have spent watching this:

I saw this many months ago and really enjoyed it. It’s a rip off of a R Kelly thing where he split a really long song into short ones and it was about midgits or something. Enjoy:

A few days ago there were riots in Manchester after Manchester City Council invited then allowed 150,000 Rangers football fans to come to the City Centre and drink in public from 6am when the match was later that evening.

I was appalled by the violence and still feel very angry towards the City Council for letting it happen. I fully agree with my friend Paul’s review of the whole thing.

But something beautiful happened that evening too. A chap called Tom, walking out of an internet cafe, saw a baying mob kicking, punching and stamping a Police man on the floor. He ran over, grabbed the police man, helped hiom up and ran with him to a Police Van, despite another Police officer hitting him with a baton.

Later, he helped Firemen rescue a drowning Rangers fan in the canal, shoulder lifted an unconscious man to an Ambulance and chased off two Rangers fans who were looting a Police Van, locking it up afterwards.

In-amongst all this horrible violence and disgusting preference of economy by the City Council, goodness, love and peacemaking was found.

Well done Tom.

I saw this trailer and got very excited about the film and watching it with Toby. Maybe he’ll be into robotics or astronomy?!

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Video found from The Molly Blog.

I have adopted the brilliant habit of muting the television whenever the adverts are on. But today I didn’t and this advert literally made me stop in my tracks as I was about to walk up the stairs. I heard the last phrase and couldn’t believe my ears!

“Until you want a permanent lift, there’s always Revitalift!”

Or put in my own words:

“Until you realise that you’re ugly and your FACE SAGS, buy our product.”

I hate the way it assumes that you will want a permanent face-lift at some point, of course! It assumes that you know you’re ugly and one day you’ll find the guts to get that much needed surgery.

How ugly.

I saw this short film on the Channel Frederator Podcast and thought it was brilliantly made and directed, and a great story too:

I like high-fives. I tried to bring about their comeback during my student days. You can even high-five me on FaceBook. So this video made me chuckle!

“The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software.”

Mary-Lou doesn’t like it when I whistle. I don’t think that it’s because I’m out of tune, it’s just the high pitch drone that does her head in.

But tonight Mary-Lou has been out with a friend so I’ve had chance to have a good whistle-along to some tunes! It feels great to have a good old whistle - I don’t really know why though!

I’ve also done some fun beat-boxing with some of the songs. This guy is nearly at my standard:

PS. Don’t ever ask me to show off my whistling or beat-boxing talents to you - I just won’t!

A long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far away….we had Star Wars Kid:

Now, coming to a screen near you, we have Star Wars Trumpet - the funniest video on the whole entire t’interweb!

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