It’s dark. You can’t see. Your arms and legs move sluggishly because of the weight of the water on them. You almost start thrashing about just to get some freedom but as soon as you start you remind yourself to stop. To be calm. To concentrate on keeping your head above the water. You can [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Trapped
Posted in Fiction, Short on July 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A woman goes into a bar…
Posted in Jokes, Thoughts on July 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…and asks the bartender for a double-entendre. So the barman gives her one. Wahey! After remembering this I thought, “they say innuendo is hard to come by”.
Pirates – Out to Sea – Part 4
Posted in Fiction, Long, Out to sea, Pirates on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
[This is Part 4 of 4 in Pirates!: Out to Sea. If you're interested then you may want to read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 first.] Marshall could hear that the fighting had stopped. He was weak, he was about to loose consciousness. He took his hands down one more time and dipped [...]
The 6 million dollar bottom
Posted in Thoughts on July 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better… stronger… faster So they rebuilt him, and everyone always goes on about the legs and the eye and stuff, but what about the [...]
You know the feeling
Posted in Fiction, Short on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You’re sitting there reading this and you know that feeling like there is something on your ankle. Something that feels slightly heavy. Something attached. Like there’s something crawling. Something slimey that’s sliding up and over your ankle bump right now. Something that shouldn’t be there. Something that doesn’t know the difference between your leg and [...]
Pirates – Out to Sea – Part 3
Posted in Fiction, Long, Out to sea, Pirates on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
[This is Part 3 of 4 in Pirates!: Out to Sea. If you're interested then you may want to read Part 1 and Part 2 first.] Marshall looked and looked hoping for a sign he was wrong. He was a proud man, a man that loved to be proved right. And yet he was also [...]
Social Schmocial
Posted in Articles on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The problem with social networks these days is that there’s too much and too little compartmentalising. I have a lot of friends in several different groups. If I sign up to Facebook or MySpace then all of these groups will very likely collapse into one. Now I’m a lot less bothered about this than I [...]
A gamboling problem
Posted in Admin, Articles on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have decided to change a few things around here, for my own sanity. I am on holiday at the moment, which partly drew my attention to the issue but it’s been a more general thing that’s been occurring to me. I’m writing too much on gamboling I’m pretty sure, and it makes it hard [...]
Pirates! – Out to Sea – Part 2
Posted in Fiction, Long, Out to sea, Pirates on July 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
[This is Part 2 of 4 in Pirates!: Out to Sea. If you're interested then you may want to read Part 1 first.] “Wait. Turn back.” Marshall shouted. “Back to port?” “Back starboard. Belay that last order.” “Yes Sir, Cap’n sir.” Marshall wanted to turn back to face the other ship. They hadn’t been plotting [...]
Why couldn’t the pirate play cards?
Posted in Jokes on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Because he was sitting on the deck.
