May 2012
5 posts
“You can’t go opening every standpipe at the side of the road, or handing out...”
– The Ol’ Bas
On Kamla’s need to manage her time
10 Canine Commandments.
This is a test.
Facebook has been, as far as I can tell, slowly pushing Tumblr posts deeper and deeper into obscurity in their Timeline (Wall?).
This is a just a test for me to see where my posts are going now, and upon which decisions will be made on how I handle replications of my post will be pushed to my Facebook profile.
More later…
This wins. Trinis are the best.
My pardnah Roger, on Facebook:
Logic Question: There are hundreds of dogs allowed to roam the streets. Pedestrians are being mauled by roaming dogs. There are no dog catchers. People are protesting for work. Hmmm… How can I solve all of these problems at once?
And in response, 15 minutes later, his pardnah Warren:
paint stones white at the sides of the roads… to make them easily...
April 2012
10 posts
Digicel Inna 4G
I got into Digicel’s week-long test of their new 4G data network today. After some hiccups during the afternoon, the following are my average speed test results this evening using the BlackBerry browser on my Torch 9810. I expect that they’ll spend the next few days shaking out bugs and ironing out kinks, but so far, things look good and the consistent 1.4Mbps is welcome on a mobile...
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Kimbra's "Two Way Street"
You may remember Kimbra from one of my earlier posts. She put in a guest appearance on Gotye’s tune “Somebody I Used To Know”.
As an aside, Gotye’s tune is this week at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, up from position 3 the previous week.
I was trawling Facebook tonight and ran across a video that my brother-in-law Antony posted. The clip featured an unplugged...
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EPL Fans will get this.
Arsenal played Wigan at the Emirates today, and after 8 minutes, they were 2-0 down to the table proppers. On 21 minutes, Arsenal full back Tomas Vermaelen scored to pull back one for his team. I sent a message to the Arsenal fans in my BBM football group asking whether Vermaelen was playing out of position and inquiring how many he’d now scored for Arsenal for the season. Without missing a...
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Tabanca is Real
Don’t let anyone ever try to convince you that it’s not. There’s too much music out there that attests to the malady.
That said, I’ve always been a sucker for a good tabanca chune, like Canadian artist Melanie Fiona’s 4AM, off her 2011 album The MF Life.
Enjoy.
LINK: http://youtu.be/TgmHOcPDSso
“Wait nuh!
1. All Windies batsmen reach double figures… Against Australia...”
– David Michael Rudder, on Facebook
Remember this. Always. →
And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it. And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
March 2012
25 posts
Oh! The Temptation!
There are the times when you really, really want to say something. But then you remember that your mother did raise you better than that…
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“The cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
1st Peter 3:3-13 →
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“The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog...”
– Chānakya, Indian Politician (370-283 BC)
The quote is more interesting when one considers that the seven can be either external or internal.
Something to ponder…
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“I don’t believe she was poached… I believe she was scrambled and...”
– De Ole Bas on new UNC deputy political leader, Marlene Coudray.
Dear Twelve Year Old Me,
Don’t worry. You’ll see. It gets a whole whopping lot better. Don’t want to spoil it for you. (I know you hate that, but trust me.)
Kamliar
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“It has to look negative so be it. I am concerned about the end not the means.”
– Austin Jack Warner, commenting on certain actions taken to get into power.
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“Up to now nobody cyar find the thesis he write, $39.95 plus shipping and...”
– De Ole Bas on Doc Suruj in a bit of sound bite gold
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Via Anthony Maillard’s Quote of the Day Service
On George R R Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire"...
Author and screenwriter George R R Martin achieved something significant when the first novel of his acclaimed series, “A Song of Ice and Fire”, was translated to the small screen as the HBO series, “Game of Thrones”: People got very interested in reading the books. Five of the planned seven books have been written, awash with rich scenery and a wide cast of characters, all...
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“Everything is possible if you develop a plan.”
– Mark Fox
A cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.
Cults of personality are usually associated with dictatorships. Sociologist Max Weber developed a tripartite classification of authority; the cult of personality holds parallels with what Weber defined as...
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Word.
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WANTED
Single female, 30 to 40 years of age, must be good with animals; to help meet qualification requirements for admission to Noah’s Floating Menagerie…
March 8th is International Women's Day
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
—- Maya Angelou
International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8th every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration...
“Roses are grey, Violets are grey…”
– Dog.
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Somebody That I Used To Know
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) http://youtu.be/8UVNT4wvIGY
Now and then I think of when we were together Like when you said you felt so happy you could die Told myself that you were right for me But felt so lonely in your company But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember
You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness Like resignation to the end ...
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The Onion Song
The Onion Song is indeed a real song written by the legendary Ashford and Simpson and performed by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
According to one website:
This song’s lyrics constitute one of the most tortured and inappropriate analogies in the history of popular music. The idea is as follows. “The world is just a great big onion” (this is because it makes us cry, rather than...
February 2012
10 posts
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Just realises that DJ Private Ryan is a yute.
Feels good about availability of great downloadable mixes for many years to come.
http://djprivateryan.libsyn.com/
Calypsonians threaten to boycott finals of... →
Dimanche Gras in jeopardy while Marie Antoinette and her jesters wine…
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Unified Calypso Organisation (TUCO) Friday said it was backing the stance taken by calypsonians to boycott the Calypso Monarch finals on Sunday if there is not an increase in the prize monies.
“The position that they took here this morning really and truly is an...
Swappi's Bucket (Scratch Master Remix)
One of the few ways I can find to describe this young man is as a disruption in the force. And this is one of just a handful of truly powerful songs I’ve heard for the entire season. I can only imagine the havoc that this pore-raising mix would cause on the road.
Enjoy this remix to Swappi’s break away tune, “Bucket”.
“Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone that I love, used to love and those who...”
– Debra Paul-Burgess, 2012.
I share the sentiment with all my own as well. Have a great day all, to those who celebrate Valentine’s and to all those for whom today remains just Tuesday.
Wake Up Sheeple →
Bokklechuk: A Carnival Sport
RULES
Each bokklechuk team comprises fourteen players: three chuckers, four duckers, one chain up specialist, one ragman (or woman, as the case may be), and five old alcoholics, because somebody has to empty the bottles to be used for game play.
The playing surface is to be a minimum 100 metres by 20 metres, selected by the two or more teams involved in the bokklechuk contest at game time.
The...
