I took the day off work yesterday and started it out by being woken up at 7am by Dave. I’d kind of expected him to be asleep until mid-day or something.

He came over and I made bacon and egg cobs for us both, and then we went to Tesco to do some shopping. After a while we headed back to my house. After pulling up outside Dave remembered he needed to go see his Dad. We both went over there and messed around with phone numbers on about 6 different mobile phones. I had my first guided tour of the house, which is pretty damn awesome. Dave’s going to be moving over there fairly soon, so I guess I’ll be there a few more times in the future.

We decided to go into town after that. We wandered around HMV and a couple of other shops for a little while and got some lunch from Gregg’s. From there we headed to B&Q to look at some wardrobes for Dave’s new bedroom. We got a bit sidetracked while we were in there though, so we ended up buying about 27 feet of wood, some 15mm dowel, a few screws and an awesome saw so we could go and build a trebuchet.

We spent quite about 15 seconds planning the build and the rest of the daylight hours actually building it. It’s not quite finished yet because Dave had plans for the evening, but it’s mostly done. I imagine we’ll get to finish it over the weekend. 🙂

Almost finished trebuchet

A political cartoonist for the New York Times made a comic depicting some police having shot a chimp (as actually happened in the news this week) saying “they’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill”.

Everyone seems to be going on and on about how comparing Obama to a monkey is racist and blah blah blah. Ridiculous. Yes, back in the past black people were compared to monkeys by racist morons, but not really so much any more.

If the comic was referencing something George Bush had done then the logical conclusion would be that they were making a joke about George Bush being like a monkey, but not anything to do with his race. The fact that it’s Obama, and at some point in the past black people were compared to monkeys, doesn’t make this any more or less racist.

Surely the implied joke is that a monkey could have written the economic stimulus package (not that I agree with that), not that (revelation time here) Obama is black, and so are monkeys, among a huge list of other things.

People are finding references where they don’t really belong. The fact that the monkey has been shot, and presidents have been assassinated before is just one of the stretches people are writing about to garner attention from an otherwise unimportant, uninteresting non-event caused by a world gone politically-correct-mad! Just because something can be construed in one way does not mean it should be, or was intended to be. Grow up, get a clue.