Brief notes
Another quick round up of bits and pieces that don’t warrant a whole post on their own:
1. The advice to always read the small print is something that Piotr Staniaszek should have heeded. He’s just been hit with a mobile phone bill for $85,000 after thinking that his $10 a month plan would cover him for using his mobile phone as a modem and downloading HD movies and other large files. Come on, really? $10 a month is gonna cover you for that? Even if you haven’t read the small print, you probably wouldn’t expect that sort of use to be covered.
2. This delightful thing is what now adorns the Rowan Tree pub in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh. In case you can’t tell, it’s a flatulent cow that emits a burst of dry ice at 11am, noon and 1pm to tell all the locals what the time is.
Apparently it’s becoming as popular a tourist attraction as the nearby Greyfriars Bobby, and as much of a time keeper as the One O’Clock Gun. I’d be worried about some Council Jobsworth trying to do them for allowing smoking!
3. Just been looking at the TV schedules for Christmas. With my wide choice of four TV channels, I really am being offered some spectacular fare: on the Sunday before the big day I can watch the very Christmassy “The Great Escape”. Yep, that movie that’s on every Christmas (except it isn’t, it hasn’t been on at Christmas for years) is on once again. Christmas Eve isn’t too bad - there are some movies related to Christmas, and “Pirates of the Caribbean” which is always fun - but Christmas Day itself is awful; “Gone with the Wind” (yawn) or lots and lots of EastEnders (depressing) and ‘dragged out of the rubbish pile’ To The Manor Born. Bah humbug!
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