A man has flown across the English Channel using a home-built 'jet wing'. I'm not sure if it's cheating by starting in a plane rather than on the ground, but still. When I first read he was going to try this, I could only imagine it ending in disaster and the guy winning a Darwin Award. 

I think I'm going to call a stop to my recording sessions - I now have 30 backing tracks I'm happy with, and perhaps 24 or 25 of them likely to be good enough for the album. There are loads more songs I want to do, but the tuning problems have reared their heads again (and no, I'm not talking about my vocals, yet anyway - though I've now got some brilliant software for fixing those) and I'm getting annoyed I can't even play a freakin' D power chord without it being out of tune. I think I'll save up slowly and buy a proper guitar in time so it's not an issue. The next album's going to be wholly electronic anyway, as there'll be no room for my instruments and mess of leads and wires once baby boy is here.

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE FORTNIGHT!

1. Death Magnetic - Metallica
2. Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis
3. Boy (remastered) - U2
4. s/t - Scars on Broadway
5. Ultra Beatdown - DragonForce 

Check it out. Isn't that awesome? Not in a "yay, the dinosaurs are dead" kind of way, but in that spooky old-timey parallel kind of way? Dinosaurs were likely wiped out because of a process which we humans are deliberately feeding, 65 millions years on.

While reading up a bit more on the extinction, I came across this chart (which I'm shamelessly going to hotlink 'cause I think Wikipedia can handle my immense traffic):



Basically what it's showing is that over time, the general trend is for mass extinctions to be less and less severe because of increasing biodiversity. evolution. If this isn't a proof of evolution, I don't know what it is. Proof God is chilling out in his old age?

Wicked, this post gives me a chance to whip out my much-neglected 'science' tag.

It has been suggested to me that going to bed the second I get home from work, somewhere between 12am and 1am, isn't the best thing - evidenced by the length of time it takes me to get to sleep, despite my tiredness. So I think I'll post here each night, good enough a reason as any. Staying up and winding down in front of yet another LCD screen probably isn't ideal, but it's better than nothing. I'm too tired to read a magazine - probably because it isn't backlit!

I was thinking the other day, and hoping it would last, that despite everything that's gone down in the recent while, I'm probably the happiest I have ever been in my adult life, right now. Happy as in content, you know? Well, all my burning angst is under control anyway. Life isn't the easiest it's been, I'm not the richest I've been, I'm not exactly in the nicest house I've ever lived in, I haven't exactly got a band that's going anywhere (more on that at a later date, okay), but not much of it bothers me too much at the moment. I think it's because it has finally dawned on me over the last few months that Tariqa and I really are going to be together, forever. And for someone who can still hardly believe he's no longer meant to be a confused, afraid-of-never-getting-a-girl teenager, that's a huge weight off my shoulders!

Oh, and I don't hate my job, and it's not a job just anyone could do either, which pleases the grammar-nazi in me. Seriously, you should see some of the comments that come through onto the website. Holy shite.

Ryan Adams has started posting again... goodbye friends page... but it's awesome that he's been posting loads of Werewolph videos. Why is it that the best extreme death metal is made by an eccentric country singer? (I recommend not clicking on that link if there are children or grannies in the vicinity)

tariqa's Myers-Briggs results got me thinking... what's my type nowadays? I'm a considerably different person to what I was when I last did a proper test, back in '94 or '95, when I was ENFP. I went to the Wikipedia page, and found three detailed tests to take online - three, because internet tests probably can't be as accurate as a properly administered one, but they were pretty detailed and one even gave me a graph.

Oddly enough, I got the same results as Tariqa - INTP. Of course, in some situations I can click over to E instead of I more readily than she will, it's not a strong I, but there's no doubt I'm more of a T now than I was then.

Interesting.

I don't care if tariqa proved it can be done, it just can't!

Astronomers have discovered a planet which is half fire, and half ice. This cannot end well...

NASA is about to find out whether the Earth is a vortex of space time. I, for one, can't go on livng my life without knowing the answer.