The Most Curious Thing
People have started flirting with me. Not in real life, inevitably, but online. We're actually talking about several different people over the course of the last month or so.
It's all rather inexplicable.
Capital Numbers
diamond geezer has recently been exploring London from a numerical perspective; working his way from 1 to 33 and finding facts relating to each number within the capital. I've been meaning to link to it since he started out, and am only getting round to doing so now he's finished. But usefully, having finished, he's taken the opportunity to compile them all on a site of their own, so I can legitimately offer a link without looking like I forgot all about it until it was too late. Except that I just told you that was exactly what I did. Oh well.
Wimbledon Watch
I'm just watching the end of the Henman/Nalbandian match, and despite a few moments where it looked like Tabby Tim would do his usual trick of throwing the game away, generally it's been very impressive.
What I'm really looking forward to though are the highlights of the Agassi/Philippoussis match. Even though I was disappointed by the outcome, I'm interested to see what sounds like a brilliant match.
Gay Partnerships – The Details
As discussed a couple of weeks ago, the government has provided more details on the way in which their proposed 'gay relationship recognition' system would work, according to the BBC. The 'living togther for six months' limitation appears to have gone, but the differentiation between gay and straight 'partnerships' remains a sticking point for some, including Peter Tatchell, who has recourse to the word 'heterophobic'. Well, I say 'word'....
Cool Weekend
I've been out of town a fair bit this weekend, including a drive out into Kent for a picnic and a bit of an explore today. We picnicked at a country park by a village called Vigo, with views out over the Kent countryside, which was beautiful, then drove on up to the Isle of Sheppey and found an unexpected mix of trailer-park-style 'holiday villages' full of stationary caravans, and nasty-looking 'family bars', just up the road from classical Kentish villages with cricket matches and cream teas.
Worth doing for the contrast alone.....
Quite The Night Out
So last night I was told about a night out that some people had on Thursday. Basically a big night to mark the departure from a job, the departee had set himself a budget of £1000 to pay for everyone's evening. They ended up at a lapdancing place after eating and drinking, many dances and quite a lot of champagne were consumed, and the total amount our hero spent was £860.
However, one member of the party seems to have set up his own tab, and run up a separate bill for the (rather better) champagne that his new friend kept ordering, and the (rather more expensive) company of this same new friend.
So as he discovered when his credit card company called him on Friday morning to query some heavy transactions from the night before, he had added to the total evening cost to the tune of, ahem, a further £940.
I think the word 'ouch!' barely begins to cover it.....
As Claims To Fame Go….
....It's a little unimpressive, but if you do a Google search for "George Clooney's arse", guess who comes up number one?
And astonishingly someone did. And this is where they ended up.
Welcome.
You freak.
Weird Evening
Well, after a more than usually strange day, this evening took a turn for the frankly bizarre.
And sadly, I can't say any more about it.
But, let's just call it 'unexpected' shall we?
Texas Law Overturned
The US Supreme Court has issued a judgement on the much-publicised case of the Texas gay anti-sodomy laws (note that in this case the wider definition of 'sodomy' applies - from dictionary.com: 'Any of various forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural or abnormal, especially anal intercourse or bestiality' and in this case including oral sex), and ruled that the law broke Constitutional safeguards of privacy. The BBC not only covers the ruling itself, but also provides some insight into the dissenting views within the court and the reflection of that dissent in wider US society which makes for interesting reading.
Wimbledon Watch
Annoyingly, I've been managing to miss most of the highlight programmes so far, so I've been reduced to online accounts and the joys of the IBM Wimbledon scoreboard applet, but I did get to see all of last night's highlights, and I was *shock* impressed by the Henman, though more impressed by Andre Agassi and acouple of others. Andy Roddick is looking extremely strong of course, but there are a few others that could yet cause even more major upsets as week two looms.
I totally missed Greg Rusedski's outburst, but I note that the man who says he caused it has apologised. He thinks he'll never be able to show his face at Wimbledon again.
I think he may be right.