Author Archives: WeatherGrrrl

Sub Evil Boy waxes lyrical

More wonderful poetry from Sub Evil Boy. Check it out. My new poem. Christmas break. Current temperature 19F/-7C

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My Master’s Voice

So I’ve been ordered to make a test post to keep ‘him upstairs’ happy and see if our feed to Thomas Mcphee dot com is working. What ever the boss wants, he gets! Listening to Dance anthems at the Beeb’s … Continue reading

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Happy Christmas

Hope all is well with you and yours. We’re home for the holiday season this year, the university calendar was not kind and the idea of flying on Christmas Eve unappealing. So here we are in the frozen north looking … Continue reading

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Super Svelte Portia

Yes, you read that correctly, our ten ton behemoth has become a svelte superstar and we’re not even sure how it happened. With all the wet food she’s been getting, courtesy of Turq, and the old bait and switch con … Continue reading

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Hmmmm? I’d like to see this movie again before I decide how much I liked it. And I did like it but … The story was told as a series of set pieces with little to connect them together. Understandable … Continue reading

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Walk the Line

Great. While this is a fairly standard bio-pic and the cinematography is not much to write home about, the chemistry between Phoenix and Witherspoon is red hot and brings the whole thing to life. The sound track rocks and it … Continue reading

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Let us now praise …

… a very brave man, Judge Jones. (Yeah, I know I’m a few days late on this but I’ve been inhaling paint fumes in a cupboard and it’s been keeping me off-line.) Judge Jones has ruled that Intelligent Design is … Continue reading

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Big Business whines about having to compete

So I thought that American big business loved free trade and worshipped at the altar of the free market. Of course not, silly me, they can’t possibly be expected to respond to new technology with commensurate innovation. No, they go … Continue reading

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Red Eye

Brill! Great genre movie. Loved the female lead, Rachel McAdams, she had brains and guts and didn’t stand around screaming waiting for a man to save her!!!!!!!! Big thank you to Carl Ellsworth. The film races along and doesn’t let … Continue reading

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Technical lackey claims success

Well the technical crew that slaves away keeping WeatherGirl’s Station in fine fettle, has installed a plug-in that should make life in this tiny corner of the blogsphere a little bit easier. Comments now feature SecureImage, a CAPTCHA program that … Continue reading

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