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Wait for all the screaming Apple fanboys to protest. I’m no Microsoft apologist, but if they came up with a product this expensive, yet so functionally inadequate, you’d never hear then end of it from the muesli-knitting, goatee-wearing Mac brigade.

In all the (mostly critical) articles I’ve read about this high tec brick, the most common defence from the Apple-opolgists  is; “Yeah, but you wait for the next version, it will have all those features and more! And be extra shiny!”.

Right, so why buy this one, and are you now finally admitting that Apple have been siphoning cash out of your wallet for years with upgrades that could have gone in the original product?

(Are you impressed that I made it this far without referencing its name to female sanitary wear? Whoops……)

If you don’t think this is funny, then you won’t like Unintentional Sex…..

But I think I know my audience

As the tagline says, you can’t prove they don’t exist….

Continued…..(with some very good points!)

Occasionally amidst all the dross, caption catz, and lols on the interweb, you come across a website that’s an informative, amusing and downright interesting way to spend a few minutes and I was lucky enough to find one today.

Back in 1972, Geoffrey Hoyle (son of Sir Fred Hoyle) wrote a children’s book about 2010:Living In The Future.

Being that we have now reached the future (so to speak) what better time to see what came true, and what didn’t, and that’s exactly what Daniel Sinker did at this site: 2010: Living In The Future – The Book.

The site’s well worth a read, and Daniel’s commentary is very amusing, whilst always affectionate. Geoffrey Hoyle did get a few things spot on, while a few were somewhat wide of the mark, though I do fancy that dedicated bacon oven and the throwing toast machine…..

So after you’ve read that; what are your predictions for 2048? Jumpsuits are a given

If you too believe printers were sent from Hell (and plenty of mine were obvious lieutenants of Satan) then you’ll enjoy the rest of this strip over at the rather excellent The Oatmeal.

Boom, and indeed boom. Following on from last photo, here’s a few shots from the recent snowfall here in Scotland. It’s beginning to thaw now, but as recently as last weekend it was 2 feet deep on the lawn. Feel free to mock/be amazed depending on your latitude…..

This was the fruits of nearly 2 weeks of constant shovelling. Four foot piles of snow that will probably be still with us in July

The back garden: check out the snow on the playhouse roof! Normally in front of you here is a rockery + some solar lights that are around 2 feet tall.

Thankfully these fellows went quietly as they were right above the front door. One of these straight through the top of your head could ruin your whole day…..

Anyway, that’s Winter done and Spring is just round the corner…… well, almost :-0

08:30 I had to get up for this and will you thank me? Well, Kristin probably won’t.

It was cold, and the drifts were up to my knees, but it was pretty. But it can melt now, and Spring can start if it’s all the same to you. What do you mean that’s 3 months away?

For all that’s holy why did they get out?

Me too. Like when they advertise those jelly sweets that are pure sugar as being 100% fat free, or that ‘1 serving’ of a breakfast cereal only contains 99 calories, then you see that 1 serving is the equivalent of some single atomic unit of measurement.

As an aside, what do you septics* call those jelly sweets, seeing as you call jam ‘jelly’? You know those chewy candies like, well, jelly beans. And why are they called ‘jelly’ beans when you can’t spread them on toast? One of life’s many mysteries…..

*Septics=Septic tanks = Yanks. Cockney rhyming slang, innit Mary Poppins?

The Loanhead of Daviot stone circle on a cold & frosty November dawn.

I would have liked to have got out to a few circles over Christmas but too much snow got in the way – maybe later in the month.

More circles on my Bigstones website.