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Thursday, August 31, 2006

Fans of Star Trek/Lord of the Rings Rejoice!!



Only one word comes to mind; BRILLIANT!!!

posted by Gurinder at 8:20 PM | 1 comments

Saturday, August 19, 2006

State of the Nation


After 9/11 many people wondered if life would ever go back to the way it was before the terrorist attack. Although five years later life might seem to be normal it will never be the same as it once was, the innocence of this country has been lost. Look at going to an airport for instance, never before has traveling been so difficult. You now have to arrive two hours before your flight to make it through security. Security gates are now standard at any public event or sightseeing attraction. Now with the England terrorist plot it has become even worse. Heathrow airport, one of the busiest airports in the world has been in panic every since the attack plot was made public. In addition to previous restrictions you can no longer take any liquids on board the aircraft. Just the other day a plane was delayed because they found an "unidentified liquid" on the plane, that could be anything from a bottle of Aquafina water to a Pepsi bottle. Everyone is now required to remove their shoes and place them through the x-ray machine. I have nothing against these restrictions if it means I can travel safely but why are we so reactive to new developments. Why can't we take more pro-active stances, as the terrorists come up with more plans we should be anticipating these weaknesses in the system? I really wouldn't put it past them to use "snakes on a plane" as the next terror plot. We can not take water on the plane but yet Dell laptops with their exploding batteries are fine.

posted by Gurinder at 3:26 PM | 1 comments

Monday, August 07, 2006

Dog destroys £40,000 Elvis teddy


This is one of the funniest news stories I have heard in a very long time. Apparently this poor dog, Barney who incidentally was a guard dog, destroyed a teddy bear exhibit that he was guarding. The exhibit in England even featured a teddy bear that was owned by the king himself, Elvis. Unfortuantely the bear named Mabel was one of Barney's victims. It is astounding how this story went world-wide, the worst part they "interviewed" barney himself. While they were featuring poor Barney, his head was down and he looked very sad. The end result of this fiasco was that Barney was fired and will be sent to a farm (whatever that means, personally I think it is a code name for heaven. Seems there are not too many people out there happy with Barney.) The security personnel were at a loss of words of what "triggered Barney to go beserk." Are these people stupid, HE IS A DOG!!! THIS IS WHAT DOG'S DO!! This is the equivalent of putting a lion in a den with Zebra's and expecting him not to eat the Zebras. The reason I put this in my blog is everytime I think of the story or see Barney on the news it makes me crack up, in fact I am laughing as I write this. The link to the full story is posted below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5240832.stm

posted by Gurinder at 4:20 PM | 0 comments