Thursday, April 27, 2006

Would You Credit That?

Hmmm. It appears I spend to much money on books and not enough on clothes. Table below is my Credit card purchases by number of transactions and percentage of total value. Kind of aimless, and really needs to cross referenced with laser info. Read from it what you want.

What makes the information slighty valid is that I am a plastic junkie. I hate cash, so I have a (sometimes) painful record of most things I buy.



CategoryNo of Purchases  Percent of Value
Bins 1 5.0
Books 8 8.8%
Booze 4 2.3%
Car 1 5.7%
Cinema 2 0.6%
Clothes 1 1.3%
Computer 1 0.9%
ESB connection 1 1.1%
Fishing 1 1.9%
Flowers 3 1.5%
Food 9 4.1%
Glasses 2 5.7%
Gov 3 8.3%
Holiday 4 15.7%
Household 2 1.3%
Insurance 1 7.0%
Internet 3 1.2%
Medical 2 1.6%
Music/DVD 3 3.2%
Paddy Power 1 0.7%
Paypal 4 1.3%
Petrol 22 14.2%
Present 3 6.0%
Vet 1 0.6%

Monday, April 03, 2006

13 Fictional places that I wouldn't like to live in


Sunnydale, California

Pros: Hot Buffy action.
Cons: Full of Vampires, Demons, he undead, built over a hell-mouth. Generally not a nice place to live.

Smallville, Kansas

Pros: Wholesome, if you are not being possessed/killed.
Cons: Monster of the week, frequent devastating meteor showers, super powered psychopaths, super intelligent psychopaths, in the middle of nowhere.

Ankh-Morpork, Discworld

Pros: Big City, Excellent entrepreneur opportunities.
Cons: Very dangerous, heavily polluted, legal assassination.

Ballykissangel, Ireland

Pros: None.
Cons: Excessive shamrockery, philandering priests, excessive boredom.

Mega-City One, Eastern United States

Pros: None.
Cons: One of the most violent cities on earth, 100% unemployment, numerous cataclysmic events, inadequate housing provisions.

Castle Rock, Maine

Pros: You may not die.
Cons: You'll probably die. Shops are dangerous. Graveyards are dangerous. People are dangerous. Dogs are dangerous.

Dark City, Space

Pros: You'll think that you like your life.
Cons: Subjected to nightly alien experiments, in a virtual prison on in a city floating through space in perpetual darkness.

Arkham, Massachusetts

Pros: The Architecture?
Cons: The Cthulhu, Drives you mad, child sacrifice, bad doings are accepted as a part of life.

Dogville, Colorado

Pros: None.
Cons: Rape, slavery, beatings, eventual death.

Las Venturas, Western United States

Pros: There are nice places to live, if you are rich.
Cons: Everybody is armed and violent, open gang warfare is the norm. GBH, car-jacking and robbery not usual.

South Park, Colorado

Pros: Quiet American mountain town.
Cons: Satan walks the streets. Random violent death not uncommon. Numerous cataclysmic events. Uncontrollable unruly mobs.

Twin Peaks, Washington

Pros: Damn good coffee.
Cons: Evil possession a possibility. Murder likely. Population allegedly speak English, but are completely incomprehensible.

Zion, Deep beneath the earth

Pros: You are free?
Cons: No resources, no knowledge of how anything works, living at the machines mercy, likelihood of death with every new iteration of "The One"