Caddy Powers Vs Missed Appointments

E-Mailed apologies will go around soon once I finish off some nasty workload but until then just a quick notice why I missed meeting up with some of you when back in Ireland.

Essentially, there was a major scare with my sisters health during my vacation. She was hospitalised with suspected pulmonary embolism. As that accounts for something like 15% of all sudden deaths, we were all obviously a tad concerned. Not to mention three kids were all needed to be taken care of.

Anyhoo, it looks like she is in the clear. She did have PE but she has responded well to medication and seems to have gotten through it without any major damage.

Caddy Powers Vs Back Home

Oh yeah, forgot to say I should be back in Eire for the majority of next week to attend a Christening on Saturday.

DA will be in attendance too and this time the visa is confirmed

Caddy Powers Vs Holy Campaign Strategy Batman

The election strategies of the Penguin and Batman via the old 60s show.




Found via This Modern World

Caddy Powers Vs Iron Man V Batman

Gah ... must wait a few extra days to see Iron Man thanks to stupid academic meetings .... garrrrrr

Caddy Powers Vs Pretending to be Surprised

Okay I personally thought the Democratic Primary was over at the start of March ... but now it is hard to see anyway to argue that it is not over. No question. Gone. Finalised. Done. Except that it probably continue on ...

For the first time ever I think a concession by Clinton in the near future is now a possibility but it depends on her fundraising stinking for the next few days and if there is a big swing in superdelegates within the week. The first is possible but I am not so sure of the second. Then again considering her loans to herself in and the fact that Clinton has held on despite the long shot odds means she could well fight out for the sure win West Virginia regardless.

Obama's camp seem to be setting May 20th as their end date and the point when I think larger movements by superdelgates will happen.

Oh well, maybe we should all try to at least look surpirsed when Obama wins in the next few weeks

PS

Blogger is acting up so no links or spell check ... poo

Caddy Powers Vs Takeback

I take back the nice things about Alan Colmes ...




Darwinist? Science caused the Holocaust? The existence of sunsets relate to evolution? Evolution relates to the big bang theory? Mathematical proof that it is impossible to think about ... I don't think I can take it anymore

I still think Colmes is the best talk radio host (because then he has control and a reasonably hostile audience) but this was sickening. How much wrong can you have on a show without objecting

Caddy Powers Vs Worryingly True

From the past: When the Onion announced that the Iron Man Trailer was becoming a film



DA will be allowing me to see it on Wednesday. This is pretty depressing as it is already my turn to pick the film and I have a spotless record* for picking films we both enjoy (Shawshank Redemption, Hot Fuzz, Howl's Moving Castle, Anchorman, the Opposite of Sex, Batman Begins and Back to the Future -although she had seen it already- and her record is essentially zero (The Devil Wears Prada, 4 Funnerals and a Wedding, Nothing Hill, Love Actually, Becoming Jane and Brokeback Mountain) ... well not unless you count my neighbour Totoro (which I had intended to watch but moved up my list for her).

PS

Please don't leave comments about how great Brokeback Mountain was ... really pleases don't. The main leads were good but really that film was really, really overrated. Passable at best but I was incredibly disspointed after all the postive hype (and even more disappointed after all the negative hyping by people who never watched it).

* = Actually she left 12Angry Men very early in its showing but I have blotted this from my memory as an insult to this classic is pretty much unforgivable. I will put it down to the slow start and lack of Prada style shoes or clothes or whatever the hell it is that they make at Prada.

Caddy Powers Vs Elite Badguy

Wow, it has been over a month. It has been very hectic in Glasgow due to some mini-crisis here and a rather big conference in April I was panicked about. Last week was spent in a trip to London and meeting my disease carrying nephews and niece (meaning of course I was sick for a good part of my trip).

One handy thing was trying to figure out a new mandarin name for myself. If I do end up living in Taiwan for a few years I will need a Mandarin styled name for official papers and if I don't choose one the officials will do it for me. I was annoyed by this even though in practice it would have little effect in what people call me.

Refusing to simply take a made up name, I was annoyed that there was little chance of having anything remotely like my surname as Chinese surnames are usually one character. Eventually I thought about using my initials.

DA was fine with this until she realised my middle initial was fart. I asked did it have any other meanings ... and eventually found out with the third tone (I think) it becomes Badguy. Mix in my first initial meaning Elite and my new alias of Elite Badguy G was born*


* = This of course is a bit of a fourth wall breaking as Elite Badguy of course would be for the initials JPG. One would almost think I had an alias ...

Caddy Powers Vs NI Clinton

Just saw on TV that Hillary Clinton is taking credit for bringing peace to Northern Ireland. Wow, I must of missed that one when it happened.

Bill Clinton can take some credit for stabilising NI, but can anyone please tell me anything she did on this?

Caddy Powers Vs Results

CNN is calling Ohio for Clinton, as early indications indicated tonight that she was doing better in Texas, I am guessing she could well take that. I am not saying she will ... early voting etc could bring it to Obama. For now I say Clinton will get 3-1 (not including caucus) but the fight goes on