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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Miscellany

Published: 06 February 2009

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A short film by Jan Svankmajer - 1966. I know, I've recommended him before. But it's too good not to include here.

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Miscellany

Published: 27 January 2009

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I found a mouse trapped in a smooth sided coleman cooler that has been stored in my kitchen. It couldn't get out. And with the hamster gone (RIP), I thought I could begin the big mouse roundup. 

I caught it, then released it into Hammy's cage. It hid, afraid, behind Hammy's old straw hut.

The other mouse, if there's only one, began making a pile of noise as if in protest, rattling papers, swinging the chew that hangs from the drawer, always just out of sight, the audible mischief done, but no mice to be seen.

And I went to check up on it a few hours later, but it was still hiding I thought. And so I turned the cage upside-down, mussed in the sawdust, turned over the tropical hut, nothing.

It's escaped. I need to find an old aquarium, something without bars, these mice, they're nimble.

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Miscellany

Published: 25 January 2009

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Kids nowadays are spoiled. I tell them but they don’t believe me, about the chicken livers sautéed with onions I had to eat when I was a child, about the year straight of overcooked spaghetti and meat sauce when my father was learning to cook. We went for dinner maybe once a month. They think I’m making it up. I don't think they've ever even tried a brussel sprout. Or a chicken liver. Nowadays, if the pizza has mushrooms on it it’s a lousy meal…

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Miscellany

Published: 23 January 2009

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I've noticed my page-rank is dropping. Odd, that, for a long time while my blog sat inactive without a single post I was #1 in searches for "Rod Boyle". But as of late I'm number #9. People with Linked In Profiles are beating me. And people with You Tube videos. Who are these other Rod Boyle's who run golf courses, IT management firms in the UK, I wonder? Bastards, every one of them, I'm sure. Maybe I need to start doing some promotions. I'm not looking for much, really, just #1 in my name. Perhaps I should post a clever You Tube video with me as the star. No one would ever see it because I'm not really a star, not even of my own video. But it would drive up my ranking. OR I could hide hidden links to my site in other sites I build.....

But really, what I should be wondering is why I'm so desperate for Google's Approval....