Speling

I installed the latest version of Firefox the other day, and it prompted me to install the British English spell checking dictionary. It's great. I think spell checking has been in Firefox 2.0 since it launched, but as I had my language settings on en-gb (British English) and no dictionary installed, it didn't work. If you fancy getting your spell check working, so your posts on blogs and various internet forums look less retarded, but are too lazy to spend any time actually learning how to spell you can get all the different languages of Firefox dictionaries here.

Amusingly, according to the dictionary, the only thing misspelled in this post is Firefox. OK and blogs, but that's not funny.

Power!

Normally I would just comment on Mike's last post for this, but seeing as we need posts if we're even going to get close to the month's goal (which we won't, seeing as we've missed the last 2 months), I'll just blog it.

Mike's post either shows that he is nothing without me, or that my laziness is so powerful even he can't overcome it. I suppose that there's a 3rd option, that he really just doesn't give a damn, but that option doesn't make me sound awesome so I'm going to pretend like I didn't just say that. Why don't I just go back and delete it? Well, that sentance is about 1/4 of this post, without it this would look like an extremely lame filler post instead of a regular, old fashioned lame filler post.

Thanksgiving

So, not many blogs this week! Why is that? Well, as he mentioned Danny's away for a week. That shouldn't affect my contributions to the site should it? Well... no, not really, but it does.

As you might have gathered from some of the articles here, we can be a tad lazy from time to time. It might appear that our blogs are totally spontaneous, but in reality, behind the scenes we're goading each other on MSN to post stuff. If one of us posts, the other will take it as a challenge and try and respond. If you look through the history of the site you'll find a lot of days where we've both posted in fairly quick succession.

So, unfortunately, Danny's to blame for me not posting whilst he's on holiday because he's on holiday. That loser.

Dentist - Part 2

So, I went to my dentist appointment. Nice and easy, 15 mins in and out with a checkup, clean and polish. All for the lovely NHS price of £15.90. WOO! Dunno how I managed that. Nothing wrong with my teeth as usual, I don't why they suggest going every 6 months, every 5 to 8 years seems to be fine.

Failed Moments of Laziness

I'm currently on vacation in Florida. But I was going to show off and be awesomely nerdy and blog from a moving vehicle today to once again show Mike that I am Supreme Blogger of Lazy View.

Unfortunately my nerd powers were overwhelmed by my powers of stupidity. I forgot the cable to hook my Blackberry up to my computer. Now I'm just blogging from a crappy hotel like some travelling buisnessman trolling for barely legal hotties in the area. Which, speaking of, time to alt-tab and get to work on that.

HD-TV

Last night I went to a friends house to watch the football. At first we were going to to go to Friend A's house. Friend A is currently a bit of a LazyView hero or someone we hate and are jealous of. He quit his job and decided to have a few months off working and go on a massive holiday in the US including blowing all his money gambling in Vegas. Sadly he came back with more money than he left with. The utter bastard.

We were going to watch the football at his house but he had a power cut. When I phoned him to see whether the power was back on, he was in the casino. I'm at work and he's galavanting around the casino. Told you he was a bastard.

Anyway, this meant we had to change location so we went to Friend B's house, and Friend B has a HD-TV box with the BBC HD channel. This meant we could watch England's players be extremely shit in extremly high quality. My first thought was "it's like watching Half-Life!" (or any other recent high resolution game with relatively realistic sets...). It's definitely very odd at first having PC level resolutions on a TV, but it is very good. Especially for football. If I could afford either an HD-TV or a Sky HD box and subscription I'd definitely want to get one. It's the future.

Anyone want to give me a few grand?

Great Moments in Laziness #4

Today's great moment in laziness is once again one of those life changing pieces of technology that so drastically change the fabric of our lives that it's nearly impossible to remember what life was like before its introduction. I give to you.....THE MOBILE/CELLULAR TELEPHONE!!!!

Here's the convoluted history of the cell phone. What an amazing history, eh? Full of interesting stuff and dates and acronyms and people's names and sex and violence. Ok, you got me. I didn't read that shit but that's not important. The real question is: How did this effect laziness? Simply and profoundly. With the power of mobile communications people no longer had to be super organized when leaving the house. Grab you keys, possibly put some pants on, and leave the house. You can text and call people on the way. No need for prearranged meeting coordinates and times. No need for tactical precision that rivals the highest trained military units in the world. Planning social events has now become the domain of uptight assholes. Besides, your cell phone has an alarm clock, a calendar, e-mail, the internet, and (in the case of mine) a single shot pistol so you still be an anal retentive jerkwad on the go! How the hell did people go outside before the cell phone?

Anal retentive actions like organization and planning are the bane of the lazy. Such things are only done under the pretense of directly aiding future laziness. Technology leads the way in this area.

Sure it's probably giving us all brain cancer, but doesn't a little less stress now make up for a little brain cancer later? That was a rhetorical question. Of course it does.