Author Archive for Murray @ Midnight

Rethinking your career choices on the Deathstar

In response to Darren Saturday’s post of Darth Vader playing the blues, I’d like to share this venerable but still rather tickling-of-the-funnybone clip of Darth in a playful mood:

Ask VoodooLogic Anything: Aussie Aussie Aussie! Argh! Argh! Argh!

Sometime my Questions are looking to hook up with Answers. Sometimes I’m just looking for questions to perfect-match with my preset answers…. other times I am standing on a huge question mark wondering why I have Midnight’s mystery car keys. Jeeeeez it would be handy to have an opportunity to pose those questions that dog [...]

Ask VoodooLogic Anything

The VoodooLogic Research And Development Team has been hard at work over the last few months, slaving on a project so top secret that the entire team was pre-emptively prosecuted for breach of contract before being allowed to sign the non-disclosure agreement.
The end-product of all of this terrified dedicated labour is a new and completely [...]

La la la something something oh yeah

The following video seems to be gaining a lot of traction on the intertubes at the moment, as it apparently demonstrates what it’s like for non-English speakers to listen to songs in English.

“Smile to be happy, don’t wait to be happy to smile.” — A coffeeshop guy, who I think was trying to stop me from singing “Friday On My Mind” and scaring away his other customers.

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Two things that make me happy

I admit it. I’m a fan of The Drew Carey Show. It’s one of the few things on television that will predictably make me laugh, even when I’m not really in the mood to laugh.
In particular, I always get a kick from the show’s musical dance numbers, and so I present two of them here, [...]

“If you can’t fix it with a hammer, pair of pliers, or a flatblade screwdriver, it can’t be fixed.” – Craig, the electrician who upgraded my mains power board. [1]

Footnotes:
1. Note: it works, so he must be right.
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“Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” — Unknown

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Just a shoutout that I’ve posted a topic over on the forum about Will Phillips, the 10 year old boy who is refusing to recite the US Pledge Of Allegiance in his classroom until the US acknowledges the right of gay marriage: What, exactly, is a ‘gaywad’?. (Murray @ Midnight | Comments)

Next stop, oblivion

Years ago I predicted the imminent collapse of every civilisation on the face of planet earth [1] based around the unrealistic expectations we were all being taught via computer games.
After all, who wants to go out and get a job and pay bills and deal with “Hi, my name is Sally, and I’m here to [...]