Mr Mist’s Blog

So much is happening today that I’ve got a whole *single* blog entry for you. In motor racing, Michael Schumacher has taken pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix, in the closing minutes [news.bbc.co.uk] of the qualifying session. Jenson Button continued a return to good form with a sixth place qualification.

There’s Mouldy Soup here. The mouldy soup has nothing to do with motor racing though.

There really was some insanity shown in the world today. Firstly there was a terrible mess in Erfurt, Germany, when an expelled former pupil took a gun into his old school and killed eighteen people [news.bbc.co.uk]. He killed 14 teachers, two pupils and a policewoman. I had heard earlier that only two people had been shot and that the gunman was cornered, but this was obviously not the case. Terrible loss. It really does make you ponder about how people get guns, and how people end up doing things like this guy did. I can’t understand it at all.

The second bit of insanity is the conviction of the 14 plane-spotting people accused of espionage in Greece [news.bbc.co.uk]. They have been sentanced to between one and three years. I can’t help but believe that such a thing would never be allowed to happen over here, a fellow European country. Will the British government take action? We shall see.

There is a soup picture up today, but I’m not doing the cheap plastic stuff today. I don’t feel like it. I might do it tomorrow or leave it until next week.

Incidentally today the builders filled the foundations with concrete which I promptly stepped in to leave my footprint in the ground forever. I’ll post a picture tomorrow

Thanks to Mr Rhys [rsmith.org.uk], I have found this wonderful site that lets you make a lego copy of you [reasonablyclever.com].

Here is me, in Florence, Italy, in lego form :

Isn’t that great? Go make one of yourself [reasonablyclever.com].

Have been coming to my site recently for pictures of the planetery alignment.

Sorry to disappoint you guys and girls, I haven’t got any. My camera simply isn’t up to the job of photographing a spec of light against a background of utter darkness. It doesn’t work. I *did* get a blurred image of the moon the other day, so if anyone wants that, please ask.

My best guess is to try looking on this site here [nmm.ac.uk], where they have generated pictures.

It’s no longer the big bang, it’s a big cycle, involving continual big bangs and big crunches [news.bbc.co.uk]. The universe is timeless. So sayeth one of the latest scientific theories in any case. How do you like the idea of having no beginning? Does it go with or against any particular religion you might have? (I’m fairly safe in that respect