Random loves and hates

For no specific reason...

Hate: Lady Sovereign has just set the world record for the worst ever cover version of any song by the Cure. What makes this achievement even more spectacular is that it's ripping off such a good original song...

Love: Just made my first ever (as an adult, not counting school excursions) visit to an art gallery in Australia to see an exhibition featuring some of my sister-in-law's drawings. I've been to dozens of galleries overseas, but never before in Oz, and never before to look at art with the same surname as mine on it. And this was some really good art, as well - it was a 'realist' art show, which means it was drawings and sketches by people who can really draw well, and I much prefer that to things where you either have to squint sideways to try to figure out what they're meant to be, or alternatively where you have to be careful to read the labels to figure out what is "art" and what's just garbage left lying around the place...

Hate: being woken up at some unholy hour of the morning (ok, 7.30am... yes I know some people are at work by then, but I'm not, and that's the point) by the sound of an orbital sander grinding the paint off the windowframe less than 3 feet from my head, while they're repaining the outside of my building.

Love: A sunny Saturday after a cold and rainy week.

Hate: Alexandra Pde traffic on a Saturday afternoon. How can it take an hour to get from Parkville to Camberwell..?

Love: IPL cricket on the new free-to-air sports channel every evening

Hate: The worst rule in football, where the guy with the ball breaks through a tackle and runs off but has it taken off him and given to the guy who made the failed attempt to tackle him, just because the fend-off involved contact above the shoulder of the failed tackler. Shall be henceforth referred to as the anti-Buddy rule.

Love: Being able to spend Saturday afternoon doing interesting science

And finally, here's a little video of a former cricketer pretending to know about synchrotrons, which I thought was reasonably classic (particularly with the misspelled captions cropping up underneath him):