01 January 2007

Resolutions

Did you hear about the guy who got the LCD monitor for Christmas? His New Year's Resolution is 1280x1024.

Terrible joke, but it gives us a chance to say Happy New Year from giroscope, as well as writing down our respective resolutions. Many of these will doubtless last a week at the most, but it's as well to have some written record of them, to have a good laugh at in the second week of January.

They are as follows:

Seth

  • Focus on the real political issues. Stuff like climate change, the continuing weakness and decline in our democratic institutions, and the increasing dangers of multinational corporate power. Compared with this, the forthcoming Labour leadership contest looks irrelevant even if it were a real contest (which looks most unlikely).

Hal

  • Cover a wider range of sports rather than just football. This may be difficult to achieve because Hal doesn't actually like sports that much in general. But then, he doesn't actually like football that much, and has still managed to write about it... well, mainly about Colchester United, anyway.
  • a lot more on conspiracy theorists - time to take the blog beyond mainstream politics. Difficult to strike a balance between believing any old crap on one hand, and a kneejerk reaction of anything to the left of Gordon Brown on the other. But someone has to try! Hal is taking on the additional title of 'special projects correspondent.'
Barney

  • drinking only at beer festivals from now on. There are just too many mediocre pints of Greene King IPA, etc, being served up at pubs.
  • getting some bloody music tracks finished and up on the web.

We'll review in 2 weeks and see where we are. Any of the regular commentators on the site got any interesting resolutions?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's the best science geek joke I've heard in a long while. If I was drinking something when I read it, it would have squirted out of my nose.
Happy new year to the giroscope team and their nearest and dearest! Let's catch up soon, H.

Anonymous said...

My New Year's resolution is to continue uncovering the identity of the thousands of Sino/North Korean Agent Provocateurs (SNAPS) working to deliver us unto a PRC/ KDPR controlled European superstate. Your name features prominently in those investigations....