The House Husband

A while ago (at the end of last year sometime) I made a post with the title ‘Gaz the Destroyer’. It concerned the fact that I had uprooted a lot of plants that I should have left in the ground. I was roundly chastised for it at the time and I do not wish to revisit the event. Actually it does get referred to from time to time but I do feel I have paid my penance and wish to move on.

Looking at the stats for this blog, as I do, I noticed there has been a lot of people searching for ‘Gaz the Destroyer’ and getting this blog. Oh, how disappointed they must be!

After a bit of detective work (actually if you put Gaz the Destroyer in Google, I come top of the list) I discovered that there’s a Youtube video of three guys hoovering a carpet to a rap song. I’m afraid I can’t report very much more about the actual song or the artists (I took very little notice of either of these) and suggest that if you really want to know, you can search for them yourself. However, the phenomenon is called ‘Dubstep Vacuuming’ and I think someone is trying to make it go viral.

In the original video, the three guys have names. The first is Gaz the Destroyer. I can only assume that this is why people keep landing on my post. So, awfully sorry, people. This is Dubstep Blogging…whatever that is.

I spent most of today running test scripts against online databases for my dissertation. Truly dull.

And to cap it off, Nicktor is not coming over tonight. So I’ll have to run some more test scripts.

One light, however. A while ago I dropped an iPod Touch down a toilet and it stopped working – June 19, to be exact. After trying lots of ways to dry it and fix it I had almost given up when I decided to Google it. Apparently I’m not alone in my plight. Two suggestions I figured were worth a try. One involved putting the iPod in the oven at 50 degrees for an hour. This would be my last resort.

The other was simple. Leave it in the sun for a week. Don’t move it, don’t try and charge it, don’t even touch it. This one I tried. For a week it has sat on the dining table. Unmoved but, when it was sunny, bathed in sunlight. And today the week was up.

You have to remember this iPod has been completely dead; not a flicker of anything even remotely approaching life. As soon as I hit the power switch, it sprang back to life! It seems to be perfectly ok now. Astounding. I love the Internet. So much. Thank you, guys.