Here I am on Sky News last night, talking about internets and things. YEAH!

I've uploaded a bunch more family photos to my flickr account - clicky this linky for a butcher's if you fancy!

I went to the Bovington Tank Museum the other day with my family. Jacqui found the whole thing a bit odd – a happy family day out to see killing machines, and I have to say that now she mentions it, I suppose if you think about it like that it is a bit strange. Still, I don't think about it like that, so that's OK. I think about it in a “YAY TANKS!” way. Tanks are pretty cool.

I was taking Zak around the museum looking at the tanks- we haven't discussed the killing part, just that fact that they are big machines that go BRRRRRRUMMMMM- when we walked past an armoured train section. Zak likes trains very much, so I mused aloud “Oh look, it's a train with guns on!” I should point out at this point that he thinks the guns on all the vehicles were trumpets.

Anyway, a woman walking by chortled and said “Good idea if you ask me, it would keep the queues shorter!”

I chortled in recognition and continued on my way.

Now, I've been thinking a lot about her comment ever since, and now I wish I'd taken her phone number so I could pull her up on a couple of things. Basically, her comment makes no sense. Let's think about it.

If we added armoured carriages to commuter trains, it would mean there was less room for normal passenger carriages, and hence surely the queues would be longer, not shorter. If this is what she meant she was just plain wrong. I wish I'd pointed this out to her at the time.

Maybe she meant that the armoured carriages should open fire on the commuters. This could keep the size of the queue down, I guess. People wouldn't want to stay in the queue being static targets for artillery and machine guns to slaughter them. I can't help feeling she simply hasn't thought this through either though. It wouldn't just keep the queue sizes down, it would stop you using the service entirely- I mean, no-one is going to catch that train if you're going to get shot or blown up when you try and get on. That would be crazy! So the idea is basically commercial suicide for the train operator. You'd go out of business very quickly. Especially if you had competitors who were offering services which didn't try to kill you. This is free market capitalism at work.

Added to this is another problem – if someone bought a ticket to go to (for example) Peterborough and then was maimed by your shellfire on the platform, presumably they would be entitled to a refund as they never got to their destination – hastening your commercial demise. If you shelled people before they bought their tickets, I'm not even sure that would be lawful.

So I have so much to say to that woman and her stupid scheme to put guns on trains. She's completely wrong! Her idea is idiocy! She is a bloody moron! And yet I said nothing! And now I have no way to get hold of her to put her right! I can't sleep at night. Aargh.

Hellloooooooo and welcome to the 83rd EVER update from rathergood!

Joel's away on holiday this week, but he left us the keys to rathergood HQ and we've had so much fun! Seadave and I have not been missing Joel AT ALL! So much so, that we constructed a Joel shrine, and danced around it, hourly, singing songs about how we didn't miss Joel. And, do you know, it's worked! We didn't miss him at all In fact, we barely thought about Joel while we were dancing and singing about how much we didn't miss him. BOOHOOHOOHOO!

Anyway, on to the important stuff. We saw a brilliant advert for Japanese noodles a while back, featuring an insane cheese monster who torments his victims by ejaculating cheese out of his fingers; parmesan from the right, and cheddar from the left. It inspired us to do a little remix thing, with a bit of help from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, David Bowie, and some old spectrum noises (together at last!). Drink in its cheesy glory here: http://www.rathergood.com/cheese

Also, we've got a great misheard lyric from an old Public Enemy tune which Joel knocked out before HE CRUELLY LEFT US ALL ALONE: http://www.rathergood.com/noise

Ace, huh? Did you notice that both videos this week had cuckoo clocks in? Isn't that an amazing coincidence? I think we are developing some kind of "hive mind" between ourselves. Curiouzzzzzzz.

Oh, one other thing: Joel asked us to tell you that he loves you loads, and do you know, it's absolutely true. He's always going on about you, you lucky lucky people. I bet he'd never abandon you and go off for a week's holiday, would he? WOULD HE? Oh. Right. So, Joel will be back next week THANK GOD. Not that we've missed him, of course. We've been fine without him. Absolutely fine. Barely given it a second thought.

Anyway, must dash, we're late for our hourly Joel ritual dance. Seeeeeeya! Lord Skankhammer, MSkank (Hons)

Helloooooo! And welcome to the 82nd EVER update from rathergood!

I have got literally the happiest thing in the history of everything ever for you today! And that is no exaggeration whatsoever! In fact it is an understatement! Here is My Baby Goat!

http://www.rathergood.com/goat

YEAH! Hasn't that uplifted you? Don't you feel AMAZING now? Hooray for the little happy bouncing baby goat! You can get incredibly happy goaty tshirts too! From here!

http://bit.ly/3rneK

In other news, a couple of years ago we did some lovely animations around Big Brother for E4 with the contestants as animals. I've whacked a couple of them up on the site so you can see them! Enjoy!

http://www.rathergood.com/big_brother

We've also added an uber-menu to rathergood, with pretty much everything that isn't written word all in one place:

http://www.rathergood.com/table/all/

It looks well ultimate, doesn't it! There's loads of stuff when you put it all together like that! YEAH!

I asked Skankhammer if there was anything else we should mention this week and he pointed out that he's upgraded our content management system from Joomla 1.5.7 to 1.5.12! OH MY GOD! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!?!?!?!?! That is TOTALLY HARDCORE! GNARLY DUDE! I have just vomited, because I am so overwhelmed with excitement at this, and I expect you have probably just vomited too.

I guess that's about it, except to tell you that I love you. I love you really hard! I love you as hard as I can, all the time! I'm loving you right now! I'm loving you while I write this! I am loving you furiously!

People sometimes ask me whether the love comes first, or the fury. I tell them that they both engender each other. As soon as I start loving, I become furious. If something makes me furious, I begin loving uncontrollably. The fury and the loving, overwhelming me with their extremity. I start to scream both in fury and love, turn bright red and the veins pop out of my head. Screaming and screaming, loving and loving, round and round I spin, flailing and screaming and loving, till I collapse in a heap, exhausted, soaked in sweat and love.

And then it begins again. On and on, round and round, every day.

What a beautiful life it is, full of so much love, and so much fury.

Mwah mwah superhugs and big sloppy kisses!

Yours sincerely

Joel Andrew Veitch MA