06.30.06
Posted in Imported at 2:59 pm by coldclimate
My phone’s little-magic-clicky-button has stopped clicking, thus no turning on or off, no menus etc etc. I rang Orange and a very nice young lady uin Sunderland talked me through proving there is a fault. First thing, press and hold little clicky button and see if phone turns off. No. Ok, next thing, take out the battery, and then turn the phone on again, to see if there is a sooftware fault.
The thing is, the magic-clicky-button also turns the phone on! So now I have a phone, which they very politly informed me “definatly has a faukt”, and they’ll pick iit up tomorrow. Luckly they have a landline on rcord for me, otherwsie this would have been (more) farsical.
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Posted in Imported at 1:06 pm by coldclimate
Fetish knitwear. Yep - you heard me, fetish knitwear
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06.29.06
Posted in Imported at 9:20 pm by coldclimate
My dads phone died (river+phone=phoneDeath), so I dug out my old Nokia 8210 (one of the finest phones I’ve owned in my opinion) and after swapping Sims, set about removing my old numbers. I guess it must be 2 years since I used it.
Funny what it reminds you of:
* An ex-girlfriend, who’s mobile number I deleted, but who’s landline I left.
* A summer fling, which petered out, for no good reason
* A friend who just stopped talking to me for no reason (that I know of)
* The stress of trying to sort a flat in London with only 2 weeks before I started my job
* Having the phone number of the chipshop, so I could phone ahead my haggis order
* The staff at a clothing manufactorer who consistently ripped us of, but were forgiven for sending me a hoodie with “Stickman” printed on the back, rather than the stick man logo.
Anyway, all clensed and deleted, and is now full of new numbers, and few memories.
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06.28.06
Posted in Imported at 7:22 pm by coldclimate
“They’re not newspapers, they’re comics for the semi-literate; propaganda sheets controlled by foreign billionaires who just want to make as much money as technically possible and maintain a political environment conducive to that single aim”
Words by Iain Banks links by me (confusion is allowed).
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Posted in Imported at 6:50 pm by coldclimate
This time it’s the name sof the people who’ve sent me spam. A mate and I at uni used to joke about the Irish jacker Coded O’Stolen, but these are pure genius including:Closeted O. Mackerel, Percentage R. Obstacles, Outlive U. Halberd and Acrobatic J. Cosby.
Thats just the ones in my inbox now, God alone knows what gems lie over the page.
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Posted in Imported at 12:33 pm by coldclimate
After a little bit of experimentation of my own I’ve finally started doing a bit of research into how to take highspeed shotos of things being shot. Luckily I ran across homebrew high-speed photography, which includes circuits, explainations an kit lists! Brilliant!
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Posted in Imported at 12:13 pm by coldclimate
Thats it. I have lost my patience. I would consider myself to be a fairly polite person. I hold door, I pull out chairs, I remembr my please and thank yous. So I am more than fucked off with the majority of old people I have had dealing with this week.
I held a heavy swing door open for agrey haired old dear in town, and she, and 14 others, trouped through it, none of them even aknowledging my presence, let alone saying thank you. Piss wafting old gits!
Later as I walked down the street, one of those moterised scooters drove right at me! I actually had to jump out of the way, and in the process scrapped my bicep and made me bleed! The blind driver didn’t even slow down. I hope she doens’t make it across a busy road.
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Posted in Imported at 10:54 am by coldclimate
Today’s RED MEAT made me laugh.
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06.27.06
Posted in Imported at 10:12 am by coldclimate
I hate shaving. It’s rubbish, and I hate it. So I’m stopping, unless a)I’m seeing my lass or b)I’m going back to work. This morning is week 2 of the no shave embargo, and I look a mess. Compined with the need for a haircut, I look a bit like a cartoon character of some description.
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Posted in Imported at 9:57 am by coldclimate
I don’t know whats going on at the moment, but I’m thrashing through books like they might stop being made.. Last night I read Toast by Nigel Slater (whom I didn’t realise was gay), which is full of tales of woow, highlighted with food. Most of the happy memories and tales are linked to simple food, with fiddly crap (pea stuffed tomatoes for fucks sakes) is held in distain.
The night before I flogged my way through the first Strangers in Paradise pocketbook. Good stuff too. It was a present from the gir, and landed right on the mark. A graphic novel thats not superhero/sci-fi based.
Mr Commitment by Mike Gayle is rubbish. It’s billed as Bridget Jones for boys, which is interesting, becuase Bridget Jones was s great, and explained why I once broke up with somebody I loved. Mr Commitment iritated the crap out of me with tales of “boy thinks A and can’t understand why girl takes it to mean B”. Trash. Entertaining trash though.
The Long Way Round was a Christmas present, and I a thunderous read. It also made me wonder about Unicef as my next charity to raise money.
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06.25.06
Posted in Imported at 12:22 pm by coldclimate
Ok - I’ve not read it, but I am tempted to give it a go, becuase New Physics — The Theory Of Everything Has Arrived! sounds like the work of total headcases to me.
I might be very wrong, but I hope not.
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06.24.06
Posted in Imported at 7:59 pm by coldclimate
Want to build your own solar panels? How about make your own hydrogen to power your car? You need The Sietch:Projects. Oh yes.
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Posted in Imported at 6:28 pm by coldclimate
Stumbled upon when looking for tartaric acid for making elderflower wine, it’s Iain Banks Forums.
Bonza reading.
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Posted in Imported at 4:04 pm by coldclimate
Open to discussion as to whether this is “the best” sandwich, but it certainly kicks arse.
- Wholegrain bread, lightly toasted
- Cornbeed, sliced a little thick
- Smoked Tabasco sauce
- Whole peanuts
- Black pepper
In no way healthy, logical, or sane, but very very tasty. Note whole peanuts (not peanut butter) and Tabasco. If anybody knows where I can buy Smoked Tabasco (chpotle) in the Uk, I will love you forever. My last bottle from the US is running low.
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06.23.06
Posted in Imported at 8:48 am by coldclimate
Thank the Lord than my cat didn’t have a Hitler tash!.
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06.22.06
Posted in Imported at 4:03 pm by coldclimate
Like QVC, only more laughable. Currently they are flogging “20 Irish classic cd’s”, each of which seems to feature a copy of Danny Boy and has a green cover. Originally a hundred quid! Who buys this total toss?
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Posted in Imported at 2:36 pm by coldclimate
I’m forever pulling cables in and out of the TV, and have a DVD, a VCR, a digibox and an iBook chained together, which is a complete mess and requires everything to be turned on otherwise any one of the “links” will stop things befor eit in the chain passing on the signal (eg. If I turn off the VCR which sits in the middle, DVD’s don’t reach the screen). This is most annoying.
A) Does a product exist that works like my amp in my stereo allowing me to pick a souce?
B) Why doesn’t everything use composite cables, or scart, instead of a mixture of the two.
Grr and double Grr. I was going to grumble about The Crow, which I’ve just finished watching, and the ending is gash. If they’d just ended it like the book (which I also finished this week), it would have been ace, but no, there’s a wanky Hollywood chase scene followed by touching moments, and speaches. Gash gash gash I tells you. Gash.
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Posted in Imported at 12:52 pm by coldclimate
Well, I’ve just driven for the first time (excluding a couple of hours last year) in 5 years, and I didn’t die! not once! I didn’t even stall (though it’s a petrol driven monster, so thats not a great achievement.)
Admittadly I chose the quietest road I know, stupidly forgetting that quiet roads and generally very narrow and wiggly. It was only 15 mins, but I’m actually quite tired.
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Posted in Imported at 10:17 am by coldclimate
I love Overheard in NYC. It used to be such a simple little blog, and now it’s gone all shiny, but it’s still got wonderous gems such as “Guy: Give me a break, she’s into scat! She’ll eat shit, but she won’t lick some ketchup off my hand?
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06.21.06
Posted in Imported at 11:07 am by coldclimate
“American Christian destiny … is jet skis, steak on the electric grill, hot showers and night-skiing”
I’m so glad that a couple of thousnd years of religion peaks in a trumped up American tart trying to explain that it is a Christian right to waste electricity. I wonder what she would make of When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism.
I did have a huge rant quietly building in my head about Miss Coulter, but I shall leave it and let people decide for themselves.
Oh and also - is there a difference between American Christian destiny and Christian destiny? What makes America so special? Is this not hijaking religion in the name of shameless greed? Surely thats a bit anti-Christian miss C?
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