08.31.06
HOW TO repository
I’m forever looking up how other people have done things, and then very rarely doing them myself, thus the HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials was a little bundle of geeky joy.
08.29.06
New job results in radio silence
As my hotel doesn’t have interweb access and I’m attempting not to abuse the corporate access too much!
08.25.06
Charity Facial Hair
I hate shaving. Hate hate hate it. I don’t do a lot of it because I loath it so much. I’m really not sure how this effort raises money for chairty (I assum he is being sponcered by people) but The [bearded] diary of James Gregson is really quite amusing.
08.23.06
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As pointed out by several others this year,
V sounds gash. I have festival plans for next year, but I’m keeping them secret, to help avoid the swarms of groupies who appear when I post my public movements on here.
If you own up now, there won’t be any trouble
Ok, fess up you lot, who’s broken the internet? BMEzine, MODblog and zentastic are all down. I have a feeling they are all on the same server, but if it’s the US Evil Police shutting them down again, I shall be upset. Upset!
08.21.06
Comic strip help
I love comic books. I wish I could draw them, and I am slowly learning (honest gov). Anyway it is possible that Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work might be help.
Chilli+nostril = death!
Note to self: After chopping chillis wash you hand including under your nails, especially it you are likely to blow/pick your nose. Resulting pain is immence.
Bloody computers
Why oh why do all peripherals have diufferent connectors and power supplies. I have three external harddrives, each of which has a different power supply, with a different plug, running at a different voltage, so i can’t even pull them to peices and make them be interchangable. The really really irritating thing is that inside them are identical harddrives and nearly identical circuits, meaning there is no justifiable reason for the un-identical power suppies.
ARGH! ARGH and DOUBLE ARGH!
08.20.06
How?
I hate folding tshirts, so much so that mine come out of my suitcase in little bundles coved in creses. How come the bloody Japanese found such an efficiant way to do it. Damn their eyes!
08.19.06
The return of the Little White Bastards!
No, they’re not a New York punk band (though it is a great name for one), it’s the little tiny white flies which attack my plants just as they are getting going. I’ve brought my chillis inside because the weather is rubbish, and what comes up of them this morning when I open the curtains - a cloud of THE LITTLE WHITE BASTARDS!
I’m off to town to buy industrial strength bastard killer spray.
08.18.06
Spagetti Monster proof!
Once again the Flying Spagetti Monster shows his face, this time in smoke trails! All hail the Flying Spagetti Monster.
Comic spam names (again)
Yes it looks like another dictonary driven attack took place last night again, flooding my mailbox with spam from stupidly named people. This time the comic gems are:
Wields V. Tantrums
Fastness P. Nauseous
Networks M. Boomeranging
Administer T. Warmongering
Breathlessness S. Bundle
Two that almost make sense are “Illegals I. Educational” and the slightly sad sounding “Obverse I. Unoccupied”. This was closely followied by a boring named Joan Medrano sending me an email of penis enlargement entitled “Your health, peach borer”. Is “peach borer” a term for small penised men I wonder?
08.17.06
Re-mix central!
I love the idea of the Jay-Z Construction Set. I know it’s just a bunch of samples, but it’s a wonderful 2 fingers to the music industry (again). Also - how else can I do a JayZ/Abba remix album?
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“My favorite things” is such a wretchedly twee as fuck song, that it deserves a critique. Bring it on.
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Raindrop on roses? Means it’s pissing down and your carefully cultivated blooms are being trashed by the thunderus onslaught of nature.
Whiskers on kittens? Make the little furry bastards look like they are eating spiders.
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Copper kettles are only bright because you’ve spend hours polishing their twisty, curvy, copperybastard sides.
Mittens - those being the gloves with no fingers, making it a total bastard to undo zips, resulting in you pissing yourself on the ski slopes. Woolen? Soaks through quicky, freezing solid and speeding up the “pissing in your salupets” situation.
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Now we’re talking - brown paper is ace. It is however bastard expencive now, and if you post somethng tied with stirng the fucking posty will open it and nick the present inside.
These are a few of my favorite things
You need to think harder maria. These are shit things.
Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Ponies. One end kicks, the other end bites, enough said.
Apple streudel. Piping hot sticky goo wrapped in pasty to keep in the top-of-mouth blistering steam. Macdonald sell them, what more do yiou need to know.
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Doorbells are the souce of irritating ringing noises that must be the inspiration for mobile phone ringtones, meaning I can blame them for The Crazy Frog and Sweetie the Chick. The fuckers.
Noodles with schneitzel? What are you thinking you idiots. Noodles are classic Asain cookery, schneitzel is deep fried breaded meat. Fools!
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
Highlighting themselves against the moon making them prime for blowing out of the sky and roasting. Stupid bloody creatures.
These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
I’ll let you have this one. I like girls in white satin dresses, but you we’re a girl who likes girls at a time when this was less socially acceptable, it would have been wise claim to like chiesel-jawed men in tweed.
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Freezing your face off, going up your nostils,, making you sneeze, resulting in you firing snot out which then freezes on your face, making you look like a fool. Fucking marvelous.
Silver white winters that melt into springs
Melting causing loads of flood water which whips through your “built on a flood plain” Barret home down the river. Marvelous. The inserence will never cough up for that puppy either because they’d carefully removed your flood protection. That’ll do you living in a caravan or shitty bed and breakfast for 9 months them, in a single room with 3 kids.
These are a few of my favorite things
When the dog bites
ASBO it’s chav owner
When the bee stings
Burn it’s hive out, having first stolen its honey
When I’m feeling sad
Anti-D’s? Speak to your doctor honey.
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don’t feel so bad
08.16.06
Quick and dirty icecream
Made this evening, works a treat. heat a couple of cups of frozen blackcurrents until the juice runs. Rub the whole mess through a sieve. Add a couple of tablespoons of sugar (I mixed brown and white), and a squeeze of lemonjuice. Cool and mix with a pint of pre-made custard, and a small tub of single cream. Freeze, stirrng every hour (or use an icecream maker). Result, very zesty icecream, with a nice smooth texture and not too heavier custard tones.
The Pipettes
This morning Amazon delivered me two packages. One contained Oreily guides to Oracle and Unix, and Steve Grand’s latest book (if you have no idea who Steve Grand is, and you’ve ever wondered how digital computer characters are controlled read his truely brillient Creation: Life and How to Make It, it’s easily accessable and entertaining).
Anyway in the other package, all on it’s own was We Are The Pipettes by The Pipettes (not surprisingly). If ever there was a cd so full of girly bouncy goodfunness, it was Repel EP by the now defunct Venus in Furs. From the second track (Pull Shapes) right through Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me (powerpoptastic) and the slightly geeky ABC, it’s just a giant bundle of great fun.
Also, they look a little big like the girls from the Chalets, which is no bad thing.
08.15.06
Learning a language
It looks like I might have a bit of a commute to work, so it occured to me I should do something with the time, such as listerning to language tapes while travelling. Can you download such things as mp3s? That would be very handy.
