UK Watercooler Eight: Don't Hate Kate!

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This title will only make sense to Dandy Warhols fans, but still.

You know the drill...

― Life In An Expanding Multiverse (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

It's a big thing you use to make holes.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND PICTURES OF TWEE GIRLS ON THE INTERNET???

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

They have a fantastic drill on the way to work. I would think it was the sort of thing for drilling wells, as it's HUUUUGE!!! but it's probably for putting in foundations or something.

― Life In An Expanding Multiverse (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND PICTURES OF NAKED TWEE GIRLS ON THE INTERNET???

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

If you show me where the naked Dirty Dronerock Boys are on the interweb, then I will show you the twee girls.

― Life In An Expanding Multiverse (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

There is a construction company in my little village that specialises in that sort of thing. I think the company is just called Expanded Piling.

(NB: not naked twee girls)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm starting out easy and building up to that, Noodles

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

(Sorry, the sugar high and speed dating thread are making me horny for some twee lovin')

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://huntdrilling.com/images/drill.jpg

Want to hear the story about the girl who had three holes in the ground?

Well, well, well.

― Life In An Expanding Multiverse (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I am disappointed in myself. I did not get that immediately.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, that is one of my favourite jokes ever.

Damn, I would really like some sugar right now, but I daren't.

― Life In An Expanding Multiverse (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Eight? We talk a lot.

Drill:

http://www.ees.nmt.edu/indy/Iceland_Photos/Iceland%20Day%202/Iceland%20Day%202-Images/133.jpg

There's something wrong there.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I assoomed that was what ya meant, tissp ;)

― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry that's bigger than I expected

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

> WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIND PICTURES OF TWEE GIRLS ON THE INTERNET???

get one myspace.

(had email from amelia yesterday (me and 100,000 others) and their myspace page seems to be some kind of nexus of twee)

um, speaking of 'system of the world' and drills, his article on The Hole Hog was great. ('in the beginning was the command line' is it part of that?)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've started counting down the time left until the weekend and it's still only Thursday.

Still, I have Things To Do this weekend - a hair cut on Saturday, and a model railway show that I should try to get to at some point.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

And they said it wouldn't last, etc. etc.

Wow, I wouldn't go putting my fingers near that. But that is clearly Ed standing on the right, I recognise him by his sweater.

― Life In An Expanding Multiverse (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want them to be naked just yet, I'm in more of a crushing mood than a sexing mood. (xpost to noodle vague)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~qwerty/wire/images/dugga3.jpg
http://www.connollyco.com/discography/woodentops/well.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

A Classic Drill!

http://www.televizia.net/images/mole.JPG

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, Duggie The Digger had his own thread, the Diggers vs. Cranes: FITE! thread. x-post

― Life In An Expanding Multiverse (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Grr, why does my job search have to be so complicated? Another library job has come up (not professional post but more money than here and good experience) but it's temporary maternity leave cover. And what if I didn't find another job in time? I'd be worse off than I am now, though with a slightly better CV I guess. Oh woe.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Do tunnel boring machines count as drills?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, more money and better experience is always worth it. Who knows, once you're in there, you would be in a better position to look for other work, and they might just keep you anyway.

And oh yes, THE BORING MACHINE!!! I love the BORING MACHINE, it's the opposite of the Influencing Machine.

― Life In An Expanding Multiverse (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Surely, the opposite of the INTERESTING MACHINE.

(Yes you are right about the job of course.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but is there such a thing as an Interesting Machine (even though I think possibly all machines are inherently interesting. Except the Boring Machine.)

― Life In An Expanding Multiverse (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

There is madness afoot.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.water-technology.net/projects/new_york/images/tunnelborningmachine5.jpg

I'm sorry, Boring Machine never stops being funny.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, Ned Superstar!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

But boring machines ARE interesting!

Did you know that at one point in the early 1990s, the third-largest railway network in the country (after the national network and the London Underground) was the temporary contractors' system used to build the Channel Tunnel.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I can't stop posting images :(

http://www.leelefever.com/archives/i-choo-choo-choose-you.gif

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Soon, I'll be posting pictures of the Boris Machine and then you'll all be sorry.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, thinking about it, I'm not completely sure what the third-largest railway company is now. Probably the Manchester tram system, or the Newcastle Metro. The Ffestiniog is up there too - 25 miles operational and 15 or so proposed and under construction.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just trying to think what a Boris Machine would do. Though now I've got the Goldfrapp song stuck in my head, speaking of dominatrices. (or were we?)

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

No, only thinking of them

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

We can certainly start talking about that if you like, though. It would be difficult, but I think I could cope.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. According to GIS, this is a Boris Machine:

http://johngomes.smugmug.com/photos/33414426-L.jpg

Can you tell what it is, yet?

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Um, no.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I think it is an X-ray machine. But I'm going to stop googling now because "boris machine" ended me up in Le Johnson's blog again. Oh dear.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I meant more: um, no, because that's a broken image link for me.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, follow the link, then:

http://johngomes.smugmug.com/photos/33414426-L.jpg

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

This afternoon is going UNBELIEVABLY SLOWLY

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

You cna say that again.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Mine is going by too quickly for me to really get a handle on!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

This is what happens when you are working at superluminal speeds.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, Ned Superstar!

Hurrah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hello Ned!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm working at somnolescent speed.
xpost

Hello Ned

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, would you please post on this thread before g-kit blows a gasket?

teh WTF down south neighbouring counties genuine middle-class roffles all round thread with no londoners plz except ken c

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://wwi.tibble.taby.se/wwi1a/pimsha/zoidberg.jpg

OH GOD I'M COMING DOWN

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I feel quite balanced. I'm sipping peppermint tea.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

GREBTEST thread title evah!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c4/Plunger_250x410.jpg/200px-Plunger_250x410.jpg

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha ha ha ha! I was waiting for you to turn up, Noodles. You are possibly the only person around here who would get it.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

You know The "Fake" Plungers are just wrong wrong wrong.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

WTF?!?!? That is so not right. Mah behbeh Chrisseh should sue the pants off them.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Sooooo bored...

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not bored. I'm trying to figure out how to exclude null values in an average.

Apparently this is MSSQL which is why none of my code is working.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I AM TWEE HORNY STILL

HOW DO I SHOT TWEE GIRLS ON TEH INTERWEB

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

use the pump action gun

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I know this!

xpost obv.

Cast Coalesce !

Or something like it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's not Coalesce this time. It might be "having" and then "is not null". But this is not I Love Programming, this is the Watercooler Thread. I am still loving my mint tea.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

there are twee girls all over the internet, tissp! go to BOWLIE

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

He might never come back!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I HAVE BEEN TO BOWLIE BUT HAVE TO WAIT FOR REGISTRATION, YOU HAVE ME LONGER :(((

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

goodie

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

No one has given me Dirty Dronerock Boys on demand. I shall cry.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

ps if u score don't forget to tell them that u look liek me and u based yr whole life on me k thx bye kids

― teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Your search - "pointy nosed sea captains" - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

Make sure all words are spelled correctly.

Try different keywords.

Try more general keywords.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

goodie

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

However "Dirty Dronerock Boys" brings up:

Drowned in Sound - Live - Of Montreal... 2) that would be DIRTY DRONEROCK BOYS that I'm trying to snag, I'd rather masturbate with a cheese grater than shag a twee indie boy. ...

Oh, and bloody Poptones have nicked my DDB meme, thanks Doomie. Bah.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

hey tissp i wasnt being sarcastic!

p.s. i private messaged you on bowlie!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

pm me too!!!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Awww good! I have replied! What a techno-astronaut I am today xpost

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

This is the problem - there's all that private messaging and seamy hotbed of hormones on Bowlie and twee things. This doesn't happen on, say, DroneOn. :-(

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, where can I got to find DDBs to invite round to my place to listen to my rare Spacemen 3 12" records in the dark under my duvet?

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

OMG Bowlie is too much

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

twee overload?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, I will listen to yr rare Spacemen 3 12"s anytime.

Baby.

twee overload?

YES

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

bowlie seems to be just the same 5 threads every day.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

For too long ILX has been without an operative in Bowlie. Report in, Private TISSP!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

I am behind enemy lines

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I am having really deviant fantasies about mittens and libraries

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I will stay strong because I love you all so much

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

This is just depressing me. :-(

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

are you kidding? ive been running a covert operation in bowlieland for the past, oh, 4 years or so. ive got extensive documents against them. i go by the pseudonym of "mandee may" - haha, i have them all fooled!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

And blogger is broken. :-(

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

why is it depressing you kate?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Because there is no dirty dronerock equivalent of this Bowlie thing. I feel so left out, because I am not twee and never could be.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

All the twee kids are having crazy twee indiesexx with each other, I'm convinced of it, it's just a cesspit of hormones.

And I don't like sex anyway, because it's an icky and annoying waste of time, but still. I just like to look at the pretty dirty dronerock boys and I can't find any right now.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ack, that sounded like an attack of ANGST!!! I don't want sex! Sex is rubbish! Boys are rubbish! I could still be having sex with Young Adam if I wanted, to, but I'm bored with sex! Bah!

I should go home. I'm just frustrated because I'm hitting the wall with this bloody new program. I can learn anything from a manual... WHEN I HAVE A SODDING MANUAL.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

bowlie is totally a sex cesspool! its pretty cool. i will be on the lookout for the drone rock equivalent.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Was a time when it was No-Fi, how do you think I met half the people here*? Tee hee.

*Well, here meaning, Old ILX

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Your loyalties are all too clear, double-agent Wright.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Was a time when it was No-Fi, how do you think I met half the people here*? Tee hee.

The first rule about star-chamber is...um, anyway.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

God, the ANNOYING LOUD WOMAN in the office - in addition to her annoyingly loud and PIERCING cackle, has taken to playing CDs in the office. This is the second time I've had to tell her to turn it off.

Maybe she's here after hours, having a party, but I stay late in order to GET SOME BLOODY WORK DONE.

I should really just give up and go home, I can't crack it. I feel really stupid. :-(

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

i'm only loyal to two people: me, and my cat. and maybe my sister.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think I need Medevac

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I've just been looking at the Mainline site, trying to figure out which one I fancy, and the answer is "all of them". En masse.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

tissp, now you need to upload a profile pic, start posting, and boom -waterfalls of pussy

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

If life were only that simple Mandee

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Fountains of flange!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

it IS that simple. live the dream.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Cacophany of crack

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

All the twee kids are having crazy twee indiesexx with each other, I'm convinced of it

Kate. Either:

a) It's not true
b) Everyone else had indiesexx with each other all the time but not with me.

Actually, you're right. It's B. It's just me that's unpopular.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Morning.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I am unhappy because I appear to be getting ill again. A small boy rang my doorbell imploring "my ball's gone over!" at about 6 in the morning and by the time I'd let him in, fetched the ball and gone back to bed, I had a horrible sore throat. Again.

However, I am HAPPY because my book about Eclipses is turning out to be even better than imagined. They're fixing all kinds of historical and semi-mythological dates in history on the basis of solar and lunar eclipses! Fantastic!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I am unhappy because I still might have jinxed myself.

I might not... but it's a long shot.

I am also unhappy because I am the only single person in the world.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I can't comment on the top two, but on the last comment, surely ILX proves you entirely incorrect.

I cannot seem to wake up today. I am tempted to drink some coffee.

Also, tomorrow I may be going round a Luxemboy's flat to do some scanning. This still fills me with silly glee on some prurient level.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, I know it's not really true, but it feels that way.

I really need to stop talking about the thing I might have jinxed, because the more I talk the more I will think about it and the less likely it is to happen.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Was deleting crapflooding on that 9/11 film thread, and I accidentally hit "delete thread" instead of "delete message", argh.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh well, Pash, if Jess is allowed to get away with that kind of crap on ILM, just tell 'em you had a bad day and your hand slipped. ;-)

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think we'll miss it much. I do take a masochistic enjoyment in arguing with the wooden-headed, but there are better ways I could spend my time.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well, if a thread needs 50 moderator actions over the course of 2 hours, it's possibly for the best.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

(Er, Kate, that's not a great example to console Pashmina with - remember who gave Jess his powers back?)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

No... Anyway, sorry. I shouldn't talk about this. My experience of ILX is so much better now I don't read the Mod Boards, like I said.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! I've spent all morning clearing out crap from my desk and moving boxes around cos the office is being reorganised. There's barely room for all of us as it is, and now we have to squeeze up even more to fit who knows how many new people.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

More people? Dammit, get one bigger office.

I think I'm going to have some green tea. And stop looking at photos of physics professors.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

I should just move to Cambridge. The whole place is just crawling with underage floppy haired maths students.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

A bigger office would have been too easy.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I should just move to Cambridge.

DO IT!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

Office moves are terrible. I feel your pain.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

We do have an office in Cambridge... I found that out yesterday, because someone reset our default printer to be there, so they were getting all our printed out emails and stuffs.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

You should visit them (me) for work (drinking).

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Set up this ILX gig in Cambridge, and I will come down! (up?)

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

How many times has the Cambridge FAP been suggested now?

(It's just about within daytrip driving distance for me)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Up. Setting this up is not as easy as you would imagine. It involves me being in the right place at the right time in order to meet with THE CONTACT.

(In other news, we may be on the verge of setting up a disco night, too)

How many times has the Cambridge FAP been suggested now?

Too many

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Are you planning a gig, or delivering the watch, the watch, the CHINESE watch? This sounds rather like Opium smuggling.

Can we put up posters in the Cambridge mathematics department, hoping to lure unsuspecting young boys to come and hear a lecture on Shimura Curves, and instead they get LOVELY YOUNG LADIES SINGING TO THEM. Well, three lovely young ladies and me. But still.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Send me the posters and I will become the DEPARTMENT INFILTRATOR

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Incidentally - whilst we're talking about Cambridge - there's one place in Cambridgeshire that I'd really like to visit: ~~Green Knowe~~ Hemingford Grey Manor. The problem is, the house itself is only open to tours by appointment.

http://www.aboutbritain.com/hemingfordgreymanor.htm

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

I will wear a Fake Maths Beard and discuss the sheer beauty of Shimura Curves. THEY WILL BE ENTRANCED xpost

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I too would love to visit the Greene Knowe house! I have a flyer for it somewhere. They do like to show people around, especially if you are a fan of the books, but you do need an appointment, as it's still a private residenc.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Except in May when there are guided tours, which must be pre-booked at 11.00am & 2.00pm.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, there are guided tours in May, though those also need to be booked in advance. x-post

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

I SMELL CULTURE FAP IN MAY

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I think so, too. We might want to discuss this on the Rolling Walking thread as well!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Is it going to be: (Steamy) Science FAP in April, Culture FAP in May?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Something like that. I'm now being confused by Roger and Francis and Frances Bacons again. Plus, I found some shite artwork my ex did:

http://www.thesoundprojector.com/images/gallery/62_roger_bacon.gif

I could never tell Roger Bacon and Francis Bacon apart.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

That looks like a klf gig poster!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ack, that sounded like an attack of ANGST!!! I don't want sex! Sex is rubbish! Boys are rubbish! I could still be having sex with Young Adam if I wanted, to, but I'm bored with sex! Bah!

kate there's a whole thread on bowlie that's just about this!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, funny that. IIRC, the KLF "ripped off" some of his artwork, apparently. (Though I have since discovered that with said Ex, "ripped off" means "they read the same sources that he ripped off, and came up with similar art." but don't get me started on that...)

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

OH GOD BOWLIE I COMPLETELY FORGOT

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

wait.. not actually that, but the bit before about not getting any.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, it also looks like "An Allegorical Portrait of Bernard Sumner" that I did at art school in about 1991, but you don't see me bitching about anyone ripping me off.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I plum forgot. I had a dream about interviewing Carlos Barat (for Plan B? Hah, as if) and complaining to him that he looked like shite in the promotional artwork, as his eyes looked kind of hazel and the whole appeal of him was his beautiful big blue puppy dog eyes and then he was all "yeah, but I'm sick of being objectified becuase I'm beautiful, I want to be taken seriously as an ARTISTE!!!"

there was more, but I've forgotten it.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my lord...

http://myspace-543.vo.llnwd.net/00499/34/53/499803543_l.jpg

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I still haven't heard the WigWam single, but they are so CONCEPTUALLY great, that I don't need to. I mean, Alex James! And Betty Boo!!! Especially if they go around dressed like that. I mean, when did Alex turn into S&M Farmer Hawkwind?

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Phwoar!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

k-rowr @ betty boo (ha, x-post)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! I mean, both of them! Blimey! Sexxxxxxxxxxxxx (he signed his name like that for me, once - one X for each of his O levels) on a Mars Probe Rocket!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

God, I love him... I never read this at the time, but I wish I had.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1728367,00.html

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

I've brought my little cittern-guitar into work, & am playing it. I'm trying to break the bad habit of using guitar as a surrogate step sequencer that you play & that looks cooler than an actual step seq. Also, Rush tab. Happy again!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, the Wigwam single is out on 3rd April. That is actually the anniversary of the Lunar Eclipse by which they (clever astronomers) figured out when the Crucifixion actually took place!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I suddenly find myself in a very giggly and bouncy mood. I've no idea. Maybe it was the green tea. Plus, someone left an article from Metro about the 22nd Mars mission on the desk opposite mine. Things are looking up.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

HARNESS THE ROFFLES

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I can't concentrate today. I am making mixtapes instead.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

tissp have you gotten any yet?

ken, have you?

bowlie, dont let me down!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I GOT MATCHED WITH SOMEONE ON BOWLIE

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

i got a PM!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Harness the ROFFLES to do what? Data analysis? How dull. I wish I could go home and work on Shims songs instead. I have to somehow learn the bassline to "Where Are You Baby?" by tomorrow.

There is no one in my office. They are all down the pub. Sigh.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Store them for when you are down!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

you should also go down the pub innit

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

But when I'm down ELECTRIC ALGEBRA and the 22ND MARS MISSION (but not 22's Mars Mission) will not seem nearly so funny.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, I can't go down the pub, I'm not allowed to drink.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

But you can remember how much mirth they gave you now, and that will cheer you up!

(I love the word 'mirth'. It always brings a smile to my face)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still trying to imagine 22 (i.e. the Lollies' fanclub) going to Mars.

Though really, I should work on Electric Algebra, the musical, starring Debbie Gibson.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

wigwam video

― Greig (treefell), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Videos just do not work on my computer. I was expecting giant cats and pop goodness, but it was nothing but wavy black and white lines, like background radiation from the big bang. :-(

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having a crap afternoon, because the thing I was worried I had jinxed by thinking about too much now won't be happening, at least not this weekend.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

why aren't you allowed to drink?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Because it's Lent and I gave it up.

I'm sorry to hear that, FP. perhaps another weekend.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ohh, that's Wigwam! I really must pay attention to stuff I download, no just listen to it all in a nonsensical mix.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

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― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Also Betty Boo in a policeman's cap = Hottt. Though I kept staring at the giant cats and wondering which of them was Keith Allen.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I will definitely have to watch this when I get home.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that code didn't quite work. Bah.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

You are a Casio Sk-1
-you are a very lo tech toy from the 80's who is treasured for its sampling capabilities
-you are a nerd
-you are extremly small
-you are a great listener
-you have a simple style and personality
-you are very cheap
-you have a great sense of humor
-you are the most fun to be with

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost didn't know you were religious!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I'm a minimoog as well.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

FOR GODS SAKE, MY MUM IS A PRIEST, HOW COULD I NOT BE RELIGIOUS?!?!?

x-post, yay!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I know someone who gave up trifles for Lent.
This is the point where Ken reminds me I've posted that before.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

is it deja vu? i'm sure i read this before

are you really actually religious? i never actually knew!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Trifles, as in the pudding, or trifles, as in "don't trifle with me, peon!"

Where can I just download the Wigwam song? Andrew, if you have it, can you email it to me?

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

(haha i was kidding about this deja vu part btw beanz :))

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, I wouldn't say I was Christian per se, but I'm definitely religious. I have slid, over the years, from Agnostic to Deist to... I'm not sure. It's complicated, and something I don't really want to get into in detail on Nu ILX.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

pudding

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

pudding kill thread?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

PUDDING?

(I can't find a decent image of Spaced's Vulva)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

That post came out wrong on so many levels

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I like it as it came out

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I've just been absorbed into that bloody cartoon spreadsheet for too long.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Alex... over the years, what happened...

http://hem.passagen.se/bryony/alex2.jpg

http://www.tournant.com/blur/images/photos/grandes-photos/photo200-299/280.jpg

I love you anyway, because you send probes to Mars and write columns for Country Life...

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

God, my crushes have become completely circular. There was something about this in that infinity book...

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

he isn't so beardy in the wigwam video (tried a screengrab, didn't work) but he could do with another inch on his fringe.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

This is terribly embarrassing, but I actually kinda like Alex with a beard. It makes him look more the Country Squire.

I'd start calling him Farmer James, but then we'd get him mixed up with Ed's spacerock-loving, crazy-sound-device-building, archeologist mate in Sheffield. Who I also have a semi-crush on, but that's another story.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

YYYYAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!!

I just go an optical mouse. Rock!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Man, that took forever to install, but SO WORTH IT now.

In true IT style, it wasn't working, and I tried *everything* to get it to work - including restarting teh computer, mucking about in the control pannel, etc. Finally, I unplugged it, then plugged it back in, then presto.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

WigWam are our MySpace friends now. :-)

http://nornsisland.com/wigwam2.jpg

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://nornsisland.com/wigwam3.jpg

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Happy St. Whatever's.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 March 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

What a lovely Danelectro, too.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, time to go home (almost)

I hate the weekend. Then again, I hate everything.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

No you don't! You Don't Hate Kate, do you?

(please say no.)

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I hate everything (apart from Kate)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 March 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Nearly time to go home but the server's being turned off in a couple of minutes and the place is a tip so perhaps I should just go now.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 17 March 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yay, thanks Andrew!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

What am I going to do tonight? I suddenly don't just want to go home and eat pizza. Perhaps I will just re-read The Deep Field.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Plus, yay, I'm getting a new laptop at work. Hurrah!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I. FINISHED. MY. TAX. RETURNS. And appear not to owe anything outstanding. YAY!

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

gurgh, i need to do taxes. i was hoping my tax returns would fund my future ticket to the UK, but its going to be like, less than $500 it looks like :( :( :(

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I have had the best! Weekend! Ever! OK, well, in what feels like ages.

Brilliant rehearsal on Saturday, lots of drinking pink wine and LOLocaust and watching Starshaped arguing over the HOTTest member of Blur and hanging out making art with beautiful Luxemboys and then back to watching Black Books (it's wrong to fancy Dylan Moran in that, isn't it? He's like the bookish, intellectual equivalent of Pete Doherty.) and more drinking.

And then the bestest walk ever on Saturday. Penshurst Place is even more beautiful in the flesh (stone?) I think they should let me live there and just be "composer in residence" and write songs about how lovely it is. Swoon.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yay glad the walk was good, I was thinking of you and thinking it was probably lovely :)

I didn't do a lot of walking in the end (except to the garden centre) but I had a great weekend anyway, mainly cooking, eating and sitting out in the garden reading the paper and drinking beer. The shelteredness of our patio means it felt like summer even though it was still winter out in the freezing wind. Roll on barbecue season!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for patios. We were sheltered by MASSIVE FUCKOFF YEW HEDGES and now I'm obsessed with yew hedges. I'm sorry, I love Topiary. Topiary and Dylan Moran, these are my new obsessions for the week:

http://www.gildedballoon.co.uk/images/gallery/006_Rogues_Gallery/004_Dylan_Moran.jpg

― The Boring Machine (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hello

My walking was restricted to north west london – Kenwood and thereabouts – but had a really relaxing weekend. Nearly spring maybe.

The office is a total mess. The new partition in the office is only half done (no glass in the windows etc) and the builders are coming back today. In the meantime, cables and dust everywhere and the server goes off and on...

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Morning folkses. Glad you had a good weekend Kate. My weekend was also good, because my laydeefriend came back from holiday. Not that I would deny her the happiness of a holiday, but y'know what I mean.

We are ready to send our artwork off to the printers (finally), so I can finally stop worrying about it and start sleeping again (I must put up the new song on the website, too). I have also been contacted back about putting on a disco, and signs are looking good.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

hello! my legs feel nice from walking, esp after ten days stuck in a van. lovely walk complete with scrambling through brambles, advice from cyclists and getting shot at. i was part of the splitter group that skipped the house because we wanted to be OUTSIIIIIIDE... next time: view please. also we totally shoulda climbed some of those trees.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Aww, Emsk, but you missed the prettiest gardens. And the yew trees, oh they were amazing.

Ah, TISSP, so this is why you've been surfing twee girl websites, because your ladyfriend has been away. ;-) Good on the disco, though, that would be fun!

And you have just reminded me, I need to finish the Luxemboys artwork tonight. Also, they have asked me to do artwork for their album, which makes me very happy.

and Beanz, yes, it is nearly spring. The Magnolias (I have looked them up in the booklet and that was what they were) were about to burst at Penshurts!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

In other news, I have booked an actual HOLIDAY for the week of my birthday. Whatever shall I do? Oh, apart from paint my house. And have a big kite-flying party.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

I love magnolia so much. There was some just ready to open on the way to the garden centre (ha, the urban version not quite as good of course.)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, TISSP, so this is why you've been surfing twee girl websites, because your ladyfriend has been away. ;-) Good on the disco, though, that would be fun!

Sssh. We keep that one under our collective hats.

Everyone has to come to the disco btw.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

'outside'? where's that?

spent mine sat in front of crts, both tv and computer, but at least they weren't work crts. did well on a couple (or 3) ebay auctions that finished over the weekend. first time i've sat there and watched them finish but none of them needed any intervention in the end so...

am currently ripping Now 62 into my computer to use as data whilst i try and work out how the fuck we're going to convert 7000 wav files to mp3 EVERY DAY. (actually, we have 5 different target formats so multiple that by 5. i make it about 300 hours)

and emsk mentioned qpr. i can hear qpr from my flat, especially on saturday because i think the wind was in the right direction. can never tell what's just happened but i can tell something has. (have heard chelsea before despite it being 3 times further away)

football, sorry. was more 'acoustics' than 'football' but...

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Magnolias are so pretty. Even before they flower, they have these super fuzzy soft buds on them which Ed and I were mesmerised by. I hope he puts his photos up soon... :-)

Koogsy, you should come and walk in the FRESH AIR with us some weekend. It's not good for you to spend your entire life hooked up to a monitor. And yes, think of who is telling you this, I know what I'm talking about.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all! (I will snatch a few minutes while my query runs)

Walk was beautiful - far to much fun. And you're so right emsk, we should have gone tree climbing. I would have feared for my coat tho.

Work has calmed down a little, but I'm still moderatly stressed at my flow analysts inabilty to give me any time to sort out a programnming bug - grrrrr! Which means disputed reads can't be sent, which means that people who are moaning that their electric reads are all gone wrong will be unhappy! With me! Eeeeek!

oh yes, ed's photos, esp. of all teh gnarled trees. The Tree Council website is unfortunatly lacking in old tree photos, however :(

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I love the idea of the Tree Council.

And what were MPTrees for? I can't remember.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like a script to me.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

you wouldn't have had to keep your coat on!

qpr was on the other thread, but i used to be able to hear them from my old flat, and see the floodlights too from the kitchen and living room.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

He was wearing a very unsuitable shirt for the time of year; I wouldn't have gone climbing trees in it.

Anyway, I know I'm several years late, but I think there should be more discussion of Dylan Moran's character in Black Books.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

everyone's very stressed here. Lots of gritted teeth and not-so-sotto voce bitching

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hello

Today isn't bad, but my life is still as crap as ever.

Although officemate Big Dave - who is currently trying to date two women at once - has offered both to try and set me up with someone, and a bit of extra work.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Well, who wouldn't be stressed, having to work in the midst of a BUILDING SITE?!?!?

One of my colleagues just gave me a hot cross bun. Hurrah.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm hot and cross

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahahahahahahaaaaaa i kill me

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Coincidentally, I'm a bun.

Have you seen Dylan Moran's live set, Kate? Monster, I think it's called. It's very good indeed.

Got our analyst to look at the flows, and he reckons that the problem is a FUCKING AMPERSAND! Can you believe it!

I'm resending the flows now - wish me luck.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

I have never knowingly chosen to see a comedian in my life. I don't think I'd find him funny or even attractive out of character. This is the problem with actors and commedians.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

It't not really a question of character, he's a sarcastic alcoholic in real life too. Though that may have it's own problems.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

My dream man!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

> Sounds like a script to me.

or 15 scripts on 15 different machines all running 24/7. hello global warming.

unfortunately some of the proprietary formats like HE-AAC we can only do using winamp or nero or whatever, things that need a warm body sat in front of them selecting and clicking. and when they have been converted they then need to be put back onto the servers, correctly named, and the databases updated. sigh.

> I don't think I'd find him funny or even attractive out of character.

ha ha. doesn't he normally play himself? (xpost) (hm, actually, shaun of the dead)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

I guess this is final proof that I just have terrible taste in men. :-)

We have just been asked to do a guerilla knitting gig.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Now I have a headache. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Are you sure it isn't a gorilla knitting gig?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 20 March 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

So long as it's not a Gorillaz knitting gig, I think we're OK.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I have this wonderful image of knitted guitars right now ;).

My final week at work before the holiday! This time next week, I'll be bound for the small-and-awkwardly-formed Raleigh/Durham airport. Yay!

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 20 March 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no! Boris Johnson has injured his wrist after falling off his bike, and cannot ride for three weeks. :-(

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/03/17/nboris17.jpg

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

"falling off his bike" - at least, that's what he says

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. This afternoon has taken a downturn. Nothing is working. I hate WorkSmart.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hello again! I am back from the opticians, who have reliably informed me that I haven't changed my prescription, but in fact I am just working twice as hard as I should be (I am paraphrasing slightly).

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. Working twice as hard in what respect - not taking enough breaks or time away from your monitors? And you have eyestrain as a result?

My computer just crashed and I have a headache. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me – can anyone recommend a shop in London with a good selection of glasses? My optician had none that I liked except one pair that cost £200 or so, and they weren't that great really. Google could help me, to be honest, so ignore me I guess

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm lame. I just go to SpecSavers. Although I haven't been in a while... Wow. I went through a phase when I was breaking my glasses about 2 or 3 times a year, but now I've had the same pair since 2003.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

why would optician's diagnose overwork? eye strain? (ah, xpost)

i am listening to the velvet underground for work purposes. woot!

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Well apparently whenever I do any kind of 2D vision stuff (e.g. looking at a monitor), my brain helpfully disregards the majority of the information coming from my right eye (I have a lazy right eye), meaning I have to work twice as hard to read things on the screen (apparently), which is why my eyes are often sore (which is why I went for an eye test in the first place)...

Bit of shuffling of logic, and you arrive at the conclusion that either a) I work twice as hard as necessary or b) I am paid half as much as I should be.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Or c) you have half as many eyes as you need, and should think about getting implants in your forehead

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so sorry, I think I've had too much caffeine

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot stop laughing over these...

http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/images/comics/en/000.gif
http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/images/comics/en/001.gif

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

This reminds me of g-kit for some reason... :-)

http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/images/comics/en/008.gif

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, morning.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/images/comics/en/013.gif

Morning, Ned!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Aww, cute! Tee hee. The Elder God of the Damned reminds me a little of Chris H.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I know how he feels

Morning Ned.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, you might be right, Yana...

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Aww, bless him.

So, big tub of Ben and Jerrys. Should I eat it, feel temporarily happy before feeling guilty about still not starting the diet... or not eat it?

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

That is a cuddly Cthulhu to be sure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Marianna, having devoured Ben and Jerry's fully in one binge at various times, I say indulge -- but never make it a regular habit. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. I had a couple of cookies (awww, Cthulhu) but I don't know if they made me feel anything except more groggy.

Why don't you eat half the B&J now, and then try to stick to your diet for the rest of the week, and reward yourself with the rest of the B&J then? Or, if you'd feel really guilty, do the same thing, but without the eating a bit now.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it's either all or nothing as our freezer can hold only one tray of icecubes and no more. So if I buy it, I'd eat it.

I don't mean to be all 'fat fat fat', but I was, not too long ago, literally twice the size I am now and I'm terrified of going back there.

Damn you emotional crutch!

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, you haven't bought it yet? Then don't!

Think of something else that will cheer you up. Like a bunch of flowers, or a new CD, or a good book. And get that instead.

Because not only will the sugar in a B&J make you fat, but you will get a horrible mood crash when it all wears off, which will only serve to make you more depressed.

(Sorry, I'm trying to be good myself at the moment, and it's hard, especially after the booze binges at the weekend.)

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

If you don't have it already, don't buy it. Or buy a small tub. I've just had a chocolate bar and two slices of apple tart and I don't even think the sugar headache is worth it, let alone the podge :(

Ask me again in an hour and I'll probably be hungry/sugar craving again though.

Ooh comix, reminds me, I am so in love with Married to the Sea right now.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Soooooo sleepy this afternoon. Time for a brew-up.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Arrrr, I am so confused and bewhildered by that comic you linked to, Arch.

I still cannot figure out this utterly flummoxing thing. And the bloke who designed it is not in today.

Maybe I should just give up on it and do something else. But I've been having so many "impossible things" problems lately. The one that I was bashing my head over last week... got back a mail from the consultant and he said that it was actually impossible, and he'd been pestering Crystal to make it possible for years. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Why confused and bewildered? I just giggle :/

You are like the White Queen Kate - six impossible things before breakfast! Don't let it get you down.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Arrrgh I've got to go to stupid training on Thursday to learn about some new centralised purchasing system, when I've only just got used to my stationery supplier's new website and set up all my preferences and saved shopping lists and stuff. All for nowt!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, that sounds super ridiculous! :(

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

That does sound ridiculous. Why not say you're going to the training, then skive off and go to the beach or something.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Because if they bring in the new system and don't allow us to order direct from suppliers any more, I'll be a bit stuck!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

marianna eat the icecream and then come to the gym with me on thurs innit.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

our house is broken

the radiator in the living room started leaking rusty water on saturday, not much (well, not since we first discovered the MASSIVE POOL OF WATER in the living room anyway. thankfully we don't have carpets and also no one was electrocuted) but enough that someone had to stay in the house to empty the box it was dripping into so it didn't overflow. plumber came round with a new radiator and turned the heating off and emptied all the radiators in the house and took the old one off and put the new one on and it didn't work and the ENTIRE SYSTEM is buggered :( we knew the house needed a new heating system cos the plumber told us that this time last year, we asked the landlords to fix it and, hmm, somehow they never got around to it. we can't have any heating on because all the black silty sludgy gunk in the system means when hot water tries to get in the radiators it can't and just gets sent up to the tank in the attic which is plastic and will MELT. bah.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah come to our party on saturday please. it is another housewarming and now the house will be FREEZING so we need you more than ever.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

:( :( Poor Emsk.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, Emsk, that sounds terrible! Does this mean you don't have heat or hot water until it's fixed?!?!

Hopefully it will be more springlike, so this will not be too awful. Put on your guerilla hat thing that you were wearing at the weekend.

(Am coming to your house re-warming anyway, but now it will be literal re-warming.)

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Does this mean we can burn things to keep warm, though?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had a camera:

http://www.slowlondon.com/tubechal.php

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Make your landlords buy you some heaters at least!

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

we are allowed hot water cos it comes from a different place, the boiler in the little room off the kitchen. but no heating... we can definitely BURN THINGS! dude we have been collecting things to burn for MONTHS. will the christmas tree smell like christmas when we set fire to it?

the russian has a heater in her room cos her heating hasn't worked for months. i have a fan heater which i have managed to not set fire to anything with in the five years i've had it. but our electricity will go sky-high if we use loads of heaters! how long does this usually take? i mean, if they were to come round a week today and spend 2 days (they said it takes 1 or 2 days to take old system out and put a new one in) then i'm sure we'd cope. even though the weather forecast said it is gonna get colder.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

We went for, like, 2 months without heat in the old house, but that was because the bloke who owned it had gone off to India for several months. Once they actually get in to fix it, it's very quick - I think ours was done in a day and a half.

If you go for a significant amount of time without heat, you can subtract your heating bill from the rent. But that might be hard to work out and/or prove.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I like the idea of a housewarming in an unheated house.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

aye. the heating in my bedroom never worked last winter at all but it didn't really matter, i just used more blankies. the whole house is a bit different though... and also HAHA you know how much shit i will have to move for them to be able to get anywhere NEAR the radiator in my room? aaargh...

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Poor emsk :(

After four years of heating nightmares I can finally, smugly say that I Have Heat and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

OTOH, I have a hole in my lino, a drip behind my washing machine and a smell of wee in the under stairs cupboard.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah well, I have no oven and no washing machine. :-(

I am starting to consider just buying a new washing machine and hoping that installation is included.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Random exasperation:

CUNT!!!!

Now I'm over it, never mind.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, Emsk, what horrid news! :-( :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

dont eat the evil ice cream, marianna! it will only make you feel BAD BAD BAD

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

ah it's fine! i'm just annoyed cos the landlords've known the heating system was about to expunge its last since... about this time last year? and despite lots of pestering to "please get it done in the summer... or before it gets cold enough to need heating anyway..." they did absolutely fuck all.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like SOP for a landlord.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

sop??

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Son of a bPitch?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

sod off pricks?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! My desk is in a new position. I'm having trouble working out when people are talking to me.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

standard operational procedure, I think.

"tuesday. nothing. existed." har.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I'm confused.

Had scary dreams about the End Of Days and fighting Cthulonic forces of evil and darkness last night. Why have I been having such vivid dreams lately?

I deposited my bonus cheque this morning, which made me rather happy. What on earth shall I spend it on? Probably paint. Though I'm trying to decide what to do with my holiday. I really should stay at home and sort out my house and paint and buy furniture and the like. But I would really *like* to disappear off to Paris for a few days. Which oh which should I do? (and don't say both.)

God, I sound like such a smug middle class bastard. I can remember when my monetary choices were "eat lunch - or take the train to work?"

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! I have had a haircut.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

watercooler news: they've replaced the watercooler that did hot and cold water with one that now does cold and colder. which is fine but they didn't tell me before i made a cup of cold coffee. now have to use the skuzzy kettle that no-one ever thinks about descaling.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, haircuts oh no! We demand pictures.

Awww, poor Koogsy. However, now I have an excuse to tell the COLD COFFEE JOKE!!! Or maybe not, I've already told it once this year.

I thought scuzzy kettles were against EU Elf and Safety regulations or something.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

As usual, I cannot get my Oracle machine up and running. Why do people keep asking me for information off Oracle? It just doesn't work. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! I have no pictures. Plus I wouldn't want to ruin my mystique.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Honey, what mystique? :-P

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

OOOH BURN

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

(GO RICKI)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hi everyone!

My brane doesn't work this morning - easy SQL has just got very hard indeed.

Having money and deciding what to do with it is a standard middle-class guilt-fest. As soon as you have money, you have more money than someone else, which is always gonna make you feel bad. Does me, anyway.

How have you done your hair now, tissp? I need a haircut to be honest. My hair turns into a tennis ball when it gets too long (like now), but cutting it means that my head'll get ultra-cold - eeek! Unless I purchase some kind of hat . . .

And emsk, I'll come to your party! I'll bring warming things. Does everyone like steamed treacle pudding and custard? That's quite warming. I was thinking soup, but you've all tried my best soups. Maybe I should bring my shepherds curry.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

My hair is pretty much as it was before, but shorter. I have horrifically thick hair.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Is shepherd's curry like... curry with mashed potato on top?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, that's exactly what shepherds curry is, and even if I say so myself, it is the most brilliant culinary invention since somebody cooked baked beans in tomato ketchup and poured them on some toast. If you always have curry with rice, it gets all stodgy and boring after a while. It's just a different flavour and texture that your mouth doesn't expect. And it's a further Anglicisation of an already quite Anglicised dish, which makes me happy.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

TISSP, you have unbelievably pretty hair, do not complain.

And JB, I was just thinking that your hair was looking all lovely anf fluffy.

Damn, this makes me sound like a hair fetishist. Wait, I am a hair fetishist, never mind.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that is definitely genius J! (And anything that allows me to eat more potatoes = good).

Hm, some youths are playing football outside the french windows of my office. They are very loud, I fear it will end in broken glass, and now I feel incredibly middle-aged.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, sorry, did not want to discuss something serious in amongst all the flirting, but just had my disappearing shrink on the phone. I told him that he was totally unprofessional and I didn't want to see him again. So he goes and talks me into coming in for a "last, round-up session".

Amd all this while he's been trying to teach me to "be assertive"?

There's a bit part of me that just wants to not turn up for the appointment at all. In fact, it's unbelievably tempting. Grrrrrr.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, steamed treacle pudding and custard would be just perfect. Especially if there is no heat. Should we all bring big blankets and huddle under them? I wonder if I invite Mr. Knight, if he will come.

I was really craving steamed treacle pudding on Sunday but unfortunately they didn't have any, so I had to have that gorgeous chocolately hazlenutty moibus swiss roll.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

TISSP, you have unbelievably pretty hair, do not complain.

Aww, you will make me blush.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote a big thing just then about why you should turn up to the fellow with positive things to say and a positive mental attitude, but I realised the tone was a bit harsh so I deleted it.

But I don't like fluffy hair - I'm always reminded of when the Pink Panther gets out of the tumble drier, he's always all fluffy and massive, and that's how I feel. Suits lots of folks, but not me!

I might make the pudding at emsk's house, depending on time and whether she'll let me. It would make more sense than dragging a steamed pudding all the way to The Big Smoke. And I'll need helpers to stir the custard for twenty minutes!

Archel, how old are the "youths"?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'll help ~~eat~~ STIR the custard!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

A modest suggestion for people who have plenty of money and who don't know how to spend it: buy me a Nikon D200.

If you have less money and don't know how to spend it, a Nikkor AF-D 35mm f2 lens wouldn't be bad either.

Custard update: I'd offer to help ~~do kinky things with~~ eat it, too.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think the youths are visiting sixth-formers. After their ball hit the window, I have just been out to ask them to move. I'm getting much better at this assertiveness business lately, I've noticed. Sadly I think it might be related to discovering my FIRST GREY HAIRS :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

(Why do I keep clicking on threads I know are going to be rubbish? Sucker for punnishment...)

Arch, I saw some article in the papers at the weekend that was trying to prove a scientific link between stress and your hair going grey. And it couldn't. But I can tell you that there is, as I didn't have any grey hairs until going through the breakup with Joe. And now I have three of them. :-(

it's OK, so long as you still have few enough to deal with by plucking.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm getting a bit sick of the near permanent headache I've had lately. Sigh.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, custard sounds nice!

I feel accomplished today, although all I've done is install a Linux server and avoid having arguments with the staff about moving a computer. I am also discovering that the worst part of my job is having to deal with all the people who phone me up wanting to sell me things. Especially if they take a call from their mobile while in the middle of talking to me. Grrr...

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hang up on them if they do that!

I'm trying to explain why I can't do the Oracle work, and my best excuse has been "Because the computer only works during certain phases of the moon when Jupiter aligns with Mars and today is not one of them."

I have found another grey hair. I swear it's this job.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

What flavour of ~~custard~~ Linux, Mr Dial?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have passed the irritation threshhold and I think it's lunchtime.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Haha, we have an Ingres server that we speak of in the same tones, though happily we're replacing it shortly. The rest of the staff want to be able to have revenge on it with hammers for all the troubles it has caused them over the years.

~~custard flavour, of course!~~ Fedora Core 4; now all I have to do is install the web blocking software to prevent the pesky kids from spending their lunchhour looking at porn...

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I used to manage some Dead Rat 8 and 9 servers some years ago and didn't enjoy it, so I wouldn't fancy FC myself. This week I've been getting a SuSE 9 server - delivered with it preinstalled - working just the way I want it, and it keeps reminding me why I prefer Gentoo.

Why don't you just install a nice big web proxy, look at what they all download, and then blackmail the dinner money out of the porn-fiends?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I have got the best (non homemade) soup in the world for lunch. Roasted vegetables with Rosemary.

It's not as good as the honey mustard parsnips and asparagus soup I made last night, but very little is.

What will I do when spring comes and I can no longer reasonably eat soup?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Eat gazpacho?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Going back upthread a bit -- SOP = 'standard operating procedure.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

The big web proxy is indeed part of the plan - we block AND we know what they're trying to see. Muahahaha!

I've run Red Hat since 5, so I'm used to most of its quirks; plus my manager runs it, so if anything does go horribly wrong while I'm away, it'll mean he'll be on familiar ground.

I must stop eating chocolate.

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

What *really* put me off them was the version of RPM included in RH8.0 - the one that would occasionally freeze when doing rpm -u.

None of the other IT people here have much experience with any sort of Linux - my manager did run an AIX server once, but that was 15 years ago - so if anything happens when I'm away myself, I'm guaranteed a phone call.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, yes, that was nasty. Thankfully, yum seems to have fixed (or hidden) most of the annoying parts of RPM installations.

I'm expecting an email or two in America, but it shouldn't be too bad. At my old job, we had an OpenVMS server that *nobody* knew how to use, and it held all the accounts for the university. Oh, the scenes of panic when something went wrong ;)

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

tissp, why wont you let us see your glorious locks??

its not fair

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I just want to go home and work on my Luxemboys cover art some more. It's turning out super-gorgeous. It was scanned at too high a resolution, so loads of flaws and texture of the actual *paper* came out in it. But I'm trying to use this as part of the design, rather than just brightness/contrasting it out of existence.

The thing I've noticed is that that scanning process really highlights the different tones of the ink, too. You'd think india ink black would be all the same colour, but there's vast differences between various brands of drawing pens. Some of it is slightly reddish-tinged, especially as it ages. (Which makes me think of oak gall ink.) And some of it stays blacker than black, so black that it will bleed into any other sheets of paper it's left in contact with.

I keep trying to get various pensets that all use the same ink, so that the quality and colour is consistent, but then one of them will always end up drying out first, so I replace it with another pen and it starts all over again.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

I eat soup all year round! Hot spicy soups are good in hot weather because they make you sweat and thus cool you down (though perhaps not that sociable).

I want a holiday.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

hello! i am tempting again. temping, i mean. i was temptED, by some chocolate, so i went and bought some. today i have actual Stuff To Do, hurrah! the floor is deserted so i can play what i like but i didnae bring any of my own things with me, bah. johnny, you can make treacle sponge and custard in our house! what implements do you need?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I should invest in a Rapidograph set, but it's like £60! Well, maybe that's what I should spend my ill gotten middle class gains on!

Archel, I am disturbed eating soup in summer, it just seems wrong.

Hello, tempting Emsk!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Haha when I read 'the floor is deserted so I can play what i like' I had an monetary image of just a big giant empty carpet with emsk in the middle of it with some toys.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Pah, MOMENTARY image. That money talk earlier has subliminally infected me.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

heh! I wonder what a monetary image is - is that like the special pictures they put on commemerative £2 coins?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lileks.com/money/USmoney/1back.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

arch now i am giggling nonstop. i could actually do that if i had some toys! i did see a kaiser chefs tennis ball on someone's desk, hmm...

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Kaiser chefs? Are they a band of cheeky cooks?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hello... silly busy day :( Sleepy from lunch as usual.

Guardian story online – the headline is 'Porn cocktail leaves a bitter taste'. Unfortunately it's about Indonesian obscenity laws. http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1735879,00.html?gusrc=rss

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, that toys comment just reminded me of something I had nearly forgotten... the BEST BIT of the Penshurst Place walk... the TOY MUSEUM had a SCARY MECHANICAL DRINKING BEAR!!!

You fed it tuppence, and then it poured itself a glass of something and drank it and ITS EYES GLOWED RED!!! It was the best thing ever!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Tempting Emsk, mmmmm . . . .

*sucessfully resists rubbish uber-flirt*

http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/steamed-treacle-sponge-pudding,1044,RC.html

This is the recipe I'll be using - I've got a Delia book with it in, but I might just print this out for ease of use. What is there that's needed that you don't have? I can soon bring it.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://167.193.82.12/images/pictoys1.gif

(that's enormous, sorry)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ontariorabbits.org/events/fluffy_toy_shirt.jpg

(I'll stop being mr GIS and get back to jobseeking now)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

They are all toys. Especially the fireman. Rowr.

Oh, I am so cranky now. Stupid meetings, but now at least I know what this bloke is on about. Must create reports now.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

...especially considering he spilled water all over my desk, I am now really cranky. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, I sat through that entire meeting, and there were no photos of TISSP's glorious locks to greet me when I get back? What is the point, I ask you? What is the point.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I agree. But look at the pudding! Mmmmm, pudding!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my god, that is a good looking pudding.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, sorry, I have only just returned to the thread myself. I spent lunch in the pub, which was a curiously unfulfilling experience for a change, and then came back to do Test Print & Assembly of EP number two.

I am concerned about taking pictures of my new haircut for several reasons: 1) it's a bit too short even for my liking, so I don't think Kate will be happy at all, and 2) I've not had chance to wash it/play with it since it was cut, so it doesn't look like my hair yet anyway.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

stupid meetings, yes. idiot bosses, yes. i have those too.

so my explanations of how i'm going to do current task are pretty vague. i agree. the first law of computing = "garbage in, garbage out".

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

cooking basin - ? what's it meant to look like?
mixing bowl - got several
spoon - there must be one somewhere
electric whisk - no. we have a little electric whizzer thingy which is v good for soup but i wouldn't want to put it in anything containing dry flour, and a couple of hand whisks (unless russian has had a spat with them and thrown them in bin), and some forks
foil - ye-es... i think... pls to remind me to check
greaseproof paper - think not. ditto
string - no
palette knife - like in painting? we've got lots of knives
scissors - yes

i think my haircut last week was successful. i can't tell yet because they washed my hair before they did it and my hair is always rubbish for at least a week after it's been washed.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

so my explanations of how i'm going to do current task are pretty vague.

I FEEL YOUR PAIN!!! This makes me want to bash my head against the desk with frustration? How can I give you the moon on a stick, if you don't even specify *which* moon you want (Phobos? Ganymede?) and you don't specify if you want a wooden, plastic, metal or paper stick?

Idiots!

Quick, show me the pudding again.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

re Andrew's picture: what kind of child thinks a smoke alarm is a toy anyway? 'ooh goodie, an afternoon of fun for me with this random plastic blob attached to the ceiling that I can't even reach!'

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Right, I'll bring stuff with me. Pudding basins are usually beige and enormous - I don't won one, but I'll buy one and pop its cherry with this recipe.

Your hair looked good on Sunday emsk, so yes, I would say successfull. i did notice it was less - um, voluminous than I remembered, that must be why!

And kate . . .
http://static.deliaonline.com/images/originals/ma009-steamed-treacle-spon2-18791.jpg

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that's a FIRE ALARM?!??! I was trying to work out what it was, and concluded that it was some kind of bizarre sex toy or something.

Mmmmm, cherries. mmmm, cherry pie. Mmmmmm, pudding.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was a flying saucer, to be honest.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Today, I've been having to deal with:

a) a manager from another department who has decided to start telling me that I "need" to do things.
b) Finding out that someone I have a crush on is apparently getting married. Three months ago she (and her kids) were moving out of his house, secretly, whilst he was at work, because of the way he behaved towards her, so my eyebrows were slightly raised when I was told she was thinking about the wedding.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

oh no! dilemma! a guy just wandered by with a plastic bag in his hand and said "i just need to work out on the roof" then went into the office opposite me (empty) and moved some stuff out of his way before climbing out of the window. he had what looked like some tools in his hand. now i can't see him. what do i do?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

What kind of tools were they? If they were, like, weights and things, then ignore him, otherwise call security. If you don't have security in your building, then call the police.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

(However, I am a very suspicious person these days.)

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeh, just check with the nice security/ reception people that there SHOULD be someone wandering about on the roof. If not, tell them that there is, and they can deal with it. It's their job to deal with it, after all.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

they were like little tools, plastery type things. his clothes were clean.

he just walked past the other way (still on the roof).

shall i ask him if he wants some tea?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

DO NOT ASK THE BURGLAR IF HE WANTS TEA!!! CALL SECURITY!!!!!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

i asked a guy who definitely work here if it was ok and he had a look and said "yeah, he's a contractor or something."

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

massive xpost GUYS I KNOW IM A FEW DAYS LATE BUT IM COMING TO BOWLIE WITH YOU

also:
hi everybody

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Errrr. I suppose that's alright, then, Emsk. I would still gather evidence, just in case. Just like when there was that INCIDENT when we were stuck in your office in Brixton.

Hello, Nervous. I didn't know you were from the UK.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno. he hasn't gone anywhere. he was out there on his phone a second ago. i have finished all my work now. what to do?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you can play with a smoke alarm, they look fun apparently...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

And then the lovely Fireman toy will come to play with you!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I live practically next door to a fire station, all the nice firemen play badminton when the putting out fires business hits a slow patch.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

i hope they set the shuttlecocks on fire first before playing

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I just had to puzzle through the craziest CASE ... WHEN statement ever.

I'm getting confused having to switch back and forth between languages, I get my CASE ... WHENs mixed up with my IF, THEN, ELSEs.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

kate i'm not i'm just stopping by because i like the uk ilx contingent

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, OK, cool. Welcome. Would you like some treacle pudding?

And will you play drums for the house folk band, Boris and the Johnsons?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

oh definitely, on both counts. unfortunately i'm pretty sure my snare drum stand got STOLEN at the last show we played. so i hope three toms, a bass drum, and a hi-hat will do

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I was thinking more of some bongos and a tambourine (maybe one of those Irish folk bangy-things whose name I have forgotten) but that will do!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

We have a house folk band? Did I sleep through that bit?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that was about two threads ago! Or maybe that was on the Rolling Walking thread. Ed is going to play mandolin and I am going to play... erm... fiddle? Tuba? Who wants to play accordion?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I will play the fool

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking more of some bongos and a tambourine (maybe one of those Irish folk bangy-things whose name I have forgotten) but that will do!

well i also have this africanesque wooden drum and a kids' toy xylophone so i can do that

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

TISSP, yesterday:

http://www.e-mago.co.il/images/tarot-fool.jpg

Hrrrmmm. I like the African drums, but xylophones might be a bit twee. Can you do African finger pianos?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'll play clarinet if you want a clarinet player!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Clarinet would be great! We'll be rivalling Bellowhead soon!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I can produce the record.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

i know.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/97388357@N00/115882113/

there are 75 bands represented in the pic.

who wants to play?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh bum. does that work for anyone?

ihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/97388357@N00/115882113/

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, no! That went round my office last year, and drove us all mad. I think there are a couple of threads on ILM about it.

I am being amused by the Flame Warriors at the moment. This one in particular reminds me of someone:

http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/loopy.htm

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Something about being tempted by folk bands, I think I have read here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

we're going to be the best band ever!

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

can i play sax in the band?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

(um, big post deleted because i left it to long and it was rubbish)

emsk: was fun but has been done on ilm:
Please help: THIS BIG OLD DUMB VIRGIN DIGITAL AD

andrew: still looking for work? you have my sympathies

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sure! Then we can have a proper reed section!

(Clarinet has a reed, right?)

x-post

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

yes, clarinet has a reed

did i mention that i can really WAIL on the sax? its like, it'll blow yr mind.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, both clarinet and sax are reed instruments.

I spent ages poring over that ad too, a few months back.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

does folk music generally have sax?

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Jazz-folk

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ooer, etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

If Bellowhead can have a Tuba, we can have a sax.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Incidentally, I was driving along yesterday listening to a M0untain G0ats album, and I couldn't help thinking that one particular song on it would sound GREAT done as a big folky sing-along.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Mandee: saxy lady

(someone had to say it)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

(someone had to say it)

i was going to say she could play SEX in the band
but yours is far better which is why i held off

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oi! You lot! This is not the ILX Crush thread! Get a room, etc.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

need i mention i was in a band once called SAXUAL SOUNDS?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

YSI NOW

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, get a room, so you don't upset the bitter, lonely perpetual singles.

(um ... me, and probably noone else around here)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

(it gets depressing being the only ugly person on ILX, you know)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oi! You lot! This is not the ILX Crush thread! Get a room, etc.

that thread got derailed into a jon williams fite

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I have discovered the sure-fire way to deal with that, Nervous. Just ignore every single thing that comes from its typepad. Do not respond, do not give any indication that you have even noticed. It has a short attention span, and will go away.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, oh, FFS...

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't every ILE thread pretty much a crush thread in some way or another?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

CRUSH!!! CRUSH!!! KRUPPS CRUSH!!!

http://static.flickr.com/13/15610913_dee4eb3ddd_o.jpg

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't every ILE thread pretty much a crush thread in some way or another?

isn't every ILE thread pretty much a jon williams fite in some way or another?

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't every ILE thread pretty much a crush thread in some way or another?

I hope not, because they're fucking depressing.

Big machinery = much much better.

http://www.noblecountyohio.com/images/muskie8header.jpg

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Look, this is a free zone. It doesn't exist here. Like football. Get the rules?

x-post to nervous.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

i will keep this in mind kate

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Look, this is a free zone. It doesn't exist here. Like football. Get the rules?

sometimes the xpost indicator doesnt come up and so i post another reference without reading the rule
hah

wait!!! football doesnt exist in the uk thread?!?!? or do you mean american football

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Football does not exist here. Dammit, this thread series has been toodling along with the same 6 people for nearly a year now... but all of a sudden we're having an influx of new people. It's good, new blood is refreshing (heh). But certain rules must be followed. Such as the vagaries of Kate = law. No football. It does not exist.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

can you briefly outline these rules?

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

The no football rule is a good rule. We need more football-free zones.

(especially given that there's apparently some big international competition on its way)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

fp dude, its totally sad that you think you are ugly because you are NOT! DO I NEED TO TAKE YOU ON MONTELL WILLIAMS??

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Errr...

1) Kate's Vagaries = Law
2) No football
3) Dates are rubbish
4) Carrot Cake is good
5) If all else fails, remember Rule 1 and placate Kate with pictures of Captain Anderson or Boris Johnson.

Any questions?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

dates, as in the fruit?? yeah they do suck!!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, searching for big digging machines has led on to MECCANO

http://www.dalefield.com/mwes/dragline/Image8.gif

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

kate just one, regarding #4, can i like banana bread instead?

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

DO I NEED TO TAKE YOU ON MONTELL WILLIAMS??

Eeek.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the last slice of carrot cake I had put me into such severe hypoglycaemic shock that yes, substitutions are alright.

And dates as in, well, getting together with members of the appropriate gender for the purposes of establishing or exploring romantic or sexual attraction. They're rubbish, too.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.epitonic.com/art/artists/thepartyofhelicopters/mtforever_cover250.jpg

Anyone id this

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

dates, in that capacity, are TERRIBLE, i agree. ive only gone on like, three, and each one downgraded my faith in humanity. especially the one with TEX, the dude who kept lecturing me on how to make a proper treasure map.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

How is that a bad date?

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

because we didnt snog?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, I don't agree with Kate's stricture that starting a thread means you get to veto what comes up in it later (cos you can't necessarily do that with conversations you start in real life). But I heartily endorse no football.

Haha mandee, had you been making sub-standard treasure maps up until you met TEX then?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Moreover, have all your treasure maps been fully up to standard since?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh new library supplies catalogue has arrived excitingly emblazoned with the slogan 'display for INCREASED EXPOSURE!' Blimey. Who knew newspaper racks could be so titillating?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Depends what magazines you put on them, Archel.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

You're welcome to start your own thread, if you object to my rules, Arch! ;-)

Mostly I am a benevolent despot, and the only that really gets enforced is the no football rule. If it gets really off topic, then I tend to suggest another thread - or make one myself, as in Diggers v. Cranes, FITE!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

my treasure maps were, up until that point, shoddy and amateurish.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I don't object, I just personally disagree :) I like all-topic threads, but I like this one, too.

Hm, not sure EuroBib have got the right idea in naming a line of book trolleys 'Grim'.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Grim?!?!? Ha ha, what are they thinking?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

They have ones called 'Bjorn' and stuff too - think they were going for an Ikea style Scandinavian feel but misjudged that one slightly...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it is for purposefully obscure libraries where they don't want anyone actually taking out any books. Like the library that Bernard Black would run if he gave up the pretense that his shop *sold* books?

Sigh... Bernard Black... wait, I do have a crush after all.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking it would have been good if Ed had taken more topiary pictures and then someone could have photoshopped you a topiary Dylan Moran.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I think that Ed is Against Topiary, too. (Though he doesn't mind a good Yew Hedge)

But a topiary Dylan Moran would be the most... *Kate* thing ever (this week)!

God, I am so confused by W0rks@rt's SQL. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I believe that these conversational threads should be dictated through the democracy of if enough people want to talk about it, they will, if not, the conversation will wither and die, to be replaced by a more popular subject of conversation.

Of course, I come here regardless because no less than some of my ILE crushes deign to post here.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

(I come for the conversation, but I stay for the etc etc)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Some, out of the how many did it come to now? Four? Tart :)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I don't believe in democracy.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Which is good, because ILX is ANARCHY

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I realise that what I'm about to say may be quite contraversial. You can disagree with me if you like, but this is my experience:

My experience of messageboards/groups etc. is that they are patently not democracies. They thrive or survive based on the interest/input/charisma of a core group of members. It is a gentle balance between ingrown, incestuous oligarchies and total interweb chaos.

But remove the guidelines - even if they are not "democratically" popular, and you have nothing but a cacophony of 15 year old (physically or mentally) dudes talking gibberish about their penises. And I'm not interested in participating in that.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, this is tedious.

How many of you have ever seen an eclipse - solar or lunar?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

hey tissp whats your real email addy, dude?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

But remove the guidelines - even if they are not "democratically" popular, and you have nothing but a cacophony of 15 year old (physically or mentally) dudes talking gibberish about their penises.

Are you suggesting this is what this thread would descend into if you weren't to enforce rules?

(This is a serious question, not a snipe)

How many of you have ever seen an eclipse - solar or lunar?

I've seen both.

hey tissp whats your real email addy, dude?

impossibleshortestspecialpath at gmail dot com will make its way through the interweb to my virtual doorstep!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Are you suggesting this is what this thread would descend into if you weren't to enforce rules?

No, this is what ILX clearly descends into on a frequent basis, which is why little gangs of us gather into little "Balkanisations" like this.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

The 96% eclipse of 1999 (I think?) was pretty cool - I made a pinhole camera and tracked the shadow for a while, then went into manchester Square with my colleagues and severely strained my eyes as I'd not got hold of any of those glasses. It was wicked though.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

(FWIW I agree totally about message board guidelines kate, I just don't agree that there's a connection between thread starting and special rights over the thread.)

I was on the top of Mount Caburn for the eclipse in 1999. It wasn't visually that amzing but it got noticeably colder which I wasn't prepared for, quite freaky!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

What's the point of starting a thread if you don't get to specify the topic? Why bother having thread topics or questions at all? But whatever, we've been through a thousand times, and some say tomayto and some say tomahto. :-(

I have seen a partial eclipse of the sun in NYC during the early 90s. And sat out on Primrose Hill to watch the (partial) eclipse in 1999. I've been reading a book about eclipses, and am disappointed that I've not seen more.

I would really like to see a lunar eclipse, though. Apparently the moon turns the colour of blood!

And I found out what a Blue Moon was - we've had two this year!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

What's the point of starting a thread if you don't get to specify the topic? Why bother having thread topics or questions at all?

I'm not trying to drag this out, I'm genuinely curious–is this thread a conversational thread or not? And if not, what (specifically) is the topic?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I suspect that if anyone wanted to ruin this thread, you stamping your feet and saying "stop that!" would have precisely zero effect. This is a thread with no topic - it's explicitly a thread for chatting about your day, yourt thoughts etc., so I think you should trust people to talk about whatever they want, which may require you to zone out for a while. Having said that the one rule you have imposed on this thread has been there from the beginning, interferes with very little, and I'm happy to adhere to it*

(*you may find, however, that when the W**** C** comes around, forbidding football chat on a self-proclaimed watercooler thread may prove pretty thankless!)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

It's a conversational thread, yes. But when one or two people get into a very specific discussion that really involves only the two of them that's not a very common interest for all, then I really think that the polite thing to do is to take it elsewhere. Which we should really do if you want to continue this line of questioning.

Anyway, what did the lunar eclipse look like?

x-post

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

And now I've just had some awful, awful, AWFUL news about a friend of mine and don't really want to be shouted out by Mark :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

If I had the willpower to quit ILX, I would. But all I can do is try to make one little tiny corner of it habitable and reasonable.

This really fucking sucks. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Fair enough.

I can't remember much of the lunar eclipse (it was when I was young)... I don't remember it turning red, but then again I don't think it was a full eclipse, either.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

(Fair enough was regarding the taking the questioning off the thread btw)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to hear that Kate :(

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

And now I've just had some awful, awful, AWFUL news about a friend of mine and don't really want to be shouted out by Mark :-(

Sorry Kate, I wasn't trying or intending to be argumentative. I'm sorry about your friend too.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

[admin: trolling deleted]

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Give it a rest plz Jon.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for Astronomy Picture of the Day:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/lunecl_steere_big.gif2

(My best friend in NYC has just been sacked from her job of 15 years because of stupid office politics shite. I feel so... powerless. I wish I could be there for her.)

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yuck, that is bad :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Puts the stupid annoyance at my job that I occasionally feel into perspective.

And damn NASA won't allow linking:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/lunecl_steere_big.gif

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

That's truly shit news. Has she got any comeback at them (unfair/constructive dismissal?)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I've no idea.

It's for a well known law firm, so probably not. :-(

I've been trying to talk her into leaving for years - even to the point where I offered her my old job when I left NYC, throwing in free training and support for as long as possible - but she had some kind of... loyalty? to them. Or if not them as a company, at least her colleagues. It just fucks me off that they had no loyalty in return.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've given up on that other report. :-(

Why the hell should I be going through such hell, wasting several days of my time with this horrible report writer, when the guy could just download the data and analyse it in a freaking Excel spreadsheet?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen lots of lunar eclipses. For the 1999 solar eclipse, I was in the part of the UK with the absolute least coverage; but it was still good, especially as the sky was *just* overcast enough to be able to see the shape of the eclipse clearly through the cloud without being blinded.

I am intrigued by TISSP now - I want to know who he is crushing on!

(fair being fair, I should admit that when I dreamt about snogging a hott ILXbloke recently, it was also a regular poster on this thread)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I never know, when people admit they are crushing, if they want to be left alone, or if this is a come-on to have people try and guess who the secret crush is on.

I suspect the latter, but whenever you try to guess, they go all funny and get upset. Possibly if you guess right? Who knows.

I think there is an eclipse on the 29th March, but I've no idea where in the world it is.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I tend to assume the latter, probably because it's what *I* do.

I'm sure I read somewhere that there has to be a solar eclipse, either full or annular, somewhere in the world, at least once per year.

(as time goes by full eclipses will get rarer and rarer, to be replaced by annular ones, because the moon's orbit is slowly increasing in diameter)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

No, no - solar eclipses come in seasons, only when the path of the moon and the path of the sun are within certain angles of each other. They follow very specific cycles that Edmond Halley worked out. You can go for ages without having one, and then 3 come at once.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. Maybe it was lunar ones I was thinking of then.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, might be. Though if it happened during the day, then of course no one would actually be able to see.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Lunar eclipses can't happen during the day!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

(I *am* confident I am right about that bit. Because they happen when the earth gets between the moon and the sun, you can only see them happen if you are on the dark side of the earth at the time.)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Lunar eclipses happen 15 times per decade, so you're right about their frequency.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

ARRRGGGGHHHH!!!

I just tried to delete one report that was not working (I finally cracked it open and get to the raw SQL but it didn't want to work with it, even though I *knew* it was right) and have managed to delete the entire reports folder.

I just burst out crying in the middle of the office, until even the owner came over and tried to console me. I think I should go home. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

You should definitely go home.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

But when one or two people get into a very specific discussion that really involves only the two of them that's not a very common interest for all, then I really think that the polite thing to do is to take it elsewhere.

Where does posting pictures of pointy-nosed sea captains/tousled-haired Tories fit in to the "not a common interest" theory?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. Let's hope today is a better day for everyone.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Don't mind me, I'm just having a sneezing fit in the corner. Today is going to be my last full day of doing actual work! Tomorrow, a company is coming to install our new MIS platform, so I get to watch them do that, and Friday is mostly spent in a two-hour meeting, so everything that needs to be done has to happen today! :fear:.

But first, a chocolate digestive. ;)

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

Today is going to be my last full day of doing actual work!

Hurrah!

But first, a chocolate digestive.

I'm glad to see you've got your priorities on track.

I'm terribly organised today - I've already written today's blog post.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

No chocolate digestives before 9am or I'd be obese.

I had a very bad hair morning - work up too early, nothing to wear, no milk, hole in my shoe, nearly forgot my season ticket... bah.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

What is it with me and the freudian typing? I meant WOKE up too early but hey, work is too early too.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am also terribly organised today, following in the wake of tax return success. Things are crazy at ESM right now, and none of it has got anything to do with me, apart from getting my little pellets of work down the chute. When I get back from the gym and lunch with a photographer's agent, I'm writing a 500-word piece, planning meetings with people I was at this launch with last night, etc. Things feel a lot better.

K, sorry to hear about your friend - I know who you mean. Y will HM soon.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - My university diet at Manchester was about 80% chocolate digestive. And yet somehow, I was still reasonably healthy!

I suppose I should also fill in my IRS tax return, although if I haven't earnt any money in the US for two years now, do they still want a sheet of paper with zeroes on it?

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. D'oh.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well, at least I'll be able to use their paid-for envelope if I post it when I'm on holiday!

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning

Bad start to the day with the office arsehole being an arsehole. Now I'm trying to do undoable stuff for other people while my pile of real work still to do gets higher.

This seems to be a shitty week for everyone :( Hope it's improving

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

I just had to put out a fire!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Eeek!

What happened???

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

Cool! (I hope)

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

Well it was more of a merrily smouldering ash bucket than a real fire, but I still felt quite intrepid. It's attached to the wall just outside my office, and this is the third time it's caught fire. Bloody smokers/ash tray designers.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Well at least it enlivened your morning. See, smoking = good. QED.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Am having a rubbish day this morning. Seem to be having a lot of those lately.

Horrible dreams again. Last night, I was killed in a nuclear strike (twice) and was sacked from my own job.

And one final word to anyone who only seems to pop up on these threads to criticise them and/or me:

IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, FUCK OFF AND MAKE YOUR OWN THREAD. NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO READ THIS.

God, I hate people this morning.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

This seems to be a shitty week for everyone :(

For balance, I'm having a great week.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Last night, I was killed in a nuclear strike (twice)

That's what I call unlucky. Never mind lightning striking twice!

I'm full of bounce today - I think it's the early night last night and the sunniness which is causing it all.

And don't hate, Kate!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm feeling a bit stressed today - I'm currently being the go-between from my manager to another manager who refuses to talk to him. It's making my head hurt, especially as my manager was in a bad mood to start with.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

It's a fine day today: the sun is shining, and there is a scent of freshly-cut grass in the air.

FP, try and be a bit numb to it. Just pass messages, but don't get involved otherwise...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

I can't really help getting involved, because the other manager (and her underling) keep trying to set *my* agenda and tell me how I should be prioritising my job. Furthermore, they are technical dolts who do not understand anything said to them at all, and just repeat the same question over and over again:

"Why can't we just get the system working the way *we* want it?"

"Because your suggestion relies on the computer processing huge amounts of information that it just doesn't store at the moment, and including it all would be highly impractical jsut from a data entry viewpoint"

"Yes, but why can't we just get the system working the way *we* want it?"

They are also complaining that their computers are too slow. Whenever I visit their branch, their computers seem blindingly fast. They admit this. One of them has accused me of deliberately speeding up their computers when I am planning to visit, then slowing them down again the next day.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Just agree with them. They will drown in their own lies eventually!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Another classic: "We reported three weeks ago that the reception desk printer wasn't working, and noone has done anything about it." Funnily enough, though, noone here can recall getting any fault reports from them, at least not about that.

The manager who complains the most - the one who accused me of deliberately slowing their computers down - is functionally illiterate. He writes many, many memos to my manager, all almost unreadable, most of them complaining about his computer being too slow. They all end up on my desk, with "I do not understand this - can you translate?" attached.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

My colleague has just given me a chocco Liebnitz cookie which has somewhat restored my faith in humanity.

Managers are idiots. I hate them all. They should be set alight on a bonfire of their own paperwork.

I've got one pestering me right now saying "this case has closed, why isn't it on our league table?" Except, he didn't say that at first, he was saying "Why isn't it on our Pipeline?" Because Pipeline only includes OPEN cases, and that case is closed. BUT IT'S NOT ON OUR LEAGUE TABLE!!! He insisted. Because it closed in August of last year, so of course it's not on this year's league table. BUT WE'RE NOT GETTING CREDIT FOR IT!!! he fusses. YOU GOT CREDIT FOR IT ALREADY, YOU SODDING CUNT, LAST YEAR, WHEN THE SODDING CASE CLOSED. NOT IN THIS YEAR. ARE YOU SO STUPID THAT YOU CAN'T TELL WHEN FINANCIAL YEARS CHANGE?!??!!?

I have zero tolerance for fools day. I wish I could be happy about the sun and the whatever, but I just feel high strung and halfway between shouting and smashing things, and bursting out crying. Which means ILX is really not the place for me today. :-(

And yet here I am, avoiding the Horrible Program.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

God, this is turning into "let's bitch about our useless coworkers" again. Someone give me another cookie, quick.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

ARE YOU SO STUPID THAT YOU CAN'T TELL WHEN FINANCIAL YEARS CHANGE?!??!!?

Um, isn't August in this (April 1 2005 - March 31 2006) financial year?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

argh, a "moonsault" on ebay I've fancied one for ages, but not as 1200 dollars!

also, a white daisy artist for 99 quid, argh

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Our financial year ends in January. Any fucking fool who works here knows that.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

What is WRONG with me today? I just feel like screaming. And keep randomly crying. I can't even blame the cookie/hypoglycaemia because I felt like this before I ate it.

My holiday can't come soon enough. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Company financial years aren't the same as tax years. Our company's financial year ends at the end of August.

(xxpost)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Nuclear holocaust dreams are horrible. I've not had one in ages. I saw the bright white flash first, and got down under my desk, and then there was a sickening horrible orange flash and I could feel my eyelids melting so even though I was closing my eyes, I had to witness the devastation around me as I died.

Train/subway nightmares just mean that I feel lost in an overwhelming morass of stress and things I can't read, let alone understand. I'm used to the Tube/Subway nightmare.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've had any nuclear holocaust dreams for a few years, but I used to get them a lot as a teenager.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Last nuclear war deam I had was a couple of years ago, but I can still remember it vividly - there were bits of bodies hanging from trees. I woke up with the phear, and couldn't get to sleep for the rest of the night. Terrible.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

I always survive holocausts in dreams.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

They're something I associate with the 80s.

Before that, I had nightmares about tidal waves or volcanos.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

They're something I associate with the 80s.

Aye, the light coming in the windows is always like the 'Dancing With Tears In My Eyes' video.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

It was watching Threads at school that led to me getting them a lot.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

My friend has this theory that Cthulhu can communicate with mortals through their dreams. He thinks that the Old Ones are trying to get in touch with me because I keep dreaming about the End of Days. He is barking mad, of course, but that's why he's my friend.

I like that better than the usual blah blah stress blah blah tension blah blah nightmares explanation.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I've figured out *what* is not working, but not *why*. I swear to god, this is like trying to write a novel in French with nothing but a Spanish phrasebook to guide you. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Why am I even doing this? It's only making me crosser and crosser.

I should go and work on something else for a while.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

I hate that feeling you get when something clearly isn't working, but there is no sign why not.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it would help if I had:

-a manual
-a helpdesk who actually answered queries
-any kind of training beyond the basics on this program

But the simple truth is... I COULD SPEND YEARS LEARNING TO DO THIS, BECAUSE MY COMPANY ARE TOO CHEAP TO GET THE COMPANY THAT DESIGNED THE SODDING THING TO DESIGN THE FUCKING REPORTS THAT GO WITH IT, BUT I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME WHILE STILL TRYING TO DO THE REST OF MY JOB!!!

I'm currently writin the email to say that I've got as far as I can with the thing (i.e. not very far at all) but I can go no further, and I will go no further. My immediate boss already knows how frustrated I am with it, but I'm just not in the mood for any of this crap.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

That shout sounds very familiar too.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like kicking things right now.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Go outside and kick small children! Babies!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to eat some soup now and then go outside and walk about in the sunshine. Possibly buy some books, which always cheers me up.

I was complaining earlier that the Watercooler threads were a victim of their own success, and now I have succeeded in driving everyone off with my bad mood. Hurrah. Perhaps I shall kick a small child in celebration.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

i keep getting mysterious messages on myspace! maybe i have a stalker...

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, stalkers are the new black, you know? It's how you know you've arrived. ;-)

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

(Omigod, that was almost a smile. Maybe the black dog is lifting.)

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Not too small, though - it feels good if it's somewhat of a challenge! (crawling is perfectly acceptable)

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've never had a nuclear holocause dream before. I get an awful lot of "me as the super-hero" kind of dreams tho. Recently I've been getting lots of sex dreams, strangly.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

sex dreams are the best! i had like two weeks there last month where i had one every night. now i just have dreams about scuba diving.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have dreams about sex ~~much~~ at all any more. But that's because sex is rubbish.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

I rarely get sex dreams. Full sex dreams are *very* rare - the ones I do get are about snogging and kinkiness.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

(I was going to mention the most recent - but then I realised I posted about it on this thread yesterday)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I tend to only have sex dreams when I'm asleep on the bus, which is a little odd. Perhaps it's the bumping along on the uneven roads...

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, when I was working on an archaeology dig that required a 30 minute minibus ride every day, I was usually tired enough to fall asleep on the ride - and I did tend to get a lot of sex dreams then. So you may well be right.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

But that's because sex is rubbish.

So, so, so off the money!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

let's shag, tissp!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Join the queue, Ken.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have just finished an oversized lasagne of doom. And now I feel a bit sick.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

GOD DAMN, RECORD STORES!!!

Maybe I should start a thread called I! JUST! WANT! TO BUY! SOME SODDING MUSIC!!!!

I made the mistake of going to Rough Trade, which is normally quite good. But it was very full. And I just wasn't in the mood for it. And nothing is ever in any kind of order. I don't know what label bands are on. I am totally out of touch with genres. I don't even know what country they come from half the time! Usually I just know the name of the band and sometimes the album and I want to be able to FIND IT without going through half the bloody shop! Post-Rock? Avant-Drone? Finnish Experimental Twee-Gazing? I've not a clue! Just give me a sodding Ulrich Schnauss album, arrggggghhhh.

I have to leave and go to HMV.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

i thought you meant "join the cues" and imagined some kind of lightsabre fight sex game.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

And sex remains rubbish. >:-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to listen to Lullabies to Violane now before I explode or something.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah Kate you can join my unpopular but righteous campaign to abolish division by genre in record/book shops (only applies to fiction) and to arrange everything in strict alphabetical order.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but dividing by genre is nice if you dont really know what you're looking for.

dividing by alphabetical is really only for those who know exactly what they are after.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Everything should be arranged completely randomly and chaotically, which would mean you would stumble on great things more often!

Also, just order from Amazon Marketplace! Cheap AND easy! Like me!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

That's not true. I had a shopping list, but I picked up several things that weren't on it because I saw them while browsing.

Genre divisions are only good for super-music geeks who are up for what is going on in the ever changing world of trendy music. Which, honestly, who has the time for these days?

My entire CD collection is just alphabetised. (Well, it is when it's not in boxes.) Ditto my books, (also when not in boxes, or stacked to save space) fiction and non fiction all in together, by author. So I can bloody FIND things.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah buying online is ideal because you can usually have both systems. Physical layouts are so restrictive.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I have tagged all of my physical CDs with META DATA in the form of post-it notes

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

MY meta data post-its are cut out into the shape of LC Subject Headings, so there.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

I can't even listen to the soothing music because the headphones my colleague lent me just fall out of my ears. Bah. I should start shopping online, but then again, I've still not got the keys to my own postbox. Argh.

I went to make myself a soothing cup of chamomille tea and ended up ripping the little paper bag it came in so violently that I ripped the teabag as well. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

you guys are so technologically backwards. i have a system of strings that i pull from the top that can lift out all CDs from any particular genre. or by 10 other categories based on melodic scale, intrumentation, mood etc.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I thought LC subject headings were just strings of letters and numbers?

Everything should be arranged completely randomly and chaotically, which would mean you would stumble on great things more often!

This is actually quite a good plan. In fact, I've kind of tried it myself in the past.

* joins the queue of people waiting to sleep with TISSP

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

In other news, I am tempted to start a thread: "why do people go back to abusive partners?" - but i'm not going to, because I know it would just devolve into a flaming match.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Today, I don't want to sleep with anyone. I just want the bed all to myself. Especially in case of nightmares. There's nothign worse than waking up from a nightmare and FINDING SOMEONE ELSE IN THE BED THAT YOU CAN'T DISTURB so you just lie there feeling freaked out.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Wake them up then!

(my mad ex would *always* wake me if she had a nightmare, but objected loudly to me doing the same thing. Well, objected quietly, but with groin-punches)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I love it when people wake me to tell me they have had a nightmare! It makes me feel wanted!

When I close my eyes I can see the JVM specification RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF ME AAARGH HELP

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Now that's what *I* call a nightmare. The JVM's gory internals IN YOUR DREAMS!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have actually been dreaming about it recently, which may explain why I don't sleep so good.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Just as long as you don't start getting JVM sex dreams...

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Well the classmark would be a letter and number string but the subject headings are words. (Neither would in reality be particularly useful in post-it form.)

many xposts... slow today...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

*coughs* You mean you've never had an inherited class come on to you in your dreams, FP? ;)

I have spent ALL DAY trying to work out a router problem with our porn filter. Only to discover, many, many hours later, that it was the filter here that was the problem. Grr *kicks machine*.

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I HATE THIS WOMAN, I HATE THIS WOMAN SO MUCH. She sends every single message to me HIGH PRIORITY!!! (like the others aren't?) She nitpicks every single bloody thing, is totally unclear in her descriptions, god I hate her slightly more than I hate everyone right now.

And the bloody Oracle machine wouldn't connect to the network because the NETWORK CABLE had worked itself loose. FFS... it's so filth I was actually afraid to touch it, but I've been over it with a towelette for cleaning the phone. I mean, there's workplace filth, and then there's UTTERLY FRIGHTENING.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I go home in 15 minutes. I was meant to start writing this report this morning, but I've been so busy "Thinking Team" that I haven't got round to it.

What shall I have for dinner? I might actually get take-away, maybe some kind of Chinese.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I have an associate who doesn't read mail UNLESS it's High Priority. He figures he can ignore anything until people get frustrated enough with his inactivity that they slap big red exclamation marks on everything.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot believe that it's so late and I've got so little done. But oh yeah, I went to the record shop for an hour. I could really do with some Chinese takeaway. I think I'm going to make special soup again. If and when I ever get out of here...

I think I am going to set up a special folder for high priority mail and just ignore it.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

"special soup"

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

I've just turned off the big red exclamation mark from outlook, so it doesn't matter if people mark thigns as important or not, they get the same treatment as everyone else.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Do not mock the Special Soup.

That's actually a good idea. How do I turn it off? It just winds me up.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

i havent had a nightmare in sooo long. like since i was 11. what gives?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

You're far too well adjusted. :-P

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

And the bloody Oracle machine wouldn't connect to the network because the NETWORK CABLE had worked itself loose.

I get very, very bored of people phoning up to say "I can't get my email!" or "I can't connect to the database!" when their network cable has fallen out, or the cleaners have unplugged the hub power supply, or something stupid like that.

Our cleaners here aren't too bad, but the branch office cleaners are the sort that will unplug anything to power their vacuum, and don't understand why the little boxes with the blinky lights might be important. Now, I have a habit of putting "KEEP SWITCHED ON, DO NOT UNPLUG" labels on their power bricks whenever I install a new one.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

FP why would my pc freeze when trying to browse to My Documents? it's like it's trying to access something that isn't there, like when you have an unmapped drive. it's annoying me.

on a better note, i got around the 'necessary codec only available under windows' problem i had using wine and everything's good and we don't have to give bill gates any money (he has enough). hurrah.

(no, not that kind of wine)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure.

*Do* you have any unmapped drives? Windows, when you open an "important" folder like My Documents, will sometimes try to query every network drive before opening the folder, just to see if they're awake.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

We just had a citrix problem that kicked everyone off their connection. You should have heard HIGH PRIORITY woman complaining. I could hear her bitch from across the office. I secretly felt joy that she'd lost data.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

And one final word to anyone who only seems to pop up on these threads to criticise them and/or me:

IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, FUCK OFF AND MAKE YOUR OWN THREAD. NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO READ THIS.

If that was directed at me, then I do read this thread a lot, but I don't contribute much because I do work at my work and therefore don't get to post when you are all here. And then I get scared to post because I don't know what the rules are for posting. (I got scared off the TITTWIS threads because the first time I read one, I was being talked about and I thought that seemed rude since it was on a message board I am a reasonably active poster on). Anyway, it was meant to be tongue in cheek, and I didn't see it as a criticism, more an observation.

That is all. I shall continue lurking. And please stop shouting at me, it isn't nice.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

so territorial and boring

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

> *Do* you have any unmapped drives?

there was an 'internet link' to a machine owned by someone who's on holiday this week, maybe that's it. deleted it and will see if it helps. am surprised that it seems to be querying the contents of files . 'ls' never does! cheers

in other news, the file produced by the encoder on windows is different from the file produced by the encoder running under wine and i'm curious as to why that should be given that the code should be identical. underlying libraries?

oh, they were cutting the grass in ravenscourt park this morning and that smell = spring (as i think FP pointed out on another thread)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 March 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Did I? You're right, though.

(and =hayfever, for me)

I don't know if the current version does, but old versions of Nautilus ran 'file ./*', or something approximating that, whenever you opened a folder.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

(the reason is to show you lots of tasty metadata. Eg, Windows Explorer, in tile view, likes to show you things like the author and title of Office docs, or the ID3 tags of MP3s.)

Today, my boss is promising that we are going to have a meeting where we tell him about our lists of ongoing projects, so that he can set our priorities. He's been promising this meeting for a fortnight, now - and that it is going to become a weekly event - but it feels as if today he is actually being serious about it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it would also make the icon a tiny copy of the file contents, snippets of c source code even. funny the first time you see it, a waste of resources the second time.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 March 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Boring morning so far. Lots to do though so back later

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 23 March 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I always thought that feature was a bit pointless. particularly for programs, where the only thing you see is

/*
*
*

for C, or #!/bin/sh for shell scripts.

I found out the other day that the same designer did most of the icon design for a) the original Mac OS b) Windows 3.0 c) the first version of Nautilus. The Mac-Nautilus connection is well known, but I didn't realise how much work she'd done for MS in the early 90s too.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

hello! yesterday in oxfam they were playing jenny lewis, i had never heard her before. she is ace. also i got a shirt for £2.29 which is ace too.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 23 March 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

I like her album.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

(but then, I'm a sucker for hott indie ~~girls~~ people)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

> yesterday in oxfam they were playing jenny lewis

seems a bit unfair. who won? 8)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 March 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

is she really headlining shepherds bush empire? i'd like to see her at the hanbury...

xpost heh SHE DID cos she done slain them all with her softly-softly-stickee-knifee approach

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 23 March 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hi everyone!

My morning has consisted of turning normal Access queries into massive SQL queris, which is enormous fun and gaining me the admiration of collegues when their 8hr query turns into a 10 minute one. PHEAR MY SKILZZ0RZ!

Kate - In outlook, right click on the subject bar and then select "Field Chooser". This will let you drag in and out the fields you need. Drag the Importance field into the bar, and it disappears! No more nasty exclamation marks!

Emsk - what kind of shirt is it? And did you have greaseproof paper and tin foil at home, or shall I bring some?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

And I suppose I'd better bring brownies . . .

I was thinking. Is mulled wine a good warming idea, or shall we just drink wine?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Johnney, I have changed the Importance, and that has had a good effect. Ignoring things that you find tedious and just wind you up is actually a very good method.

I contemplated not going to my last session with the shrink, but decided that would be childish and vindictive, so I went, and it was OK. I told him I just wanted to get the book and do it myself, and he said "I thought you would say that, so I've found a book you might find helpful." Which was good. He's concerned about me going off SSRIs abruptly, so he wants to see me again in 3 weeks time, but it's more a "I just want to check you're OK" thing not a hassling thing.

Also, I got in today to find a postcard from my mum showing PROPER SNOW. Oh god, how I miss proper snow. It's a covered bridge near where she lives in Vermont and it is so lovely.

What kind of shirt, Emsk? which reminds me, damn, I still have Anna's shirt at my house.

I listened to my CDs last night, and was quite surprised at what I liked, and what I didn't. I'll blog about them so as not to waste space and bore you all. What does Jenny lewis sound like? I thought she might irritate me, but I've confused her with Jeffrey Lewis, I think.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

I converted an Access database into postgreSQL! Fear for your jobs, database monkeys!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

This is how it starts, Barry! next thing you know, you'll be ONE OF US!!!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

OOh, and I'm getting a dual screen PC. I wonder what that will be like. Can I look at Crystal and The DB at the same time? That would be GRATE.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

JOIN US!

You're getting a duel screen PC? You lucky so-and-so! You can view Crystal and The DB at the same time - what will ACTUALLY happen is you viewing Crystal and ILX at the same time.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Well, yes, but sssssshhhh, don't tell them that!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

OOh, and I'm getting a dual screen PC. I wonder what that will be like.

Something like this possibly:

http://static.flickr.com/40/116741030_ce8eff0013.jpg

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Does that mean you have one, TISSP?

I'm just wondering where it will fit. I've already got a laptop and a PC on my desk (one for the SQL DB and the other for Oracle, because they run in different environments) - so how on earth am I going to get a double screen in as well?

Am I going to have to move my pile of programming manuals?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

That is what I spend my day staring at, yes (notice ILX in foreground window on bigger monitor).

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

(Oh! And apparently we've been paid today. If I'd known that, I'd have stopped at that GREAT tie shop on Holborn with all the amazing coloured shirts, and have bought PAISLEY SOCKS!!! My life will not be complete until I have paisley socks.)

((Also, I have decided to spend my holiday painting my house paisley. Emsk, are you still up for some painting action, the second week of April?))

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

johnny - there is loads of foil so as long as the russian doesn't get a paranoia attack and paper (foil?) the walls in it we'll be fine for that, but no greaseproof paper. i could, like, buy some this afternoon. mulled wine is a good idea but if it's a hassle leave it. bring brownies by all means. hopefully we can have a FIYAH in the ~~disco~~ garden to keep warm by.

kate - a BLUE one, s l i g h t l y too tight with sleeves faaaar too long, therefore good. also it was really crumpled when i got it but i wore it like that last night and it looked excellent, so my wardrobe is still entirely comprised of stuff that does not need ironing. jenny lewis is wuvly, but deceptively so, i've only heard 3 or 4 songs so far but they are all AAAAaaahhh...- OH! grebt. jeff lewis i dunno, i really liked him when i saw him and would def see him again (in fact i did see him again) but i can't imagine wanting any of his records. ooh painting YESH!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Stuff that does not need ironing is good! However, my love of Liberty shirts has forced me to iron... sigh. Shirt sounds good, though.

(It took me a while to realise that you meant a fire, and not a Fancy Inexpensive Yahooligans At Home or some other acronyms, ha ha, too long on ILX)

I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to do the paisley. Maybe I can make a paisley stencil, but I suspect that might be lazy. If I draw them freehand, then I can make them ALL DIFFERENT SIZES of paisley from small, restrained paisley to KILLER PARAMECIUM PAISLEY all down the various walls. I've also decided that I'm going to do a mural. I haven't done one in years, but they are fun.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

I converted an Access database into postgreSQL! Fear for your jobs, database monkeys!

But have you learned the mystical importance of VACUUM ANALYZE?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think my optical mouse is haunted. It keeps wandering across the screen by itself, even as the actual object stays still.

What causes that? Dust motes in the laser beam? Ectoplasmic activity?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

Mine does that. It also occasionally jumps up to the big X in the top right corner and I end up closing windows by mistake.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

eddies in the space time continuum

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Is he? And this is his mouse, then?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dual screens = excellent! Only downside w/it for me is now I want it at my machine home as well and getting annoyed by the excessive alt-tabbage I have to do instead.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

I find virtual desktops easier to manage than alt-tabbage. If you use Windows, look on the Microsoft site for "Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Every now and then, I think Go Fug Yourself get it really, really wrong.

For instance, I would *LOVE* to wear this dress:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/gofugyourself/GFY%20Archive/57133801.jpg

I mean, I'd go onstage in that. No one would be able to tell if I was fat or skinny or hot or not, or whatever - I would just be a giant purple puffball. It just might be a bit difficult to get my guitar over the top, though...

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

In fact, forget wearing it, I would just like to *live* in it.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

I have a Jenny Lewis MP3 around here somewhere, it's called "Rise up with fists" and is nearly as great as it's title. I'll see if I can find it.

Grr, my complete lack of any SQL skills has done me out of another job, so it's a bit of a sore point.

So a Dual Screen PC just one on an analog port and one on the digital, or something specific to a task?

Surely the dress would have it's own MP!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

> I think my optical mouse is haunted.

i had this problem at home. was using a book with a vaguely translucent cover as a mousepad and that was what was causing it, mutiple reflections or something. use something else, something plain and it might behave.

dual desktops, pah. in my day we had one screen of 32x24 characters running on a 14" b&w tv and we liked it. etc.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

I do believe it's a different screen for each task, or what would be the point?

Everybody knows, though... you can tell JUST how important someone is by how many screens they have on their desk. It was an 80s Insecurities Traders thing.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Screengreed is good! I'm going to have THREE of them! Like this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2005/06/30/PH2005063001983.jpg

(I wonder if I should get a Power Tie to go with.)

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

no! EDDIES! in the SPACE TIME CONTINUUM!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Only just got back from my training! The actual purchasing system is a wonder of usability and will make things a lot easier as it turns out. But hilariously, everyone in my dept who actually places orders and was thus at the training has been given a spend of £0 each. So we can't actually use the system - and thus can't order *anything* - without getting authorisation from higher up every time. Imagine the fun.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Well if it's standard multiple monitors, then I think you can have one big desktop streeetched over two monitors (so you can move windows from one to the other) or is it something smart where they have a separate desktop on each one from the same PC?

My last job was the other way around - two pcs one monitor, you had to flick a switch at the bottom of the screen to, er, switch between them AND remember which keyboard/mouse you were supposed to be using.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like two steps forward, two steps back, Archel... but wonders of usability are always good.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Kate there is an AMAZING ladies/gentlemen's bespoke/horsey place on Lamb's Conduit Street which you must see.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

andrew is that a live version or the album version d'you know?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

you had to flick a switch at the bottom of the screen to, er, switch between them AND remember which keyboard/mouse you were supposed to be using.

Couldn't they be bothered to get a proper KVM switch to control all three?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, they want me to dive back into the HORRIBLE AWFUL PROGRAM OF CONFUSION AND DEATH. I can't face it. I'm going to eat some lunch first.

And possibly go back and buy those... PAISLEY SOCKS. I cannot believe that no one has commented on the wonder that is PAISLEY SOCKS. How could anything possibly bother me if I was wearing SOCKS THAT WERE PAISLEY?!?!? They are black and fuchsia, as well. I covet them. They shall be mine.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

i remember when i was a kid i found an entire bin bag full of my mom's argyle socks from the 70's - and i thought 'THESE ARE HIDEOUS' - now I wish I had that stupid bag of socks. I actually have like, only two pairs of socks. I try not to wear them.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

My two monitors above are actually connected to three seperate computers and a couple of development boards through a selection of wires and switches. It's very fascinating. I've lost things in the rats nest under my desk and never seen them again though.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

(Mandee is BAREFOOT WARRIOR)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

i just realized that because i dont wear socks, that makes me partially a hippy.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

"partially"

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

A hippy from the ankle down.

Ah I love it when people's computers are going ballistic and I get to fix the problem by REMOVING THE GIANT BOOK THEY HAD RESTING ON THE CTRL KEY.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I love socks. I just bought about 8 pairs a few weeks ago, but gave a few of them to Anna, because I felt guilty about stranding her in the cold outside my house while I was shopping for socks. I always feel sorry for people who don't have enough socks. I bought socks for the Channel Six boys once. Because they came round for an aftershow once, and Jane, being Canadian asked them to take off their shoes. And Ollie refused, embarrassed, because he WASN'T WEARING ANY SOCKS!!!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

He put them on in front of me, too, when I gave him some. (Or was that Dan? Do you know, I can no longer tell them apart in my mind.) It was terribly erotic, whichever way round it was.

Anna says she never buys socks, she just steals them from people she is sleeping with.

n.b. even though I have given her socks, I have never slept with Anna.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am very particular about socks and could never steal them from a MANG they would be all baggy.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, I'm off to buy the paisley socks.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and if anyone cares, I've added the rekkids what I just bought to my blog.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm always running out of socks, no matter how many I buy. It's almost as if someone is coming into my bedroom and stealing them when I'm asleep . . .

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Impossible, Sir. Only you and I have access to your socks.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

uh so do y'all have CROCS in the UK yet? my co-worker and i got in an argument about them yesterday. every hippy twat is really into them, and my co-worker was saying "Crocs is about to expand into the UK.. I think they will be REALLY BIG there" - I DISAGREED

WHATCHA THINK

here''s the shoes in question,. they are fucking hideous.

http://www.greatoutdoorprovision.com/graphics/apparel/crocs_beach.jpg

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

oh my god. i saw those in a store yesterday and i was so appalled. what's happened?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

i dont know, and for some reason a lot of people wear them. when i comment on how UGLY they are, i get told "but they are soooooo comfortable. and you can wash them in the dishwasher!"

who wants to put their shoes in the dishwasher?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk - it's the album version, I'd put it up but yousendit is coughing up bits. I'll mail it to you (and Kate? (any anyone else?)) instead.

Jeff Lewis albums are deceptive, he sounds like he's 40 and beaten up, so it's quite confusing when he arrives and stage and I think "Why is Ronan in a band and he never told me?"

Forest Pines - we had a bunch of KVM switches for the test lab, but the monitors already had two inputs at the back, so I think a keyboard and a mouse were cheaper than a KVM so that's it. Also possibly the machine would have been bought as developer machines, so would have had the keyboards etc already.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

They're sick and wrong. I sincerly hope they DON'T get big here. Comfy shoes? That's what Clarks is for!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

they're worse than tevas, and that's saying something.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Those look like a cross between shoes and sandals. And a handbag.

who wants to put their shoes in the dishwasher?

People with more shoes than dishes! Actually, that's me. Do they come in a gents size 11?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

also, who are these people who are having such trouble finding comfortable shoes that they have to resort to crap like that? if you're in that much difficulty, you probably need to see a podiatrist.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

What are they made of? Tatty looking plastic?

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

they look cheap as anything. the shop i saw them in was kind of a discount place, so i assumed it was a weird one-off thing not a national trend. horrifying!

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Those are hideous, I'm sorry. I now own THREE PAIRS of PAISLEY SOCKS. I got them in black, and fuchsia, and lime. They cost entirely too much money, but I figure they are better value than anti depressants because who could be miserable wearing paisley socks?

Beauty is one of the few things worth paying for, because beautiful things really *will* make you happy.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

My socks!

http://www.duchamp.co.uk/duchamp.data/Components/images/socks_image.jpg

(The ones all the way on the right. But not in that icky lilac - mine are BRIGHT.)

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

There is beauty in the bellow of the blast
There is grandeur in the growling of the gale
There is eloquent outpouring
When the lion is a-roaring
And the tiger is a-lashing of his tail

And those are DAMN good socks.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I like that poem - what is it?

And yes. Damn good socks. I like the concentric cirles ones, too.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

It's the Mikado innit?

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! Gilbert and Sullivan! That would be why it is so good, then.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

There's a fascination frantic (?)
In a ruin that's romantic
Do you think you are sufficiently decayed?

I think I've misremembered that horribly

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

For some complicated reason, someone's trying to get off with a woman several decades his senior

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I have a huge pile of paper on my desk. I am tempted to burn it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

We need more photos!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

BURN IT!!! BURN IT!!! BURN BABY BURN!!!

ha-hem. Sorry.

Morning, Ned. How do you like my paisley socks?

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Mikado, correct. The circle socks are good, but I prefer the stripes - i don't have enough pairs of massive stripey socks.

If a gal come up to me and said "Morning John, how do you like my socks?" I would think it the sexiest thing ever.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, if only I'd known that earlier. As I was coming back from the Stanley Ley, the Boris Johnson Lookylike Conslutant was standing outside the building smoking. I could have gone up to him and said "Morning, Boris (not really his name, but for purposes of ILX, you know who I mean), how do you like my socks?"

Except I don't think he would have thought it was sexy, probably he would have called security. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

We need more photos!

I would, but I may lose my camera (or myself) forever.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Be an intrepid explorer of the underdesk world for ~~our amusement~~ SCIENCE, TISSP!

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know WHY i think socks are sexy (are socks sexy? Or just THOSE socks? I dunno) - I guess it's socks = ankles = PHROAR!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. I definitely think that ankles are sexy. I had a crush on a boy's ankles for the whole of tenth grade.

However these socks... they are teh seX0r.

― ILX: Where you go when you're sick of being NICE to people? (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ankles are definitely sexy. Someone's choice of socks (and whether they match their shoes) is very important.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

FP, is there anything you *don't* think is sexy? ;-)

― ILX: Where you go when you're sick of being NICE to people? (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

― teh_kit!!1 has 0 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oi! Yes!

What sort of person do you think I am???

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

A pervert!

And I mean that in the best possible way! ;-)

― ILX: Where you go when you're sick of being NICE to people? (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

told you.

― teh_kit!!1 has 0 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Who needs friends when you have sauce!

― Onimownage (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Kit, you have a girlfriend. So you're not in a position to whinge.

Point taken, Kate ;-)

I was going to list the things I find sexy, but realised it would probably take too long.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

yah for realz. meet strangers and shoot them in the face! amazing. xpost

i wasn't whinging, FP. you not finding me sexy is nothing to whinge about kthx.

― teh_kit!!1 has 0 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I burned no papers but I sent them all away. Now I have a place to put my bagel.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm, bagel... I want a bagel. But you can't get bagels in this country. Only Beigels. Which are not the same.

― ILX: Where you go when you're sick of being NICE to people? (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Well, clearly - the spelling is different.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

The texture is different. And the taste. I don't think they're boiled first for crispiness. :-( They're just soft all the way through, not crispy on the outside like a proper bagel should be.

― ILX: Where you go when you're sick of being NICE to people? (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Bit late, but... I actually do like those croc shoes. Only for beach/garden wear and stuff, not a big night out on the town or anything. But I am clearly in the minority on this thread.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

WE WILL NOW SHUN YOU LIKE THE UGLY SHOE LOVER YOU HAVE REVEALED YOURSELF TO BE! ;-)

― ILX: Where you go when you're sick of being NICE to people? (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

uhhh xpost

Oh they *are* boiled, just not for long enough, or maybe the salt water is not salty enough. And the 'beigel' is squarish from being laid out in those pans as opposed to ringy like NY/US ones which go on RACKS.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

my ankles are probably my best feature, except they need exfoliated like, badly

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

What is exfoliation?

When my ankles get knobbly, I just slather on more body butter. mmmm, body butter. Wherever shall I get my body butter, now that Body Shop has been absorbed into the Axis of Cosmetics Evil?

― ILX: Where you go when you're sick of being NICE to people? (kate), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Boris! Tony Benn! Agreeing!

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, you lot.

I can't believe it's Friday already - this week has zoomed past.

The promised meeting yesterday never happened. It's still hanging over our heads in a Damoclean style.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

i just popped in to say that, regarding the ugly shoes upthread, i see tons of (crunchy) people wearing them here. and yes, they are ugly as sin

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Rubber shoes cannot be good for the feet, however ergonomically shaped.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

those ugly crocs shoes have recently caught on amongst the try-hard yuppie hippies in australia too. ridiculous feet-attire.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 24 March 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

Birkenstocks are of course unwearable by me but if you're going to go in for that sort of thing, that is the ergonomic hippy shoe you really want.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 24 March 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

one of my best friends here wears crocs and every single time i am so embarrassed for him

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

i have multiple pairs of birkenstocks. they rock! i'm not much of a hippy though, i just like comfortable shoes.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 24 March 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

i got some rubber shoes yesterday but only cos they were £3 in oxfam and i need something to put on my feet if i have to ride my bike somewhere and it's raining so my shoes and socks don't get soaked. they aren't like the ones upthread though.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 24 March 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I am going to go to the V&A and get some PAISLEY WELLINGTON BOOTS which are essentially rubber shoes, but this is for Festival Season and I need wellies to match my dresses.

I am wearing my PINK paisley socks today, and a pink Liberty shirt and now I feel a bit all dressed up and nowhere to go. Sigh.

What on earth were Boris and Tony Benn agreeing on? Bicycles?

Crikey, I'm here early. The train was a mash of commuters, it was a horrible.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all! I'm the world's most awake person; goodness knows how that happened. I made some brownies this morning, and all my team are on a massive sugar rush fom them. Or they were - you can tell they're on a come-down now.

Emsk, what time shall I come round tomorrow (bearing in mind steamed pudding takes 2hrs to do!)? And which bus do I catch from Victoria again?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, Johnney. I think you stole my awakeness. I could not sleep past about 7.30 but I am not alert or awake in any way.

Also, hurrah, Frances (ex Shims) and I have sorted out our birthdays, which are one day apart and so we have to coordinate quite carefully. She's going to have her party on the Saturday, and I'm going to have mine on the Sunday. What should I do? Kite flying and curry? I quite like the idea of flying kites and it is Streatham Kite Day.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Kite flying is always fun, although I haven't done it for the longest time. Aren't kites terribly expensive? I have in my mind they cost loads.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

I have in my mind that a cheap one costs about $5, but I have not bought one since I was about 10.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nope, I've checked both Boris' blog and Boriswatch and there is nothing on the Boris/Benn accord. :-(

What should I do tonight? I feel a bit... like DOING something. Or maybe I should just hold this thought until tomorrow when I do have lots to do.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

kate, do the kites!

johnny, i am going to a party tonight where i fear the god of all ruin (yay!) and staying in that bit of town overnight so lord knows when i'll make it back to hackney and civilisation. i'm hoping around lunchtime. we'll be spazzing around the pound shops all afternoon buying bits of green paper and horrible white wine and whatnot, text me when you get on the bus - which is the 38 - from victoria and i'll make sure i'm in.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

oh yes everyone else pls come to party.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

I am coming to the party!

I had forgotten that it had a JUNGLE THEME but that makes me glad that I reserved by GREEN PAISLEY SOCKS to wear tomorrow.

Streatham Kite Day is the 9th April, which is the day before my birthday. Should I be lazy and start a thread, or should I send a round robin email to annoy the crap out of J@n3 again? ;-)

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

I had no idea of the jungle theme. I'm getting good ideas off of team-mates tho.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

both, kate! bc not everyone you know is interweb mentalist.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 24 March 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Aaaah. I now have two screens. I'm having a real period of adjustment trying to get used to it.

I really don't like my new keyboard, though. After the laptop, it feels clunky... like typing on a manual keyboard. Plus no trackpad.

And MAN, was my desk filthy. I cannot believe the filth. Bits of orange stuck to the old 'puter... DIRTY!!!

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, the colours of things are so much brighter on my new monitors.

I wonder if I can actually set a desktop wallpaper, though...

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, things keep popping up on the wrong screen!

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

xxxxpost: They were agreeing on quite a few things, scarily enough, but both were aghast at the idea of state funding for political parties on Question Time last night (Boris looked as if he'd been attacked by a hair-dryer shortly before going on set - this man needs no combs!).

Last day! Hurrah!

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 24 March 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

like typing on a manual keyboard

Was your previous keyboard powered by telekinesis or something?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

D'oh! I mean, typing on a manual TYPEWRITER.

Carson, which one of them was more scared by their agreement? ;-)

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hello!
Boris looked like he'd carefully arranged every last wispy strand of hair last night. Dimbleby went on about how he (Boris) was talking too much, but Benn was the real culprit I thought. I like him, but he talks a lot of guff.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh leave the man's lovely hair alone. You know, he always gets COIFFED and BRUSHED and made to look immaculate in make-up, and then somewhere in the 20 minutes or whatever, between makeup and filming, the power of Boris just makes his hair go SPROING!!! and re-Borisify.

What else was Boris saying? I like being outraged by him.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. I'm loving the two screen thing so much. I haven't had to resort to scratchpad and scribble to look up case numbers at all!

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Woohoo!

I'm having a sleepy lunchtime, and can't think of anything to put on the blog.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Slow day today, eh?

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Slow brain today, certainly.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

The rest of the day certainly can't live up to the excitement that was getting my new monitors.

::yawns::

at least I've figured out my annoying subreport problem, which is good.

God DAMN, could they make the spacebar on this keyboard any harder to operate?

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Well, if they took out the keyswitch underneath it...

</smartarse>

My parents are going away on holiday tomorrow, hopefully! I can <deleted for your own peace of mind> without fear of them interrupting me!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 24 March 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

um, fed up of endlessly revising this diagram i'm doing on the offchance that the person i'm doing it for has forgotten about bog-standard client / server architectures. grrr. i have other things to do.

nice it by banksy in guardian today, especially the giraffes.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 24 March 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I thought the giraffes were cute!

On the other hand, the Petridish review of the new Morrissey album was ... disturbing. All that stuff about his testicles.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 24 March 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, ugh, I'm never doing that again...

I got a Be Good To Yourself reduced fat meal from Sainburys by mistake. It is also REDUCED TASTE. I am going back to making mine own lunches from scratch at the weekends.

I read the Banksy thing online, but the problem is they didn't have many pretty pictures. Surely they could have MORE pictures in the online versions of articles?

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Depends on what level of bandwith they're willing to pay for.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 24 March 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I got all excited because I thought I had an actual GAS BILL, but no, it was just another bit of faffery going "we're raising our prices, are you sure you still want to go with us?"

You're not British Gas. I'll go with you. Unless, of course, you turn out to be even MORE incompetent than them...

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit, why did I look at the Desert Island Discs site? Now I've got the Clash's version of Pressure Drop going through my head. Thanks, Boris. :-(

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, the pair of them (Boris and Benn) seemed fairly amiable through most of the programme. Funniest part, as ever, was when Boris had to be reminded of some of his party's policies by Dimbleby.

Want today to end. I've got a bad head that is just getting worse - I don't want to get sick before I fly!

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, I knew he wasn't a *real* Tory.

You know, I read that initially as "bald head" and I was going to tell you "now now, it's not so bad, Barry copes..."

I feel slightly ill, too. But in an unqualifiable way I can't quite define. I just feel dizzy and floaty and slightly too hot. :-(

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Open a window? Helpful as ever, sorry.

Just had lunch at the ICA – I like their cafe. There's virtually nobody in the office today. Maybe I'll be able to do some work. Or maybe I'll just swing around on my swivel chair and webmong.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I am going bald too, but I've accepted that ;). Funnily enough, those are my exact same symptoms too; I think crying off early isn't a good idea seeing as how it's my last day for a while, but I'll try to take things slower this afternoon...

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, Carson, maybe something is going around! I had a walk outside to get some fresh air but it hasn't helped. The Finn just went home.

If only we could open a window... they're all double, triple glazed shut. :-( So stuffy. Do you know, I've never actually eaten at the ICA? Only gone to gigs and drank there.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I've never been to the ICA at all, so you're up on me :-).

Blah. An apple for lunch today. I still have a jug of homemade vodka raspberry syrup to finish over the weekend, if I can face the risk of ice-cream headaches on top of how I feel right now.

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

sigh. i used to take the milk bottles downstairs and leave them outside in the evening. wasn't told to, just did it because it needed doing and nobody else seemed to be bothered. i stopped last week because i'm fed up of them leaving the milk out or starting a new bottle when the other one has some left (to avoid having to rinse it out). anyway, i stopped taking them down and nobody else has bothered. for nearly two weeks now. there are now 21 empty milk bottles in the office, 21. how do they walk past them every night and not see them?

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

When I was doing an event with the ICA I had to go there three days a week to plan and it was then that I discovered the ICA's dirty secret - the civil servants from the offices nearby ALL JOIN so they have the equivalent of a private drinking club in SW1 and also there used to be absolutely nowhere to eat within walking distance in that Whitehall area.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Woo, this month's payslip has just arrived.

The depressing part - as this is the final payslip of the year - is seeing just what the difference between my gross and net pay is. It makes me glad I'm not a freelancer.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

There were quite a few civil servants there. Not all at my table :/

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

An apple is not enough for lunch! No wonder you feel ill!

I have just lost my temper with people who kept asking me "why doesn't this report balance?" and finally told them WHY DON'T YOU DRILL DOWN AND COMPARE THE CASES, LIKE I WOULD?!?!??!

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had some photos online of me with long hair. Damn the technological infancy of the early 90s.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen photos of you with long hair! Or at least a mid 90s bowl cut.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

I had a fruit bar too :). But, off home now, and holidays! See you all in a few weeks!

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Have good holidays!

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

HAve a good weekend
carson have a good time

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 24 March 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hello.

I'm on a "woohoo, this nasty serious problem I can't solve isn't my problem any more!" high right now. A nasty serious problem I didn't know how to solve with one of our Cisco boxes has been potentially answered: the branch office it routed to is having a complete power failure that they didn't bother to report. In fact, all the staff there have apparently gone home again. To fix the power failure they need to get inside to reset the circuit breakers; but to get inside they first need to open the security shutters. Which won't open, because there's been a power failure...

So, anyway, "the router at the other end being switched off" is a rather good explanation as to why the router at *this* end can't connect. Hurrah!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh.

Stupid clocks going forward. Stupid car alarms going off at stupid times of the morning. Stupid two day hangovers.

Man, I didn't realise how badly I cut my hands up on Saturday night. I was just being all WEEEE!!! WE NEED FIRE, I MUST CHOP WOOD but today my fingers are covered in burst blisters and splinters and cuts and nicks.

Ah well, it certainly worked for impressing/scaring boys at the time.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

ha, yes, GMT went out with a bang on saturday night - fire alarm went off at 00:50 leading to 5 of us out on the landing trying to stop it. the glass was broken in one of the 'in case of emergency...' things and without it the alarm wouldn't stop (ended up tying the switch in the up position using wire). which prompts the question 'where do you buy fire alarm glass?'

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

garden was like pagan central! kate and the russian doing serious battle with the tree by firelight and the ch kx boys tussling with the giant silver phallus. eep! that knife is knackered now.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Errr... surely that's something your building's Elf and Safety would take care of? Contact the Management Agency or whoever takes care of that kind of thing.

I completely forgot about the timechange until I woke up after my second Sunday nap and it was a different time zone in the living room than in the bedroom.

My computer had automatically adjusted itself, but my mobile phone hadn't.

Oh, and I got asked in my bleary hungover state to fill out one of those "how are you finding this station/train service?" forms in London Bridge. I'm kind of scared to look at what I put, I think I was more than slightly annoyed at Thameslink.

x-post OH NO I'm so sorry that I knackered your knife. It knackers my hands. But the fire was GRATE, wasn't it? I think I scared some of the boys. But I think they liked it. Someone (can't remember which one) asked if he could touch my breasts. I burst out laughing. I| just thought "There is a giant woman in a ballgown and army jacket hacking up firewood with a kitchen knife and her bare hands, and you're going to Try It On? God, you've god balls." Heh.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

Urrgh. I want to divorce my entire family for the bunch of terrible drunkards they are (my gran's 80th birthday + mothers day = RUIN). My uncle's constant circulation with the fizzy wine resulted in my step-dad falling over and knocking himself out on the doorstep when we took him home, and me having to phone an ambulance. FUN.

Woo fire!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

"how are you finding this train service?"

"I walked down the platform and THERE IT WAS!"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Is it me, or is ILX slower than molasses on a cold day today? :-(

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

elf & safty um i think we disconnected it or took the batteries out of it or something

nah i think the knife was a crap one anyway. or at least, i never used it. do you remember the name of what you said was a "crazy irishman" who snogged you by the fire? it was the talk of the living room yesterday, trying to work out who that was. we think he must've been s&s's friend stuart?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

...I think I met someone called Stuart? I can't remember if it was the same one. It was one of those bizarre things. We were chopping wood, (possibly not something you should do in a low top) and he just said "I'm not being rude or anything, but you have fantastic breasts" and asked if he could touch them. I said "well, if you give us a snog!" so the deal was done. But then he was all "oh, actually, I'm kind of with someone" and I was like "eh, oh well."

I just admired his... gumption for saying that to a large scary woman with a big knife.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

ha, bizarre dialogue.

I finished building the mighty oakley midi-cv convertor module on Sunday, and it works!! Was up 'till 2 am playing various analogue synthesisers from a yamaha midi keyboard. very weird (& great of course) to have 5 octaves to play with. Now I'm tired & grumpy, though.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

I had gone home by that point.

Sorry about which, by the way. Usually when people get drunk around me I get a sympathetic drunkening, I'm more relaxed, chatty etc. But it seemed to work in reverse this time, I was fine at the start and then I got more and more tired and conversations became more effort (There was a lot of "what?" "what?" towards the end). But I'm glad I came, and glad I met Johnny (and very glad I met that pudding).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my god, that pudding. Wow, that was an amazing pudding.

Oh, and I still haven't listened to the William Blake/Alan Moore thing, but wow, the cover artwork is pretty intense. :-)

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Being... driven... slowly... insane... by... beeping... security... camera... fault. Bad... for... hangover.

Quite jealous of snogs and nice pudding, I baked biscuits for the family party yesterday and nobody ate them because they were all too busy necking wine :(

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

How can you be too busy necking wine to eat nice biscuits? Wine and food go together like... I don't know. Hands and gloves? (even though I don't own any gloves.)

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

that doleful hare is perched on the other side of the table watching me in an accusatory way.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think maybe people had filled up on cheese. Maybe I should have made cheese instead.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT DOLEFUL HARE?!?!?

It rings a bell, but my mind is a blank.

God, it's been a long time since I drank like that.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, cheese.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I've got paneery curry for lunch, so I can have cheese.

I can't believe that I managed to make a curry yesterday, but didn't do the laundry. I'm going to have to pull an "Anna" and nip out at lunch to buy new knickers and a new bra rather than do the laundry.

― Did I Mention My PAISLEY SOCKS? (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! Nobody can work out how to change the times on the phones here, so I keep getting confused

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

doleful hare = one of johnny's animals that got attached to him on his difficult walk through the jungle. i think this one wasn't on a bit of string so it spent most of the night in different people's pockets. it has long soft ears and the saddest look on its ickle face.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hi guys!

My word, what a weekend! The vines! The pudding! The russian dressed as a panther! Random bands!

Nice to meet you too, Andrew. But yeh, the pudding was immense. God only knows how good it would have been with custard.

Are you taking good care of the doleful hare, emsk? He has a way of looking accusatory. Oh, and you know you said that it would all be good to get back this morning if the tube was working? Well, it wasn't; signaling failures at Farrindon hindered my travels, and I got into work at 11.30 - doh! I'm making the time up this week tho, so not a problem. However, I'm the world's most tired person, so I've invested in a fruit salad, yoghurt and lots of coffee to get me through the day.

Kate, you were immense on Saturday - the intestity that you and the russian had in chopping the tree was a joy to behold.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

oh noo! in my defence it was me who said "if the tube is working" and someone else who said it wasn't likely not to be and was usually ok.

i am looking after the hare, yes. he looks as though he has wisdom to dispense and i wish he would damn well dispense some instead of LOOKING AT ME all donnie darko-like.

i am still noticing the time change difference thing, bah.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

> i am still noticing the time change difference thing, bah.

cbeebies on bbc2 was still on gmt this morning. the bbc, eh. it's rubbish. (news on saturday morning had another feature on turning off things rather than leaving them on standby. and in the background, behind the presenter, at least two monitors showing windows login screens and about 300 other monitors and about 3 people. i feel another letter to the guardian coming on...)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yay, my birthday party is confirmed now!

Sunday, 9th April at a super-secret location in London Fields. Shimura Curves will be playing. There will be aaahhhhrrrt, as it's at a studio/space, so it will be an aaaaahhhhrrrt paaahhhhrrrty, darling.

Email me for details if you want to go. (Unless of course you're on one of my emailing lists or CC:nightmare address books, in which case I'm sure you'll be bombarded with details over the next few days.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh ... if only I could make it down!

(is daytripping to London feasible?)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know... take Monday off! It's erm... almost Easter? Palm Sunday? Palm Monday?

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'd *have* to take Monday off, given that I'd be setting off back home at a horribly late time of night.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I always stay awake later on Sunday nights owing to the To Do list in my head but managed a decent night's sleep.

Kate's party sounds AWESOME.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I am trying to get AMPy to stop being such a lurker, and start a thread, but she refuses. :-(

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that was hillarious. However, I'm exhausted this morning. Working until 9 last night was a bad idea. I can't seem to focus properly today. And I still didn't solve the db issues.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, stress today.

Note on my desk from the boss this morning: I have to go straight out to one of the branch offices as soon as I arrive. When I get back, the place is in uproar because the MD is going round in a rage shouting at everyone he sees, because someone had taken the video projector even though he had already booked it. And, the worst part is, the bloke who took it is going to blame *me* - he asked me a couple of weeks ago if it was free today, and I never gave him a yes/no answer.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you have a resources database or something? That stops all fites over the projector/conference room/etc. dead in their tracks.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

We do have a resources database. Noone uses it, because noone can be arsed to work out *how* to use it.

The chap who took it thought that *I* was responsible for managing its booking list. This was news to me.

(it *does* sit in my office when it's free, but that's all)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Job interview tomorrow! (Talking of bookings - I'm just hoping I've left this job before next term starts and everyone realises that I've booked the teaching lab out to the same greedy tutor for three whole sessions a week. It won't matter if I point out that it's first come first served and I don't care about the tedious internal politics of it, I'll still get the flak.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the whole point of databases was that they could be accessed from anywhere? There's time to take a hard line approach of "if it's not in the database, I'm not responsible for it" - then offer lessons on how to use it. And if people refuse to use it/learn how, then they don't get access to the resources.

Anyway, sorry, I'm feeling a bit pissed off today. A long-term friendship has reached its breaking point over something in principle quite small, but symptomatic of a larger problem.

Good luck with the job interview, Archel. Thumbs crossed, hope it goes well.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, Kate, that doesn't sound good.

That's a very good attitude to take with respect to resource databases, but the problem is that I'm not in a position to take it. That's not something that I'm powerful enough to say to people.

In any case, we *do* have a system for booking things in and out. The problem is that the chap who wandered off with the projector thought that the system had changed to "ask FP", and furthermore thought that the lack of a negative response meant he was free to take it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

oh noes i forgot about lent and accidently went to the pub last night oh noes! oh well, i will just have to swap this coming sunday...

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, FP, that is *HIS* error, not yours. So just don't allow yourself to be blamed for it.

Oh no, Emsk! But you've been doing so well, I'm sure you're allowed a little sin.

I have to do some work not. Even though I feel blasted.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

gah i has work to do too.

yeah, i just totally FORGOT! it was annoying bc if i'd remembered it would have been fine, but i just realised when i was nearly at the end of pint 2. rubbeesh!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

If you were being that forgetful, you must have needed it.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

So just don't allow yourself to be blamed for it.

I'm going to try hard not to. The MD was particularly angry because *he'd* managed to book it out using the Resources Database.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

no! i was just hanging out in the living room, perfectly happy, and e&k dropped by to invite us to the pub and i just thought "pub... yes... yellow" and that was it. but i just found out about something else which is more important, really. ARGH.

GAH bloody hell fp, lock yourself away and pretend you can't hear a word they're saying.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

Morning!

So, we may have found a HOUSE.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

ooh!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Argh. I was trying to do the anger management thing and wait before replying to/escalating an angry email exchange, but it just seems to have made things worse.

:-(

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear. What was the email exchange about?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

The other person has got annoyed because you didn't reply straight away? But that's stupid - what if you were away from the computer for some reason?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

No, it was a fairly stupid email exchange, which was taken out of tone. This person and I always use a slightly bitchy jokey tone with one another.

So when she told me she wasn't going to my birthday party because she was going to someone else's, I wrote back and told her, half jokingly* in the usual bitchy tone that we always use, that I hadn't been invited to this other party so she, and the other birthday person "could go eat a bag of dicks".

(*n.b. only half jokingly because, to be honest, I've been getting slightly annoyed with the way that this person and I have been seeing each other less and less socially, and it's beginning to go from "aw, too bad we keep missing each other" to "actually, I'm kind of hurt, I feel like I'm being snubbed")

So I was taking some time to calm down before I responded, to say I apologise for the bitchy tone, however, there were some real issues that I *was* upset about and we *did* need to talk about.

And in the meantime she's forwarded this email exchange to several other people. ?!??!?!?!?!? When I just really don't want to get into it, let alone get into it very publicly.

Anyway, I'm glad you've found a house, TISSP.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

It doesn't sounds like you have much to worry about FP, the other guy used the wrong procedure and assumed the wrong answer = he's screwed, not you.

The little babby Jesus is crying tears now, emsk. Tears of pure booze. I hope you're happy.

tispp: Hooray!

Kate: Mail her and just say "WTF?". Let her explain her actions as the extraordinary ones.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

Gah, this is really shit. And work is really busy, I should just go and bury myself in some work.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

Or cake.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone else have any suggestions about what I should do about this?

I'm really kind of perplexed. I wrote back to both her, and the third party who also had a go at me on account of the forwarded email, and told them that I was not responding (as per anger management) until I had calmed down, and suggested that they both do the same.

...but there are other issues/cracks in this relationship, and I don't know if I have the energy right now to deal with them.

-Should I apologise and leave it at that?

-Apologise and explain, and ask if we can talk like grownups (neither of us being snide or bitchy) about what's going on?

-Just leave it until I feel like I have the energy to deal with this. (Which could be some time.)

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Apologising: clears the air, but will leave you feeling like you have just given in.

Apologise/Explain: will allow you to explain your side, but may start new arguments based on your explaination.

Leave it: could be construed badly, may backfire.

I would apologise/explain, and cross your fingers.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Apologising for small things can actually make it easier to start fixing the real stuff, I think. I would leave it a little while before doing anything though. Then when you're in a good mood send a brief 'sorry' email and try to arrange meeting up. Any real talking that needs to be done should be done face to face, don't even allude to it on email.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all. I had yesterday afternoon off (cos I was sooo tired!) and I've come into work this mornign with a headache and unable to concentrate. Apparently this is first symptoms of the current nasty bug that's going around, so poorly me v. soon. I'm guzzling OJ and yoghurt in a bid to heed off the germs. My brie and mango chutney sandwich goes uneaten - wah!

I don't have time to be poorly. At work I've got databases falling to pieces around me, and I've got a not-at-work phonecall to make that's stressing me out- apologising, ironically! I just need to sort it out.

I think I'm going delerious. I might go home early. I will if my headache gets worse.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Aw. Not having time to be poorly = sure way to make sure you get poorly :( Go home and recuperate properly you.

I think I might be the only Watercoolerer who doesn't know one end of database from another...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't do anything with databases (though it's not true to say I don't know one end from the other).

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, poor JB. Go home, or it will only make things worse. I think that's part of why I can't cope today is because I don't feel very well - when you're well, you can cope better with things falling to pieces.

Thanks for the advice, Andrew, TISSP, Archel. I'm going to have to think carefully before I do anything.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might be the only Watercoolerer who doesn't know one end of database from another...

Front end = the bit you can see
Back end = the rest.

There!

(Or something.)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Backend = the bit that does the work.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Database = pantomime horse?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Close... except the arse-kissing should go the other way! ;-)

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Imagine a pantomime horse, walking backwards.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

...off a cliff.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hehe.

Oh fucksake I have not been set up with ANY of the actual expenditure codes that I need on this new system, so STILL can't order anything. Will I ever get my double-sided sticky tape? Tune in next time for another exciting installment of 'Procurement: the Nightmare Continues'.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

At least I resolved my db issue.

I'd been trying and trying to do this recc on the data, and it just was not balancing. I excluded one problem after another, got it down from £650k problem to £60k problem to £2k problem that just wouldn't fall out no matter what.

But it turns out that it's one of those things which is such a fundamental law of physics assumption about the way our business works that I know I've brought it up with the programmer before. If a case is Not Proceeding, then you cannot have any open Policies attached to it.

I have excluded every other bloody thing to the point where I am ready to cry. And I just think... "what if we *could* violate the laws of physics?" (i.e. do this thing that shouldn't be able to be done) and ran a report to find cases like that - and sure enough they were there. AARRRGGGHHHHHH!!!

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

archel you aren't the only one! it go straight over my head.

johnny go home! you aren't doing anyone any favours hanging around the office feeling worse and giving everyone the same bug...

kate i agree with what the others said.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

dumb questin. what is a pantomime horse? I've wanted to know since 1994 when I started listening to Suede records.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Two people in a horse costume:

http://www.dantrujillo.com/blog/pantomime_horse.jpg

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

The back end gets a bit of the raw end of the stick, as you can see. ;-)

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Well that was easy enough! ALL THAT WONDERING FOR NOTHING.

In the US we call that "two people in a horse costume"
;) ;) ;)

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

pantomime is a very English thing nobody else in the world understands it. apart from australian soap stars. (oh no they don't. oh yes they do. etc.)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

(You could actually have found this out quite easily by Googling, but hey, I had to post that picture because it amused me.)

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

well, i hadnt remembered that i was curious about it until it was mentioned above

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

The best pantomime horse was, of course, Dobbin on Rentaghost.

I am now trying to imagine what a kinky pantomime horse would look like - in a lots-of-leather-straps bondage way, you realise, not a furry way. Is that wrong of me?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

yes.

― teh_kit!!1 has 2 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

...and there went my sodding lunch hour, because I was sitting at my desk, trying to write an email, someone came over and started asking me all these questions about the above problem that I can't even BEGIN to resolve... but now my lunch hour is gone, but do I get it back? No.

Oh, sod sodding everything today. :-(

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Just take a lunch hour anyway!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Since you spent yours working, you deserve a non working one

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

When I finish this email, I'm going for a walk. Honest.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

DO IT

DO NOT WIMP OUT

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Could y'also get me a sandwich? I've not eaten yet today.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

i only get half hour for lunch btw

― teh_kit!!1 has 2 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if I technically get a lunch at all. :-(

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

technical or not, it's still only half an hour.

― teh_kit!!1 has 2 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

You'll technically get a lunch break (it's the law) but whether you ACTUALLY get one is a different matter - it might be frowned upon where you live, I dunno.

And I'm still here cos I need to organise this Supplier Agreed Reads project, but I'll go home at 4. I might make some more treacle pudding. Or I might just go to sleep and never wake for ever. Ug.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

At my old job, my lunch break was cut from 1hr to half an hour because "that's what big corporations have for their lunch breaks"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

OH NOES ALL MY COMMUNICATIONS HAVE GONE DOWN! SKYNET IS OPERATIONAL!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

yet you post on internets.

― teh_kit!!1 has 2 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe there's just a power cut somewhere down the line

(as happened to me yesterday)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I transcend the internets.

(I think the proxy server I am using went down. Things are back up now but cut off my conversation with Mandee BOO HOO)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that was the most freakish weather ever. I went outside, it was bright and sunny AND pelting down with rain.

Couldn't find either of the CDs I wanted, so I wasted way too much money on the East mid season sale. Purple silk skirt, AMAZING purple/fuschia embroidered frock coat type thing and fuchsia shirt with dangly bits on it.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, that sounds way more exciting than CDs!

I wonder if I can get something smart to wear to my interview for £15 (amount I just got paid for a proofreading job, and also the only money I have until pay day). Primark it is then.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

...oh, and further WTF to tantrum throwing third party and his whole "DON'T EVER WRITE ME AGAIN" and blocking me from his inbox after I asked him to calm down.

This whole thing is just becoming a mess. I know that he's a diva and lots of people have had problems with him. He's supposed to be playing in one of the bands at the next gig. I feel like pulling out of the gig now. :-(

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, x-post! Hrmmm, yeah, Primark or Peacocks. Have had great luck with Peacocks.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, there's a Peacocks just down the road from me! Really I should be sorting out my list of ILL requests tomorrow morning so I can actually finish my dissertation this decade, not shopping, but...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Shopping calmed me down until I got back here and found the Third Party Horror in my inbox. Myabe I should just look at the pretty purple paisley.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Why is third party involved anyway?

Gah, email is rubbish for Real Stuff.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Because the original person, helpfully, forwarded my entire email - out of context - to him. Sigh.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Purple paisley, purple paisley, go shopping, Arch, it will put you in a better mood for the interview.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

What am I doing still here? I'm going to be exhausted again tomorrow if I stay here all night again. Which means tomorrow will be a loss, too. But the reason I stay here all night is it's the only time that anyone ever SHUTS UP and I can get some quiet to concentrate on my work.

I have got myself in a horrible cycle here. :-(

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh no :( kate GO HOME! (i haf just sent you an email)

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, chick.

I will, soon. I just have to sort out one more thing... actually, and then send the email because I won't be able to tomorrow. But I'm eating punkin seeds which are cheering me up with their numiness.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Morning.

I am wearing new shirt and jacket today and trying to steady myself with their groovy pink paisleyness.

I really have to buckle down and get some work done today. Not get distracted because I have to leave at a decent time tonight to go and see Luxembourgh. (says she, reviving the ~~Timewaster~~ Watercooler.)

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

morning! ooh my new phone is here.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

People being assholes via email is always supremely irritating.

In the abscense of any further information, I'd killfile the third party, as I'm assuming the whole thing is none of their damn business anyway.

I'd still play the gig, and ignore them.

They have to live with that every day, you don't.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Mornign everyone. I went home and slept straight away, and I think this has beaten off the dodginess I was feeling. Back to my usual bouncy self. Yay me!

I'm off to see King Lear tonight - double yay me! I don't know this one at all - is it gonna confuse me? Is it worth me knowing the plot before I go in?

Yay to new phone - what special things does it do?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

yay to king lear!

i don't know what my phone does, i haven't opened it yet. i will do it now. it is the sony ericsson z250i.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

ew they have sent me a minging pink cover for it!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yay for JB being well again! King Lear is groovy, I hope you enjoy it.

I have finally brought myself to read the email that was sitting in my inbox like a bomb, and it turns out that it's quite calm and straightforward, and I think we've both explained ourselves and can see where each other are coming from. So I think it's going to be OK.

A couple of people have told me that Thirdparty is just not worth it, and I'm just going to ignore him.

So.

What does your new phone do, Emsk? Is it gold and paisley? It is a crackberry? Does it perform?

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://img.clubic.com/photo/00143413.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.achetezfacile.com/sony-ericsson-z520i-comparer-les-prix-114818.html&h=300&w=300&sz=16&tbnid=4qOy_ZVDBSbDOM:&tbnh=111&tbnw=111&hl=en&start=6&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsony%2Bericsson%2Bz520i%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN

Nice!

According to one online review "the phone is smart and makes the owner smart too."

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Sony_Ericsson_Z520i__Review_5562305

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.clubic.com/photo/00143413.jpg

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's a flippy phone. I'm kind of scared of flippy phones, but kind of like them in a Star Trek kind of way, too. :-)

Right, I really AM going to go and do some work now...

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

I reckon they think "Emsk is a girl = likes pink."

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

i bloody think they thought that too! i'm sure they they said it was going to be silver!

never had a flippy phone. will have to make an effort to start having arguments with people on the phone while walking down street. except they sent me a bluetooth headset with it! argh! i haven't opened that box yet.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

I like flippy phones myself.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Walking down the street with a bluetooth headset on

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

is that the first line of your new song?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot stop reading Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog.

The problem is, being that itte ith en Myddle Inglishe, onne muft reade id owte lowde inn ordreth to vnnterstannde yt. Hwych getteth mie sum cureyous lookes, butte Oh! Thee funnyes!

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

I did write a big diatribe about how people with bluetooth headsets on look a lot rubbisher than people arguing with mobiles, but the ILE pixie must have eaten the rest of it. Shame that, it was good work.

tee hee for the reading aloud olde englishe!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

My favourite post is his ackronnymes:

GP: gentil person
WC: woole customes
XC: Exchequer
BATJG: biggere arsehole thanne john gowere
BSL!: by seinte loy!
OTPBRB: Offe to parliamente, be ryghte back
SNAPFU - BYXCA: supposedely nyce annuitie paymente fuckede uppe by the XC againe
KRBMA: Kynge Richarde II buggynge me againe
AOMSHJDOTBD: anothere of myne servauntes hath just dyede of the blacke death
EISBYMIWATCHDNSTHD: eftsoon I shall be ycleped mad if worke atte the customes house doth not settle the helle downe

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

I bet Chaucer would have been a dead good blogger, actually.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

I am always confused by the people with the headsets. I always think that they are random nutters arguing with their socks, and try to avoid them.

x-x-post

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Interests

* pilgrimage
* astrology
* allegory
* lyric poetry
* the potential of the vernacular
* drinking
* hanging in southwark
* penance
* bastard feudalism
* surviving political upheaval
* my yearly tun of wine

Ha, very funny.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, my friend has just found CTHULHONIC PLUSH SLIPPERS!!!

You put your foot through His tentacles into His mouth! I'd be scared!

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

(mark s must have these...)

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to tell my mum to get these for my birthday instead of African Sleep Shippers:

http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/CthuluSlippers2.jpg

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

I am going for a walk. I am *not* taking my wallet this time.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Bet you she buys something on credit.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

I could not. I don't have a credit card. And any debit cards were in my wallet. I bought nothing, though I was sorely tempted by the same string of freshwater pearls...

I want to go to the Seven Stars pub some time. Perhaps tomorrow? Anyone fancy a pint? Oh wait, it's still Lent. Well, after Lent, perhaps?

Also, they are filming a video/film/art or something outside my building. There are a group of people standing around with cameras, filming a woman watering some dead flowers with a watering can. Very odd. I don't understand; it must be art.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

I saw people filming a music video in an Oxford pub the other day. I assume it was a music video - they looked like an indie band, and they were walking in slow motion.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Walking in slow motion?

I thought slow motion was done through camera trickery!

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe they were going to copy the Orbital thing where they then speed up the indie band to appear to be walking at normal speed while the rest of the pub is super fast.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

There was meant to be a link to here, there.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

? link vanished!

http://www.loopz.co.uk/video9.html

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if this new computer can watch videos without freaking out like the old laptop did.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

DAEREST COLLEGUES PLZ STOP COMMITTING SHIT THAT BREAKS THE RESPOSITORY KTHNXBYE

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

(Afternoon, all)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Are you being a version-control admin today, TISSP?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon!

I'm bored now. I've done so much work and now I want to fuck about. So bored I'm answering MySpace quizes. Good god.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I am a version control admin, but it's more that whenever I update my code, somebody's broken it and I can't continue development.

Though I spoke prematurely, turns out that it was me that had created a special test-case that broke someone else's code, but because they didn't test with my test cases, they didn't realise.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

It's all about the stackmaps, baby.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

What system do you use?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

SVN

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Do any of you people know owt about the guten-free diet, out of curiosity?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

gluten-free, even.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

What sort of thing do you want to know?

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

CHANCE OF DEATH < ATKINS

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Errr... this was one of the things that the Nutritionists Office that I worked for used to talk about. I know quite a few people who are gluten free diets for intolerance reasons. However, it's worth getting tested, because apparently lots of people who avoid gluten because they are intolerant to bread aren't actually intolerant to the bread/gluten itself, but to the particular yeast.

And there endeth my knowledge of gluten free diets.

Oh, apart from my boss is on one, too. It doesn't seem much fun.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I was on one for about a year once. I really really missed bread.

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

There was a thread about a year ago here. It was very helpful at the time . (but in the end, not needed)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

the gluten (wheat ) free diet

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Thx. I'll have a read of that thread.

It's not for me, it's for the little feller. He has various bowel problems related to his ASD, and several medical professionals have suggested - off the record! - that a gluten-free diet would be beneficial for this.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

On the plus side it is possible to buy really very good gluten-free breakfast cereals and biscuits.

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

When they come up with Gluten Free pizza, I'll consider it. ;-)

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

But can you get gluten-free fry-ups?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

The only thing is a fry-up that has gluten is the sausages! (Unless you have fried bread with them.)

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I remember an all-you-can eat Chinese restaurant at university where the food would be drenched in gluten in an attempt to slow you down on your quest to put them out of business.

I always liked to imagine that the owner was some martial arts expert with long, thin, white hair and a matching moustache who would sit on some kind of throne surveying the restaurant, and our mission would be to defeat his ninja skills through eating the horrifically glutenous food.

Mind you, I was drunk a lot at university. Glory days, glory days.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

The only thing is a fry-up that has gluten is the sausages! (Unless you have fried bread with them.)

As if I wouldn't.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

You're making me hungry now. Where oh where am I going to eat before this gig? Thing is, I really want pizza. But there is no good pizza place between here and there.

However, I could go to Speedy Noodle in Brixton... mmmm, noodles. Glutenous noodles.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'd love some noodles RIGHT NOW.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Alas, I have got only peppermint tea, mange tout and punkinseeds. :-(

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

I only have a selection of chocolate biscuits and coffee.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

I am drinking lemon and ginger tea which I've never had before. It tastes exactly like sherbert lemon boiled sweets.

Am not complaining bout it....

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

You people make me sick with your non coffee beverages.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I made me sick with my coffee based beverages, which is why I can't have it any more. :-(

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Well the other option was decaff instant coffee, or 'punishment brew' as I like to call it

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Haha

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

The last of my mange touts had actually turned to peas within the pod! I could have planted them and got more mange touts. Well, at the end of the summer or something.

But instead, I ate them. Num.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

It looks like the apocolypse outside.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hullo hullo hullo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, Ned.

What is so apocalyptic about outside?

Has bloody Cthulhu been at it again?

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, Ned.

I think it's more likely ou backup generator, which came on earlier, spewed out its gases, then the sky became very, very dark.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

It is a sign of my mighty wrath as I plan to conquer the UK.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

RISE OF THE NEDS

(I'm sure I've cried wolf about this before)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but will you issue us with cuddly plush slippers in the form of your visage?

I'm not bowing to any overlord that doesn't.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I will take this under consideration.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

sky is low

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Take regular measurements. We need to agree on a rate of descent enough to proclaim that it is indeed falling.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, we can triangulate with Cambridge, London and Oxford and extrapolate out the precise transit at which the sky is falling!

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

(I need to stop reading the eclipse book.)

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

didn't the sky fall earlier today? there was something on Breakfast about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4856874.stm

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, argh, is today the 29th?!??! Damn, the date has been staring me in teh face everywhere, and I *KNEW* there was going to be an eclipse but I forgot to go and look at it.

Bah. It'll be another 80 years* or something till the next one.

*I know this is a slight exaggeration but I can't be bothered to go and look up in my eclipse book what the actual interval is.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.eclipse.org.uk/old/eclipse_map.gif

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, that is so cool! I saw photos in the papers, so I'm happier.

The Organ were in the Metro today. That was a bit of an eye opener. Yay, Emsk.

How is everyone today?

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

I bought a lovely shirt - from Whistles! (via the British Heart Foundation shop).

However, I didn't get the job. It was a good interview and they were complimentary (strange to be interviewed by my old English teacher though!), but going strictly by the person specification someone else ticked more boxes...

In any case, i would have faced a dilemma if they'd offered it to me, as the salary was REALLY low, pretty much impossible for me to live on. So I would have either had to negotiate or turn it down anyway :(

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Aaaaah, well, Archel - at least you know. It sounds like it was a good experience, though, and you can take that to interview for other, better (more highly paid!) jobs. and hurrah for Charity Shop scores!

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! I am good today! I went out for noodles after all, which was very nice.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

morniiiiing

it is getting harder to wake up

but today is gorgeous, i want to go outside and Do Something but i has work to do.

bah archel :( but yeah, it's all experience, and you don't have to deal with any whatifs.

it wasn't me what done the organ :( they got nicked innit. wait, they were in today? i thought they were playing next week! or tomorrow!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Morning.

I feel like shit today. I can't stop sneezing. Wish I could go back to bed.

Oh, and I've just written a nifty little program for spamming people. That's the second time in my life I've had to do that for work - I must remember to keep a copy this time for when I have to do it at my next job.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

It is getting harder to wake up. I'm not sure if it's the sun or the changing clocks. Sigh.

Oh, actually you told me the Organ got nicked, but I forgot, because I am stupid and forgetful. It was either today's or yesterday's. I should have picked it up and kept it because it also had a very funny radio play with is TAPING ON MY BIRTHDAY which I want to go and see. But it belonged to the train, so it stayed with the train.

I have forogtten my phone today. I am a ninny. I had Speedy Noodles last night, though! Ho Fun! Next to a table of indie boys who could only have been going to the Windmill, and then half anhourlater, there they were. Stupid sticky spacebar. I haven't spilled enough coffee down it to get it working properly.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I have written an exciting tool that gives estimates of how much our hardware can speed up a Java program.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

My life may never become this exciting again. Oh no.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, exciting!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone fancy going to see the taping of Revolting People for Radio 4 on Monday 10th April? I've just written and asked if there are any tickets left. It is, apparently free.

It's a humourous radio play based on the American War of Independence/Revolutionary War. They want Brits to laugh at the Americans and Americans to act smug and gloat. I could do either. I wonder if there will be a harbour provided in which to dump tea.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

lots of loverly gif animations of the eclipse here:
http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0212006/
(there's an animation for london in the long list, it's just like being there. but quieter.)

there was another site with maps like that first one for each decade from now until doomsday (2200) but i can't find it anymore.
oh, here: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEpath/SEpath.html
(at the bottom)

they remind me of these: http://www.jameshymanfineart.com/pages/modbrit/single/1175/1.html

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

I only see one animation! But it's a really good one, I love the globby floating shadow as it nears the North Pole.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, there they are - the page didn't load completely.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

i am blaming the clocks. and making another vat of coffee.

i noticed yesterday that this is the first time i am not treating my new phone as a toy. usually i'm all "ooohhhh what does it DO, what does THAT mean, how does it SOUND, what happens if i press THIS?" but this time it was just "oh. it's pink. damn, those ringtones are annoying. wtf the intuition goes backwards. oh well." i didn't even open the bluetooth thing til this morning. have i just finally got used to the concept of mobile phones (unlikely since i first got one in 1998) or am i just Tired Of Life?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, that's London, not phones, Emsk!

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

well. i am not tired of london, even if i am still dreaming of new zealand.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you have Technology Burnout.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

that middle english stuff reminded me of this:

http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/slypics/medievalcs.jpg

ACCURACY BOTTE!

― teh_kit!!1 has 3 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

oh, oh, it just rang for the first time! it is RIDICULOUS! it has blue lights flashing round it like boys put on souped up novas with huge bass bins. it is like a sort of electric woodland animal - "give me attention! look at me! hellooo-oo!"

and on the radio there was just a big thing about this http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/press/ShowPressRelease.asp?Show=383

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Errr... is that the Bayeaux Tapestry in AIM form? Ich yam becsared.

Emsk, do you want to go and tape a RADIO 4 PROGRAMME?!?!?

I have read something about that exhibit recently. Might have been in the Guardian? Or maybe ye Metroe.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

be silent novice!
it's medieval Counterstrike, innit.

― teh_kit!!1 has 3 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 30 March 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

i wouldn't mind the radio 4 stuff. april 10th? it was ringing a bell f'some reason, i need to check what kind.

i can't come out this weekend as i will be breaking rocks by day and performing pagan rituals by night in the icen forests of buckinghamshire.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 30 March 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

MY BIRTHDAY IS APRIL 10TH!!! I hope that's what's ringing a bell.

Damn hippies.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeh, that could be it, but i sense it is something else... OH! no! i know! i can't! it's my friend gil. he's here for ONE NIGHT ONLY, all the way frooooooom ISRAEL! huzzah! it's been a year or so since i saw him. i can't wait :)

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 30 March 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

There was something about that exhibit in the Guardian the other day - I read it too

(or possibly it was the Observer)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

i have a friend from Israel, we stood in the same room once, but neither of us knew at the time. madness.

― teh_kit!!1 has 3 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 30 March 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

I am feeling stressed now. I just wanna eat pizza. Why does no one wanna eat a pizza with me tonight? Bah.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I am annoyed/jealous because all my friends (OK, three people) have new crushes and I just can't get crushed about anyone any more.

I have suddenly realised that I am totally pre menstral and that is why I'm feeling all "waaaaahhhhhh" today so I apologise in advance for any Emo that may result. And that explains my blog entry, too. :-/

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

lol@emo

― teh_kit!!1 has 3 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

i want a new crush, too!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Why isn't there a crush shop? You type in your specifications, and they come up with a totally crushable boy for you to crush on.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

victorians are on tonight @ catch 22 - on early 9.15 - free gig...

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'd rather have someone to cuddle and do kinky things with than yet another crush.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

One of the Victorians looks like Boris Johnson, doesn't he? That would be good.

But I went to a gig last night and OHMIGOD, THE SMOKE, THE SODDING SMOKE I could not breathe. I'm not sure I enjoy gigs any more.

I just want a pizza.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

And DAMN do I want some coffee right now, too. :-(

Coffee and pizza, and a boy who looks like Boris Johnson performing live, in my living room with NO ONE SMOKING. That would be just great.

― Wild Woman With Steak Knives (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

i'm still crushing on teh same girl.

i saw Sigur Ros last night. it was no smoking but people still smoked. right on! fight teh power. (i don't smoke, but srsly, fight it)

― teh_kit!!1 has 3 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

You can all have me. I'm an all things to all people girl.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

I just can't get crushed about anyone any more.
lower your standards?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

How much lower can you get than Boris Johnson?

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pleas (kat, Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i'm kind of getting a crush on tissp even though he's SO DAMN MYSTERIOUS!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

TISSP! isn't mysterious! How someone be mysterious once they've been in your living room?

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pleas (kat, Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

You think that was the real me?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 30 March 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Well, not all of us are lucky enough to have had TISSP! in our living rooms (oo-err)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. Boris will be back on HIGNFY on the 5th May. Can someone please tape or torrent for me?

http://www.boris-johnson.com/archives/CHANT2.jpg

Swoon... his nose gets more lizardine by the day.

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

he doesn't look like boris, he's just got blond hair with a bit of a fringe. he's much sharper than boris.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

This is really not the way to get me to come to the gig, Emsk!

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to link this because it is big, and also it contains a kinky boots/fishnets image which may be deleterious to FP's attention span:

http://www.thevictorianenglishgentlemensclub.co.uk/images/jer_vegc1.jpg

Decidedly Borisesque.

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oi! Am I getting some sort of reputation around here?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Are you telling me you didn't click on the link, and think the boots were kinky?

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Frankly it's a bit deleteterious to mine, too. ROWR

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't looked yet :-P

*click*

OK, you have a point. Mmmmmm. All three of them are rather cute, but... well, you have a point about the boots ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

...and does he or does he not look like a young, skinny Boris Johnson?

The last time I saw him, he had a beard, which was deleterious to his Katecrushability, but still. I may give him another chance.

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

i have a myspace.

― teh_kit!!1 has 3 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Well, let us know where it is and I'll friend you!

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

then i'd have to change my name again

― teh_kit!!1 has 3 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Changing your name is not hard. I do it three times before breakfast!

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

k but i'll email it to you cos like i don't want every noob on the interwebs wanting to be my friend k?

― teh_kit!!1 has 3 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

OK, it will be our secret.

(Until I auction it on eBay like a Blue Petah Badge!)

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Woo, I have just come back from a conference call to the AMERICAS. I am so executive.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

That picture above *is* putting me off my work - I keep going back to ogle.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

You cannot say you were not warned.

I am glad I do not have to take conference calls any more. It has got too hard to control my inarticulate growling whenever I must speak to fules.

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm back at home I'm trying to decide whether I should download that picture for my wallpapers folder - or whether that would Just Be Wrong Of Me.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

What would be so wrong with that? I have Hott Persons for my wallpaper all the time! Right now I've got Alexander the James on my laptop. Yum!

So long as it doesn't get too distracting that you can't do any work.

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I didn't mean my *work* computer.

(that has a selection of photos of the working party I joined on the Ffestiniog Railway a few weeks ago. The home computer has all sorts of things.)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

I meant "work" quite loosely there, as in "stuff you do on your computer" - that could be writing songs, or answering email, or writing, or whatever.

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Writing the blog!

(well, in theory - I do *try* to do it every day)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 March 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

This morning, I'm hungry and I'm out of biscuits. Bah.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 31 March 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

Cor blimey.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/the_argus/news/NEWS0.html

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 31 March 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

> Visitors who pay about £8 a head will be able to see Sussex

colour me underwhelmed 8)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 31 March 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

nooooo! i don't like it. yeeeeah! you'll be able to see way out over the sea! wait... one pod every 20-30 minutes? um you live there archel, what d'you think?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

There was an article in the Guardian on Tues about the doughnut on stick design, but where they were planning to build it was still a secret. I will be surprised if the plans even get off the ground (hoho!) tbh.

Sussex viewed from high up IS pretty cool, though.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

I sort of like it but it doesn't exactly blend in, does it? Also, I think it would better if there was a fast up and down option for people who want more of a funfair stomach-lurching experience. (Ditto the original London Eye actually.)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, *something* should be done with the West Pier, but for gods sake, not *that*...

I am out of uniform today. I am wearing jeans. As is the Head of IT. I think we have a secret jeans-wearing MI/IT cabal.

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Urgent favour request: is there anyone who uses Outlook for email? Can they get in touch, so I can send them a test message?

(I'm having trouble with something, and I think it's a Lotus Notes bug, but I want to make sure that Outlook doesn't have the same problem)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Well I think this tower thing is just the first wave of the regeneration project, to make money for the full 'sea island' thing later.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

::shudders::

But then again, I suppose people probably thought the same thing about the Blackpool lights, etc. in the last century...

I didn't make it to the show last night. I went home and made Special Soup (nummmm!) and watched an episode of To The Ends Of The Earth. Aaaah, Captain Andersonny hottness. I had forgotten just how hotttttt he was.

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all.

I am out of uniform as well. I thought I'd break with tradition and wear some brown. This week has been harrowing - I'm kinda glad it's nearly finished.

I'm all for more fun things in Brighton. That doughnut thing looks cool. Sea from the sky is brilliant.

I use Outlook FP - that's my real email, obviously changed where necessary.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Morning Kidz.

I am in no state of uniformity, but then again I am never in said state.

I have been prevented from doing work by a disk quota system! Huzzah!

(However, it is probably my fault)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, now the picture is showing, which it wasn't before.

It looks like a giant hypodermic needle! I thought Brighton was trying to shed its "haven for junkies" image!

And won't the giant glowing bit at the top spoil the view with its light pollution?

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Ta JB - I've sent you one of my Innocuous Test Messages

(with the important sensitive information replaced by a PDF printout of the New Answers page)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

(and thanks to those who responded privately, too)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 31 March 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

GodDAMMIT, MySpace keeps not letting me approve new friends. Bah.

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

ERROR 23534: YOU HAVE TOO MANY FRIENDS

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Or not enough.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

(-ENO_FRIENDS)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Or Brian Eno is your friend.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Brian Eno is not my friend, but he is in my friend network!

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

(-ENO_FRIENDS)

I imagine only FP will get this. Maybe koogsy.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Shimura Curves are in my extended network, and that's good enough for me.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you were in our friends, dammit? Friend us already, boy!

(OK, I won't be able to approve you with this morning's glitch, but still.)

― Coffee, Pizza and Boris Johnson Playing In My Smoke Free Living Room, Pls (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

I HAVE NO MYSPACE. I am boycotting it!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

yes, errno.h spoken here.

have spent the week trying to write something that'll extract data from .m4a (aac audio with an mpeg 4 wrapper) files. don't have the official standard document for it (220 swiss francs) so i've been trying to reverse engineer the details from other people's code. so far i've read c, c++, perl and php implementations (have avoided the c# version so far). this morning i found a useful page... in japanese. (unfortunately all this other code seems to be out of date so...).

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Doh.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

(that has a selection of photos of the working party I joined on the Ffestiniog Railway a few weeks ago.

Was the team called "the corps de Blaenau"?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'm boycotting myspace too... FROM WITHIN

― teh_kit!!1 has 5 friends (g-kit), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Well, technically it is not my MySpace, but my band's, but still...

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

I have a myspace account (I was forced to make one while once) but I fail to see the point of it for normal people. It seems very showy-offy. This is good when you're trying to show off, artists and bands and fund-rising etc, but for us underlings it seems a little pointless. Well, I don't see any worth in it for me, in any case.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

MyMyMySpace

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

I like getting the bulletins from bands and people that I know. It tells me where the cool kids go to parties and gigs! (Not that I go, but it's still nice to know.)

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

How much control can you get over the HTML on myspace?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

I imagine only FP will get this. Maybe koogsy.

Hah, my reaction was: but Unix error constants don't normally have underscores! It should be ENOFRIENDS.

Or, more likely, ENOFRNDS.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

OH NO PWNED!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait! It should be -ENOFRIENDS!

COUNTER-PWNED

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh. What are we doing inside? My old boss is here and we are going to go out and have his leaving doo, but I'm not working and I'm kind of on strike against working today because I have to come in tomorrow.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Why do you have to come in tomorrow?

(Still no sign of anyone trying to fix my disk quota problem, so still a day of ILXing for me)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

Because I've got to try and do the usual month end garbage. Now every time I do this on a system that people are working on, the live data moves, and trying to fix a recc is like trying to shoot a moving target.

So the idea is, I come in on a day that no one is on the system, and the data doesn't move, so I can do the recc quickly and efficiently.

However... I know there's a database upgrade scheduled for tomorrow morning, so I bet that will screw me anyway... :-(

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Was the team called "the corps de Blaenau"?

Um, no.

I don't think we had a name, other than "the S&T working party"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait! It should be -ENOFRIENDS!

Well, I just normally write:

fprintf(stderr, strerror(errno));

:-P

(which does produce slightly baffling messages sometimes)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Sexy. I prefer to just dereference a null pointer and let the user figure it out. Bwahaha.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)


Segmentation fault
(core dumped)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha, figure that out, ya bastards

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

(MACHIAVELLIAN PROGRAMMING)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

This is when we really NEED an "I Love Programming" board. :-(

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not going to bother doing that at work, because they'd only phone me to sort it out anyway.

I prefer to put in bizarre, memorable error messages.

If something stops because of, say, some horrible internal error, the user doesn't need to know all the technical details. If I put in an error message that instead says something like "Help! No cake! Call FP and tell him!", they'll remember what it says when they call, and *I* know which bit of the program it comes from.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 31 March 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

This is when we really NEED an "I Love Programming" board. :-(

Didn't we go through this a short while ago?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I think we did.

I'm not sure I like the idea myself - I don't think we need an entire board for programming, and I have a good idea of how it would turn out.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 31 March 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

and "Love" would be putting it a bit strong.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 31 March 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hah, yes.

"I Love Programming (But Not Debugging)"
"I Tolerate Programming"
"I Hate Programming But I Get Paid For It"
"I Hate Programming, Let Me Rant"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 31 March 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am trapped in an abusive relationship with coding (It felt like a kiss)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 31 March 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

oh kate i have the victorians not-album! it is awesome. but it is not finished. so no one can hear it. except MEEEEE.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 31 March 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

i like the debugging aspects, it's fixing things. the bits i am increasingly hating is the crappy little things that you shouldn't have to do in 2006 - found myself writing a loop to zero pad a string yesterday. get one printf() please java*

(* yes, i know... new in 1.5)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

sorry emsk, tell us more about the victorians.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

One of them is entertainingly lairy.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have made the mistake of sitting down to listen to a mix CD *before* getting more coffee. Arse. Now do I sit and listen to the whole thing before getting essentials? Or should I bite the bullet and kill the listening before I get too entrenched?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I'm just back from lunch. Our former boss came in and we had his leaving doo. Except it was at this horrible Greek Restaurant with stodgy food smothered in olive oil and now I feel like falling alseep at my desk. Bah.

Great coffee. That I couldn't drink. Bah.

Which Victorian is entertainingly lairy? I wants to hear this album! Bah.

God I want coffee. I haven't had a bad coffee craving in weeks, but with that Greek coffee set next to me, god, it's like putting medical grade heroin next to someone who's come off the sticky and brown. :-(

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, which one was lairy? i wuv them.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

I concur. Which one was lairy

p.s. I'ver never seen the Victorians, and I only know them from emsks fandom.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Green tea is the methadone of the caffeine world. :-(

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Dilemma of the afternoon:
Should I eat my cake now, in which case I won't have it......or should I have it now and then eat it later......?

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Have it and eat it!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, which one was lairy?

L. "Do you want a drink?" "Yeah, if I can throw it at her!"

(not on stage, they were consumate professionals)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Professional to the point of not complaining that the sound level on one of the mikes was way too low.

They're on Marc Riley's 1-4 show this Saturday (Er, have I got the details right, emsk?)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Eat the cake now. For this afternoon you may be... well, I won't say dead, but you may be... asleep?

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

yes! 1-4 i think. bbc 6music. sth went way wrong on cannonball too, dinnit? or was that me ears?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

What if the cake is poisoned??

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Then she will definitely be dead. Next question.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

You read my mind - in fact my mouth is full of cake right now - yay!

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Arrrgh......gulp splutter curious rasping sound hands clutching throat......thud!

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Right, if they're that good I'll give them a listen. Emsk, they'd best not be rubbish.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

dude they're amazing. i am goin now to break rocks.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Why? Did you fight the law, and the law won?

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, the entire Finance & MI dept. has left before 6 for the FIRST TIME EVAH!!!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like the only person alive at work today. Why is the sun shining?

Ah well, I bought some good records last night. Which I shall listen to... NOW!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

I've just bought a record that made me think "ooh, I bet Kate likes that" - the latest Delays album.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I thought only us shopkeepers were at work to-day.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not, really. I'm ILXing from home, where there is no watercooler.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, yes, I have the new Delays album. But right now I'm listening to The Knife.

I'm running end of month reports when no one else is on the system to make the data move and screw things up. It was a LOT better than usual, but still. There were issues. Sigh.

I'm *so* not coming in on MOnday.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Dude do you fancy some dinner?

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe in a couple of hours, when I'm done. I'm still craving pizza!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

That doesn't sound promising - I have to go out then, would have been a quickie anyway - you sounded mch closer to done. But good news, re. work, which I'll tell later or next w/e.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ooooh, pizza.

(I don't have any in, I can't be arsed going out, and I hate ordering by phone too much to do that. Bah.)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm unlikely to be out of here before about 7, sorry. Bah. Excited to hear about good work news, though!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

(so what *should* I have for my dinner? I think I'm going to have to rummage around for something in the freezer)

I've just written an April Fool's blog post even though it's after mid-day. Am I doomed to bad luck now?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's still before noon somewhere in the world...

I think I'm going to stop on the way home and get a Pizza GoGo from the friendly Streatham pizza shop. I like it when restaurants know my order before I even ask for it. I don't even go in there *that* much!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't mind a Chinese, except that a) there aren't any that deliver near here and I'm lazy b) they're expensive, and I just spent over £50 on CDs and a geeky book c) the parents might want chinese for dinner tomorrow.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

("expensive" in this context meaning "more than free, compared to what's in the freezer")

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, I have just found the most amazing and perfect Chesterfield sofa ever. Would it be mad to spend £500 on a sofa? It seems pretty reasonable compared to, say, John Lewis (and cheap places like DFS and Ikea just don't have what I want). My mein gott... what a lot of money.

(I wouldn't think twice about spending £500 on a guitar. But a sofa just seems mad. What's wrong with me?)

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, but this is the funniest picture ever. Yes, that really is my Tory brother:

http://static.flickr.com/43/121320048_6f62d98a3d.jpg

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Tee hee @ ur bro - but look at that RR! I wants it!

How is everyone today? I came in today and got a bacon and spring onion muffin from the cancer research people here at work, and it was super-scrummy - a good way to start the day.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 April 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

i like the moire effect on the fence behind him. he does look like the anti-kate. (that said, she has been reading country life a lot recently)

any good cds FP?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 3 April 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

And what was the geeky book?

£500 on a sofa seems reasonable if you end up spending lots of time on your sofa. If it's just gonna sit there, don't bother. Di you decide on a bed in the end? I seem to remember something about yout bed on another thread . . .

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 April 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

Why are cancer research people selling experimental muffins?

I would definitely spend £500 on a nice sofa, if it wouldn't actually bankrupt me or anything.

Hope y'all had a good weekend. I got a drink thrown over me by my mother-in-law!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 3 April 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

They're raising money. I'm sure 50p times 12 will make inroads. The muffin needed more flavours (maybe some more pepper?) but yeh, experimental is the word. It was good work. Why the drink being thrown over you?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, boringly, it was an accident. Though a suspiciously violent one...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

morning! i have been chasing peasants with machetes and setting fire to lambs! i mean... ahem... i have been chopping bad trees and brambles down and up with machetes then burning the cut off bits, seeing a lamb being born (it is born in a bag! like a boil in the bag lamb) and driving a tractor which couple of pheasants ran in front of like a police escort. my nose is pink. and i have officially camped in march and it were not cold. and, oh, the sunshiiiiiiine! *bouncebouncebounce*

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

I am actually supremly jealous of your weekend in the country. Do you have lots of pics of you chopping wood etc? But only bad trees - presumably they're ones who jump the queues at supermarkets and never get their round in.

Weekends in the country DOING stuff does have an amazing effect. You'll be bouncy until Wednesday.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

The very geeky book I bought was LNER Wagons Vol. 1: Southern Area by Peter Tatlow.

CDs: the Delays album mentioned above, and the Moldy Peaches first album, because I'd never bought it before and it was cheap.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

that is a very geeky book. and very expensive. like what i heard of the moldy peaches and that one song about jessica simpson is good, great video.

(speaking of geeky, did the philosopher / theologist on Beauty And The Geek remind anyone else of g-kit?)

amazon tells me they have posted the order before last but it doesn't seem to have got here today. can't actually remember what it was for. (oh, dr who at the radiophonic workshop v2 and stella chiweshe).

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

maaan, i am SO doing this again. i wish i had gone on these things when i was 13. i sort of did, but it was more slithering through caves and jumping off waterfalls and kayaking in the sea than fixing the environment. i feel, like, EMPOWERED. and i came back yesterday and the russian said i wasn't grey so that has to mean something nice. and my clothes all smell of FIRE! also - syrup and banana on toast for breakfast this morning, yummy! and on 2nd huge coffee already! aaargh... phear me weaklings of earth.

ooh forest i hope you like that moldy peaches album, we rediscovered it in our house at the end of last year and joy it brought us.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I like it!

The book *was* expensive, but it is one of those that will be a Classic Reference Work. And at least the whole set will take a few years to come out - it's not as if I have to spend £140 at once.

(I already have the 1-volume book with virtually the same title that the same author wrote 30 years ago, but it's very patchy on pre-1923 stuff).

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think I need more radiophonic workshop in my life - I've only got the odd Delia Derbyshire mp3, but they're really v. good.

What's the most expensive book you've bought - for you yourself, as opposed to uni/college textbooks? I payed £55 for a book on Bob Dylan once. Shame, cos the book's rubbish.

Being outside doing stuff is something that I miss. It's like gardening, but more so, I guess. Which reminds me, I need to get my tomatoes and peppers started.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

I can't actually think of any non-textbooks I've bought myself that have been more expensive.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

the radiophonic workshop thing has been in my amazon wishlist for a while and last week i noticed it was now only 3.96 so... the dr who cds are very odd as a lot of it is short sound effects - volume 1 is 76 tracks long for instance, tracks are called stuff like 'Tension Builder (d)'

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009JOPHQ/qid=1144058788/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-1165071-0536412

their music for The Tomorrow People is also recently released (and is in the most recent amazon order). i also have the 4x10" box that was released on Rephlex a few years ago, radio themes, stuff like that. all good for randomised listening, not good all in one go.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

My very first friend in Britain is in the Guardian today, talking about the songs that changed his life (ahem). And for those readers who go out and buy a copy, you can also find early cultural evidence of me.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

linkage: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1745619,00.html

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

My friend left out the most ironic bit of his school days, which was being twatted by one Adrian Thaws, school bully. And so, a small world becomes even more so.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

So, yes, good afternoon all.

Once again I am stuck with very little I can be doing. It's also very warm in here, but I guess this is largely my own fault for still having a jacket on.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Strip!

I am thinking I should plan a holiday. I tried to get a passport application form at lunch - mine is expired - but after waiting in the post office queue for 10 minutes I found they were all out.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

What Emsk an I were up to:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/sets/72057594096999559/

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 April 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

hippies.

i've been given different thing to do at work. is it shockingly underspecced? oh yes.

so i'm leaving to go and watch the dr who and the maggots on bbc4.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, you hippies! Hurrah for hippies.

I am just so pleased for having had the day off. I was going to be all PRODUCTIVE like I was on Sunday (I did the shopping! I did ALL the laundry, even the sheets and towels! I demoed two newish songs!) but then the doorbell rang and it was the delivery bloke from the Folio Society (don't laugh at me, I know it's the most middle class thing on earth, but my god, their books are just so... lovely. I do appreciate a well bound book) with not one but FOUR big books of Architectural pr0n.

The Glory of the English House!
The Glory of the Scottish House!
The Glory of the Irish House!
The 1000 Most Glorious Houses In Britain!!!!

...I open their catalogue and the first thing I see is a lugubriously illustrated memoirs of Cochrane (the model for both Hornblower and Jack Aubrey - not to mention Captain Anderson's commanding officer!) and oh my lord. So I went to bed with the books.

Oh yes, and also went to Homebase and picked the perfect pink for my living room. Morroccan Velvet, I think. And also bought a rose coloured wood screen with elephants on it and a strange Victorian looking glass curio case (I have no idea hwat I will put in it - possibly curios?) from the shop opposite the pizza parlour that Emsk likes.

Blimey!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hello.

I am having an "interesting" morning.

We use an application whose front-end interface layout is all stored in the same database as the application data itself. I've been having fun trying to reverse-engineer the layout information so we can edit some of the dialogue boxes.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've got so much to do but I just can't be motivated to start any of it. It's just too sunny outside and I don't want to be here.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and we appear to have booked another gig. I really feel like it's someone else's turn to start a new thread. Sigh.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

UK Watercooler Nine: Tell Your Manager Everything's FINE

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

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