Watercooler Twelve: The Deeper We Delve

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You know the rules. The usual cast of fools. It's hot as a nubbin and I need some lubbin'

― Kate the Saint (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Had to take the day off yesterday because I didn't sleep all weekend due to heat and, well, ruin. How is everyone?

― Sundogs at 22 Degrees (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

I am cheerful because I am organising my trip down to London next week :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I got your email. Still trying to find out the dealio from the promoter for Sunday, but I'm sure we can get together at some point.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

was wondering only yesterday what rhymed with 12...

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Weekend ruin made yesterday hard. Office move on Friday and most of the sales team are conveniently elsewhere.

Up late doing camp admin stuff till half midnight only to be woken up by new waste contractors for the offices at the bottom of the street doing a collection at 2am.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm birthday asparagus risotto and ice cream last night... but now having one of those frustrating days at work when you're waiting on other people to give you things before you can get on with anything. What is the point of me being organised and prepared if everyone else leaves things until the last minute?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, that must be frustrating, Arch.

I just get woken up by heat, and the sun, which sucks when you've had transport nightmares until ungodly hours. I've got to stop going to odd places in North London unless I leave early.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

I made Pimms of ultimate ruin on Saturday night.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh Pimms. I had one birthday Pimms on Saturday but sadly my mint had died while we were on holiday so it was lacking a certain something... well, it was lacking mint.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

POUR is a very good acronym, Ed.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

this morning i am writing code in httpunit to test the web server code i wrote last week:

CookieJar jar = new CookieJar();
jar.putCookie("Cookie", "ChocolateChocolateChip");

well, it keeps me amused.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like Pimms. I know this makes me weird.

God, I can't get started today.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kind of a mess after someone posted links to photos of TSM where Benjamin is wearing trousers so tight (and not even a guitar to hide his modesty) that I can tell what kind of pants he wears. Blimey.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

To make POUR, you need gin. Gin = ruin.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh...asparagus risotto. How would one make that?

I had some Pimms on Saturday too. Everyone else at the bar seemed to be ordering Carling. And they looked at ME like I was doing something wrong.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

I can't drink gin, it makes me too randy. And help becoming randy is not what I need after viewing those pictures! I think I need a lie down in a dark room, and some Freudian psychoanalysis because I am definitely suffering from Penis Envy.

(OK, no more Germaine Greer for Kate.)

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm off for a useless meeting/training session for the afternoon. This Gallery will have to do my fangurgling about pretty gingers for me.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Gin = classic

(not for its effects on Kate, I hasten to add)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

In other news, I went out to book my train tickets for next week, and spent the rest of my lunch hour sitting on the beach, enjoying the sunshine and watching all the ships sailing in and out. Just because I could. Hurrah!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how you make it hobart because Matt was on cooking duty! But much like a basic risotto with asparagus chucked in, I imagine...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, I didn't realise it was your birthday - that e-mail went to my old addy (which I checked before deleting it FOR EVER yesterday). I hope you did marvellous Archel things.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I don't think I even checked which one I was sending it to! Can you mail me with the best one to use now - I have further email communication to impart :)

I did marvellous barbecue and ping pong type things.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! Back in the office yesterday after all sorts of shenanigans (well, a 3-day conference and before that something I can't talk about on this thread) and of course too much to catch up on. Hours of meetings today that I don't need.

So - what's been happening?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

::kicks computer::

I'm in a fucking rubbish mood now.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, though in honour of Beanz reappearance, here is Topless With Beans:

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h68/SVIIB/TOPLESSwithbeans.jpg

(No, I have no idea, either.)

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrrrr. Even that picture isn't really cheering me up.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

uh thanks...

Why rubbish mood?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

What looks to be more underhanded bullshit from our record label.

I thought we'd independently booked a gig for this Sunday. Turns out that - BEHIND OUR BACKS - the record label has somehow got involved, stuck in all their other bands in ahead of us on the bill. And the first I hear of it, is through a Press Release where, to add insult to injury, he's using a photograph that we have SPECIFICALLY asked him not to use.

I was under the impression that record companies were supposed to get you gigs, not nick gigs you'd already set up for their own aggrandisement.

I honestly feel like cancelling. I'm certainly not doing any work to promote it.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

After long and careful study, I've concluded that people are arses.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

And to top it all off, he writes me back a one-liner going "I'm irritated by your tone in this email".

I'M FREAKING IRRITATED BY YOU NICKING OUR FREAKING GIG.

Anyway, I've spoken to Emma and she's on the case. She knew nothing about it either, so it's not just me that's out of the loop.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

I am so angry I could spit. I did not want to get involved with this record company to start with, I had my arm twisted into it because one of my bandmates still had a clit-on for the dude who ran it, and it's been nothing but trouble ever since. Is it too late to pull out of the freaking single already? I SERIOUSLY do not want to do it any more, I just get more and more bad feelings off this dude.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, mailed your work addy..

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all. Got a prescription for my ear infection. The dullness had gone anyway but It seemed best to get something so it didn't come back like it did on sunday after seemingly clearing.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hope you feel better, Kerr. Ear problems are the worst.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've had worse. I feel I got of easy this time.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I used to get ear infections every year, around summer, without fail. Until I finally went to see an Ear Nose and Throat Specialist and he told me STOP CLEANING YOUR EARS, DAMMIT, apparently the wax I kept bannishing is there to stop your ears from getting infected. And I've never had one since.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/ my weekly charts are up. Shame the top artists chart is wrong. Lots of stuff missing.
Mitya added me last night to listen to drone radio hehe.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I never mentioned I got a great jacket for my dad's wedding this weekends. I am going to look like soho tv executive, it is sand coloured linen, I shall wear it with blue linine trousers with a shirt a liberty crochet tie.

I have also found a liberty print shirt and tie to wear to the wedding I'm at the weekend after next. White silhouettes of flowers on a black background.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ack! Discovered!

How do you technically swing the two profiles, pfunkboy? Two separate computers? Two separate players?

(xpost)

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Winamp is Trailofgybe. I installed the itunes plug in for pfunkboy. But ive barely listened to jazz or funk/soul for weeks and weeks so nothings been happening with that profile. I just set it up because my trailofgybe profile was too big and the other stuff was never gonna register on it and people kept asking where my pfunk and jazz was.

Did my radio play anything good then? Its a bit limited to what Last FM actually have.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm I listened to more than I thought last week.
http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/charts/&charttype=weekly

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yay for Liberty Print shirts and ties! Sounds great, Ed!

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Did it play anything good? Well, most of the stuff that you and masonicboom talk about I don't really know. So even if they only have 10%, I'm pretty happy with that -- I'm really just exploring. I probably listened for an hour or so and noted down two songs, one by Can and one by Underworld. But both were actually kind of pastoral.

(xpost)

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, in the old days, I'd log out for this, but can't do this any more. Anyway, the opinion about to be expressed is solely that of Kate, and nothing to do with the opinions of Shimura Curves as a band or an entity.

With that out of the way...

WHAT A FUCKING TWAT!!!

I sent the bloke from the record company a fairly polite, but quite strong email (even our manager read it, and said it was reasonable) -which I rewrote twice to make sure I stayed professional - saying, basically, look, this is not on, I have a problem with X and Y. Firstly, he responds going all "oh, I'm too irritated by your tone to respond now" then he sends another email going "Fwah fwah fwah" with all kinds of excuses for the things he's done, and then, to top it off, ends it with "oh, you could stand to be nicer to me, instead of blowing up by email".

Dude, you have not even SEEN blowing up.

But this is EXACTLY the sort of crap he used to pull when he was dating my bandmate. He would do something totally insensitive and horrible, and then if you - quite legitimately - got upset by it, he would be all "oh no, calm down, don't be such an angry, hysterical woman!"

So I told him "if you don't like my tone when I'm legitimately angry, maybe you should stop and think about what you are doing to MAKE people angry."

And I don't care if he reads that, or if my bandmate reads that. He's a fucking twat and this shit fucks me off.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Dear me.

We all need levity and I am an egomaniac. So enjoy this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, do the single, Kate, and move on. Presumably you're not stuck with these people long-term.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Well since i listen to a lot more than drone you wont just get that stuff. You can actually listen to drone rock tag radio. Thats pretty good.
But with tag radio its all based on what users tag stuff. and some people will tag coldplay or britney as metal and cradle of filth as twee just to be funny.

Last fm does have some stuff that would surprise you.
Try out all the different tag radios and other stations. Its a great way of hearing new stuff in with stuff you do like.
I don't need to bother with proper radio at all now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hehe Ned seen that before. Eve or Chris showed me it a year or 2 back.
Great to see it again though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, guess I didn't tag that Secret Machines track well enough to distort your playlist. :-P

I am scared that we're going to get stuck with this twat long term, that we'll somehow be indebted to him forever if we do the single with him, and he'll go around trying to trade on our contacts like he's been doing all along. It's not just us, I've heard other stories about him from other people in the music scene, how he exploits connections and stuff, argh. It makes me feel unclean.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to think about this. I want to think about Benjamin's orange underarm hair up there.

::kicks things::

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

[listening to "drone rock" tag now - starts with spacemen, yum]

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I bet Kate wishes she could listen to drone rock radio.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

[Wow, this Solaris track is pretty neat.]

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Bah. I brought my headphones, but feel too pissed off to listen to music.

Our manager has talked to the promoter, but I still just have a horrible taste in my mouth. Maybe I'm overreacting, maybe I expect the worst, but my gut instinct is telling me, just DO NOT WORK with someone who makes you feel this uncomfortable on a regular basis.

And I feel less and less comfortable with the situation as I go on, not more.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Why did I click on a link to the medieval baebes myspace page?

Dear god.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

God, it's five already. My day has been a total ruin. If this has got to the point where it's seriously affecting my work, maybe I just shouldn't do it at all any more.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. Anyone here?

Koogs, I know you mentioned this problem before, but I've just been to Holland & Barrett and they have Gelatin Free Vegan Omega Oils now - flaxseed oil in vegetable starch capsules. Vertese is the brand.

Anyone have any ideas about how to get rid of thoughtworms? I'm really ridden with them at the moment. Bah. :-(

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

The single cover looks good.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! New browser version so I thought I'd live life to the MAX and change the default font. Now everything looks shiny and new and a bit confusing too. EDGY!

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, what browser? My boss tried IE7 recently and completely broke everything on his laptop.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Opera 9. I'd been using 7.54. I installed 8 but something on my system didn't like it.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hah, if you'd posted what I had, my first question would have been 'what font?' :)

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

God help anyone who listens to my last.fm radio station:
http://imagegen.last.fm/Geldropdown-small/recenttracks/Vietgrove.gif

Hahahaha. Suffer!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

Well "what font" would have been my second question :-)

(I used to like using Century Schoolbook as my default, but that was a few years ago)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Baskerville. I toyed with Bodoni Poster but it was a bit silly.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

What should I listen to today?

I've just had a little meeting with my (vastly hungover) boss and discovered that the end of my vast list of reports is almost in sight, and she's not giving me any more before she goes on holiday (for a week) starting tomorrow! Hurrah!

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Inspired by this thread, I have switched to Bitstream Vera Serif, which is the default font on my home machine, but it doesn't look as good on Windows as on Linux.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

If in doubt, Pixies, surely?
xpost
Avignon's totally inappropriate and works surprisingly well on screen I reckon.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

I should look through some of the latter volumes that I haven't heard yet and don't know what's on.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

Also, from another board. If a person puts topless photos of themself on their MySpace, is this not inviting objectification? I think any person who puts a topless photo of themself on their MySpace clearly wants the attention of being physically admired. And they only have themselves to blame if they attract that kind of attention.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

I have helvetica at home. The Apple anti-aliasing makes it look really nice on my screen.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

Context is all. Everyone wants attention up to a certain point. And everyone is a mass of contradictions. If they're being disingenuous, call them on it. If they're having second thoughts about putting up the photos but at the same time they're reluctant to take them off, then it's a semi-dilemma I can sort of relate to.

Is a semi-dilemma just the one horn?

xpost There's a flash game doing the rounds (a few months ago now) where you run around squishing Arial letters with Helvetica ones. Hours of fun! (Well, minutes)

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

> If a person puts topless photos of themself on their MySpace, is this not inviting objectification? I think any person who puts a topless photo of themself on their MySpace clearly wants the attention of being physically admired.

yes, and that's exactly why you shouldn't do it 8)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon, everyone! I have returned from Slovenia, where I had enourmous amounts of fun and gained enough anecdotes to dine out on for a long time coming.

Those of you who have ordered EPs--I will post them today.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

I want one! I want one!

No, it's not a personal dilemma. Heh! No way would I ever put topless photos on the web! Basically it's this:

-Benjamin Secret Machines puts a topless photo of himself on his solo project's MySpace
-Collective female fan population go into meltdown
-Silly boy fans complain about usual "ugh, fangirls"
-Fangirls reply "he wouldn't put photos like that up if he didn't want the attention of girls going 'oooh, hott!'"

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Fangirls are right it seems. Of course he wants attention, he's a performer innit

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

You can definitely tell that bunch of mentalists that this bunch of mentalists think it's okay :)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

what would you think if all the genders were reversed kate?

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

I told Zia McCabe to freaking put 'em away.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

She didn't listen. She did nude photos while pregnant on the suicide girls website.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well, in that case she totally lost the right to bitch about how every Dandys gig ended up with "a pit of photographers gathered around her, waiting for her to get her tits out."

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

ANyway, Kerr, what should I listen to today?

After I listen to my rare UFOFU downloads. Mmmmm. Texan spacerock, pass the hott sauce.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Try these?

http://www.myspace.com/fispacerock

See what you think.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Listen to SubArachnoid Space, Paik, Kinski, Zombi , The Mike Gunn.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, I think you should listen to Sigur Ros today. In fact, I think everyone should listen to Sigur Ros today. (I just watched the videos for Glosoli and Hopioli or Hipiloli or whatever it's called. Really really great. I still get so much pleasure out of the first two albums, I really wasn't ready for Takk... last year.

(Good morning all)

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the reccomendations, but all I can listen to is stuff that I have brought with me! Kerr knows what I have better than I do.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sigur Ros were the world most boring band until I heard of coldplay.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

They're much better looking than Coldplay. :-P

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

I am in an uncharacteristically unsour mood, so I will let that remark slide, Ed.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Phew, now that I've publicly announced that I'm up teh duff I can finally bitch and moan about my tiredness and sickness etc etc on here! Woo! (Actually I seem to be over the worst bit fingers crossed.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Only gig i've ever walked out on was a sigur ros part of a Labradford's festival of drifting.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know, congratulations.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations, Archel!

Check out that F/i myspace page if/when you get the chance, Kate, it's amazing driving spacerock. I've been raving about it since Grant R linked to it the wiard forum.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yay, Archel and mini-Archel/Matt!

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know, either. Congratulations, Archel.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, now I've just checked New Answers and feel silly.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. Well, yeah when I said 'publicly announced' I meant 'started a thread like 2 seconds ago'.

And thanks!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Great news. Do you mind being congratulated twice? Hope not: Congratulations.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Coincidentally, someone at work is expecting a baby on Christmas Eve.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I just hope it doesn't hate us for Jesus stealing its thunder :(

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it will think it *IS* Jesus!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! Think of all you'll save on Christmas presents (assuming you celebrate Christmas). That's smart procreation.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

So I am currently looking at using PayPal to accept payments on the website, like the technological astronaut that I am. I am worried though, because I just don't trust them.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I've used paypal for years, I've not had a problem.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

You aren't the first to say the same thing, but I am still suspicious, more that they will screw other people, not just that they will screw me (though this would be unpleasant enough)... the whole ethos so far has been of us doing everything ourselves, yet now we are in a position where we quite simply can't take electronic payments without the help of an external company. I am opposed to the loss of control.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

(You can see, maybes, why I get such little sleep--too many things to control)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

you don't really need to do anything to add paypal to your site, just print your paypal email address. they send you money via paypal, you send them cds. i think you can set up a link that'll take them to a paypal form with the right price and a reference number etc already pre-filled but you probably don't need that at the mo. it's not much different from using a bank.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand paypal either. They wouldn't let me pay someone ages ago when I tried, and now I get constant phishing scams involving them. Sigh.

But I'm a luddite, don't listen to me.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I have a deep and abiding distrust of Paypal. Then again they did try to screw me out of £700 at one point.
Their customer service was deeply unhelpful and I ended up having to get a notarised legal document to resolve matters.

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Kate--it seems Ms. Frances Morgan is DJing at a one-day festival in Cambridge this August that I will be attending. Fancy coming up too?

(Offer open to everyone else too)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe... actually, let me know what date so I can plan in advance. But yeah, I could do with a day in the country. (Yes, Cambridge is country to me.)

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Saturday, 26th August. Accommodation, of course, is not a problem if you want it.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Kate what did you decide to listen to in the end?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Consider it marked in my diary, TISSP!

Listened to a couple of Luxembourg tracks, actually, Kerr. I should get a leg on and finish their illustrations already but don't feel like drawing much lately. Or doing anything creative, really.

Post-lunch mizzies hitting bad today. :-(

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

My network connection keeps dropping at work, effectively preventing me from doing anything at all. Very frustrating. I want to be back in Slovenia.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm bored and no one on MySpace is posting surveys, it's all crap band flyers and stuff like that. I want more questionnaires, dammit!

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

okcupid?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, someone might wanna date me or something.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ew, boys, bleurgh. Does he want to do kissing?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to kiss boys. Unless he is a pointy nosed ginger. Who reads books.

Tried fiddling about with my firewall settings to allow me to listen to music on the interweb, but it doesn't seem to have worked. Bah.

― Insert Clever Screen Name Here (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, ohmigod, I laughed so hard I nearly couldn't BREATHE when I saw this...

God, I am going to miss you, TOTP. So much.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Easy, it stands against a ferret-coloured background.

Next question.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

"I just felt it brush past my ankles. It was quite nice, actually..."

"It's not voodoo! They're genetically engineered, y'know, in a lab..."

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I don't recognise most of the people on that. Obviously I know those girls from somewhere, but the rest...??

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Girls Aloud, Karen O, Dirty Dronerock Benjamin and Beverly Knight.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, all of them are great:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/show_snaps/

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Question for you:

If you were a student in the mid to late 90s what soul and funk would be floor fillers at the student disco on a Saturday night? (I was at the same university but was misspending in my youth djing rare groove, electronica and jazz in a drum and bass club and taking lots of drugs to acid techno).

This wedding thing is giving me grief. The erection section is fine:

Al Green - L-O-V-E
Mavin Gaye - Let's get it on
Roy Ayres - Everybody Loves the sunshine (my own personal indulgence)

Current Shortlist for the rest includes:

Booker T and the MGs - Melting Pot
Marvin Gaye - You're a wonderful one
Bobby and the Heavyweights - Soul Train
Cross Bronx Expressway - Cross Bronx Expressway
The Undisputed Truth - Law of the Land
The Golden Toadstools -Silly Savage
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Smokey Robinson - Tears of a Clown

Is War by Edwin Starr appropriate at a wedding, I feel it may be a floor filler? I feel I have been given this job based on a misplaced impression of competency (I know how to twist the knobs whilst drunk).

Any ideas?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Morning.

I've just been having an ... interesting ... chat with my mother. Doing the laundry, she found a business card in my pocket, that I'd picked up somewhere and forgotten about. It had the magic word "BDSM" on it.

"What's BDSM?" she said to my dad. "No idea," said he. So she googled it.

Ah well, at least it's out in the open now.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 22 June 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. That sounds...awkward to say the least, FP!

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 22 June 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

Well now it's out in the open, it's a lot less awkward than it would have been.

We had a bit of a chat in the car, where I basically said: "would you like to ask any questions about what I do, then?"

She was rather relieved to discover that the things I do when out at a club are almost entirely non-sexual; and she seems surprisingly fine with it all, so long as the neighbours don't find out. That seemed to be her main worry, really.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 22 June 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that sounds like it could have gone a lot worse, so hurrah! You'll just have to cross the back garden off as an appropriate venue :).

Hello Thursday! I should really think about getting my transport to London organised, seeing as how Sunday is geting closer and closer...

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 22 June 2006 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

How long are you in London for on Sunday, btw?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 22 June 2006 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's why my plans are still languishing! I have to be in work on Monday, so I have to get back to Oxford fairly rapidly after the concert (does anybody know how good & how late the transport links are from The Luminaire on a Sunday night?), but I'm thinking about heading into London reasonably early on, so I'll probably be there by the start of the afternoon. So, a fair few hours at least.

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 22 June 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't there 24-hour buses from London to Oxford?

I get to Kings Cross at a quarter-to-two on Sunday myself.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 22 June 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

(I wanted to get in early cos I wasn't sure what time the Shimuras gig is. But I'll probably have a couple of hours to kill after I've checked in, if you want to meet up)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 22 June 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

There are 24-hour buses back to Oxford, but I have a further hurdle as I have to get to Bicester from there, and those buses aren't 24 hours, and as I can't drive, I will have to depend on the kindness of my dad to pick me up from the bus station rather than spend all night in the centre of Oxford. But yes, meeting up would be fun!

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 22 June 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

Email me and I'll give you my phone number.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 22 June 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

The Shimuras gig starts after the f**tb*ll - i.e. about 6 o'clock.

The club will be showing it, which means I will NOT be in the club all afternoon, but would be up for meeting in Notting Hell (fairly close geographically to The Luminaire though I'm not sure about transport links) - actually I think the Oxford Tube has a drop off point in Notting Hell, come to think of it - in the afternoon some time!

What's on at the Lumi that night?

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

And, breaking mine own rules twice in two posts, argh, I keep misreading that new B*g Br*Th*r thread as being "Now Here Is Nowhere" and thinking it's about Secret Machines. Dammit.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

Johnny Boy are playing at Lumi - I was in America last time they were in London, so I'm not going to miss them this time! (especially after they included my review as part of the recent PR mailout!)

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

My friend's band are supporting Johnny Boy at that gig.

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

My sister was on TV last night apparently. Something on BBC2 about the royal academy show?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 June 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I wish I had a telly. Wait, no I don't. I wouldn't have caught it anyway. I was out on Hampstead Heath having the most Middle Class Midsummer Solstice Picnic in the entire world. There was salmon and goats cheese and brandy and porcelin china packed up in a wicker hamper. And we were surrounded by sodding hippies playing sodding drums.

But you know it's very very bad when the drumming stops, as the joke goes.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I reckon we should all meet up somewhere in Notting Hell on Sunday afternoon then. I'm checking into my room at 2pm, so I should be able to meet people from 3 at least, if not earlier.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

Cafe Garcia on portabello is nice, (spanish nibbles, beer and Orxata). I think it's going to be Football free as well.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, this is a concern.

However, I will be carrying a load of gear for the gig, so my mobility will be severely limited - i.e. I can meet in one cafe or bar, I can't run around to several.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon, you crazies.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

What time is the gig? As soon as the f**tb*ll's done?

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon TISSP!

Yes, Beanz. Apparently about 6-ish. (Though apparently the free entry thing is only until 6? Am not sure about that.) Excuse is that they're "trying to show f**tb*ll in a cultural way" but I'm not sure I approve of even that. You gonna come down, Beanz?

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

What is it about football particularly that bothers you Kate?

(Not trolling, honestly)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

I hope so! xpost

Last night I went to Exhibition Road music day thing. It was... ok. Very earnest. Enforced jollity. Fun = a lighthearted oboe riff. Some of the students in the park were good though.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

(by which I mean, is it the pervasiveness of one particular game, or the connotations of drunken hooligans, or something else?)

(xpost)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

No offense, TISSP, but I've expressed my opinions in numerous other threads. A conversation about why I dislike it is still a conversation about it, and therefore verboten.

I have cookies today, left over from the picnic. Yum.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

this week, i have mostly been feverish.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

BDSM business cards wtf

We have a department at work called SDBM, which I occasionally misspell in emails :)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

TMI business cards

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Blargh, blargh, blarghy blargh blargh. Wave of self loathing. Think I'm going to go and listen to some Scott Walker and try to get some work done.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of TMI, according to a spam email I just received, if I take "vi@gra s0ft t@bs" I will be able to "open a bottle of beer with my penis".

A useful skill, I'm sure!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

omfg fwd email plz!

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

i'm feeling much better today, by the way.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Good! Would you like a bottle of beer?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

BDSM business cards wtf

It was for a maker of leather bondage gear. Very nicely-made stuff, in fact.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

I shall not be able to be in the area till gig time I don't think I've have a camp AGM on sunday.

i have follishly summoned the FP FAP for the night of the next Magpie's nest folk gig, I am destined never to get to this. However, Kate, something to cheer you up.

http://cutashine.co.uk

Cut a shine are doing dancing at Truck this year. I am even more jealous about not going.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Well, at this point, if we don't find someone with a valid UK drivers license and a credit card, we ain't going to Truck either. :-(

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

i have both, so you can go now.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Why UK driver's licence? I thought your US friend was going to drive?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, Scott Walker not helping...

f I could be for only an hour
If I could be for an hour every day
If I could be for just one little hour
Cute, cute in a stupid ass way!

(I had forgotten how much I love this song.)

They require a UK drivers license. This is teh suck as I really wanted Chrissie to come. Also, the drivers license and the credit card (don't think a debit card will do) need to be in the same name.

g-kit, are you serious?

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

What kind of vehicle are you hiring? (I have become the car hire wunderkind recently)

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

i'm serious about having a license and card, i'm not available for driving anyone anyplace though. i was just being silly. just for a change.
sorry. try not to forget when reading my posts that i am a daft bastard, kids.
i'd help if i could, but i generally work weekends.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, Ed either a van or an RV. If you have any good scoops, please could you email Marianna? I'll text you her email address if you don't have it.

(I'm REALLY trying to stay out of the organisation side of things now as I'm not good at it, only get everyone including myself wound up, etc.)

x-post, bah. :-(

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think a ford galaxy is your friend here. and so is Nationalcar.co.uk. Any bugger can drive it as long as they have a licence and credit card. Text me MAriannas mail and I'll put her on to it.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

didn't it say it doesn't have to be a uk licence unless you've been resident in the uk for 12 months or more, after which it is required that you exchange your country x licence for a uk one?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

yes, here:

Q. Can I drive on my USA (or foreign driving licence)
A. Yes provided you have not been in residence in the UK for more than 12
months (after 12 months the law states you must exchange your licence for a
UK licence.)

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Chrissie will only have just got here?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, yeah, Chrissie will only just have got here. But not sure if she has a credit card, and if she does, it will probably be maxed out from her flight.

Is a Ford Galaxy big enough? Need to seat at least 6 people in comfort, plus gear, and also be big enough for at least one person to sleep in.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

7 full size seats, one of which you remove and stow in someone's flat (or fold up) and you have one large space from floor to cieling to stuff gear plus space behind the rear seat as well. We used to go 6 people on holiday for 3 weeks like this (admittedly in a arenault espace but actually you never know quite what your are going to get beyond it having 7 seats)

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

What date is Truck? I have both a licence and a credit card, and would be willing to drive, but it depends on the date...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

OK, that sounds perfect, Ed.

Truck is 21/22/23 July I think (whichever is the Saturday and Sunday)?

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

it's 22nd/23rd. are we planning for the van to go friday late morning/lunchtime or after work? cos if it's after work, you'll have one less person on the way there as well as the way back.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

A solution presents:

I come down to collect the car, booked in my name, chrissie goes down as a named driver. You drive off, insured and everything, pay me the money all nice and proper. It'll have to be done before 5pm on the thursday before truck though as I have to pick up another car to drive to sommerset in.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Rah! That sounds excellent!

(Though does that mean we have to pay for an extra day? How much will that cost?)

I think I may take a couple of days before and after Truck off work to ensure pleasantness of mood.

We are also going to have to check this with Chrissie when she gets here (Sunday) - however, if we can name a driver, any driver, we could reasonably use Emsk's bro or anyone else who was disqualified throught not having actual credit card.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

yes, I may have to ring round a few places to check availability (as long as it's not hertz because that's where my other hire is coming from).

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

i have realised though, bro not ideal as he's staying sunday night and the van is going back then... all the geographical jiggery-pokery might be ok otherwise, but i'm not asking him to miss out on that.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

OK, who's going back Sunday night? Maybe we should go back to organising this via email rather than online. If I'm taking days off, (which I have now decided to do seeings as how I'm not using all my holiday leave on my bro's wedding) I'd rather stay and see the whole thing, but I suppose that depends on bandmates' schedules. Argh.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, wait, scratch that. Two nights of sleeping rough is my limit, I think - if we're going down Friday night. Which I didn't know we were - I thought we were going down on Saturday morning (otherwise we'd have been able to do the gig in Bath!)

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

This is so confusing. I think I need a cookie, and some Topless With Beans.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

OK just patch me in when you have dates times and driver known.

Anyone got any insights into mid 90s student culture they could patch me in on re my question above?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Right, so is there a driver or not? There may be a problem with me driving if it's on 22nd/23rd as that's Chris' and my girlfriend's birthdays respectively.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Well, 'Groove is in the Heart' by Deelight always did the trick at my uni but it may not be the sort of thing you're looking for.

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking more 60s/70s soul and funk. Commodores, Earth Wind and Fire, that kind of student disco.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, "Moving On Up".

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

good, that's just put me in mind of the pointer sisters as well.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

quite frankly everyone will be drunk and staring at my outfit so it won't matter, but doing a good job matters to me.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Why? What on earth are you going to be wearing? A Funkadlic style psychedelic spacesuit?

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Orange BR Fitters suit, Black and white liberty print shirt and tie, some kind of hat.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I may put my hair up

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

That's an ... interesting ... mixture of clothes!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 22 June 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Carson dial, can you REPORT BACK on Johnny Boy please? And then torture them and make them come to Glasgow, or at least play in London sometime when I can afford to go and see them?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 June 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. Heres something that should give you a good laugh to start the day.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 23 June 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

Going back to Sunday afternoon: can we agree on somewhere definite to meet up before the gig? I'm trying to persuade another friend to come, and I want to be able to say "I'm going to be at ... beforehand".

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

(and: morning! On my own in the office today, but I'll probably be dragged away from my desk to help a visiting consultant with some VBA scripting. I hate VB in all its forms, so I'm not really looking forward to it. She seems to think I'm an expert because I managed to come up with a poor algorithm to do what she wanted better than "recording a macro" could manage)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

f'some reason decent pubs are thin on the ground in notting hell. the sun in splendour is quite nice - http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pub571.html - but fancyapint speak the truth when they say it gets overcrowded hella fast. though i guess if they're showing the, um, y'know, thingy, on telly, the garden might be emptyish, which is the best place to sit anyway. if sun is shining you could suggest the westernmost bit of hyde park. or kensington gardens. or holland park.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:27 (nineteen years ago)

xpost 1 - Certainly, Alisa!

xpost 2 - FP, not being a London regular, or really knowing London that much at all aside from the obvious touristy places, I'm going to be useless and say that I can meet anywhere, as long as I have directions :). My sympathies for the VB work - I can see it heading in my future too, and I'm not looking to it at all.

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

I try to do as much as I can in Perl - it's actually pretty good for scripting Excel through the Win32::OLE package - but my boss seems to like VBA for some reason.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

Secret Garden sounds good. But I'm serious when I say that I will NOT be mobile at all, due to carrying loads of gigs stuff, so I cannot just meet in a park or be dragged round.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Friday, 23 June 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, there was a really good pub in Notting Hellgate that Magnus used to take me to, but I can't for the life of me remember where it was as we were usually pissed by the time we got there.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Friday, 23 June 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

Morning!

I'm rubbish at ilxing the past few weeks. I say hi on this thread, post something inconsequential on maybe one or two others, then get distracted by work :( I'm a dilettanXor.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 23 June 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

You are far too committed to your job, Beanz. You should become a slacker like the rest of us.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Friday, 23 June 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying dammit

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 23 June 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Flyer:

http://static.flickr.com/66/173161434_8a9f3e6d53.jpg

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, i just got a load of shimuras groupie cards through the door! £2 beer and wine if you're a card-carrying shimuras groupie, people.

there's another pub somewhere just north of notting hill gate, kind of where the antiques bit of portobello market peters out in the south, that's kind of ok too, feels a bit too new to be a really comfy pub-pub but has a big garden iirc. i have only been there once though and can't remember what it was called.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Nice! What noise does your guitar make if you step on the glass of wine?
xpost

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Gah, blogger and the stupid network just ate a post it took me nearly an hour to write. Now I'm in a pissy mood. :-(

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Control-A, Control-C, click 'submit'.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

(I realise the is the polar opposite of "helpful", at the moment).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

carson, are you coming to shimuras as well as going to johnny boy? i am doing both. johnny boy aren't on til about 10 so there's plenty of time... iirc there may even be a v swift bus between the two - something with a 28 in it... hmm...

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

ok, the 31 is the one i was actually thinking of, but subliminally i must've known about the 328 too.

http://tfl.gov.uk/buses/spiders/pdf/kilburn-high-road.pdf

though there may be some route issue to do with the fact that half of kilburn high road has been DUG UP

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Lovely flyer.

I now own maternity clothes! Eek!
Excellent day of tennis in Eastbourne yesterday (is tennis verboten or only f******l?) This championship always attracts the lesbian crowd, and not for the first time my mum and I were probably mistaken for lovers.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - emsk, I wasn't sure if I could make both, but if I can, then yes! And thanks for the bus information - looking through London timetables always makes me feel like a country bumpkin for some reason. I also enjoy over-complicating things, hence my current plans for the Oxford Tube in and a train back home!

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Really great flyer, Kate.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

hurrah! do you want a groupie card? to get to paddington from lumi your best bet is prob to head down kilburn high road to kilburn park station there are usually buses but as is DUG UP walking might be a better option) and get the tube to paddington. or, as road is DUG UP and kilburn on the jubilee line is much closer, walk to there, get jubilee line to baker st and go from there to paddington. someone who lives in the area would prob have a better idea than me. remember to check if the hammersmith & city, district and circle lines are running as apparently they are not important enough to stay open on a lot of weekends.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 23 June 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yes please to groupie card!

Actually, I'll be going to Marylebone if I go back via train, which I think means I'd have to get on the Kilburn Park station (it doesn't look too far from Lumi on the map, but am I being deceived?) as it's a Bakerloo line. Then I can rush for the 23:53 final train back home and as it goes straight to Bicester everybody else at home gets to spend Sunday night sleeping!

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 23 June 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Groupie cards? Let me in on that shit.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

SORRY, YOU HAVE TO ATTEND THE GIG TO GET A GROUPIE CARD.

(Or maybe we should save some ourselves to just eBay afterwards... hrmmm...)

Emsk, can you please save a couple for Chrissie and Gaz? Also might be worth keeping a few back for other friends who may be coming.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Friday, 23 June 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds like one of those signs at fairgrounds.

"SORRY, YOU HAVE TO BE THIS TALL TO RIDE KAET."

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

I would love to attend the gig, but I am otherwise occupied :(

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

(Sorry to sound like a big fat beee-yatch, but the purposes of these cards is actually to track marketing at the bar, how much business we are responsible for bringing in, so maybe we can even - gasp - get paid, or at least invited back.)

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Got tissp's EP today. Though the little computer speakers here are cutting out most of the bottom end, it sounds good & very visual, makes me think of blurred footage shout out of a car window on the motorway (?) Do you want me to just send you a fiver, t, or did you set up yr paypal account yet?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

shot out of a car window, even.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh good, I am glad it has arrived! Apparently we are in the process of setting up a PayPal account, so Jon tells me, so if you want to hold on that might be easier for you.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

(I also like the description, thankyou)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

The cover is really nice and classy as well, btw.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Thankyou! It took us at least three times as long to sort out the cover than it did to record the music! It means a lot to me that you say that, too, given that we spent so long agonising over the packaging.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Haha have just been watching my mum and step-dad on tv being part of a sandwich-chomping tennis audience. I wonder if they knew the camera was on them every time Clijsters/Henin-Hardenne served from that end?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Pash, check your email!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

got it, sent payment. I hope it works ok! (no reason why it shouldn't, but, you know...)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I will check with Jon later whether we got it--thanks for guinea pigging!

You're next, FP... [sinister music]

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

do you have a myspace or something tissp?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

We have a website, but I cannot handle MySpace!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

(Too Emo)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

(And messy)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

(And generally disturbing to my fragile little mind)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hello guys! Just wanted to pop in to say "hello", to wish Archel & happy & healthy pregnancy, (you & matt will make such wonderful parents!!) & to show off my new addition...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/Oscar/Oscar.jpg

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

OHMIGOD, OHMIGOD, YAY FOR PANTHER JR!!! CONGRATS AND YAY TO YOU AND JAMES!!! WOOOOOOO!!!!

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Awww, sweet! Hope you are well Pink.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone decide on a pub for sunday? a named pub and not 'somewhere just north of notting hill gate' or a 'really good pub in Notting Hellgate that Magnus used to take me to' 8)

(last time i was meeting someone in NH i was told it was the pub opposite HMV. only there is no HMV in NH*. went to phone but had no change. found shop and bought stuff. found working phonebox. which ate my money. had no more change. found another shop and bought stuff. found working phone. straight to voicemail. left grumpy message and went home. not happy. *she meant WHSmith.)

that said, last time fp was in town and had fappage i got as far as the tube station before realising i didn't feel up to it and turned around.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! I'm off for the weekend! I will see some of you on Sunday, I hope! (I have FP's number, but if you see anybody looking very lost outside Hellgate, it'll probably be me :))

― carson dial (carson dial), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I think that Sun & Splendor place is good as it's easy to find.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

got it, sent payment. I hope it works ok! (no reason why it shouldn't, but, you know...)

Yep, it came through fine, cheers!

We can go live with the Amazing Online Shop then now...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

How can Oscar be smiling already, that's amazing! What an inspiration :)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

You're next, FP... [sinister music]

Now, you know what sort of thing *I* associate with the term "sinister music"

My copy of the EP arrived in the post too today, and it looks *lovely*. I haven't played it yet - I haven't had chance to sit down and listen to it. Email me to let me know how you want to be paid.

So we're meeting in the Sun and Splendour on Sunday, then? Well at least it alliterates nicely :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

I guess so. I've got your number so I'll ring you if there's any change of plans.

See some of you Sunday! Yay!

Have a nice weekend, everyone else. :-)

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Enjoy the gig folks.
And congrats to pinkpanther! I had wondered what had happened to her.
Have a nice weekend everyone.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 23 June 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, I wish I could post a picture here of my two-year-old newly-favorite niece dancing to "Lightning Blue Eyes." So cool.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Sunday, 25 June 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Shimura Curves! I had a great day in London yesterday meeting people and going on Bus Adventures to far off parts of London! (well, okay, Kilburn, but THE BRIDGE WAS OUT, so we all had to jump over Knight Rider-style. Erm. Three hours of sleep. It's not pretty at this point)

FP was last seen being dragged off for a pub crawl around a random tube station with Miranda, so he's probably still a drunken heap at the moment ;).

Johnny Boy were aces! And! Randomly, I bumped into fellow Kenickie obsessive/videogame journalist/Plan B/hired dancer K1eron G1ll3en there, after eight years of online contact. So that was a little strange, but it was good to finally meet him.

No news on a bigger UK tour, alisa, but they did mention that their album is out in Japan this week. Who knows, one day, it'll even get a UK release!

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 26 June 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

Aww, Pink -- has he got his first pair of sneaks yet?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 26 June 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

I hurt in so many ways. what a weekend.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 26 June 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

Blargh, I am broken in so many ways. Bloody Texans and their seemingly endless ability to drink.

So lovely to meet up with Carson and Forest and meet A Person From A Different Board.

Eating breakfast and coffee in the office because I'm dying.

― How does a ferret get invisible, then? (kate), Monday, 26 June 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, so, errrrrmmm... when are we doing the custard wrestling?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 26 June 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I mysteriously seem to suddenly have sound on my computer. A bit embarrassing when I went to look at our MySpace and music started playing! Oops!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 26 June 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

FP was last seen being dragged off for a pub crawl around a random tube station with Miranda, so he's probably still a drunken heap at the moment ;)

In the end we just went back to the Sun And Splendour for more of the strawberry beer :-) It was a lovely afternoon/evening, followed up with a greasy-spoon fry-up breakfast - and I'm now well enough that the left-over vodka and coke from last night, still on the coffee table, is starting to look tempting again.

Custard wrestling plans are definitely ongoing, and someone was just laughing a lot at your change in username!

Oh, Ed, if you're awake enough to read this, Miranda says she couldn't read your handwriting, so can you pass on your email address again?

So lovely to meet up with Carson and Forest and meet A Person From A Different Board.

I think she enjoyed herself too!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 26 June 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

its the one i post with here.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 26 June 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Gah, today is just not getting any better. Been driving myself crazy trying to set up an ODBC, only to find out that I don't have network permissions to set up an ODBC. Bah.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. ILX (especially ILM) is a bit dead lately.
Whats happened?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone's on holiday?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all. Yay to the gig! Oh, and yay to new small person!

ODBCs are a nuisance - I feel your pain.

You're right, ILE has been quiet, I think The Tournament That Cannot Be Named has sucked people in. ILM scares me, so I don't know about that.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Nah its been quiet for a few months now.
Its as if lots of regulars have left.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Well, yeah, there was the mass defection of the entire Freaky Trigger crew to LiveJournal earlier this year.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 26 June 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

The exodus made me sad. I wonder how they're getting on? I still see a few old names pop up on the Dr Who thread tho.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

The theads over there are a lot narrower, but more interesting somehow. Different memes, I guess, and no random googlers. (And no nastiness, yay!)

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's just too much like Organised Fun for me. Plus, all the sporting metaphors, I just don't understand.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

If I wanted to be very cynical, I could note that when Certain People go on vacation, traffic drops exponentially. Plus the sources for the current orgfun are going to run out in a couple of months. I am curious to see what will happen after that.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Well, yeah, there was the mass defection of the entire Freaky Trigger crew to LiveJournal earlier this year.

That explains it. Why did they all leave? Is ILX on its last legs then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

There's some discussion here: taking sides: Livejournal v ILXor though obviously not all, as many of the holdouts from that thread have jumped now. Pete's still here, or at least not there. I think it happened when ILX started to balkanize, to split up into geographically-distinct threads. Ironically, right now there's probably more intermixing than usual, due to topics we're not allowed to speak about on this thread.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

I caved and got Starbucks. I don't even like their coffee that much, but i'm hooked on the Java Chip frapuccinos. It's like a caffeinated milkshake.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! Sorry to miss the gig and the meeting up and everything. I can come out on Wednesday though.

This morning I got a parking permit for my flat! Only been on the waiting list a year. I feel privileged.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

God, I am so bored. Don't know if it's post gig comedown or remains of hangover or what but I'm feeling kinda blah now. :-(

This is the problem with having a really good gig; it's hard to come back down to earth afterwards.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

I used to have that problem at work - I'd have people in town for a week for a project and then after they left, I would just crash. Like I totally expended all my positive energy and needed a week to charge up again.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 26 June 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think I just need sleep, really. Coffee and chocolate is not an adequate substitute.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

This morning I got a parking permit for my flat!

So where are you going to park it?

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Mark, how was Italy?x

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to confuse the council by parking my flat in another estate! xpost - what Archel said

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 26 June 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

It was very hot, very relaxing, and full of food, which was transferred to me. I wish I wasn't at work (though the weather is a blessed relief tbh).

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Monday, 26 June 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

massive xpost obviously but thanks andrew. I didn't know that there had been a mass exodus to livejournal. Thats a massive shame but it explains why ILX has been dead the past few months. Can't say LJ sounds appealing though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

What an exciting morning. Fire engines AND the arrival of our interactive whiteboard which we are exploring to the full by writing rude words on it. And then it converts your handwriting to type! (Unless you have crap writing like ooh, all of our tutors in which case it struggles.) But it so clever.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, that sounds cool.

I intend on spending the day creating mine own MySpace, hurrah!

And my sound, which worked yesterday, has stopped working today because I brought headphones. Bah.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, it's:

http://www.myspace.com/masonicboomk8

if anyone wants to friend me, though I've not got much up there yet.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

12 days without riding a (proper) bike and my god how much fitness do you lose! Still, it's good to be cycling again and my thighs are still HARD and TONED and SEXY so I'll get back into it pretty soon I imagine :) Morning everyone!

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of sexy thighs, I'm kind of annoyed because last night I had a dream that I found the BEST boots of sex in the entire world. They were thigh high and buckles on them and they weren't just pirate boots or riding boots but proper CAVALIER BOOTS that made me want to go and behead some fun-hating Roundheads.

And then as I was walking along Holborn, I saw that Jones Bootmaker had a sale on boots! Hurrah! With beautiful riding boots... which, of course, wouldn't zip up over my big fat calves. I'm convinced this is because I've never worn high heels, that I have big, muscular calves instead of skinny girly calves. :-(

I have thin ankles, though. So nothing that fits my ankles fits my legs and nothing that fits my legs fits my ankles.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Also, how the heck can I get Windows Media player to rip an AIF file to an MP3?

Please don't tell me to download some other program, because I cannot, due to restrictions on this 'puter.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

argh! jehovahs!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Ilx just lost my post... I don't understand how :( And it was fascinating, compelling and Very Important too.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Easy, emsk. Remember, they're as scared of you as you are of them.

Well, they are by now, I bet.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, everyone. Bizarrely, I have come into find that all the work I did yesterday has seemingly disappeared into thin air...

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

Same thing happens to all the money I earn and the food I buy

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha! I've never had jehovas come round, what did you do emsk? You didn't try and . . . (gulp) talk to them, did you?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

i remained AMAZINGLY calm and zapped them by playing them at their own game and keeping a sweet grin fixed - perhaps a touch too fixed, just like theirs - to my face. they were freaked out and didn't really try too hard once i'd said that i'd do them the courtesy of not trying to change their minds and it would be nice if they could extend same to me, they just mumbled a bit about sharing something so wonderful then skedaddled.

I AM ZEN MASTER

actually it was before i'd had my coffee and i just wanted to get rid of them; if they'd come round half an hour later they might have had a different experience.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Trying to figure out why I am SO DAMN HUNGRY then realised that I'd got up an hour early today for no apparent reason, so had breakfast that much longer ago.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

i am zen master, and have been for weeks.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Does WMP even play .aiff files? I thought they were the apple versoin of .wav.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Amiga or atari originally I think.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

It will actually play them as media files. But it won't "rip" them to MP3 like it will with a normal audio CD.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Can you burn them to a disc and then rip them from there?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hrrrmmmm. Not sure... let me see?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

(I am also available to make obvious suggestions on other topics, as well.)

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, so obvious I didn't think of it at all.

Right now it's thinking about it, otherwise known as "inspecting". Or, erm, something.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I really don't get this. It will play, but not burn these files. Keeps saying "file type not supported." It's an AIF file, of course it's supported!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

do you have winamp? it has a filewriter plugin that'll convert anything it can play to a wav file on your disk.

where's the aiff from? can't you get them to send you an mp3?

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, it's an AIF that I made, mixdowns of demos and the like. I can make them into MP3s at home and reburn the CD tonight. It just would have been nice to be able to do it today in one go. :-(

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

i'd volunteer to do it via e-mail for you, but that doesn't really make any sense, does it?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, but they're 30Mg files, I don't really want to go chucking them about the interweb.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. Some random student just came and asked me a favour 'as one young person to another'! I was so flattered I said yes. Good technique!

(And five minutes later my bump was noticed for the first time by someone who didn't already know. I sort of wanted to embarrass them by saying 'nah that's just fat actually'.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am exhausted, there is no way shifting two tons of office and missing a night's sleep should make me this tired.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

What about all the booze and boating? Could that make you tired?

Tee hee, Arch, they could just reply "No, obviously it was a compliment that you look like you are GLOWING!"

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

I have just been offered 12,000 trees free, gratis. I am quite overcome.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

Where on earth would you get 12,000 trees?

What are they for? Where are you going to plant them? And can I help?

I'm still bouncing with excitement about the Marfa Lights film. UFO's Spacerock and Modern Art, three of my favourite things.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

A wood. In The Fens. Yes (NB involves camping in November)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Free trees sounds very good. How many person-hours does it take to plant 12,000?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

If it comes to more than 1200 I'm in trouble.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Are these seedlings or proper trees?

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

A wood. In The Fens. Yes (NB involves camping in November)

pls to count me in? also let's talk pirates?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe if I practise camping then I will be OK to camp in November. It just means you wear more clothes to stay warm in the cold November Rain, right? I want to plant trees.

PIRATES PIRATES PIRATES, EMSK SHALL BE THE PIRATE QUEEEEEEN!!!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

don't steal my thunder.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

arrg.

Next camping is a week on friday, Emsk. if you're in.

As for pirates; a charity is looking for volunteers to train up and drive their narrowboats on school trips and the like. They are desperate for people who can do daytime trips during the week. They will train you up and there is the potential to borrow the boats for other purposes once you are known and loved. I shall mail you a number to call.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

is that the w/e of the 15th? i might be home for my dad's birthday or at a friend's film premiere or at latitude... oh god i have no idea what date it is... if it's the 8th/9th it is DUNWICH DYNAMO yay! (i am a bit scared of this now)

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

weekend of the 7th-9th

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe if I practise camping then I will be OK to camp in November. It just means you wear more clothes to stay warm in the cold November Rain, right? I want to plant trees.

it means in the daytime you keep busy and have plenty of ~~brandy~~tea-breaks, in the evening you cosy up around the fire, and between bedtime and breakfasttime you wear lots and lots and lots of layers.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

I've not done much camping on an intensive basis ever. Just one or two single nights at a time, in fact. Pathetic I know. Going to Scottish highlands and Shetland and Orkney this summer though and it looks like I need to invest in a tent. Not to mention midge repellent.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.blaskan.nu/Bilder/ultravox.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I wish I could take days off, as that sounds like the coolest thing ever. Wish I'd known about it while I was freelancing.

I like wearing layers and drinking ~~brandy~~tea and sitting around fires! I don't like doing things in summer because I don't like sweating. But when it's cold, you don't sweat so much. Or rather, it's good "I've been working hard" sweat not nasty horrible "ugh, the air feels like slime" sweat.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe if I practise camping then I will be OK to camp in November. It just means you wear more clothes to stay warm in the cold November Rain, right? .
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-68238/ph-gnr041.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, do you get 3 guitar solos in November Rain like Slash did?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, I was hoping that it would mean I got to play guitar while standing on top of a piano, on a clifftop.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

Also, DAMN, Izzy was hottttttt.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

A bit Mike Scott-y, though, don't you think?

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, Izzy is just plain lovely. I've totally got a crush of shame on him, and have since I was 19 or something. Eep.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't find a pic of Slash on top of the piano in the video. I searched for it but no luck. If anyone can find one please post!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to do Slash one better and be playing on top of a piano on top of a chapel on top of a cliff!!!

I want it to be August already so I can see movies about spacerock bands and UFOs. I am almost unreasonably excited about this.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Last weeks listening Charts on Last FM

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Today I am going to listen to Six Organs of Admittance. What should I start with?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, Split Enz inspired drone ("Dysrhythmia")!

One of my former employees just accepted a new job offer today, for twice the salary! And I am still unemployed :(

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that was an easy choice. Only one album in here.

Right, I'm going to get my head down and try to do some work this afternoon.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Are we going to do the Great British Beer Festival this year? I have been looking up details.Enetertainment is most non-traumatising on wednesday 2nd August and thursday 3rd August.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, oh dear. Errr... I'll have to see about getting a day off work in that case.

MORE MUSIC LIKE SIX ORGANS FOR MY BRANE, PLEASE!!!

Aw, sod it, is Kerr even online? I'm going to go and consult the Ptolomaic Terrascope "If you like this, you'll love this..." page for a bit.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

One can go in the evening. (NB by least traumatising; wednesday night features a last members standing version of whitesnake)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think I meant thursday.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

In what universe is that NOT traumatic?

Should I listen to the Fairport Convention? I keep seeing them namedropped by bands I really like, but I PH34R the folk.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's less traumatic that and Abba cover band. I'd have gone for the Chas and Dave night but they don't seem to have been booked this year.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yes you should listen to Fairport convention, give in to the folk.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to turn into my father. :-/

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

We all do.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

I thought women were supposed to turn into their mothers.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Doesn't seem to be the case.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, back to my drone and my reports. Bah.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Liege & Leaf by Fairport Convention is wonderful. Lots of great lead guitar so nothing to be scared of kate.

As for recommendations for "freak-folk" and drone etc i'd usually recommend http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/index.php But they have a problem with theirs ite just now and lost a lot of info and are running back ups. So a lot of the reviews are missing. Worth checking whats there though. I think it said on the site anything after january is missing.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Actually it appears to be october 2005.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm well into Sunburned Hand of the Man now which is just about hitting the spot.

How did I get so out of touch? Oh yeah, several years of un/under employment and no money. I need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the Naughties about 5 years late.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

CAn you make some CDs or maybe we should sit in a pub with percy and my as yet unnamed lappy and merge their minds.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I could let you borrow some of the source material, Ed - you should just be able to suck if off the discs if you have a big hard drive.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, that sound dirty, and it wasn't even FP!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds good; I am low on weekends between now and december.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Kate have you checked out Subarachnoid Space, Paik, Zombi yet?
Or Don Caballero, Do Make say Think?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, argh, argh, I am suddenly utterly and completely wound up and annoyed.

Thanks for the mail, Kerr, what is it?

Will check out those bands tomorrow.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

This thread really reminds me of the Ozric Tentacles gig I went to in 1991, only with less marijuana smoke.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I dont smoke!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm well into Sunburned Hand of the Man now which is just about hitting the spot.

Playing at the festival mentioned upthread, Kate!

(As if you needed any other reason to spend the day with my good self and Chris, drinking in a church)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all, I'm in a spectacularly good mood today. I've been to the dentist, the temptations have sorted out my DJ set, the sun is shining. Klezmer was great last night, as was the lady on the dulcimer singing rude songs (in a 17th century northern pam ayres kind of a way). all seems good with the world.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 29 June 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! More about the folk last night please Ed?

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 29 June 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha, that sound dirty, and it wasn't even FP!

Hey, am I getting some kind of a reputation here??? ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 29 June 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, FP, are you cool with paying for your EP using our online webulator store?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

(Pashmina used it the other day, but you should ignore the fact we haven't seen him around for a while...)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

(p.s. good morning everyone)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds fine Tissp - it'll have to wait until I get home next week I think though if that's ok.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

That's not a problem!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, am I getting some kind of a reputation here??? ;-)

This is very close to being your ILEpitaph...

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

(kate if you come here before checking yr mail today, pls to check your mail!)

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

I always check my email first, Emsk.

Argh, I'm in a pissy mood becuase I overslept and the Red Dragon finally arrived a week late, spitting fire and eating people.

And was going through my MySpace bulletins and the first thing I see is this graphic DON'T KILL YOUR BABY!!! message from a girl I know which has dozens of graphic pictures of late term "abortions" and the like.

And it's one of those things which is just SO uncalled for on so many levels. I feel like sending her back a private message saying "OK, if you're anti-abortion and you think people who have had abortions are babykillers, then perhaps you shouldn't be my friend, and perhaps you shouldn't judge people and their decisions until you've actually had to choose between the life of your unborn child and your OWN life and then see how black and white the issue is."

Or perhaps I should just rip an MP3 of the song "Are You For Eighty-Six" and email that to her.

Or perhaps I should just quietly unfriend her. Bah.

Yes, yes, TISSP! I am so going to this festival, though.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

tissp's shop appears to be a secret shop. no mention of url anywhere on this thread...

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 29 June 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, don't want to seem like I'm spamming. That said,

http://www.iff-transponder.co.uk/city_seventeen/

(+ shop.php if you prefer the more direct route)

Do you want me to get you a ticket, Kate?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, please, TISSP! I need a holiday and freakfolk in Cambridge sounds like a good thing and yes, please to a place to stay for the night, too.

Also, I can't do paypal so can I mail you the money? Or give it to you in person at the festival (and hope you and Chris don't spend it on beer?)

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, report the spamming and say you're not sure whether it's abusive or not, but you think it might be.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, just bring the cash with you. I'll get you a ticket. And a place to stay is no problem.

(and hope you and Chris don't spend it on beer?)

I think you may be slightly overestimating the provision of alcohol at this festival... (nearest bar: Sainsbury's)

(xposts)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

plz 2?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't say it's abusive spamming, that's a bit too strong of a term. It's more like... I dunno. How do you handle it when someone you know and thought you were friends with starts spouting vile political stuff which is personally offensive? Do you take them aside and say something? Or do you ignore it and avoid getting any closer to them and/or bringing it up?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

When is cambs freak folkfest?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Part of the sacrifice of your own free speech is to bestow the same right on others, and I wouldn't say it's abusive spamming. That said, I'd unfriend them (or whatever you MySpace kids do these days) and go round to their houses and kick them to death. But that's just me.

xpost

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

IGNORE IT

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

26th August, Ed.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

is there a website because now i have to decide between that and cross central.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Freedom of speech and freedom from censorship *might* have a place in Rupert's new kiddie wonderland (please let me know when you find that place and you get PRIZES) but graphic photies on MySpace are proscribed in the T&C's. Oh, K, you know I hit the roof when SPUCheads go in for full colour abort-o-vision. If she wants to put stuff up on HerSpace, that's fine, but YourSpace isn't that place. Ask her politely not to send such things, due to the offense caused and delete it. Then if it happens again you should probably unfriend and report. People who give that shit to (other) women to look at are total perverts.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.palimpsest-festival.co.uk/

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

I sent this in reply:

Hi, XXX

I just have to say that it made me really uncomfortable to go through my bulletins and find this propaganda in my inbox first thing in the morning.

Maybe you want to write me off as a "heartless babykiller" or whatever... but seriously. I actually pray (and I don't use that word lightly) that you never actually find yourself in a position where you have to choose between the life of your unborn child and your own health and possibly life.

Because until you have actually faced that kind of decision, then I don't think that you can make sweeping judgements about my actions or my morality, or the rights of other women.

So please think before you send anything like that again.

Regards,
Kate

She's only 18 or something, so I think it's naivete, not actual hostility. She's a smart kid, and there might be a chance to de-indoctrinate her if she could learn to trust her own brain.

What's funny is, even though it was horribly graphic, it wasn't actually the blood and guts that offended me as much as the propaganda of it. (And I bet you anything that many of the medical snapshots are actually from miscarriages not abortions.)

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

No toilets? Blimey!

and BYOB in plastic bottles? Guess we're going to have to get a box of pink wine, then.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

Well, you can take glass and cans etc in. Last year we spent the day hammered on cans of gin & tonic.

Which is strange, in a church.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

No, it says no glass!

Drinking in churches is strange. Which is why gigs at Union CHapel are always so weird.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Does it? I must learn to read.

The toilet situation, to be honest, I am unsure of. Last year my girilfriend lived just around the corner so we just hopped back to her house every so often.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, yes. Now I've actually read it, toilet facilities in the new public ones. Which won't be overrun at all. Oh no.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure of the value of having an 18-yr-old fervent anti-abortionist as ANY kind of friend, virtual or otherwise. I'd have to say defriend her and ignore her, full stop, and report her if she keeps it up. Your letter was very nice and very sensitive, but I suspect you're on a hiding to nothing.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Well, in other respects she's a very interesting and intelligent young woman. I don't care if this sounds horrible, but I suspect that many people's views at 18 are the result of indoctrination and encultured attitudes, however at 18, people's minds are not fully developped and still capable of being opened.

I'm not trying to act like another indoctrinator, the last thing I want to do is try to change her mind by sheer force or dogma. However, I would like to try and show her that she can open her mind, and try to get her to think outside her experience. At 18, it's not yet too late to write someone off.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

OK, that's cool, she wrote back quite reasonably, apologised for offense caused, and was explaining her motivations for posting it. (Not as simple as reactionary anti-abortion.) So sometimes it's good to open a dialogue rather than make assumptions.

And plus, hurrah, I don't have to work this weekend. Yay!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

I just saw strandbeesten in the park! I recommend. St James's Park, off the Mall, over the road and west a bit from the ICA.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Where was I reading about Strandbeesten?

There's something in the last Country Life as well that I wanted to see - a beast of a dump truck made out of bits of Gothic tracery.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

99! RED! BALLOONS!

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Did you count them all?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Every single one! I took a picture, marked them off in MS paint, and kept a running tally. I have renewed faith in my t-shirt's designer :)

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

For kate

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, thanks, I needed that. :-(

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, is your email address working did you say?

Kate, check yr mail!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

There's nothing in my inbox but a wave of discontent about fonts. :-(

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, perhaps it will appear soon!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I have a headache.

Work sux0r.

That's all.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, sorry to hear that, Pash.

I am so hungry I am reduced to eating seeds I found in the bottom of my desk.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 29 June 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. There's a weird mood in my office. Not the usual Friday thing. Everyone seems to be waiting for something momentous to happen.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

Is something momentous due to happen?

I'm in a weird mood today, but it's not about anything momentous.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

I hope not, I just want an easy life... at work at least

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

I seem to be getting a cold. And I'm not allowed to take anything for it grr. It does seem a little unfair that I am simultaneously suffering from it being far too hot.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

morning! grr i found out this morning i cannot leave the house today :( i ordered a cover for my bike as now she has to sleep outside and got an email sent yesterday from the company saying it had been dispatched and would be delivered by courier today between 8.30 and 5.30 (for a start, why can't they just POST the damn thing?). no consignment number or anything. my new address is a bit weird in that the house is on a corner and the front door is on the road that the address isn't, if that makes sense, so i googled the courier co. to get their number to warn them. first thing i found were pages of complaints about them - delivering to wrong address, not even trying to deliver and putting cards through door, forging signatures, leaving expensive electronics equipment in pouring rain, etc etc - but anyway i called them and they don't have a record of any delivery today for my address, or for the old one where the card i paid with is still registered. called the co. i ordered from and got an answering machine, left a message there, emailed them, stuck a note on the door number nearest ours on the road the address is on saying number XX is this way, and one on my door saying someone is in all day. now i don't know what to do. i don't want to be stuck inside all day if it's not even coming! grargh.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

and i am leaping up every time i hear a vehicle stop and running from window to window. grr.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

That is a pain
xxpost That is a pain

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in a weird mood myself today. damn emotional rollercoaster of a week.

FAP photos are half-decent, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Both of these things are annoying. Stupid colds. Stupid delivery companies.

x-post, FP! How's things?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

hurrah hurrah, they DID just post it! postie just turned up with it in his hand. now ariadne has pyjamas. and the belgian will be here in half an hour, woo!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

Things are ... a bit weird and unsettled.

I know you said "don't read stuff into everything" the other day, but when someone's being indecisive and says "I don't know what to do about *anything* at the moment" it's hard not to wonder if they're talking about Something Else.

But then ... it's hard to sit down and actually say stuff straight out. But I guess sometime today it's going to have to be done.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah for bike pyjamas! And hurrah for the Belgian, give her a big hug from me and tell her that I will do my best to mispronounce my apparently dirty French for her. :-)

FP, it sounds like neither of you know what to do about it at the moment, but perhaps sitting down and talking (or writing, if that's easier for you to express yourself) is in order.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to try to get us to talk this afternoon, fingers crossed

(after all tonight we'll both be slaughtered at the munch, and tomorrow I'm supposed to be off home)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

i just had to order a bag for my bike as the cursed First not so great western have run out of bike spaces on their trains and I'll have to make the bike look like luggage.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all. I am infuriated because I paid extra for something to be delivered today, and by the looks of it only one item out of the eight will be.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

:) i am taking her to this jont thing tonight, that shimuras hopefully will play at, see what it's like. it appears to be in someone's house this week!

xpost that sucks ed, do you have to get a big box thing? hard to imagine how it'll work otherwise...

sorry abt your cold archel :( miserable being coldy in summer.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Grrr to both of those. (xpost)

However, I have heard from my father, and there is a STORY behind my heirloom ring (the geometrical looking one that I was wearing at The Lex's party)! It is known as "the mathematical ring" as my grandmother bought it "for herself" with the royalties from her first book. (The Maths Grannie wrote mathematical textbooks, hence why she is known as the Maths Grannie.)

Also, I have started reading my book about Hyperspace and it is GRATE!!!! Only a chapter and a half in and my mind is being bent in brilliant, non-Euclidian ways. I love it. I love, love, love it.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Comes in. Looks around.

Hmm, never been here. Don't know the rules. Feel an outsider.

Runs away.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

look, a belgian! a different belgian!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, Nath, stay and have a cup of water/coffee/your drink of choice! Be most welcome!

The only rules are No F**tb*ll, No B*g Br*th*r and Kate Is Queen Of All She Surveys (or at least she likes to pretend, and the others humour her when she's cranky.)

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, a REAL Belgian, too, not a Belgian pretending to be French!
;-)

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

And I am King!

(since I said it first)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, I guess I'll stay. I'll have a decaf latte. Myum myum. And of course Kate is Queen (of everything). I think you're WICKED KOOL and I wish you could be my sister! I'd tell all my friends that my sister was a Koolio RawkSt*Rr!

Belgian? Oh yes, sigh. Not the best thing to be these days: Two girls were kidnapped, sexually abused and strangled. They were found the other day in a drainpipe or something. And the other week some group of youngster kicked a guy to death on a bus. And so on and so on. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Bog off TISSP, pretender to the throne. The ranks of the peerage were established ages ago on Tudor ILX. We have the Eoarl of Clerkenwell and the duelling Dukes of Har(r)ingey/gay and the Spymaster of Hackney and Princess Pink of Cambridge and so on and so forth. I don't remember ennobling you. In fact, you will have to pay fiefdom to Princess Pink, I think.

Nath, you can be my psychic psoul psister. How's that?

And that reminds me, my sisX0r and I are forming a NOIZE band to play at ATP.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Decaf? DECAF?

GET OUT

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like it's time for an uprising.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

Them's fightin' words, TISSP. I may have the body of a feeble womang but I have the HEART and STOMACH and POSTING ABILITY OF A KING!!!!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

I am now waiting on hold for someone to explain where the fuck my delivery is.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

I will drink decaf with Nath. Have had no caffeineated beverages since April eek!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

FUCKING RETARDS. No delivery until Monday.

I AM NOT HERE ON MONDAY YOU FUCKS THAT'S WHY I PAYED EXTRA TO HAVE IT SENT TODAY

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Decaf? DECAF?"

i breastfeed!

"Nath, you can be my psychic psoul psister. How's that?"

Ooooh thank you!!! I wuv YOU tond!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

i breastfeed!

Any excuse!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

All this talk of caffeine is making me want a cup of tea. Or I might just cave and go to Starf*cks. It is Friday, but i've had way too much coffee already this week.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

I AM NOT HERE ON MONDAY YOU FUCKS THAT'S WHY I PAYED EXTRA TO HAVE IT SENT TODAY

truly they are all appalling. i've had so much stuff be disappeared, misdelivered. a few times i've ended up trekking to the depot (the one in ACTON which is a miserable godforsaken hellhole anwyay), after calling them in the morning to make sure it was there, and half the time even then they can't find it. the companies that send stuff thru them must be used to it bc they usually just send a replacement out no problem.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus, did I just spell "paid" as "payed"??

I must be annnoyed.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, to be fair, at least Primer arrived today. So it's not all bad today.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

hello. it's friday. everyone be nice to me! please.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, g-kit! How are you doing?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Nath! Hi g-kit! Hi tissp! Hi everyone!

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

Errrrrr....

http://www.progradio.com/Progressive%20Profiles%201_files/image008.jpg

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, that makes no sense without the second half of the post:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/EveSP/TOPLESSwithbeans.jpg

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

*waves back* Hello!

That above pic is ROWR.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 30 June 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

Which one?

TSM = ELP!!! Proven by science!!!

(Even if I have to photoshop a picture of Brandon's face onto a silver jumpsuit, kicking over his organ.)

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'M GOOD.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

kaet. we should have a classic exchange today.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

I really hate ELP. More than any other prog band really.
Can we pretend Emerson never left The Nice?

hey Nath!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still deeply confused by the very notion of what constitutes a "classic exchange." Oh wait, I've got one!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Strindberg: Oh god, I'm so depressed today, my SSRI's aren't working, and my utter lack of a sex life is only serving to reinforce my endless sense of alientation and isolation.

Helium: Have a cookie?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

:D :D :D

i doff my cap to thee.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

though i kinda meant we should engineer an ALL NEW classic exchange. but we're not gonna top that, really.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

despite the fact that i come out of that exchange looking like an unhelpful, one-note, clueless cunt, but we knew that anyway, AMIRITE?
let's hug.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Threads like that only really seem like a giant circlejerk to me, not to mention the excuse for casual nastiness. Besides, I just can't get the notion of "classic ILX exchanges" because ILX is just so... I don't know. Ephemeral?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

wow, ILX in backslapping circlejerkery shocker.
this is why i'm trying to fabricate a 'CLASSIC EXCHANGE'. nobody is gonna jerk us off, kaet

:INSERT TEARS HERE(

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of it is just AIM with an automatic, publically accessible bacup, really, isn't it?

Which is OK, really.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly! Which is what's great about it.

But also why those types of threads just seem like the ILX equivalent of "I love 2002" or something. Only with less funnies and more annoying talking heads to provide yak and "commentary".

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

you forgot to include the phrase "C-list cunts"

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

i really wasn't supposed to be this negative. whoops!

today is fun, i'm bouncy today.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's a squashy bag thing with pockets for wheels. Rolls up small when not in use.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

Out of context, that is delightfully weird.

God, I hate Starfucks for introducing the Java Chip to my life. I don't even like their coffee, but it's coffee and icecream and chocolate all rolled into once. The only way it could possibly be better would be to add alcohol.

Mmmm, wait, vanilla vodka... mmmm...

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, I am suspicious that I am being defrauded.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

i confused myself now.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Defrauded by whome?

Confused by what?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

I got a random call from someone claiming to be HSBC, asking me to ring a number. I called the number and the first question I was asked was, "What is your debit card number?".

Hmmm.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds odd to me. What did they say the number was for?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

what was the number? (phone, not debit card)

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

That's phone phishing. It's the new scam sweeping the nation.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Call the real HBSC and report it. You may need to cancel your card. Banks never ask for your debit card number, they ask for your account number.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

The number was HSBC Fraud Prevention. I phoned the main number and checked it out, and it's kosher. They were performing a random fraud check, apparently.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Still, a poor way to open a dialogue.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Great way to check for fraud - by imitating it. I'd still cancel the card.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Are you sure you didin't call back a number and they said it was HSBC fraud prevention? When call like this have happened to me (eg after making a large foreign purchase) they never ask for car numbers, but for password and date of birth or mother's maiden name or whatever.

Call your branch that sounds well dodgy.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

No, they were definitely real. Apart from the HSBC giving me the same nnumber for the Fraud Prevention Dept as they phone call did, they new an awful lot about my recent transactions. They also explained that they'd sent me a letter asking me to call them, which explains the letter I got from the HSBC this morning that I didn't open.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Er, my keyboard appears to be dropping random letters there, sorry.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

(And adding some)

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

SUMMER FUN: www.streetwars.net

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

cough CSI: NYC cough 8) ended badly from what i remember.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

Apropos of nothing:

This is the friendliest thread on ILM. I quite enjoy it.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, Ed, I just realised that Espers are on one of the discs that I kept. Sorry!

x-post :-) Glad you think so. I don't know why it inspires such hate in others.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Lloyds TSB (or not) sent me a TEXT asking me to contact them on a number. Since I have never given my bank my mobile number I didn't call them. And also if they need to speak to me so badly they can phone ME.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

I would actually call Lloyds and report the text, Archel.

All this reminds me of the way googlemail now asks you to give them your mobile number to get an account. Although I can vaguely imagine some future benefit from this, I don't like all of this seemless connection of identifiers -- account number, tax id, address, mobile #, email, credit card spending habits, etc. In a couple of years, if not already, our whole lives are going to be in someone's files somewhere.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

ILE has been weird today. it even made me smile.

our fabricated classic didn't go unnoticed, kaet.
STRANGE DAYS, YO. group hug.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

What if you don't have a mobile phone? Are you not allowed to have a gmail account, then? Rub!

Eh? Did we get circlejerked or something, g-kit?

Still, any excuse for a group hug!

::HUGGLES::

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, we got circlejerked.
i'm going for a shower before we hug. it's for the best.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

what, is no one interested in running around london shooting strangers with water pistols all summer?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, I live in Lambeth. I ain't running around with ANYTHING shaped even remotely like a pistol.

And you should be thinking tiwce about this, considering you live in HACKNEY where they shoot people for carrying table legs.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

it's ok, you aren't allowed to play in streatham or brixton. the cutoff point south is somewhere around pimlico. east it's just to the east of homerton station. hurrah!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

(also ssh don't tell them!)

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hi everyone!

Waaaah, our firewall has stopped that www.streetwars.net - what's it all about? (If it's waterpistoling people, count me in)

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

it is waterpistoling people! proper spying and sneaking around. you get the address, email and phone number of your target and you have three weeks to "kill" them. if you do, their target gets passed on to you. but
you must live or work in this area http://www.streetwars.net/imgs/streetwarsLondon.jpg to play.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

You must also apparently go back in time to before the Jubilee line was extended!

(Bah, the sugar crash is unfortunately stronger than the caffeine rush with those frappuccinos.)

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Also, this Animal Collective CD really should come with a sticker that says DO NOT EVEN ATTEMPT TO LISTEN TO THIS AT WORK, ESPECIALLY WITH HEADPHONES!!!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Why?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

You still haven't listened to Subarachnoid Space,Paik or Zombi yet have you?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Because they're super-trippy and have all sorts of super-head-fuck-stereo-effects which make it really difficult to concentrate on any kind of mathematical task when meowing cats playing tambourine are flying around your head at super-luminal speeds.

(No, because they are on the CDs I lent to Ed to listen to.)

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

I just about got through Feels with only a few minutes of staring into space slack-jawed, but two songs into Sung Tongs, I just gave up, it was doing my head in. I'm really enjoying it, but not at work. I need to be somewhere it's OK if my brain drips out of my ears and down my face.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, I read a script about that - naturally it involved the waterpistollers actually shooting each other with real guns, knifing , poisoning etc. It was mediocre.

I have a java chip frap in front of me. Not bad at all.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

why do londoners get all the fun?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

I want kaet to sign up for last.fm so we can spy on her more accurately!!

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, but it's organised fun (xpost), and we all know that that doesn't actually count.

Emsk, please humour me by only waterpistolling people on windy, rainy, unseasonably cold and miserable summer days. It's pointless otherwise.

I wonder who the first waterpistoller shot by the police will be? Haha it would be great if the next target on your list was an armed police officer :)

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

the waterpistol thing was what i was referring to when i mentioned CSI upthread, was the basis of one of their stories. yes, shootings with real guns. in a graveyard with a living memorial video screen thing. can't remember other details. probably involved the doctor doing that thing with his front-fastening glasses.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

"classic exchange" is sounding more like a euphemism with every use.

who fancies one with me, eh?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Kate's too scared to sign up as she doesn't want us to know what she listens to!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

i already had a Classic Exchange with Kaet.
it was AMAZING.

or are you talking about something else?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

No spying on me! I tell you what I'm listening to when I'm listening to anything interesting!

Though ha ha, there are two threads on TSM board - What Are You Currently Listening To and Top Five Songs In Your iTunes - which have been very revealing.

What was most embarrassing was that the songs on the top of my iTunes list are the things I tend to "Carolanne" on, and those are usually bubblegum songs, so my Top 5 was all The Archies and Nancy Sinatra and stuff. Heh. Brandon's was so pretentious we all think he must have lied. Benjamin's was really good, I want to see his Last.FM page because his list was all Faust, Gong and Six Organs of Admittance and stuff like that.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

This was my iTunes top five. I'm not kidding:

The Archies - Sugar Sugar
David Bowie - Let Me Sleep Beside You
Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walking
Marianne Faithfull - Something Better
Spiritualized - Anyway That You Want Me

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Benjamin's full playlist...

Robert Wyatt - Schleep
Robert Wyatt - Theatre Royal Drury Lane (Live)
Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
Bear in Heaven - Tunes Nextdoor to Songs (this is amazing)
The Orb - Okie Dokie its the Orb on Kompakt
Holy F**K - Holy F**K
Growing - Color Wheel
Gong - Live Floating Anarchy 77
School of Seven Bells (of course ;-) ) ***
Delia Gonzales & Gavin Russom - Days of Mars
Secret Machines - Marfa Lights Music
Faust - So Far
801 - 801 Live
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda

***This is his solo project, hence the nedmoticon

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'd sign up to streetwars if I were in London then :( Instead, I will bring buckets of water to faps.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

It was so sunny the other day we could have done with waterpistols.

The problem with recent playlist type charts is that they would show that my average day's listening involves listening to "Wake Me Up" by Girls Aloud (or whatever bubblegum choon I'm carolanning at that time) 17 times in a row, then listened to about 4 hours of random dronerock.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

you should see my top 10 for audioscrobbler this week. then we'll find out who the REAL cunt is.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

LOL@MY TASTE TBH

1 Nerina Pallot 19
2 Weezer 15
3 Queen 7
4 The Corrs 3
5 The Get Up Kids 2
6 The Presidents of the United States of America 1
6 Gomez 1
6 Ash 1
6 blink-182 1
6 Les Savy Fav

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

God, it's worse than I thought, kit! Bwargh! I am no longer embarrassed by my Archies and Girls Aloud fixations!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

yah, pretty tragic, eh?
i'll understand if you never talk to me again. i like the random Les Savy Fav at the bottom though.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I'm still thinking about scrobbling with Benjamin. It sounds dirty so I like it.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

i'm glad i made you feel better.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Weekly Top Artists
Sunday Jun 18 - Sunday Jun 25
1 Mediæval Bæbes 52
2 Dimmu Borgir 9
3 Ride 8
4 Immortal 7

I pwn yuo, kit.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

in what way?
i hope you're not implying that your week's playlist is sadder than mine?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

being the cheesepop loving TWAT that i so obviously am, i dunno any of that stuff.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Mediæval Bæbes?!?!? Pash, I'm ashamed of you.

Scrrrrrrobbbling. Why do I think this sounds dirty? Wasn't there some 18th Century lesbian who referred to what she got up to with her neighbours and maids as scrobbling?

I totally want to scrobble Benjamin. Whatever it means, I'm up for it. :-)

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

THE CORRS, you guys.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

nr 1 in my list is way sadder than anything, plus for extra credibility division, I bought it after seeing their myspace page OMG STREETTEAMED 2 x0x0x0x. 2 of the other 2 bands are corpsepaint-wearing black metallers.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but the Ride makes up for it. Sort of.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

On my last fm; which suxors to the extreme:
dEUS 153 times
Robyn 124 times
Hall & Oates 51 times

Oh where were the days I would bang my head against the wall while listening to MetalMachineMusickness. ROFL.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I can't wait to go home. I'm going to eat a pizza and drink my Badger Beer and watch the rest of Black Books. I had forgotten how much in love with Bernard Black I am. Why is he so wonderful? He's a horrible, ascerbic pisshead. But I just really want to hug him so much. OK, I'd probably give him a bath first. But still. When was lust conflated with secretly wanting to *be* someone? This is the story of my life.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

BADGER BEER!!!
pld tbh

golden glory?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I was watching Black Books last night, interestingly. And I am desperate to go home too! SPOOKY!

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I think it's First Gold I'm going to be drinking tonight, but Golden Glory is the best.

"I thought I was gay for a while... but the impossible standards of hygeine!" (or whatever it was, I'm terrible at remembering these things.)

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Here is my top 20 artists overall:

1 The Byrds 70
2 Popol Vuh 65
3 Ultravox 60
4 Mediæval Bæbes 52
5 Black Sabbath 33
6 IQ 31
7 Van der Graaf Generator 17
8 Steve Hackett 16
9 Manuel Göttsching 15
10 Loop 14
10 Stormclouds 14
12 Yes 13
12 Marillion 13
14 Vangelis 12
15 Led Zeppelin 10
15 Pulp 10
17 Dimmu Borgir 9
18 Ride 8
19 Immortal 7
20 London Philharmonic Orchestra; Mike Dixon 6

20 is actually a couple of tracks of the vangelis "blade runner" soundtrack that the audioscobbler plug misidentified.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yup, that's the quote. xpost

Kate is there a chance you'll be in contact with Ed by tomorrow?

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Errr... why?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Wondering if he wants me to get him a ticket for Palimpsest too or not.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I've texted you his contact details so you can ask him yerself!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

audioscrobbler was the old name for lastfm.

whilst we are here:

1 Autechre 466
2 Melt-Banana 324 (mostly because they are short)
3 The Fall 316 (mostly a result of the peel sessions box)
4 Ed Rush & Optical 248
5 BBC Radiophonic Workshop 219 (ditto shortness)
6 Echo & The Bunnymen 212
7 The Upsetters 192
8 Vex'd 190
9 Technical Itch 182
10 Pendulum 167

that said, bryan hodgson in at 13 with 144 plays and all his should count towards BBC radiophonic workshop as well.

whole thing is a bit skewed as i tend to shy away from actual songs whilst i'm working. it confuses me to hear words whilst i type.

today has been exclusively isan and new buffalo.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

freckles, freckles, freckles, why are they so great?

Oh, the power of freckles. I feel weak at the knees.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray, no buses for ages and they all come at once.

Friend at News Organisation has headsupped me to position as fashion and style person there, which I'd rule at.

Interview at posho book publishers Thursday morn. Woot.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 30 June 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

mine
http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/charts/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

rub it in yr list is kool. mine's rubbish i know. trying to upgrade said list with some tool.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hello there.

Kate, that cafe near your work does VERY good coffee, far better than St*rb*cks. Sadly, I don't think they do takeaways though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 July 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there.

Got back to my desk this morning to find that my chair has been nicked. Not in a mood to find out where it went (overslept, having not got home until 1am last night) I have nicked Big Dave's instead. It is an ex-Directorial beast of a chair that barely fits behind my desk, and is surprisingly uncomfortable.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 July 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

That was a pretty lovely weekend, evidence on my flickr. Everything came together just right.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 July 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hi everyone. I am hot (cos it's hot), tired (hot so can't sleep) and the fucking server in this shitty fucking company can't cope with more than a SELECT * FROM tblBOLLOX before going down the tube and out of the tournament.

Sigh.

For posterity, here is my top 10 most played tunes from my ipod:

1. Paris 1919 - John Cale
2. Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant
3. Racey Lacey - Girls Aloud
4. Song to the Siren - Tim Buckley
5. Helpless - Buffy Saint Marie
6. Biology - Girls Aloud
7. Just Can't Get Enough - Novelle Vague
8. Pinky and teh Brain theme
9. What's In It For Me? - Brakes
10. Girls Can Tell - The Crystals

God, that's embarassing. Tim Buckley in the top 5? Nouvelle Vague? Girls SOdding Aloud? Shit music police, take me now, it's a fair cop.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 July 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, the server has fixed itself, and people are using my MASSIVE DATABASE and are happy, which makes me happy.

Sighrelief.

Now I've stopped stressing . . . how was everyone's weekend? More megahot weather this week by all accounts.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:10 (nineteen years ago)

can't. Handle. heat. Have also had this rotten cold all weekend which is showing no signs of leaving, oh the ironing. Came in to work this morning to sort out inevitable 'first day of summer courses' madness and was planning to just get stuff done and then go home before lunch. But turns out my coworker is off too. With heatstroke. Fuck.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

argh argh argh argh argh. On so many levels. Argh.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

I love this picture, Ed:

http://static.flickr.com/76/180079576_3afbc1be3a.jpg

Something very KLF about it...

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Ironing in hot weather is torture of the worst kind. Usually when it's hot I get an extension lead and iron outside, but not luck over the weekend, I tries to spend most of Sunday indoors - I went outside for about a minute before getting my face burnt off.

Is that photo a screenshot from Last of the Summer Wine?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

I managed to get out of doing that as i was running the bar at the time. Poor james finished djing in Sheffield at 8:30 in the morning and packed his sound into the van and then got stuck on the M42 in searing midday heat for 3 hours so was late and everyone ended up moving the sound in their finery.

this was the result.

http://static.flickr.com/61/180072227_6978fa9488.jpg?v=0

James managed to get everyone to dance to Credence Clearwater Revival at 1 in the morning.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

And drinking pimms by the looks of it! Yay!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

My weekend was good, in parts. I've fitted so much in over the past few days and can't really believe all of it happened.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

He looks like he needs a bath...

NO!!!!

::slaps self::

It's the heat, making me talk crazy.

I've been here half an hour and the big boss is already demanding the reports. Sigh. Better get to work. Argh.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

So did you end up going to Southampton, FP?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

LOVE. THIS. HEAT. spent yesterday splashing around in the pond on hampstead heath. ah, summer, how i have missed thee.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

You're crazy. This heat makes me wilt.

I mean, it's OK if you're lolling about in a pond all day, but when you actually have to rush around and DO THINGS, then it really just sucks.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - I thought you loved the cold! You are very confusing.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

No, I went home Saturday, then was in Leicester yesterday.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 July 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad someone is enjoying the heat though emsk. I could hardly sleep at all last night. Plus we had a cat invasion in the middle of the night - window was open and a local kitty must have got in, but couldn't get out again as there's no window sill on the inside. She was panicky and mewing under the bed for ages before Matt could get her out, by which time her friend had turned up on our windowsill to investigate and I thought we were going to have two cats in bed with us all night.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/76/180079576_3afbc1be3a.jpg
http://www.radiance.org/lahimages/swissmiss.jpg

another weekend speaking to nobody but shop assistants and my telephonic mother. too hot to move for a lot of it. watched lots of tv, and slaved over a hot mp3 backup script.

did write a bit more php to create povray scripts to spin shiny spikes in 3d space: http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/povrand/mixed/

um, just been handed business cards. about 20 years' worth...

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

I can only remember the top 4 on my ipod:

1. You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes
2. I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
3. Killing an Arab - The Cure
4. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand

(Personally, I'd have thought that you don't want to be stealing things from someone called Big Dave.)

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

am i not allowed to love cold AND heat? they are both for different things. i also love, you know, the eighties matchbox b-line disaster and mojave 3.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

He's never tried to beat *me* up.

I was reading JPod, the new Douglas Coupland novel, on the train on Saturday, and was impressed to find that one of the random "stream of geek consciousness" pages in it was a page of Povray example code. Then I felt slightly geeky for recognising what it was.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

Loved the heat yesterday!

jPod is hysterical.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

It was so hot I nearly sweated all over my illustrations. This would have been bad.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hello... Weird weekend. Fun (drinks, big dinners etc) interspersed with shittiness (my uncle dying). Now I'm getting hassle from people at work (not in my dept) because I won't break pages that have already been signed off to add a story. It's a deadline for a reason, ffs. There's always another story that could go in - that's why we have the next edition, fucko. I'm getting really riled just typing this. I'd better go and have some lunch :(

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 3 July 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to hear that, Beanz. My condolences to you and yer family.

And bah boo hiss to people who don't understand what a deadline is.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm unemployed.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 July 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Ed :-( *hug*

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Unexpectedly?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks. He was massively overweight and had a heart attack in his sleep - only about 60 yrs old I think. I feel awful for my aunt (my mum's sister) - they live in New York and all the children are married and live to Israel, except one in Connecticut who was going to move to Florida this week). So she's got no family in NY and a big empty house...

xpost Oh Ed that's really shit :(

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod Ed! That's awful! What happened?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Its been shaky ever since I've been there. We've run out of money our sales team cannot produce any money. I'll be paid up to the end of july plus holiday entitlement and that's it.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, but they had been hanging on for so long, I thought more funding would come through or something. So sorry to hear this.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

oh god ed and beanz, that sucks.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 3 July 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hello everyone.
Its all cloud here. Seems warm enough but not a bit of clear sky or sun to be seen. Same as yesterday.
Its probably just a nice temp for you lot.
I dont mind warm temps in the 80s(f) as long as theres actual sun and its not humid. But we get the opposite.
Oh well i have a nice big electric fan if needed!
I'm off for a walk down the town.
Back in an hour!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Afternoon!

I've got the departmental fan trained straight on me. It's OK, as upon closer examination, it turned out to be the "MI Team Fan" (says so in writing!) Since I am the MI Team, clearly, it's my personal fan. Oh yeah.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

i played frisbee for THREE HOURS yesterday. am sore now.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

That's a lot of frisbee!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I have a frisbee in my desk and I'm working in the hope that I'll get to use it one day. In the meantime, the air conditioning unit (bought a couple of weeks ago and plonked in the middle of the room) has been moved to a corner pointing nowhere useful, to make space for the new guy... who hasn't turned up. I've got a tiny USB fan plugged into my keyboard, so I'm not suffering too badly I guess.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

i'm playing again tonight.
I LOVE frisbee, so, so much.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a tiny USB fan plugged into my keyboard

uuhhh... hang on a moment. A WHAT?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

(ep1 turned up today. mine's 119/200. cheers tissp)

usb fan: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5dee/

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 3 July 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

I wants one!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

bad news ed. at least you got to see beautiful florida and eat all our nasty american food

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Eyebrow lust.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, wrong thread. Where am I?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

back in my lovin' arms?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm back in the land of TOO MUCH CAFFEINE, WOOOOO!!!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

FINE, if that's what you prefer.

: TEARS GO HERE (

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry. Would you like a giant, frisbee-shaped cookie?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

some wounds just can't be healed, kaet.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

That's OK. MORE COOKIE FOR MEEEE!!!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

things are getting very very weird here

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/slypics/tron.jpg

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I imagine if the whole company has been given the "you're sacked, go on, git!" message at once, then... I dunno. Grab some spacerock harvesters and other techie goodness on your way out.

x-post HA HA HA , BEST THING EVAH!!!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sure he'd rather have LOVE in his hand, though.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Monday, 3 July 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

C&G 2330-201 "Working Effectively & Safely in an Electrotechnical Evvironment". Pass w/distinction

C&G 2330-202 "Principles of Electrotechnology". Pass w/distinction

I am now 1/2 an electrician (one more year & 2 more exams to go)

***************************************************************

Shit news Ed. Really sorry to hear about that, man.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I am sick of being at work. I think I'm going to leave early (well, I'm going to have to anyway as I don't want to have to carry all my gear on the Central Line at rush hour) and just hang around Shoreditch doing nothing instead of hanging around work doing nothing.

At least no one there will complain if I just sit and read my book about the tenth dimension.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, also, I meant to say, Congrats, Pash!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

group hug!

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Are there any nice parks in Shoreditch that you can sit in?

Well done Mr Pash!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Right, I'm off.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

enjoy the rest of your day!

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Its not that warm outside here. Just very humid. Quite breezy. Without the sun its not that pleasant.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 3 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

(i think tissp sent me a mogwai cd by mistake!)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 3 July 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Well I'm paid enough to last the summer working another two weeks.

Last night was great.

Kate if you want to get your amp after work, I'm not going home from work but suzy will be there.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, today looks like it's going to be grind grind grind. We have picked a new accounting package with *no* sensible database interface, not even a SQL command line - just a set of Excel add-in functions. Oh joy.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Ed, I hope you don't mind, but I've posted a photo of you on the blog.

(it's the photo you've alreayd seen)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

no problem

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

(the same goes to Mr Carson Dial if you're reading. Except that you've not seen the pic yourself yet)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

have spent the last few days adding java procedure to oracle and fighting with triggers so i feel your pain. it's all voodoo. most of it done via sqlplus. and i don't know what was up with the box i was doing it on but it only had vi on it, not vim*. 1986 flashbacks, oh noes.

(could've been elvis or one of those but no vi -d, no v / V / ctrl-v selection, no :qa, no syntax highlighting, no == indenting, nothing)

oh, www.pimpthatsnack.com is funny. and one of the contributors is called archel...

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Not me, although I always admire the snack pimpers' work.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ow. I hate vi at the best of times. Although I'm less of an Emacs fan than I used to be, too - I still haven't found my ideal editor.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

(Half the time I use Emacs it's running normally, half the time it's running inside Screen - so remembering when I can type Ctrl+A and expect it to work normally is very annoying. I either hit C-a and wonder why my cursor hasn't moved; or put extra a's at the start of my lines all the time)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

Pico Rules! Well, not really. I liked Emacs during my university days, but I was more impressed with what I could do if I bothered to learn a lot of LISP rather than what I actually did with it (banging in a lot of Java code and cursing for six months).

*xpost*

Not a problem, FP!

A training day today, so I've been dragging computers left and right only to find out that half the people who were supposed to come aren't, so I had enough machines to begin with. And our servers are overheating...it's a good thing the students have gone home!

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm fairly comfortable with pico/nano. When I first started using Linux I used Pine for email, so got to know some of the pico shortcuts then; and now I use Gentoo; you pretty much have to use nano when installing it, because it's the only editor that gets installed by default (in the 'system' package group).

(nano is the GNU clone of pico, if you hadn't heard of it)

I don't *like* them much, though, although I'm not sure why.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Pico/Nano just feel weird - Ctrl-O to save a file? And they feel lightweight compared to the big two. Okay in a pinch, but never something you'd use to write substantial amounts of code (and yes, I'm easily distracted by teh shiny, but I like the automatic-syntax-colouring features in XEmacs and others).

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

my good dead for today: not sending the long post about various editors that i've just written. it bored even me 8)

archel's pimping: http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/simples.php?pimpID=26 (giant snowball). giant jaffa cake ('Jaffa Quake') looks very realisitic.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Aww, Koogs, you should have posted it anyway.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

i only lasted half an hour playing frisbee last night :(

so hot.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Its coldhere. So much for 75f and clear blue skies the BBC weather site said. I noticed they've revised it down to 71f and clear blue skies/sun but its nothing like that.
Im hoping it clears up in afternoon like its been doing lately.
Typical Scotland missing out on heatwave.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hello! It's going to snow in Birmingham this week:

http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/07/04/bbc_grab.gif

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone seen this? Watch the video!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/5144300.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Her accent sounds South African to my ears.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

I heard her on the radio this morning - she sounded bemused. VS Ramachandran to thread.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yes I heard her this morning too - seemed a bit mean that Today were interviewing her from a light relief novelty angle when she was actually quite serious and confused by the whole thing. I wonder what effect such a change in your voice has on your sense of identity?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

i want a new accent! i'd love it.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

I hate my voice but I would freak out if it changed suddenly.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, folks... or rather, afternoon.

Blimey. Got home from the gig about half midnight, only to discover that we have grown a new NOISE NEIGHBOUR FROM HELL and everyone in my building was out in the courtyard half the night yelling at him to shut the f*ck up. I eventually chose quiet over cool and had to close all the windows and both the doors so it was hot as a nubbin but at least I slept. Until about 11.30. Rah.

No java chip today. Boo. How are you today?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

fighting a rear gaurd action, applying for jobs.

Anna is now the second most interesting thing on my flickr, official.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, I love the blue picture, I didn't even notice Anna and Pete in the background, that's hilarious! Especially since Barima is obligingly covering my unsightly logarm.

God, I am so fat. Bah. Oh well. Fat and happy.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

lies.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

TSM ARE DJ-ING AT SONIC CATHEDRALS!!!! TSM ARE DJ-ING AT SONIC CATHEDRALS!!!

A ROOM FULL OF DIRTY DRONEROCK BOYS GETS EVEN MORE DIRTY AND DRONEROCK!!!!

I'VE BARELY RECOVERED FROM WILL CARRUTHERS WANDERING AROUND AT THE LAST ONE! WHAT WILL I DO WITH A ROOM FULL OF SECRET MACHINES LOOKYLIKES AND THE ACTUAL SECRET MACHINES, TOO?!?!?!?!?!?!?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

ooh.

I should be conserving my money, but I should also be cheering myself up.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

i don't understand this londontalk.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

iLiKETRAiNS are playing, too! You should definitely go, Ed! It's the August one. I'm so excited I could explode.

Also, I have had too much coffee.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

That will be the day I arrive back form camp (I checked) and I will be stinky, sweaty and hairy.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think this will be a problem at a dirty dronerock club?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Do you remember which dvd circulus was on? I'm going to get it on the iPod this evening.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

is anybody going to Reading this year?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

No, sorry, I don't. But Espers and Animal Collective are on the one that I kept. Bah.

And no, not going to Reading. But TSM are! Eep!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

nobody going, then?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

No festivals this year as I can't stand up for long without getting knackered and I can't drink - and wot is the point of that?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

ZERO, I WOULD SAY

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Kate, what are your feelings about Sun Ra?

(Also you have flickrmail)

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

FTPing file to printers, woo. Time left: 15:53... Then I can do nothing for the rest of the afternoon. Maybe compile my expenses claim. The fun never ends around here.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

About to start the month end data dumping. I want to do it as late as possible so there's no one on the system to go moving the data, but I have a feeling it's going to move anyway... bah.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Set off the fire alarm so the office empties?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

set off a firearm so the office empties.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

OK, now I have to wait until 6pm so all the conslutants will leave becuase the data keeps moving. Bah.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

conslutants. nice freudian one there.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Not freudian at all. That's what we call them!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

But what about Sun Ra? You never answered ed!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://greedbagshop.static3.state51.co.uk/96/59/4970054_RAA0/420x420.jpeg/image.gif

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I used to like Sun Ra a lot but haven't heard any in a while.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://greedbagshop.static3.state51.co.uk/96/59/4970054_RAA0/420x420.jpeg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Aaaaaiiiiiii... wanna beeeee, on the BBC.

Please, dear god, can my songs just be on the radio before I die?

Kay, thanx, Bye.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Kate, am back iso it is possible to collect yr Vox.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

radio sucks though.
why not get your songs on last.fm though?
http://www.last.fm/labels/ look at that.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy, as I told Ed last night, but he was probably too drunk to remember, I'm working late tonight so will not be able to stop by. Earliest I can pick it up is Thursday - will ring before I swing by!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

He was so drunk he 'remembered' that you'd arranged to pick it up tonight, but never mind. Am feeling VERY peaky this afternoon anyway.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

How come it's impossible to listen to King Crimson without making the I Am Listening To King Crimson face?

(If my 16 year old self could see me listening to this now, she'd punch me in the face.)

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

This calls for a photo!

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there! More random tourist photos up on my blog now.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all! Someone sent me a link to this, which I've been listening to all morning.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

In other news - possibly no more Java Chip ever!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning! What is Java Chip, and is its absence good or bad? (and, of course, can we eat it?)

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

NO MORE JAVA CHIP, ARRRGGGHHH?!?!?!?

Why not? I was clearly the best thing ever. Please don't tell me that chips in drinks violates EU safety regulations for choking infants and OAPs. They shouldn't be drinking coffee anyway.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I have sound again for no apparent reason. Huh.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea what Java Chip is, whether it relates to coffee, computers, or something entirely unrelated.

Do people definitely want me to scan my slightly-crap FAP photos from last Wednesday? I'm feeling lazy.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

boring IT question
Our Win2000 primary domain controller went phut last night. the secondary domain controller is fine but it had no DNS and DHCP servers running on it. I've set these up but can't get the computers on the network to pull their settings from this DHCP server rather than the old one and how do I promote the SDC to domain master?

Thanks

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was clearly the best thing ever.

Freudian... :)

FP - yes please! But don't go to any trouble. Do you develop the film yourself?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

Eh? What is it with my misplaced pronouns lately. IT was clearly the best thing ever.

Java Chip is (was?) a coffee based ice cream drink with chocolate chips in it. Yum.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, I got the Islington High St branch of Boots to do it.

Ew Ed - I have no idea about SDC->PDC promotion, I'm afraid. And in theory the DHCP change should Just Work if you do an ipconfig /renew on all the clients. Try ipconfig /release first if it doesn't.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

I've just given everyone in the office static IP settings because, quite frankly with 6 people that's enough. It just a shame that there is no location management in windows so people will have to reset them coming in and out of the office with laptops. I will try and fix this over the course of the day.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm, I agree with you - we have about 30 machines here, and I moved them all over to static addresses a few months ago; there's no need for DHCP on a network of this size, and being able to look up IP addresses consistantly makes network monitoring rather easier. We still keep a DHCP daemon running on the domain controller to cope with visitors' laptops, but it's limited to a very small address pool.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Fixed it. You have to authorise the DHCP server with the domain controller.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I'll remember that.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Are you running Active Directory, Ed? If so, you'll have to transfer/seize things like the FSMO, RIDMaster and the like using NTDSUTIL: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255504

― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, I got the Islington High St branch of Boots to do it.

Ahh did you get a CD with the photos on? If so, there's no excuse for not putting them up :)

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/images/filing.029.gif

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, except in this case, the MI department is attached to the Finance department so we don't have syntax errors in payroll.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ahh did you get a CD with the photos on?

Um, no. It's down to the old manual scanning.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

i've just had a bug assigned to me via the work's bug tracking system:

"Switch leaving out milk bottles to the white house front porch"

um...

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

(i still reckon those 'My New Filing Technique...' cartoons are computer generated by some badly programmed ai, like that computer poetry that did the rounds a few years back.)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Still, it made my boss laugh, and we need that, this time of the month.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think today is going to be a Kraftwerk kind of a day.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

(i still reckon those 'My New Filing Technique...' cartoons are computer generated by some badly programmed ai, like that computer poetry that did the rounds a few years back.)

I wouldn't be surprised.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

No no they're beautiful! I've got a book of them and there's proper narrative and everything

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

anyone know how I can spoof one of these computers here with a french IP addresss so I can watch a french only live video stream?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

but he always goes on about 'parsing the root directory' which is patently rubbish, like he's using words he doesn't know the meaning of.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

That's the point (well, one of the points), how people use jargon to baffle people into submission. It doesn't matter what's being said.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

It wouldn't work if the technobabble made sense, I mean

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

is not being funny also the point? 8)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH day:

1/when I am in the middle of a £75 repair job I cannot take time off to pump up your child's bike tyre for free WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THIS IT IS A SIMPLE CONCEPT.

2/which bright spark thought up the concept of fitting disc brakes to a pedal cycle FFS.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

it's too hot to be spooning molten metal.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, Pash, that's awful. I'm not going to complain about my job any more.

Bah, I was supposed to go to dinner tonight but my friend has cancelled. We were going to have a HUUUUGE mutual bitch session about jobs, bands, lives etc. but now she's having housemate trouble and can't make it. Bah.

g-kit, why are you spooning molten metal?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

It wouldn't work if the technobabble made sense, I mean

I'm with Koogs on this one - to see them using jargon words in meaningless ways is teeth-gratingly annoying.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

No, sorry, I'm with Beanz on this one. If I'm faced with annoying people who ask stupid questions who I want to beat into submission, then I use technojargon as an obfuscating tool. I can't be the only person who does this, and I think it's funny to see it exploited for comedy potential because I do find it amusing when I do it.

It's like people complaining that the science in Star Trek doens't make sense. OF COURSE IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, IT'S ALL FAKE!!! In fact, the script writers used to write the script, and put in TECH TECH TECH for bits that would be filled in by the technobabble people later.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might... have to give in... to COFFEE...

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

They're funny! funny funny funny funny funny yaaaaaaaaahhhhh

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/filing.011.html

I do not need coffee.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's funny because it's true. (I am just figuring out how to tell whoever it was that left an urgent order on my desk for blu-tac that, um, I won't be placing another stationery order for a week at least.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

If I'm faced with annoying people who ask stupid questions who I want to beat into submission, then I use technojargon as an obfuscating tool.

Actually I do this too.

I have just spent a little money, on Scott Pilgrim books; and a lot of money, on the new camera I've been wanting for aaaages.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, I laughed so hard that I had to put my head down on the desk, and all my colleagues asked what I was laughing about. So I read out random ones ("I've scotch taped these three computers together to make a super database!") and they all laughed themselves sick, too.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

OK, that one is funny. Maybe it's just the ones that get printed in the Guardian's technology section that are rubbish.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Have they done a book of MNFTIU like with Get Your War On?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

(a quick scan through some of the ones beanz linked to shows that to be true - why the hell does the Guardian just print the shit ones?)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! http://www.amazon.co.uk:80/gp/product/1852428546/202-2290425-1667053?v=glance&n=266239
(Must... Resist... Ordering...)

FP what camera?

I suspect the Guardian just prints ones with computers, cos it's the tech section. But the ones about spaghetti-Os are just as good

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

You mean http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1573223824/026-1968736-4140426?v=glance&n=266239 ?
Cool.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Uh sorry back to front - yes I've got the MNFTIU book so I looked for the GYWO one instead and I need a nap

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. I mean, aw. I had the GYWO one from the library. Though tbh it's a bit much in book format, if you read non-stop.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Nikon D200. http://www.europe-nikon.com/details.aspx?countryId=20&languageId=22&prodId=1119&catId=91

I hope it's as good as the reviews say!

I've also just ordered this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932664084 and this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932664122

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Did you buy the kit lens?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Because I wanted to get one of the DX lenses anyway.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am such a fan of sigma DC lenses now.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

I had a Sigma lens a few years ago (well I've still got it, but it's for the old Pentax that I rarely use) and I wasn't that impressed, to be honest. Maybe they're better than they used to be, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Whoo nice

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

i still reckon those 'My New Filing Technique...' cartoons are computer generated by some badly programmed ai

no, the guy is real.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm I've been told to move desks for no reason other than to satisfy someone's sense of self-importance... His assistant has to sit at a particular desk so the person at that desk gets mine so I move to another. The reason I'm moving is cos he's pissed off I said something when he was bullying someone else. Petty office politics, waste of energy being pissed off though.

xpost yes it looks like that cos he uses the same images all the time...

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

spooning molten metal = part of my job.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Are you making more little tin soldier dudes? Is that what the molten metal is for?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

precisely.
350 degrees C of pure summer fun.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.helsinki.fi/~papinnie/pictures/The%20Matrix%20_DivX_%20385_0001.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Like this?

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

that image can be applied to every aspect of my life, it seems!
(droppy penis joke anticipated)

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Went for a walk down the town and its roasting. Heatwave finally hits scotland for a day.

Weekly Listening charts up
I still think Kate should get last fm so we can see what she really listens to at work!
I bet all she listens to is Busted.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

busted are in my lastfm list...

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Thank god, something other than fucking prog.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Markelby fears the prog?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm ina rolling stones mood. Think i'll dig out Sunflower/Surfs Up by the Beach Boys and rip it to my pc.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

You're in a Stones mood so you listen to the Beach Boys? You're saying that just to wind us up.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, right, you're the one that's gotta talk to my Sys Admin to explain why I need to install Last.FM's thingey onto my work 'puter.

Today I'm listening to Kraftwerk, like I said. Or did I say that on TSM board? Can't remember. Anyway. I love Busted. I just don't have any with me.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

No fear, just ennui :)

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

there shoulda been a next i think i'll dig out sunflower/surfs up
x-post.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I believe there's actually a version that you can save on a USB flash drive, K. There used to be, anyway. But we'll stop bothering you now. ;)

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, like I have a USB flash drive.

I know, I know, I need to get one. It's on my list.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ahhhh is there anything better to listen to than The Beach Boys on a warm summer day?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Where did everyone go? To listen to the beach boys?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm knee-deep in recconciliations.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Emo moment. I was just told that someone I was interested in was only interested in sex, and therefore all my efforts to get to know them and develop a human relationship were completely wrong-headed. I can't decide if I'm upset because I missed the opportunity, or because it somehow feels like even more of a rejection of me as a person.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

That's more than slightly rubbish, actually. I'd feel pretty rejected if it happened to me. But then again, I always feel pretty rejected. :-(

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

That's horrible, Mitya. It probably doesn't help to say that it's their problem and their fault, rather than yours, but still, it's true.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Synth Monsters

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 July 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

I got into work to find that the Lotus Notes server had frozen at 1am, and the doorbell wasn't working. Well, I found out the doorbell wasn't working when the second person with a key arrived; by that time three or four people without keys, who are presumably too lazy to stupid to think about phoning me instead of pushing the doorbell, had collected on the doorstep.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 July 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

Should I sign up for a flickr account, ed?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely. Flickr is more fun than the other photo sharing sites. The groups aspect is what makes it entertaining.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 July 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

I like buzznet myself. Or did. I haven't been shooting much recently. Much more active community of people. They got rid of their groups feature, I think, and just stick with tags.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Thursday, 6 July 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Slightly cooler in the office today, phew.

$100 for a thingumagoop? I'm sure it's good value, and I do want one, but...

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 6 July 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning.

Can the weather get any more unpleasant?

I just watched the most BORING film in the history of cinema last night.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

What was that?

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

Last Days. I was promised sex drugs and rock'n'roll, and I got a boring junkie wandering around mumbling until I was actually RELIEVED when he finally shot himself in the head. Just wish he'd done it an hour and a hour earlier and spared us the rest of the film.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

slightly less water in the office than yesterday, none in fact as they continue to dig up west london to replace the victorian mains.

the phantom employees' monitors have turned up. they also get optical mice which all us real employees have purloined and keyboards with extra 'media' buttons which we haven't. scrollwheel noticeably quieter than before but otherwise i've not noticed a difference yet.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone ever use the extra buttons on those keyboards?

Apparently my new camera has arrived. I am off home at lunchtime to play (or at least put the battery on charge)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

What do the "media buttons" do? are they like the ones that fast forward a CD and turn the volume up and down? I've only just discovered the volume command on my Mac.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, those ones.

I tried repurposing them on mine using Gnome's keyboard accelerators applet, but still never used any. And a few of the keys on mine - but not all - seem to be completely unreadable by X

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

i did program one of them once to launch my web browser. used it once a day (when i remembered). they always seem to have useless icons next to them of things like two people standing up. or a flipchart. or a star. or a house.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent film review, ms st claire.

Uploading pics to flickr account now.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

They should have a PIECHARTMASTER button.

God, I am so bored already and it's only 10.30. Am I going to try to get my giant recc to work, or am I going to do it all again from scratch?

x-post

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

I managed to get the globe symbol to open a browser and the envelope to open email. And then I just went back to using the launchers on my top panel like I always had done.

(xpost)

Should I sign up for flickr too now I've got a digital camera? Is it free? If not how much?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dude is really pretty, though:

http://www.queensfilmtheatre.com/files/page_147/last_days_294.jpg

What are your Flickr accounts, y'all? I'll friend you or whatever it is you do. I'm masonicboom, natch.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha ha, I said the only nice thing about it was the scenery, and it turns out it wasn't filmed on Puget Sound, but in Upstate NY. No wonder.

I actually miss Upstate NY in the summer. I miss the forests. And the rivers.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, apparently I am NOT Masonic Boom. Some other f*ckwit has taken my account name! Like on freaking MySpace. I've been using this name since 1996 or something, f*ck OFF!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

He is, I'll grant you, a really good-looking guy.

does this work?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/183217666/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/183217667/

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Little tiny frogs! Wow!

I have added you as a friend - it will send you a mail to tell you that I think.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

BLIMEY!!!

My electricity bill was overdue. OK, they didn't send me one for SIX MONTHS so I didn't feel bad about it, but still. It was EIGHTY POUNDS!!! So I went and did a reading myself.

Rang them to pay with my new reading - my ACTUAL electricity bill is just under FORTY pounds.

Jeez! I'm never trusting a reading again. What kind of electricity guzzling freaks are these readings based on?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Got you. Not sure how to reciprocate, I'll work it out though!

What we did on Sunday:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/183224811/

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

flickr is free for a small account, 12M a month of uploads a month or something, or you can pay and get increased quota. ($25 a year for 2Gb/month upload - http://flickr.com/upgrade/)

(my account is 31962137@N00 apparently)

(they base readings on your previous years' readings. obviously this will be whack if you've just moved in)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

guys, he's not actually as cute as cobain was.

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

I know, that's what I said, g-kit. Or maybe I said that on my blog not here.

Ha ha, NOT taking the photo from the Mental Health INstitutes's "Are you manic depressive?" page... (which reminds me, damn, I've run out of meds, woooo)

http://www.sneeties.hpg.ig.com.br/musicians/cobain.jpg

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

See, this is truly awful. I can't STAND his music, but he did have one of the best noses in the history of nasal geometry.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Vicky's been badgering me to put my recent Venice pics on my underused flickr account - if anyone likes standard holiday snaps of charming canals and shit, I'll give you the link when I upload them.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

Last one, another steam loco:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/183228206/

Maxed out now, har.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent film review, ms st claire.

Except now we know how it ends!

There is no room in our office. I might have to sit on the roof. This won't be so bad if the weather improves.

I vaguely remember signing up to flickr... I wonder what my login details might have been.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW IT ENDS!!! IT SAYS ON THE BOX HOW IT ENDS!!!

WAIT, NO, VAN SANT HAS COMPLETELY REWRITTEN HISTORY, KURT DOESN'T SHOOT HIMSELF, HE ENDS UP SINGING TEEN SPIRIT ENDLESSLY LOUNGE SINGER STYLEE IN LAS VEGAS!!!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh I've never been to the Tanfield railway - I know it's famous for its ancient bridge, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost well yes... hence the humour in my post... or so I thought :p

Anyway, how come this has passed without comment? –

Train buff in locomotive joyride

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/5151370.stm

A 19-year-old train buff from Rawmarsh has been sentenced to 200 hours community service after going joyriding in a 49-tonne locomotive.

Daniel Matthews sneaked into sidings at Sheffield's Tinsley marshalling yard in May. He started the engine and drove it up and down for 40 minutes.

Rotherham Magistrates heard he was such an expert he knew how to change points so the train could switch tracks.

Matthews even left it switched off and safely parked before cycling away.

'Act of stupidity'

He was identified after police released CCTV footage of him and another man on BMX bikes in the area.

Inspector David Boldison of British Transport Police said it was an act of stupidity.

"Potentially it was very dangerous," he said.

"If he'd managed to get himself on to the main line, where there were passenger trains, then potentially that could have had bad consequences".

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I don't understand humour.

I also never see films. And now I remember why - most films are shit.

Except I have to go see another film this Friday. However, this one is about PIRATES so it will be good. I hope.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Changing points isn't exactly tricky - they were all just hand-lever ones. Starting it up (according to More4 News he did it "with a spanner") is harder.

I love all the way the news stories say "49-tonne locomotive" as if it's *big*. It's an 08, the tiniest sort of engine you get on the main line network. Its top speed is an astonishing TWENTY-FIVE MILES PER HOUR!

(xpost)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently he also switched the points back to how they were when he started. I really hope he gets a job on the railways eventually.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

(it's also the oldest thing you get on the main-line network - the basic design is from the late 1930s, and many of the ones around now were built in the 50s. So, much easier to jump-start than anything newer.)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

i always like 08s, they are teh cuteness. think i even had an hornby 08 in green.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh yes I had one of those - the one where they re-used their standard 0-6-0 steam chassis, giving you an 08 with inside frames!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

The causey arch, that would be, FP.

http://www.piper22.freeserve.co.uk/causeyarch.htm

We say that on Sunday, and had picnic under it. It's some of the nicest countryside around here, and the little steam railway is fantastic, everyone who works on it is so happy! Not difficult to unserstand why either, instead of a trainset, they have a complete little real railway, with 4 stations, steam and diesel engines, carriages and trucks, a signalbox, a little marshalling yard and so on.

Here's the (rather dark) pic of the Causey Arch we took from the picnic area:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16804034@N00/183232233/

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, working on steam railways *is* great fun just for that reason. I remember being taken on a "behind-the-scenes" tour of the Ffestiniog - the guide's description of the Control Office was: "this is where the Controller lives - he's the one who gets to play with the whole train set"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Such pretty countryside. I wish I was there.

OK, I've got my missing £40k down to £4k but still can't make that go away. maybe it's down the back of the filing cabinet.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Bloody Microsoft. Exchange serve has it's own DNS settings buried in a 12th level property page at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in the management console. It might as well have beware of the leopard written on it. This is why no mail has been getting out since the pdc went down yesterday.

Pash, Join the I Like Trains group, and British Steam for that matter.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:59 (nineteen years ago)

I take it the I Like Trains group is about actual trains, and not shoegazers, right? :-P

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Which reminds me, I need to have a rant about the new First Capital Connect coach colour scheme. I mean, it's purple, turquoise and FUCHSIA. I should love it, right?

That looks nice in my house, but it looks positively ALARMING on a train. It makes them look like toys. I don't think I approve.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

the new 'neon' livery no less, it replaces the former 'barbie' livery. It is not the nicest of liveries, no.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

OK, it's better than those bright orange and yellow and green FAMILY COACH things they have on the Brighton line (they make me actually feel ill - one stopped in front of me this morning and I nearly lost my breakfast) but still.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:07 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen those, mind you I like the idea of having a family coach to avoid. Perhaps the colours are a warning sign like a poisonous snake.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

argh, need some help. you know when you get photographs and mount them, not in an actual frame, but kind of on a frame, so there's something solid behind the photograph and then a frame behind that (not a solid block) but you can't see the frame from face-on but it stands out from the wall? what's that called? my flatmate has these gorgeous photos she's taken and we want to put them up in the living room but have no idea where to find these things. she talked to a couple of framing shops and they had no idea what she was on about.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

I also have no idea what you're on about, but anything's a welcome change from train porn. Describe the ways in which it differs from this:

http://gift4shopping.com/photos/bone-handicrafts/photo-frames/photo-frames5.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

train porn??

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

No hang on, do you mean that there's nothing around the picture, only behind the picture, and no glass?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

DERE IS NO SPOON

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Train porn, prog porn, pointy nosed ginger porn, everyone's a critic...

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

[jaynes_tits.jpg]

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk do you mean like a block of wood or plastic the same height and width as the photo, on which the photo is stuck? I recommend nipping down to a builders' merchant and asking nicely if you can rummage around in their offcuts, and invest in a can of spraymount.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

yes exactly, there is nothing around the picture. ok. at the back, there is the wall. in front of the wall, there is a frame. not a block. the frame is all 90degree angles. in front of the frame, and corresponding exactly to the outer dimensions of the front face of the frame, is a board (or something). in front of the board (or something), and corresponding exactly to the dimensions of the board, is the photograph. there are no fastenings visible anywhere.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Could be mounted on artist's canvas

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah!!! My God Machine bootlegs came today!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Hey kate i listened to prog last night
http://www.last.fm/user/trailofgybe/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

beanz, yes. but there's a bit of strong card or board or something between the frame and the photo. we thought of getting random bits of wood, but there are like 24 pictures. i know i have seen these things before! and so has j!

xpost and then where do we get the frame from, ed? and what's this kind of mounting called? it must have a name!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Foamboard is what you want

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Framing really confuses me. I was traumatised by mounting and matting things in art school, and have never understood it since.

I am listening to La Dusseldorf today.

and I want my lunch, but it's too early. Bah.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

cool, thank you! that is wooden frame, right, the bit you see on the outside?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

My Value Variance has also flipped the other way, now, that I have £4k extra I can't get rid of. Bah!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

it should stand out like an inch or so from the wall.

kate give it to me!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Cowling & Wilcox maybe?

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

If it were real money, yeah, I'd throw a party. But it's not, it just means I've made a mistake in the maths, oh no.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I am turning ginger, my colleague just asked me if I'd dyed my hair red. No! She said maybe the sun did it. Whoever heard of the sun turning you ginger?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

they do have something called mountboards but their site is rub and you can't even see what they are.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Why is the bit of card important? Could you use cornflake boxes?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

so the photo doesn't warp. cornflake boxes might be a bit flimsy, plus neither of us eats cornflakes. (ugh! bits of skin that fell off people's feet, guys!)

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, thanks, I don't even eat cornflakes but that's just nasty!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

i think emsk is channelling fungus the bogeyman.

foamboard: http://www.graphicsdirect.co.uk/categories/8/foam-centred-board-foamboard.htm

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

[danperrysbootyflakes.jpg]

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

that looks like the right stuff to be in the middle, koogs, either that or some v thick stiff cardboard, but the frame on the back? kind of like a small canvas stretcher (the prints are 6x8").

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

More train porn! More train porn!

My camera has arrived, hurrah. On the down side, I have to wait for the battery to charge up before I can play

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arridge/182702760/

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Moo!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Got the 2 big repair jobs for the day finished, so I can lay off a bit now. 2 other jobs I need to get done today are a puncture, and a minor electrical fix.

A large parcel full of chocolate from Plamil has arrived, I don't dare open it, though.

I have a card from the post office, saying something has arrived that I need to pay a customs fee on. I have three oustanding synthesiser part orders from the st8s - one from 2 years ago, one from last October and one from last week. It's likely to be the one from last week!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Why are cows always shot from such silly angles? Poor cows, it strip them of their dignity.

I am back from the post office with Green & Blacks. Num.

x-post

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

green and blacks?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S ABOUT CHOCOLATE, DAMMIT!!!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

those hard boiled sweets with chocolate in them?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's just organic fair trade vegan (I think?) chocolate.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk are there any here?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

just organic. and the maya gold stuff is also fairtrade according to the observer food mag article i finally got around to reading a week ago. none of it vegan as far as i know. apparently G&B already buy 70% of the world's organic chocolate beans which doesn't leave them much room for expansion.

http://www.greenandblacks.com/chocolate.php

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it's just the Maya Gold that's fair trade? I thought it all was. Damn.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:21 (nineteen years ago)

G&B already buy 70% of the world's organic chocolate beans which doesn't leave them much room for expansion.

Yes it does, as it should encourage other chocolate producers to go organic.

So, is it wrong to refer to what cadbury produced as "chocolate"? Or are we still allowed to? I do really enjoy their choc but I'm aware that it's the instant coffee of the chocolate world so maybe it needs a different sobriquet.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

have just realised what pfunkboy is refering to when he's talking about green and black - those yummy hard lime things with the chocolate middles. http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/acatalog/Chocolate_Limes.html (but the g&b we're talking about is just bars of posh chocolate)

(sainsbury's seem to have stopped doing their 'basics' dark chocolate at 25p for 100g, instead they are doing nice orange chocolate which is half milk, half plain and currently on offer at 44p for 200g!)

yes mark, more organic is better but arranging there to be more organic cocoa beans in the world isn't something they can do overnight, it'll take a while and in the meantime they are a bit stuck. (article also said that they'd lucked out a couple of times already in finding enormous, abandoned cocoa plantations next door to the ones they currently use. score.)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

I think you can refer to what Cadbury produced as "salmonella" actually.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Secret Machines on headphones while you do maths is the best thing ever. The Leaves Are Gone just gave me the shivers.

You haterz are just so wrong.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah chocolate limes was what i was typing out when my pc crashed. So I just went out for a walk instead of rebooting etc. Then it suddenly got overcast and i came home.
I dunno what to listen to now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Listen to Now Here Is Nowhere. Go on.

Aaaah, this is more echo and reverb than Loop... "Our lives... (lives... lives.., lives....) EEEEEE-Raced... (raced... raced... raced...)"

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Gryphon. "Red Queen to Gryphon Three".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Norman is speaking in a strange unknown language now.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I want some chocolate limes now. Haven't had those since I was about 12.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Btw is there a better story told in a song than "matty groves" ?
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'll bring it in tomorrow & send you it (Gryphon album). It's a folk rock/prog album, really good.

"Murder of Maria Marten" from Shirley Collins/Albion Band's "No Roses" is similarly good.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Now I have the strange urge to listen to Ride's Vapour Trail. Must be all the contrail nonsense that TSM have been spouting. Sigh.

I have completely redone all the maths and my Grand Unification Recconciliation will still not Renormalise. ::bashes head against desk::

Bloody value variance!

x-post, ooh, folk-prog, can I have it, too? Please?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

kate! bbmobwh is on p13 of this week's time out.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Eh? I understand not your acronym!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Soon Kate will be going to folk festivals. Will probably wear a cape onstage too!
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

TISSP, where are you? Did you get my ticket to the Freak Folk Festival in Cambridge?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

BEAUTIFUL BLACK MAN ON BEAUTIFUL WHITE HORSE!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

Hurrah, I had forgotten about him! Yay, must go and look for him.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I decided i'd listen to The Seeds then maybe Faces next. I ripped Gram Parsons cd and Flying Burrito Bros too. Think it's going to be an all old music day for a change.
Some of this stuff i've not played in YEARS.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

God I might dig out my Nuggets box set. I think its beside the VU one.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I should just give up and go join the Fortean Times messageboard full time. Sigh.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

why?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 6 July 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

So yesterday my mom calls and tells me she THINKS she's seen me on telly - an American network she watches has been in London this week (gee, I wonder why) and apparently I was walking away from where the woman was filming, from the back.

Mom: "The person who I thought was you had on black skinny jeans, your haircut, and bounced when they walked. It couldn't have been anyone else in the world."

YMOF, Sunday details please?

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. This is going to be a heavy day to get through.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, it is for me too. I'm hoping everything will cancel each other out - pressure from X taking away pressure from Y and all stopping me thinking about Z.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

Wretched active directory. Why does the old PDC persist in showing up in 'Active Directory Users and computers' even after i have been through the ntdsutil metadata cleanup operation?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

Serious question:

Is there any way of persuading my Win 2003 exchange server to forget that it ever knew about domain controller 1 and get it to authenticate against domain controller 2 exclusively?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

OK I fixed the latter by flushing everything and using ldp.exe to bind to dc 2.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, today is weird. Felt a bit weepy when I woke up. Was OK until I got on the train platform and there were police all over the place. A bit tense and edgy on the train - especially because it was an unexpectedly short train so very full and some cnut would not move his giant bag off the seat. I'm trying to avoid looking at the papers or anything.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Kings Cross Starbucks still has Java Chip

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sunday details on their way, Suzy!

Er, does anyone else want them, it's for my housewarming? I haven't posted them here because this is, y'know, a public website.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

you did good by avoiding the bbc this morning which was wall to wall memorials. itv, on the other hand was doing, 'Which has the best food, France or Italy?'.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

How come Herongate has directions by car but not by train? I know we went by train last year. Does anyone remember the name of the nearest station?

(If anyone else knows what I'm talking about and is planning on going, please email me if you want to share a cab.)

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Andrew, I was going to ask for directions but realised that I had helpfully written them in my diary. Won't be by until after rehearsal (probably about 7-ish) but will try to swing by then.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Ach, I have to write two 'meaningful' essays for ESM, one about the ways in which capitalism corrects itself and another for a limited edition book where the brief is freer. Which is the big ach.

YMOF my email is suzy(surname) at yahoo dot co dot uk.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

I watched YuGiOh!GX instead of the news this morning, then a couple of minutes of Quincy, then left the house listening to the radio, on which was a long stupid interview with Ian Blair. I spent quite a lot of my walk getting wound up by his airy dismissals and 'oh yes, I'll cheerfully admit we cocked up, we're human after all' style of fake contrition. Then I started imagining conversations with one of my colleagues whom I dislike, in which I confronted him about his bullying of other people in the office and Showed Him Who's Boss, then realised I was clenching my fists as I walked :( I calmed down by the time I got to the end of Rosebery Avenue though.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Cool. Everything is organised now. Thanks, Andrew.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

I only have half my brain at best with me at work today. Had a good cry last night though.

I don't necessarily want to revive the thread, but does anyone still have the login details for the photos of Liz on icdphoto.com?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Me too, and there's lots I'm supposed to be doing too.

Got to work this morning and couldn't get in the electronic gate - a thunderstorm had somehow reset it all. Had to go in the other way and set all the alarms off.

Broke down a bit at ten to nine when I realised that was When It Happened. I think my boss saw me through the office door, but was polite enough to go away and come back a few minutes later.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 7 July 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, that's that (re)sent now Suzy.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

Don't have the login, sorry. I don't really want to read the thread, either. I feel weird even talking about this on ILX now. Which is wrong, I guess. I don't know. How much Liz was interwoven into ILX life in every way, and now it's too hard to talk about her here. I keep trying, and I keep tearing up.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to upset other people by saying the wrong thing. Or worse, by saying nothing at all. But at the same time, I know that pretty much everyone from our gang is thinking about her today.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

the quietness is confusing. it's like there's a mammoth in the room.

bought cakes on the way to work (my enduring memory of Liz is of cakes, cakes at sinister picnics, cakes at faps, cakes at housewarmings, that lemon sponge after the tennis a couple of years ago. that and goose fat. and chats about CSI and Gibson) but have just left them in the fridge for now. nobody here knows, and will just figure these are random cakes but...

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Archel, I've sent the details to your hotmail account

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you!

I will be having cake later too.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Just thought about eating experimental mint cake on a lock on the River Lee or Lea on my birthday last year and just started crying.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

Andrew - message received, thank you!

Oh, Kate! It is weird today.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm planning on leaving the office just before 12 to go and buy a yummy cake from the fab cake shop on Exmouth market, so I can avoid being in the office for the 2 minutes, and at the same time celebrate Liz in a way she'd have liked, rather than blubbing. Though I'll probably end up doing that anyway.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:26 (nineteen years ago)

That's a really good idea, Vicky. I think I'd just lose it in the midst of the two minute silence. Perhaps I'll walk over to Paul on Holborn and buy a cake.

Why are aniversaries and milestones like that so hard? I think about her from time to time and it's kind of like a warm glow to remember her. Today I just feel like weeping every time I think of her.

Maybe that's why not many people are talking.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I'm dealing with today at all well. I hate anniversaries, it seems such an arbitrary way of marking time. why today, why not yesterday, why not everyday? Each to their own though. I guess the mind is concentrated by the bout of reminders blaring at you.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

Maybe it's because the media are dragging up the events that led up to her last day, and it's clouding the good memories?

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason brushing my teeth makes me think of Liz, so that's at least twice a day, every day, when I do so. I also had a very vivid dream the other day of sitting and chatting with her - it wasn't like nothing had happened, but it was like she was visiting from far away and we were having a regular old catch-up. It was great actually.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to go and sit in the park, because I can't cope.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

i'll join you. except it'll be a different park 8)

rob de bank just played your single on bbc1 as part of a feature on Singles Clubs. unfortunately he played the other side...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/rob/

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 7 July 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

That was better. I sat under a tree in the rain and thought.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Now I have a macaroon (that's technically a cake, right? they didn't have any small cakes) and a frapuccino.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Just back from the park too. Lots of other people had the same idea - plenty of soggy suits.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Lemon meringue pie in my case.

Now for an overly generous portion of Konstam Aubergine and garlic Salad. My tipping strategy is paying off.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

my park was empty. just me and a couple of pigeons.

one carrot and orange cake and one chocolate extravagance or something, bothe kinda small but tesco's finest. would've been nice to have made it myself, maybe even from one of Liz's recipes, but i was short of time and ability.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

My park was empty apart from some foreign tourists who looked oddly out of place, and some workmen who looked at me oddly as I sat there with my brolly up eating a cherry cheescake tart. I tried to share it with the fledgling (blackbird I think) that was a metre away from me, but it was concentrating on trying not to move. I managed to stay still enough for it to get a bit brave, so it puffed itself up a bit, and stretched it's legs, and eventually was brave enough to race round the corner of a bush.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds very sweet. There were quite a few silent people in my park.

However, the builders across the square managed to drop something with a tremendous clang that was a bit scary.

On a completely different note, is yahoo down for anyone else?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

Never mind, it's back now.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

kate, you have mail

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

I was on my way to the campus chapel to join people there, but couldn't face it in the end and went to find a quiet bench and cry for a bit instead. Work really busy today which sort of makes it easier but harder as well.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

No I don't, Ed!

I'm trying to concentrate on stupid little things to keep my mind off it, but really it's just making me distracted and incapable of doing much.

And all my colleagues are playing weird ringtones on their new phones and it's getting slightly annoying. Grrrr. Sorry,I'm just not in the mood for it.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

hmm, I tried a few of your addresses. send me a mail and I'll resend what I just sent.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, and now my phone has mysteriously deleted ALL of the messages in my inbox! ARGH! I had a poem that Matt Edible wrote me in 2002 saved in there. And now it's gone. :-(

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I meant to say kate your phone sent me a blank message earlier - could be connected?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, I hate this thing. :-(

I wonder how far throught the A section it got. I'm going to have no credit again this month, I bet.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

How weird, Ed. I got Andrew's reply before I got your email. Yahoomail clearly hates you. It does the same thing to Anna, though, sometimes.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

wil has promised to bring a dog

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yay for dogs! Will Farmer James bring spacerock harvesters?

Or will we just have to amuse ourselves playing Hawkwind covers on banjo and spoons?

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

oh no, office meltdown, oh no.

general grumpy mood and inadequately documented java classes escalated into raised voices. (how am i meant to use these things if i don't know what they do? and don't tell me i'm 'moaning' when i point this out, that doesn't help). calmed down and talked out now but i don't think i've changed his mind about any of this (he is a serial offender). there's more to software development than writing code.

after i bought them all cake too! 8)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

what is it i'm meant to do when tigered and want caffeine but not allowed it? (found self nearly drinking coke yesterday - there is some in fridge and i was hmm, i guess it won't actually turn me into the devil if i just have a sip... OH NOES CAFFEINE! and obv that is why i wanted it as i never drink or want coke.) green tea? i haven't got any.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

tigers like guarana

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Why aren't you allowed caffeine, Emsk?

Green tea has caffeine in it anyway.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

not allowed caffeine as dunwich people say don't have any for a few days beforehand so when you have some coffee at 3am after 6 or 7 hours riding you'll really notice it. i forgot on monday and had coffee but since then i have not. not green tea then. guarana! i was thinking of getting some of that to take with me.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

If you've got a serious caffeine addiction going on, it's actually quite dangerous to give it up for a few days. Can give you terrible headaches and even cramps - not what you want when riding!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

oh. i haven't got any of that so i guess no serious caffeine addiction? i usually have 1 cup of coffee a day, in the morning, sometimes more over a long weekend morning or if i'm at work early, and 1 or 2 or 0 teas. i'm just a bit hazy and need to be a bit more awake.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I went for a wee drive in the car at about quarter to twelve to avoid the silence (new job since last year so no colleagues aware of any connection) and sat at the car park of a country park overlooking the whole of Glasgow and surrounding area. Had a contemplative few minutes to myself, and went back to work.

How come Herongate has directions by car but not by train? I know we went by train last year. Does anyone remember the name of the nearest station?

Kate, it was Brentwood station, if no-one's told you yet, which they probably have.

Hugs and cakes all round (I'm not really a hugging or cakes person, really, but, y'know...) Anyway, I'm off out for a large G&T or two now.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Ailsa, thought yes, organisation has been made.

::kicks computer::

I can't believe the company owner! We've already been over his giant month end report, and why it's not doing what he now wants. (Basically, because of bizarre parameters that HE SET.) He's talked to me, and my line manager.

And now, I find out, this afternoon, he's gone laterally to one of my colleagues, and was asking *him* to try and get me to add this stuff into the report.

FOR FUCKS SAKE, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU BRIEF, YOU WANT TWO MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE THINGS, AND YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM!

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

must avoid xtianity thread now otherwise I'm going to turn it into a car crash

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Go start an "I was a teenage atheist" thread, please, Ed because that's a carcrash I could do without, too.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Leaving it well alone now, should not rise to Bobby six.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I could waste my time and energy shouting F**TB*LL IS SHITE!!! very loudly all over a million different w*rld c*p threads. But you know, I don't.

So I don't understand why atheists feel the need to go and reiterate their atheism over and over again on threads that are very clearly about religion. I just don't get that.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

...but whatever. I don't want to drag the argument in here.

I'm feeling wound up already and we've not even picked up the van yet.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

It was a point raised by my description of my own teenaged flirt with Christianity. I know it's nothing like anyone else's stories but surely that's the point, anyway I've stopped clicking on it now.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having an attack of "argh, call the whole thing off" right now.

Everything seems like too much work. :-(

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hello all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Kerr.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm staying well away from quite a lot of threads today.

I'm posting to ilx from a new desk! I have a different outlook now. I'm looking out of the window at a fire escape, and the rest of the office is happening behind me. My giant screen is visible to everyone! Not so good :( But I do get to open and close the window whenever I want, so not all bad.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I may cut out of here early.

Going to see a silly movie tonight. Pirates of the Carribean. However, I'm going to see it with my ex, so I suspect half the night may be spent trying to explain that no, I'm sorry, I am just not in the mood for some casual sex, thanks anyway.

I should just go home.

― Custard Subsidence (kate), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning ILX.

I'm bloody KNACKERED. Had a good weekend, but with far too little sleep. Went out to a rock club in Leicester, and discovered I have a previously-unsuspected talent for giving neck-and-shoulder rubs.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

Another Fantastic weekend

― Ed (dali), Monday, 10 July 2006 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

morning! i have become a different kind of cyclist.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

you're trying out a tricycle?

― teh_kit has 22 friends (g-kit), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

A recumbent cyclist?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

One that uses only their arms?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

Arse calluses?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

Morning! Went to a barbecue in Brighton this weekend. Car died (alternator belt -> flat battery) then resurrected (RAC + Halfords) then died again (fan's bridged -> battery flat again).

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

NB not sure what 'fan bridged' means. Maybe I mean radiator. Anyway the fan doesn't stop after the car's stopped.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

AN HERO ONE

AN HARDCORE ONE

AN ONE THAT DOES NOT STOP

arseblisters, not arsecalluses, sheesh. and they seem to have faded actually, and the can't...lift...legs...up... issue has gone too, the only thing that feels a bit odd is a slight ache on the front of my knees, which as far as i remember i'd never had before. perhaps i will go for a little ride in a bit (NO! must work).

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I am very, very sunburned. I forgot I was English and didn't put on sunscreen on Saturday (well, actually, I sat down to read the paper and suddenly looked up and realised I had 15 mintues to shower, dress and go) and so I am now totally lobstered. Bah.

Good weekend, though. Pirates on Friday, the memorial service on Sunday, then pub and David Luxembourg's party, then Sunday was shopping in Tooting, rehearsal and Andrew's housewarming. Busy weekend, but very very good.

But man, I'm tired today. Strange dreams about getting trapped onstage with popstars at festivals but I've blogged all about it instead of boring you with the details.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

It's very english not to put on sunscreen

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ed, you brought some hitchhikers back from camp that have MANY LEGS and PINCERS AT EITHER END. I would estimate they are just over 1cm long. The kill total so far stands at THREE.

WHAT AM I KILLING TODAY, PEOPLE?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

I am so bloody itchy. The Finn is also badly sunburned. We've had a good laugh over it. But now we itch.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

I was amazed that I didn't get sunburn - just a bit of reddening - when I was in London the other week, and walking around in a tshirt all day, every day

Suzy: like a sort of bidirectional earwig?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think they are earwigs, yes. ONE OF THEM WAS CRAWLING AROUND UNDER THE KEYBOARD WHEN I FIRST SAW IT.

BUGS: ICK.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

someone got killed on the ride, in a collision with a van. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/5164142.stm sounds like the van driver was at fault. we heard about it at the halfway food stop at 2am, the people behind us in the queue were talking about having had to do a diversion because there'd been an accident and 2 people had been hit. a gang of my friends that were meant to do the ride but turned back after 15 miles because of various things - this being one of them - called in the morning and said one of the 2 had been killed. but at the end most people didn't seem to know that anything had happened.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, that's awful!

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

That's fucking terrible.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

How terrible - who is surprised that offending driver was inside a transit van? Emsk, were any couriers on the ride?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 July 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

yeah. there were a fair few awful drivers through essex (way to perpetuate your stereotype, guys) but they were mostly of the affix-hand-to-horn in apopletic rage that there are - spit - CYCLISTS all over MY ROAD type, not actual dangerous ones. this is really shit.

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i'm sure there were loads of couriers on the ride! i don't know any so i didn't recognise any, but it's hard to believe there wouldn't have been. as we were coming in, the last 15 or 20 miles or so, we saw the beginnings of the nutjobs who'd finished the ride, had breakfast and a rest, and turned right around to ride home again...

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh that's horrible. I was going to ask about the Queensbridge Massive - did any of them go the distance?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

na. oh, one did, s's bf d - he doesn't live in the house though, dunno if you know him. scottish. think you've met. he chatted with me during the long slow uphill into epping forest, thereby making me forget i was doing a long slow uphill, then i didn't see him til right at the end. the others left the house about half an hour after we started the ride, but m's bike was too big and making her back hurt, and then they heard all the details about the man who died, a couple of other things happened but i dunno what they were, and they decided to go back. for all that though, i hope they aren't pressured into turning it into a more "official" ride in 2007 (it's on july 29th next year, guys) with route blocked off and stuff. part of what makes it so great is how it feels a bit secret.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am SO itchy. It's driving me mad.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

calamine lotion! calamine lotion! have you got some?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

No.

Great, now I've got the Velvet Underground in my head.

I've got to go out soon to get lunch and get the Thom Yorke not-a-solo-album-solo-album (since he is my animal spirit guide and all now) so perhaps I'll pick some up there.

The annoying thing is the itchiest bit is, of course, the bit of my back I can't actually reach.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

get some, it is amazing. it's well cheap too, about 60p for a bottle last time i checked (admittedly about 4 years ago), and it smells like being 8. you have to find a hott boy to rub it in your back, or if there aren't any (yes, i know, you work in finance...) get a big wodge of cotton wool and throw calamine lotion at it and kind of wave it around across your back and that should work.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe if I'm lucky, Thom Yorke will rub it on my back.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

Cocoa Butter form the body shop is good too.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

I've already put loads of that on.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! Image googling Thom Yorke + Cocoa butter really does give results!

http://www.headphonesex.co.uk/postpics/thom%20yorke.jpg

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

Sigh.

I didn't bring my headphones today, and I just cannot seem to engage with work. I've been staring at my list of things to do for two hours now and my eyes can't even focus on it without slipping off.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

I had to dj a party at my residence hall on friday, always an interesting experience. At a certain point, I played "Signed, Sealed, Delivered." Some guy came up to me.

Dude: Hey! Please, please, play some R&B!
Me: But, but, this is Stevie Wonder! That's R&B!
(he ponders this)
Me, making nice: I'm not sure I know what you mean by R&B. Could you be more specific?
Dude: Maybe something, you know, dancier than this?
Me: Something dancier than Stevie Wonder? OK sir.

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 10 July 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

There was also another guy who derided my playing of James Brown, because it was "too commercial".

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 10 July 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Complainant Number One means the shit on MTV Base.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 July 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I guess. But I was playing lots of that stuff too! (I think)

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 10 July 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Great, now I've got the Velvet Underground in my head.
Ahem... Last Weeks Listening Charts

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

> Complainant Number One means the shit on MTV Base.

oh noes! sunday flashback...

i don't know if they've just moved in or whether i've just noticed them but am getting neighbours hate at the moment. ALL of sunday was spent with a background of generic "R&B" coming out of their window and into mine, just loud enough to hear, like chinese water torture. that and shrieking at the football. and shouting down into the street to their friends. shut up already.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 10 July 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, why can I not go in HMV without dropping SO MUCH MONEY?!?!?

I just went to get the Thom Yorke Not-A-Solo-Album-Solo-Album, and didn't get away before buying a Secret Machines mini-album (import, ouch), both Espers albums and a two for the price of one dealie Hawkwind albums. Bah.

Also, I have calamine lotion. Aaaah. OK, the good news is, it's stopped it itching but the bad news is it's started stinging. Is that normal?

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

However, on a positive note, I HAVE HALLUMI, MMMMMM!!!

God, I wish I'd brought my headphones. But as it is, I've forgotten my swipecard. Bah.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hello 'cooler!

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, Mitya!

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

because everything in hmv is SO EXPENSIVE WTF why do you shop in there? last time i went in was before christmas and everything was like £17. fuck THAT.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hello, folks! I have just read through the entire thread from last week and am now very tired. Glad you got the record, Koogsy.

I have just received an email from Amazon telling me that The Eraser has been dispatched.

Kate, I have emailed Chris about the tickets but no answer yet. I'll let you know ASAP.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've been on the gluten/casein elimination diet for about a month, and the weirgh is dropping off me! I'll be skinny again for the first time in years in a month or 2 at this rate. Wow...

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

So I posed the question over on the WDYLL thread - probably been discussed to death elsewhere already - but who is it that FP reminds me of? His ("your," if you're around) face looks very familiar, but I can't place it.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Not if you shop carefully, Emsk. If you get stuff the day it comes out, it's usually on a dealio because they want things to get in the charts.

The most expensive thing I got was the Secret Machines mini-album, which was £13, but it was an import. :-( Still, it's the one with the La Dusseldorf cover.

I can't deal with indie record shops any more because I want things just to be in alphabetical order and not order of obscure arcane genre based system I don't understand.

Let me know when you know, TISSP so I can book my train tickets! Though actually, I'm so confused by train ticket prices it might not make a difference to book early. Get ONE Railway charged Starry and I an extra 50p each that no one else had to pay for being, errr... female was the only explanation we could come up with.

x-post wow!

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Which Hawkwind?

Watching ducks in the park at lunchtime has put me in a very good mood.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

A record shop in Glastonbury had a promo of "Godess on a Highway" for £14.

The train ticket will probably not be any different whether you book or not... I think it will cost about £20 for an open return. Maybe.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

weight, even. God, my typing is really bad today.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Depending on the phases of the moon and if I have a beard (since I am going to a freak folk festival.)

The Hawkwind albums in question are Doremi Fasol Latido and In Search of Space. With lots of extra bonus tracks and stuff.

Pash, losing too much weight is clearly bad for your brain.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

£14?? shit, i've got two of those promos.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Those Hawkwind reissues are fantastic. The extras IIRc are tracks from super-rare expensive things like "Glastonbury Fayre" and "Greasy Trucker's Party"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, wait, it is a Harmonia cover, not a La Dusseldorf cover. Same difference. Nazis nicked my boyfriend.

I like the cover of the Not-A-Solo-Album-Solo-Album, it looks like one of my drawings. Lots of swhirlies.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

If you see that "1999 Party" double CD on EMI, that's really good as well, it's a complete US concert they discovered when they were trawling through the tape vaults for the extra tracks on the reissues. Sounds like they were on some a-grade speed that night.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, the Gherkin attacked by swhilies, oh yes!

My bonus tracks are:
Urban Guerilla
Brainbox Pollution
Lord of Light (single version)
Ejection (previously unreleased version)
Seven by Seven (original single version)
Silver Machine (original single version)
Born To Go (Live single version edit)

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

OK, Thom. This post-rock album art has gone too far. I can't actually find the CD in this thing.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

This is the joke! There is no CD!

It's REALLY Not-A-Solo-Album!

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I suddenly remembered, over lunch, that I owe TISSP some money. Sorry about that, TISSP.

who is it that FP reminds me of?

I've recently been told that I look like a young version of Grissom from CSI. I don't watch it, but I'm not convinced.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

No problem. Whenever you can will be fine.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

I *can*, it's just that I'm a pillock and keep forgetting.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

(also, my friend Miranda Who Some Of You Have Met tells me that those pics of me on the current WDYLL are the only photos of me she's seen that do actually look like me. I'm not sure if she has an opinion on the Mythical Arse Pic that I haven't posted to ILX yet, though)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Kate is scared of indie shops?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

just can't be arsed with them, sounds like

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Can't be arsed. This was discussed on an earlier Watercooler thread.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I do hope 'yet' is the operative word there FP :)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE I AM BACK FROM TRIP.

LLAMAS!

http://static.flickr.com/46/186220330_f7af7c0045.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Llamas? I thought you went to Canadia, not Peru!

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I have been perusing your photos it looked like a good trip.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Thank'ee, Ed. The rest should be up tonight -- Orcas Island, more San Juan Island and various other spots, including 4th of July in Portland. (My flickr site, for the curious.)

Kate -- for some reason on San Juan Island itself there's an alpaca ranch or two:

http://static.flickr.com/73/186220729_bb3e3f5751.jpg

And nearby happened to be this farm with, indeed, guard llamas. So there you go. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

I do hope 'yet' is the operative word there FP :)

If anyone *really* wants to see it, I'll send them a copy.

It's now one of the pics I have on my profile on Another Message Board I Use, if any of you know its address.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I shouldn't click on the shallow thread again. I know it's just calumflamebait but I'm feeling like Ed vs. the Christians right now.

Sorry, FP, but I just can't see myself clicking on www.kinkybastards.com at work... ;-P

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

hello ned! llamas get everywhere. there are llamas in clissold park, and deer. we saw 2 deer yesterday morning too! and in east park in hull there are the scruffiest llamas i've ever seen.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hehehe!

(I'm tempted to see what *that* site is, you know)

(the site I was talking about is the #1 result on google.co.uk for 'bdsm'. I am not telling you what my profile name on it is though - it's not Forest Pines or anything similar)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

I saw llamas yesterday! They were in a field near Lincoln, rolling about on the ground.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

I have avoided that thread. I might start one about knowledge though as I am deeply unhappy with the western definition. The Indian one is much better:

'Representation of a problem-solution in a human-mind is knowledge'

― Ed (dali), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

FP is teasing us! I am exactly the kind of person who would spend hours scouring a message board just to find the picture of the ass of some man i've never even met... Argh.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I felt vaguely chizzed about paying £1 for a punnet containing only 25 blackberries, but then I looked at them and saw how HUGE they were, and then I TASTED them and now I am in heaven.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Did anyone else read the observer woman polyfiller piece on '50 things not to do this summer', the gist of which was don't have any fun every? We read it for shits and giggles at Ely station. It featured such pearls of wisom such as

'Do not eat anything sweet outdoors; strawberries are clichéed and ice-cream is childish'

― Ed (dali), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

This is why I never read the Observer womangy thing. I like fun. And strawberries, and ice cream.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

hello ned! llamas get everywhere.

They are invasive! Crazy buggers. And heya Emsk! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

'Do not eat anything sweet outdoors; strawberries are clichéed and ice-cream is childish'

They let Rumpie write for the Observer now?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Is it really a year since we saw Ned? How time flies.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

It is one year TODAY since I met Ned!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

That other thread is really depressing me. I need some serious objectification. Please to be posting more pictures of Thom Yorke. Especially from when he was ginger. And covered in chocolate. Ginger snaps, yum.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I took one look at that thread, and knew it was a bad idea.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.treefingers.com/gallery/gallery/thom/thom413.jpg

And with ice cream. Just don't look, OK, Rumpie?

http://s129178457.onlinehome.us/celebritieseating/uploaded_images/81-791403.jpg

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

That Observer woman's mag is just pretending it's more highfalutin' than ES Magazine when ALL of the women on it worked there before this, hence more articles on 'work' done on Harley Street than work done in offices.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I can't hear you, la la la la la la laaaa ::sticks finger in ears::

http://www.blender.com/gallery_photos/335/september_2003/radiohead_l5.jpg

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

That's a nice jacket.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer this outfit:

http://asuaf.org/~radiohead/thom_yorke.JPG

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

bah. just go here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedraggett/26267274/in/set-662382/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedraggett/26267278/in/set-662382/

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Here's something I saw on holiday that gave me a chuckle (this is a photo of the menu of a restaurant we went to for lunch):

http://static.flickr.com/74/186490074_dc0672ff02.jpg

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, we know what Ned looks like! But we don't know what you look like, Kerr, so that's cheating.

I first met Ned in... errrr... 2000? On tour, somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Maybe Seattle. I'd had enough of Rockrgrl so he kidnapped me and took me off to Terrastock for some dronerock. Oh yes.

x-post

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's like a postmodern menu; it undermines its own authority.
Traditional fish & chips? O RLY?
xpost

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

tissp, I don't get it?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

is this the part where we all say when we net ned? i met ned last summer, in an pub.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

I like the fact that it's the Prisoner font.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh now I do :)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

WARM TOMATO SAFFRON BUTTER sounds lush.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

I took those photos. I'm not a magician!
x-post

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

If that were true, we'd see you reflected in the shop windows! You must be a vampire! And we thought you wore a cape because you were PROG.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

The tardis has magical powers and that shop is an indie shop for i am indie not prog!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

I have yet to meet Ned :(

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ned needs a trip to Geordieland.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

We all need a trip to Geordieland.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's as if meeting Ned is some kind of badge of ILX acceptance.

Truly you have moved into the upper echelons of ILX when Ned appears.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Some say ILX created him.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I met Ned this time last year too. There's photographic evidence in that there Flickr account (I am hiding a bit). I don't define myself by this at all.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

The perfect shop for kate!
http://www.ominousdrone.com/shopping/default.asp

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, I keep being invoked! :-) Hold on here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, that's a bit ominous! ;-)

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hey! ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

That was an xpost to Kerr about The Ominous Drone!

I mean, how can a smiley be ominous?

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I hate being so itchy in the bits of my back that I cannot reach. When I get home, I'm going to get a sponge and tie it to a stick and cover it in calamine lotion then rub my entire back. Oh yes.

― If I Were Dreaming, There'd Be Rum (kate), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

you need to apply some kind of calamine or aloe gel asap, not just regular moisturizer, or you'll itch and peel for a week (as i recently found out).

i met ned last summer in a pub as well. he gets around.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway:

I first met Ned in... errrr... 2000? On tour, somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Maybe Seattle. I'd had enough of Rockrgrl so he kidnapped me and took me off to Terrastock for some dronerock. Oh yes.

Yup, more or less -- October 2000. I did not so much kidnap as summon. Please note I have said nothing about Kate drunkenly holding onto a DDB as Elvis T. and I passed them in the street, nor about the photos of her smooching a bartender. *runs away*

i met ned last summer, in an pub.

Yus! And I am very glad to have done so. :-) That lunch we had with Mark S and Stevie was a fine noontime out.

I have yet to meet Ned :(

Alas! Sometime soon, sir. :-)

Truly you have moved into the upper echelons of ILX when Ned appears.

Hmm, I'm a ghost now.

I don't define myself by this at all.

Ailsa is very wise. :-)

i met ned last summer in a pub as well. he gets around.

I do indeed. And Lauren rules, and you ALL rule, yes indeed. :-D

And now I've met the legendary LeCoq! It's a great world.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I need not ILX acceptance. I met Ned because he was in a pub and I like pubs.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hehehehe. See, this is further proof of your excellent wisdom! :-D What was it called again, the Landsdowne? I just remember the photo of my hair that was in the paper, or was supposed to be.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

i met ned last summer in a pub as well. he gets around.

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

(i felt left out so...)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the Lansdowne. Press photographers be damned!

(actually, for the benefit of the thread, I actually met Ned in two pubs. The other was Mono, but we were not being stalked by proper photographers, just stet)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

IMPROPER photographers. And me.

(i felt left out so...)

We can't have that!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I've met Koogs in pubs as well. I seem to meet most people in pubs. Pubs are great.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

*hic*

Best pubs encountered on recent trip -- Horse Brass in Portland (good for World Cup viewing) and Herb's in Friday Harbor (a perfect divey, rough-edged spot for drinking and loud conversation, with jukebox).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't meet Ned in a pub. Though we did go to The Solid Rock Cafe (its a pub non weigies) for lunch. But no alcohol was consumed. Ned had to recover from previous nights FAP.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

> I've met Koogs in pubs as well.

which is funny because i hate pubs, but what can you do? (which pub ailsa? sure it wasn't the poetry cafe?)

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ned had to recover from previous nights FAP.

It wasn't that bad was it? Then again being around the power of RJG and Ally and Ailsa and Onimo and Madchen and Grimly and all must have overwhelmed my Tender Sensibilities, for I am a 98-pound weakling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

You did say you had a lot the night before and you needed a break from alcohol if you were to survive your 2nd Glasgow FAP later that night. When I left you at Buchanan St underground you were going back for a few hours badly needed sleep. SO yes it must've been a drunken night.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm. Alcohol-related memory loss, now why am I not surprised?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha. Can you remember any of your Euro trip?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

ha, so drunk you forgot stet and Scotstvo.

Koogs, I was thinking of the Queen Vic at Bowlie, which is very definitely a pub. And where I met an awful lot of people from this very board.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

ha, so drunk you forgot stet and Scotstvo.

*cries* So I did, and I hope they forgive me. Actually I remember most of it quite well, but I think I was still working through jet lag and other events.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Tiredness did seem to be your major problem, yes. But hey at least you enjoyed your trip!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

the site I was talking about is the #1 result on google.co.uk for 'bdsm'

IT'S WIKIPEDIA?

I feel no need to state that I have met Ned.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

And it was a pleasure, sir. Yer a great host.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 July 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, Google's ranking has changed in the past couple of weeks. #2, then.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 10 July 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Morning there. I'm tempted to start a new thread, cos it's getting a bit long and I've got a title in mind.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

Watercooler Thirteen: OK, You Kissed Me, But What Does It Mean?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

No, sorry, that is not the right title. I've had a the BEST title in mind since I started Number Twelve:

UK Watercooler 13: Houston We've Had A Problem

― The Curve Of Binding Energy (kate), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

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