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

You know the drill...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(NB: not naked twee girls)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well, well, well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eight? We talk a lot.

Drill:

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

There's something wrong there.

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

I assoomed that was what ya meant, tissp ;)

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

Sorry that's bigger than I expected

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

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

get one myspace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Classic Drill!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do tunnel boring machines count as drills?

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

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

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

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

Surely, the opposite of the INTERESTING MACHINE.

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

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

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

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

There is madness afoot.

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

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

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

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

Good morning, Ned Superstar!

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

But boring machines ARE interesting!

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

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

I can't stop posting images :(

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No, only thinking of them

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

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

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

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

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

Can you tell what it is, yet?

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

Um, no.

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

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

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

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

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

Damn, follow the link, then:

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

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

This afternoon is going UNBELIEVABLY SLOWLY

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

You cna say that again.

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

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

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

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

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

Good morning, Ned Superstar!

Hurrah!

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

Hello Ned!

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

I'm working at somnolescent speed.
xpost

Hello Ned

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

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

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

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

Skipping 1024 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Then she will definitely be dead. Next question.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

You read my mind - in fact my mouth is full of cake right now - yay!

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Arrrgh......gulp splutter curious rasping sound hands clutching throat......thud!

― indolent girl (indolent girl), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Right, if they're that good I'll give them a listen. Emsk, they'd best not be rubbish.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 31 March 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

dude they're amazing. i am goin now to break rocks.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Why? Did you fight the law, and the law won?

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, the entire Finance & MI dept. has left before 6 for the FIRST TIME EVAH!!!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Friday, 31 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like the only person alive at work today. Why is the sun shining?

Ah well, I bought some good records last night. Which I shall listen to... NOW!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

I've just bought a record that made me think "ooh, I bet Kate likes that" - the latest Delays album.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I thought only us shopkeepers were at work to-day.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not, really. I'm ILXing from home, where there is no watercooler.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, yes, I have the new Delays album. But right now I'm listening to The Knife.

I'm running end of month reports when no one else is on the system to make the data move and screw things up. It was a LOT better than usual, but still. There were issues. Sigh.

I'm *so* not coming in on MOnday.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Dude do you fancy some dinner?

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe in a couple of hours, when I'm done. I'm still craving pizza!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

That doesn't sound promising - I have to go out then, would have been a quickie anyway - you sounded mch closer to done. But good news, re. work, which I'll tell later or next w/e.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ooooh, pizza.

(I don't have any in, I can't be arsed going out, and I hate ordering by phone too much to do that. Bah.)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm unlikely to be out of here before about 7, sorry. Bah. Excited to hear about good work news, though!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

(so what *should* I have for my dinner? I think I'm going to have to rummage around for something in the freezer)

I've just written an April Fool's blog post even though it's after mid-day. Am I doomed to bad luck now?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's still before noon somewhere in the world...

I think I'm going to stop on the way home and get a Pizza GoGo from the friendly Streatham pizza shop. I like it when restaurants know my order before I even ask for it. I don't even go in there *that* much!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't mind a Chinese, except that a) there aren't any that deliver near here and I'm lazy b) they're expensive, and I just spent over £50 on CDs and a geeky book c) the parents might want chinese for dinner tomorrow.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

("expensive" in this context meaning "more than free, compared to what's in the freezer")

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ohmigod, I have just found the most amazing and perfect Chesterfield sofa ever. Would it be mad to spend £500 on a sofa? It seems pretty reasonable compared to, say, John Lewis (and cheap places like DFS and Ikea just don't have what I want). My mein gott... what a lot of money.

(I wouldn't think twice about spending £500 on a guitar. But a sofa just seems mad. What's wrong with me?)

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, but this is the funniest picture ever. Yes, that really is my Tory brother:

http://static.flickr.com/43/121320048_6f62d98a3d.jpg

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Tee hee @ ur bro - but look at that RR! I wants it!

How is everyone today? I came in today and got a bacon and spring onion muffin from the cancer research people here at work, and it was super-scrummy - a good way to start the day.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 April 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

i like the moire effect on the fence behind him. he does look like the anti-kate. (that said, she has been reading country life a lot recently)

any good cds FP?

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 3 April 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

And what was the geeky book?

£500 on a sofa seems reasonable if you end up spending lots of time on your sofa. If it's just gonna sit there, don't bother. Di you decide on a bed in the end? I seem to remember something about yout bed on another thread . . .

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 April 2006 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

Why are cancer research people selling experimental muffins?

I would definitely spend £500 on a nice sofa, if it wouldn't actually bankrupt me or anything.

Hope y'all had a good weekend. I got a drink thrown over me by my mother-in-law!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 3 April 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

They're raising money. I'm sure 50p times 12 will make inroads. The muffin needed more flavours (maybe some more pepper?) but yeh, experimental is the word. It was good work. Why the drink being thrown over you?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, boringly, it was an accident. Though a suspiciously violent one...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

morning! i have been chasing peasants with machetes and setting fire to lambs! i mean... ahem... i have been chopping bad trees and brambles down and up with machetes then burning the cut off bits, seeing a lamb being born (it is born in a bag! like a boil in the bag lamb) and driving a tractor which couple of pheasants ran in front of like a police escort. my nose is pink. and i have officially camped in march and it were not cold. and, oh, the sunshiiiiiiine! *bouncebouncebounce*

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

I am actually supremly jealous of your weekend in the country. Do you have lots of pics of you chopping wood etc? But only bad trees - presumably they're ones who jump the queues at supermarkets and never get their round in.

Weekends in the country DOING stuff does have an amazing effect. You'll be bouncy until Wednesday.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

The very geeky book I bought was LNER Wagons Vol. 1: Southern Area by Peter Tatlow.

CDs: the Delays album mentioned above, and the Moldy Peaches first album, because I'd never bought it before and it was cheap.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

that is a very geeky book. and very expensive. like what i heard of the moldy peaches and that one song about jessica simpson is good, great video.

(speaking of geeky, did the philosopher / theologist on Beauty And The Geek remind anyone else of g-kit?)

amazon tells me they have posted the order before last but it doesn't seem to have got here today. can't actually remember what it was for. (oh, dr who at the radiophonic workshop v2 and stella chiweshe).

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

maaan, i am SO doing this again. i wish i had gone on these things when i was 13. i sort of did, but it was more slithering through caves and jumping off waterfalls and kayaking in the sea than fixing the environment. i feel, like, EMPOWERED. and i came back yesterday and the russian said i wasn't grey so that has to mean something nice. and my clothes all smell of FIRE! also - syrup and banana on toast for breakfast this morning, yummy! and on 2nd huge coffee already! aaargh... phear me weaklings of earth.

ooh forest i hope you like that moldy peaches album, we rediscovered it in our house at the end of last year and joy it brought us.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I like it!

The book *was* expensive, but it is one of those that will be a Classic Reference Work. And at least the whole set will take a few years to come out - it's not as if I have to spend £140 at once.

(I already have the 1-volume book with virtually the same title that the same author wrote 30 years ago, but it's very patchy on pre-1923 stuff).

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think I need more radiophonic workshop in my life - I've only got the odd Delia Derbyshire mp3, but they're really v. good.

What's the most expensive book you've bought - for you yourself, as opposed to uni/college textbooks? I payed £55 for a book on Bob Dylan once. Shame, cos the book's rubbish.

Being outside doing stuff is something that I miss. It's like gardening, but more so, I guess. Which reminds me, I need to get my tomatoes and peppers started.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

I can't actually think of any non-textbooks I've bought myself that have been more expensive.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

the radiophonic workshop thing has been in my amazon wishlist for a while and last week i noticed it was now only 3.96 so... the dr who cds are very odd as a lot of it is short sound effects - volume 1 is 76 tracks long for instance, tracks are called stuff like 'Tension Builder (d)'

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009JOPHQ/qid=1144058788/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-1165071-0536412

their music for The Tomorrow People is also recently released (and is in the most recent amazon order). i also have the 4x10" box that was released on Rephlex a few years ago, radio themes, stuff like that. all good for randomised listening, not good all in one go.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

My very first friend in Britain is in the Guardian today, talking about the songs that changed his life (ahem). And for those readers who go out and buy a copy, you can also find early cultural evidence of me.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

linkage: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1745619,00.html

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

My friend left out the most ironic bit of his school days, which was being twatted by one Adrian Thaws, school bully. And so, a small world becomes even more so.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 3 April 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

So, yes, good afternoon all.

Once again I am stuck with very little I can be doing. It's also very warm in here, but I guess this is largely my own fault for still having a jacket on.

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Strip!

I am thinking I should plan a holiday. I tried to get a passport application form at lunch - mine is expired - but after waiting in the post office queue for 10 minutes I found they were all out.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

What Emsk an I were up to:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/sets/72057594096999559/

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 April 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

hippies.

i've been given different thing to do at work. is it shockingly underspecced? oh yes.

so i'm leaving to go and watch the dr who and the maggots on bbc4.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 3 April 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, you hippies! Hurrah for hippies.

I am just so pleased for having had the day off. I was going to be all PRODUCTIVE like I was on Sunday (I did the shopping! I did ALL the laundry, even the sheets and towels! I demoed two newish songs!) but then the doorbell rang and it was the delivery bloke from the Folio Society (don't laugh at me, I know it's the most middle class thing on earth, but my god, their books are just so... lovely. I do appreciate a well bound book) with not one but FOUR big books of Architectural pr0n.

The Glory of the English House!
The Glory of the Scottish House!
The Glory of the Irish House!
The 1000 Most Glorious Houses In Britain!!!!

...I open their catalogue and the first thing I see is a lugubriously illustrated memoirs of Cochrane (the model for both Hornblower and Jack Aubrey - not to mention Captain Anderson's commanding officer!) and oh my lord. So I went to bed with the books.

Oh yes, and also went to Homebase and picked the perfect pink for my living room. Morroccan Velvet, I think. And also bought a rose coloured wood screen with elephants on it and a strange Victorian looking glass curio case (I have no idea hwat I will put in it - possibly curios?) from the shop opposite the pizza parlour that Emsk likes.

Blimey!

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hello.

I am having an "interesting" morning.

We use an application whose front-end interface layout is all stored in the same database as the application data itself. I've been having fun trying to reverse-engineer the layout information so we can edit some of the dialogue boxes.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've got so much to do but I just can't be motivated to start any of it. It's just too sunny outside and I don't want to be here.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and we appear to have booked another gig. I really feel like it's someone else's turn to start a new thread. Sigh.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

UK Watercooler Nine: Tell Your Manager Everything's FINE

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

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