Volume 49
30 Nov 2003
Fabby photos of the NE (Ole check out the vampire rabbit - this is a better photo than the one I took that I was going to send you...)
Was looking at a fantastic book on Japanese Design today. Can't remember the title though.
29 Nov 2003
28 Nov 2003
I've got some very interesting new Bifurcated Rivets material recently (and I really will put some pictures up one day!), but today I got a rivets tin from the Judson L. Thomson manufacturing company of Waltham Mass. "Thomson slotted Cinch Rivet - rivets in these boxes do not tarnish or rust from moisture or atmosphere, nor from perspiration as all others do when carried in the pocket" I may have to adopt that as a tag line!
Hmmm - when I was a student a) we couldn't afford the elctrical equipment, and b) rooms in halls of residence had 5amp sockets...
Greatest Album Covers that never were - I've seen several sites recent doing this, but not this particular one.
27 Nov 2003
The same essay refers to the Sega Satan!
I'm marking student essays at the moment and someone has just made mention of the Saga Megadrive - clearly the console for the over-50s!
It seems to be the done thing to have lists on weblogs these day and as you know I am never one to buck a trend (or something). It's tough to come up with something it isn't yawnsome though. I finally settled on "recording sessions I wish I had been at" - so here are some of my first few : Robert Johnson's of course, Flatt & Scruggs recording Foggy Mountain Banjo, any of the Bob Wills' Tifanny sessions (you can tell they are enjoying themselves!), and then it starts to get hard. How about Blind Blake recording West Coast Blues? Louis Armstrong Hot Five sessions? And I haven't reached 1950 yet, and I've missed most of Jazz! I can't even begin to work on slightly more recent things - Grateful Dead recording American Beauty? Troutmask Replica sessions? Suggestions? (Oh, and I am not really that bothered by Beatles, Stones or Dylan sessions)
26 Nov 2003
I really ought to go to bed
Virtual Color Museum - is this an old one? Looks familiar and not at the same time. Too good not to repeat though if it is.
I went looking for some of those "supersize towels". Ha! 40x70 - that isn't big enough Not even close. 70x70 I might consider.
TODCO Magnicoat™ Rivets "The ugly problem of rust-stained doors has been around since the very first doors with steel rivets hit the road." I know how they feel
Swivel-eyed, befoamed-mouth page about RFID tags (not that I am in favour of them myself), you should also read about the "amazing JACINTA 1972 picture". I defy anyone to find a date that is not included in this photo somewhere/somehow. What is rather odd about this site is that it appears to be Roman Catholic rather than Evangelical.
25 Nov 2003
I just got to thinking about Jo-Anne Kelly - I only saw her once before she died. She was superb and I can't find a web page dedicated to her, just lots of mentions. A wonderful blues singer.
Did you know that Burnley Miners' Club sells more Benedictine than anywhere else in Britain? You do now.
Supersize Towels would be nice (ever tried to buy a really big towel?), but bathroom scales that go up to 1000lbs? Good grief. Perhaps this may act as an impulse to metricate the USA: weights sound less in kilograms!
Too much good stuff at Snarkymalarkey for me to steal - go yourself and look at it. This one for the Daily Dozen I think.
I am getting entirely sick of people wondering "what will happen in LOTR III" - read the !*&%?$!* book, idiots.
24 Nov 2003
GOPUSA "Bringing the conservative message to America" It reads like something written by Kim Il Jong : "This certainly belies the vapid smears of the propagandistic BBC and its chief ally, the hardcore socialist movement, which have caricatured Bush as some kind of dopey, gung-ho Texan cowboy."
23 Nov 2003
22 Nov 2003
Strange phishing email purporting to be from Russians who can't use Paypal and who can only be contacted via ICQ, who want people with Paypal accounts to pay stuff for them. I can't imagine how people fall for this kind of thing, but of course we all have our blind spots.
Just watched Luc Besson's Taxi - excellent. Great car chase and a nice finish.
I just came across a whole lot of "Fanlistings" (here's a list of some) - this seems like a rather odd phenomenon that I haven't noticed before. I haven't yet worked out what it is all in aid of.
21 Nov 2003
Finally got round to watching Spirited Away (thanks Andy) - very good
Here's a more detailed map. BTW I don't know if No. 235 still exists but a photo of the space where it was would be fine too.
If you happen to be in London EC4 this weekend and have a digital camera, could you do me a favour? Go here, and take a photograph of No. 235 and send it to me.
Hmm, Cupid's clock works in IE - timers for various stars' (Some I had never heard of) relationships.
20 Nov 2003
A Cat in the Hat Movie?? The word has been heard, from the town of the spires, it was brought by a bird, and is concerned with Mike Myers......
Of course, I meant Matthew nor Mathew. Sorry.
The Matthew Smith Registry (I showed a history of computer games in my social impact lecture today and Mathew Smith, author of Manic Miner, is interviewed in it. His completely out the box demeanour caused a great deal of hilarity. This is not him)
Woo, hoo, the new nightly of Camino renders El Reg again. About time too.
I've had two red aurora alerts e-mailed tonight, so I suppose it might be worth staying up till midnight to see if anything happens. It'll be cloudy of course and I'm knackered.
Interdimensional House of Pancakes Apropos of nothing, people are always very rude about IHOP, in fact I've had perfectly acceptable meals in them and the staff were always much nicer than many other places. Gormet food it isn't, but it certainly sells pancakes. (mmmm, pancakes - 85% flour, free range eggs, organic demerara sugar, organic lemons Has anyone lese noticed how hard it is to get 85% flour these days? I had to by 6Kg!!!)
I'm listening to Mojo Radio from the makers of Mojo magazine. It is clearly very carefully targeted as I've liked everything they've played so far. All old stuff of course, for old buffers who recognise the songs, know the words, but can't remember the names of the artistes. (I was listening to Parchman Farm on "John Mayall with Eric Clapton" the other night and found that I still knew the suck/blow/bend pattern of the whole harmonica part from beginning to end. *sigh*)
Ah, I feel better (see yesterday) now that I find that GMTplus9 has only now caught up with Patsy Montana - which does not in anyway diminish the wonderfulness of either of course!
Streetfriends? I got spammed by these people. It does look awfully like a way of harvesting peoples addresses doesn't it?
19 Nov 2003
You can't imagine how like a proper weblogger it felt to post the link to that page of B&W photographs! Real GMTplus9 stuff that.
Aliens and Children "This website features a series of drawings made by children who were abducted by aliens for the alien purpose of creating a new race of alien/human hybrids" Dig the hat!!!!!!
Patron saints of haemorrhoids : St. Goncalo and St. Fiacre (and I tell you this because it is interesting not because I think there is something inherently funny about piles!)
18 Nov 2003
500 songs that shaped rock, otherwise known as 500 things that we could argue for hours about.
17 Nov 2003
What brand are you? "responsiva : many eggs, one basket" "inexperta: thrusting power" Great stuff
Will we start to feel lonely when all the spam dries up? It is a continuous presence, appearing at regular intervals, unliuke mail from people who you really want to hear from.
16 Nov 2003
I've tried almost every latin prefix I can think of in front of log (infralog, supralog, hyperlog...) and they all generate multiple hits! Ridiculous.
14 Nov 2003
I am sitting in here in tears of laughter at the previous link.....
Is it sad to be sitting in the dark in one's kitchen on a Friday night installing software?
Hmm, finally got Panther installed on the iBook. Haven't worked out if it is that much faster yet.
At least now there will be a google hit for the word "bugmatic"
Family radio missions "Each of these cities are seeped in pagan worship and desperately need God's Word to open the eyes and ears of it's residents to the truth." Illiterate as well as ignorant.
13 Nov 2003
I hadn't come across tribe.net before in the social net field. (or is it an arena, or maybe a pitch, or some other open space metaphor)
12 Nov 2003
I just got spam that reads We have just charged your credit card for money laundry service in amount of $234.65 (because you are either child pornography webmaster or deal with dirty money, which require us to layndry them and then send to your checking account). If you feel this transaction was made by our mistake, please press "No". If you confirm this transaction, please press "Yes" and fill in the form below.
11 Nov 2003
10 Nov 2003
I signed up at technorati, being an inveterate signer upper. I note that it is being hit by spammers who are running multiple weblogs all pointing at each other. I wonder why they aren't filtering them out as they seem easy to spot?
Driving home tonight, the rear axle of a lorry directly in front of me snapped, which was quite exciting - lots of sparks and wheels bouncing all over the road.
Not impressed by the New Fry/Bird thing on BBC (Absolute Power). I laughed once I think. May have potential, not sure. Fry is getting fat.
9 Nov 2003
Throne out - English republican site with royal rumour roundup. Frankly I don't understand what all this royal rumour fuss is all about - we expect the royals to be libidinous and treat people badly!
8 Nov 2003
iRate keeps giving me lots of technoish electro stuff. Which is fine, but I do think that if I had an 808 or a copy of Rebirth I could turn out stuff just like this (if not in fact better)
I need more memory on this iBook. Or a new iBook.
Music to disect cats to - I like the comment at the bottom. I also liked something I saw somewhere the other day that referred to a Cowstore Drugboy - a wonderful concept.
I am liking iRate a lot at the moment - some interesting stuff to listen to (though some drek as well of course). Pity the Mac client is written in Java as it is painfully slow.
It's my daughter's 14th birthday today and the house is full of giggling teenage girls who are here for a sleep-over.
"Everything that has a beginning also has an end", or whatever the slogan for the new Matric movie is. What a load of nonsense - take the positive integers for exampel., start at 0, stop nowhere. Sheesh!
7 Nov 2003
End of World - flash (sound not suitable for the office...well, it depends on your office of course)
According to The Gematriculator - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is 60% evil!
6 Nov 2003
Since I am plundering geeky chick blog let me also mention the Gallery of Birth Control Packaging
Fabulous flash from the divine Ms Sharpe (and fantastic photographs too. naked person alert)
5 Nov 2003
The net isn't doing very well at spreading spoilers for the new Matrix film - I can't find any real ones.
Len's Holiday photos (No photos down by the Old Church then Len? (You probably have to have been to Amsterdam to understand))
4 Nov 2003
Corpses for sale - this looks familiar, i think I must have done this one a long, long time ago.