July 2008
22 posts
1 tag
2 Girls, 1 Cup, 8 Stags
(My stag night)
Jul 29th
Sorry internet chums - i was shanghai’d by my IRL friends. :-(
Jul 27th
Hours later than advertised, the pig was roasted. Apologies at being unable to get the word out. I was de-phoned.
Jul 27th
I’m officially on my stag weekend. Expect no sense from me until tuesday.
Jul 24th
Jul 24th
Some kind of sprain. I’m in the worst pain i think i’ve ever been in. Luckily, i’m the stoic type. OW OWEY OW OW!
Jul 19th
Not a heart attack. Doctor very complimentary about blood pressure etc. Go me!
Jul 19th
In hospital with chest pains. Woo!
Jul 19th
Knutsford: easily Britain’s most ridiculous town.
Jul 19th
Off to knutsford to buy me a wedding ring. BRAP!
Jul 19th
Wall-E
The movie opens on Friday and I am not ashamed to say that when I think about it, a little bit of wee comes out. Now, this guy has made this, which I found here and ever since I read this I’ve been pretty much infatuated with Wall E and the enormous anthropomorphic power that the little robot has - something, I’m sure, to do with the sad eyes. Anyway, this short film only goes to...
Jul 17th
Feist on Sesame Street
Perfect.
Jul 17th
Let the self-referential cluster fuck begin!
See here
Jul 14th
Watching The Bottom Feeders. Woo!
Jul 13th
This is much better than yesterday. I has chocolate ice cream too
Jul 13th
In Platt’s Fields at this Food Thing.
Jul 13th
What the FUCK, India?
I know its wrong to judge an entire country by the actions of one kid on a ring-a-ding motorcycle, but:
Jul 10th
The internet becomes terrifying once more
Three simple words typed into Google reminded me today that we live on an electronic frontier in almost every sense of the word. (The sense in this particular case is the frontier between interest and obsession.) (…and this all started, mark you, as an innocent conversation on IRC.)
Jul 9th
I added comments.
(That is all.)
Jul 8th
Jul 8th
1 tag
On gentrification
Andy Baio linked to this top notch article on the gentrification of online, (and more specifically, geek news) communities. The key quote for me is: The point is, we won. We took an idea, which said that the masses should be able to make their own media, and we did it as an example and eventually the people we were fighting against started copying us. No we didn’t win all of what we wanted, we...
Jul 8th
Sarah Haskins
Thanks to TPS’ question at AskMe, I have a new hero: Sarah Haskins.
Jul 2nd