In part one of a series of one, here’s a cool logo I found on Brands of the World while looking for a completely different ABB logo .
No idea who it’s for, BotW has it tagged as Russia / Security, I’d guess from the sword and the tie it’s some kind of private protection.
Review: not as enjoyable as their Electric Ballroom gig last year, I’m putting it down to knowing less than half the set despite being au fait with the latest two of their three albums. The Reuben forumites disagree with me, but also think crowd surfing is uncool. They aren’t to be trusted.
The Ghost Of A Thousand. All I remember is screaming.
Baddies. Seen them before, still very good.
Gigs are dead to me anyway, staying in with Supernatural is where it’s at.
Upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.5, definitely more streamlined but the picture upload feels clunky compared to the old no-frills edition.
Also upped Firefox to v3 beta 5, it’s much faster at everything than v2. I get problems with it refusing to connect to machines over bonjour, but restarting the browser always fixes it. Someone else on the same network never gets this problem, so it could be my cranky iMac.
Each day, as I carve through the morning streets of Norwich in my iron chariot, I pass this window. They’ve made a sterling effort with their window display, worthy of a phonetograph.
The “It’s back” advertising for Cadbury’s Wispa bars persuaded me buy one. Be warned, like most things from the 80s (except the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon) they’re nothing special.
On chocolate, I can’t find Lion bars anywhere these days. If Wikipedia is to be believed they don’t sell well any more because “consumers are turning away from high-calorie bars”, though they are still in production. If you find Lion Bars for sale in Norwich, please do tell.
Remember the start of Trainspotting where Renton does the “choose life” monologue? Back in ‘96 I thought it was just a bunch of made-up activities that only applied to EastEnders characters. I realise now that it was actually a checklist of things I would be doing over the next ten years. Most items are ticked off, just in time for my twenty-seventh birthday later this week.
But enough of that, Rez is coming up on Xbox Live Arcade. While I have played it to death on the PS2 already, I fancy getting it again for the achievement points and proving to the world that I can get the ultimate butterfly ending.
Until then, I’ll consider a third run through Rapture in the fantastic videogaming experience that is Bioshock. It should have been tougher though, gets far too easy about halfway through, even on hard.
PS. This just in – if you’re using the Compare People app on Facebook you definitely want to read this. Or just remove the evil being from your applications. Privacy violations are bad mmkay.
Trial run for August 2007 diet.
Aside from binging on bourbons, I used my lunch break to look up the ending for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to see who dies. Turns out knowing what actually happens is less exciting than being curious about what might happen.
Shop of the week goes to Farmfoods in Norwich, partly for the offer on Bakin’ Boys flapjacks but mainly for the member of staff who has based his service style on Clerks. It’s like being served in Lidl but with the nonchalance raised to an art form.
Since they stopped trying to kill me, Wetherspoon have been making many changes to my lunchtime caffeine fix. First was the new coffee machine, which seems to make weaker americanos (aka black coffee) but much tastier lattes.
Next was the re-categorising of the existing sized mugs to “small” and introducing the larger hot chocolate mugs as “regular”. This also included a price increase from 69p to 79p on small, or 99p for a regular.
Yesterday, they redeemed themselves with this:
Behold, the Wetherspoon Magic Beans Coffee Reward Card – buy four small coffees, get the fifth free. Using mathematics, I can prove that this not only negates the 10p price increase, it works out 29p cheaper per five coffees! You can’t argue with numbers:
(79 x 4) < (69 x 5)
These particular numbers (with which you cannot argue) make my goal, which is to replace my soul with coffee and become immortal, more cost effective.
That’s actually Wally from Dilbert’s goal but Dilbert quotes seem to get search engine hits, albeit with 100% bounce rates. Spices up the website statistics a bit though.
Fish fingers served in wholemeal farmhouse bread with peri-peri ketchup accompanied by a side salad. To drink, Moët & Chandon Brut Impérial.
Screw the PS3, this is living.
This bank holiday I was mostly painting in:
Okami (PS2, excellent game)
Bathroom (Real life, I strongly dislike DIY and everything it stands for)
At least the end results look good, despite my best efforts to get paint in all the wrong places.
How was your bank holiday weekend? Filled with wind, rain and the mundane, or exciting like in Hollyoaks, perhaps with some emotional trauma on the side?
Behold, a fresh blog design. It has stunning new features such as a drop shadow and a gradient.
I am currently off sick from work. The special thing about it is being able to buy my Lemsip from Morrissons at ten past nine in the morning when there are more staff than customers in the store.
From now on, I want to do all my shopping first thing in the morning, so I have devised three options to achieve this insignificant goal:
I think you’ll agree that these plans all stink. If you’ve any better suggestions, please leave them in the comments.
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