July 2008
36 posts
david:
Vangelis — La Petite Fille De La Mer
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WatchElecting a US President in Plain English by Common Craft
How I wish I had this at my fingertips during those many lunches explaining US elections to my colleagues last year.
For the last few days at the end of The Archers...
Key Lime Pie
My gift to you all this evening. Made today and currently chilling in the fridge before the BBQ that my Father is hosting for colleagues tomorrow evening.
It’s wonderfully refreshing on a muggy English summer evening and dead simple to boot. Enjoy!
Ingredients
375g/12oz plain or sweetmeal digestive biscuits, crushed
150g/5oz unsalted butter
Grated zest and juice of 8 large limes...
“He’s bought one of these iPhone things. It’s got all of the Google...”
– My father the luddite, on the phone to my Uncle.
Read Giles Coren's letter to Times sub[-editor]s →
megpickard:
“There is no length issue. This is someone thinking “I’ll just remove this indefinite article because Coren is an illiterate cunt and i know best”. Well, you fucking don’t.” Verbose strop from Giles…
This rant simply confirms what we already knew about Mr Coren: That whilst he writes wonderfully witty columns he is a bit of a arrogant prat. I guess we can forgive him. What else do...
Damn you Twitter. You and your frequently present,...
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Temporary photo, audio, and mobile post issues
ideasarelikestars:
Why won’t Tumblr let me upload photos this evening?! Grr…
tumblr staff:
Our media host, Amazon S3, has been experiencing slowdowns and errors for about two hours. It’s affecting nearly every site that uses S3. The Amazon Web Services team is aware of the problem and is working on it.
For Tumblr, this affects the creation of new photo, audio, and...
Stuck Pixel
Last night I suddenly noticed a patch of two or three stuck pixels slap bang in the middle of my iPhone screen. You can hardly see them in normal use but in dark conditions or when using a program with a dark UI (e.g. Twitterific) they do stands out. With all things like this once you’ve spotted it you can’t not see the defect.
I called Applecare this morning and they’ve booked...
“How weary we are of wandering -
Is this perhaps death?”
– The closing line of “Im Abendrot” (“At Sunset”) the last of Strauss’s Last Four Songs
I had totally forgotton that it was the first night of the Proms. Bill Thompson gave a heads up on Twitter that the Strauss was about to come on so I dashed to turn on the radio. I...
Flamenco Sketches - Miles Davis
I’ve just...
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“The absence of God shall bring you comfort baby”
– Rilo Kiley — If only this were true.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-13) →
Josh Ritter
John Mayer
Camphor
Ray LaMontagne
Morcheeba
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Cracked again
About eleven months ago my MacBook, then about four months old, developed a crack at the top of the lower casing, to the right of the trackpad. It matched up perfectly with the location of the magnetic latch at the top of the screen. This is a problem that has been well documented by a number of Macbook owners.
I dropped my machine into Apple’s Regent St flagship store and they took it in...
Rabbit ripper shocks Germany →
BBC News:
Seventy-four-year-old Elfriede Dumont invites me into her back garden. […] There used to be a rabbit hutch, too, at the end of the garden. But not any more.
“One morning, when I came out to feed my rabbits, I was surprised to see that the hutch door was open,” recalls Elfriede.
“I looked inside and saw Rocco just lying there. His head was missing. A...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-6) →
Josh Ritter
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Camille Saint-Saëns
Ray LaMontagne
The Nicole Fermie Quartet
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
A great day!
0700: Wake up.
0750: Taxi to work.
0810: Arrive at work. Get coffee. Email.
0900: Cooked breakfast (Sausages, bacon, egg, tomato, brown toast, OJ).
0930: Tidy up yesterday’s experiment.
1000-1200: Image processing. Training my replacement.
1200-1220: Lunch (Jerk chicken with rice and peas).
1230-1415: Pub (Leaving drinks for a colleague).
1415-1500: Coffee. Discuss potential future...
Is it better to have relationships develop...
sophiescott:
Please reblog with your opinions!
My (admittedly limited) ‘research’ reaches a rather perverse conclusion: That dating leads to great friendships but difficult relationships. Those developed organically have the nasty tendency of ending badly for both parties, or worse falling into the classic will-they/won’t-they yo-yo situation.
