June 2008
Please tell me i’m not going to stand all the way to brighton.
Just been ad bombed for jobs at GCHQ in Gmail. “Not your ordinary desk job!”, apparently.
What do lazy pundits call Spain now that they are no longer Perennial Underachievers?
Holding impromptu meditation session on a train speeding across the flats. Or: it’s busy, i’m sitting on the floor and i fell asleep.
Hell is… sitting opposite two loud, giggling saffer girls discussing their nights out and love lives.
Radio unsilenced →
Best decision of the day: think only about the happy stuff.
People of the earth: you are not cool… You eat hamburgers and go to school.
Thunderbirds are GO!!!
Trying to imagine what it’s like inside the mind of Steve Ballmer.
sums
Finishing writeup of Mashed08 - will be in Guardian on Thursday.
Personal tour of cory doctorow’s awesome lair.
Ally pally trains all bum: been waiting for half an hour already. Bang goes any chance of having a sunday. Boo.
Heading into the london for mashed: Hoping i can set phasers to stunned.
Interesting2008: and a very good time was had by all.
We were just rick rolled … By a FORD FIESTA
We were just
Your forecast: a strong bobbie front is now moving in a southerly direction.
Anyone around Manchester tomorrow: Guardian Tech Weekly’s having tea + cakes at Urbis from 4-7pm… come along! http://icanhaz.com/teacakes
Gah! “Spore Creature Creator requires Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher”. *shakes fist*
Wow, Italy were totally unimpressive AND they’ll be missing Pirlo and Gattuso. Note that radio commentary is much more negative than telly.
It’s time to admit the truth: I need a haircut.
Lunchtime debate about online video was pretty stimulating, though it swerved towards being a therapy session for Guardianistas…
I love faded signs →
playing fetch with the cat.
Guardian Tech Weekly - coming to a Manchester near you this Thursday… please come! http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/803640/
Tonight, Matthew, London smells of cheap fags and dirty meat.
Sliding into London… possibly the longest week of my life ahead of me.
Ha! They finally used my little piece on You’veBeenLeftBehind.com… http://tinyurl.com/56pgt3
“You can improve the humor value of almost any situation by injecting a weasel into it.”
Got the internets back, thank goodness.
Beer in hand, football on telly, writing about robots while Anna bakes muffins and friends promise of free pizza later on. Life is good.
Working on a Saturday morning is strangely serene. A few hours of stuff done… now going to go and rustle up some brunch.
Sorry… is there a movie about a woman with TEETH in her THINGY?
just to be clear: by her THINGY, I mean, of course, her TWINKLE.
Fire at london bridge. Don’t know when it happened, but no trains are stopping there.
Do you ever think life should be slower? →
Just went to read this week’s New Yorker and discovered it’s a bloody double issue fiction special. I hate it when that happens.
LEE MCQUEEN IS UP FOR IT. THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT.
Spore: t’was only a showcase with the people at EA, unfortunately. But I could officially lose all semblance of having a life come September
Playing Spore: awesome.
Listened to Sun’s political ed upbraiding BBC for interviewingguy detained without charge for six days. ‘too emotive’. WTF?
Listened to Sun’s political ed upbraiding BBC for interviewing guy detained without charge for six days. ‘too emotive’. WTF?
Still Not Home.
Playing croquet at an afternoon tea party in shropshire.
Oh gawd, Noisy Norma just climbed onto the train. I am now preparing to hear about her social life all the way to Brighton.
Sending email to crazy websites in the hope that they’re not spoofs.
Thought I’d pretty much avoided jet lag… not so.
People who are in love with inanimate objects ZOMG