I've seen some useless kitchen gadgets in my life, but this one seems quite impressively crap. Am I missing the genius here?

No wonder they're selling it.

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You'd think there'd be a lot of these, wouldn't you? Well, there sort of are, but they're not the actual game of Mahjongg, they're games of Solitaire (aka Taipei). It's tile-matching. Which is fine and all, but I want to be able to play PROPER MAH-JONGG. On my lunch break, or while commuting. I think that's reasonable ( Read more... )

This week has been a pleasing contrast to last week, which was a bit dire, especially the total horror of Wednesday wherein I missed ALL my uni stuff due to administrative cock-ups, AND went home only to find I'd forgotten to take keys. It was a pretty crap day, but my mother, who is lovely, finished work early and met me at the station and took me ( Read more... )

Hey all,

You may have been surprised at my lack of response to comments and emails recently, having been *even* worse than usual. Unfortunately, my very flickery power adaptor finally conked out, so my laptop's been a decorative brick for some time. It's in for repair now (thanking hazyjayne eternally for her excellent advice to buy Apple Care, the one ( Read more... )

A week and a half of pretty solid unwellness. I'm not dying or anything, but the sneezing, coughing, running nose, itchy throat & inner ears, headaches and absolute feeling of exhaustion is almost constant. I really don't know what the hell's up with this, and why it won't go away. Have I caught another virus straight away? I'm on Amoxicillin in ( Read more... )

Topless Robot have gone one better than last year, and created a new list of wonderful fan-films, which are just what I need after coming home from work ill (again ( Read more... )

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Ah, modern life is wonderful. I just watched Ed Miliband win the Labour Leadership contest from my bathtub ( Read more... )

Oh, what a surprise ( Read more... )

My iPhone has disappeared, presumed half-inched (the circumstances were, shall be say, a bit suspicious).

It was not insured, so I will have to buy a new handset. This would be even more painful if I'd actually liked the bloody thing, but it's infuriating nonetheless, what with my massive library fines and all ( Read more... )