Bill Hicks wrote: The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride ( Read more... )

Or is Lonely feeling you?

I always maintained those should have been the lyrics to that.

I seem to be stuck.  It's a beautiful day but I can't find anything to do with myself.  I tried walking the dog, that's done now.  In the absence of a car (see posts passim regarding probably write-off) I can't really go anywhere.  I've considered other methods ( Read more... )

Apologies to all the Lahndahn posse.  I was there yesterday.  I didn't say so.

That's my third visit over the past fortnight.  I'm doing some troubleshooting support for a company which uses software which should be BURNED WITH FIRE and who have other issues, such as their sysadmin running off to Norway and vanishing in the Cold Wastes without ( Read more... )

( An Instructive And Educational Short Film )

Jack's cat and I are engaged in a long term struggle to lull each other into a false sense of security.  This morning, he came and sat on me and unprovoked, began to purr.  And I did not hurl him savagely at a wall.  I fed him ( Read more... )

The three (so far) ages of Man.

Young, unmarried men say "Is it better than sex?"

Married men say "Is it better than a night in on your own?"

I say "Is it better than bacon?"

See, when you're young and umarried and not "paired off", you don't actually get a lot so the idea tends to consume you.

For most men, after the first year of so of being married ( Read more... )

I don't know, I really don't.  I feel in strong danger of losing my geek license.  Or maybe nerd-cred.  Or something.

Not only do I now find myself regarding even programming a huge sense of despair and loathing, on all the other geek/nerd stuff, I am full of fail.  The movie meme really brought that home to me.

I remember watching Spirited Away.  ( Read more... )

Hi.  My name's Rich, and I'm an Englishman.  I'm a peculiar mix of scummy thieving gypsy and insane Northen Irish catholic with a good dose of Norman aristocracy from the Beauforts sprinkled over a solid base of hewn-from-the-earth Wiltshire farmer.  I was born in the 60's and don't remember them which proves it, but few people remember their first ( Read more... )

As promised, some thought on
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Last night, we overslept.  Normally one oversleeps in the morning, but I feel that scheduling to wake up at 2:30am counts as "night".

The reason for the ludicrous alarm time was
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