Oct 10, 2009 19:39
Bother. The ATM nailed to the side of the Tesco metro had a mechanical and failed its attempt to sick up my card. After three tries, accompanied by increasingly distressed peeping and me attacking it with a sharp knife (we'll gash the caul, etc), it gave up.
Hurrah for backup bank accounts, although it's still going to be a bit tiresome for the next 'seven to ten working days' + postal strike.
I'm not sure if it's just Bristol, but there seems to be an exciting new fashion amongst crap car drivers who live on crap streets to park their terrible shitboxes most of the way onto the pavement.
I'm vaguely convinced this is agin the law. Bastards.
I seem to have watched far too much telly this last week. It must be the coming of winter. Anyway, the Micro Men thing on BBC4 is being repeated this very even and is well worth the time, even if Sir Clive appears to be played by Kryten. You fucking buggering shitbucket.
It certainly filled in a lot of the gaps in the timeline that was otherwise documented in the pages of Practical Electronics and Personal Computer World. I'm bound to admit that the whole of the Cambridge thing passed me by, though I never was a fan of the Z80.
9/16ths,
retro-future,
completely unspoiled by progress