Migraine half way through the Sherlock programme. I don't think it made it any better.

On the other hand, working DR-110, which is nice.

Upside - had mad idea, coded up mad idea, mad idea works.

Downside - brain fried again.

I mean, the mad idea and chums should be enough, right? I made a thing. It will make part of work less horrible and is a demonstration of remote wossname and making stupid people someone else's problem.

But still...

Upside - messaging rig working as hoped, which means cranking out a new daemon process is a couple of hours work.

Downside - brain, filled with plans for writing interesting things, is fried.

I don't know what day it is any more. I measure the passing of the time by the number of terrible films I've stared at, slack-jawed. While I do care for a woman in armour (Which sounds like it should be a Chaucerian cover of 'I love a man in uniform'. If zotz still paying attention to LJ, I expect him to be going 'Ancient Beatbox' right about now.) ( Read more... )

Perhaps it's just me, but I don't wonder that the sort of people who bang on about all the things they used to do are much better off being ignored.

'Marmite shower' still sounds wrong, but that's down to English humour and the emergent properties of Rule 34.

Meat shower sounds differently wrong, but has previous form.

Pervious Form is obviously a Scroobious Pip tribute act.

Fail.

(Fine actors, atmospheric locations... and some surviving bits of Wyndham poking through an utterly mind-buggering 'plot'. With Izzard playing a nutter who'd wandered in from a different film.)

(Wasn't that an Electro-Hippies track? Or was it Extreme Noise Terror? The !Peel programme on Dandelion Radio reminded me about Hagar the Womb and it's all gone a bit shouty ( Read more... )

Bad thing: waking up in the certain knowledge that if you even think about moving your calf, it's going to cramp up lovely. And then moving it in an odd way anyway, so as to get maximum enjoyment from lurching up and trying to massage some sense into the thing ( Read more... )

The documentation and route-map for the CTC Wiltshire Challenge turned up today.

I'm bricking it. 100k? What was I thinking?