Not really updating this, just injecting a technorati claim code: UBGAJWB45J7G

First "Happy New Year" SMS received at 20:35 GMT, followed very quickly by the second.

Well, kinda. In that I made some barbeque sauce, marinaded two pork chops in it, then grilled them and served one (to myself) with some fried potato slices. It did feature some of the best parts of a barbeque, though:

• Somewhat inclement weather, albeit outdoors
• Meat not cooked at the same time as non-meat
• Meat slightly burnt on the outside (although ( Read more... )

Although no names are given, I worked for the proprietors of the amusement arcade mentioned here one summer. They moved a few years ago from the location I worked in so they could sell it for property redevelopment.

As previously mentioned, I've been going back through old LiveJournal posts applying the Web two-point-oh tags (and thusly building a votagulary); occasionally I stumble upon myself being sufficiently funny to make me laugh out loud, which fact I even commented on back in November 2004. Anyway, I am reposting an excerpt here from a December 2004 ( Read more... )

Someone or something recently directed me to a scan of an article from the 1940s about the secret to hiring women, which contained such well-meant statements as "women work best when their work is clearly defined for them, as they have no natural bent towards self-management" (paraphrased). Evidently not much has changed in the intervening 60 years ( Read more... )

The more I read Ben Goldacre, the more I'm convinced it's actually the extremely prolific Warren Ellis on another one of his random Internet forays.The most important take home message here is that I got some very impressive swearing into one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, and I have therefore won the internet. (link)
I'm pretty ( Read more... )

This is probably just bait for ronebofh, but anyway: votagulary, n.: the collection of words you inevitably end up confining yourself to after going a bit mad with this whole Web 2.0 tagging lark.

updated to fix the spelling of my new word to that which I had intended it to be. how embarrassing.

also updated to fix other spelling. oh the humanity.

In the past week or so, it has been independantly noted that I am very bitter and I am cynical beyond repair. Sorry if you were on the receiving end of that. Also, sorry if you encountered Cranky Waider this week, as he was in pretty full effect due to some technical stuff that was going the wrong way down a one-way street, and doing so while ( Read more... )

"One dead in knitting spree..."

Wait, no.

knifing spree.

Right.