Looked like someone emptied an entire modelling house into the gym tonight. I don't think I've ever seen so much "talent" in there.

Also, I've been in inordinately good humour today. Pretty much everyone I talked to smiled at me, so I think it's radiating.

If you google for "hply sjot" right now, it suggests "holy shot" as the phrase you meant to search for. Aside from that, there are seven hits (again, as of right now), not all of which are mine or aggregation copies.

If you've ever wondered what sort of stuff the drivers on a movie crew do, you should watch the feature-length making-of documentary that comes on the Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest 2-disc DVD set. The packing of the trucks onto container ships has to be seen to be believed, never mind the fun they had driving around on Dominica...

In the previous job, I had limited space on my laptop for music to listen to and streaming the collection from home wasn't really an option, so I had a bunch of rips (not all purchased, either; some were "loaned" by a friend) on the laptop drive for the better part of two years which I listened to constantly in the office and occasionally on cross- ( Read more... )

Scotland 3, England 3. Scotland actually took the first score, too.

update: WOOHOO! Scotland 18, England 12! Fabulous game, and more fools England for constantly giving away penalties to such a gifted kicker.

I'm not sure why I'm even continuing to watch Ireland v. France. Our alleged team are handing them the ball more often than not, getting in each others' way, committing basic errors (forward passes, poor passes, and knock-ons) and at this point we're trailing by 40 points and there's still a half-hour left in the game.

update: just after I posted ( Read more... )

Ireland v. Italy: we won, but who cares? The only proper try, of three scored, was the Italian one.
England v. Wales: didn't see it. Heard that England pretty much did a stompy dance on Wales.
Scotland v. France: Hply Sjot. I do believe Scotland won't be sober any time this week. Not only did the Highlanders win the game, they did so through ( Read more... )

We won a match! hurrah! of course, as my brother put it, beating the Faeroe Islands isn't exactly going to punch us up to the top of the League of Soccer-Playing Nations, but it's nice that we didn't, you know, throw away valuable points for a change. For irony points, the Islanders were all over us for the first half simply through the simple ( Read more... )

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The story of Audion (a Mac MP3 player) is very well written. Specifically, the bit where they get an email from Steve Jobs. Also some nice phrasings like "On the other hand, there would be giant money hats."