"I was digging my mother's old sewing machine from the cupboard under the stairs when I caused a minor stuff-avalanche. I was hit in the head by a pair of Korean bicycle tyres and a broken VR headset. The tyres went into the shed and the VR-rig into the bin ( Read more... )

Perhaps I need less rubbish tyres on the road bike.

And a new pair of winter strides, since there's an extra hole in the existing set.

Blast.

Still, own stupid fault, etc.

Nevertheless: ow.

Bother. I had some idea or other for a poll that would utterly confuse more or less everyone. I had the entire thing gurgling away in my head while I steamed to work this AM, but then I realised that I couldn't feel my toes and that was the end of that bright idea ( Read more... )

'Dargon Taxis' sound like the sort of firm you'd ring up when you got bored with your runequest and wanted to slope off down the pubbe (Three lads wenten to a pubbe/and gleefully their hands began to rub) for a swift flagon ( Read more... )

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

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

Dear minging lardy 'driver' of the sludge coloured five-series: If you want to accelerate wildly round a parked car while re-tuning the wireless and holding up the other hand to block the early morning sunlight, please try it far away from me. There's a good girl. Oh, I might also add that you can get a Variety Club Sunshine Bus up that road while ( Read more... )

Sometimes, a chap could become convinced that the universe was having a bijou laugh-ette.

On one hand, we have the strange spectacle of Rice-Rocketry.

On the other, the computing version of same. (Yes, if you run Gentoo, you are a bit of a nobber ( Read more... )

We've got this tree at the bottom of the garden, next to the shed. You can tell it's a bit of a character by the ungrammatical use of the word 'this'. If it had been 'a' tree, then it would have been an undistinguished specimen that told bad jokes or perhaps droned on about SQL Server at otherwise splendid dinner parties ( Read more... )

Much better. It's amazing how well endorphins regulate one's mood.

So, um, this exercise business, right. Is it just me that gets yea-many weeks in to a reasonably exacting regimen and then has an attack of the Serious Bleak ( Read more... )