When I opened the paper on Monday to read about the tsunami (”More than 11,000 killed”), it was compelling news, and I read article after article.
As the coverage continues (”True horror emerges”) adding only greater death tolls, and grimmer details, I’m ashamed to say I can only bring myself to skim read: we know [...]
Pug Fugly Games has released
another game: Revenge of the Robot Cats from Mars. It’s not as good as
Ambush, but then what is? I was briefly 2nd in the online hiscore table,
but that didn’t last long. I can’t get past the first boss.
From now on, if I see a change in Leamington, I’ll consider adding it
to the Leamington
Changelog.
Everything’s sort of back to normal after Christmas, except that Debbie’s
up with her folks for a day (missing her already).
Mum and Dad turned up on cue on Friday afternoon (Christmas Eve), we fed
them pie, served them various drinks, and watched Spiderman 2 (far better
than the overly talky first one — seemed very violent for its [...]
We wolfed down a pizza at Viallis, then saw Wish supported by Broadband
at the Jug and Jester. Alright actually, although their encore was
genuinely a repeated song: “the one that sounds like The Ace of Spaces”.
Broadband were ambient dub merchants, ten years late. A laptop, a violin,
a digeridoo and a sitar… It probably had merit, but [...]
Has anyone seen anything like this before?
$ telnet pop3.demon.co.uk 110
Trying 194.217.242.253…
Connected to pop3.mail.demon.net.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
+OK demon POP3 server ready (demon.co.uk)
user ladle
+OK
pass [snip]
+OK
stat
+OK 36 335223
uidl 8
+OK 8 1Cgrq1-0000t2-Kt-0000t5
retr 8
Connection closed by foreign host.
It seems to me as if [...]
Since American voice over artists keep reminding us that it is the “holiday
season”, holiday plans are on our minds. My manager has agreed four
concurrent weeks off for me in the Summer, so we have free rein to book
flights for yet another Road Trip.
Yes, we should broaden our horizons, but look how low that dollar is. [...]
Saturday was a day mostly of sleep, but we managed to squeeze in
a Chinese takeaway and a rental DVD - Mean Girls. Fluffy teen-com, but ideal for our vegetative mental
state, and I could watch Lindsay Lohan all day. Because of her excellent
acting skills, of course. According to IMDB she’s playing Jeannie in
an in-production remake of [...]
I added a couple more images to the Leamington “street art”
collection.
It’s nearly 2PM, and I am still drunk from last night’s jaunt to the
Metropole for the IBM Club dinner dance. Nicky was the only IBMer among
us at our table. After an early doorman related setback, we managed to
crash the Next Directory party next door.
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