April 2009
Live life to the full - it's a cliche for a reason
What a strange couple of days it’s been, to cut a long story short, my folks came to see me at the weekend, and while we were talking the conversation turned to my cousin’s husband who had a very serious bike accident at Brands Hatch race-course a few weeks ago. He has come round from the theraputic coma he was being kept in, and is making good progress but it is till too early for a...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
The Roots (12)
Ian Brown (3)
Beastie Boys (2)
Slum Village (2)
Dj Swing (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
SPECIAL BONUS ST GEORGE'S DAY MEGATASTIC EXTRA!!
Gloucestershire Cheese and Ale Pie
(A bit like welsh rarebit, only different.)
Serves 2 as a meal, 4 as a snack
6oz/175g Double Gloucester Cheese 4 slices toasted bread 4fl oz/125ml Brown ale 1 teaspoon English Mustard (powdered not made)
1. Pre-heat the oven to Gas Mark 5, 190°C or 375°F. 2. Slice the cheese as thinly as possible - you can use grated cheese if you prefer. 3. Put the...
“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else,...”
– From Wil Wheaton’s Earth day blog yesterday, a reminder of the much-missed Carl Sagan.
WatchVia Boing Boing
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal. Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-19) →
DJ Yoda (10)
Beastie Boys (5)
Talib Kweli (5)
The Roots (4)
DJ Shadow (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
that was not a hashtag, it was a common or garden hash. that is all. #hashtag
Oh, yes, thanks to the new comics thread onWC for the shout on incognito..I am still lurking there, on and off…
oh , i missed incognito #3 - it’s not a total wash out for me this week then…
zero, zilch, squat. it’s a light week for me this comic-week….
So Nerd Sabbath is upon us again, here’s the list: http://bit.ly/Nb6zt.
Found an old box of comix from the early 90’s at the weekend - mostly X-comics, spidey etc but some weirder stuff in there too..
But among the carp was a few gems, incl some Macross Plus, Eastmann and LAird Ninja Turtles and a couple of Classis What The?!’s
Can someone tell me what’s the shock about Met Police beating up protesters…The same police who shot an innocent man dead 2 years ago….
Apparently, US faces bed-bug explosion, http://bit.ly/RNeZ7.
Am I reading the guardian while i’m supposed to be working? Yes, what of it?
Uber pretty magnified images of rock/mineral crystal structures here: http://bit.ly/sEdJ2
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-12) →
The Roots (3)
Trojan (1)
Braintax (1)
Marlena Shaw (1)
Gil Scott-Heron (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Therapistfinder.com
Penisland.co.uk.
Notherngasheating.co.uk
Hit up the comic shop on the way home, gravel 10, dok sleepless 12 and ignition city 1 all in the bag!
UK “ideal home for electronic Big Brother” Brit Gov best placed for email/online snooping http://bit.ly/1Od1IC
Bug eats electricity, farts biogas http://bit.ly/2ZYV8w, headline writer feels self-satisfied glow of a job well done.
Listening to 30 years of hip-hop by Jaguar skills. 3 decades of hip-hop in 60 minutes…http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/30yearsofhiphop/
Sore ribs, tired & short of breath. Now wishing I didn’t look up the symptoms of punctured lungs as I have the ones listed above..
Doing coursework for ma management thing, the beer i’m drinking ain’t helping the process…
Why am I getting updates on my phone that never appear on tweetdeck/the website?
Have just created a file named “Certificate of Destruction”. I could have called it “confidential waste” but that’s just not nerdy enough..
Oh christ: Police identify 200 children as potential terrorists. Not that they have actually committed any crimes http://bit.ly/EWucN
Woke up this morning at 5. In the wrong bed. In the wrong house, with only 2.5 hours before work. I hate doing this shit all the time..
Bruised rib playing football last night - the worst thing? It hurts to poop!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-29) →
J Dilla (3)
Slum Village (2)
Beastie Boys (1)
Pharoahe Monch (1)
Big L (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Up early, catching Andrew Marr on the bbc, then the Malaysian GP after…
I’m so glad the formula one is back on the BBC, the rolling bassline of the Fletwood mac’s “the chain” is the best intro music evar!