Shorter posts, links, or thoughts. No schedule, not heavily considered.
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Lego
I had Lego, a big box of it inherited from my Uncle. It started out innocently enough, building a house, or car, the occasional plane, but it was always under control. I graduated to Lego Technic and things started to spiral out of control. Yeah I started with the basic kits, and built what they…
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Other places
I’m about to rant, so before I do… Go visit Meg, she will make you laugh: not.so.soft. Go visit Stuart, he will make you think: hydragenic. Go visit Becky, she’ll make you want to move to France: mybluehouse. Go visit, Julie, and wonder when she and Leia will mutuate into one wonderous being: accidental/a large…
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Tig, you're it!
What games did you play when you were younger? Hide and seek? Tig? British Bulldog? Hopscotch? My favourite was probably ‘ball tig’. Mainly because I was a lot better at throwing a ball than kicking a ball (born true by my preference for basketball over football). Louise’s birthday yesterday. Quiet day to ourselves. Wandered round…
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Messing with childhood
There are somethings that should be sacred, untouchable. They should be locked away, never to be tainted, altered or, god forbid, ‘updated’. How many hours did I spend glued to the television (ahh so that’s why my brain is addled) watching Cartoon Time and Rolf’s Cartoon Club, absorbing non-PC cartoons into my being. Revelling in…
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DOH!
Not sure where you start surfing from but I’ve got a local webpage listing around 80 blogs and a myriad of other sites (news, music, sport, tech, work related etc etc). I’ll usually take a couple of days to get through the list of blogs, but it works for me. Except when I screw up……
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Pinky Thinks
Ohh god, it seems I’m ‘quite cool’. Now I’m worried that: a. I have a ‘rep’ to live up to b. I’ll need to improve to be consider ‘hip’ (or do I need to get worse?) c. my age is showing. I’m not 24 (which is the age most of my brain thinks I am…
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Fight Club
First it was Carey, and this morning I heard two guys in the gym chatting about it. Has it just been re-issued or something? Have I been in a timewarp? Overhead: Guy 1: “Yeah watched it again, actually looks like a fun way to workout”[laughs] Guy 2 (said seriously): “Do you think so? I don’t…
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Google Whore
Some recent google seaches, and yes I’m fully aware that listing them here, will only perpetuate their continued appearance on my site. “something nice to look at” – hope they weren’t disappointed “world.cup conspiracy mafia” – obviously didn’t work as Italy are out! “something fun on Friday night” – well it has been known “pics…
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I hate Mondays
More specifically, I hate Mondays when I get up early, full of vigour for the dawning of a new day, marvel at the birds singing their morning song, and jump into the car to get to the gym before work. Leaving the house at 7 a.m. wasn’t a hardship this morning, as it was an…
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Plans
Busy day yesterday but still didn’t really make that big a dent in my to-do list.. sigh… oh well. Shopping for Father’s Day pressies today. My Dad will probably get a couple of tops, and Louise’s Dad will get a bottle of brandy and some cigars (same as always). The rest of the day will…
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Dear Sir
To ITV Sport: A letter of complaint Whilst I am glad to see England go through I was very disappointed in your coverage of today’s games (12th June). I think it is ridiculous to only show 3-4 minutes of the other 3 games in total, and spend the rest of the program on the England…
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500kph Train
Maglev test train Wow. Fast. I’m trying to think how this train would cope on British railway lines. No longer would the “leaves on the line” excuse work, would it? I also wonder about vandals, and cows on the line and such like, does Japan have the same issues? (The departure of the 3:15 to…
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If
Situations, reactions, altering perceptions, skewing reality, imagining. What if…? My usual tactic for falling asleep is to plan my day, think about what I’ll be doing tomorrow. Sometimes it backfires and my mind races away from me, into situations that may not happen, that I dread will EVER happen, yet I find myself catching up…
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Sci-Fi society
Police to spy on all emails “Millions of personal emails, other internet information and telephone records are to be made accessible to the police and intelligence services in a move that has been denounced by critics as one of the most wide-ranging extensions of state power over private information.” Is it disturbing that Philip Kendred…
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Bye bye PC?
My home PC is now some 5 years old. A geriatric which is showing noticeable signs of old age. So I’m looking for a cheap way to get something new. I mainly use the home PC for email, surfing, designing web sites (sorry, mucking about with HTML), a little graphic work, letter writing and listening…
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Bits and bobs
Well I made it to the gym for the first time in about a week and a half. I’m knackered. After five days of irregular sleep patterns, getting up at 6:15 a.m. this morning was a bit of a shock to the system, but worthwhile. The session was hard, but it felt good to be…
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Weekender
Not even sure why I’m sitting here, but as I am… Weekend was very quiet – drank WAY too much on Friday night, top night though. Saturday was spent nursing a hangover, watching the football and then, finally, watching JFK. Having just read American Tabloid (a fictional account of the events leading up to the…
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Searching…
I’m not sure what kind of people read this site, and what they make of it (yes yes, commenting coming soon I promise!) but if some of the search phrases are anything to go by – “dumbarton porn”, “does kirsty gallacher like black men”, “title of claudia schiffer porn movie”, “smart trouser fetish pics” –…
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Scruples Saturday
Rabbit Rabbit Saturday Scruples 1. You want to quit a job without notice but you need a good reference from your employer. Do you invent a family health emergency? Probably not, I would like to think that by being honest with my employer I would be able to arrange some way of not serving my…
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Simplification
Carey gets back to basics, and I must admit I’ve been thinking something similar as I’ve recently been pondering the ‘why’ and ‘who’ of this very website. Of course when Carey does it, it looks good, like a post ironic take on neo-modernism… or something… Anyway it again brings up the subject of ‘why’. I’ve…