January 2008
50 posts
Hey... New York.... is it snowing yet?
Is it? Because my daughter is visiting next week from Monday and she is gonna be soooooooooooooo pissy if it isn’t snowing….. I know some people who live in New York read this… can you let me know… cos the weather foreasters are nooriously crap… but I’ll trust someone who actually lives there…
“There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did,...”
– (via randomacts) This is so true…..so very very true…. I’m in the process of finally moving on with some stuff that went on in my life a long time ago… (I say finally because I keep thinking.. or trying to pretend.. that I have moved on… and then I’ll make a...
Instapaper →
marco: I’m ready to direct some traffic to my little side project, Instapaper. I’ve been using it for months and couldn’t live without it now. Here’s the basic premise: You come across substantial news or blog articles that you want to read, but don’t have time at the moment. You need something to read while sitting on a bus, waiting in a line, or bored in front of a computer. Instapaper...
Overheard in the training room....
Manual Handling Trainer: Now remember to keep your back straight and bend your knees
Trainee: What? That's just not going to work.
Manual Handling Trainer: You must keep your back straight at all times.. do all the bending in the knees...
Trainee: Bend ze knees?
Manual Handling Trainer: Yes.. Yes... Bend ze knees! Bend ze knees!
Trainee: OK.. but you do know if I squat down keeping my back straight I'm probably gonna fart don't you....
Manual Handling Trainer: No shit....
Trainee: No.. no shit... just fart....
Manual Handling Trainer: I'm gonna have more luck teaching someone to ski than getting you to bend your knees aren't I?
Trainee: Yup
*Trainee is about 60 and has been lifting boxes for a living since he was about 17...*
Tumblr bookmarks
So what Tumblr needs is a button on each post, similar to the reblog and permalink icons, to add a post to a personal bookmarks/read later page. Then, when I log in to Tumblr at home after work, I don’t have to search through 20 pages of the dashboard, or try to remember which person posted what video/audio so that I can go to their tumblelog.I like the Dashboard format, and something like this...
artist i like - ALO →
very easy listening. listen to maria. — lfarm ALO are quite fabulous…. Roses & Clover is pretty much on repeat on my ipod…
Andi: Hey caz! im @ the dentist w/my daughter but wanted to tell u my ex's frenulum snapped once and he about shit his pants!
Caz: Ha ha ha... I think I just pee'd my pants a little....
Headlines
If the headline for the Post tomorrow isn’t “Third Tynes The Charm” then Ill have to question everything I thought I knew about the world. I just wish I could put money on this in Vegas. stokan — livejamie Well I wanted Green Bay to go all the way but if they had to lose it’s good that hey lost to a team that was saved by a SCOT!!!!
Queefs.. pah... thats nothing....
“Of all the embarrassing stuff that can happen during sex — urine leaks, unwelcome fingers in intimate places, saying the wrong person’s name — queefing is right up there at the top of the list.” So Andi linked to this article on Jezebel about queefing and it got me thinking about embarrassing stuff that can happen in bed… and sorry but no! Queefing is one of...
Its Sunday, I never get dressed!
Elliott: Oh my god, its so hot in this car.
Me: Thats because some of ussss are wearing our pyjamas
Ha ha ha.. I knew I was going something wrong... I got dressed to take my daughter to the cinema at 6.00pm.
Why you SHOULD be friends with your exes. →
by my brilliant friend Moe over at Jezebel (thank you to Lydia for pointing this out to me!!) As Moe writes, and I agree 435%, paraphrasing Julie Delpy in 2 Nights in Paris: It’s just so TERRIBLY SOUL CRUSHING to get into a relationship with someone thinking you wouldn’t be there if there wasn’t any sex, that you wouldn’t value the person even as a friend, that the...
Why I love the internet V2.0
After I posted THIS… a guy called Steve Cohen from CBS got in touch with me by posting a comment on my other blog saying this…. hi i stumbled upon this entry while surfing the net—just a quick heads-up—i’m a producer for cbs network in new york—wanted to invite your daughter’s media studies class to visit our morning show while she is here… think...
The End of The World →
sorry… it’s old but I still think it’s one of the funniest damn things ever on the internet….
Reading material....
For the last three days I’ve been catching a train to go to my other office (in Exeter) for some one-on-one instruction relating to my new position at work (Archivist). It has been extremely relaxing letting the “train take the strain” these past few days and I have arrived at work refreshed.. calm and raring to go rather than how I arrive at work in Plymouth.. stressed.....
Lord of the Rings →
OK so I love Tumblr, but unfortunately blogging or internet in general just isnt really that big here in the UK, and it will be a while before it becomes the done thing. I have recommended one friend so far, so Im doing my bit for the million mark. — emmas I’ve helped too…. I’m responsible for Andi signing up….
Handy Time Machine...
I just spent almost 2 and a half hours watching the Manchurian Candidate…. Has anyone got one of those handy time machine thingys so I can get those 150 minutes back please? If you had one of those handy time machine thingys and could go get back some movie time…. what movie would it be?
Quiet times....
Jeez, my Dashboard is dead during the morning. I need to find some more Europe-based Tumblrs. Anyone know any good ones worth reading? — gooneruk I’ve noticed this too…it goes mad in the early afternoon and evenin but is VERY quiet in the morning…
Why I enjoy Tumblr (Flickr, Vimeo and Facebook)
Now I know why I enjoy reading through someone’s Tumblr pages, going through someone’s entire Flickr or Vimeo profile, or browsing through Facebook status updates. Tumblr made this especially apparent - as I read, browse, and consume this stuff, I caught myself automatically imagining what’s it like to be in that person’s world. Turns out, I read to find an answer to:...
What's a woman to do....
I love my brother… I love him to bits…. for God’s sake he’s my big brother. Trust me… no-one could love him like I do… but right now… right now… *mumbles* Whilst my house is an open house to him (he has a key) I really am starting to get ticked off with him being in my house All.The.Frigging.Time…. About a month ago he cheerfully came to me...
I'm Soooo Important
It’s pretty awesome having nine people follow me, even though two are people I personally know and I have a guess at who one of them might be. But that still leaves six random people who find me interesting. Or they could just be hoping I’ll follow them in return. — mikemcme I’m following too…. mainly because the whole of your front page made me either giggle or...
“UNDER THE (IMPRESSION I CAN) INFLUENCE (PEOPLE AROUND ME)”
– I’m taking to the blog today to share something with you that I feel more passionate about than I saw coming. I want to make it short and sweet so that anybody who wants to re-print it can copy and paste without editing… johnmayer.com
Ch... ch... ch... changes.....
So yeah…. Soup highlighted a small (ok HOOJ!) fault with the other theme… no permalinks on certain types of posts thus making them un-rebloggable… So lets seee how many of my fascinating posts are reblogged now that I’ve changed themes to enable it… — caz I really dug the other theme but this one is pretty sweet too. Where do you find such wonderful themes? —...
Ch... ch... ch... changes.....
So yeah…. Soup highlighted a small (ok HOOJ!) fault with the other theme… no permalinks on certain types of posts thus making them un-rebloggable… So lets seee how many of my fascinating posts are reblogged now that I’ve changed themes to enable it…
“I wanted to reblog it from there but I can’t figure out how because of her...”
– Soup Soup has helpfully pointed out to me that you can’t reblog anything that isn’t a regular post…. because there isn’t a permalink…. can’t figure out how to fix it either… which is a real shame because I like this layout….
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The Might Boosh... WTF???
Whilst editing my photos this evening my daughter has been curled up behind me on the couch watching The Mighty Boosh… I kid you not… everytime I have looked over my shoulder at the tv screen the words… “what the frig..?” have rolled out of my mouth…. I swear to God I have a sense of humour… I really do… but Jesus… what the hell is going on in...
New York Trip....
So my daughter is off to New York on 4 February…. tonight we went to the school for the pre-trip meeting. Staying on Times Square… trips to Central Park… shopping…. The Guggenheim and Metropoliton museums… NBC Studios… shopping…. Rockerfeller Centre… Empire State Building… Battery Park… Ellis and Liberty Island… Shopping…. ...
Tom on Starbucks again..
“Going into Starbucks is akin to being in a foreign country where you have only a passing knowledge of the language and mentally rehearse what you say before you say it so you don’t sound like a tool. I was in line once behind an old fellow who asked for a “small” coffee. The incubus at the register looked at him as if he’d spoken Old Church Slavonic until his...
Ninjawords is way better than Definr →
Ninja anything will always be better than anything non-ninja — livejamie yes it is…. it’s ninja-fast….
“will busted tees start producing “Team Julia” shirts?”
– reader Andrew G. HAHAH that’s actually REALLY funny. Julia Alison pffffft…. That idea is old…. a month old!
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“Dear Mari,
I don’t think I’m so raw. I feel like I’m covering all sorts of...”
– Julia Allison The thing is… I’m actually starting to come round… when I read this I got that all knowing “I’ve been there” feeling in my head (and heart). It was almost as though I wrote it myself in those heady days following the break up of my relationship....
Browsing my analytics I came across this. I guess... →
I guess she caught my post on a follow and posted on to her blog. It makes me SMILE to see someone post my words. Good or Bad. — jennyalison It’s always good to be quoted Jenny… it means someones actually reading… and taking in what you are saying. I reblogged your post after I made THIS post… so I neither agree or disagree regarding Jakob… but we both certainly...
After reading what Julia Allison revealed about Jakob Lodwick on Gawker it got me thinking about the internet. (google it!!!) One of the things about the internet… that has tripped up many a blogger…. is that once you say it… it’s there.. on the net… for all to see.. and there is pretty much bugger all you can do about it… because even deleting it doesn’t...
Geezus
Okay so like the big loser I am I spent a good 30 minutes going over Julia’s Gawker live blog and I really don’t see the big deal?! Okay so she pointed out the obvious, Jakob is bipolar. I mean I could have told you that months ago when he made an ass of her in an e-mail, then preceded to work things out with her and then boom did the same thing to her AGAIN. I just can’t figure...
Where is the line?
As anyone who reads this will know I like Jakob Lodwick… I like him on many different levels and for many different reasons… most of them stupid and idiotic in a “I only know him from what I have read by him and about him on the internet” kind of way but I don’t care… what I have read.. I like… so tough. I think it’s a sad state of affairs that a...