The last-but-one of Hester’s, and a few of Andrea’s topics for me to talk about – these were things that I didn’t feel I had a lot to say about, so I’ve kind of thrown them all in here. Chewing Gum I only have one real use for most chewing gum – preventing excessive teeth-grinding [...]
Entries from February 25th, 2009
Leftovers
February 25th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: chewing gum · clothes · hair · misc · scraps · writing
Five Years Gone
February 25th, 2009 1 Comment
This is something I wrote back in, oh, November 2003 or thereabouts, just after getting my first wifi enabled PDA, and then it vanished from public view after my blogging software of the time shat itself and died. Some of you may remember it. I’m reposting it so it’s available as context to some more [...]
Tags: archive · social · technology
A Vindication Of Something Or Other
February 24th, 2009 No Comments
Topic #3 from Hester: Women. This one gave me some trouble, for a number of reasons, but if I keep re-writing this, I’m going to go mad. I’ll just have to ask you to be kind to my flaws, here. I toyed with idea of writing some ghastly piece of misogynistic trash, and calling it [...]
Tags: equality · relationships · women
Body Modification
February 19th, 2009 No Comments
Second topic as part of this here meme thing. I’m tattooed. As time goes on, I will almost certainly become more so. At some point, I may get pierced, but that’s a vague maybe – I think I’d be doing it as much just to do as anything else. Which isn’t to say that’s a [...]
Tags: king ink
The Music That Changed Your Life
February 18th, 2009 No Comments
As part of one of them there internet memes, my friend Hester suggested I talk about (among other things) “The Music That Changed Your Life”. So here goes. There really is nothing like the electric thrill of new music, is there? “The full-head tingle” to steal a marvellous phrase from a man I never met. [...]
Tags: Music
Enticement To Shop
February 14th, 2009 No Comments
My office is not the best lit room in the world. The window is small, the view is onto a gap between two buildings, and these days, there’s a sodding great iMac blocking the lower half of it. What this means is that if a I want to read a book off my desk, I [...]
Tags: sheappin'
The Frozen South
February 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Fell out into the world this morning, and as everyone and their dog will have already informed you, it snowed in London last night. And by god, have we made a big deal out of this. But let’s be sensible about this: it was a snow day. We might need used to them, because if [...]
