Skates for sale…

Before I ebay them, I thought I’d just check here – anyone want to buy a pair of hardly-used men’s size 11 K2 inline skates (suitable for people with size 10 to 10 and a half feet), plus pads and a bag?

Total cost to me: 160 quid. Total cost to you: 100 quid, plus shipping, if you’re not in London/able to meet me somewhere to take them off my hands.

(Yes, I have knocked the skating on the head. I enjoyed the lessons, but I didn’t enjoy it so much out in public, and would rather just get on with other kids of exercise, rather than hoping skating will get more fun.)

Please feel free to point anyone you think might be interested at this post.

Skates for sale…

Before I ebay them, I thought I’d just check here – anyone want to buy a pair of hardly-used men’s size 11 K2 inline skates (suitable for people with size 10 to 10 and a half feet), plus pads and a bag?

Total cost to me: 160 quid. Total cost to you: 100 quid, plus shipping, if you’re not in London/able to meet me somewhere to take them off my hands.

(Yes, I have knocked the skating on the head. I enjoyed the lessons, but I didn’t enjoy it so much out in public, and would rather just get on with other kids of exercise, rather than hoping skating will get more fun.)

Please feel free to point anyone you think might be interested at this post.

Oi! People What Eat Food!

I would advise you to go and read anw‘s journal. Specifically, go any read this announcement.

He has a book about food coming out, and it is very good. If you eat food, you should buy it. In fact, you should buy several, and give copies to anyone else you might know who also eats food.

Suicide Stencil

Suicide Stencil

Graffiti spotted in Camden. Fucked with the light levels and vignetting a bit, and added a slight tint for that end-of-the-pier, because it amused me to do so.

Dunbar’s Number

This morning, I am thinking about Dunbar’s Number, and my LJ friends list. I have noticed of late that there are an increasing number of people on my list whose journals I don’t read, because I simply don’t have the attention span to concentrate on them as well as everyone else’s, and in fact, that this is carrying over, and I am interacting less with other journals that I might like, because they’re getting lost in the churn.

So a question: should I
a) set up a default view?
b) have a cull?

If a), would you prefer to know if you were on the default view or not? I have not hitherto set up a default view, because I feel it’s kind of hypocritical to describe someone as a “friend” (god, how much simpler would things be if LJ hadn’t used the emotionally loaded term) and not read their journal, but then, as I’ve just admitted, that’s what I’m doing at the moment anyway. But one way round that hypocrisy might be to be open about who’s journals I am reading. Would it break anyone’s heart to discover that while I do consider them a friend, I don’t read their journal very often? Would that be better or worse than a Friends List cull?

Dear god, but I over-think things sometimes. Maybe I should just arrange to have 75 of you shot. That would simplify matters…

Dunbar’s Number

This morning, I am thinking about Dunbar’s Number, and my LJ friends list. I have noticed of late that there are an increasing number of people on my list whose journals I don’t read, because I simply don’t have the attention span to concentrate on them as well as everyone else’s, and in fact, that this is carrying over, and I am interacting less with other journals that I might like, because they’re getting lost in the churn.

So a question: should I
a) set up a default view?
b) have a cull?

If a), would you prefer to know if you were on the default view or not? I have not hitherto set up a default view, because I feel it’s kind of hypocritical to describe someone as a “friend” (god, how much simpler would things be if LJ hadn’t used the emotionally loaded term) and not read their journal, but then, as I’ve just admitted, that’s what I’m doing at the moment anyway. But one way round that hypocrisy might be to be open about who’s journals I am reading. Would it break anyone’s heart to discover that while I do consider them a friend, I don’t read their journal very often? Would that be better or worse than a Friends List cull?

Dear god, but I over-think things sometimes. Maybe I should just arrange to have 75 of you shot. That would simplify matters…

Splint Eastwood

Splint Eastwood

The esteemed head ref for the LRG. I spent quite a chunk of the bout trying to get this as a natural shot (and half decent profile with back of shirt lettering visible would have done me), and in the end, was forced to give up and get him to pose like this.

Ready For The Off

Posion Arrow Bambi Manslaughter

Poison Arrow and Bambi Manslaughter, of the London Roller Girls, at the start of a bout. I’m not enitrely happy with Poison’s eyes in this – I would have liked the whites a little less grey, but I couldn’t find a way to brighten them that didn’t either look very artificial, or throw off the colour balance of the rest of the shot.

Derby Or Bust

Dolly BustHer

Dolly BustHer, skating for Team Pink at the London Roller Girls inaugural bout. I think this once captures a certain spirit of the thing, and is a decent opening for a few shots from the bout. I found shooting at the bout to be an utter bastard, as the one lens I’ve got that has enough zoom to let me get close the action is a zoom that has no anti-shake, and fairly narrow aperture and depth of field at full zoom, but as I said to someone (whose name I have forgotten) at the event who was remarking on the drawbacks of my chosen lens, while I have to take fifty shots to get one usable one, the scattered few like this I get with that lens are generally worth the suffering.