| breakfast related story/excuse for a plug |
[10 Sep 2008|11:12am] |
man cooked himself breakfast on a train and then got arrested
to be honest i'm quite impressed that ha managed to cook anything in a train buffet car (does microwaving count as cooking) but maybe he should have waited for a cafe to open, such as say the Cock Tavern in Smithfields market which does sizeable plates of mostly meat, though they do have veggie options too, which is understandable as they're based in a meat market (in a quite literal sense, rather than being a cheesy club of some sort)
anyway, that's where i went this morning to eat a last meal before either the world got swallowed up by a black hole thanks to those crazy physics dudes or having to go into work because that didn't happen
yeah, yeah, i know it's a non story that's been exagerated by the media (there is a slim chance it could happen, but it's in the same way there's a slim chance that it could also start emitting fire breathing dragons) but given how boring the coverage was this morning they needed some way to spice it up (it was on sky news in the pub, and the way they found to make it interesting was to show the new james bond trailer and link it in because of the quantum in the title)
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| hmm... |
[07 Aug 2008|01:27pm] |
looks like it's been a while since i posted anything here (and what with being lazy it'll probably be a while before i do again, though having said i might be wrong) and not a huge amount has changed really
well except that i've bought a house - very probably the worst sort of time to do so what with all this talk of recession etc but i say bobbins to that, am mortgaged up to they eyeballs (well not really) and have a very nice place - hurrah!
um that's it for the moment, back to the report that i've been putting off writing but can delay no longer
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| stupid bastard commuters |
[05 Dec 2007|09:22am] |
yes this pic was taken in both frustration and a hurry hence the poor quality, but you should be able to make out both the throng of people crowded by the train door and the huge amount of aisle space they refused to move into (their suggestion that everyone should get on a different carriage instead wasn't particularly helpful either)
fuckwits!
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| been shopping |
[24 Oct 2007|12:17pm] |
and bought things like crockery, cutlery and more excitingly a new sofa; it will be arriving in a day or two, but in the mean time the old ones have been freecycled so the flat currently looks quite spacious, but has nowhere to sit o_O
in other news, to free up some space i'll be getting rid of all my old consoles (xbox + steel battalion, sega saturn + death tank and a dreamcast + loads of stuff) in the next couple of weeks, so if you're interested in any let me know and you can have pre-ebay dibs on them
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| note to self... |
[07 Sep 2007|01:38pm] |
download and try this game, as despite the rudimentary graphics and awkward looking control setup it sounds pretty cool
also, remember to get finally transfer the photos from morocco off your phone and onto the computer
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| hello livejournal, i'm back |
[02 Sep 2007|10:18pm] |
yes i've been neglecting you for wedding planning followed by the day itself (hope everyone who came had a good time) and then a nice relaxing honeymoon in sunny sunny marrakesh (photos soon), but now i'm back - hurrah!
having said that i fear work is going to be busy this week, so not much chance to skive off on here :(
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| steel battalion |
[08 Aug 2007|12:56pm] |
what is it you ask? well... it's that stupid mech game with the monster huge controller, and i have a copy along with an xbox to run it on - so far it seems quite complicated (so much so that i'll actually have to read the manual) but rather fun nonetheless - anyway here's a pic:
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| finally... |
[11 Jul 2007|03:35pm] |
got round to going to brick lane for a breakfast of bagels
wasn't exactly that breakfasty, but was tasty which is the important thing - behold the hot salt beef and mustard bagel:
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| a text adventure adventure (yes that was intentional) |
[09 Jul 2007|12:26pm] |
have you ever wanted to help write a game? well now you can at the home of the guardian gamesblog text adventure wiki type thing
oh and while i'm here, i might as well have a quick rant about live earth - i really didn't see the point of it; everyone knows that climate change is quite a big thing, so i'm not convinced that this will have changed any of the 2 billion or so people who watched it's minds - it will however have used an awful lot of energy staging the gigs, broadcasting/watching it and getting the bands there, a lot of whom flew (afterwards, how many of them promptly got on a plane up to t in the park?)
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| summer in the city (for a spot of breakfast) |
[02 Jul 2007|12:02pm] |
yes it's time for another shameless plug for breakfast wednesdays, the monthly breakfast event that's still going strong (okay maybe not strong given the average turnout is about three :( but definitely still going)
this month it's time for bagels in brick lane - admittedly we're several years late for this as there's now only a couple of places that do them, but we've found them both (they're quite handily next door to each other)
also (and on a related note) it's now july, which means the smoking ban has kicked in; something i'm very happy about - hooray!
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| my new boss has just quit |
[21 Jun 2007|11:49am] |
and they only started on monday!
it's things like this that sum up working here quite well o_0
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| lego star wars |
[18 Jun 2007|08:37am] |
had a quick go at the demo for the second one (based around the original trilogy) and it was top fun, especially after finding a hat machine that gave chewie a top hat, which was ace
other than that i've done very little recently - went to shunt on friday night; it's a great venue underneath london bridge station (looks amazing, but not convinced by the music)
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| do you want to punch jesus? |
[15 Jun 2007|12:56pm] |
yes / no
came across them after doing a search for the game "1000 blank white cards"
crikey, it must be hot; the cream filling in the pack of biscuits i have has gone all melty
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| yes it's that time of the month again... |
[06 Jun 2007|02:42pm] |
where i do a post about next wednesday's breakfast
anyway, this month it's at the regency cafe in pimlico - admittedly yes, it is quite out of the way, but as no-one turns up anyway i thought i'd just pick somewhere i wanted to go to rather than pandering to everyone else (that and it was used in layer cake, which i quite liked)
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| ewwww! |
[05 Jun 2007|08:27am] |
the beeb are idiots for letting this alternative new olympic logo on tv (and website, though they have since pulled it from that)
but then given they let comments about it looking like someone giving a blowjob (an image it's quite hard to get rid of once you hear/see it - so i'm now sharing it with you - ha ha haa!) through their moderation, maybe this is a sign of a more relaxed view on such things
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| ubuntu linux |
[03 Jun 2007|08:43pm] |
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i've found a fundamental flaw with trying it on my machine - i'm stuck using a resolution of 800x600 (that being the flatscreen monitor i picked up for dirt cheap) but when you run it off the disk to try it out it defaults to 1024x768 (or there abouts) and hence is completely unusable given i can't read anything on the screen
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| pirates of the caribbean 3 (spoiler free) |
[28 May 2007|10:02am] |
well to cut it short, it really is a stinking pile of poop
5 hours is far too long for a film, and breaking it down into two 2.5 hour ones doesn't help either - in this case, part two of the extended story line makes even less sense than the first part as now there are even more plot lines to keep track of
there are some nice looking fight scenes, but they go on too long (just like the movie itself) and just get a bit boring after a while
plus isn't it meant to be a comedy, and if so where were the laughs?
overall i'd say it's about on a level with pearl harbour and batman & robin, so unless you have a desire to poke yourself in the eyes with sharp pointy sticks but don't have any to hand, don't go and see it
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