Kits and Mortar Tumblr Strange Attractor Del.icio.us links TwitterOne of the blogs that I contribute to, HeardSaid, got happily pummelled yesterday when Jason Kottke linked to it. That's kinda cool. Usually we don't get so many visitors over there, despite once having been mentioned on the Guardian blog. It's a silly, fun blog, but a frustrating one as I usually remember stupid bits […]
Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss
Old fat furry catpuss
Wake up and look at this thing that I bring
Wake up, be bright, be golden and light
Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing
John Constantine: Hellblazer. Tall, blond Brit with an attitude you could strike matches off. My first comicbook antihero crush.
Keanu Reeves: Actor. Not so tall, not so blond American with an attitude that confuses people. My secret, shameful crush.
On the face of it, the latter is not a good match to portray the former, so I […]
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Very awake.
Very, very awake.
But that's ok, cos then I get to watch the latest A-ha video, er, I mean, the trailer for A Scanner Darkly, and way cool it is too. It uses the rotoscope technique to turn live action into animation, so what you see is an uncomfortable cross between reality and unreality - […]
(Written Monday)
One of the things I really hate about airports is that you don't know where things are until it's all too late to change your meeting up arrangements to something more sensible than the ones you made which were based on assumptions that don't hold because the people who design airports are idiots.
I'm waiting […]
Returned safely home to find Mother Carey plucking her chickens, although in a very half-arsed way. Expect more from me when I've dealt with one major outstanding agenda item.
Need. More. Sleep.
Just sitting in a Starbucks in San Francisco with Dave NTK Green, Danny NTK O'Brien and Maciej Stachowiak, using Danny's PowerBook which used to be Cory Doctorow's. It has a whitish-yellowish line just like mine. Suddenly I feel in such good company.
Had a great lunch with some great conversation and stuff I'd blog if Danny […]
Why is it that the one night I really need a full night's sleep, I get only four hours because my stoopid brain thinks it's time to wake up at 2.40am and refuses to go back to sleep again.
I'm gonna be mincemeat by lunchtime. I hate to think how incoherent I am going to be […]
Third line appeared today, in the middle of the Open Space session this morning. It is green.
Day was great - will blog more about it soon.
Arrived in Vancouver last night, tired and dying for sleep, yet I managed to say awake long enough to meet up with Jon and his partner Raman, with whom I am staying. Theirs is a lovely flat close into the centre of Vancouver.
Jon took me on a whistlestop tour of the city this morning, which […]
Whooa, I feel so woozy right now. I'm sitting in a bar at SFO airport and I'm so tired that I feel totally light-headed and all spinny-roundy, despite having not touched a drop of anything more interesting than Sprite. Waiting for my flight up to Vancouver, which starts to board in about and hour and […]
I'm leaving this afternoon to go up to London, and will be flying out to Vancouver via San Francisco tomorrow. It's going to be a long journey, but I have books, copies of the New Scientist, my iPod and my laptop, so no real excuse for getting bored. If you're going to be at Northern […]
I am going to have a few hours to kill in San Francisco on 21 Feb, so I thought it would be nice to have lunch with whomever's around. My good friend Maciej is going to pick me up from the airport and we'll be meeting up with Kevin as well, so if anyone else […]
Went to see AFC Bournemouth play Oldham Athletic yesterday and, as you may have sensed already, we won 4-0.
My brother works for one of the club sponsors so we were in an executive suite this time round, which made a nice change from the last match I saw from the terraces when it was pissing […]