Archive for April, 2005

no food!

I tried to arrange a quick quiet sneaky drink after work with a couple of mates who I haven’t had ‘focus time’ with for a while.

From one of them I got “no, no, we are going out on Friday” (I’m not … at the moment). So someone suggested Archie B’s for some food on the way home. No no no. A beer. Pure and simple.

Then, from the other guy:

16:50:50 Wed <Shaky> apparently ….. legal case going on saying that the Da Vinci Code was plagiarised
16:51:19 Wed <Someone else> what even the c1appy ending?
16:51:26 Wed <Shaky> not sure …
16:51:40 Wed <Shaky> not the whole thing apparently .. just some stuff
16:52:20 Wed <Someone else> good conversational topic over an archies
16:52:40 Wed <Shaky> by Archies, do you mean Al’s Diner?
16:53:04 Wed <Someone else> do they do sandwiches?
16:53:09 Wed <Someone else> i need to have dinner…

I then lost it.

16:53:22 Wed <Shaky> oh forget it
16:53:28 Wed <Shaky> i’ll just go home
16:53:42 Wed <Someone else> do you have a handbag!
16:53:59 Wed <Someone else> me lager - al’s dinner
16:54:00 Wed <Shaky> nope .. but talk of food is just not on when guys are arranging a drink
16:54:13 Wed <Someone else> ok. no dinnoire.
16:54:31 Wed <Shaky> you can eat … just should not be a factor in what we decide to do!

It’s not a man date!

Fooking food! Jeez. It drives me utterly potty when a bloke talks about food when we are arranging a drink. It’s a quick drink. You can eat after. Do what the fook you like after. You’ll survive. If it turns into a longer session, order a pub snack. Simple. Faaaaaaaaaaaaacking.

OK, I need to calm down.

new family guy

New Family Guy episode out in the US soon, but apparently it’s already on the BT network. Not sure of the torrent yet.

anything

Me: “….. and tell him to stop calling me by my surname.”
FEASTAD: “How about Kaiser-y?”
FEASTAD: “Or Shaky-y?”
Me: “Er, they’re OK. So can I call you FEASTAD-Y?”
FEASTAD: “You call me Doris, remember? It’s alright, you can call me anything.”

I love her.

new camerae

Inspired by many people, including Javajive and all of his photos, Codino, Cloudless and just generally browsing Flickr, plus always wanting to have a ‘dandy cam’, I just picked up a Canon 350D.

Reviews here and here.

Just got the cheap lens until I get into it, but will probably get a Tamron 28-75.

So, now all I need to know about is apertures, depth of field, f4, f5.6, chromatic aberrations, shutter speed, EV compensation, ‘fast lenses’, ’stops’ and all that bollox. Way too complicated!

more spending?

Ooooh. Feel like a G5 upgrade? I might wait for the dual core CPUs though Goeff.

coincidence

First a sinister German pope is elected. The very same day, Gunter had an order number 13-666. Now, exploding toads in Germany … Coincidence or is it the end of days?

Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg’s Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point.

The toads’ entrails are propelled for up to a metre (3.2ft), in scenes that have been likened to science fiction.

Scientists are baffled.

I love the word baffled. Not used enough. Neither is ‘oaf’.

how jedi are you?

Not very apparently:


:: how jedi are you? ::

[via Walking Ixus]

I love the Yoda one. “The wisest master of all. 900 years old and still fuck you up, I can”





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