cowfish

From an IM conversation:
dave_adam_morris: did you see celine dione acdc
Billy Abbott: er
Billy Abbott: no?
dave_adam_morris: [Celine Dion's cover of AC/DC's Back in Black voted worst cover song ever]
dave_adam_morris: that makes me a sad panda
Billy Abbott: hehe
Billy Abbott:

Billy Abbott: there you go
Billy Abbott: you can listen to the pain
dave_adam_morris: no
dave_adam_morris: never
Billy Abbott: she hasn’t started singing yet [...]

I am a sucker for the shiny newness and also rather fond of a tasty breakfast, so the opening of L’Anima, a new restaurant nestled in the shiny glass and metallic mattness of one of the units under my office, was something I have been looking forward to. The problem was that it just wouldn’t [...]

I like work. We discuss. We rant. We come up with ways to survive management training sessions. The above is the lowest tech way we arrived at. Highest tech was tiny LCD screens on the back of ones glasses showing movies, with fake eyes (cut out from a portrait of onesself) attached to the front.
The [...]

So, the crack that I managed to put in my favourite glass of all time progressed today to exploding crystal and the embedding of glass shards into my foot. Presented to me on the occasion of my 21st birthday by my lovely flatmates of the time, Ross and mr_chud, it has now gone to the [...]

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Despite the large “mac” this is a worryingly accurate representation of the inside of my brain. My del.icio.us tag cloud from Wordle.net

I rather like Peter Hamilton’s books. After reading the Night’s Dawn trilogy (all ~2.5k pages of it), finishing off the final book while sitting in a darkening park next to my house as I didn’t want to go home as talking to my flatmates might interrupt my reading, I’ve pretty much kept an eye out [...]

…colour coding your book cases. You know who you are (ninebelow)…

(I want to colour code my book case. I’m just too lazy).
Thankyou The Culture Show.

You have to give a band credit when the EP you order turns up:
A) In a nice black envelope
B) Addressed in silver pen
C) Containing said CD
D) Also containing a bunch of red and black feathers
Unfortunately, there was also the issue that the Royal Mail seeks out breakable things, and it would take a lot of [...]

I went off to a gig on Sunday night, accompanying aca to see Nothing Gained, a band he used to sing with (as Dead Karma [and the website is dead. Must fix] is so low maintenance [first practise for a year maybe this weekend...maybe] he managed to sing in two bands AND continue his usual [...]