http://cowfish.org.uk/blog Another bearded man on the internet Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:50:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This blog seems to lay fallow quite a lot of the time at the moment. With a job that involves writing, a booze blog that I feel needs to be updated on occasion and my traditionally high levels of apathy, laziness and ooh look at the shiny thing over there!-ness ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2011/07/06/perfect-food/ It surprises me how easily I dismiss other people's descriptions of how their brain interprets the world. Being that I'm now about to embark on career that, in part, will ask me to describe flavours, I really should know by now that everyone experiences things differently and that interpreting the ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2011/04/17/on-sense-descriptions-the-joys-of-transport-and-my-ability-to-injure-myself/ So, yet again the wonders of ebook pricing have built up in my brain meats and need to be expunged, lest they cause my eyes to bleed any further. This is partly inspired by reading shouty arguments on CNet talking about the rights of Amazon buyers to give 1-star reviews ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2011/04/12/ebook-pricing-my-yearly-brain-dump/ Hello, and thankyou for coming in today. Before we start I'd just like to point out that my current facial state isn't normal. I would have worn a hat, but in the current surroundings I felt that would raise more questions than a brief explanation at the beginning of this ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2011/02/20/head-wound/ 57 books read this year, so up 12 on last year. And, as usual, some stats: Graphic novels: 22 (otherwise excluded from here-on) 'Proper' books: 35 Paperbacks: 14 Hardbacks: 3 Ebooks: 18 Of which were on the Kindle: 14 Of which were read on my new Kindle since September: 10 So, almost half the books I read this ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2011/01/03/books-2010/ ...and not the god awful screen rendered turd with Claudia Winkleman. I saw 10 minutes of it and decided that if I ever have the chance I will run a bulk eraser over the stacks of hard drives that they use to store the master recordings for the good of ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2011/01/03/film-2010/ As I already posted (in overly effusive and probably annoying style) over on my booze blog I have decided to take part in the joys of Movember this year - growing a moustache for November in aid of men's health charities in general and prostate cancer charities specifically. My approach ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/10/31/movember/ I done went to Edinburgh, as has been my wont on occasion over the last few years. Yet again I went to the festival and stayed in the excellently located flat with the wonderfully uncomfortable beds that I have the last couple of visits, and I went to see many ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/09/05/edinburgh-festival-2010/ Hello lovely people. As I posted the other day the NomNomNom 2010 voting is now open and you can be lovely (see opening sentence of this post) and vote for my team! Strange hand position due to a large gooseberry stain on my shirt Voting for me and Melanie (The Tarragons of ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/07/28/nomnomnom-the-votening/ As I posted a couple of weeks back, I decided to do NomNomNom again, this time teamed up with Melanie Seasons of OmNomLondon. When discussing the division of labour for the day we decided that I would be entrusted with the burning of meat to make our centre piece and ... http://cowfish.org.uk/blog/2010/07/24/nomnomnom-stuffed-loin-of-pork/