Lug Rardio is inspirational. Yes, I now want to go down the pub with a few friends and take the piss out of slashdot for 22 minutes.
I do wonder why the bleeper/farting machine was only turned on half way through the session and why it was only Aq who has to say the work fuck repeatedly. I feel the others left themselves down and myself down on this front.
I should point out that personally it isn’t radio unless it is broadcast and I can listen in live. Maybe you could have the equivilent of a phone-in via IRC.
More please (I’ve burnt a copy to listen to in my car).
Paul Communication
Neil Turner has a run down of services you should consider pinging when blogging. [via "ETC":http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/archives/004685.php]
I’ve added Blogrolling.com and Technorati seen as more often than not weblogs.com fails and I do have a number of subscribers of blogrolling.com.
This is in part a test of the pinging.
Paul Blogging
Help, the men in blue are after me for flagrant aqua abuse (and no, it doesn’t involve “Aquarion”:http://www.aquarionics.com
Let’s start at the beginning, or rather the toilet. Many moons ago (June 2002), I attempted to “fix the toilet and had a small amount of trouble”:http://www.dellah.com/vent/how_to_break_a_toilet.shtml resulting in a small flood and £90 being extracted from my wallet with a spanner. Since that day I have been banned from touching any plumbing in the house.
Fast forward to two week ago when a tap in the utility room starts dripping. Two days later it starts flowing, two days after that is appears to be gushing. Luckily my wife has a friend whose husband is a plumber. He was due to come round Saturday. Unfortunately, he is an Arsenal fan, but I’ll let him off if he can fix my tap. Unluckily, he manages to get a ticket to see Arsenal play Chelsea on Saturday. Most unfortunately they won but that’s another story. In short, he didn’t turn up, so on Sunday, my dad managed to stop the tap from flowing but couldn’t actually fix it. No, it wasn’t just a washer, but I wouldn’t have been allowed to fix that anyway.
Onto today, when my next door neighbour tells me Thames Water have had the “Water Detection” Engineers knocking on my door. They were asking all sorts of questions like do we do lots of washing, how many children did we have, are we running an illegal water bottle factory in our back garden, any water based alien life forms living in the house that need constant moisture. You know, the usual. My neighbours knows about the dripping tap, but kept stum. Good job too. She owes me for me fixing her AOL connection. Got my hands dirty doing that.
Should I answer the door in future? What will they do to us if they catch us? And how will Aquaaag survive now her water supply has been cut off. I’ve been keeping her in that sink, she was so thirsty. Back to the planet Aquaaaagia, I suppose.
Wonder how Richard Herring is doing in his water based activities today?
Paul Personal
List the first twenty songs that come out of a shuffle of your playlist [via]
1. Blur – Bugman
2. New Order – 60 miles an hour
3. Radiohead – I Will. (No Man’s Land.)
4. Beck – Jack-Ass
5. Manic Street Preachers – There By The Grace Of God
6. The Divine Comedy – The Beauty Regime
7. Morrissey – Pregnant for the last time
8. Sugar – The Slim
9. Oasis – Supersonic
10. Travis – Pipe Dreams
11. Pixies – Debaser
12. Stereophonics – Since I Told You it’s Over
13. The Cure – Pictures Of You
14. New Fast Automatic Daffodils – How Much Longer Must We Tolerate Mass Culture
15. Jethro Tull – Rocks On The Road
16. Beck – Ramshackle
17. The Stone Roses – Sally Cinnamon
18. The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make
19. Suede – Metal Mickey
20. Wedding Present – At The Edge Of The Sea
Two Becks? But includes Debaser which is just about the best song ever.
Paul Music
50 up in “CNPS”:http://www.richardherring.com/cnps.php, an important milestone along the route to 999 glory. Seen as I started just over six months ago, I’ll be finished in a mere twenty years time! It’s quite clear I’ll never be finished as in twenty years time there will be very few “proper” number plates left.
Ten seconds after spotting a 50, a 51 went past only for it be a GE51 and therefore doesn’t count. Of course a false 52 passed shortly afterwards, and then a real 53. This will be like finding a needle in a haystack with the added complexity of having about a million false needles in the haystack as well.
I think I’ll treat this as a cricket score. I’ve reached a respectable England score if they were playing Australia whilst Richard Herring has nearly reached a half decent Australia score against the English (419). It took me a Boycott like innings to get to 35 (5 and a half months) and then a Botham performance to get to 50 (2 weeks). It’s just over one a day which means I’ll be done in 3 years.
Just checked the rules, I’m on 53. I’d just assumed that the new number plates would be counted as cheating by Mr. Boatmeister Herring, but no
bq. Extreme CNPS players may choose to also ignore obviously personalised number plates TIM 1 for example, or indeed the new style number plates which are at present a good source of 2’s and 51s and 52s. In the current climate where old style number plates are slowly dying out, this may be a rule too far. For all but the most obsessed player, personalised and new style number plates are acceptable (make sure it is not a foreign plate though)
To clarify the new style 02 on a number plate can be counted as a 2. However some new number plates also include the letter “O”. Do not be tempted to use these “O”s to turn an 02 into a 200.
Given what a reasonable game this is, I can’t in any way be classed as “most obsessed” can I?
Paul Personal
I have a cold and a headache and my face hurts. My eyes hurt if I look at the screen for more than a second at a time. The “Bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com backlog is growing, the email server is filling up with unread messages from mailing lists that I now wish I never ever joined. Delete them all, mark them read.
Meanwhile, my daughter has gone all Imperial on us. “Carry me,” she says. Whey you do, she says “Not like that, on your shoulders.” Despite the pain in my diodes all down the left side of my face, I compile because it appears that this command is in a while not on shoulders loop routine with the volume and pitch variables increasing exponentially on each pass.
Once in the correct place, she commands me like I am a voice controlled robot “That way,” she points to the door. “That way,” she points up the stairs. Once at the top, “That way,” she points downstairs. Later I collapse on the floor and my son sits on my head causing my already sore nose to become embedded in the carpet. He thinks it is funny.
Paul Personal
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