This is very nearly interesting if you jump to 3:30and see if there's anything you recognise:- https://www.youtube.co...
On a new corporate interwebs linklads, so far only f*ceb*stard is blocked (like proper 'company policy' blocked), all the other stuff I do is fine.
Still, got a nice fat router at home running OpenVPN so that's good innit. *fires up*
Still, got a nice fat router at home running OpenVPN so that's good innit. *fires up*
This is very nearly interesting if you jump to 3:30 Nope, but I'm only justgetting into synths thanks to the analogue folks needing digital folks like me to help them fix stuff; latest is the PPG Wave as used by that there Vince Clark in Depeche Mode. And the Motion drum synth used by Dave Stewart on songs like 'sweet breams are made of fleas'
It’s the sample at the beginning of Michael Jackson‘s Beat It, innit?
We've got a new pr0n filter hereamong the interesting casualties is M&S
You want to see ifthe British School of Motoring is blocked as well.
You know the score happy days ofPen Island, Therapist Finder, Experts Exchange etc...
and the sadly missedPowergen Italia
I know it certainly a losshaving to make do with unpowered ones now
call me a hipsterbut I always preferred a bit of manual cranking
ha!never seen that one before :)
On oursIf you Google something and click on the sponsored links, those are a violation. Fucking idiotic categorisation.
We noticed thattoo, not that I ever click sponsored links anyway but they're verboten regardless.
I'm often lazy when looking up companies(suppliers etc) and just Google the name. And then forget I can't use the first results
Just noticed thismorn it won't even let me get to openvpn.com to update my VPN client despite it having an https:// address. Fortunately my home VPN lets me do this anyway. I wonder how long it'll be before we're blocked from doing that.
we got "hacked" at work. well, some knobheads opened an attachmentso everything is locked down to fuck now. not this place so far though...
Watched the first episode of the BBC adaptation of The City and The CityIt's damn good so far. All four episodes up iPlayer. I'd love to here the opinion of someone watching the first episode without reading the book first.
Still bingeing on Preacher.Sorry.
noah taylor is a scream! What a role, eh? You leave sick_boy alone...
The first season was fantastic.The second seemed to lose its way.
It was doing fine till the mid-season hiatus, but now I'm on Episode 9 and it still hasn't got going. Still quite watchable, and the character of Herr Starr is nicely evil
fuckingamazing
Can't wait to watch.It'll have to wait until I get home on Weds though
what's whitney hustons co-ordination of choice?hand
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If nobody else willI'll have an 4rf
So the Cruddle's are on manoeuvres this weekDropped Mrs C to the airport this arvo, she's off to Brisbane for 2 weeks. Forecast: 29° and sunny tomorrow
Me, I'm off to Westport for 4 days tomorrow. Forecast 18° and rain (as is usual on the West Coast).
Oh well.
Me, I'm off to Westport for 4 days tomorrow. Forecast 18° and rain (as is usual on the West Coast).
Oh well.
A quick round of guess the airport?Awaiting a 9.35 departure.
Also... guess the destination.
In fact, a point for each of the five airports I'll have been through by Monday lunchtime.
Also... guess the destination.
In fact, a point for each of the five airports I'll have been through by Monday lunchtime.
EDILCY
LHR
DXB
AUH
LHR
DXB
AUH
gesundheit. 4 points!One wrong.
Just landed at no.2...
Just landed at no.2...
LCY via Amsterdam.
LCY to ABZ this morningSunday is EDI-LHR-DXB!
this is like a wordsearchI can only get 3 letters.
BZZMSP
ADL
NOU
GIG
ADL
NOU
GIG
Sadly, I realise I have only flown into/out of one of thoseAlthough I've been to one of the others
I've been to GIGtres cosmopolitan me.
I've been to PDSbut I've never been to MEE
Only Noumea for meAlthough ADL will likely happen before too long
LHR arriving from SEA That's what we've just done
I SEAwhat you did there
Last day in the officeand after a week off, someone else has turned everything over and I've no idea what is going where and when so I'm going to sit back and just make sure I dot and cross my things I need to do.
Boyfriend has first day in his new job today.
Then pub and chips tonight.
Boyfriend has first day in his new job today.
Then pub and chips tonight.
Have a good last day. I'm quite jealous.(Mostly of the chips)
you could have them for tea tonightI think we're having some sort of thai curry, so chips doubtful.
Not easily.Very hard to get decent chip-shop style chips here in Berlin :(
there must be somewhere that caters to the fry-up whims of the expat?there was an Irish pub near wherever I was lat time I was there. admittedly that was probably 5 years ago.
There's a few Irish pubs,although they're not much good. And their chips are generally... unerfreulich.
Go to The Lir Irish Pubon Flensburger Strasse near the Englischer Garten. Very decent fish and chips.
Good tip, I hadn't heard of that one.Cheers!
you didn't take a chip pan..what kind of englischer are you?
Does anyone still HAVE a chip pan?I just assumed all those chip pan fire PSAs scared people off them into oven chip territory
I used to share a house with a bloke with a chip panevery wednesday, regular as clockwork, egg and chips for tea.
I've never had oneMy parents, long before I came along, managed to burn out the kitchen of their flat in Glasgow with one.
I've still got a 'profeshnul' deep fat fryer but I've not used it for 2 years or more. Maybe I should bin the spry that's still in there...
if Fight Club taught us anythingit's that you can probably make soap out of that. Lovely chip shop-style soap.
mmm, go to workstinking of the stuff, like the blokes that work in the biodiesel place in WIlburton.
My mum did haveA dedicated (if not professional) deep fat fryer on the basis it was far safer than pan on the stove top (because it is)
my mum bought me one when i mived into my student flat in 1995, for the safety reaonwe never used it, just bought chips form the chippy if needed.. it's still sitting in a cupboard in my house with the instructions inside it.
Sounds OK.We had a roast and a pint yesterday, on the way home from seeing the Markfield Beam Engine operating under steam.
Which was splendidly geeky.
Which was splendidly geeky.
Was that the one in walthamstow with all the fire engines?..
No... but it’s not far away Close to Tottenham Hale. 1880’s restored Beam Engine. You can visit every weekend but they run it a few times s year, which is brilliant.
Ah yes, I keep meaning to try thatThe one in walthamstow is interesting but you get trapped by extremely keen volunteers who want to explain the detailed history of absolutely everything in there.. my mate told his daughter in Danish that she had to suddenly kick up a fuss and say she needed the loo so they could leave.
Last day goodness,so you're now in a SEP situation :)
Also Manley's tweet earlier now makes sense.
Also Manley's tweet earlier now makes sense.
that's a first I like this!Good for me.
sounds like perfect timing Hola!Too much food and drink Thurs/Fri/Sat.
Today has been largely inactive.
Now slightly bored.
Today has been largely inactive.
Now slightly bored.
Same!Although less in the way of food here. Much drinkage. Easter in Berlin is a very special time for my people...
We have been drinking our way around Oregon and Washington for 10 daysToday has been extremely restrained.
We are now in the pub, normality has returned..
Aq-Having been inspired by our visit to the town where they filmed Northern exposure we looked but it seems there is no source of a legit copy of the boxed sets, and we no longer have a way of playing DVDs
Would anyone have any idea of where it might be available??? Or is there a better dvd-digital method nowadays?
Would anyone have any idea of where it might be available??? Or is there a better dvd-digital method nowadays?
If you can rediscover a way of playing DVDs...I have thw whole box you can borrow...
Cheers, let's see what we can find in the loft / charity shop...
dvd? don't bluray still play them?anyway a usb dvd costs a tenner at argos etc
We don't have a blue ray player either obviously.We used to rely on laptops but of course upgraded without thinking about it.
My car is litterally the only way to listen to a CD as well
My car is litterally the only way to listen to a CD as well
My carDoesn't take CDs (or tapes, obviously). Bluetooth is the primary media source, it does have an aux-in and a USB socket too.
Just back from a lovely little festival called Tora Tora ToraAbout 500 folks, beautiful setting on the Wairarapa coast, great tunes, great company. Somewhat sleep deprived, moderately hungover but really brilliant.
Just lost a good friend, Stuart Brock.Fell over with a brain haemorrhage on Saturday night, died yesterday evening. A huge part of my life is gone, end of an era, one might say. Me and Mrs Me got drunk about him last night, and are subsequently feeling a tad delicate, not to say emotional, today.
fuck, sorryto hear that.
Ta.I have a feeling his funeral is going to be pretty rock'n'roll.
*notifies liver*
*notifies liver*
the best typeof send off!
Oh yeah.At his wife's funeral, about 18 months ago, there was a walking brass band*, playing Joy Division and Massive Attack tunes at the pub and the crematorium in the morning, and they played 90s rave tunes at the wake at the pub in the evening. She was sent off by a mass of drunk people dancing their tits off.
*This one:- http://www.mrwilsons.o...
*This one:- http://www.mrwilsons.o...
It took me three attempts not to read that as a "wanking brass band",because I'm a terrible human being.
Who among us can say we've not thought aboutcracking one out at a funeral? I know I can't.
i want to have thatoh they worked with the 808 state guy (the only madchester shit i liked)
It was actually the firstfuneral they’d ever done. They were more used to festivals and street parties. But everyone who was there wants them at their funeral. Dunno if they’ve done any more funerals, though I do know they got well paid...
Oh buggerThat's really shit mate! Well, sounds like he'll get a good send off though.
Actually, I think you may have met him. At a bash at our place on Waldegrave rd...
But yes, I have a feeling there'll be a lot of imbibing happening at his funeral.
But yes, I have a feeling there'll be a lot of imbibing happening at his funeral.
Quite possibly My memories of that evening are exceedingly hazy
Me too,TBH. The delivery of Class A chemicals arrived too late for me not to be utterly rat arsed, and while I did get pretty twatted when they did, I can barely remember anything after about midnight.
I recall a very hungoverdrive back to Cambridge, but not a lot of the night before!
ah shitsorry to hear that fella.. i hope he had a great life X
Happy easter!We had a busy week in the run up to Easter, so had a big lie in this morning.
Much fun with myold pub family yesterday, arfs aplenty soundtracked by the Rockin' Mantas and some horsey types who have no concept of personal space to the point of pure fucking rudeness.
Today has largely been idly checking the interwebs and eating all the fried food.
Today has largely been idly checking the interwebs and eating all the fried food.
no no nowhere have you actually been to?
should that replybe down there? vvvv
absolutely not...
Nyom.Duck rillette spring rolls washed down with Mad March Hare IPA in a rather lovely little country pub FTMFW
Also,ooh look, a new mixtape from talented podcaster/deluded old man DJ Flere Imsaho:- https://djflereimsahos...
Shepherd's Bush EmpireNed's Atomic Dustbin, beer. Made the train by seconds.
you're not the only person I knowthat was there. Which to be fair is unsurprising. Saw the landlady from the Haymakers tweeting about it.
I was supposed to be at Flight of the Conchordsbut that got postponed. Haven't drunk that much in years, and surprisingly got away with only a moderate hangover.
Basil, Edinburgh, Stockholm,BrusselsIn that order. Also: WTFAYBOA?
Wheelie binReally been
jamaica..
Oh! Ouh!
Everyone taking aboutPop music