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Banksy’s “Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill” (via MarcSchil)
On Friday I had a rather pleasant visit to the folks at Rissington (Jon Hicks, John Oxton, Jon P Dennis and Simon Clayson), which was only slightly marred by the failburger four of us had at The Eagle & Child (Stow-on-the-Wold), and the pint of rancid Hooky.
This is what the outing looked like, once we’d avoided the biblical traffic queue into the town by taking a 10 mile Oxton shortcut:
After that, it was a quick visit to “The Crock” satifsy Jon Oxton’s fetish for kitchenware, which included these level 6 beauties - mayonnaise, cheese and jam spoons:
To go with the Rissington cuppa (ably produced by Jon P), we sought out a baker and bought lardy cake for dessert, which I haven’t had for so many years I thought they’d stopped making it.
After lurking about in their lovely office for a few hours I made a quick Openstreetmap survey of Great Rissington and Great Barrington without triggering the Neighbourhood Watch armed response teams.
The failburger + beer made an unfortunate appearance later. We may try a different place next time.
Dear Jo(h)ns and Simon, Thankyou for my lovely day out, love crouchingbadger xxx
It was Large Hardon collider day all day yesterday. I’m wishing the site http://largehardoncollider.com/ was funnier, but unfortunately the comedy comes in italics for the hard of understanding.
Also, talking of momentous announcements, there’s a lot of iTunes 8 today. iTunes 8 is still rubbish at almost everything, but now it has a “we’ve heard that something has a similar title, so why not buy all this junk” panel down the side. Today it asked me repeatedly to insert a disk in drive A:. I don’t actually have a drive A:. I’ve been syncing now for the past two hours, first pass was to discover that auto-fill doesn’t take into account video or podcasts, and second pass to include video and podcasts, but also to start all over again with my music. Actually, that’s all my music, minus the stuff it made me delete because I wasn’t authorised to plug in my own ipod into my own computer.
On a more positive note, the universe didn’t end. Dr Brian Cox of the University of Manchester was quoted as saying “Anyone who thinks that the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world is a twat”. (http://www.astroengine.com/?p=1240). Brian we love you and we take back everything we said about D:Ream.
Gordon, we’re counting on you: http://flickr.com/photos/8297787@N03/2845861422/
Are you right there, Father Karadzic? (from someone at b3ta.com)
“This place is a joke. Each day I move around carrying a mobile phone (traceable) and an Oyster card (trackable), monitored, on average, by 10 times as many CCTV cameras as there are in the Big Brother house. Wherever I go, a gigantic compound eye peers at the back of my neck. I’m another bustling dot in the ant farm.”
I nearly wet myself when I first saw this at university in about 1992. It looked like nothing else I’d ever seen on my Amiga and used about every rave music stab sample there was.
I particularly like the addendum right at the end by hacker ground Skid Row: “Debugged by Skid Row - How could this demo have won: lame programming and useless trackloader.” Because the trackloader’s the important part, right?
This is how your internets get born.
Walter Wanderley in the flesh. This is so ace I barely have words. Check out the sound of the Leslie speaker.
Also: The drummer looks a bit like an old teacher of mine.
