At work earlier today somebody finally found and mailed around the full Microsoft discount list. It’s basically a big list of companies that will give money off their stuff if we can prove we’re MS employees.
Most of it is pretty standard stuff: electronics, software, books and the like. And… uh… corsets.
(From FairyGothMother and BridalCorsets.com, [...]
… ever find themselves diving dramatically to stop the microwave with 0:01 left, 007-style?
Anyone?
Um. Right.
Yes. *cough*
Bye.
Dear People of the Internet,
Please stop the fucking April Fools jokes. You are not as funny as you think you are.
Yours sincerely,
The Management.
Comrades! Fellow netizens! Co-dwellers of this series of tubes we call The Internet! Pause in your frenzied clickery and lend me a moment of your time. We are, collectively, faced with an awesome responsibility; A chance to intervene and fundamentally alter our future in a subtle but vital way. We must choose:
A New Word.
But not [...]
I think this weekend marks a new low in human interaction for me.
Saturday: I went into London to see a show. I was running late, and getting to Waterloo to find the whole Northern Line shut down didn’t really help matters. A while later I was rushing up Tottenham Court Road when I found [...]
Ah, dear reader. You find me looking over the burning wreckage of 2006 and flicking it the V’s whilst holding an emptied petrol can and flaming torch. Come, let us reminisce!
Favourite books of 2006 (that mostly didn’t come out in 2006):
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Nifenegger
Fragile Things by [...]
It’s been a bit over a week and I’m just about ready to admit that 2007 has arrived and refuses to be postponed. To start with, here’s a big ol’ list of lists of what other people liked in 2006:
10 great opening sequences for movies (with YouTube versions of each.)
100 things we didn’t know last [...]
Happy Christmas, ya bams!
A quote unearthed from a few-months-old print edition of The Metro:
Welsh-speaking cyclists were baffled by a sign in front of roadworks at Barons Court roundabout between Penarth and Cardiff. It said “Llid y bledren dymchwelyd” (which roughly translates as “bladder disease has returned”). Above this, in English, it said “Cyclists dismount”. Vale of Glamorgan Council [...]
I was back in London this weekend, mainly to deal with handing in my keys to the old flat, getting my deposit back and things like that. My landlord, Nicholas, was off travelling in Brazil, so I was due to meet his wife, Elma, at the flat to sort everything out.
Thanks to the standard Southwest [...]
One of the contestants on Mastermind tonight was a female grad student whose chosen subject was ‘The Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft‘.
I think I’m in love…
The vagaries of wireless networks have been studied, coerced and finally beaten with a lead pipe, and now all of our Internet tubes are fully functional again.
Hooray for connectivity! I was starting to get twitchy, there…
For various reasons, this stuck me as a thing Monsieur Edwards would approve of: There is a restaurant in New York which serves nothing but Rice Pudding.
Field trip, anyone?
(See also: Monster Mash in Edinburgh.)
It finally happened. After a year-and-a-bit of living in London and commuting to work every day, I’m throwing in the towel and moving to Guildford.
When I first moved down from Edinburgh to start work at Lionhead, I decided to try a bit of an experiment by getting a room in the big, scary city. It [...]
… things which I have said in a slightly louder voice than I originally intended.
Today’s example, whilst at a comedy show in deepest, darkest Hackney:
“Is it the guy in front of us who smells like rancid milk? Every time he lifts his arms up to clap I can feel myself start to black out.”
(The guy [...]