"A creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something that would link together the wonderful impressions of this mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it." George Eliot, of Maggie Tulliver, The Mill On The Floss
Quiet on the outside but loud on the inside. I get excited over silly things. I'm at home being intimate with ideas and concepts and using words and art to describe the beauty, the humour, and the irony of the world.
Web 2.0 just became the newest word in the dictionary.
Excellent. Web 3.0 is still being considered, you know - Semantic Web and all that - and yet Web 2.0 (a concept some several hundred years old) has only just poked its nose into the dictionary!
Anyway, I was talking to a friend about this today, so naturally was on the look out for any news about it. The story made me realise how shit Facebook is for mass broadcast, social-media style.
This is because you can't refer to other people in your updates (as with Twitter's @ notation). On Facebook, you can refer to friends in notes, or by tagging them in an image, but not in updates.
C'mon Facebook, this is a big limiter of Facebook's potential as far as I am concerned. Twitter for the win!
Dr. Pop: "Got a taste for it". Why is this funny? Who knows. Maybe it's the stark contrast between the term doctor - one who tries to maintain the health of the population (but who generally just ends up administering drugs) - and pop, something that in excess probably contributes to the disease of the nation. Or maybe it's just the the kitsch foreign supermarket brand title? Well it was spotted in Morrisons!
Smoking: the curse of the thrill seeker, the boredom sufferer, and the incurable addict.
No longer socially acceptable. No longer part of my plan for a healthy and fufilled lifestyle. So I've been to the doctors and have been granted six weeks worth of extra-strength nicotine patches. So sure am I that I will give up smoking, that I have even started a quitting smoking blog to help me through the rough times.
I'm giving up on Saturday. Smoking, it's been fun but you're just too disgusting and health-threatening. I'm waving goodbye!
I've really don't have the time to write, and evidently there's been little in the way of posts for quite some time, but I am taking a break from this temporary hiatus from real life as we know it, in order to post the latest and greatest Oak Street news – which is the arrival of the demolition men in Redcar Road, which runs parallel to Oak Street.
Good job we've got a date for moving out then - the 24th! And after the house sale at Guisborough fell through, we'd been searching frantically for a new place to live, and we've found it - in lovely Norton! A stones throw from work, sunny, duck pond-esque, and a million miles away from South Bank, metaphorically speaking!
Here's to new beginnings. I hope they turn South Bank into something nicer. Like a gypsy encampment. Or a parking lot. Only kidding. Here’s to South Bank! You've brought me many a wrinkle, and I dare say a grey hair or two, but there's nowhere like you on earth – rest in peace!
I pity the company that hired this piss poor signage creator. Does the pitiful excuse for a logo in the circled bit look at all familiar? It may well do - because it's the default logo that Microsoft Office used to provide in their standard templates within Word, Publisher, etc.
Not only does this attempt at a logo feature the formless pyramid graphic, it also still has the default word "Organisation" written beneath. Worse, they changed the font as if to make a further mockery of uniqueness.
Poor old Prodrive. As you can see, their main logo is a bit Publisher as well. They really should reconsider their choice of graphic designer. I'm really embarrassed for Prodrive. Their graphic designer is either a total newb or clearly saw them coming. With a logo that shit, happenchance they'll be the only people who'll see them coming.
The wonders of modern food production: tinned (that's right) tinned burgers from our friends in Germany. Just pop the unopened tin into a pan of boiling water, crack it open, add a salad garnish, and wonder at the instant soul food you just prepared in under ten minutes.
"A creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something that would link together the wonderful impressions of this mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it."
Web 2.0 just became the newest word in the dictionary.
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I pity the company that hired this piss poor signage creator. Does the pitiful excuse for a logo in the circled bit look at all familiar? It may well do - because it's the default logo that Microsoft Office used to provide in their standard templates within Word, Publisher, etc.
The wonders of modern food production: tinned (that's right) tinned burgers from our friends in Germany. Just pop the unopened tin into a pan of boiling water, crack it open, add a salad garnish, and wonder at the