Black blog
26 Jul 2005
****ing ****er!
20:01 This brief guide to useful words might help.
22 Jul 2005
Vale of tears
07:52 Nothing upsets me more than one of the Gerblettes being upset. Last day of term today, and Sophie was crying when I got her up because she doesn't want to leave Mrs Martin's class (Reception teacher). Understandable, but sometimes I really hate life. Sometimes, there's only one thing that really keeps me going:
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!"
20 Jul 2005
We've captured a market
11:27 This one's mainly for Charles. Aspr have released Battlefront for Mac. I've been playing non-stop on the PS2 for a month now. Rare as hen's teeth, took me ages to find a (new) copy. Can't wait for BF2 in the autumn.
14 Jul 2005
iPod Km?
09:13 Amazing quarter. A quick calculation shows that every one and a half seconds someone, somewhere buys an iPod.
28 Jun 2005
Heart-felt
09:36This made me laugh. It's only a matter of time.
28 Jun 2005
Why does jam fall?
09:36Some days achieve surreality, some are born to it, and others have it thrust upon them.
Background: we took the girls to a strawberry PYO place on Sunday. Not because we desperately wanted strawberries but because I thought it would be fun for them. What I didn't realize was that we've bred two turbo nutter strawberry pickers, and we came away with 12 lbs fruit. So it wasn't a cheap afternoon, but no matter. They enjoyed it.
This morning I was cooking toast (to go underneath the strawberry jam that Kate had made the night before) for breakfast, and Rachel (now 8y3m) wanders into the kitchen.
"Daddy," she says, "why do we have gravity?". As an opening gambit that's a bit of a corker, really. I wasn't sure that she wanted a Grand Unified Theory so we talked a bit about what'd happen if we didn't have gravity. Then I started explaining about how everything that has mass, like the loaf of bread I was holding and her and me, has gravity (or exerts a gravitational influence).
"The earth," says I, "is really, really big, so it has lots of gravity."
"And we've got lots of jam."
15 Jun 2005
Caffeine-free, too
16:00 Following a comment on Radio 1 about Green Day being 'punk', there was a bit of a discussion in the lab about what actually constitutes 'punk' and 'grunge'. The OED was useful, but didn't tell us anything about Green Day. A colleague from the next corridor over said 'West-Coast Punk', so I'm using the phrase 'punk lite' to describe that Green Day feeling.
10 Jun 2005
Yoda this used, should have
12:57 From the 'damn this is so cool I don't know what to do with it' department: The Link Grammar Parser.
10 Jun 2005
Bachelor girl
09:07 In happier news, Kate's graduation was last Saturday. Go girl!
10 Jun 2005
Plus ça change?
09:05 I suppose the difference these days is that we can read about the Government's practices in a free paper. On the other hand, here in Britain, it's just like being under Stalin.
10 Jun 2005
Ay up chuck
09:01 The article itself is pretty boring, but it's worth reading down to the end just for the comparison between the major chains. The Co-op, apparently, is Aimed at People who don't want to travel more than 50 metres to the shop and when they get there buy no more than five items, at least four of which are cat food.
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