You may have been confused somewhat by some oddly formed tweets appearing in my twitter feed on this page. Worry not, I haven’t gone mad.
I’m feeding my new project - datatoy.net. Datatoy is a service which turns tweets into charts. Tell it which coffee you drink, which tshirt you wear and what you have for lunch. It’ll turn all that into nice charts. Here’s my tunes page for the past few days. Fun Fun.
Finally got time to finish The End of Mr Y
Interesting tale of homeopathic time travel with some disturbing lab mice based stuff. Nicely meta. Read it.
Rubbish ending though. Stop reading at page 490 and make something up instead - sorry Scarlett (oh, and your website seems to be a bit goosed - keeps pointing to www2. which doesn’t know what to do with the php).
Following the bye bye to the last book I’m now hunting for something else to read with a similar opening farewell in the title. Some hopes!
Mark Thomas should be on TV more - waving placards at people dressed in a panda suit. But he’s not, he’s doing an interesting show and he’s podcasting it in a really interesting way - using chunks of interviews from the show. If you don’t understand the credit crunch listen to this.
Oh - and MT is the only comedian to have been mentioned in my rambling wedding speech “.. oh no I’m going all mark thomas…”.
No - not that kind - this kind:
Note the sophisticated use of the carrot as foodstuff rather than nose, thereby subverting the language of the snowman. I also used bioethanol for the eyes instead of coal to reduce the carbon footprint of the shortlived snowbunny - but they don’t show up too well.
Went to bed on monday night - it was snowing - woke up to today telling me the world was in snowbound chaos. But no snow outside. It was raining.
Went to bed last night - it was raining - woke up to today telling me snow Armageddon had paused for a bit. Looked outside and…
I finished two books in a week! Admittedly I started both of them last year - but hey! Bye Bye Balham by Richard Herring - perfect for slicey reading. Slicey as in a page or two at a time when you get a minute rather than a few sittings of a few hours which a ‘proper’ book deserves. Like the books Clarkson releases with his articles. Or Charlie Brooker. But from a blog not a column. Self contained little time wasters - but good. Mostly.
Weirdly I bought it more as a nod for the podcast he does with Andrew ‘Kermode must be on holidays’ Collins.
I finished bad science at last. Wish I’d saved the chapter on the evil Gillian McKeith rather than reading it first. I hope he writes a sequel entirely devoted to a second by second breakdown of her ‘fact’ filled TV appearances. I do like a bit of harmless demonisation. He debunks ‘coffee is evil’ scare stories on http://www.badscience.net so I like him.
I just got my copies of Mustard - the new(ish) comedy magazine. A lot funnier than I expected. Although they better not keep using the phrase ‘post-spaced’ in interviews. Less than £5 for 3 issues.
Inventoids is my little site where I collect stupid ideas for inventions. Well, not inventions, inventOIDs.
Almost everyone who comments on that site hates me because I sliced a few little bits out of a notebook.
This is a very very simple random password generator. Just hit refresh for a bunch of new passwords to C’ and P’ wherever you need ‘em. Great for lazy password generation. Saves me from making all my passwords African countries with s=5 / o=0 / e=3 etc…
8 digit easy pwds
nytepupa
tatyreta
pejazutu
zubybury
10 digit slightly wierdy pwds
rajete3u5u
3ynuhyqagy
6y5ehabe4e
vyqa4ehudy
14 digit fully wierdy pwds
/RpS!ybO!uzUgP
/u/u!P#RmOdy(a
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%PvS%S%U/u/u(P