Happenstance is also a 12 letter word

… all of the Iain M. Banks books (again), random books lying around the flat, 3 cookery books (you’ll find out why errr … maybe soonish), Collapse by Jared Diamond (very boring), several tens of magazines in Borders, and innumerable articles on Content Management Systems.

That was the past week.  In addition to staring at a laptop screen for the remainder of the period, I think my eyes are now ready for some R&R.

I also watched ‘The Smartest Men/People in the Room’ (can’t remember if it was men, or people) - the documentary film about the Enron collapse, and how they went from several billion in perceived value in the market down to about 20 million in about 180 days.  It’s an impressively constructed film, and I’d recommend it even if you only watch the part where the traders start messing with the Californian National Power Grid just to increase demand…

Aaaanyways, the reason why I’m posting is that I was wondering if there was a use to all this blogging… I mean, it’ll be interesting to re-read through in a large number of years, when memory fails, and decrepitude sets in - but I was thinking …

I don’t really want to lose this material, I’m sure I’ll enjoy revisiting it when I grow much older - much like it’s often fascinating going back over old photos - but I hope Friendster never crashes, and never fails.  That’s a lot of trust to place on a tech company :p 

What technology site were _you_ using 5 years ago that you still use now?  I’m using microsoft (but even then, only just) - and that’s not really a site … but everything else I used to surf and browse is pretty much gone (besides Yahoo - but now I use Google). 

So anyway, I’m just saying - if you _really_ value your blogs, you’ll want to back them up somewhere, somehow =)

If only so you can pass the archive over to whomever you choose to write your obituary.  If data storage grows as it has been - there’ll be a bot that auto-generates your obituary. 

Now there’s a niche :p  You heard it here first. I await my first autobotuary with baited breath.

Things not mentioned in this blog:
beds bread cards daigo flyer girls jeans recycled paper tag clouds

Ugh.  Ever tried a switch of career where you had to read everything in order to figure it out?

I sympathise with you entirely.  CPM, EPC, 3month/7day averages and SEOs.

Ugh.  Just have to overlay a business model on top of this and I’m done…

Or something…

Brainache.

21st of March.  I’m told that’s officially Spring, and I can’t wait.  I’m expecting the weather to turn especially bright in the mornings, the sun to rise that much earlier, and the balmy southern winds to heat up the apartment.

My boiler also went kaput yesterday, which is why I’m hoping for localised global warming.  Centred on my bedroom.  Especially in the morning (where it was about 8c today around 10am). 

My boiler, or water (damn you Thames Water!) fails on occasion, but plan B should see me through it - at least until my DIY dude fixes it.  I hope. 

I am now the proud owner of 2x 2400kw fan heaters (CH replacement), 1 gardening bucket (shower replacement …), and a 9V battery (don’t ask).  I wonder how people coped in the war? 

In parting, I’ve just noticed that my face wash doesn’t actually drop to a usable viscosity in any of the temperature ranges in which I’ve been forced to live over the past day.  I’m way too high maintenance to want to cope without hot running water.

Ugh. That fan heater’s loud…

This is for posterity, and for her alone. Should you happen upon this blog in particular - and out of context - then if you hadn’t yet assigned a ’sensibility’ score to me already, then one is likely to emerge, and then drop right off the scale.

Getting back from 2 parties, watching the Matador (not bad) and then somehow discussing Bread sandwiches is … unsual to say the least.  Whatever you’re thinking, it probably was not a sandwich with bread in it.  If it was, you need help too. 

The line of conversation (while at a 24 hour super. runs along the para-contexted-lines of):

"Why’s Waidat buying wholemeal bread?  I thought we were getting snacks…"
"Maybe he wants to make a bread sandwich"
Unexplainable hilarity (literally hours of it) ensues as we re-imagine the whole of the TinselTown diner’s menu with bread-replacements for bread-patties, bread-chips, bread-sauce, bread-pudding, bread-crumbs from bread-biscuits … uh, and so on.
… this is one of those things that I really shouldn’t have mentioned, or even blogged about - but at the time we were creasing up with laughter.  Really.  Even the thought of a fake bread-menu with pictures of bbq grilled bread patties were sufficient to evoke more rounds of real rofl-lmao, swiftly followed by concept art and website design…

On a more mundane note, today I bought 2 beds, one mattress, an under-bed drawer and other miscellaneous items.  Thanks Lynn and Linda =)  (L)

I also found (at High St. Ken) ‘Hotel Chocolate’ (chocolat?) - which sells a variety near-pavement-sized slabs of chocolate.  Cute.

I receive tens of Credit Card applications at my current address - and they all go straight into the bin without my reading, or even opening them.  I just don’t have the time, and can’t be bothered. Isn’t that what people usually do with spam? 

Into the <insert real trashcan icon here> you go.

Everyone wants to offer me a platinum card, or a gold card, or a black card … I’m still waiting for a rarer metal before I sign my name on the bottom.

Still - the fact that the banks love me is still good… Although I suspect that the majority of the UK is subject to the same invites and cajoling (but let’s not thing about that).

Imagine my piqued curiousity when I read this step-by-step article about how one guy applied for a credit card with a torn-up form…

Dumpster Diving - the community sport

Cute. If I was less fastidious, I might even try it =)  I’ll have a go the next time I see an application lying around … or … oh, how about for mis-directed mail?  Now there’s an amusing use for a pay-as-you-go phone and someone else’s address.

A list of amusing movies from a number of sites.  Look at all the time and effort I’m saving you! Much effort has gone into doing nothing except picking out adverts for you discerning viewers :p

1. Jackie Chan Pepsi Ad
2. If Only …
3. Let me here you say Vot…
4. Magic Fridge (Superbowl Ads)
5. Strange taste? … lol
6. Lynx et. al. Too cool..