Landing, stepping, jumping, jump.

• Wikipedia: Sylvanus Stall, H. L. Mencken's Sunday school teacher, who released what may be the first audiobook ... about the perils of masturbation.

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Froze ourselves to icicles at Walthamstow Winter Wonderland today, but at least Freda had fun. Raar!

If you're ever suffering an excess of joie de vivre or delusions that there is any goodness or hope in the universe, try cleaning a keyboard instead of throwing it away and buying another. Makes ichneumon wasps look like prima facie evidence of a loving God. I wonder if this is what sent Lovecraft over the edge. And it didn't actually fix the keyboard (I suspect a broken trace). We're eBaying a replacement. Next time I KILL IT WITH FIRE.

"PONPONPON" is a virus, but the writer/producer, Yasutaka Nakata, has a proper band, Capsule, of much higher quality. Sort of Japanese Daft Punk. (With a bit of cheese in there. Well, a lot of cheese on the earlier records, which were hipster indie pop.) "Jumper", "World Of Fantasy". "Jumper" is ridiculously good. I'm quite surprised they're all but unknown outside Japan. This sort of thing should do really well in the UK.

Oh, that relentless shiteating grin. Tim Ferguson on Don't Forget Your Toothbrush in 2000. If you looked closely, every word he was actually saying was "Please kill me, for pity's sake. Bullet to base of skull. Take me out. Fuck."

It's always cheering when a new vendor we send data via SFTP says they only support user/password, not public keys, i.e. a fundamental part of SSH since it was invented. Said vendor also demanded a zip file as they couldn't handle it gzipped. I wish I wondered what operating system they are processing this on.