Fats Domino on the radio.

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• "Use the Plot, Luke!"

• "As you know, the Hugo Awards are named for the father of modern science fiction — that tireless self-promoter, prolific journalist, pioneering inventor of television and the steam-driven automatic pencil, and editor of the world's first real f-s magazine: Victor Hugo."

• The simple ones are always best. (courtesy ogw)

Up at the crack of arse this morning (and yesterday morning, but they're not open Sundays) to procure LCD monitors for people. I got there at 8:45am and they opened at 10:15am, but I got to listen to two and a bit albums' worth of Australian '80s indie rock on my MP3 CAMERA. Black suits, pointy boots and bass guitars. I still want to be Chris Walsh when I grow up. Whatever happened to him, anyway?

They had three left, so I bought 'em. I had neglected a prior claim from Tony Sidaway, who tipped me off to them in the first place, so one goes to him. The other two in the queue are cookwitch and flavius_m. The guy said he'll be trying to get more in, and I asked him to notify me promptly if he did, so vampwillow and ewtikins might be in luck later.

In the meantime, I still have this 21" Sun CRT free to the first person to take it away. I'm tempted to join Freecycle just to offload it ...

Friday's B-Movie pics are now up. They all came out a bit bluish; I'm tempted to fiddle the colour balance. Or put a slightly yellow-tinted transparency over the flash!

I'm sure I had a million important things to do today, but I think I need more coffee first.

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

How's your budget? My electric bill has gone up by 25% since I added a 21" CRT to my collection of electric consumables, from £30 for last quarter to £40 for this.

The gods only know what it'll be like next quarter - two monitors, a desktop PC, a Mac and the laptop....

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

Atm, we run 2 laptops during evenings, and a desktop occasionally. I have a dead laptop i'm trying to breathe life into to act as a server, lower power consumption. *sigh* I want flatpanels, I just can't afford them.

But yeah, with budget as a consideration, which is tight, it'd probably be a bad idea. Bah Humbug.