Tackhead sound system.

[reddragdiva]

• Retro games, animated. We need versions with these as the actual sprites.

• "Detox" is bollocks.

• For our Australian viewers: Peter Russell-Clarke blooper montage (courtesy catbiscuit).

• When you're a very naughty company, the government send around the Accountancy Police. Huge PDF report. I'd never realised auditors' reports could be so riveting. (courtesy _nicolai_, who appreciates a good LARTing)

2007: Fatherhood. Good lord. On May 19th, I watched my daughter being born. SPLOOSH! That and the subsequent seven months overshadow everything else ever.

arkady and Freda went to Wales Friday, and I went down the pub for a lovely dinner date with hazyjayne, her Ikea haul in tow. redcountess and I spent Saturday hanging out and pottering about tidying the house and eating pizza and watching backed-up videos and ripping CDs. It's good. Liz feels oddly unoccupied not having a Freda to wrangle.

I was going to release the mouse, but there's less rain forecast for Sunday.

My MP3 has not broken yet. You can get hand-rolled firmware for these things. People will hack ANYTHING.

Comments

[tintintin.livejournal.com]

Detox has been being debunked for years: here's the Guardian a couple of years ago sticking the boot in.

People like to feel that they can have some sort of control over these things, that they can absolve their gluttony and speed their recovery by throwing money at miraculous snake oil. Well, there ain't no real Indulgences for these indulgences, unfortunately...

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

People in the states get so over zealous about such things that our detox debunking reports include warnings about liver toxicity from the very ingredients that are being promoted as "detoxifying".

Would that be irony? ;)

Official Reports

[maxcelcat]

I loves an official report, I do. Possibly the most interesting book I read this year was "the 9/11 commission report". Riveting, get yourself a copy.

There is even a "graphic novel" version of it.... Weird.

Re: Official Reports

[pndc.livejournal.com]

Oh my, so there is:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0809057387/

That's almost worth snagging on a "so bad, it's good" basis.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

The Peter Russell-Clarke is wonderful. He was very prominent on the telly through most of my childhood, so seeing him swearing like a sailor is both weird and terribly funny.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

I'm in Walthamstow, and so is your book - let me know if you're passing?

[reddragdiva]

Round the corner? I shall :-)

[shesmymonkey.livejournal.com]

On May 19th, I watched my daughter being born

On August 10th I was so scrunched up I saw mine eing born, too... Which is weird as I was the one birthing her. No mirrors, whee.

Seriously, it's amazing and I totally understand where you are coming from, mate.

Will she have a part-Aussie accent?

[reddragdiva]

Probably no more than Avalon does ;-)

[shesmymonkey.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhh :o)