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Saturday, 18 February 2006

adorable

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Well, its official. I'm occasionally adorable, according to the TTLB (The Truth Laid Bear) ecosystem. As a matter of fact, for the last two weeks, I've fluctuated between flappy bird and adorable little rodent, but today I thought I'd mark the event with a picture of Dangermouse.

As we all know, DangerMouse is the World's Greatest secret agent, a mouse of many talents. Apparently born halfway up Mount Everest, he displayed his exceptional nature early in life, completing the climb to the summit of the world's highest mountain when he was only a few hours old. In spite of his foreign birthplace, DM is a true English gent, and was educated at Eton, Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, the Sorbonne and Würtembery, picking up his B.A., B.Sc., M.A., M.Sc., and Ph.D along the way. Naturally, he used these varied skills to become a government agent, defending Queen and country. He set up residence in a red pillar box located outside 221B Baker Street, London, home of another famous British hero. When danger threatened the world, he was contacted by his superior Colonel K, who would issue him with his mission.

Then DangerMouse and his trusty, if improbably incompetent assistant Penfold, would set forth in their distinctive flying car and save the day. His recurring nemesis was the toad Baron Silas Greenback and his crow lackey Stiletto; however he also faced the vampire Count Duckula, the mad composer Wufgang, the extra-terrestrial JJ Quark, Mexican El Loco, mad scientists Professor Crumhorn and Dr.Frankenstoat, and DM's own evil doppelganger, among others.

With DM, Mickey and Jerry, I am in august company.

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Friday, 17 February 2006

house wine

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A few glasses of Bordeaux with John as we put the world right.

The bar was rammed with people, but we had a reserved table and watched as one group moved out and the evening replacements moved in.

Back at John's house I could see the effect of his major house project which has come to fruition, with a mix of Polish and Brazilian help. The descriptions reminded me of that film with Jeremy Irons as the Polish builder- Moonlighting, I think it was called. Georgina has been project managing the changes worthy of a television documentary. Georgina and Jessica arrived back shortly before I was to jump into a taxi and head for home.

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Thursday, 16 February 2006

thursday Thirteen (V12.0)

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1. Didn't realise it was Thursday;
2. Meeting John tomorrow - I suspect a drop of wine may pass my lips;
3. Had the car back in the garage yesterday. They have fixed the thing I didnt know was broken but still need to work on the door lock, which still goes flippy of its own accord;
4. Havn't had a light in the room where the bulb blew a week ago because it uses a special transformer gizmo and the fuse holder has sort of melted; Illumination is via laptop screen;
5. I am carrying around some big sheets of paper with 'important words' which somehow need to transfer into my computer; usually I'd just take a photo, but somehow I forgot;
6. Last weekend I round tripped to Lancaster again; this week I shall stay local;
7. Getting prepped for Victor's visit next week; but I hear he is now visiting Milan first;
8. Attended a lunchtime meeting a couple of days ago (Malaysian curry) but I only ate a couple of mouthfuls because we were talking so much; I find that often happens to me;
9. There is something very weird happening to my Windows PC; something new was installed and now it has long thinking pauses;
10. At least my car is very clean now; each time it goes back to the garage, it gets a full valet service, inside and out;
11. Promised to send a Christina Nott demo to someone in Germany; will prepare it at the weekend;
12. Left home late (in daylight!) for the first time in ages;
13. I wonder why it is always difficult to think of item thirteen!

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5. Chickadee's Thirteen!
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7. Raehan's Thirteen!
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10. Andrea's Thirteen!
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purple reign

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Prince blasted a hole in the Brits with a rocking and bluesy guitar set including Purple Rain. Surprising that the television coverage didn't actually comment on the set. Here's another moment from the Brit set and from a similar moment in the days of big hair.
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I never meant 2 cause u any sorrow
I never meant 2 cause u any pain
I only wanted 2 one time see u laughing
I only wanted 2 see u laughing in the purple rain
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Purple rain purple rain
Purple rain purple rain
Purple rain purple rain
I only wanted 2 see u bathing in the purple rain

Want more?

Oh, yes, and pleasing that KT won something.

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little russians

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Another coffee related post today, this one showing a few little people going about their business in Russia. The full set of these pictures from Очень живой журнал или Блог в стиле дзуйхицу are entertaining and I spent amused minutes browsing through them. My original source for this involved...
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chocolate and...
Selling Russian Vodka
vodka.

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Wednesday, 15 February 2006

cloud

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How sweet to be a cloud, floating in the blue.

Lying awake, late the other night
Heard above me a trembling,
I looked up, it was a little cloud,
From which a gold string was dangling;
You know, I gave the string a little pull,
Just to see what was on the other end.

Just then a voice came down to me, says,
"Hey, now, don't you want to be my friend,
And float with me to distant lands,
wondrous and fair;
Float with me to distant lands wondrous and fair?
You see I'm just a happy little cloud,
I laugh and float and sing my song,
But the other clouds don't like me none.
They say I am behaving very wrong.
You see a cloud's supposed to be sad,
To cry and weep and tear its hair and all,
And don't matter how hard I try,
I can't get the first little tear to fall."

And float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;
Float with me to distant lands, wondrous and fair;

Incredible String Band

latte

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Sitting down for a few minutes today with a grande skinny latte, I flicked into rashbre central and noticed the ego measure had plummeted to 3000 (!)

What could I do, but quickly re-run the counter, just to prove to myself that the original count was not a mistake.

And how pointless is that!

However, what was more interesting was spotting some of the references that google found to old comments which I have left sprinkled around the internet. I'm sure we all forget the varied trips into other peoples' worlds and lives and the smiling exchanges that take place. I found a rather strange debate about Maya Gold chocolate, which I'd entered and then had others debating the merits of different chocolates.

I shall stay away from the ego dial now. What is it the police say, "Stand Away!"?

Tuesday, 14 February 2006

Monday, 13 February 2006

ego

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Today's amusing entry is the googlometer ego dial. Just type in your name and blog and let it calculate your poptastic ego rating. Or click here to see it in action!

Sunday, 12 February 2006

ramen

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Dinner by Melanie tonight, inspired by Wagamama's. The 'behind the scenes' secret Wagamama sauce recipe was on the delicious salad and then a very enjoyable chili beef ramen. We didn't really start eating until around 10pm, and the party broke up at around 2am on Sunday, when a taxi came to pick us up.

Saturday, 11 February 2006

wet

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Spent part of the afternoon mopping water from the floor caused by a broken washing machine. Looks like the machine is dead and will need to be replaced. Groan.

Friday, 10 February 2006

ping

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07:30 drove to the hotel to meet for breakfast. Then into the day, although I spent quite a lot of time sitting in varied locations as diverse as a ballroom, lounge, bar and stairwell whilst on my mobile phone.

Into my car, during which I was supposed to have another call with someone from India, but they didn;t show up. By the time I got home it was getting dark, I had three or four minutes to plug in my failing phone and restart my laptop. Then as I sat down there was a ping and the light bulb in the room broke. I took the call sitting in the dark, illuminated by the PC screen.