Juicy quotes:
“At the time, prefrontal lobotomy or orbitofrontal undercutting — a less radical
method of treating severe mental disorders — might have been useful in treating
severely psychotic patients without causing more disrupt[…]

“Many of the Hottest Drum And Base Tracks can be yours! Download them as ringtones now!” As seen on the Samsung Fun Club. O progress!
I am working very hard to finish a project for work on mobile phone websites. Hence no Popular and not m[…]

So, we say (ahem) nighty night to Jill and Nighty Night. There was probably a total of three jokes tops in the last episode, one of which was merely seeing Angus Deayton covered in vomit. Admittedly there was a lot to fit in, Jill’s lies had fi[…]

Little Georgia, Broadway Market, London E8
I don’t think I’m offending anyone but the Georgians when I say their country is a backwater. Googling Famous Georgians returns ten pages of US history before a single mention of its European cou[…]

Menus intended to be read #193875: I was actually really tired on mon eve, so a. made bad food choices at sistrah becky’s b’day meal at Cafe Spice Namaste (vindalho de porco: too hot and too chewy for my taste), and b. forgot to read the […]

1: Computers still use punched cards.
A collorary to this that no matter how far in the future and how intelligent said computers get, they still seem to whirr and make strange noises. Often they will still have much tape involved. This has its repre[…]

Scenes from My Life as a Bad Teacher: it’s 20 years ago now so don’t expect names. I taught one-on-one for three years, at a place which didn’t mind if the kids failed their exams cz the mums and dads were rich, and just sent them b[…]

DISCO! – “Help Dr Groove to manage a disco emporium by finishing given challenges. Hire top DJs, upgrade sound systems and lightings, organise events, turn your disco into the top choice for Friday night in town.” Dr. Groove! And we[…]

What perturbed us the most when we had our Kettle Chips crisis at the weekend was the outrageous specificty of the flavour claims. Not a huge problem when they claim the slight tang is say Salsa with Mesquite, but a who different kettle of (ahem) chi[…]

Cheer Up Matt!: my off-the-cuff definition wasn’t meant to exclude anybody from anything, it was just a marketing thing really. I might as well have said that everything with a distribution deal creates an ‘imagined community’ (and […]