December 2011
1 post
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Sorry That My... →
June 2011
2 posts
Stupid over the top extrapolation theory on Cosmic...
So I’m going to start putting more unfounded beginnings of thoughts, and I’m going to start with a whopper.
I listened to a podcast which got me thinking something very OTT. You should listen to it so we’re on the same page. Go! Radiolab on Cosmic Habituation
Hi.
Of course, this tests our idea of science. It challenges the very basics of scientific method. What if the very...
This is an example of me not being able to do...
I have a bath
I discover my teeth hide more groseness than previously thought.
I scrape the left side of my face with a rusty blade, trying to remember and motivate myself once again to buy new blades
I realise the new book I have bought for my kindle appears to be much more sex novel than I though.
I ponder wether my side effects repeating themselves is a sign of reversing out of the tunnel...
January 2011
7 posts
I make the little green dots and fight the little...
Teenage.abscond.org
Lying in bed all day, I’ve pulled out some really old posts from a server somewhere in the world and put them on a slightly less old one.
I’d quite like to go to a personal history archiving day. A day where we all get together and retrace our digital trail, and those of us who were young and carefree of permanent URLs can clean it up as we go. We can share with each other lives we...
My favourite Shoreditch bar is under my duvet
Fucking hell I hurt.
I have bacteria crawling through me and out of me. I have something growing in my throat. My stomach growls and pulls as it is stripped of everything bad and everything good. My left eye twitches knowingly. I crawl into the occasional ball as my body tenses up in preparation of nothing. I have momentary build ups behind my face that for just a second feel like they will...
Thinking and writing
Recently Russell posted a recording of ‘Ted Hughes on thinking’. It got me thinking. Here’s a brief quote from the beginning, that whilst not really his point, had my mind distracted by other thoughts that were already mingling - which is a point he makes later.
At school I was plagued by the idea that I really had much better thoughts than I could ever get into words. It...
2010
2010 happened. I didn’t really drive it much, I was either playing with waves I had made in previous years or waves that just happened.
Work
After a crazy March of four Rewired State events, I have had no involvement, and have effectively resigned all involvement. Emma has found replacements. I am still incredibly proud of what was achieved in 2009, and hope it continues. I have never...
Day without socks
The body pangs from the New Year’s Eve medicine. Every cigarette I smoke in bed makes me feel worse, but I smoke more.
I watch TV on demand and cook an omelet, read all of my inboxes and do just enough of my to do list to stop my pangs turning into a panic attack.
There is a drunk man buzzing all the flats in the building. We lean out of the windows to see if there is something to...
December 2010
5 posts
TechHub and Silicon Roundabout →
I’ve written a blog post that I decided to put on the company blog.
I miss you
Weekends cooking pasta and playing computer games
Falling in love with your quicksilver hoodie
The longing of the kiss, under the motorway bridge
Pinning your fitting body and forcing lavender on your head
Your respect as I introduce myself to your beer chat
The unbearable lust induced by your denim hotpants
Weekends where we never left bed
Mojitos with your friends
Finding your thoughts...
I'm moving other people's work to... →
This blog will be my (less good) thoughts from now on.
Photography is one of the few things giving me... →
I’m so happy when it’s used. Even if it’s just standard stock photography like this. But it’s radiolab! Those guys are good and they liked my photo.
Search: Facebook_Connect_Login_Buttons →
Now I’m wondering how long Bing spend indexing their own search results.
October 2010
1 post
iPhone users are more likely to →
September 2010
2 posts
Songs that need dubstep remixes
SNSD - OH!
AKA Girl’s Generation. I’m not too sure why. I’m only just getting into K-Pop, but I’m noticing a distinct lack of dubstep remixes in the genre. Upsetting. Below is the only one I’ve found. He/She called it K-Step. That’s allowed to stick.
The majority of the K-Pop ‘remixes’ I’ve seen are ballad solo piano versions. Which...
“Nothing’s free any more”
– Owner of the hairdresser under my flat when the ad-supported Open Spotify account that was playing to the shop stopped playing.
August 2010
1 post
1 tag
5 things I've been thinking about
(These are mostly self realisations that new thoughts for the masses. Forgive me, I’m young.)
1. Outside
As many of you know, I’m on super holiday time. 4 months of nothing, which sounds ludicrously indulgent. Except it’s actually my first, as I skipped university. Excluding festivals, I’ve spent previous summers behind my desk working on the Most Important Project Of My...
July 2010
2 posts
1 tag
Running a start up is like having a baby. The idea is the inception and, like inception, any old moron can come up with a decent one.
The public school boy, Corona in hand, top shirt buttons undone, full of feelings of rebellion as they shun the banking world their upbringing promised them to go be an ‘entrepreneur’, to say “I’ve had an idea, now all I need is someone to...
June 2010
3 posts
Unicode character of the week: ⸘
Inverted Interrobang. AKA gnaborretnI.
“Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be...”
– CIA’s WW2 “Simple Sabotage Manual”
May 2010
11 posts
How do Lab/Lib/Con supporters overlap? →
The Late, Great Chris Lightfoot still lending a hand at this election.
“So if the Tories get in, do I invest in bupa stock or bupa insurance?”
– Tom Lea
Screw it I'm voting for Dave Raval
So it turns out I’m voting Lib Dem. Again. I always seem to swing to Lib Dem moments before voting. Dunno why. Here are my reasons this time:
I would be voting Labour. I still trust the Labour back bench more than any other party, and I’m not looking forward to seeing some of them go instead of a few of their front bench.
But I’m not voting for a party. I’m voting for...
“As an engineer, you are told that you’re “lucky to have a job”, because there...”
– Why Engineers Hop Jobs (via chrismear)
April 2010
5 posts
“You know what this lifestyle does to the body? The minute your system senses...”
– Abbey Bartlet, West Wing
WatchThe man clearly has taste, I think he’ll go far.
March 2010
9 posts
Stealing milk
I’m beginning to wonder if stealing a bottle of milk from a doorstep is a defining moment in one’s life. OK, I have no evidence of this, apart from myself and Gerald Blanchard. He was a master thief, who first got the bug stealing the bottle of milk. He got away with it.
When I tried to steal mine, in the slightly paranoid suburbs or North East London, I was spotted by a curtain...
10 year old day camper me loves this so much I...
Occasional Note 1: Rejuvination
Like a forest needs forest fires, I need breakdowns. I hadn’t hadn’t had a proper breakdown in about 18 months, the longest time in my memory, and it showed. I made some really bad decisions in the last few months.
I finally snapped a couple of weekends ago. I sobbed and rocked as I let it all out. As I get older, it probably becomes even less attractive, but it’s not something...
“So how about we try decoupling companionship from consumption: Next time you...”
– Wanna Go Play?
Watch Julian Rosefeldt; Piero Steinle “News” (1998)
1 tag
Week #1148
I’m sitting on a train to Cornwall. I paid for it with cash as among the many things I didn’t do this week was ‘notify Nationwide about address change’.
It’s been a crazy week. Working at BERG is inspiring, reminding me to avoid working on dull projects as much as possible.
I’ve been finding it weird fitting in. The office is insanely dense with talented...
February 2010
17 posts
