So, the end of another weekend.
Friday night was ace, a great turnout for Glow Cafe, with some tunes from electic high-schoolers Mr Moffat, and myself and Abby (aka ‘42′). Knackering as usual, but a good start to the fun and games.
I let myself have a lie in on Saturday, for once. Saturday night I played a gig with Heeliegoleerie in The Lot in the Grassmarket, which was ace fun - another one this Friday in Inverness.
When myself, Tim and Drew had come in to have a jam in church the other day, but discovered the hall was in use, we were a bit gutted. Instead we rented Half Nelson (above right) and watched it at Tim and Hannah’s. I’m a bit rubbish at talking about films, but it was great - quite slow moving, but really works through the characters and their relationships well, and isn’t one of those lame Hollywood happy endings, just nice and open (and more realistic, which makes the ideas behind the story just that bit more relevant). It has a wicked soundtrack too, with a lot of tunes by Broken Social Scene (above left) who Drew was into before but now has myself and Tim hooked too!
So, I was looking into what tracks there were on Last.fm (if you don’t use it, you should! Download the desktop based client too and you’ll discover more new music than you can keep up with!) and one of them, which happened to be my favourite, was offered as a free MP3 download: Love and Mathematics
Gotta love the web.
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The internet is a wonderful place - a plethora of information that can be harnessed for the greater good; or, in pettier cases, to prove to your girlfriend that Jonathan Togo (left) from CSI: Miami is NOT the same person as Eric Szmanda from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Thanks, IMDB. Sorry, Jules!
Random find of the day: this ridiculously awesome piece of graff.
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Well, well. Another pet project!
I’ve been meaning to start a blog for a while, for my various ramblings, so here’s the first post.
I’ve moved into a new flat over the weekend with my friend Anna, who I went to college with, who works for 60 Watt. It’s in Tollcross, which is much closer to work, my folks, church and Jules. It’s also less expensive than my last place, as awesome as it was.
I’m back to a tiny room, but thankfully we have a boxroom studio space full of nice designerly books and now, my desk and various geeky bits to go with Anna’s shiny Apple iMac. Got a new Cable router today, the D-Link DIR-615 (Ebuyer, £49.99) - and it came with that ‘Stop - Insert CD first’ sticker you see at the top of this post. No thanks guys - I’ll skip your proprietary management software and stick to the usual manual setup. Enjoying our newly installed Wi-Fi as I half-watch ‘The Road to Perdition’.
Notable April fools jokes today included Google’s supposed team-up with Virgin to begin to colonise Mars, “Virgle” - Wasn’t sure how long these pranks would stay online for so I screengrabbed them - here’s Virgle and its 404 Error - pretty fun stuff. Also on the Google side of things was Google Custom Time - the ability to send an e-mail (from GMail) that appears to have arrived a long while ago - or at least any time after 1st April 2004 when Google launched GMail.
For those of you using GMail and Firefox, discovered a lovely user style today that makes the interface much nicer looking - you install ‘Stylish’ which allows you to have scripts (or ‘User Styles’) that affect the display of web pages (for instance increasing the size of Youtube videos) for the better - so this one you can click ‘Load Into Stylish’ (after you’ve installed that) and bam, tasty GMail.
That’s all for now, it’s late!
