Upgraded
It’s here! See the “Recent Comments” link (labled ‘new‘). It didn’t arrive yesterday because I had the opportunity to help invigilate an exam (which will help me to know how to do mine next week), and then went to Tala market to post some letters and to pick up some parcels. I’m now the happy owner of Red-Hat Linux 9 install disks (thanks Adie!) and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (thanks Magdalena!).
Fede Says:
Weather: sunnish and warmish
Food: nice fresh honeydew melon
Mark, I still have jitterbugs’s card to post you! Jes im so lazy…maybe will send some more stuff for you to enjoy while down there..
hugz
fex :blush:
April 1st, 2004 at 5:03 pmNatty Says:
All that year after I left I was extolling the virtues of The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and you’re only getting that masterpiece NOW? I mean, I quoted the songs religiously in my away messages for an entire year. Jeez, Toby and I even named our Karmann Ghia "Yoshimi."
:rolleyes:
Oh well, I’ve moved on to Rasputina, Cat Power, and Kings of Convenience.
April 2nd, 2004 at 6:34 amMark Says:
Fede, Send it! I could do with a laugh! And CDs. MP3 CDs (data CDs with music on, Im sure you can make those with your Mac X laptop) that would be great. If its a small package with a CD and a card, they will deliver it and not charge anytying for duty!.
Natty, yes I remember you raving about the Flaming Lips and that album. I didn’t move on it, and more fool me. I heard a track on the radio once and was nonplussed, but I did enjoy it very much when I listened to it for the ifrst time all the way through the other night!
and you have a Karmann Ghia! Cool! When I first arrived in SF I was spotting them for a day or so until I realised that clearly they were more common over there than in london. I still think they’re special! What colour is it?
April 2nd, 2004 at 10:52 amChris Says:
Happy upgrade!
Perl hacking somehow doesn’t have the enjoyment factor of other hacking, does it? (PHP is fun – I’d recommend it… even did some MySQL with it last week "for fun"… sad I know). Perl to me feel’s like you’re in someone else’s messy house and you have no idea where they keep anything, and even guessing is hard because they’re quite different.
BTW there’s still a small problem with quoting people’s email addresses that has slipped in recently: the mailto link is being put in twice causing the HTML to break. Maybe it doesn’t show up in your browser, but the link to Natty’s address above is broken, for example.
IT’S OUR LAST DAY OF TERM TODAY! HOORAY!
BTW this got punted my way recently I know you’ll appreciate it: Speccy-related technostalgia.
April 2nd, 2004 at 12:14 pmMark Says:
Ahoha!
You’re absolutely right: I don’t like poking about in Larry’s messy house. But its better than marking.
Right again on the email thing. I wonder how that happened as I didn’t think I changed the template for that. Will check it out when I have time to sit and wait for these bloody slow web connections. Or maybe during the vacation (ours starts in a week) there will be less students downloading screen pop-idol savers and so things might feel faster.
April 2nd, 2004 at 1:24 pmtygger Says:
ello … that comment author e-mail problem is inherent in GM 1.3. They know about the bugs and apprently have fixed it on GM 1.3a (which is not avaible yet) – but i always wondered how you DIDN’T use to have that problem … Have you upgraded from 1.26 or something to 1.3?
April 2nd, 2004 at 1:51 pmFede lazy Says:
Mark
I shall do so – i ve got to transfer most of my cds on the laptop cause i ve got an IPOD now yeah yeah (wont be emulating mel in djing on it tho…) . What music would you like, i will send swing but a lot of other stuff…ok???
Can you (lazy me) send me your postal address on a mail? i know you posted it here at the beginning but im too lazy to look . i promise ill post it all this weekend!
fexxx :rolleyes:
April 2nd, 2004 at 3:31 pmnatty Says:
Yoshimi is peeling yellow. We passed a Mini Austin Countryman on a back highway in Alabama a few days ago, also peeling yellow, and we’re considering trading for it, because the main character in the novel I’m writing drives a pink one. But either would be for mostly running around town. When it’s not flooded. Which is all the time in this swamp. We primarily use Mary Jane, my red ‘96 Saturn, which is over the 200,000 mile mark and still chugging along happily and getting 36 miles to the gallon, which is amazing for an American car. Toby should have his ‘73 Norton Commando ready in a month or two. Mmmmm, motorcycle rides… We’re thinking of taking it to drum corps international finals in Denver in August, about 1,500 miles each way. That’ll be fun. We’ll crash with Em.
Yoshimi Battles … is definitely a concept sound album. I don’t think you could hear any of the singles they put out (which weren’t my favorite bits of the album anyway) and appreciate them until you listen to the whole damn thing. So I guess you’re forgiven.
April 2nd, 2004 at 8:18 pmlydia Says:
I finally got internet connection at home!! Fab to read how you are doing after a computerless week!
April 3rd, 2004 at 12:19 pmHugs and harmony!
Drew Says:
I came here looking for something new and interesting to distract, me from pretending to work.
WHAT! No entry for 3 days ! 
so I decided to make one for you. I dug out this from my inbox exactly one year ago, 
Topical? Not really, but it does start with the word bitter….
Other Axis of Evil Wannabees, by John Cleese:
Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the ?Axis of Evil?, Libya, China and Syria today announced that they had formed the ?Axis of Just
as Evil?, which they said would be more evil than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address.
Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new Axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. ?Right. They are just as evil
. . in their dreams!? declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. ?Everybody knows we?re the best evils . . . best at being evil .. .we?re the best.?
Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil.
?They told us it was full,? said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
?An axis can?t have more than three countries?, explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. ?This is not my rule, it?s tradition. In World War II
you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So, you can only have three, and a secret handshake. Ours is wickedly cool.?
International reaction to Bush?s Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as within minutes, France surrendered.
Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what has become a game of geopolitical chairs. Cuba, Sudan and Serbia announced that they had formed the ?Axis of Somewhat Evil?, forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the ?Axis of Occasionally Evil?, while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the ?Axis of Not So Much Evil Really as Just Generally Disagreeable?.
With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the ?Axis of Countries That Aren?t the Worst But Certainly Won?t Be Asked to Host the Olympics?. Canada, Mexico and Australia formed the ?Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Some Nasty Thoughts About America?, while Scotland, New Zealand and Spain established the ?Axis of Countries That Want Sheep to Wear Lipstick?. ?That?s not a threat, really, just something we like to do?, said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell.
While wondering if the other nations of the world weren?t perhaps making fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axis, although he rejected the establishment of the ?Axis of Countries Whose Names End in ?Guay?, accusing one of its members of filing a false application.
Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges. Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn?t want to join any Axis, but privately world leaders said that?s only because no one asked them.
April 4th, 2004 at 11:22 pmh&n Says:
So you _were_ born! don’t think we’ve ever noted your birthday, so we’ll assign you a temporary one late March pending final registration. And, retroactively, raise a glass or two of local product to your health and happiness
April 5th, 2004 at 11:15 amHappy Mark Says:
Happy happy happy mark has so many friends who visit him in his parlour (the blog) and even provide cool entries for him when he’s too busy to. :laugh:
April 5th, 2004 at 11:44 am