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"we need more ice cream, pizza and happiness" -- Henry Rollins tonight.

My pictures are up.
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I've put up more pictures from my travels and wanderings in London. A few pictures and links ( under the cut )

(as usual for me being lazy, other than automatic rotation and scaling these are as they came off the camera).

...just how slow it was to build things on a Pentium 233MHz with 64Mb.

Cambridge, London and other folks. Go see Rachael Sage if you like her kind of music. I'd go but I'll be in the US or jetlagged...

Season 2 started in the US on Monday, and in my livingroom last night. No spoilers but I like where they seem to be taking it...

I'm watching the beginnings of Red Sonja on tv and when Arnie starts hacking people up all I can think is: "Conan! The Librarian!"

Anyone be interested in a bag of various SBus cards? I'll keep a couple since I've got a couple of Ultra 2s here, but the rest I've really no need for.

Include at least some fast wide scsi/hme combo cards, qfe card, etc. Small donation plus shipping?
Also got a 200MHz processor for a U2, etc.

As I wander around my flat this afternoon, making food, clearing up, putting various things away I've got iTunes on party shuffle playing random music.

Looking at the list right now, to try and rate more things that were coming up, I see that Blur, "Repetition" is on the upcoming list. Twice in a row.

There's an online petition on the prime minister's website to equalise the definitions of marriage in British law for same sex couples:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/marriage/

Currently same sex couples can only have a civil partnership, which while it has the same legal definition is still called something else. If these petitions make any difference or not, I doubt it, but it can't hurt to fill it in if you agree with it.

Personally I think the legal definition of marriage between different-sex couples should be changed to also be a civil partnership, keep the government out of everything except the legal bit and let people call their partnership whatever they want.

I'd been ruminating about some ideas about this crush meme thing and before I got them together dr_memory said it already. Saves me some time ;)

This is also the mark of 1000 posts to this journal, the old picture from a recent (friends only) post is rather appropriate too, so much has changed since 2002 when I started this addiction writing this thing.

4 more years, I guess.

As I walked towards work through Green Park this morning (the Victoria line was stuffed for once) I realised it was that time of year. The ephermeral point when poeple who don't like the cold and are in Boston should visit England.

Boston is currently being snowed on and frozen whereas in the damp park this morning the daffodils are coming up and the grass is green. I even took my hat off because I was too warm.

London lazyweb: what do you use to find interesting live music? Time Out have a London site and there's netgoth for some types of music but what else is good?

I was in Camden this evening, running an errand on the way home, and saw an odd car. Bright red, very low to the ground, very throaty rumble to the engine, quite the supercar shape... and said 'Ford' on it. Certainly not what I think of about Ford cars but a bit of websearching suggests it was a Ford GT.

Reminded me most of the shape of a hard top Ferrari F430 but a bit more curved and older styled. It had old silver on black number plates so it must be quite old to legally do that.

Then I headed to the tube and went north. Got off at Hampstead, crossed the road... and saw it again, still going north. See, the tube really is faster than a sportscar in London :)

"Double negatives are a no-no.

I've been told there's no such thing as a double positive. Yeah, right."

-- Les Barker as part of a collection of quotes. His original stuff is much funnier ;)

Boston people, come out to Ceremony tomorrow :)
10th anniversary evening, in a different location, should be a lot of fun.

As of last night I have PAC MAN and Tetris (warning, quicktime video with sound there) on my ipod... I've been wanting to be able to add games to it for a while now :)

No, there really were puppets doing 69 on stage... Avenue Q was very funny and that's someone from someone who hates musicals.

I note that the group of us who have all had or have something to do with running bits of the Internet were laughing the hardest at "The Internet is for Porn".