On the way back from a meeting tonight I walked along a wall beside the Main road. I’m not saying it was high up or anything – only about a foot off the ground, but it’s a long time since I walked along a wall like that – a situation not made any easier by my having my “manbag” on my back (it’s black, i carry a laptop in it – it’s not a handbag, it’s a MAN BAG!!!) swinging to and fro. That said, I did not fall off said wall.
I encourage you to walk along a wall and rediscover the joy.
I’ve taken to driving to visit my Mum in Moffat via the motorway. It’s faster and easier (especially at night) but it lacks some of the winding majesty of the A701 road to Moffat.
Fae the Long Man:
I’ve been cooking a fair amount recently and I get most of my recipes from allrecipes.com. Given i live in Scotland you’d think I’d be used to deep frying everything, but I’m not, ever since Mum ditched the chip pan in favour of oven chips years ago. So I enjoyed trying out two recipes which involved deep frying:
“Puggie Woogie” are like little donut balls. Full of sugar and fat but oh-so tasty!
“Corn Fritters” are something which I’ve bought in supermarkets before, but never made myself. Until Yesterday. Today’s lunch is corn fritter leftovers (with sweet chilli sauce). Next time, more sweetcorn and maybe fried flat in a frying pan. We’ll see.
Oh, by the way, unlike the blender for smoothies, I didn’t rush out and buy a fryer just to try these.
I was reading on JC Hutchins site about a downloadable film called Missing Pages. It really is amazing. It’s in 3 episodes (quite hefty downloads) and tells the story of a man who invents a time machine and the consequences of his invention.
It is quite frightening in parts – some of the characters from the future are quite spooky – but it has real emotion and some genuinely interesting twists.
The interesting thing is that the film is not shot in live action, but created from thousands of stills, animated together. THese pictures are layered, zoomed and rotated to amazing effect.
It’s a fascinating story and really interesting to watch. Well worth checking out.
I’ve recently been doing research on and setting up some blogs for work. We’re going to start using a blog as an internal datastore because:
SO, expect to see lots of blogging related posts while i play about with this blog and others
okay, so maybe not angry yet, but annoyed enough.
I’ve been a Telewest subscriber since I moved into my home, and we had it when I was at home. I was happy with the Broadband options and the TV package, but recently I’ve been more and more irritated.
Ever since Virgin Media took over the system, it’s gone down the pan
So now I’m going to have to go with ADSL and probably SKY TV (I get no reception where i live)
Sarah from my office got 90%
No, I’m not talking about me (although I do wear rather nifty rimless specs and did celebrate a birthday a few days ago.) I’m talking about my beloved old Sinclair Spectrum. According to the good old Beeb, the Sinclair Spectrum is 25 years old this month (younger than me – makes me feel old) Turns out we share the same Birthday, which is VERY cool.
We got a spectrum when I was really young. We had a ZX81 before that, with 1kb of memory, bur I was too young for that, and anyway – it didn’t have the rainbow stripe! I learned some basic programming with the Spectrum. MY favourite program, which I typed into spectrum computers in countless 80s electrical shops was:
10 PRINT “Brian Rules!!”
20 GOTO 10
See! Programming Genius! It would just print “Brian Rules!!” all the way down the screen. If I’d been smarter I’d have put in colours and automatic scrolling, but that would have taken ages and I wasn’t interested.
I learned to programme by retyping programmes from books, but don’t really remember writing may programmes of my own – not beyond 20 lines or so anyway. We got a microdrive for it, which was a mini tapedrive and loaded things much more quickly.
The only real way to load games was through a tape player – I well remember the tw0-part loading cycle. The low hum then the screech, then the low hum and the screech again, which could go on for minutes, depending on how quickly the game loaded.
Aaah – heady days!
