Be Excellent To Each Other

Grainy picture - i could take one now but you wont see anything against all the rain - i did say they could be generic 'party' type decorations but i doubt it :-(

that isn't funny.

I ate a mince pie today.
It was yummy.
So I ate 2 more.

mince pies are awesome, so don't count as excesive chrissmassy stuff.

Am back in sunny (really heavy rainy) shropshire for the weekend for my Dad's 65th birthday tomorrow. Having a party and fireworks, it should be good, as long as it doesn't rain like today!

After the zoo AMIRITE?

Once again, the curry house defeated us. The amount of food one gets is boggling, but I'm far too manly to not order it, so it'll be our little secret.

I should be back in the north of England during that period.


I went for a curry in Bratfud this evening. My friend had just passed his driving test, so it was pretty scary to get there and back. The meal was excellent though. Two shami kebabs to start, and then a large lamb madras with three chappatis. Yes!

Though now a little slepy.

Cool. I'll let you know closer to the time when I'm free (most of the time). it'd be nice to have some drinks and such.

Wish I could get to sleep. Got into bed at eleven after some dangerously late food. Now I'm doing that half asleep mildly hallucinating mice/snakes writhing on floor/edge of mattress thing and feeling anxious with a racing mind and morbid thoughts. Wonder if it's jet-lag induced. Hrrm. What's for certain is that this anxiety attack thing isn't fun. Keep imagining strokes and sleep-deaths. Argh. So much for my plan for getting up at seven in the morning and doing some writing!

Know what you mean mate. Give up on trying to sleep for a bit - go for a walk, have a cup of tea, read a book or something.
You'll be tired either way so no point lying there stressing out.

I cannot sleep either.
I am the table

Nor me. Some fucker smashed the wing mirror off a neighbour's van the other day. Looking out the window before going to bed and I noticed the girlfriend's car has had her wing mirror bent all the way back. Fortunately it's the bendy sort and wasn't snapped, but clearly some fucking scrotum thinks it's funny to break things as he walks down our street (which, as we've discovered is essentially used as a gateway to a scruffy cunt estate). So that's good. I'm hoping they try it again so I can smash some skulls. Also considering a home CCTV camera, but they're expensive. Perhaps a fake one would suffice?

It's not expensive, you can do it for as little as the price of a webcam.

There always seems to be a bout of insomnia around the clock change in autumn. The body clock is sensitive animal.

Not me though. I've been sleeping like a log. Sorry

Ugh. Have you tried killing everybody?

The bus stop around the corner from me is always caught up in a never-ending cycle of having its windows smashed by some dickheads. But there's absolutely no vandalism anywhere else to be seen, just that one lone bus stop surrounded by broken glass. I just don't understand.

Edit: it's outside a retirement home. I bet it's them!

Edit edit: my phone tried to correct the word ‘is’ to ‘iDisk’. WTF.

Sure hope that crash wasn't started by fools watching the firework display instead of the road.

It's terrible, isn't it?

Sure looked bad.

Bloody awful, that just isn't meant to happen these days

I didn't sleep much last night either, but for good reasons...

Malc

Blimey, I knew the floods in Thailand had affected hard disk manufacturers, but have you seen the prices of hard disks at the moment!

Concert was good last night. Didn't really take to Stravinsky's 'Symphony of Wind Instruments', but Mahler's Fifth was amazing. The opening solo trumpet, heradling the first movement's funeral march, gave me the creeps. Sadly the peacefulness of the adagio was marred by the noise of rowdy students outside, and hearing far off fireworks during the final movement was a bit distracting, but not enough to ruin it.

I think it's far beyond time that someone told the Emporer he isn't wearing any clothes.



Martin Creed drew a liquorice allsort; Howard Hodgkin knocked a tin of paint over, thought "That'll do", Chris Ofili drew a funny man/chicken hybrid; Bridget Riley drew some colored lines, something she's been doing since 1967, well done, Bridget!; Rachael Whiteread made a jam jar painting; Fiona Banner seems to have made your average indie CD cover;Michael Craig Martin is clearly confused, so has made a stopwatch with the word GO written over it; Tracy Emin has decided to patronise the paralympians, as has Patrick Brill; Gary Hume clearly decided he had something better to do that day, than, y;know, finish a fucking painting and Sarah Morris seems to have colored in some rectangles. Anthea Hamilton's work would go pride of place in any 14 year old's portfolio.

It honestly beggars belief. I wish they would fuck off into their garrets and starve to death.



Fuck off, Will Gompertz, and do some research, then. "I can't remember" isn't good enough.

They are astoundingly shit. But hey, apparently thats because I'm not clever enough.

Here, BETEO's very own TheVision has created a stunning interpretation of the paralympics. The bold, yet curvy brush strokes coupled with the intensity of the black angry lines clearly show the disassociation between the modern world and the games of old. The minimalistic use of colour clearly shows that the artist understands the wild simplicity of man and woman competing against each other in London in 2012.

TheVision gave his own views on his creation at the unveiling:-

Something for Davpaz to tut at... on my way home, I've just walked past a Craft Fayre, with a bloke outside in a full Santa outfit drumming up trade.

Tut!

Local fireworks display has been cancelled. Boo-urns!

Still, I can dramatise my non-attendance as a refusal to celebrate the fact that parliament didn't get blown up.

How come? Rain?

So glad I made it. Was one of the best performances I've seen. Fucking awesome. New songs they played from their forthcoming album were great too.

would have been less stressful to go to the zoo today.

So, re: the webcam security camera thing. Do I need to have my PC on constantly to rig that sort of deal up? I'm looking for something less annoying than that. Also, the PC is in the spare bedroom and I want cameras at the front and back door ideally.

Yeah, I bet you do you filth monster.

Damn it! I left that there for Zardoz!

Yeah, I bet you did, you filth monster.

The 1TB HDD I got for the ZOMGRig last year was £49. Now it's £169

Similarly, the 2TB i bought for the NAS at £69 is now TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN.

Jesus.

playing an online poker game, I just got dealt a pair of 10s four hands in a row, getting 4-of-a-kind on the two middle ones! What the hell are the odds on that?

Got to go to IKEA. Thankfully, I'll be going alone, so it should be a quick in, quick out, as opposed to walking around at two metres a second inspecting everything in the shop.

I'm sitting in a pub, enjoying a private Sunday afternoon book-and-beer session (of which the latter is currently better). On another table, a group keep on yelling my name. I feel I ought to wander over and sign autographs or something.

Is Malabar there? He's usually the one shouting about kerning.

Typically, who needs a hard drive right now?
Me.
Fuck.

There's a 2tb external Hitachi in Comet (random) for £99.

This might just be the greatest "rage" comic ever:

http://imgur.com/Cpdaq

Seriously, it's worth a read even if you're not into that sort of thing.

Aww that's lovely

Which pub was that?

It takes 89 seconds to sprint from platform 4 to platform 2 at Shipley station. The difference between the train we were on arriving and the one we wanted to be on leaving was 90 seconds. Shipley station has a stupid layout.