Bits and Bobs 32

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 17:17

I read a great short story at lunch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1899). It's part of a Gothic Short Stories collection I bought last year and it's the best one in it up to now.

Here if anyone is interested: http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/hi ... paper.html

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 17:27

Zardoz wrote:

I read a great short story at lunch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1899). It's part of a Gothic Short Stories collection I bought last year and it's the best one in it up to now.

Here if anyone is interested: http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/hi ... paper.html

Revive the book club thread!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 17:36

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 17:37

Valentine card for Mrs Craster?

Now excuse me while I catch up on a couple of weeks of Beex.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 17:39

Grim... wrote:

Revive the book club thread!

Er... I can only find 'Book Club' threads that you've started about 'a' book?

:shrug:

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49236

[quote="Goddess Jasmine"]Valentine card for Mrs Craster?quote]

I can't lie to my wife on Valentine's Day.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 17:42

It's what you send to smoked bacon.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10106

Grarh. Helen's being sent to Macedonia on less than 2 weeks notice to train customers... in software that she hasn't been trained on, or ever used, or seen. Because the person who agreed to do it, and had done the training (4 face-to-face, half-day training sessions or something, which left her with realistically insufficient experience/knowledge), resigned effective New Year, and they didn't bother dealing with that in a timely fashion. She doesn't even work for that group, technically.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

I got dem old 'Post Christmas Holidays, really don't want to go back to work again' blues.

Not helped by the fact that I didn't have to do any work for about 2 weeks BEFORE Christmas because I'd hit all my deadlines and, unlike a 'real' job where you have to go into premises somewhere and fill your time with mindless ritual, all I could do was stay at home and try to keep my grand daughter and our client child (for Mrs W is a child minder) amused, while at the same time not irritating Mrs W by my very presence.

On top of that, my Team Leader is accompanying me tomorrow on my first visits for my new project. Not that I mind in principle, but she's rather assertive/in your face/impatient and I could do without that right now.

I did think of putting this in the 'Nay' thread, but I'm just being a wuss and don't think it merits being posted there.

flis · **Joined:** 26th May, 2008 **Posts:** 3333

Warhead wrote:

...while at the same time not irritating Mrs W by my very presence.

See, Ramsea, it's not you this happens to

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 17:57

Zardoz wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Revive the book club thread!

Er... I can only find 'Book Club' threads that you've started about 'a' book?

:shrug:

Make the third one then!

Oh, you have.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

flis wrote:

Warhead wrote:

...while at the same time not irritating Mrs W by my very presence.

See, Ramsea, it's not you this happens to

No, it's me. As far as I know Ramsea has NEVER irritated Mrs. W.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 18:21

Mrs W. has never played Forza with him then.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Zardoz wrote:

Mrs W. has never played Forza with him then.

Indeed. She only plays Hide The Salami, with me.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Anyone else unable to sign into Xbox Live?

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 20:33

WTB wrote:

Anyone else unable to sign into Xbox Live?

Yes as my Xbox isn't on! :DD

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Sorry...

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Bastard!

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 20:37

Seriously though... no problems here. I'm online with it now.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

My WiFi is fine, as is my connection. Just no Xbox Live.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 20:44

BikNorton wrote:

Grarh. Helen's being sent to Macedonia on less than 2 weeks notice to train customers... in software that she hasn't been trained on, or ever used, or seen. Because the person who agreed to do it, and had done the training (4 face-to-face, half-day training sessions or something, which left her with realistically insufficient experience/knowledge), resigned effective New Year, and they didn't bother dealing with that in a timely fashion. She doesn't even work for that group, technically.

On the plus side, it's party time for you!

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 22:00

Happy Birthday Lord Rixondale!

Alberto · **Joined:** 28th Jan, 2011 **Posts:** 1198

London types! How long does it take to get from Euston to Waterloo on the tube?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49236

20 minutes ish.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14391

Season five of The Wire has the worst intro music of the lot. What the fuck were they thinking. All those years ago.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Doesn't season 5 repeat the same music as the first season?

edit: Apparently not! I'm sure they use the same band to cover the song across two of the seasons... Or is it just the final episode? Or something?

gospvg · **Joined:** 7th Nov, 2008 **Posts:** 2306

WTB wrote:

:'(

My WiFi is fine, as is my connection. Just no Xbox Live.

Are you connected via wi-fi or ethernet?
Check your settings

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Connected via WiFi. It was working again 30 minutes later. I didn't change any settings or even reboot my router. Must've been a problem with Live.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

Ian Fairies wrote:

Season five of The Wire has the worst intro music of the lot. What the fuck were they thinking. All those years ago.

They got progressively worse, I thought.

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They were thinking 'Steve Earle is on the show. Let him do it'.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

throughsilver wrote:

Ian Fairies wrote:

Season five of The Wire has the worst intro music of the lot. What the fuck were they thinking. All those years ago.

They got progressively worse, I thought.

I dunno. I think it started well, got even better and then started to taper off a bit at the end. It was always utterly excellent, though.

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McNulty's story line in the final season was completely stupid.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:36

I have to go to Barrow again...

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

WTB wrote:

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McNulty's story line in the final season was completely stupid.

I'm not saying I totally agree with you, but it's worth noting that the final season was affected by the huge writer's strike of the time so they had to lose a few episodes from the usual series length and, presumably, compress the way they told the story. It's possible that with a couple of more hours of screentime to play with they'd have been able to set things up more believably?

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 13:02

We've seen four places to possibly move to this morning. One of them is awesome, the other very good, the remainder not so much. Hopefully, the landlord here will be good to his word and 'no objection' means he's not going to hold us to the full term. I hate moving house.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 13:21

Happy Birthday Lord Rixondale. What did you get?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38535

Hipty Bifty, my Liege!

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

http://www.wherethefuckshouldigofordrinks.com/

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16585

It suggested a sandwich shop and then a chippy.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25753

Do they sell cans of fizzy pop there?

Right, then. Drinks.

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

Aye, it's suggestions are usually a bit shite. Still amuses though.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38535

markg wrote:

It suggested a sandwich shop and then a chippy.

Are you in Salt Lake City?

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11847

banned at work due to pornography. :?

Kern · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 14:09

DavPaz wrote:

markg wrote:

It suggested a sandwich shop and then a chippy.

Are you in Salt Lake City?

You can buy beer in supermarkets in Utah, unlike Wyoming or Pennsylvania.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 14:11

Wullie wrote:

http://www.wherethefuckshouldigofordrinks.com/

http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 14:32

Went to the local petstop on Monday, as my stepdaughter wants guinea pigs for her birthday. Got all the stuff big cage etc...

They were out of GPs and we were told they would be in for Thursday. Just rang to confirm they are in, and yes they will be ready for tomorrow. Today is not going to end well, we have had an 8 yeor old talk about them solid 3 days, and I mean solid, counting down the days and hours....

This is not going to be good...

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 14:44

Loads of really good photos of North Korea here. This reddit, which accompanies them, is very interesting.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14501

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/this-b ... om-menace/

Quote:

I’m finally jealous of our French friends. To promote the re-release of The Phantom Menace in THREE DEE, fast food chain Quick is making a Darth Vader Burger complete with a black bun. A BLACK BUN. On a burger!

There’s also a Jedi burger but who ever wants the snoozefest of a regular bun when the other option is way more revoltingly appealing? The ‘Dark Vador’ (haha frenchies) Burger is available until March 1st in France. Why can’t America have weird euro crazy things like this!

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 14:55

I might have to go to france...

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38535

KovacsC wrote:

I might have to go to france...

Via Barrow?

devilman · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 14:59

KovacsC wrote:

I might have to go to france...

That'll keep your 4Square post thing busy on Twitter.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 15:02

devilman wrote:

KovacsC wrote:

I might have to go to france...

That'll keep your 4Square post thing busy on Twitter.

I like to travel. Plus Don't you want to know where I have been

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14501

Just got an email from my local theatre for this

http://www.mayflower.org.uk/event.asp?show=HITCH12

And found its a national tour (so it might be somewhere near you)

http://www.whatsonstage.com/news/theatr ... +Cast.html

Quote:

Hitchhiker's Guide Radio Show Tours, Reunites Cast
Date: 16 December 2011

Douglas Adam's classic science fiction comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will be brought back to the stage next year when the Radio Theatre Company reunites members of the original television and radio casts for a new UK tour of live performances.

Led by Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, with Geoff McGivern as Ford Prefect, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox and Stephen Moore as Marvin the Paranoid Android, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show - Live! will include highlights from the entire Hitchhiker's saga.

The cast are reunited having performed in the BBC Radio version of the The Hitchhiker's Guide which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1978. Other original company members included the late Peter Jones as The Book, who died in 2000, and Richard Vernon as Slartibartfast, who died in 1997.

Directed by Dirk Maggs, the show will feature a series of "VIP guests" as the voice of The Book, with each event recorded and available for download as "genuine audio experience" after the performance.

Kicking off at Glasgow's Theatre Royal on 8 June 2012, the production will plays a series of one and two-night dates in Newcastle, Birmingham, Basingstoke, Northampton, Blackpool, Liverpool, Leicester, Plymouth, Woking, Bromley, Manchester, York, Llandudno, Aylesbury, Brighton, Cambridge and Southend, ending at Edinburgh Playhouse on 21 July 2012.

Adams' legendary comic sci-fi saga spawned five bestselling novels, five award-winning BBC radio series, a television series and was adapted for the big screen in 2005 in a film starring Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent.

The live radio performances will not be the first time The Hitchhiker's Guide has been brought to the stage. Ken Campbell helmed two professional productions, going as far back as 1979 at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and later the Rainbow Theatre. Clwyd Theatr Cymru also performed adaptations of radio episodes, directed by Jonathan Petherbridge.

Tickets for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show - Live! will go on sale from Monday 19 December 2011.

The production has live music directed by Philip Pope, and is adapted, written and directed by Dirk Maggs. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show - Live! is produced by Perfectly Normal Productions and The Entertainment Business for The Radio Theatre Company.

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