Be Excellent To Each Other

That's alright. I was only going to watch you all loll around until yowm et by sharks anyway.

Paintball Karting in a pub.

With sharks outside the pub.

I'll b sharkin in da pub tho innit!

(like Malis pants)

I've seen the state of the women in Blackpool. If we did that we'd all have to wear mankinis in the biting north-easterly gale. With rain. And an owl!

Um... K.

I do think this is a good idea, though.

It worked in Aliens.

Obviously it'll be OK if the officers want to put tape over it before administering beatings though.

I have a shitey old PC with a DVD ROM drive, which doesn't seem to be able to work with the blank Verbatim DVD+R discs I bought earlier today. I bought them because I have a few game images I want to burn that are larger than 700mb, but while the drive will still engage with CD-Rs quite normally, these DVDs just seem to whirr around a bit and then stop. Am I doing it wrong, folks?

Probably your DVD drive firmware. I had the same problem trying to use Maxell DVD-Rs on my old drive.

Cheers, mate. Should I check the manufacturer's website, then? I really haven't a clue, here.

Edit: actually, I've no idea who the manufacturer might be. It's a shop-bought Dell PC that hasn't had a single component upgraded.

Probably a good first step. I think I found mine via a third party site. Try looking in the Windows device manager and getting the full name for the device and searching for that + "firmware"

Aha, it's a Sony CRX330E. Thanks again, Dimrill!

Nae bother. My problem drive was a Sony too.

That drive doesn't support writing to DVD, apparently.

Gnargh - hour long cafe internet not enough!

Also, business people - don't conduct your cocking meetings in cafes, I come here to relax and read, not to hear you jabber on about productivity and quarterly results. Gimps.

Aye, there don't even seem to be any files for it on Dell's site. Cheers, mate.

Oh well, I just need to find some CD-Rs that can hold over 800mb, then.

You go to the cafe to read? It's not a library.

Yeah Pete, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Does "Make Tidy" mean anything more than "Remove shitheap 205 from the drive and vacuum a bit and bag the bottles for recycling"?

Sounds like you've done too much TBH.

*Rustles pages of J G Ballard book over-loudly, while coughing.*

Depends who's asking.
MrsA? You probably did too much.
Local county court? Check the small print and maybe mow the lawn and stuff as well.

You should probably get rid of the bodies as well.

I can assure you that I am working hard on making more empty bottles right now.

Jack Dee is better at this already.

2 torrential downpours here and we've discovered some problems with the new house. Firstly half the patio is now under 2 inches of what smells like drain water, the guttering on the front door doesn't work meaning you have to walk through a waterfall to get into the house. The splashes also cause the previous owners fancy catflap to leak. And the garage roof leaks as well.

I really do think the previous owners did fuck all to maintain the place. Clearly not short of a bob or two with fancy garage doors and pointless and inefficient underfloor heating but did fuck all to maintain it all.

In other news I experienced some kind of mental breakdown due to feeling abit ill this afternoon and have decided that I might move offices.

And finally, when I got home I saw a tiny spider and a bee having a fight. Normally this would have cheered me up.

Today's dose of "fuuuuck, I'm living in the future":

(three terabytes, reclining on my breakfast bar, earlier)

Anybody gonna chance Torchwood tonight (and every night this week I think)? I gave up watching this quite a long time ago, but just have a feeling, or at least a hope, that this 5-part thing might be worthwhile.

I have it on to record. I enjoy Torchwood. It's insanely variable in quality, but it entertains me often enough to be worth the time.

Oh God yes, , very much so.

I've done survival training with 2 Para, so I'd be up for that

I assume with the time posting you are not meaning anything to do with Radio 4 , although Jack was okay and i think did better than Mr Fry for his two weeks at the helm.

Yeah I could tell he was doing better than Fry by 4 minutes in. That's all I meant, honest.

Er, I recommended Fight Like Apes the other week, but forgot to mention Stornoway. They're ace. A bit like Fleet Foxes but from the UK and possibly much better. I saw them at Middlesbrough Music Live last month and they played Glasto (I think they were on the telly, actually), but they don't have a record deal/album, and they're not on bloody Spotify, either. Here's one of their songs:



Give it a bash!

PRIOR WARNING: They're more Nick Drake than Megadeth.

Dear London business persons: Pay me and then fuck off and I'll never deal with your kind again.

Yours,
Kalmar.

Dear Kalmar,

Tee-hee!

Yours,
London business persons.

Don't make me come down there.

You wouldn't dare - you'd stick out like a sore thumb! Oh, wait.

One of these days Craster, one of these days!

Give me my £2* or GTFF.


* More than that.

I have a 1986 Commonwealth Games £2 somewhere. Wonder what it is worth?

At a guess, about 200 pennies.

I watched it and thought it was rather good. Slow start, but some very funny bits and it really picked up towards the end.

Anyone else been watching "Inside Nature's Giants"? No? Well you should have done as it's been quite fascinating.

When's the bumming Dimrill episode on?

I saw the first one and recorded the second one last night. The elephant one was absolutely fascinating.

I've somehow managed to watch every documentary in a series about eating food through the ages with Sue from Mel & Sue and some bloke. It's been ok I suppose.

Giles "absolute fucking cunt" Coren wasn't it?