You probably don't know any of these people.

[zotz]

I came down to London on Friday, and I'll be here until Sunday. I was going to be down seeing Fiona next weekend anyway, but a mail from Mindi at my old work tempted me down for longer. Rachael's moving to New Orleans to do termite-related postdoc work, and there was a slight party on Saturday night. Fiona and I went out to a rugby club with a green-painted and unlit sign, some way outside a village in Hertfordshire with more duckponds (at least three) than streetlights (none, as far as we could see), apparently inhabited by people with a phobia about being found. The place wasn't easy to find, and when we got there, there was a very bad disco. No matter, though, because I got to see my old workmates again. David, unfortunately, didn't make it, which was a real shame, and neither did Helen, Oli or Gav, but Mindi, Ann, Nicole, both Kellys (Puttock and From-Personnel), Sarah W, tall Nigel (whose name I didn't previously know), Neil, and various others did, with the special bonus of an Adrienne specially down from Sheffield. It was lovely to see them all, and to guilt-trip them about not having come to see me.

I'd taken the minotaur along, and he went home with Nicole, along with a Crimea single for Dave. I had hoped he would have a labyrinth of his very own, but it seems he won't have it for very long - it's being turned into an oligo lab. There were murmurings about The March Of Bradley and its consequences . . . but then there always were.

Today involved an Ikea bookcase.

Comments

[zotz]

Fuck you, "Kyle". And the horse you rode in on. If I had any temptation to go see that squalid little film, consider it erased. I might, on the other hand, make a point of going to see Pasolini's "The Gospel According To St Matthew", because frankly the idea of seeing a film about Christ made by a homosexual Marxist Atheist sounds a lot more fun than seeing the sort of film that shitheads like you might like. And also, of course, Pasolini's one might have some artistic merit.

Now, am I logging IP numbers? And is it worth seeing if I can cost "Kyle" his/her/its account on whatever loser ISP it uses? Probably not, but I can go see . . .

[zotz]

Austria. Landesschulrat Tirol. Hmmm. Is it a cutout, or is it worth moaning at someone? Probably a public-access machine, in any case . . . but still tempting to have a go, just in case.

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[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Proabbaly an open proxy somewhere. That's how most of these scum work...

[zotz]

Ah. That'll be it, yes.

Cheers.

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

*cheers*

I've seen this particular version of the Passion movie spam three times tonight on three different LJs; it can't hurt to have a moan, but it could help.

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[jinty]

That comment in this journal has inspired me to set IP logging to on and stuff, at least... I've also set anonymous comments to screened, so that I can delete them silently if need be. Sigh. Hasn't reached me yet, but it seems to keep coming...

[zotz]

I should probably screen anonymous comments . . . in fact, I'll just go and do that now.

I hadn't heard of any for a week or so. I suppose it'll keep going for as long as the film's on general release.

I just got one!

[jinty]

And my screening meant that I can just delete it right away. GOOD. The twats.

[zotz]

Akk. I just realised, on my way to the shop, that this will probably go on until Easter - forty days and forty nights . . .

Ah well. At least you caught it quickly.

[zotz]

The moan was fun (and I'm serious about the Pasolini - not a hatchet job, and from the bit I saw a very good film). I'm vaguely hoping that they'll check some of their comments to see the reaction - and if I do, I don't want them to think that it was a good marketing move. I'm very pissed off now, and I had originally been quite intrigued by the film before the nutjobs started their marketing blitz. Ho hum.

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

You might as well screen away the comment as well, no point in giving the scumbags the advertising.

[zotz]

You're right, I probably should . . . in fact, I think I will, for a bit. Until it's off general release, at least. A bit late for me to do it now, of course, but it won't hurt.

I've never really bothered screening stuff before. It's all a new and exciting experience for me.

[razornet.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear the minotaur finally made it's roundtrip. I'm also sorry to say the shop which it came from is closing, but you probably knew that.

Anyhow if you happen to in the south around march the 6th, which Mr. B relaibly informs me is when he'll be here, I'd look forward to seeing you.

[zotz]

Yes. He was very well-received. I'll miss him.

I just heard about the shop last night. That's terrible news.

[incy.livejournal.com]

which village?

(just out fo interest i am beiong haunted by Much Hadham and Brookamns park both villages in Hertfordshire, plus Broxbourne and a few places round there seem to be giving me nightmares and do not even get me started on Hemel Hempstead).

[zotz]

Ah. After checking, it's a few miles east of where I thought it was, in Essex. Henham. Little place. Looked quite nice, but verging on the twee. Probably full of commuters in search of a rural idyll.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I ran into someone from the Sanger in the Dev a couple of weeks ago, can't remember his name though - the one who sometimes used to show up at the KSR, had a small beard and mad-coloured hair.

[zotz]

Mike Croning. Very nice bloke. I should mail him and ask how he's getting on, really.