Multiple musings.
Nov. 6th, 2002 03:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zotz1. Out here at the Gnome Camp, ground has been broken in the south field to build the new Craig Venter Memorial Campus Extension. It's pissing down, and the archaeologists are hard at work. They've already found a roman skeleton from the 3rd or 4th century, with some coins, and with any luck they're hoping to find Dubya's brain and the Conservative party's credibility while they're down there.
2. According to the paper at the weekend, the much-reported on-set conversation that Roman Polanski had concerning the amount of blood that there should be on the floor after a multiple fatal stabbing (Polanski ended up having to point out that he had personal knowledge of this) was actually with Kenneth Tynan.
3. According to the same paper, the phrase "wreckers of civilisation" was attached to Throbbing Gristle by none other than Nicholas Fairbairn.
4. I went to Chelmsford last night to see Queen Adreena, because their website said they were playing at the Army & Navy. Anyone from Chelmsford is laughing at me already, because the A&N closed down last month. Presumably QA themselves knew, but did anyone tell their pet web designer? Apparently not. Of course, it doesn't help that their miserable excuse for site is flash-only. This not only makes it an ordeal to get any actual information out of it, I assume it makes it harder to update as well. Personally, if I want to see some cutting-edge modern art and design, I just vomit into the sink. I'm not necessarily looking for it when I look up gig dates.
It has long been my opinion that the only reason a web designer will feel the need to use flash is to compensate for having a small penis - particularly embarrassing if she's a woman.
Yes, I know that's an old joke, but I couldn't resist it.
5. The number of people having a seriously hard time seems to be on the up again. Take care out there. Hopefully I'll see you all soon.
2. According to the paper at the weekend, the much-reported on-set conversation that Roman Polanski had concerning the amount of blood that there should be on the floor after a multiple fatal stabbing (Polanski ended up having to point out that he had personal knowledge of this) was actually with Kenneth Tynan.
3. According to the same paper, the phrase "wreckers of civilisation" was attached to Throbbing Gristle by none other than Nicholas Fairbairn.
4. I went to Chelmsford last night to see Queen Adreena, because their website said they were playing at the Army & Navy. Anyone from Chelmsford is laughing at me already, because the A&N closed down last month. Presumably QA themselves knew, but did anyone tell their pet web designer? Apparently not. Of course, it doesn't help that their miserable excuse for site is flash-only. This not only makes it an ordeal to get any actual information out of it, I assume it makes it harder to update as well. Personally, if I want to see some cutting-edge modern art and design, I just vomit into the sink. I'm not necessarily looking for it when I look up gig dates.
It has long been my opinion that the only reason a web designer will feel the need to use flash is to compensate for having a small penis - particularly embarrassing if she's a woman.
Yes, I know that's an old joke, but I couldn't resist it.
5. The number of people having a seriously hard time seems to be on the up again. Take care out there. Hopefully I'll see you all soon.
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Date: 2002-11-06 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-06 04:47 am (UTC)Something I've just been harshly reminded of.
have you trademarked your vomit?
All of my vomit is freely released to the people of the world free of copyright restrictions.
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Date: 2002-11-06 06:10 am (UTC)goodness - remind me not to be in the kitchen at parties if you're around!
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Date: 2002-11-06 06:20 am (UTC)Okay, so the economy seems to have improved enough that my friend who legally changed his name to Megazone can get a job... A couple of other long-out-of-work people are working again, as well.
On the other hand, the elections yesterday were pretty absurd all around, and Massachusetts had a choice between a smug lying republican bastard, a horrible democrat with more focus on strange personal obsessions, and 3 independants, one of whom (the green party candidate) was a very nice woman who would probably have done lots of decent things if she'd been elected. Of course, she wasn't-- the democratic candidate was so unappealing that Mitt "Lying Sack Of Shit" Romney got to be governor. If the entire rest of the state government wasn't made up of democrats, we might be in trouble. As it is, it'll be deadlock for a few years...
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Date: 2002-11-06 01:24 pm (UTC)There seems to be a lot of deadlock in US government, and yet things still seem to get done. Yet people always talk about it like it's a bad thing. Given some of the alternatives, I can see why people vote for it so often.