My love is bigger than your love - we take more drugs than a touring funk band - sing it

[zotz]

I'm camping out in a flat on the Royal Mile (just round the corner fron Laputa) for a couple of weeks until I can move in properly to the Marchmont flat that currently doesn't have a kitchen floor (but does have a pair of joiners living and working in it). It's quite noisy there at night. Today it's quite noisy dring the day. There are some people sitting outside the Bank hotel at a table, drinking and every so often cheering or breaking into song. This was annoying until I suddenly realised they were singing Guantanamera - I felt more forgiving after that. They were all wearing numbered shirts when I went past. Odd.

I went into a record shop and found something a friend's looking for. I really wanted something for myself to take my mind off the fact that I don't have any mclusky to listen to, but I was kidnapped by some unexpected stock. Ho hum.

It's been an odd week. I haven't done a great deal (apart from sit around a couple of pubs all evening and caught Max at the cinema) but it has at least been quite relaxing. drpyrojames was here at the start of the week, which was most pleasant. I never did find out whether he finally got his laser working again.

There's an article in the Grauniad today about the major labels and filesharing. No new information, but amusing enough. It's by their music editor, so I guess the paper don't disagree with the line too strongly. Unless you hear tomorrow that he's been fired, of course.

Question: ADSL modems. Are they all much of a muchness? Is there much chance of sticking the POTS line in at one end and the ethernet in at the other, and finding that the particular model doesn't talk to the outside? The magic letters PPPoA appear at both ends, which is encouraging, but is there anything else I should look out for?

I notice that a week or so ago one of Piero Manzoni's "Merda de l'Artista" cans went for 18 000 quid at auction in London. I saw a pile of them (a great big pile of them, in fact) in the Serpentine Gallery a few years ago with my friend Kaija (goodness - she's googleable at work. Hasn't changed trade, then).

I went to a very good club on Monday at the Wee Red, called The Primitive Urge. Guitar bands, almost entirely, and very good. Included Blondie, mclusky and similar. The poster mentions everyone from Beefheart to Guitar Wolf. Adele apparently has a DVD of a film featuring Guitar Wolf riding motorbikes and killing zombies. I don't know if I want to know, but I know that I'm going to find out.

I've told LJ that I've moved now. This makes it feel no more official at all. Interestingly, very few people - about 15 - have put Edinburgh down as being in Midlothian. 86 have put it in Scotland. What a very nationalist bunch we are. However, 287 just locate it in the UK. Including ciphergoth.

Life is good. More soon.

And we're all going straight to hell.

Comments

[skx.livejournal.com]

If you have a fortnight wait anyway I have a redundent AR-601 (http://www.seg.co.uk/products/ar601.html) ADSL modem which you can have for a pint.

It does DHCP for you if you like that, and can be plugged into an ethernet hub to power more computers; that's how I have it arranged.

The one downside is that it's not GUI based; you have to telnet into it to make changes - but that aside it does the job just fine.

(It will let you forward incoming ports from the outside to your LAN too - handy for running a webserver, etc).

[zotz]

Sounds like a possibility - should I just collar you about it next time I see you?

Cheers!

[skx.livejournal.com]

Sure that's fine by me ..