Archive for June, 2009
A/C
It’s gone beyond the threshold of pleasent weather. I now would rather support the IT via telephone and RDP/VNC rather then take take my usual long way around walk in the sun to fix an IT issue on site. This way I don’t have to leave the comfort of the constant 20 degrees celcius being pumped out by our office Air Conditioning Unit. There are few more unpleasent sights than seeing someone with great big sweat patches in the arm-pit region of a shirt.
Also, working in the IT department means I have access to the coldest place on site – the server room. The server room is maintained with two AC units spitting out 18 degrees of cool offering me a hit of cool if at any point I need it.
Nicky Campbell
Is a cunt, why can’t he just let people speak? Generally speaking it’s just polite to listen to the answer you’ve just asked a question for.
AC/DC
Was awesome – no more need be said.
A Band’s First Album
Stu Choddongle’s comments on my RATM post kinda raises a bold statement from myself.
A band’s first album is their best album.
There are a few perfect examples and notable exceptions to this rule I suppose. I’ll use a combanation of my favourite bands and bands that have been in the charts recently.
- Rage Against the Machine: Rage Against the Machine
- Tool: (IMO) Laterus
- Artic Monkeys: Whatever people say I am that’s what I’m not
- Oasis: Definately Maybe
- ACDC: Back in black
- Megadeth: well it’s NOT Killing is my Busniess, I can’t descide between the rest
- Metallica: Master Of Puppets
- Coldplay: Parachutes
- Kasabian: Kasabian
- Green Day: Dookie
- Placebo: Placebo
- U2: It’s all shit
That didn’t settle anything really, I wonder if a local university would commision research into the study of first albums……
Spastics Meet May 09
As requested photo upload of spastics meet and drink May 09.
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AC/DC Tomorrow
1 day until AC/DC at Wembley Stadium and I’m quite childishly excited, I guess I had previously figured I wouldn’t ever get a chance to see them live before they die. Maybe their royalties started running dry – I suppose everyone needs to make money?
It’s a shame Yonkle Tom can’t go now (although like warmonkey he had already seen them play when they did their indoor tour a couple months ago) and now we have a spare ticket to sell. warmonkey and myself have called loads of people, broadcast it on facebook, messaged people and nobody is interested in going. Admittedly it’s short notice for most people but the problem I have with this is that I can’t understand why you wouldn’t want to go see AC/DC, the grandaddies of rock! Fair enough if you can’t get the time work of or you can’t afford it but most people’s response is that they aren’t bothered about seeing AC/DC and this is the part I can’t comprehend.
Police Roflcopter
I’ve often been kept awake at night by the police helicopter hovering over areas near where I live. When the helicopter is overhead I have often wondered to myself what/who they are looking for becuase if they wanted to trace my brother Paul I could save them a lot of time and money and just call him for them.
Leicestershire Police now publish what they were doing with their little yellow chopper (huhuhuh) so I need not ponder any longer.
http://helicopter.leics.police.uk/where/
Mostly Awesome Wallpaper
Here's Johnny! Vista Style
Opeth for less than £3
http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/1021078/Opeth-Blackwater-Park/Product.html?add=1021078
One of the best albums ever made only three pundos? Fucking bargain!
Messy Car
How in god’s name does my car always end up such a shit hole inside? Cake smeared on the backs of the seats, saw dust on the parcel shelf, mud worked into the carpet, door pockets filled to a brim with receipts, sweet wrappers overflowing from the glove box and a boot full of random things. I think the problem is that it is a shit car, I had no problems with my last car - it had draws and cubbyholes, pockets on the side of the seat, pockets on the back of the seats, storage in the armrest, a massive glove box and the dust and muck never used to show and remained unnoticeable.
I’ve had a company car for the last 4 years and while I have been given the contents of the bottom of the barrel when it comes to distributing cars this time round they have really crossed the line…
The first company car I had was a 1999 Peugeot 306, this was a nifty little motor that went like shit off a shovel, an upgrade on the diesel Ford Fiesta I was driving before. The 306 was a petrol which meant it was a hell of a lot of fun to drive, it’s only problem lay in that it was gold, yes, gold… The only reason I can think of why someone would choose to have a gold car from new would be that they are a gangster pimp living in Crompton, L.A. driving a Cadillac Escalade. So if you work the math – this was a company owned Pug 306 in Leicester – it defies logic to buy it in a gold colour. It makes no sense – but then again little ever does at the place I work. Anyway…
They sold the 306 – the company where I work figured that this was tied up cash that could be released and they could lease cars, I inherited a 2004 307 from a manager that had quit. Hold on, I wasn’t complaining, this was the best car I have ever had in my possession, leather seats, electric seats, multi CD changer, 136 bhp and thankfully gun metal grey metallic paint.
This 307 was then taken away because the lease had expired and I was landed with a 5th hand 407 – truly a business man’s car, very executive in silver and Paula never minded me picking her up in front of her friends. This car, as you’d expect, was an awesome motorway car, you could do 110mph and barely notice you were going that fast. The main problem was I don’t do much motorway driving, I do my driving around the city mostly. Around the city the best way to describe driving this is like trying to navigate a canal barge around the streets of Leicester. The car removed fun from driving.
Which brings me to the latest company car, a 1998 Rover 200 and It’s obvious why Rover went down the pan in 2005. I’m all for supporting the English manufacturing industry but these cars are just a sack of shit and I wouldn’t wish them on anyone. The styling may have been cutting edge in 1995 when it was designed but they kept the model identical until Rover got shut down in ’05.
Internal rumours have it that my company has found a cheaper way of dealing with the company cars and may issue us with a cash car allowance instead and I certainly won’t be throwing my cash at a Rover – any suggestions? If it comes around to it atm I’ll probably play it safe and get myself a diesel Ford Focus and begin my jouney to die an average man. Either this or I may use my dad’s contacts on get a classic car like a 70′s convertible Mustang
Anyway, so the reason my car is messy isn’t that I’m lazy or that Paula can’t be arsed to take her trash with her- it’s because the car is shit. Yes, yes.
He works full time in IT and spends his evenings feeding the farm that is his home has become. Mark loves playing Ultimate every now and again, toying with his camera and has just started scuba diving.
