Filed under: Science, London, Technology
Considering where I am working right now, I haven’t seen enough of the local area during lunch breaks and so on. But when I do, I’m happy to have dragged myself away from the usual half hour of joy - slowly dribbling bits of sandwich between the keys. Walking in from a bright Spring afternoon, this place - with its perspex tables, neon lights, beeps, whirls and blips - was all a bit disorientating but then this is the future after all (and maybe that’s how I’ll feel at eighty years old). And what a future it is. I am going there more often. The Wellcome Wing at the Science Museum that is - not the future. Although you never know…
Filed under: London, Media, Random
(CULTURE) - only one more to collect.
Filed under: Photos, Friends, Travel, London, Technology, Media, Random
this way please… go check it out, fred’s been busy.
EDIT: more here
Filed under: London
with the tube strike in mind tomorrow, here’s a quick quiz to decide whether it’s really worth going in to work…
looks like i’m going to have to stay at home 
Filed under: London, Random
summer is here. it’s time to get on that bike again. critical mass every last friday of the month 
Filed under: London, Media, Random
i went to see noam chomsky talk on “Simple Truths, Hard Choices: Some Thoughts on Terror, Justice and Self-Defence” the other evening. hmm. not sure what i was expecting to hear. these sorts of issues seem to be at the forefront of peoples minds these days - with everybody bringing the subject up, whether over a beer in the pub or a picnic in the park. it’s all good and well to rant about how imbalanced power and wealth is in the world but it strikes me that a point is being missed when it becomes a “philosophical topic”. especially when that philosophising is held in the lecture halls of western universities, predominantly in the english language.
noam chomsky wouldn’t be there talking to the masses if it wasn’t for this power imbalance. we wouldn’t have been able to visit the lecture in such comfort if it wasn’t for this power imbalance. knowledge is power - and universities do well to share it with those who will recipricate the power favour by choosing english to communicate. oh look - i’m doing it myself
anyway - i left the lecture thinking that we can talk all we like saying “something must be done” but surely the consequences of such action would have to mean the west loses its grip on power and wealth in the world? maybe that would be a good thing but it would mean a very different daily reality for the people that are currently going about telling others how bad it all is.
Filed under: London, Random
i’m free! i was chuckling out aloud to myself like some deranged maniac, as i rode my bike across clapham common this morning. it had finally dawned on me that i had left my job and no longer have anyone else to answer to. so i stopped, had a cup of tea and bacon sarnie from honest tom’s tea wagon and watched the ducks. because i could. lovely.
Filed under: London, Media, Technology, Random
new webcam installed (from the endemol offices)…
Filed under: London
i’m not sure if it was the artist’s intention but people do the strangest things beneath a huge mirror, half-lit by a massive artificial sun - spookily suspended by mist - in the tate modern’s turbine hall, on a saturday night. it felt like a festival, with everyone sitting or lying down in circles on the floor. except here they were giggling at the shapes everyone was making in the reflection above. there was a definite feeling of awe-inspired fun in the air and i’m not surprised to read what the staff are reporting!
Filed under: London, Media
just been to see kill bill and i have to say i liked it! with all the anticipation there has been surrounding the fruits of tarantino’s six year absence, it’s difficult to not become caught up in the preamble. i’ve being i’ve been hearing mixed reports and didn’t know what to expect - apart from lots of violence. yes - there’s violence - but it doesn’t quite hit you in the same way as that mr orange scene does in reservoir dogs. i was expecting to be scared and, to be honest, i’m not very good with scary movies - especially on a delicate sunday evening. but i was laughing all the way through! don’t expect any ground-breaking cinematics - just classic kung-fu hilarity, with ott blood and not a scary moment in sight (apart from the first scene, maybe). i loved the mixing of film styles - with live action blending into anime. the music went well with the mood of the scenes (was that ironside?), though i can’t see the soundtrack becoming a pulp fiction-esque classic. all in all - a stylish, bloody and trashy yet entertaining tribute to bruce lee/samurai movies and spaghetti westerns.
Filed under: Photos, London, Random
It seems the only time I have had lately to casually browse or blog has been very brief - usually during a lunch break in between mouthfuls, slobbering over my keyboard. I paint a pretty picture for you, I’m sure. We have not had decent Internet access at home either, due to our recent move (from Brighton back to London). But all that has changed - I’ve got a new wireless network up and running at home and I’ve just finished my latest project at work.
So - I can finally upload those photos from the states. Some classics from the tubing… but I doubt Cab and Phil will think so!
Filed under: Friends, London
Back from the States after a hectic couple of weeks with Claire, Felix, Phil and Cab blundering about New York and its environ. Ashley is now married. Phil is now thirty. And our livers are all slightly more damaged than before we left. Some classic photos - especially from the tubing.
And now we are moving house - tomorrow! Nothing is packed. London here I come.
Filed under: Friends, London, Random
All change… We’re moving back to London. Change is good, I keep telling myself. Oh yes - no looking back, keep on trucking. And it’s a lovely flat we’re moving to. And that daily commute I loathed so much (how can network south east trains be so crap?) will be a thing of the past. But I can’t help feeling sad for leaving Brighton. It’s a lovely place, especially in the Summer. I’ll be back.
Filed under: Brighton, Friends, London, Random
Well. The people I work for have been bought out and we’re all off to chase the bright lights of the big smoke. No more half-asleep, lazy strolls down the hill to work in the morning for me then. Oh no. Instead I’ll be merrily skipping down the hill to catch the 7.17am sharp to join countless thousands rejoice in the daily commute to London. Wicked.
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Well - this weekend saw the biggest ever peace demonstrations in London ยป StopWar.org some people are saying there were 2 million protesting. It sure was busy - took us the best part of 4 hours to get from Parliament Square to Hyde Park. Great atmosphere - photos soon.
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