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1) Used a loud speaker to separate icing sugar from caster sugar.
2) Worked in a Blacksmith's forge.
3) Been in the commentary booth during an England cricket match.

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Darn, 2's been done. Let's try going high tech.
2) Created an online tool to keep track of site updates.

or What Would Jessie Do?

Most people's moral compasses are pretty firmly set by the time they reach puberty*. So the moral tales we are told as children massively influence the adults we grow up to be. I grew up watching a whole slew of TV programs with moral messages (Captain Planet being an extreme example with a post episode epilogue, in case you hadn't already got it). I'm not talking about stuff like Grange Hill, which had moral messages, but also had plenty of shades of grey. The one that I think typifies it most, is probably Saved by the Bell.

I should make it clear here, that approximately half of my life, and thousands of units of alcohol, have passed since the last time I last saw an episode. So my recollections are hazy and pickled, and I've done no research on it. All anecdotes about episodes are entirely made up, but are the sort of thing I could see happening.

In fact it's entirely possible that I've completely failed to recall the real sentiments of the show. I'm probably assigning a whole buckful of cliches from other shows to this one. This isn't about the actual Saved by the Bell series; It's about the one that lives on inside my head.

For those of you who haven't seen it, Saved by the Bell followed the wacky adventures of group of kids going through an American high school*. They were:

• Zack: The Grifter
• Slater: The Jock
• Screech: The Nerd
• Kelly: The Cheerleader
• Jessie: The Self-Righteous one
• Lisa: The Gossip

The zeroth rule of Saved by the Bell is: ( Diversity exists, and is not a big deal. )

Corollary to zeroth rule: ( Friendship transcends societies boundaries. )

This entry's long enough as is, so follow ups to come.

* Not saying that people can't change. Just that they don't often.
** I am not counting College Years, or New Class in this, as they were fairly different, and fairly rubbish, respectively
*** Did we ever see the rest of the team?

Woke up with this in my head on Saturday Morning.

To the tune of "Wind beneath my wings"

Have I ever told you that you're ugly.
Have I ever told you that you smell.
Have I ever told you, you can bite me.
Have ever told you go to hell.

No idea where it came from. Thought about expanding it, but the original lyrics aren't really complicated enough to make it worthwhile.

I popped down to my home town last night, and had a few disconnected thoughts about it.

Firstly I remembered why I have a car. It costs about the same in petrol to get to get from London to my parent's as it does to get from London to the nearest train station. Which is an hour away by public transport, £10 by taxi, or 15 minutes if you can grab a lift. And you're tied to the train schedule.

Secondly I noticed the weeds in the pavement are different to the ones in London. I have no idea what they're actually called, but the fact the we used to call them "sticky darts" should give you some idea of what we used them for. I didn't see any of the "velcro vines" that normally grew in bushes but, between the two of them, I used to get covered in plants as a kid.


Speaking of kids, the only graffiti around was the chalk-on-pavements kind I remember doing when a local building site pulled loads of chalk of out the ground making foundations. Except I don't think I a Rudie. Was I? Probably.

( The 'rudies' kid's chalking )

I'm off to see masked mexican wrestling in Camden next month.

I can tell you about this now, since the Roundhouse have just updated their daft linking policy since I emailed them about it. It originally said:

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Since I'd agrered to these terms when buying tickets I couldn't post a link to Lucha Libre London, since it's not the home page; or any link on LiveJournal, since I don't own it. Glad they've updated it.

Still there's hundreds of sites that have an identical daft linking policy

Did anyone hear about the mobile Sci-Fi library associated with the Folkestone Triennial on the Today show this morning? I can't find much about it online, and it sounded interesting.

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The zombie apocalypse if it's not only humans affected.

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( Zombie meme )

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( LJ 'You may also be interested in' meme )
I think I prefer the original one. I'll probably add a few to my list. Although I'm not sure why. I've never been able do any sort of search based on it. I wonder who my humanist friends are?
seen at Rhionnach's

Looking back at some minutes I've just taken, here's some of the more interesting spellings:

supupport
tabk
butseniour
Veverarage
easg
Prossess

( Can you guess what they were meant to be? )
Some of that's just bad handwriting, but there's a few spelling errors, and double letters. I can usually spell if I think while I'm writing, and I'm not too tired, but when having to write that quickly, it tends to fail me. Thank Cthulhu for spell checkers!

Why won't people do anything that requires the slightest effort!

We have a recycling bin for plastic cups in the office. The holes are exactly the same size as the cups so you have to push slightly to get them in. Instead people leave them piling up out of the holes, balanced on the lowest cup, which didn't quite fall in.

And the Photocopier gives clear instructions on the screen, of exactly which door to open, and which dial to turn to remove a paper jam. So why I am the only one who does this?

And worst of all some of the toilets are a bit knackered and require a couple of presses of the flusher. Which many people don't seem to bother with. Yuck.

Charlie Stross nearly wrote for the Iron Man comic!

With his love of gonzo technologies, I'd have loved to have seen that.



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