Posts by Tom Beard
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Finally! Something to justify the existince of the Humvee!
Sometimes people just wear hats to keep the sun off, or their head warm, or because they are bald. What's written on the hat is about as important as what's written on their socks.
Then might I suggest the simple expedient of wearing a hat without anything written on it?
It can be hard to find a hat that isn't shit.
I can heartily recommend Lock & Co. For those who happen no to be in the vicinity of St James', they do mail order. For those who prefer to support local business, Hill's has a wide list of stockists.
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I think the sevens give us glimpse of the sort of party town we could become...
Oh sweet Jesus, no!
I've been into the Sky City building a few times, and the only time I've ever spent any money there I dropped about $100 in just over an hour. Mind you, for that I got a very good Manzanilla, anchovy-stuffed olives, an excellent Martini and a homeopathic portion of mind-bogglingly good ham, so it was totally worth it. Plus, you can enter Bellota from Federal St without joining the zombie parade in the casino itself.
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I'd say that in spirit, Cricket (by which I mean proper cricket) is Noel Coward played through an old gramophone. But in dynamics it's more like Brian Eno interrupted by brief spurts of speed metal, or perhaps a Philip Glass opera.
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I've tried Chrome at home, after getting fed up with Firefox freezing quite often when loading a new tab (even with only 2 or 3 tabs open!). It's generally nice, but I've found that when you're switching between a few tabs with Flash in them (e.g. YouTube), the renderer flickers annoyingly and seems to render some bits before others.
One of the most annoying process hogs, I find, is Twitter: after it's been loaded for a while, it gets slower and slower, especially when typing in an update, and it can take seconds for my text to appear in the text entry box. Similarly, Facebook's home page isn't too bad, but anyone's actual profile gets hopelessly sluggish. I've noticed that on Firefox, but even more so at work, where we're forced to use (*sob*) IE6.
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I thought it was a fairly overt reference to the traditional symbol of anarchism, the black flag?
I thought that was the circle-A symbol? Or am I relying too much on Aro Valley graffiti and the back-packs of adolescent pseudo-punks?
But anyway, I'd have thought that the "blackout" reference was just because that's what we call it when the lights go out. And for many people, being cut off by their ISP will have pretty much that effect.
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And giant bats?
We can't stop here, this is bat country!
Actually, administering random psychoactive drugs to the players before they took the field could be interesting. It could be a game of guessing what they're on based on their behaviour, a bit like those old experiments with spiders on LSD and amphetamine.
And slightly on that topic, am I the only one who, when A-Rod is mentioned, automatically thinks of Andy Roddick? I've never heard of that other guy.
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I mean, does the Darcy thing 'work' for me? Yep. Would I want to live with the guy afterwards? Good gods no.
Of course. I just hope you're the "Know who to shag and who to marry" type of woman, rather than the "Fall in love with a bad boy, then try to change him into a good boy" type. The latter is a recipe for disaster all round.
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just too nice for me ... just too nice for me
So, maybe some of the "brooding bad boy" stereotype from the romance novels did rub off on you then? I suppose that if said novels portray men as arrogant, emotionally unavailable cads then they may indeed play a valuable role in preparing young women for real life.
OK, but my girlfriend is going to be pissed if she finds out.
If I had a dollar for every time I'd thought that ... I might have enough cash to pay my legal bills.
Ahem.
For all of you who are geeking out on crumpet from some (presumably) SF series that I've never seen, I have just one word for you: Servalan.
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And let's face it, who doesn't want an anonymous card that professes undying love (or at least the fact that someone finds you attractive).
I'd prefer the latter over the former, which sounds rather stalkerish and quite a lot of work.
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(The second most romantic thing was a trio of men waking me on Valentine's morning by singing 'Do You Want to Know a Secret' outside my bedroom window. This was so touching I slept with two of them.)
What, was the third one out of tune?