Houston....

...We have crawling!



Still not massively mobile...and I apologise for the sea of pink



The videos don't seem so good...or is it me? On the phone itself it's fine, but something is lost in translation.

Big F*****g Plane!

The Airbus A380 just did its flypast over Bristol.

UPDATE....more pics added....cheers Doug's Dad!





It is BIG!

Props to Doug for the video....

These pics from the other side of Bristol (from Dundry)

 

Gareth Evans

Screaming like a little biatch!

That is all.

Rant!

Not really...too tired and "Teh System" is slow due to ripping, transferring, backing up and cutting my own hair!



Not least various other networking things going...

And seriously GOOD LUCK to Peachie Keen!

I wish a major fashion chain wanted my pants!!1!

Just a quick post...

Realised I hadn't posted for a while...so here's a few piccies.



Oh, and congratulations to Peachie Keen who look like they are going to be stocked by Top Shop!!!

Epiphany

Had a wonderful (which is odd) trip to London today for a meeting...at the new offices...very near Paddington so much less hassle than before...plus it was OK (e.g organised)...and I found a book...

I have rarely found books that affect (effect?) me deeply: Stranger In A Strange Land (Heinlein), History Of Western Philosophy (Russell)...Pity The Nation (Fisk), The Wishing Chair (Blyton)...and probably many others.

Finding this book was opportune. I've recently been interested in (again) Dice-Theory and more deeply: The unbearable lightness of being.

Long story short; I decided to say, "Yes".

Things that happened: Yes + 0:
- Gave £1.63 to a bloke who asked for spare change (So had no change for train home, got taxi...found fiver in back of cab)
- Possibility of a (hideous) job in Marketing (there is another HR issue which means maybe only chance of payrise)
- Lil on Saturday (there are trains on Saturday, not on Sunday when I normally have her!!!)
- Lots to do at work tomorrow

I may start a separate YesBlog... ;o

3G

3 Generations that is...I only just realised we had 3 generations of "my bit" of the Smith family in one room!



M&D were down last Saturday and we had a wonderful few hours with Lil...and Lil seemed to really enjoy it too. She was a bit shy (just sort of staring and quiet) for the first 10 minutes or so, but was soon captivated (especially by Grandad's tricks...see video below!).



I'll lett the pics etc do the rest....except to say: I am definitely getting a haircut! I'm going to book the appointment tomorrow!! As soon as I get the number for Sean's place again off John!!!



Damn that's some long hair...

Shame you don't see Grandad in any of the pics....but someone had to hold the camera and the video of Granny Jan with the Faery Cloth didn't seem to encode very well (plus waiting for 54 Meg to upload to YouTube is no fun)...

So here it is...

Merry Lil-mas!!!



Everybody's having fun...



Lil for the future man....



She's only (nearly) 8 months ooooooo-oooold...



She loves a bit of dub though....played some Dillinger, Bob and also some Toots & The Maytals...she loved it all (bouncing up and down in her box).

BTW, you may think it cruel to put a baby in a box, but apparently I spent a large part of my formative years playng in a cardboard box in the corner of the kitchen...never did me any harm ;-)

Even though the box is stuffed full of toys and things to chew on Lil has discovered that the box is (relatively) edible. I turned my back for a few minutes, wondered why it was quiet, and when I turned round she'd gnawed an inch square section. I have just realised that what I need is something like the big plastic tub I have to keep my T-Shirts in...

END.

Fairhaven

Big shout going out to the one like Buck who popped down fo tea & toast with Lil and I this morning.

There will be pictures tomorrow as I'm having her again for a couple of hours...I'm saving them all up for you :-)

In the meantime, please check out the video below. It's the kind of school I wish I'd been to...only not in Amerika!

When all is said and done...

...I fell asleep listening to my Buddha Machine after reading a bit of my all time favourite book. Which is, when all is said and done, a lot more Old Skool than I have been recently [cf. geeking out on Linux and the new Mac Mini I got]...

The gig last night was odd...crap support acts, a strange mix of people and very smoky, and I had a couple of rum & cokes with Ricola(F)

I think I may have actually made a mistake in getting the micro-freeview thingamuhickey added to the mega-system....not having had a TV for nearly a year I was expecting great things (in terms of sitting on the sofa entertained), but lo and behold, it is still all absolute c***ing s*i*e!



Mind you, I've basically just backgrounded it with a schedule of things to record, and made an Automator script to copy recordings to the correct directory (based on show info, e.g. Documentary, Film (with genre) etc) on the external hard drive when done. In the meantime, Knight Rider is dl'ing for Hen & since he suggested it I think I may enjoy watching again too...

So, with a day off work what did I do? Tried building more bits of Stealth Video Cams for ZSL & Joe...then I took Lil to the park for a bit before coming back to mine for some singing!



My cuz Chris has updated his website (and got maxxed out in the process ;), but you really should check out this!



Dear Jarn, please calm down about the Mac/Linux thing....you know that I know that we all know that I am right!

BLEEP!

OK OK I was wrong.....look around...Bleep Player should be here somewhere...

Now you can thank JP for me assualting your ears as well as your eyes!

Parp!

I have also updated the Digg links thing on the right....no longer is it Main Page...just my Dugg stuf...and that's only cos I have no memory (they're all in my Bookmarks too....somewhere).

W00t!

Cocktails with Pants tomorrow, then off to see Babel...Wednesday off work!

Where the hell is my EyeTV!

Hmmm Camino....?

...some odd browser behaviour from Camino....maybe I'll just have to get the Blogger widget instead and bypass all this old fashioned browser nonsense ;-)

Anyway...great morning with Lil today. Here's some pics of the pigs she seems to love.




Hanging out with Dad....


Oh and in case I haven't said it today: Mac's Rule (but so does Linux)!

Thiiiis oooonnneeesss ffffoooorrr Jjjjaaaaaaaahhhhn!!!

Sung in a high-pitched ghey voice.

Your 'Mr Piss' Bleep Odeo was funny but wrong. I cannot 'syndicate' (that is the word you were looking for) such a feed....I have however added it to my Bloglines in that whole Web 2.0, "let's share" kinda way.

Hopefully I'll be arsed enough tomorrow to post some pics of Lil; not sure what we're up to tomorrow...depends on the weather really.

BTW Buckle, your car still rules the roadz!

Just that I rule the I [dot] T [dot] Sh1zzle!!!1!1!!

Oh noes, the Mac is amazing and my other PC is still Linux and all are happily talking to each other...if only I can get Frontrow to use DivX/XVid AVI I'm a laffing!


END!

I got Mac...

...no Windows in my house, except those I use to look out of.



Wooo!!1!1!!!...I am mildly confused by the current 2 Monitors,2 Mice & 2 Keyboard thing...keep typing on the wrong thing...thats the Mini on the left, remote in front of it, Gumstix to the right (under the 19"monitor)...2 Mices...2 Phat phlat screens!!



Hey, thank the mo' for Apple hardware/Software though! I wont be leaving the house for weeks except for the essentials: work, food, air and sun....

I've yet to take a pic with the Craptop added to the mix! It usually sits on myleft...

Look at that mini Mac! (mini Linux machine also shown...next to an old-skool Valve!)