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am i still ill? Archive for July, 2005
July 30, 2005 at 09:20 · Filed under Uncategorised
Well, the tickets went on sale yesterday and as usual, I forgot.
I woke up at 945 and the tickets had gone on sale at 9am.
I wanted standing tickets, seating sucks. Period.
Ticketmaster: Sold out
Seetickets: Sold out
Ticketline: Sold out
Fuck. Well, I’ll just buy seating tickets, sell them on eBay and use the money raised from those to pay for ridiculously overpriced standing tickets from eBay.
So, I buy 6 seated tickets. Upper tier (ie. 1,000 feet high, Dave Grohl looks about 2 inches tall).
Purchase confirmed.
Kate signs onto MSN Messenger.
Kate: Nate, I’ve found standing tickets on a website, get there quick
Me: Fuck. Bollox. Shit. Cunt. Pussylicker.
Fine. I’ll buy 6 more tickets and sell my seated ones on eBay.
Purchase confirmed.
So now, I have approximately 37,000 tickets for 6 people and a helluva credit card bill to look forward to. Bah.
July 29, 2005 at 16:33 · Filed under Uncategorised
bouncy balls
Originally uploaded by sem.
Apparently Sony were filming a commercial on this street in San Fransisco which involved dropping 100,000 bouncy balls down it..oooo!
July 29, 2005 at 00:16 · Filed under Uncategorised
What really lies beyond the constraints of my mind?
Could it be the sea, with fate mooning back at me.
No it’s just more lock jawed pop stars, Thicker than pig shit, Nothing to convey
They’re so scared to show intelligence, It might smear their lovely career
This world, I am afraid, Is designed for crashing bores, I am not one.
July 28, 2005 at 12:10 · Filed under Uncategorised
I forgot to take my work shoes to Lauras house with me last night so am having to wear and suit and converse to work today 
Quirky if not a little odd looking..
Whoops
Originally uploaded by charmingman.
July 28, 2005 at 11:13 · Filed under Uncategorised
“A British court has fined a man £500 ($870, €720) for using a residential wireless broadband connection without permission.
In what is believed to be the first conviction of its kind in the UK, a jury at Isleworth, Middlesex court found Gregory Straszkiewicz, 24, guilty of dishonestly obtaining an electronic communications service and possessing equipment for fraudulent use of a communications service.”
From Digital-lifestyles
Well I’ll be. Although I don’t tend to do this, I will own up and say that when I’m in an area where I have a choice between T-Mobile/BTOpenzone at £6 an hour or an open network which will cost me zilch (ie. JFK Airport) I know which one I have gone for, I didn’t think it to be serious crime though. Although, I can understand and sympathise to a certain extent, as I wouldn’t like somebody jacking my router (which, as it happens is 802.11g+ wi-fi with no security at all) and using my bandwith. But, the outcome of this case has surprised me a little.
July 26, 2005 at 15:48 · Filed under Uncategorised
I’ve just made a discovery whilst bored and tinkering around in Flickr, the current logo on the site is this:
http://flickr.com/images/flickr_logo_beta.gif
But, upon further inspection, there is also another logo here:
http://flickr.com/images/flickr_logo.gif
Could flickr be preparing to come out of Beta soon??
I suppose with their acquisition by Yahoo, they now have the financial and technological stability with which to stand on their own two feet. We shall see, I’m sure.
Remember, you heard it here first!
July 26, 2005 at 08:52 · Filed under Uncategorised
Tickets go on sale this Friday (29th July) for the gig they’ve named “Noise & Confusion ‘05″ on 10th December in the Millennium Stadium.
It will be headlined by Oasis, but I’m more psyched about The Foos and Razorlight being there. Dave Grohl and Johnny Borrell on the same stage on the same day, yay!
Tickets aren’t too badly priced either, comparatively with other concerts of the same size. £38 each (£35 + £3 booking fee)
Ticketmaster (only use this link on Friday, else you’ll get nothing..)
July 25, 2005 at 13:15 · Filed under Uncategorised
Further to my last post on this subject, it seems that Icwales, the apparent “National website of Wales” has now jumped on the same Charlotte Church buttlicking bandwagon as BBC Wales.
On their Capital city news section, of 5 stories that have broken this morning in Cardiff, the fact that Charlotte Church has bought a new house in Llandaff, moving away from Cardiff Bay, is apparently of more importance even than what most would consider main story of the day, of the man who fell to his death this morning at the Heath Hospital.
Even the 700 teachers who could possibly be out of jobs come September are considered small fish compared to Charlottes latest purchase.
Why do those who have the job of giving us the news think that, just because she is Welsh, we actually care what the hell Charlotte Church is doing? Give us news that we actually want to read about. If I wanted to know, I’d buy Heat. Ok. Hello. Now. or one of the other manure filled celebrity orientated magazines.
July 21, 2005 at 11:22 · Filed under Uncategorised
Reading Jason Kottke’s entry regarding the “Shitty Tipper Database“, I too believe that this is a greivous breach of customer confidentiality. If it was hosted over here in the UK, it would contravene data protection laws and the person responsible would be liable to criminal charges, could this be the case in the USA, I know that they have data protection laws, but to what extent I don’t know?
Plus, I’d like to refer to a particular scene from the movie Reservoir Dogs, if I could please..
Mr. Pink:
Uh-uh. I don’t tip.
Nice Guy Eddie:
Whaddaya mean you don’t tip?
Pink:
I don’t believe in it.
Eddie:
You don’t believe in tipping?
Mr. Blue:
Do you have any idea what these
ladies make? They make shit.
Pink:
Don’t give me that. She don’t
make enough money, she can quit.
Eddie:
I don’t even know a Jew who’d have
the balls to say that. So let’s
get this straight. You never ever
tip?
Pink:
I don’t tip because society says I
gotta. I tip when somebody
deserves a tip. When somebody
really puts forth an effort, they
deserve a little something extra.
But this tipping automatically,
that shit’s for the birds. As far
as I’m concerned, they’re just
doin their job.
Mr. Blue:
Our girl was nice.
Pink:
Our girl was okay. She didn’t do
anything special.
Blue:
What’s something special, take ya
in the kitchen and suck your dick?
They all laugh.
Eddie:
I’d go over twelve percent for
that.
White:
Look, I ordered coffee. Now we’ve
been here a long fuckin time, and
she’s only filled my cup three
times. When I order coffee, I
want it filled six times.
Mr. Blonde:
What if she’s too busy?
Pink:
The words “too busy” shouldn’t be
in a waitress’s vocabulary.
Eddie:
Excuse me, Mr. Pink, but the last
thing you need is another cup of
coffee.
They all laugh.
Pink:
These ladies aren’t starvin to
death. They make minimum wage.
When I worked for minimum wage, I
wasn’t lucky enough to have a job
that society deemed tipworthy.
Eddie:
Ahh, now we’re getting down to it.
It’s not just that he’s a cheap
bastard–
Mr. Orange:
–It is that too–
Eddie:
–It is that too. But it’s also
he couldn’t get a waiter job. You
talk like a pissed off dishwasher:
“Fuck those cunts and their
fucking tips.”
Blue:
So you don’t care that they’re
counting on your tip to live?
Mr. Pink rubs two of his fingers together.
Pink:
Do you know what this is? It’s
the world’s smallest violin,
playing just for the waitresses.
Blue:
You don’t have any idea what
you’re talking about. These
people bust their ass. This
is a hard job.
Pink:
So’s working at McDonald’s, but
you don’t feel the need to tip
them. They’re servin ya food, you
should tip em. But no, society
says tip these guys over here, but
not those guys over there. That’s
bullshit.
Mr. Orange:
They work harder than the kids at
McDonald’s.
Pink:
Oh yeah, I don’t see them cleaning
fryers.
Mr. Brown:
These people are taxed on the tips
they make. When you stiff ‘em,
you cost them money.
Blue:
Waitressing is the number one
occupation for female non-college
graduates in this country. It’s
the one jab basically any woman
can get, and make a living on.
The reason is because of tips.
Pink:
Fuck all that.
They all laugh.
Pink:
Hey, I’m very sorry that the
government taxes their tips.
That’s fucked up. But that ain’t
my fault. it would appear that
waitresses are just one of the
many groups the government fucks
in the ass on a regular basis.
You show me a paper says the
government shouldn’t do that, I’ll
sign it. Put it to a vote, I’ll
vote for it. But what I won’t do
is play ball. And this non-
college bullshit you’re telling
me, I got two words for that:
“Learn to fuckin type.” Cause if
you’re expecting me to help out
with the rent, you’re in for a big
fuckin surprise.
Edited: Corrected dialogue. Almost all referenced to Mr. Blonde changed to Mr. Blue 
Thanks for the pointers commenters
July 21, 2005 at 08:24 · Filed under Uncategorised
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