crash point
my local cashpojnt had crashed with a windows-like error message reading:
Withdrawal Flow
Run time error ’91’
Object variable on With block variable not set
August 2003
flash mobs
there was a flash mob 10 seconds walk from my office on Thursday evening and I missed it 🙁
FlockSmart.com
i like the idea of flashmobs a lot, but some of their randomness/obvciousness is taken away by the very fact they consist of lots of people all doing the same random thing at once.
i much prefer a random list of instructions where individuals go and do their own private mobbing independently, possibly reporting back to a central point. It seems much more surreal for dozens of unconnected people to wander in to their local supermarket and ask for a bag of loagy-beads (made up thing) all on the same day, all around the world. no-one locally would be any the wiser.
I have been (unwittingly) trying to do this with my Instructions For The Week category.
I was inspired by an exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall foyer a few years ago which was about the Fluxus movement
I may consider a new blog to concentrate on this. What do you think ?
TIF
I saw this in the gutter. We don’t know who dropped it, so we are unable to say if it is a lover’s tif
this frame
found on the floor:
“This frame is re-stained and the perspect clean (no need to unwrap)”
tiny Bible (big God)
i walked past a Christian bookshop this afternoon and saw this Teeny Weeny Bible (it was about a centimetre square). I’m one of those people who believe that the Bible is true ie it contains God’s word (I would call myself a Christian).
i find the concept of a Tiny Bible quite interesting however and it’s good to see Christians are keeping up with the current trend for miniaturisation. i want my mini-communion too please.
concorde
concorde is stopping flying soon. it’s sad because it’s a beautiful plane and gets you to america quickly (if you can afford it). On the down side it flies over our house twice a day and is INCREDIBLY noisey. the sound certainly won’t be missed.
here is a photo i took of it this evening as it went over
tacky nails
these nails were all over the rails. they are clippy naily things for attaching wires to walls etc. i thought they looked nice in a randomly spread kind of way
a quiet drink
it’s impossible to have a quiet drink in a london pub. here is a man minding his own business, whilst being stalked by the paparazzi.
who is he ? dunno. no one famous i think (i didn’t recognise him). probably a local news program “man drinks alcohol in pub – we have exclusive footage”
CAKES (renamed) old lady = cakes
it’s sara’s brithday tomorrow so she has brought some cakes today. cake eating in the office is good.
I used to work for an organisation which would shut down for 15 minutes every morning and the whole company would go to a common room and drink tea. they would do the same in the afternoon and drink coffee. it had a really cool laid back atmosphere. they also used to have a company meeting once a week where people prayed for the work of the organisation.
it was over 13 years ago I worked for UCCF. maybe the tea/coffee breaks are gone now ?
caption competition
“it’s not raining”
least helpful thing of the day
ooops. i accidentally sent an email entitled “mad french people” to the MD of one of my company’s european subsidiary.
The email was an invitation to go see LesGrooms at lunchtime. i suspect he won’t fly over to the UK for that particular treat.
my advice to you today is to send your most random email to a senior member of staff in your organisation. To enhance the effect, send to someone who lives in another country/culture who you have never met
blooming chocolate
currently, it is acknowledged, we are experience extreme weather conditions. in the uk (and loads of other places) it’s really hot. every one has some advice to give about how best to stay cool / act sensibly in hot weather.
My advice is simply this: protect your chocolate.
Treat your chocolate right and you’ll have no problems in this weather. Dare to expose it to temperature fluctuations and you may suffer from Sugar or Fat Bloom. No one wants that.
miles of smiles
I was delighted to find some photo bits on my way in to work this morning (after seeing Hugh Grant). The bits were spread over about 100 metres, all along Tottenham Street. The first two bits I found were the two smiling mouths.
dead bird
I spotted this bird at the train station this morning. I could just see its legs poking over the top of the rails. Looked a bit comedy so I took a photo
hugh grant
on my way to work this morning i met foppish celebrity Hugh Grant. He got out of a car near Harley Street and was hobbling over to a parking meter, obviously in some discomfort (looked like his back was giving him jip).
I asked if I could take his photo and he said “oh don’t please”, which i took to be a negative. i left him in peace to go about his day.
I guess I could still have taken his photo as he is a ‘celebrity’ and therefore public property, but I decided that was a bit cruel.
I did a quick search for Hugh Grant and Back Pain and it appears he has suffered from back pain before. I should have shared some of my stories of Chronic Pain with him. We could have bonded over some Gabapentin (or something).
hodgeheg
a sniffly spikey creaturey thing
extreme weather in the dining room
we’ve a friend staying with us at the moment who works for the met office. he’s an expert on extreme weather and is in demand at the moment for radio interviews a-plenty.
Here he is broadcasting live to the country from our front room.
It’s weird listening to him downstairs speaking on the phone, whilst also listening upstairs to it broadcast over the Internet and simultaneously recording it in another room over the cable TV network. I love technology.
His next gig is Radio 4 at 8.45am this morning. Here
are his last words from the Today program. Note the massive pause before the final word. Classic. (File
is 42KB MP3 file, use something like Winamp to play it)
2 pieces of quiche and a ham sandwich
some pubs have peanuts or crisps on the bar. my local pub has something much more appealing. two pieces of quiche and a ham sandwich. they looked like they had been there for a while.
sadly there was no starfish activity this evening.