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Punjabi Choley and pea soup with pork sausage. The ‘Do Not Split’ stickers are amusing 🙂
November 22, 2011
November 9, 2011
Lacuna Coil & Straight Line Stitch, Aberdeen
Saw Lacuna Coil and Straight Line Stitch at the Lemon Tree. Doors 7:30, I got a front centre standing position at the barrier. 8:30 Straight Line Stitch came on and played an energetic half-hour set. It was being filmed. Alexis Brown was in good form, singing well and bouncing around the cramped stage area like a spring. Near enough to touch (as some people on either side of me did). 9:00 and Lacuna Coil came on and played for an hour before taking the encore break. Then back on until 10:30. Or thereabouts. They had more stage room and slightly better sound than SLS (as usual for the headliner). Cristina Scabbia is very tiny.
November 3, 2011
Amazon Groceries
Bought some food from Amazon’s grocery department. Free delivery.
That’s spinach and cottage cheese curry and pickled cucumber soup. Delicious!
New Tassimo
The old one died (the scanner couldn’t read any barcodes) so it got replaced with this one:
New Phone
A £15 replacement for the £19.95 Motorola I’ve been using for the last six years or so (the battery was beginning to fade). Just transferred the PAYG SIM over and there was my credit and numbers all ready to use. That’s the third handset the SIM has been in. It started around 2002 in a big brick of a Philips that cost £19.95. The Samsung does over two weeks between charges.
October 6, 2011
Steve Jobs
1955-2011
I’m writing this on my iMac, one of the four Apple devices in the house. I’ve been using Apple computers since 1994 when I got a 6100/60. I made my first sale of Mac software in 2001. Apple has come a long way in the ten years since under Steve’s leadership.
October 1, 2011
Something in the Air
Every year some new TV shows come out that seem based on very similar ideas. This year I noticed that Ringer and The Lying Game have rather similar concepts. Separated identical twins (played by the same actress), one rich one poor, swap places. One disappears and the poor sister attempts to find out what’s going on while impersonating the rich sister. More or less.
Grimm and Once Upon A Time both bring fairy tales into the real world but in rather different ways.
September 25, 2011
I had a dream.
I had a dream. I dreamed of a burger with cheese and chili and an egg on top. I related this dream to Mrs Wife and she pointed out that I had forgotten bacon. So today I made my dream with bacon.
September 15, 2011
Colombiana
Went to see Colombiana starring Amandla Stenberg as young Cataleya Restrepo and Zoe Saldana as grown up Cataleya.
Young Cataleya witnesses the murder of her parents by drug dealers in Bogota. She escapes to Chicago and is raised by her uncle who is a hit man and teaches her the trade. Grown up Cataleya is a contract killer with a sideline in trying to find and eliminate her parents’ murderers who are now hidden in the USA under CIA protection as informants.
Much chasing about and firing of automatic weapons + bombs and martial arts. Four out of five from me.
August 25, 2011
iMac RAM upgrade
I upgraded my iMac from 2GB to 3GB so I could install Lion. My iMac is a late 2006 model Core 2 Duo at 2.16 GHz.
Package from Amazon.
The Crucial DIMM.
Instructions for accessing the RAM are thoughtfully printed on the underside of the stand.
Two original 1GB DIMMS with one removed (Samsung).
New memory inserted.
Reboot with 3GB RAM 🙂