If it isn't obvious ...
... I no longer update this blog. You can find a (slightly) more up to date blog at Way Out Where
- posted by Adam @ 11:50 am

 
Posting Pictures

Actually, I just need to test the image uploading, so here is a picture of a couple of friends at a dinner in Bristol. Lovely place ...
- posted by Adam @ 7:04 pm

 
Movie Tube Map - The "Little Bear"
My friend Tom has created a great movie-based tube map, akin to The Great Bear, but superior in one important way - The names on each of the interchanges have done the jobs represented by ALL the lines that run through that interchange.
Kings Cross has 6 lines going through it - any guesses who he found to go there?
- posted by Adam @ 9:21 am

 
When the going gets weird, the weird ...
... shoot themselves with a shotgun?

Hunter S Thompson, writer of what is possibly my favourite book (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) and inspiration for about 1,000 different things, is dead.

There was a period in my life where, when people who I respected and admired died, I couldn't care less. I think perhaps I felt this meant they left a perfect legacy; that I could almost be happy about it.

I now think that this is shit. I never met Hunter S Thompson. I knew no family members. I don't know anyone who knows anyone who knows him. I am about as far removed from him as anyone possibly could be. And yet still, I am sad that he is dead.

Farewell to a great man.

Possibly his last published work. Link is here, because I just love the idea of him and Bill Murray hanging out playing golf with shotguns
- posted by Adam @ 11:04 pm

 
An epiphany
First, I'm gonna have an epiphany, which will give me an idea. The idea will help me think of a plan, which will generate a thought that will trigger a proposal and maybe some inspiration for my next epiphany

This is how I never get things done.
- posted by Adam @ 3:27 pm

 
What was it that Ned's Atomic Dustbin said?
Kill Your Television

Yep, its gone. In fact, its been gone for over 2 months now. Sweet, blessed ITV-less relief.

People swan around me talking about Celebrity Big Brother - I genuinely did not know the show was on TV again until about 4 days ago. I simply cannot describe the gorgeous sensation it is to realise that you are totally and utterly out of touch with reality television. How to describe it? I guess a mixture of total contentment and slight superiority.

It can sometimes be a little strange - other people's reactions are totally unpredictable, and range from "Good for you, I've been thinking about that for a while" to something like the following:

Workmate: Did you see Celebrity Big Brother last night
Me: Nope, couldn't. I don't have a TV
Workmate: What? No tv? Is it broken?
Me: Nope, just don't own one
Workmate: What? You're about to buy a new big one?
Me: Nope, no plans to buy one, just don't own one
Workmate: None at all? What? Why? When are you getting a new one?
Me: Not getting a new one. Don't want one. Television bores the crap out of me
Workmate: You're not getting one? What? You don't have one? What? Why? How?
Me: Sold it. Not buying another one. Really really don't like it.
Workmate (tears running down his cheeks): HOW DO YOU SURVIVE?!?!?!?!?! WHAT DO YOU DO??!?!?!?!????

(almost true story)

Anyway, the one single response I've not had so far is "yep, I don't own one either. Cool huh?" ... so, anyone else out there quit television? I'm waiting to hear from ya. Wanna form a band? Or maybe start a club or something?

Yeah, the Things To Do Once You've Killed Your Television Club ... I guess the format would be similar to Why Don't You (warning: loads a realplayer in-browser video of the title music), but for adults. We'd read books, drink wine, play guitar, make things (I really want to make a laptop case akin to the one a character in Pattern Recognition carried (actually he turned out to be a douchebag, but I thought his laptop case was cool)), browse the internet, write computer programs, learn Italian ... anything but passively watch television really.



- posted by Adam @ 5:35 pm

 
ok, I wasn't going to post again before christmas, but this is too cool. Right - check the picture of me in the top right of my blog. Now click here to see an automatically generated ascii version of the photo from typorganism.com ...

try it yourself - go to their ascii-o-matic page and upload a jpg image ... genius

- posted by Adam @ 11:57 am