UK Watercooler Thirty-Three (and a third) : Revolutions Per Minute

I tried to convince the missus we should move to San Francisco, but she's not having it. The mad woman actually prefers living in the UK!

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GG, do you think I could live in Northern California and not go mad?

Pink gin = gin with Angostura bitters. You can add tonic too if you like.

I would have gone outside to eat my lunch, but the rotting-fish smell that this area gets is quite bad today. Tomorrow, if the weather's still nice, I think I'll make a picnic and go down to the beach.

Damn, what a shame you didn't get to ride the crazy rollercoaster. It is SCARY.

I'm only mad at headhunters when they don't do what they say they will do. Which is ALL THE TIME. You could try headhunting me if you like! What do you need done?

SF has two things I'm most afraid of in the world - EARTHQUAKES and MY FAMILY. No thank you.

I just got the invite for The Wedding yesterday. It's very purple. And no, sorry, I am not going to play golf with you.

Wedding? golf?

I guess it's my cousin's batchelor party or something. They're off to play a round of golf. ::vomits::

Forest, aren't you supposed to drink ZIDER in Somerset, not gin? Then again, what do I know?

I miss my prog MP3s. I've been listening to Yes all day because it's perfect for the sunshine.

I'd say yours is no disgrace, but my heart wouldn't be in it.

(not being a yes fan)

HOW CAN YOU NOT BE A YES FAN?!?!? IF YOU DON'T LIKE YES YOU CAN'T BE MY FRIEND!!!

Just kidding. I know lots of people that hate Yes. I know it's an acquired taste. I blame my dad for imprinting me with triple live albums when I was young. I wish I were Roger Dean.

BISHONEN!!!!!

Poor Al, I have just turned him into a manga boy.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2225/2475004345_d6c62922d6_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2475004349_5eee914e2d_o.jpg

I have some yes tracks on a compilation, Alan Freeman's "By Invitation Only", and it's the first time I've listened to Yes without wanting to burst into tears and sit outside. But, I will neve rbe a yesfan, that's clear to me.

I like gin, and I could do with more. And if I'm going to be in the south-west then a detour to the Plymouth Gin distillery would therefore make sense.

But, yes, as cider is my other favourite drink, I think I'll be stocking up when we're down there. Two weeks today!

I am nearly out of gin, but I have practically a whole bottle of jenever still left. I wonder how that tastes with tonic. Or I could get some bitter lemon. Num.

What a small world! It turns out that Emsk knows the English. I wish Emsk still posed here, but I guess she too busy. :-(

Jenever is perfect with Grapefruit juice, the flavour cuts through the acidity so well.

That's a good idea, actually. It's good with very tart things.

I want jenever, and fernet branca too. Talkign of Emska and Booze I still have a bottle of Suze for her which I may claim as mine own as it remains unclaimed since I last went to belgium.

I am trying to ferret out Emsk next week.

Oh! I got the funniest email ever! Cowboy Jim wanting advice on pedals - he wanted to know "what is the pedal that makes that sound at the end of Hung With Joy" because he wants one. Ha ha ha ha, I told him that is 7 different pedals all going at once. Silly boy.

He'll get thrown out of G00blar for talk like that.

That sounds dirty!

Only in your head.

Sorry. It's the sun.

I thought "good god, that boy is quick at answering his email!" but it turned out to be an autoresponse. (English, not Cowboy Jim.)

Jim's first mistake was blabbing to K8.

Crikey. I've just been told to google an acquaintance of mine from Glasgow who, it turns out, has been outed as cross-dressing male prostitute! Funny old world. Gorblimey etc.

They're off to play a round of golf. ::vomits::

Club Med Sucks! Authority Sucks! I Hate Golf! I Wanna Play Lacrosse!

Kate, one of the things that has most impressed me about yr drawings is the way you draw hair.

I am going to a talk tonite at brookes uni by 2 current colleagues which is being sponsored by my new company and so will be attended by at least two of my new colleagues. Crazy incestuous world of online publishing....

Waht? I just like to tease Cowboy Jim. It's fun. But if he gets a POG before me, I will KEEEEEEEELL him.

I love drawing hair, it's my favourite thing to draw. I think that's why I like shaggy rock boys with the anime hair so much.

And here's a man with my favourite fun hair to draw... it's like his whole head is covered in little swhirlies! I could draw swhirley carruthershair all the doo dah day.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2290/2477337999_c98f8d251e_o.jpg

Kerr, check yr Gmail, I've sent you some PROG!!!!

Morning there. My shoulders ache ache ache today. I am hard at work, looking for train-related Flickr groups to post my train-related pictures on.

Do I want to know why yr shoulders ache or should I just not ask?

Surely there have to be loads of train groups on Flickr. (My fave Flickr group at the moment, though is The Portrait Painter.)

There are so many train groups on Flickr I am having a hard time filtering through them all. And then going through my photos and deciding which photos are relevant in which groups.

I have no idea why my shoulders ache. Either bad posture at work or bad posture sleeping, I expect.

Are we going to Spiers and Boden on tuesday do you have ticket? Review them to TZR.

It's Wednesday! And I haven't bought a ticket yet. Coz I keep forgetting to bring my wallet to the web cafe. But I am going, yes yes yes.

Trainspotting the trainspotting groups, ha ha, on that is wonderfully recursive.

Shall I buy it and you give me cash on weds?

Actually, yeah that would be great if you could!

Are you coming to the Jazz on Sunday in Covent Garden (yes, I am afeard.)

Jazz? What the...?

(Marmaduke is playing. He has threatened jazz.)

((That is, if he ever answers his email, because he did say he'd give me a guest list.))

i am camping this weekend.

I am drinking Lemsip this weekend

Bugger Sold out.

except not on see tickets

got 'em

Got the gmail Kate. I've never heard of Youthmovies

Hands up who's all going to Stockhausen Day at the Proms this year? *hand up*

... well, when they get round to selling the tickets that is

What day is it, (I prommed a lot in my youth, some great concerts but the Albert hall is a terrible thing to do to music)

Herman, can you forward to me.

I've only ever saw Ennio Morricone at the RAH and that was fan-bloody-tastic

August 2

Forwarded it on to you Ed (and Tom D too because he loves the prog)

Tempting. We should get five together for a box.

I've tried booking tickets in advance but I'm not convinced it worked

Wow, just noticed on August 22, performance of "Punkte" (which I love) alongside Mahler, Schubert, Beethoven... culture clash!

Surely it depends on your mail-client?

Can you muck around with the MIME headers directly? Attachments have a "disposition" setting; if you set that to "inline" it should obey.

Somehow, whatever job I've been in in the past, I've always been lumbered with the job of spamming the customer list. So now I take a Perl script from job to job that does the heavy lifting. If you can install Perl on your PC, it might be what you're looking for - it takes a file with a list of email addresses, and a file with the text of your email, and sends the latter to the former, one at a time, waiting x seconds between each mail so you don't make your server grind to a halt.

I'm not doing any of those things. There exists an application to do it, I'm not f*cking about with it.

Turns out that it didn't need to be in blue at all - the woman just made it a different colour so I'd know which bit to send and which bit to strip out. ARGH.

It's really hard not to just shoot back I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW TO DO THIS. I AM AN CRYSTAL DEVELOPER!!! but that would be counter productive. They're just sticking me with all the unpleasant bits because they think I can't quite get working on reports yet because the db isn't finalised yet. And no one else wants to do them. :-(

Aww.

Today, I am mostly concerned with: trying to track down information about a very obscure mid-80s Childrens Film Foundation movie which scared me to death as a child. It was about a haunted Cornish mine. When I was in Cornwall I visited somewhere which reminded me strongly of one of the locations - an engine-house on top of a cliff, with a mineshaft by it which was grated over rather than covered, so you could drop stones down the shaft. Cornwall does have lots and lots of clifftop engine-houses, though, and this film is particularly obscure, so I am having trouble finding out if it was the same one.

(the place in question, though, definitely *is* the engine-house on the front cover of the Rough Guide for the area - see http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/1843538075/ )

I have got TEH PH34R about this thing. I just have an awful feeling that I've totally set it up wrong and it's going to spit out 20,000 garbled emails to annoy all our members and I will get sacked - for doing something I was never really hired to do! Argh!

I have seen a horror film with a Cornish tin mine in it, but it was some dodgy Hammer Horror thing about a man who was killing girls by embedding them in wax? Probably not the same thing at all.

found it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087389/

I get that fear every time, too. So I put myself at the start of the recipient list - that way if it's sending out rubbish I can kill it before it's sent *too* many.

That's the film I meant - the IMDB link, not the Hammer-type thing - but I can't find much info about its locations on the net, only that the engine-house in the film is "in North Cornwall" somewhere. But I remember, at the start of the film, one of the characters dropping stones down the disused mineshaft and hearing the sea at the bottom - this mine is one of the few where you can do that.

Here's some more pictures of it: http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=towanroath&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

more info here
http://www.horrorcornwall.co.uk/

mine in the film was this one http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/mines/st-ives-st.erth-zennor/ding-dong.htm

(Please don't interrupt the mine discussion)

Erm, I know that the email is fine because I have tested it on mine own account. But I have no idea if I'm sending it to the right list! There are a bunch of queries lying around on the db that I've cobbled together - they want members and students. So I've started with the members and practices query, deleted the practices and stuck in a union with the students query.

There's no reason that shouldn't work. But knowing this system... I'm sure something will go horribly wrong with it! Like the Members query won't actually be a members query, but every damn person in the DB or something. It is filtering for various things that I am assuming are taking out DNC persons. I hope.

xpost: I read that too.

The film was set in both working and abandoned mines - I assume from that page that the Ding Dong mine was the one they used for the working mine scenes. The abandoned-and-haunted mine is annoyingly, the one that the writer of that page had forgotten the name of. "On the north coast" fits, though.

Kate: aah ok, I see what you mean. I've had problems like that before too.

(The descriptions I can find of Ding Dong's location are a bit contradictory, but none of them are on the coast)

It's all gone horrible wrong. Of course.

And because I changed two lines of code (which I commented out with my initials and the date on so I could change it back) it looks like I broke it.

it is supposed to be sending out batches of 350 emails each in the bcc field. Instead of doing that, it is only sending out an email every 350 records. ARGH.

That sounds like a better way for it to fail though, could have gone the other way and each member gets 250 mails.

AAARRRGGGHHHH. You are right, that would be even more nightmarish.

I have made my colleague take a look at it. He now thinks that I broke it. :-(

I told him before I did it, that I didn't know what I was doing, and I was essentially just poking it with a stick.

Oops. It was me that broeked it after all. It was then me what fixed it.

GOING OFFLINE FOR A WEEK??!?!?!?

My god, I might actually get some work done.

not now thanks to ed.
Now you just need to get AIM and chatz with everyone

Hurrah I can finally changed my name!

I didn't get any more work done than usual after all. Hey, I gotta investigate this name changing business.

Will it show who people *really* are, as well as who they are claiming to be?

(Not that this helps with all those people who chose utterly random names I still can't recognise.)

I thought you might
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