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

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!

I think Tom D should go to the last night of the proms.

oh man the hot weathers ended already. It's pissing down here. Just as I had put a washing on.

Does mitya still post on ilx? I miss him.

I think maybe they banned it at his work.

damn.

Stockhausen Day at The Proms? OK, why does that sound like the punchline to a bad joke? Count me in on the box, I like the idea of going to the Proms. I could wear my new straw boater.

So you did get Spiers and Boden tickets? Ah, I hope so, as you're probably off camping and everyone else in the world is at ATP. Sigh.

I'll copy you the Youthmovies album IF YOU MAKE ME A BLOODY COPY OF THE GREAT LOST SHIMURA CURVES ALBUM!!! It is absurd, I am the only person in the band that doesn't have it. :-( Or at least, the last, good remix of it. We should put it out when the Paynes come back from Sweden.

Anyway, um....

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2381/2480441582_96bccbff11_o.jpg

I've got to stop drawing the lad. This is getting absurd.

THEY HAVE A TRUMPETER FFS!!!

I should have drawn the trumpeter. Ah well, too late now.

Draw Ed!

With clothes ON, of course.

btw cooler group emails have ended up in my gmail junk folder so you should all check yours to make sure it goes to your inbox

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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