UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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Is that you warming up, then? Ha ha ha haha ha!!! I tend to do "ma made me mow the moon" instead.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

It's not whisky that leads Kate to ruin, it's Ed that does that, isn't it?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

And I'm all "I can NOT teach someone else to do it - it's just too freaking fiddly and requires a level of technical knowledge... well, not even technical knowledge (that is assumed) but just this kind of instinctual understanding of how our data works..."

You don't think this makes you sound big-headed at all, do you? I have spent the last two days trying to rectify the arsing-up someone made of our database when we were on holiday and if someone had written a "here is how to do this without arsing it up" book, life'd be a lot easier all round right now. If I'd gone under the wheels of a bus and she'd been left properly in charge of it...I don't think they'd have got the cleaner to work based on instructions or anything, but something to hand over to a reasonably competent successor is always a useful thing to have. The lassie doing my stats and reports when I was off made a fair go of it, but a set of guidelines would've helped, no doubt (I didn't think she'd be doing them, I thought they'd leave it until I got back, or I'd have knocked something up for her).

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

And, on a slightly cheerier non-work-related note, I am almost definitely coming to London for the weekend of 21st/22nd April (will know for definite on Friday). I may be available for fappage on Saturday evening or Sunday afternoon.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

when we were on holiday

lolz at me referring to myself as "we" in a post where I'm suggesting someone else has a slightly inflated sense of self-importance :-)

― ailsa, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

― emsk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

I am very much infavour of this plan for drinking. I summon the sunshine and would like some outdoor warmth.

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

dude the sunshine is doing its best. there was outdoor warmth today!

i am sad tonight.

― emsk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

why so, is it the coming cold, tomorrow?

― Ed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

no, it is other things. is the cold coming? stay back, the cold!

― emsk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray for AilsaFAP! BOO for sadness!

We're off to Montenegro tomorrow to pick a place and a date for the wedding. Should be...interesting. Good weekends, all.

― G00blar, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Watch Cheese Mature

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

ha i was going to post that!

― emsk, Thursday, 29 March 2007 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

I have friended the cheese on myspace.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

I think we should start using the correct verb 'befriend' to describe the action of adding someone as a friend on social networking websites.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Morning. I heard the cheese on the radio.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to befriend the cheese, but I have no Myspace.

― C J, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

"befriend a troll"

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think I heard someone say that the cheese-cam gets interesting at about 10 o'clock each day, because that's when the cheese is turned!

It's quarter to ten now. I will go and watch .....

― C J, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to befriend the cheese, but I have no Myspace

the ball is v much in yr court -- the great thing about myspace is you can reveal as much or as little about yrself as you choose.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

....and when it comes to setting it up, as Take That once said, It Only Takes A Minute, girl.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

I grabbed my "myspace" just to stop anyone else with the same name as me getting it.

I already lost out on getting one with my very old alt.name, but I think my old band-name is still up4grabs.

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if the gherkin and the cheese are friends, cheese goes well with gherkins.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Folk last night was the best yet, and so busy. I am in love with the Basses on The Groanbox Boys' accordion. Open mike was stellar. Annie thinks I should come down to cecil sharp house to cut my teeth as a singer. The guy who sold kate the cosmichorus played some seriously vintage guitar with very long fingernails. Benji K should not be allowed near soundmen he's a fussy bugger about monitors.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

But he was playing a bouzouki so I got some playing tips by watching (I need to be less afraid of hitting it harder seems to be the message)

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Coincidentally, I had a Myspace Friend Request this morning from someone called Nine Inch Nails Worshipper. I have no idea who they are, or what my Myspace password is any more.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

(I suspect, though, that they are not a cheese)

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

cheeses prefer Ministry.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Cheeses Loves You

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Cheeses died for someone's sins, not mine!

― Mark G, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

What kind of bouzouki did/do you play, Tom D.?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, some plank of wood that my best friend's Polish (or, more likely, Ukranian) neighbour gave him when he was a nipper

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

What tuning?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

I can't actually remember, i just slapped some guitar strings on it and played it like a giant oddly-shaped banjo

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

I mean if Robin Williamson could take a Moroccan lute and play it with a double bass bow so it sounded like a cat being disembowelled .... authenticity, pah!

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

I must stop looking at instruments and play the one I have better. Currently in my lust pile

http://i12.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/94/32/d5f7_12.JPG http://i5.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/94/32/d7fe_12.JPG

http://i12.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/94/32/d5f7_12.JPG

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

bah
3rd image should be:

http://i21.ebayimg.com/04/i/08/b5/4f/7f_1.JPG

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pulsatingdream.com/kaleidoscopegroup1.jpg

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, Kay is a lovely brand - my first ever guitar was a Kay guitar. (Actually it was my dad's guitar and I was about 13, but still.)

Ed, FP, any train enthusiasts - what is a "Lab. 19 Iris II" (could have been Isis, actually)? One came through the station while I was waiting for my train - lovely old looking locomotives with what looked like guards vans - but with people in there WITH LOADS OF COMPUTERS AND SCIENTIFIC LOOKING EQUIPMENT!!! two of them strung together.

Any ideas what they are for?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

probably a track monitoring and recording train.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Track measuring - they are packed with accelerometers and so on to measure all the sways and bumps.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Bellzouki, can be in my tuning and only $700.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

How yellow was it?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, I was going to ask if it was yellow. They usually are.

― Forest Pines, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to see TS Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral at the Actors' Church in Covent Garden tomorrow. I know one of the cast and have just been informed that the real Archbishop is going to be in the audience!

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, the folk last night was very good. Though damn, it went so late that I missed the last tube and ended up on busses and didn't get home until 2am. I am very very tired now. Sigh. At least I was sensible and did not drink so I do not have a hangover!

Is that last picture a bellzouki?

The poor hott soundman - yes, those boys were fussy indeed! They should count themselves lucky they had monitors at all! In my day, we had to go onstage with all the sound coming out of a tin can! Monitors, a nonsense.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

that was a multi x-post - yes, it was very yellow! Ah, so that's what it was doing. Interesting indeed.

Ah, if you see the *real* archbishop do say hello from my mum. ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

Does a hello from your mum come with a poke of the umberella and a missive demanding ordination?

It is a bellzouki. Can we go back to vintage and rare and find out how much it is?

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, we should go back and find out more about the bellzouki, definitely. (though I would be ashamed to play in front of amazing guitar man now.)

No, I think hello from my mum just comes with a glass of sherry. I think she's given up on getting her own parish, though, she seems to quite like ministering at the hospital.

I dreamed about my mum's house late night. Something about trying to pack to move, while Brandon TSM kept trying to record an album around the edges of all the chaos. I'm still not sure what that was about.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

The hott soundman has grown a beard and split up with his girlfriend (thanks, Ed, for telling me this very loudly, in his earshot!). I remain too shy to even talk to him beyond saying hello. He didn't say goodbye to me, though, he went back to packing up his soundboard after saying goodbye to Ed, so this means he hates me.

I find this all terribly depressing. It's kind of worse knowing someone you really fancy is available, but you still can't have them, than knowing that they are unavailable. It could be the lack of sleep, though, making me want to boil my head.

Wait, is that the American Kaleidescope, Dada? Actually, Ed, you would like them. They combine 60s psych with crazy Eastern European folk.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

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