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

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Jazz is the least bad. My dad likes jazz.

― jel --, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Feh! A skeeve to jazz!

Man, OK, I've finished Business Written. Which means I'm about a third of the way through, but the easy third. Accounts In... aaahhh... and Risk and Fee is just as bad as Account In now that I've changed all the reports to be net. I'm going to be here all night. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

My future father-in-law (an esteemed maths professor): So, what are you up to?
Me: We're working. K's working on her thesis, I'm working on my students' papers.
F-i-L: Do you work for pleasure? For history?
Me: I work for money.
F-i-L: (BIG laugh) That's good. It's better to survive than . . .
Me: It's better to survive than to not survive.
F-i-L: (more laughter)

Look at me bantering!

― G00blar, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Banter banter banter, ha ha. Oh the joys of in-laws.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

You should put that on your "things what are great about being on yr own" = no in-laws.

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that thread still going? I haven't read it since yesterday morning.

Back when I was in a LTR, I actually really liked my in-laws. I may even have liked my ex-partner's mum better than I liked him. We got on really well. I still miss her. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

kate, i don't get how you can't be OBSESSED with this arcade fire album. i cannot stop playing it. you forget about the brooce after a bit.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link

(also here is 1xthing i will not FITE with you about it being LOADED with religious mentions and symbolism and shit)

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's great.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i am besotted. it's like the first one all over again but totally different. it is bloody short though. ok i am going to sleep now.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning!

― Forest Pines, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't stop looking at that eye! If I move from side to side in front of my monitor THE EYE FOLLOWS ME.

― C J, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:31 (seventeen years ago) link

WAKE UP G00BLAR!

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a beautiful morning!

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link

It's jolly chilly-willy though.

― C J, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:46 (seventeen years ago) link

chilly-willy lol! heh i am in a ridiculous good mood. my flatmate is back today hurrah! i prob won't see her until tomorrow unless she is still up when i get home from work around 1am (possible, brazil is, what, 6 hours behind us? 7?) but i have got up early and cleaned the house for her. now i am going to work to Learn More Stuff and listen to clever people bait each other, then go work on the door at a gig (or cloakroom? i forgot) which will be FUNS too.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Singing in the pub last night was pretty great. I drank all the beers (no hangover though as it was all young's ordinary). I haven't been to the three kings in ages and this seems like a stupid omission.

Not sure about sunday opening but shall we meet post treasure hunt there?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i suspect the treasure hunt will end in a pub and people will not want to leave it. want to join us wherever that is? i can text you and let you know where we're at.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

also tomorrow countryside bikeride rah rah pls weather to stay EXACTLY like this.

― emsk, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

you know what, Emsk, one of these days I am sure I am going to turn up at a random gig and find you operating the cloakroom or door. And I won't be the least bit surprised.

I have just discovered that Apples in Stereo are playing Primavera Sound. Yay!

Oh and Kate, Asia was asking me to play her some Shimura Curves, I couldn't find my cd at that particular moment but found a solo one I got off you years ago which had Lost Rivers of Clerkenwell, Wash and Unfinished Business on it.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 2 March 2007 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.lookandread.myby.co.uk/images/downloads/song_chad.jpg
wot no mushroom cloud?

― onimo, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.paloverde.org/hales/Chem_1_H/mushroom_cloud.jpg

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link

From the ashes of the watercooler arose...

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/b/be/180px-Inhumans.PNG

― onimo, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, I'm just not obsessed with the new Arcade Fire album. I supposed I got too many other good albums around the same time. I *am* obsessed with the Flowers of Hell album, though. Maybe the sheer bloody OBVIOUSNESS of the AF's religious symbolism bothers me. A bit ramming it down the throat.

That said, I am REALLY enjoying your book on the Reformation, Ed.

I love the eye, I think it's great. I really want a tattoo of it.

Did we win one nuke? Yay us! We are the RADIOACTIVEST!!! I hope I'm still glowing by next week when I have to go back to the haaaahnd doctor. I will tell the injector guy that I am supplying mine own radioactivity. Hurrah!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I stopped going to singing in the pub with the campers years ago because it got boring, too much trying to learn new songs and do complicated harmonies, not enough actual singing. Last night was all about the singing. The acoustic in the room was poor, very hard to hear individual voices, let alone one's own. Made call and response songs hard work. Umkonto we sizwe still makes me uneasy, but it is really pretty and that did work well.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I was able to nobble the person I whose camp I want to go on this summer.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Errr... what does nobble mean? Do I want to know?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

There is a procedure for getting on camps, and there are ways of going round it to get on the camp you want to go on which are very naughty.

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, I so cannot get motivated to do any work today. It is just too damn sunny outside.

And I still feel too burned from my late night last night. I didn't leave this place until 10.45 and got in this morning, less than 12 hours later, to find my glass of water still undrunked on my desk.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

'Dja drink it?

I'm sleepteaching today and so far that seems to be getting the job done.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

This sunshine is glorious.

― C J, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I emptied it out and got another one. I feel bad when I leave after the cleaner, like I'll mess up all her cleaning.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Emsk, do you fancy a country bike rid on the 17th or 18th of March?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

this place is shut at weekends and at 9pm I think, so no opportunities for working oneself into t'ground silliness.

I have never stayed later than 7.00 or so.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

This place is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They really promote the overwork culture.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

this is one important reason why I don't think I'd ever want to move back to London -- a fear of being sucked into the overwork culture. I like being here in the slack provinces!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate, thoughts on ILX comp: We should change all the 'c's in everything to 'k's because it's more Krautrock

― tissp, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I had to make a conscious decision not to buy into the overwork culture. Only at monthend will I do it. And if I find myself working late, I come in late the next day.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Elektrik Komet Theory?

"Meine Pferd schön"

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, it should be Theorie, too, more German!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes!

― tissp, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

That fruit & nut bar was gross, but now I get rice pudding! Yay for treats.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I had carrot cake yesterday so I don't get it as a treat today. :-(

Must remember to get carrot cake for the gig tomorrow! Apparently F also gets the same "ohmigod, I'm on drugs weeeeeeee" extreme reaction to it that I do, which is really a good state for playing dronerock.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate, thoughts on ILX comp: We should change all the 'c's in everything to 'k's because it's more Krautrock

Funnily enough, I'm thinking of contributing an acoustic Krautrock medley to the comp.

― Tom D., Friday, 2 March 2007 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Srsly tho: no one has a tambourine?

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

£4.50 in hobgobblin

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, no, no tambourine. All of mine are sampled!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I might pop in there tomorrow, want me to pick you one up?

― Ed, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

what's hobgobblin?

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, I see it. I'm actually not far from there. Could go myself today.

― G00blar, Friday, 2 March 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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