Randomness!

There's this meme going around the facebooks and the internets that goes a little like this:

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

Here's mine:

I like this. I imagine it sounds a little like the Chameleons with a little New Model Army thrown in. Anyhow, Ochmacanthus is now seeking members. Apply in the comments section with your instrument and influences.

Shrovetide!

Today is Shrove Tuesday. I have no idea what a shrove* is, so I'm just going to say it's Pancake Tuesday. I will be having pancakes for dinner. But back to Shrove Tuesday, it is the time in England for the traditional Shrovetide football matches. For those of you who don't know, which is, I'm assuming, most of you, considering the readership here, the Shrovetide football games are massive games between towns or villages that involve, potentially, hundreds of players. These games date back to the 12th century. The ball will, typically, begin at a centre point and players will attempt to move the ball to their own goal, which could be kilometres away, kicking or hitting it, though more likely passing it man to man, like a rugby scrum. Anything goes, so long as it doesn't lead to manslaughter or murder. The game resembles more a mob or riot than a modern football match, but these games are one of the precursors to what we now know as football. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to eat my pancakes. Down wi' it!

*I actually do know, I'm just not telling you.

A Trip to the Record Shop!

Inbox Zero

After coming across this and seeing a friend's near empty inbox, I decided to attempt to attain Inbox Zero. With that in mind I cleaned up one of my e-mail addresses from about 2500 e-mails down to fifteen. Tomorrow when I go into work there are a few things I need to do because of those fifteen e-mails and then I'll have the number down even lower. I didn't just delete everything, I sorted and kept what is actually relevant or important information in appropriate folders and the rest went into the trash. Bye-bye. I've got a couple more e-mail addresses with their respective over-flowing inboxes, but I'm slowly liberating them from the weight of electronic clutter. Who knows, maybe after I get that done and learn how to keep it that way, I may be able to translate that into real life.

A Trip to the Record Shop!

Pizza of the Day!

Today's pizza is...hey, wait a minute...that's not pizza. True, it's actually socca, which is a chickpea flour type flatbread from Nice (nice). There are other variants throughout southern France and Italy, such as farinata or cecina. The main ingredients are chickpea flour, water and olive oil, though the one I made has tomatoes, rosemary, and Parmesan, as per a recipe from Madhur Jaffrey's wonderful World Vegetarian cookbook.

Shaving Time

As shown by the above photo, taken just moments ago, I have not been shaving of late. One might even say, I've been growing a beard. It's been two month since I last dragged a sharp metal blade over my face. I went to hot yoga this afternoon. It was hot in there. Really hot. Do you see where I'm going with this? It's time to shave.

Lux Interior R.I.P.

A Trip to the Record Shop!

When this came out on CD, I thought the cover would look best as a proper record. Now I have it.

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Saving Ink!

Spranq, a Dutch company, has designed the Ecofont. Depending on your software and your printer you could use up to 20% less ink. Their idea was to reduce each letter as much as possible while still rendering them legible. The font looks like this:

It isn't the greatest looking font, but at a regular size is quite usable. And you can download it for free.

Just Say No!

Apparently this video was taken after the kid was at the dentist.



I don't think kids should be doing drugs.