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Apropos of nothing, back in the mid 1990's (before computers had been invented) I used to write to a lot of people. It was obvious that email was going to be my undoing. However back then it was the Old Fashioned method, involving envelopes, and stamps, and soforth. Like with emails and blog posts, it…
OK, so I'm so busy churning over whether to go on eBay and spend a couple of hundred quid on LiveEarth tickets (what could be my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Britain's Loudest Rock Group, Spinal Tap, perform), that I pretty well utterly failed to devote any useful amount of brain power to the following: I…
Greetings, eager young space cadets! It seems that Aaron was able to revive the hamster & get it running around in its cage again, and thus restore the miracle of www.jasonbstanding.com to the world once more. “What in the hell have you been playing at?”, I hear you ask (that could be The Voices though:…
300 seems like a silly title for a film, but then I guess 2001 and Se7en were both pretty popular… Acting on a suggestion from Chris, a band of like-minded intellectuals went to the BFI Imax to see the new historical comic-book action romp, 300. Based on subsequent discussion in the media and among the…
(Advance apologies for the crappy photos – the others are trapped on my currently inaccessible hard drive at home) What better way to get into the mood of St Patrick’s Day than to head up to the northern reaches of Scotland, eh? The ever inimitable Una and I, following a gush of post-Edinburgh enthusiasm on…
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Major bout of diary constipation there – in a nutshell, we've been working like maniacs getting everything ready for end-of-financial-year. I actually got invited to the finance dept's end-of-year mparty on Friday night, but the idea of going to a party to celebrate the ringing in of a new fiscal year seemed ever so…
A few weeks ago, my erudite colleague Paul suggested that playing indoor cricket might be fun, and so after much back and forth and an incredible amount of management prowess, he managed to shore up a team, and get us entered and registered in the competition. I was unable to play on the first week,…
Weekend summary: Whisky, boardgames, eclipse, and pirates. Detail (Friday): Longmorn 16, Miyagikyo 12, Port Charlotte (which was FAR muddier than it looked), Baillie Nichol Jarvie (although that was a blend), Bunnahabhain XVIII, Glenmorangie Cote D’or Burgundy finish, Edradour 10, Glenrothes 1994, Swedish whisky whose name escapes me, and an Ardbeg Uigeadail (which is like eating…
Bouncers are just plain weird. Obviously part of their remit is presence of command/threat in maintaining a civil environment, but I really can't see where it'd be necessary to ID check a group of people straddling the age of 30. Particularly as you're about to sell them alcohol and thus encourage whatever problem you were…
Sometimes when I book tickets online I think afterwards “Oh bollocks, I wonder if there is another artist with that name ?”. Such thinking narrowly helped me avoid seeing James Morrison (who I had assumed was James Morrison). And in this case it had been gnawing at me that the Bill Bailey I was thinking…