Grr. This sucks. Led Zeppelin are playing at the O2 Dome Centre Tent Thing, and I'm not going. As a form of protest for having not been awarded a ticket in the ballot, I've not listened to a Led Zeppelin
2007-12-06 : Aaaaaaaaaargh! Making a list, checking it twice, then ripping your face off with evil tentacles.
From BoingBoing. Although come on… the Christmas Octopus? Everybody knows it doesn't exist. That's just a story told to kids so they don't learn the truth, about the Christmas Snail and the Easter Moose.
2007-12-06 : Audience participation: revisiting heights of daftness.
For reasons which I'm not 100% clear on, the other day I found myself wondering what the dumbest thing I've ever done was. There's definitely got to be SOMETHING which stands out head & shoulders above all the other fairly
2007-12-05 : My skill with maps strikes again. I am definitely no spatial entrepreneur!
Hmm, seems there's some things I need to know about this Google Maps malarkey before I embrace it as a full feature of my website. Please, if you happen to know anything about the minutiae of this, pipe up! To
2007-12-03 : Cue the music, crank up the animatronic octopus in the top hat…
The mood here at Humpy Towers has been very much one of celebration of late, for 2.5 reasons: 1) Last Thursday I had my “interview” with the Home Office to extend my UK visa, and as Paul correctly forecasted it
2007-11-29 : Nothing more lonesome, morbid, or drear, than to stand in the bar of the pubs around here.
It's good to see that shite service knows no class boundaries around here – you try to get on with life without causing too much of a fuss, but things just keep happening which cause you to scratch your head
2007-11-28 : What is the point of being able to find your own arse with both hands and a map, if the map is no good?
Claim: The North Magnetic Pole has shifted, and is midway between King's Cross and Euston Underground Stations. Facts required for proof: The North Magnetic Pole moves about in an elliptical path with a maximum radial distance of about 80km coinciding
2007-11-27 : These giant monkeys will devour us all!
Had a dream last night that the world had been somehow populated by giant apes and lizards (King Kong / Godzilla stylee), and that civilisation was generally freaking the f*ck out about it. The main trouble being that in these
2007-11-27 : Enlightenment
What is it about blokes that, once they hit about 40-45, makes them want to own a good sturdy torch (that's “flashlight”, for people of American extraction)? I remember as a 5 or 6 year old having a little square
2007-11-23 : 2008 Stache Roundup
On the topic of Movember (these guys are the originals, although I suppose this relates MOre to the Flaming Mo's over at the jazzed up bandwagon-stealing fundraiser), whilst not participating or instigating an effort on this side of the pond,