Month: November 2002

I always thought the quote was ‘full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes’, just a little muddled up I guess.

Flying back from Tokyo on Sunday, we few right over Siberia. There were no clouds. The view of the mountains and crevices covered in snow was absolutely stunning. I really regret not taking out my camera. Still I remember it and it was pretty.

Damn. I’m now sitting on my bed laughing out loud. Really I am. That last line can be ever so slightly rephrased to bring in a whole other topic which has been on my mind for a while.

Still I remember and she was pretty.

(Quick background; my sister is studying in Tokyo for a year). After we arrived I met up with my sister. I had brought some stuff over for her and etc , etc. So it was the Friday night I think, yes it was. I met up with her at one of the meeting places in Shibuya. I wanted to go out for the night (Friday night in Tokyo, who wouldn’t?) but of course knew no-one and had no idea where to go. So she was going out with a group of friends and I was joining them. Well, anyways we met up and went for some drinks. Anyways once we get inside and are sitting down.

One of her friends looked very familiar. Once I had a good luck at her, it was completely apparent. There was a hell of a lot more than a passing resemblance to someone who was very important to me a long time ago. I was thinking about this earlier today and I get to say a long time ago, because it all kicked off about ten years ago. (fuck me, I’m old). Yes, I was very young then, but this whole thing was going on for six years I guess. When I think its going on five years since I last saw her and indeed so many other people, I just can’t believe it.

Anyway I saw her friend a couple more times over the time in Tokyo and every time I was struck by the resemblance. It was a little unnerving.

If you don’t get this reference please do the world a favour and end your life now. Thank you

Be excellent to each other.

“The problem was, I overcompensated,” he says. “It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich.”

If TiVo Thinks You Are Gay, Here’s How to Set It Straight

Classy things to say when stressed:

1. “Okay, okay! I take it back. Unf**k you!!!”

2. “You say I’m a bitch like it’s a bad thing?!”

3. “How many times do I have to flush before you go away?”

4. “Well this day was a total waste of make-up”

5. “Well aren’t we a bloody ray of sunshine?”

6. “Don’t bother me, I’m living happily ever after.”

7. “Do I look like a f**king people person!”

8. “This isn’t an office. It’s HELL with fluorescent lighting”

9. “I started out with nothing still have most of it left”

10. “I pretend to work, they pretend to pay me”

11. “YOU!!… off my planet!!!”

12. “Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble plastic is cheap. You choose”

13. “Practice random acts of intelligence and senseless acts of self-control”

14. “Errors have been made. Others will be blamed”

15. “And your cry-baby, whiny-assed opinion would be…?”

16. “I’m not crazy. I’ve been in a very bad mood for 30 years.”

17. “Sarcasm is just one more service I offer.”

18. “Whatever kind of look you were going for, you missed”

19. “Do they ever shut up on your planet?”

20. “I’m not your type. I’m not inflatable”

21. “Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t gone to sleep yet”

22. “Back off!! You’re standing in my aura.”

23. “Don’t worry. I forgot your name too.”

24. “I just want revenge. Is that so wrong?”

25. “I work 45 hours a week to be this poor.”

26. “Nice perfume. Must you marinate in it.”

27. “Not all men are annoying. Some are dead.”

28. “Wait…I’m trying to imagine you with a personality”

29. “Chaos, panic and disorder . . . my work here is done.”

30. “Ambivalent? Well yes and no.”

31. “You look like sh*t. Is that the style now?”

32. “Earth is full. Go home.”

33. “Aw, did I step on your poor little bitty ego?”

34. “I’m not tense, just terribly, terribly alert.”

35. “A hard-on doesn’t count as personal growth.”

36. “You are depriving some village of an idiot.”

37. “If assholes could fly, this place would be an airport.”

I picked up an airport edition of the new Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit on the way out. Didn’t get around to reading it till the flight back. My sister wanted to read it, so she got it for a few days. Just finished it now. It wasn’t bad at all. There wasn’t all that much of a story to it, certainly less than any of the older Ryan stuff, far more enjoyable than any of the newer Ryan stuff tho. A solid read and I am glad I picked it up. I’ve been disappointed by Clancy’s books before a couple of times, but at the end of the day, there are still worth a read.

Oh yes. I remembered something today. Sunday was the 24th of November. It was an anniversary of sorts. I’ve been working for a company putting out ‘ fine quality products’ for 3 years now. Fuck, things have changed since that first day of training. I certainly didn’t expect to be living in London and doing what I’m doing, when I was trained up on being a tech support rep.

I’m not so much feeling tired as I’m feeling tired and zoned out of it. I’m certainly not completely with it today (no comments from the peanut gallery please). Hopefully another full nights sleep will help on this front, but I am not holding my breath.

Plans for tonight have pretty much been broken down into picking a movie I want to watch and then watching that movie. Got a few on the shortlist, but nothing really standing out. If I have Goldeneye on DVD, I shall watch that but I don’t think that I do.

Full text: bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’

I’m still feeling tired, but slept pretty close to a solid 12 hours again last night. The same again tonight should get me back into work in the morning no problem. Thinking about taking Friday off. I have to use some time up and a long weekend would be quite cool.

I have to go out and get some food and go to the bank. I really don’t want to do either, but I also have an urge to go for a walk. I don’t know why, I certainly don’t feel like walking anywhere but just one of those things I guess.

I have 127mb of photos from Japan. I have no idea what to do with them. I am hoping I can use iPhoto to publish them into thumbnailed galleries and then sort and upload a small selection of them here. I also want to take my camera out around London and take some photos. So yes that probably means there will be a photo gallery area going up here at some stage soonish.

I picked up the soundtrack to Vanilla Sky in Tower a few days ago. The movies ending music Mondo ’77 by Looper is really really doing it for me at the moment.

It would appear that Ali Davis’s True Porn Clerk Stories is no more. She is no longer working in the store and has moved on to what appear to be bigger and better things. I’ve really enjoyed reading her journal over the past few months and while I doubt the new job will be as entertaining reading, I’ll be back.

Aha. G.W. Bush uses a nice little app for Windows to run his country: Clippy

America Online May Charge For Content From Time Inc.

Time Warner rolls out Video on Demand.

I am disapointed to say I was less than impressed with Die Another Day. Brosnan continues to be a good Bond and the secenes with M were excellent and the nods to older Bond movies with Q was really nice. The lack of a short movie before the credits was very missed and the way the plots tied together was very disjointed, as indeed was the direction in many places.

Some things really worked. The torture sequence and the blending of the credits was excellent, but I would have liked to actually see some real follow up on this. The hotel in Hong Kong and the sleeper agent in Cuba were really good examples of the smart Bond. M meeting Bond in the tube station was excellent.

Halle Berry remains an actress whom I can take or leave, however Rosamund Pike was damn sexy

What if you can go back in time, and take away all those hours of pain and darkness and replace them with something better?

Today or tomorrow I will go to see the new Bond movie.

I will also do some food shopping.

Tonight I am meeting some friends from work.

I am so very tired.

I am so fucking tired.

I’m considering just giving up on this whole staying up business and sleeping for hours. The flight was not bad at all. I did get a couple of hours sleep and watched 3 movies Kissing Jessica Stein, Monster’s Ball and Dog Soldiers. Enjoyed them all, more to come on them tomorrow.

And I am going to give up on this whole staying awake business, I won’t manage another 3 hours.