Month: April 2005

www.63336.com

AQA stands for Any Questions Answered. In short, you text in any question and can receive an within a few minutes.

So I sent them the question:

What are we without our hopes and dreams?

They responded:

Without hopes and dreams there is no point even getting out of bed in the morning. Being content with your lot can equal happiness but dreams help.

Not a bad answer there actually.

What are we without hopes and dreams?

Another quiet weekend. Pizza and a movie in, sometimes the best way to spend a Saturday night. Today is quite nice outside so I have been lounging around the park with Hebe for a while.

I’ve fallen off the reading bandwagon again and I know why. I’m reading and enjoy it must be said Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh but I know why it’s not keeping me. I need to be reading about someone. I need to make some sort of a connection and *that* is what I’m looking for in a book right now. I have several books on Ireland I want to read but none cover someone quite like what I’m looking for. I’d head into town and look for some more but the selection here is piss poor for Irish history. I bet this will have passed by the time I make it to Dublin in a few weeks.

Two big tours coming up that I have to get tickets for. The first being Bruce Springsteen playing two nights (pre big tour) at the Royal Albert Hall. I suspect tickets are going to be expensive and hard to get but I shall be trying my best. Could be an excellent excellent gig. Really looking forward to the new album in a couple of weeks time. No joy on the net search for it so far.

Next up, Sigur Ros are touring again! This is some of the best news I’ve had in a while. No London details yet but hopefully a couple of nights somewhere and I’ll go to every night. The year is starting to fall into shape. This week I’m off to see British Sea Power on Wednesday night and that should be a good gig. Looking forward to it quite a bit.

I’m listening to some Rammstein right now, just to fit in somewhere with those bands. The duet with Tatu is actually pure genius. It’s a top top song. There are lots of rumours about them playing a gig at Download and that would be fucking awesome.

I saw Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo yesterday. It’s talked up a lot on the V and by some of the lads in work. I’d avoided it for a while as it just doesn’t sound like my sorta movie at all. And I was right. I laughed 3 or 4 times maybe, it just wasn’t funny. I was however impressed with it’s message. Not the sort of movie you expect one from in the first place and certainly not one delivered as well or as touchingly as that one was. Slightly redeeming allright but I just don’t see the appeal overall.

Continuing the weeks trend towards lists…

– Business are out to make money, thats’s pretty standard. However that does not mean that just because something will not loose money is not a good enough reason to follow it.
– Sometimes it’s nice to have others agree with your opinion or belief. The nice thing about opinions or beliefs however, is that they stand on their own and while it can be nice, it is by no means necessary.
– The new Doctor Who is a whole whole lot of fun and is making me actually want to go and look at the old stuff.
– The sixth season of West Wing picks up at least as much as to be watchable. It’s fucking dire compared to the first three
– The Office, the American version works quite well and I’m enjoying it.
– Main to 36 and main alt to 25 this weekend with lots of fun too.
– The full Glastonbury line-up is out and it’s not that bad actually. No main headliners but lots of decent bands below ’em. Nothing compared to U2 in Dublin of course 🙂
– I love Firefox and I love Greasemonkey and I also love love love Ad Block.

That reminds me, I wanted to talk about Corporate Responsibility. Not the in the usual way of companies doing good supporing charities or sponsership and things like that but in a society as a whole way. I’m really not sure I can get my thoughts into order on this so I’m just going to note it and I’ll revisit it tomorrow I hope. There is certainly nothing wrong with a company striving to make the world a better place. Even if that’s just making a lot of people’s loves a whole lot easier it’s something. This is kinda related to an arugement I was having with Shug on Friday night. I got me thinking about companies being out to make money. I’m not convinced that every company is, I think that some companies believe that if they make the product people will come to it and money might flow from that but if it doesn’t well it’s made a positive contribution to the world (or in the context, the internet).

For what it’s worth along these lines, I don’t use Greasemonkey or Ad Block to block ads on any Google/Gmail pages.

It’s another quiet weekend, ending a pretty quiet week. Most of it has been home early enough to look after Hebe so quite a bit of catching up on watching stuff.

Nothing really planned. There may have been drinks agreed to late tonight but I’m really not that pushed about going out. Last night was my night out and that was fun. I may just order a pizza and watch a movie, I have stacks of DVD’s to watch and I should get around to that. Mmm pizza

Gradually sorting out my music collection aswell and making sure that the iPod is loaded with the good stuff.

It really really is a quiet weekend.

Word of yesterday: Obfuscate.

Word of the day: pretentious.

I have another idea, but it’s very very pretentious. I may do it anyway.

I am annoyed.

Look to your own people to support you before you go and ask the world. There is no need for anything like that when if you simply talked to your points of contact here we could have cleared it up within moments.

Waste of time and effort and resources. After all, that’s what some of us are here for.

Fuckers.

I must admit, I thought it would last longer than this. Morale has dropped like a fucking stone around here. Seems the office change is just going to make the day a little easier but not have anything like enough effect to really help us out.

We are hiring around here at the moment. It’s an interesting position, nothing even worth applying for, I’d be laughed out the door but the long term goal of it is to change that and I like that. I don’t have a huge amount of faith in it but then again I’m somewhat of a cynic. Perhaps too much as it’s certainly a label I have around here but as I do say, I’m never really wrong about it 🙁

Strange day here. Been all over the place really and it’s showing music wise. I’d love to have just put my feet up and read for the afternoon but that sorta things is fairly frowned upon so I couldn’t really.

I aim, like last time, to take advantage of the fact my flatmate is away have a big cleanout. It’s added to this time that I want to get a whole lot of my comics into order and to flog some of them on ebay. Most of what I really liked I have replaced in trades already and I intend to with so many others. Ah the joys of comics. I also really really need to get some shelves in and get things into order. I have overflows on DVD, books and on CDs and it’s all really bugging me.

I just got an email from a friend, one in an ongoing conversation. Sometimes I forget that I know some scarily smart people. I guess it’s not all rocket science but the things that perhaps make perfect sense if I *think* about them just come so naturally to others. Almost spot on to, in a scary but also not quite so bad way. I just don’t know. Sometimes, I just don’t know. Apparently I worry too much, sometimes I think I don’t worry enough.

Perhaps it’s just worrying about the wrong thing. Sometimes I do a whole lot of that.

Man it’s quiet around here. It’s actually not, we are back in the ignorant fool country. If you have an office, the door is there for a reason. I hate people who have all their meetings loudly with the door open. It’s not good. So lots of headphones but there always was. In a space where there was 6 of us last week, there are now 2. So much more spread out and much less noise to signal as perhaps some could accused of being. So I like that, the idea of having some personal space again is quite nice.

Gah. I need to get home and walk Hebe. I also need to find something to do. I should watch a movie. For some reason I rarely sit around at home reading. I guess it’s having the computer there and so many things I can do to waste time on there. Every now and again I’ll read in my room but not enough.

I have to have a holiday this year. I am unsure I can afford it but it has to happen. It just has to happen. I need to sort everything out and put aside some extra money for a few months. Getting the ipod dented my reserves. It should be a very simple matter like so many other things, it never is.

It always taunts on the horizon and then other things just fall into place and it’s all crashing down. I have to get Dublin, Download, Scotland and Dublin out of the way and then the rest of the year is pretty clear event wise. So perhaps later in the year, October is the aim I can leave the country and see some more of the world. I don’t know where, I really don’t. France or America/Canada are big possibilities but at the same time I want more, give me more!

Sod it, they’ll fall as they do and I’ll pick them up and restack them as I always do. Welcome to my life.

Word of today is most certainly: arbitrary.