THIRTEENTWELVE

Today, other than being busy and tired I'm also admiring myself.

So there.

Or at least my quick reaction skills. As I catch myself pulling some boxes, knocking my mobile phone off the table (while doing so) and managing to catch it before it even gets 10 cm away from the table (and still a good 40 from the floor) while still dragging said boxes with other hand.

So there.

Two things to now watch out for:

1. People starting sentances by saying "[name], I mean ...." when grammatically it makes no sense, sounds odd, but is often used, by everyone.

2. Those mini older scally men. You know the sort. They walk the walk and talk the talk, yet are about 4'11" tall and scrawny. They all look the same, short hair, skin tight jeans and one of those walking coat things, with the tie around the waist pulled in giving that girly hips look.

They say heros' live young and die fast (or something and I know that punctuation is in the wrong place, I just cant be assed going back to change it, instead I will type all of this which, itself requires much more effort)

(hey I should always post when this tired, even more crap comes out)

(yay!)

Anyways, teamwork is essential, but you can never under estimate the power of the individual.

At this point I better retire from Wolfenstein multiplayer, after reaching the score of 161 and carry out the second part of the saying.

(or as I admit to never being able to repeat the fluke that I pulled to get said score - big ups to G to the X and Mentor for the support on that one)

Y'see all big headed then but I accept it needed the help :-)

Getting exciting cos Jackass is not far away and I watched a double bill last night on channel 4.

Let me at those escalators...

Y'see my little icon thingie in the address bar? Good.

I dont like it any more. design me another one. Best one gets featured.

Well first. Will rotate other "notable" ones. hahah notable.

No no, this isnt a popularity contest either, just a favicon contest.

My gawd. I didnt finish college till nearly 4pm today.

I finished after 4pm yesturday.

Whats going on? 2 full days in a row, 10am till 4pm. Its insane. I'M A STUDENT!

I'm sure your hearts bleed for me. (unless your a student too)

(was gonna say "unless your a fellow student" but the word "fellow" is gay)

No no I am not deranged.

I was just walking and talking on my hands free kit. Which admitidally is usually a gay thing to do, but it was freezing and I was on it while in my car.

Still the funny looks where amuzing.
(ha more that normal)

Had to drive my better half's mother to jury duty this morning, after dropping the better half of at college.

It was only a 20 min or so drive and I like my better halfs mother.

Still, just what do you talk about? Bloody odd I tells ya.

Would of blogg'd sooner today xcept iSafari wouldnt let me log in to blogger.

I presumed it was a blogger server thing untill I just tried trust old IE. Sorry but thats just the case today.

I've driven quite a few miles in my 3 years of driving. I at least do 20,000 a year, which is above the average. And no, for once, this is not about insurance.

Theres one route I drive an awful lot, its the way to Mrs 13twelve's house and back again, as its the shortest & fastest route. The probem with it is, that it has a section in the middle of speed hump things.

Now driving a car thats lowered and sitting on thin tyres makes this a pain in the arse. But it wasnt that bad, as I usually drive the road when its fairly quiet and if you drive down the middle of the road you can clear the very thin center of the road humps.

There is one raised platform hump though. Thats just steep and sharp no matter how slow you go (didnt matter in that courtesy car over summer mind hahahaha). It was a dreaded bump.

So today in the dark and rain I'm approaching this dreaded hump at about 10 mph expecting the throw up towards my roof and then the fall back down again.

Only to roll past it un harmed. Thank good ness.

But it would appear, that someone has stolen the speed bump! Yay for that man :-)

According to g to the x, I really am 1 in a million.

Nope hes not being gay, just honest.

I really am one in a million (bloggers).

Do you know whats cool? No? Well I'm going to tell you (you didnt see that coming, no did you?)

Find yourself a medicine bottle, or in my case a vitimin bottle. One of those with a child proof lid.

No turn the lid to get it off, but dont push it in. It clicks.

Repeat.

Now thats cool.

Are these lids really child proof? I mean, instructions to open the bottles are printed in big letters on the top of the bottle. Not going to confuse that many children. They maybe toddler proof or baby proof though. Is this a case for mis-representation of the product?

Pap.

I just got round to reading the Will Haven split story on their site. The band will carry on minus the singer.

This is poo cos Will Haven with a different singer isnt Will Haven, even if they change their name.

Changing a guitarist will effect the music, but getting the same sorta noise is easy. Run the same sorta guitar through the same effects pedals and the same amps.

Singers much harder to do. Could be said the singer is an instrument, so more like swapping guitar for a harp. Still has strings. Sounds naff all the same.

Good bye Will Haven, you will be missed.

Angst. You can run. But you just can't hide.

(but I'm 20 now, and nearly 21 - surly I'm just tooo old and past it)

Well it seems that I'm a fair(l)y quick female sanitary product bin man.

Its a bloody tough job though. The bins are cumbersome, heavy, make lots of noise, fall over really easy and in real life are full of, well, ming.

I guess its what college calls a "live" project.

A practical task of getting the group to change the sanitary bins in 4 sets of toilets in one of the college buildings. Note, not my college building. I heard a rumour theres a library in the other building too.

Though walking accross a canteen with these bins surly got stares and put people off their food.

Hahah

The scared driving movie as promised:
(its 500k so you might wanna give it a second to load or summin, though it streams at 1 - 2 k a second)
(oh and you'll WANT noise)



haha

Ok so lets get this straight. Taking the piss out of Michael Jackson isnt cool.

Much like drinking, people do it cos they think its cool and that other people see it as somewhat original, clever, big, different or intelligent.

No one does. Its boring and the sheepish.

So the man apparently has a dodgy history. You think you know everything there is to know. You could always be the victim of the media trying to sell papers etc. as much as you where about that royal butler who apparently stole shit but actually didnt. MJ is an easy target. Rich, successful, talented living a lavish lifestyle that most people can only dream off. ( "they want a piece of my pie" - Mark Park, Chorley FM )

Theres a book in HMV aptly called, "Everything you know is wrong". So its simple jump in logic to make.

So ok his dancing maynot of been his own, he may well have some people teaching him, but I've never heard MJ say that they are his moves. You cant question the fact that he can move well though.

And sing.

And write music.

So if you dis MJ, you infact suck. Thats the law cos 13twelve says so.

13twelve looking forward to the"At home with the Jacksons" starting on TV soon.
(though still would prefere to watch the Ozbournes tho)

The motor way home climbs a big hill. You spend a good while on this big hill.

The end of the motorway drops you down into the town. Going up there was no low cloud.

Coming down there was. Hurtling at motorway speeds to be greated by a sudden wall of cloud was interesting enough.

Visibility was low, but you could still see a good 100+ meters.

Then another problem. The local steam railways buffs where running their steam engines.

Already low cloud + steam engine steam = total wall of white that you really cant see through.

Hurtling into that at sub motorway speeds but still fast enough was dam scary.

On a trip through a local bus station (hey I was using it to not have to walk in the rain as a shortcut - see hair dye and rain post...).

Anyways. walking through I hears music. Interesting I thought, music being played over a tannoy in a bus station. Is this the future?

It was classical opera style music too. Which I find really odd.

I can only presume they are trying out what the railway stations down south do, which is play opera music at night as it seems to deter vandals.

Or maybe someone just likes opera music...

Have managed not to lose any facial piercings this week.

Well I say not lose, I've lost 1 and another twice, but always found them.

They may try to escape, but its not happening.

No sirreee

Yes yes neglect, but there you go. What can I say, I've been busy. It happens to the worst of us. And the best.

I'm a lowly uni student at the end of the day. I live above the average student, drive a car and hardly ever do work. But alas, its the end of term and so brings deadlines.

All of them.

So head down and get some work done.

(oh and I've just not been near a computer/internet for a few days)

(or perhaps I'm running out of things to say)

(unlikley)

(more to come tommorow and beginning of the week)

My god I have the best video to post on here.

The result of a Team Big Balls sight seeing trip across town for video snippits for a video we are making for a promotional project.

Seb leaning out the window of my car, filming as I race towards a pedestrian at some high speed swerving to avoid parked cars. The sound track is wind ragging a microphone followed by Seb screaming as I avoid the pedestrian.

Top stuff..
(video soon)

Is my Blog HOT or NOT?

This guys the boss:


This guys runs the show:


And this guy is definatly the muscle:


Oh wait, hes a vice president too. Big ups to Ciao Italia, the Midlands, North of England & North Wales magazine part of the World Wide Association of Italian Restauranteurs.

They certainly do have *the* best Italian restaurants as their members, and the best take-away :-)

We now have a favicon which is a multi resolution icon file to display in the address bar of your browser.

Ok so all you see is the 16px square version and not the 32px square version, but hey, it must display somewhere favicon.com says so.

35 / 50 I get on the midgetfarm.com (2 pop ups) personality quiz.

(i've noticed weblogs often put personality tests on)

This means: (and I quote, or copy n paste)
"Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you radiate."

Well?

So wife swap last night. We're all talking about it. (or so Ahman Holmes would have you belive)

One woman with 6 kids and a strict husband who had 3 jobs AND was studying at college. The other woman with a "high paid job" commuting miles and miles with one kid and a husband with a job.

I start off saying "woman" cos they really where the mouths of the families. And perhaps wore the pants, despite the 6 kid family father being a bouncer.

He kept calm while the high paid woman sort of showed herself up by going hyper defensive and slightly abusive at comments from the other woman who had 6 kids.

6 kids is a bit mental - sure she spends lots of time with them but she admits that shes had to make lots of sacrifices. 6 I would say is too many. This mother did come accross as the more sane and calm though.

The one kid mother did seem to not want to discipline her child cos she got to spend so little time with it. She did show her self up in the comments thing though, came accross as a littly snobby "my child has a good home to live in, yours is a shit tip"

But....

The one kid mother is a northerner and works in Manchester (hey hey) so she wins.

Stupid southern nancys.... :-)

Starting the morning as all good people should.

A ride to college (or work for you worker types) listening to the good man himself, Terry Wogan before tucking into a good cool carton of Ribena.

Hmmm.

Though it does lack a good bacon butty. (but I had 2 of them last night)

Dane pack microwavable bacon sounds minging, but is actually top.

A tip when making email accounts that you suspect may become liable to lots of spam mail.

So a tip for making email accounts.

Never have the address as [yourname]@whatever.com.

I made this mistake a few years ago and now I'm paying for it. The more clever of the spam mailers send me emails saying "good news for [myrealname]" which at first glance into your inbox is scary.

Mind you the email.com account is poo and I only check it once every blue moon as its on that list of "get rid off" accounts. But I cant resist but to just check every now and then. Just incase I got some interesting mail Hahaha

I dont blame Pepsi and quite easily forgive it.

Do hate losing valuable sleeping time though.

Not that I'm addicted to Pepsi. No I'm really not. Yes I like it and yes I can drink alot. But I dont get withdrawel symptoms.

But last night while asleep at some hour that may well have been 4 am, or even, 4:30 am I woke up.

I *needed* a drink. And it had to be Pepsi. Nothing else would of solved my need.

All fine and dandy, as I was at my other halfs house and she has a fridge full of the stuff in her room all I needed to do was get up, walk accross the room and get one.

I gulped down the can and my god it tasted nice. Coke really is just poo in comparison.

Then came the downside.

Having just sugar rushed myself I couldnt sleep. There I lay awake till it was time to get up and do stuff. Arse.

It rained today. You probably noticed. I did.

(I could just stop their, well it would amuse me)

(but I'm not)

I just dyed my hair red. Its still in the "washing the extra off" phase.

Lots of rain, long walks in it and this "phase" do not go well together. Bah!

Being an MP essentially looks poo. Not for me. Though I often (like) to think that people would vote me into power.

Clearly they wouldnt. You would have to be as daft as me to do so. But then people are daft. hmm (could be onto something here)

Anyways; being a Lord would be much better. Lords in the House of Lords are not voted in. Instead they need a special knowledge or to be successful.

I have a special knowledge of twatting about on escalators and I'm good, you might say successful at it.

All hail Lord 13twelve.

Even has a better ring to it than "lord vador" haha

Now come on people, lets get me into the House of Lords....

I spend lots of time driving. Fact.

Hours of entertainment to be gained since I noticed that my 4th gear revs needle matches my speedo needle.

How amazing is that? Come on! (taking geek to new



low

levels).

I actually like the idea that my rantings are international.

This way I *can* scare the world (hopefully).

After reading that German speaking goth girls website yesturday I discovered she had a friend called Timo.

Led me to think later on in the car.

Dont foreign people (sometimes) have cool names.

Timo not to be confused with Tivo, which was poo but entertaining in its fcuk-ups.

Yipeee!

The perhaps I should talk less comment escaped without comment!

But wait, perhaps I'm not free to go on yapping all the time.

It didnt get a comment, noooo.

It got a phone call :-)

Well it would seem I owe //lanstraum a thanx.

Moving some stuff around my room, trying to make space for some mood boards I made, I came accross a small red money box with the word "lanstraum" written on it.

So I attacked it with bent paperclips (having no idea where the key was) before stumbling across the key while looking for a plug for my shaver.

Inside was the "books" from back in the day and £7.

Yay!

The book was from 1999 and recorded the money made and out goings at a gig we held at Haslingdon Football Club, for which I won a local award (GAM - would be a link but for the life of me I have no idea what the url is).

After totting up I conclude that I was short £7 for rental of Kenneth (the Uno - my old car).

Handy that....

"If I reach anyone, I will be happy"
(Me, today)

For this weblog is just the start....

(so perhaps I should talk less)

Ok so I've just spend the past [insert time here] fiddling with chin piercings (Lowbrets) to get some new cones on them.



Ok so I'm wearning labret studs that are perhaps a little too small, but its proving effective at shifting old swelling so I'm happy.

Had to buy small cones, cos my usual shop only had small cones and not normal cones in stock. And I lost one half of the pair of normal cones in a napkin at the Hard Rock Cafe after consuming the hot chicken wings.



Trouble is, as a sit back at my computer i wonder "hey up, whats that there?" Sat next to my keyboard is a normal cone that I thought I'd lost a few weeks back.

I tells you, peircings in places that move as often as my mouth are no good, working their way free and escaping far far too often.

Crikey. I almost resemble the definition of weblog in that last post. Memepool I'm clearly hot on your heals. You better run and hide.
HAHAHAHAHA

~ahem

I wasnt going to. But now I am.

Shouts out to Debbie at visibletears.com.

Ok so her blog is in german, but the rest of her site (you need to root dir here, or click here and wait for content to appear) is in English.

This site on my 1280x1024 display is tiny and really hard to navigate, which is pretty much how websites should be. Theres probably loads of stuff on the site, much of which I am too stupid to find, but I did stumble across some of her singing.

I've felt like a spaz singing into my microphone on my PC too and I know other people who have too :-)

What caught me off guard was the sites comes accross quite gothy and dark, the pictures of the girl again portray a mosher/goth girl, the song she is currently listening to has a range from soft nu metal to death metal, yet the songs she sings appear to be Atomic Kitten and a bunch of other pop songs that I'm just not up-to-date enought to know.

Still answers for me what it would be like if Katie Jane Garside (Queen Adreena & Daisy Chainsaw fame) would sound like singing "pop" music.

Eurgh!

My bastard cable box has reset its channel list again.

Meaning BBC 1 is no longer at 001. Infact I cant even find BBC1. I'm stuck with E4 and Kerrang!

Oh piss.

Need to fiddle with that now. Keep telling it to revert to old saved list but it ignores me.

Meaning a restart of the box is needed. Meaning I'd have to drag myself away from the internet for 5 mins.

Nooooo!

Oh yeah.

Them fashion boxing boot things come in "indoor only" at £45 and "all use" for £90.

I presume all use included boxing but not football. (we lurve your soccher)

Mazda's "zoom zoom zoooom" also has no "va va vooom" either.

Now the Jaguar adverts, hmmm, now they have class.
(wicked games)

This blog doesnt have "va va vooom".

I dont have "va va vooom".

Infact, Renault listen to me. You definatly DON'T have "va va vooom".

"va va vooom" is poo, your Clio "va va vooom" advert is poo - please dear god stop showing the frikken thing on my TV and at my cinema.

No va va vooom, bad va va vooom...

Step one: Dye your hair red.

Check.

Step two: Go home to room thats painted purple.

Check.

Step three: Wait untill mother asks "Did you dye your hair to match your room?"

Check.

Some sons, do av em. (it would seem)

I cant begin to figure out her thought train on this one...

The brands on the car have changed.

You couldnt read the Apple or the Cadburys ones anyways. Now Senate brand who clothe my life and Osiris who just took over from DC clad (or clod, I dunno) my life.

Oh and seperate.

I am the king of the bootie shake.

Had a really odd dream last night.

I was on a school walking trip, largly with faceless people, much like all people in dreams.

We where walking in America. (well yeah) It was warm and sunny. We where walking down by some fields, probably corn (or is that KoRn) or wheat or summin.

Anyways, we had to wait by a style as people came over it and then we passed over it.

As my feet touched the ground I heard a crunch. The path in front was covered in wood lice and mosquitos (both dead, alive and eggs). People where legging it accross, through the swarming flies.

I began to leg it, I put my arms into my coat and a fly got stuck and it wouldnt just fly out.

It was truly minging. Millions of the horrible shits everywhere.

Then some young farmer girl told me that the goverment brought in all the wood lice to eat the mosquitos to stop the minging swarms. Only they didnt eat the live flying ones, just the dead ones, egg-y ones and sleeping ones.

Anyone else have this dream?

To try and keep you up to date on girl talk from my college talk, one lass here wants to dump her boyfriend.

Hes loaded, sends her flowers, wants to take her to florida to his second home and is generally nice to her.

She had a "slap & tickle" with someone else, who has a girlfriend who is giving birth to a kid next week.

Shes been with this fella since October.

Personally I think its pretty lame to have cheated on a relationship so soon, should still be in the rabbits phase now. Surly...

You gotta admit, its a very unique, Trisha style problem though.

Oh and one of the other girls has bought them boxing boot shoes which really are the talk of the town here.

(please get me the hell away from here...)

Big Balls pulls through, yet again.

Come on Team!

Trafford center fun last night. With the task of also finding a place called "Euro Car Parts" in Trafford Park somewhere.

The guy on the phone says, "yeah, get off the motorway at the second junction, go down the duel carridge way, 3rd exit on a roundabout, go through some lights, turn right, then third left then right, then..."

At this point I began to lose concentration.

Found it in the end. Pot luck if you ask me....

Bugger.

Despite having a good full nights sleep, I still feel like the only sleep I got was the 20 mins before I had to get up.

I'm sure I'll be some use to Team Big Balls at college (haha thats another story).

We where to be "Group B". Our lecturer kept calling "groups", "teams". Off hand part time team leader Seb said "hey hey lads, team big balls" (as the team consisted of 5 lads).

The name stuck.

Testosterone fuelled madness?

perhaps.....

Oh and Project Rockstar has been reset, though only the bands and music. I still have money and items and what not.

It was done for a software over haul as part of the beta testing.

Quite annoyingly all the band members to choose from are either good looking and thick, or really clever and stupid - theres no shades of gray on this.

Before I had reasonably clever and reasonably good looking band members. Now they all ming.

And boy are they costing me a fortune - another software upgrade it seems.

Today I've been putting clear indicators on my car and parking around my better halfs college.

I've set my car alarm off 3 times today. Once while I was under the bonnet where one rather nasty 110 db siren sits.

Will get the hang of intuative modes like "valet mode", "remote valet mode" and "proximity mode" and what ever else it does.

The rather ingenious man at Halfords new Ripspeed center (now too max power kids have a store for their cars) managed to fangle and dangle the lights on the car.

I've fixed my watch! Yay!

No more digging in my pocket for my phone, or running to the car to see what time it is.

Spray mount, you once again save my, something.

Wigan (to geographise) is an odd place. Tis where I had to waste an hour wating for my alarm to be fitted y'see. Anyways, Wigan is an odd place. (2 points to come)

1st point - I should really pay attention to my Dad as it appears he works in Wigan and so could of made my dropping the car off thing a lot easier.

2nd point - Wigan is an odd place.

As I sat in a McDonalds there, wasting time, with a large Coke brand coke (eugh!) and a plain double (cheese - the way cheeseburgers *should* be) I began to notice a rather odd thing. Everyone in the McDonalds (barr me) knew everyone else in the McDonalds. When someone new walked in, they all knew each other, staff and customers alike. They all knew about each others kids, jobs and everything.

So I sat with one eyebrow raised with a look of complete confusion at the apparent inbred nature of such a place. And you thought the hills and valleys I come from are bad.

S'alright my Easy friend I know how to fit car stereos and can, up to a point, give advice on what sounds the best.

Though I'm know expert, I've picked up a fair ole chunk o knowledge by reading the kev stuff and being in a few ICE (ice baby) shops.

Instead of chatting on msn or in real life, perhaps we can carry out entire conversations via blogs. Hahaha

and they cry GEEK from the windows above!

Need to go read instructions to my car alarm now. It seems to be thatcham rated, the buggers have to be as intelligent (if not more so) than me.

Arse.

Welly welly welly.

Looks like I have competition.

haha as if this long (ahem) established (ahem) institution (ahem) of a weblog (ahem) fears losing all its hits to easymistake.com

And in responce to internet spam on said blog, I sporadically get spam from some places, winbigusa.com usually (no link for you bad boy). So I did "whois" on the domain and auto-forwarded all the mail they sent me to their webmaster, ceo and anyone else their I could. Soon stops being sent to me. 13twelve@another.com is not bad for spam, v little, I make an effort to unsubscribe from lists. Email.com is just spam. And the Ever annoying MSN who clearly sell your email address to every and any mailing list they can really does take the biscuit.

Esp as they also offer junk filters.

For a charge. Of course.

Things are looking slightly up on the insurance front. £1900 from a webform filled in guessing some details which my mother still as the policy holder. I can still fill out the old way online with no "but wait on the 1st of march..." crap.

So the broker over the phone may well come trumps for us again.

PRAY! everyone PRAY for me!

My student loan came today. So I prompty spent it on buying a Clifford Concept 300 thatcham cat 1 alarm and making sure I had the magical amount of money for the car insurance (read rant below).

(I honestly wanted and needed this a long time before my loan came, to be honest I credit card bought the alarm before I knew the loan came)

And I've lost an important bit of my cool watch which has really annoyed me.

W-o is me. W-o is me.

Due to a law change on Mar 1st this year the registered car owner is the person who taxes and insures the car.

Problem. The Polo is my car, registered to my dad and I'm named main driver on my mothers insurance policy.

The marrige of my parents allows my mum to insure my dads car. So thats ok.

But its looking like it doesnt allow me to be named main driver on the car (cos I'm not married to either my mum or dad)

So the £1300 (magic number) I need to pay my premiums now may be nothing in comparison to what I may have to pay, which may be closer to £3000 and almost the value of the car.

So I crashed a car, this ones been broken into, I'm 20, its modified (though less that photoshop would have you belive) and it now has a thatcham 1 alarm on it. I've had a year or 20,000 miles of not crashing, I'm nearly 21 and this car has really calmed me down.

How do scally lads with gsi's and what not ever afford insurance on their cars?

I will get vengence on insurance companies one day. Some how.

Eugh! Back to college. Eugh!

Too tired up to late from being out too late last night and coming home to panic about my facial piercings.

Which reminds me in boots the other day. Some lass and her fella where that intent on staring at my chin piercings that they walked into each other and nearly me too.

Need a t-shirt that says, "Stare".

Its smaller than me and moving. So therefore I should eat it.

What am I?

When watching best of 80s programs or top 100 tunes ever style programs its always cool to laugh at that cool music thats totally crap but was done seriously back in the day. What ever you think, those programs are better than alot of telly on, erm, telly.

But one twat, who rears his ugly face and starts ranting about his song as though it was the greatest song and the most influential song ever, and like he is some sort of god that we all care about his storey with any more interest that the adverts that follow his section of the show, is that silly twat from Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

From what I heard he wrote the song with his band, then sold them out and the only bit of the original band left on the recording is a splash recorded as they jumped into a swimming pool. The song itself is shit. And the manor in which he screwed his friends and band mates is shit. He should know this and shut up and disappear. His voice is annoying. His gern is annoying. His sunglasses where shit. He is infact a shit.

Walking, skipping and jumping around a B&Q the other day (very slipply floors - could get 720 before my balence left me) a memory from my child hood came back.

Sure I've probably been to B&Q a few times since this memory. And the memory come from a Do It All anyways, but never the less.

Shell Suits. In this look back in time, I was wearing a purple with yellow stripe Puma brand shell suit. Back in the day I felt the beez knees and though really then being Puma wasnt partically the height of fashion (indeed it was probably before I knew Nike brand existed) now I could at least claim to have been retro cool.

And I believed, like you all did, that the shell suit was ideal because when it was hot it kept you cool and when it was cold it kept you warm. A miracle in clothing and totally genious.

Total rubbish and made people look and sound like plonkers. And my bloody zip kept getting stuck in the material. But it did taste nice.

Ok, so I've been quiet for a few days. Apologies. I dont live next to an my computers you know. Just some of the time.

I'm bored with my blue credit card (brought up cos I'm watching a telly program on credit card fraud).

So anyways I want a black credit card. Who does a black credit card?

Arent mothers brilliant?

One of the family friends just phoned up to ask my mum something. So I text messaged my mum to pass on the question. I wrote:
" [name of friend] just phoned to ask you if you where going to [ place ] "

(of course I told my mum the name and place, its not important to you)

I got back:
"Yes. How has [friend] contacted you?"

Erm phone?

A likely looking lot for a gawth rock band;



Gawth claranet from 'good to see him alive and well Nick Gilbert
(rockstar has a rival)

Taxi!

Why is it not iSafari and iKeynote anyways?

i13twelve wonders....
(such a shite easy pun har bloody har get your coat)

So what do I think of Apples new stuff then?

iLife looks and sounds cool. Though I dont make movies and a lot of mac owners cant burn dvds. So two of the four can be discounted. iPhoto I can see the benefit off, but I dont use it because I have no need. So iLife is basically the opportunity to spend £39 on iTunes3 which seems to do nothing more than iTunes2. And anyways, Microsoft doesnt charge you for Windows Media player, which doesnt have all the organisational structure points that iTunes has (its not like windows users care, they have a big "mp3" dir of downloaded stuff which more often than not iTunes cannot understand) but Windows Media player does play mp3s better.

Sorry mac boys, but it does. Having the "Wow" engine built in does make mp3s sound better than iTunes.

Keynote actually sounds good for presentations at college. But I'd probably favour doing them in flash or director anyways and running them from my iBook. So far the in-built presentation tool in Appleworks has done fine. And I dare say Microsoft Powerpoint in office 2000 is more compat with the large majority of the world who doesnt have Keynote but will have Office.

So again, sorry mac boys. I'm not impressed.

The new Powerbook G4 I do like. Doesnt seem quite so revoluntionary as when the Ti Book came out. But the illuminated keyboard and that massive screen sells it for me! Theres probably lots of details that are good, new and better. But its them too that make it desirable to me and I think they have come up a winner with that compleatly.

And yes my miss-spelling of genious is intentional :-)

Cheers to the playa haters out there. Two hates and one suck. Poo heads. Hahaa

If reaction to the comments is good I might even donate the ten pounds to help the poor sod who runs the server and software out.

(will spend the time making the comments window fit with the site later, too much effort right now)

And wow-eee a massive 33 visitors yesturday. The dizzy heights of sucess.

haha

Well blow me - this blogs only gone and got a comments thing on it now. All thanx to the nice people at enetation.co.uk for that.

Doh! to kerb.co.uk for mailing me now about siging up to Project Rockstar in their beta test. I posted here and told you before they sent their own mailout.

How did I know? Divine intuition?

Nope, I simple check back on the domain now and then.

Reminds me, what is Senate Brand up to?

And no I didnt watch the Macworld Expo keynote address. My quicktime player kept on timing out.

You can have home broadband access all you want, if a million geeks want to see the same stream theres gonna be problems.

Not that I'm geeky enough to care about the Macworld Expo.

booyaaa

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After this post, thats all gonna sit at the bottom of this page, unless anyone says sit it somewhere else. I was just pointing out this exisited without making people scroll all the way to the bottom. Greens good and red is bad. So I probably should of just put links to the good then. Ahem. A night of voting for myself then? hahaha

Sisters of Mercy - Gimme Gimme as in the Abba cover. Fantastic! (its actually really poo, but its live and still a good idea)

So the covers talk eh?

Well punk covers of classic tunes like Hit Me Baby and Barbie Girl are of course genious. When you start covering Backstreet Boys songs your definatly onto a winner.

As for other covers? Indie bands are toss so they dont count.

Metal bands sometimes get it right, but more often than not miss. Make their cover too serious and often screws a good old song. Kelly Osbourne and Papa Dont Preach dont work, mind you its better than the original one.

hmm Tainted Love has punk covers from the Living End, which is top, goth cover My Ruin really SUCKS ass and the goth cover my non other than the man himself Marilyn Manson is top.

Having an afternoon of scouring Kazaa for covers then....

This is the best website in the world [tribute]

(now with simply amazing animated gifs)

We are but men ROCK

\oo/

What should I like more? Blue Monday by New Order or the cover by Orgy? Either way You Spin Me Right Round by Dead or Alive is top (nothing to do with the beat em ups - though the singer guy's lips are soo pumped with collogeon it looks like he's been somewhat beaten up)

Though it does seem I go back next week for summut like 2 weeks and then get another week off. Sounds too good to be true so I'm gonna sit and hope its not too good and that it is true. Semester breaks or summin.

Good college.

You want to know the problem with being a student? Well you get set a bunch of work to do while your at college, so you go about doing it. You plan to do some over the Christmas break ready to hand in in the new year. Then over Christmas you put it off untill the week before you go back. No bad thing in itself.

But, having a couple of weeks doing nothing gets you out of the habit of doing something. I mean, I just sorta got used to not being at college and not having any college work to do. But I have loads. But I cant find my swing to get back into to get it done.

Progress is painfully slow.

And I know once I've been back at college for a couple of weeks I'll be back in the swing and able to actually got work done at a reasonable rate. I'm just a couple of weeks away from that. Its not long. haha but I cant leave all this till then. Cos that *would* be bad.

Stupid college.

13 - 12 = 1

Therefore I'm number 1

yay!

Cheers to the surfer from Singapore and the surfer from China for reading my side. Have to wonder how you found my site, what you where looking for and what not. As long as you where slightly entertained or at least your bordem kept at bay for a few minutes. I could look at it and say "yeee haaaw, I'm now wasting peoples time internationally". Infact, yeah I'm going with that! wooo!

Guess whats back online, abeit in beta version. Project Rockstar. Now with minor tweaks to make it better than before.

I'm supposed to be doing college work now. But last nights 9pm till 3am Halo session with the ever important other half is now really catching up with me. She be at work now, she must be dying. Poor sod. I'm sure some McDonalds brand plain double cheese will sort it.

Chicago doest just lend its name to "Rock Cafes" (even Hard Rock Cafe beats them in Rock status, even with its Kylie videos and other crap, and annoying way it reduced the volumes in any songs that reach near "rock") but also to pizza. Not only do they make excellent small pizza's they now make excellent micro ones too. No no not microwave (though you can cook them in such - I dont - minging - use your oven, it aint that hard*) but very small. At about 4 cm diameter they are indeed tiny. But top. I think its the tomatoe sauce that does it. Has good spices or what ever in it. And I am a pizza connoisseur.

* - aint that hard, but not totally easy. My tip: make sure you turn on the right bit of your oven. Not as I once did, turned on the "top oven", put my pizzas in the oven and waited to find the kitchen billowing smoke and the pizzas to be cold. Fancy naming the grill bit of the oven the top oven.

This is as close to the Bodyform theme as I'm yet to find on the net (161kb)

Well I didnt know that the word Graffiti was Italian. Thanx to Channel 4's Fifteen to One and that crazy Amy on todays show for that one.

Ok ok so the challenge is on. Find the below Robbie track and find me Bodyfrom for You by Stevie Lang (and yes it is that adverts music, you can blame I Love 1980s for that)

Will I ever find this cover of Ant Music by Robbie Williams on the net?

Or the crazy Nokia 3650 which does it all but doesnt look very phone like. Tis quite futuristic though. Hmmm

Or the Nokie 6650 cos it has an integrated camera that can send video clips! (but has an external ariel thing but does have blue tooth)

So which is it to be? My phone contract runs out soon and so I wants a new phone. So far I'm looking at theNokia 7250 cos its got a camera built in, looks cool, is small but has no blue tooth, the Orange SPV runs windows, has a large color screen despite being tiny, comes with a clip on camera but again doesnt have blue tooth and the now old Nokia 7650 which has a big colour screen, is the size of a shoe, built in camera and has blue tooth.

Darn those pilgrims. (Bowling for Columbine *again*)

Happy New Year. Or is it? Will 2003 be any better than 2002? Well of names alone, nope. Why?

2003 will be the year of the slob or the half effort. Why? Its in the name. Two-thousand three, or two-thousand and three will be for ever miss pronounced two-fousand-free. Like how twenty is twenny and what not. Two-thousand and two didnt have this problem to the same extent.

So enjoy 2-fousand-free. I need more pepsi.