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[hirez]

Mixerman's back.
If Boohoo (the story of boo.com) was 'The mythical man-month' accidentally rewritten as a shopping&fucking novel, then this is the same paper rewritten by Spinal Tap. It's the saga of an unnamed band as they attempt to record an album in LA and now NY. It's like watching a road-accident.

Cassandra complex. (Look it up)
Anyone who's had the misfortune to ask me about 'broadband' in the last four years will have heard me bang on about the bandwidth not mattering much, and will have observed my poorly-disguised contempt for the lackwits who gibber about 'contention ratios' and 'ping times' (because they understand neither latency or the way IP works). So now it appears I was right all along - the benefit of an 'always on' connection is that... It's always on. Well, duh.

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Shove your vitamin C up your arse.
... In which The Guardian jumps up and down gleefully on 'Alternative' medicine (Have they told the Barefoot Doctor yet?), white lab-coat flapping in the breeze. I fear I chortled regularly throughout the article. Homeopathy? Fraud!

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[sexbat.livejournal.com]

'Contention Ratio' is when two of you gang up and murder the bloke in the flat upstairs when it takes 4 hours to download an episode of Buffy season 7

'Ping time' is the delay between ordering a Chinese takeaway over lastminute.com

easy

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

[Insert truly gratuitous namedrop]

I'm meeting James Crabtree for a pint next week to discuss social networking software: he's a disturbingly clued-in chap, for someone that's not a tech...

[quercus.livejournal.com]

I looked up "Cassandra Complex", but all I found was some bitter old geezer. And what's a "Dobro" ?

[reddragdiva]

A geetar? Steel plate on the front. http://www.gibson.com/products/oai/dobro/index.html

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

But enough of Mr Orpheus. What of Morton?

Dobro? Guitar-lego for the under fives. Put it together right and it makes the noise of someone smashing Mark Knopfler's fingers in a door repeatedly.

[reddragdiva]

Bah. Good bands like the Triffids used the things. The brilliant face of alt-country!

(Alt-country, n.: country with tunes and without rhinestones.)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I should dig out some Triffids. In the musical sense, rather than the 'loosening the soil surrounding a carnivorous plant' one.

In perusing the BDO webshite, I was horrified to discover the Hard-Ons are still going. There'll be a Hoodoo Gurus revival next. (They played in Cheltenham a very long time ago.)

Spinal Tap

[quercus.livejournal.com]

It really is Spinal Tap, isn't it. I'd not read the second bizarre drummer accident (http://www.prosoundweb.com/recording/mm/week7/day1/mm.php) before.

[reddragdiva]

The Hard-Ons split, two of them formed Nunchukka Superfly which no-one cared about, then they reformed a few years ago. It's all cabaret. I believe you wrote a Whitby tag on the subject.

Re: Spinal Tap

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

[foolish giggling]

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Trouble is, Guardian Chappie is pretty bloody careless with his facts. Loud, confident, and wrong.

Selenium ? You need a certain amount, it comes from the soil via vegetables, there's not that much of it round here. Go ask a biochemist.

Brains ? Yes, you use most of yours. But there are people with hydrocephalus who have far less brain tissue than you & I and seem to have no problems as a result.

Herbs ? I'll find you a few depressed people who've tried SJW & the pills from the GP, and know which they like better.

And I think he's confused 10^30 with 1030.....

I'm entirely up for the stern criticism of nonsense, but there's less than no point in doing it badly. It just turns into jeering.

[countb.livejournal.com]

Co-enzyme Q10 gives me energy and hard-ons.
Which is nice.

[babychaos.livejournal.com]

James *she shouts and blushes*!! naughty monkey. actually there is a chocolate bar on the marh#ket that has such high doses of guran and ginsing in it that it can make you hard also. so maby one to avoid if you are feeling peckish?? ;)

[countb.livejournal.com]

Snot naughty, it's a fact!

Mind you, they advise people with my flavour of genetic fuckup to take CoQ10, and encouraging crips to get hard-ons is a bit cruel imho!

What's the chocolate called? :)

Mixerman

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Not since the UF productivity virus struck some 3 or 4 years ago, have I been so unproductive at work. This thing is just hypnotic!

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