UFOs over Canon's Marsh
May. 22nd, 2004 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hirezI [heart] pottering round Bristol by push-bike. One gets to see much more of the works of the city that way.
So anyway, Joe Maplins handed over a replacement PSU with nary a comment. (and later the box in question came back w/o mithering about the state of the disk. Result!)
Flushed with success, I stopped off at a handy push-bike shop and bagged one of these. And very satisfactory it is too, in a geeky tool-fetish manner.
In other news, the Two Lone Swordsmen album, 'The Double Gone Chapel', becomes finer every time I play it. It lurches in an endearing and louche manner between JD and PIL-influenced post-punk, strange and loping dub, and a very stoned New Order (circa Movement) playing with a squitty 303. The cover of 'Sex beat' is a fine thing and should be played at clubs everywhere, if only to give cloth-eared trads The Fear.
So anyway, Joe Maplins handed over a replacement PSU with nary a comment. (and later the box in question came back w/o mithering about the state of the disk. Result!)
Flushed with success, I stopped off at a handy push-bike shop and bagged one of these. And very satisfactory it is too, in a geeky tool-fetish manner.
In other news, the Two Lone Swordsmen album, 'The Double Gone Chapel', becomes finer every time I play it. It lurches in an endearing and louche manner between JD and PIL-influenced post-punk, strange and loping dub, and a very stoned New Order (circa Movement) playing with a squitty 303. The cover of 'Sex beat' is a fine thing and should be played at clubs everywhere, if only to give cloth-eared trads The Fear.
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Date: 2004-05-22 11:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-22 11:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-22 01:00 pm (UTC)(If you'd like to hear the original or the Fear Cult cover let me know)
Topeak Alien
Date: 2004-05-22 01:44 pm (UTC)I still rely on a motley assortment of tools that live in my Camelbak, and get laughed at, but the long nosed pliers have saved others on more than one occasion *g*
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Date: 2004-05-22 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-22 02:37 pm (UTC)Re: Topeak Alien
Date: 2004-05-22 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-22 02:43 pm (UTC)It's kind of embarrassing to find one's music via the Guardian, but it is damn fine.
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Date: 2004-05-23 12:28 am (UTC)Re: Topeak Alien
Date: 2004-05-23 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-23 06:01 am (UTC)Of course I'd now like to hear the other songs-of-the-same-name.
(They'll have been played at me, I know, at venues up and down the country, but it's hard to give music the attention it deserves when it's an accompaniment to beer-swilling or someone howling in your ear.)
Re: Topeak Alien
Date: 2004-05-23 06:12 am (UTC)For the record, I cannot understand the obesiance paid to the leatherman by the wannabe BOfHs: the thing's next to bloody useless for opening computers.
Though the cross-head driver is much closer to a Phillips pattern than the equivalent head in the Gerber, which is only useful for chewing the heads of screws up and dropping the resultant swarf into motherboards.
The most useful set of PC-opening tools I own is the Muji eight-bit (haw!) example.
(I can see this needs to be promoted to a proper Post. More later.)
Re: Topeak Alien
Date: 2004-05-23 06:29 pm (UTC)http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/default.asp is also one of my favourite places to go. They're a surly bunch of buggers on the 'phone, but their prices are a benchmark and returns policy second-to-none.
"I broke the wotsit on the bit of kit I bought from you last week. How can I get a replacement?"
"Stick it in the post and I'll send you another"
"No: I broke it trying to install it"
"Yeah: stick it in the post and I'll send you another"
"Oh... OK... Thanks!"
Re: Topeak Alien
Date: 2004-05-23 06:40 pm (UTC)What you watch, what you see, its legalized BS on your TV
Date: 2004-08-21 07:28 pm (UTC)Cravens gone crap
Winchcombe is worse
Oh jeepers am I still here!
14 year weekend
I think I might move to bristol and start a band
No, I think I might move to the costa del sol and eat pies
No, I think I was neo once and then james bond but the monkey ate the grape
I made the toaster talk it was me but then you never could tie those beans
No, I know who I am
Im the one
What one?
that one
My Arse Right Crammed Behind Ruths Angle Drill Lets Eat You
Got derren browns phone number
Re: What you watch, what you see, its legalized BS on your TV
Date: 2004-08-23 12:53 pm (UTC)