Internets! Sweet blessed Internets!
Hello folks, I should explain. The past few weeks our internet connection has been utterly crippled, meaning almost any attempt to do anything more complicated than stare longingly at Google was ultimately doomed to failure. However, yesterday the nice man from Virgin came along and hooked us up to a shiny new fibreoptic connection, so The Nerdcave is currently wired for speed.
So things have been pretty much unremarkable for the most part. I know I haven't done one of those 'what is happening in your life' blogs for fucking ever. this is because, honestly, I'm kind of bored of writing them. I go to start and my eyes just start to slide off the page, I open another tab and load up another site 'just for a few minuts' and then it's 2 hours later and I'm still no closer. My life's been pretty much ok. Christmas was good, New Years was a nice, wasted mess, my birthday was AMAZING. Yesterday I got to go to a screening of The Room complete with Live intro and Q&A with Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero and it was a grand old time.
For those unfamiliar with it, The Room is a film legendary in it's awfulness. As such, it's built up a cult following, and the Prince Charles cinema in Soho shows it something like once a month. This was the third time I'd been and was probably my favourite yet. The atmosphere at a screening like this is raucous. People are constantly shouting wisecracks and jokes at the screen, there are traditions and running jokes for everyone to join in on. We took over 500 spoons between us (you have to throw spoons at the screen every time you see a picture of a spoon) and it wasn't enough. Afterwards we went outside and watched Greg and Tommy throwing a football around wondering why exactly we were standing in the freezing cold in Soho at 9pm on a saturday watching two grown men throwing a ball to each other.
Other than that, work's been ok. I've started becoming surprisingly grown-up and motivated about my work lately. I've really been throwing myself into the new media, technologys, development side of things and getting myself kind of noticed by the head of service in the process. He's asked me to sit in on a conference call with some US-based software vendors on Tuesday and after a meeting on friday, I dragged him to one side to bother him about some stuff and he told me that he intended for me to be a big part of any new technology developments in the library service, which is nice. I'm starting to wonder if I'm actually starting to find my forte somewhere. It's a weird feeling. At New Years I got incredibly mashed and weirded myself out by having some very serious conversations about the future of libraries.
Well I can tell I haven't done this in a while, as this blog is a mess, so I'll just leave it here on an open question, me and TheQuestion were shooting the shit earlier about this whole sub-genre of 'Man with weird personal quirks and specialised skill helps proper police solve crimes' police procedurals. You've got mathematicians (numb3rs), lying experts (Lie To Me), crime novelists (Castle), psychics (The Mentalist), forger (White Collar), Neuroscientist (Perception) and God knows how many others. If you had to create one yourself, what would it be? Me and Adam came up with The Shit-Stirrer: reknowned fecal matter expert Robert Log is the head of his field until mysterious serial killer 'The Shoveller' drowns his wife and daughter in feces. After this he has a nervous breakdown and becomes pathologically obsessed with cleanliness, unable to even look at pictures of his once-beloved turds, until the resurfacing of The Shoveller' forces him to face his demons and work with the FBI as a consultant on a string of poo-related crimes.
Hello folks, I should explain. The past few weeks our internet connection has been utterly crippled, meaning almost any attempt to do anything more complicated than stare longingly at Google was ultimately doomed to failure. However, yesterday the nice man from Virgin came along and hooked us up to a shiny new fibreoptic connection, so The Nerdcave is currently wired for speed.
So things have been pretty much unremarkable for the most part. I know I haven't done one of those 'what is happening in your life' blogs for fucking ever. this is because, honestly, I'm kind of bored of writing them. I go to start and my eyes just start to slide off the page, I open another tab and load up another site 'just for a few minuts' and then it's 2 hours later and I'm still no closer. My life's been pretty much ok. Christmas was good, New Years was a nice, wasted mess, my birthday was AMAZING. Yesterday I got to go to a screening of The Room complete with Live intro and Q&A with Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero and it was a grand old time.
For those unfamiliar with it, The Room is a film legendary in it's awfulness. As such, it's built up a cult following, and the Prince Charles cinema in Soho shows it something like once a month. This was the third time I'd been and was probably my favourite yet. The atmosphere at a screening like this is raucous. People are constantly shouting wisecracks and jokes at the screen, there are traditions and running jokes for everyone to join in on. We took over 500 spoons between us (you have to throw spoons at the screen every time you see a picture of a spoon) and it wasn't enough. Afterwards we went outside and watched Greg and Tommy throwing a football around wondering why exactly we were standing in the freezing cold in Soho at 9pm on a saturday watching two grown men throwing a ball to each other.
Other than that, work's been ok. I've started becoming surprisingly grown-up and motivated about my work lately. I've really been throwing myself into the new media, technologys, development side of things and getting myself kind of noticed by the head of service in the process. He's asked me to sit in on a conference call with some US-based software vendors on Tuesday and after a meeting on friday, I dragged him to one side to bother him about some stuff and he told me that he intended for me to be a big part of any new technology developments in the library service, which is nice. I'm starting to wonder if I'm actually starting to find my forte somewhere. It's a weird feeling. At New Years I got incredibly mashed and weirded myself out by having some very serious conversations about the future of libraries.
Well I can tell I haven't done this in a while, as this blog is a mess, so I'll just leave it here on an open question, me and TheQuestion were shooting the shit earlier about this whole sub-genre of 'Man with weird personal quirks and specialised skill helps proper police solve crimes' police procedurals. You've got mathematicians (numb3rs), lying experts (Lie To Me), crime novelists (Castle), psychics (The Mentalist), forger (White Collar), Neuroscientist (Perception) and God knows how many others. If you had to create one yourself, what would it be? Me and Adam came up with The Shit-Stirrer: reknowned fecal matter expert Robert Log is the head of his field until mysterious serial killer 'The Shoveller' drowns his wife and daughter in feces. After this he has a nervous breakdown and becomes pathologically obsessed with cleanliness, unable to even look at pictures of his once-beloved turds, until the resurfacing of The Shoveller' forces him to face his demons and work with the FBI as a consultant on a string of poo-related crimes.
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ortus:
I'll try to get more active in the group.
brompton:
Glad you enjoyed them =]