Nick
@handpressed
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Might've gone mad for Madonna in the last few days. #NowPlaying www.last.fm/user/Guerril...
"I'm installing a firewall." "Okay. What's that?" "Protects your computer against script kiddies, data collectors, viruses, worms and trojan horses, and it limits your outbound internet communication. Any more questions?" A more innocent time. (I'm still watching The Office.)
I'm choosing to believe this photo of England's Harry Kane on the BBC Football page is him thinking about what he's done and regretting it...
"Having said that, at Chasers it's Hooch for a pound and Wonderbras-get-in-free night tonight. So I don't know ... it's exciting. I'm staying out of it."
I got a job at a Kays Catalogues distribution warehouse while at university. This picking up empty boxes training exercise was part of day one (I had a horrific hangover). I lasted four days but got paid for the month.
Tim's thinking about leaving and going back to uni to study psychology... a man after my own heart (I had just graduated with a degree in computer science with psychology when I first watched The Office). "You're thinking, 'How could I kill a tiger armed only with a Biro?'"
One of my friends is currently helping his brother with the haymaking. It's 34°C and windless. 🥵🚜
"David Foster Wallace famously employed a white one to soak up his anxious sweat, telling a reporter that it became his “security blanket” — that it somehow helped him prevent his head from exploding." files.samizdat.xyz/cloud/s/NfH6...
Time for bed. (Imagine a hairy bloke who has had too much cider lying on his bed starkers and sweating and tossing and turning for the next few hours... good night.)
In-fucking-sane. I live by the sea, the English Channel is just over there. Temps should be cooler and there should be a sea breeze. Nope. 🥵
I will forever associate pork pies with Withnail & I. Withnail was eating a pork pie in this scene (Bruce Robinson loved that Richard E. Grant got a bit of crust caught in his teeth - "What fucker said that?"). www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSwM...
It's nuts that I'm looking at a forecast like this and thinking, Thank fuck!
#NowPlaying Memories of listening to it while writing my dissertation. Was studying computer science and, well, you know, by 2001 had worked out how to download all the music via the uni's network. 🙃
"This is not just a heatwave, it is a heat-dome driven furnace that will grip most of the southern UK and push temperatures into truly exceptional territory." Furnace is the right word. I am soaked with sweat. It's not doing my rosacea much good either. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Back in the day, before satellite TV and streaming, we'd look forward to watching the World Cup only to be presented by this... when hot weather meant no TV signal. 📺