Archive for the 'Time-Wasters' Category
For one such as myself, mildly obsessive about type, the fact that since the Snow Leopard upgrade my system’s font usage has been completely fucked up is deeply upsetting.
It started shortly after the upgrade when the font menu started going squiffy in certain applications. Font A was substituted for Font B. Font C stopped working [...]
Filed under: Apple, Technology, Time-Wasters, omens and portents | 4 Comments
Tags: font conflicts, font problems, fonts, osx, Snow Leopard, type, typography
Some things come along and lift the lid on life’s works and reveal to you how things are. Ever since I used an ironic blog post title (“Australia is in Europe Now“) to discuss the pokey house-building policies of the UK, I’ve had a daily inundation of link- or trackback spam from travel-related web sites. [...]
Filed under: Time-Wasters, Travel, weasels | 1 Comment
It’s not just that it’s stupid…
I wish I could travel with equanimity and maintain a serene indifference to bullshit, but I can’t help myself. I get uptight.
On the plus side, the Eurotunnel experience is miles better since they removed the human element from the equation. This is Bad For Jobs, but Good For My Temper.
Last couple of years, they’ve introduced [...]
Filed under: Time-Wasters, weasels | 3 Comments
3 days of the condor
If it’s Thursday it must be a snow day, the third this week. I’m not keen on snow (not keen on much of anything), but since becoming a teacher I’ve learned to take it as a blessing. An extra day off work in the dark half of the year is not to be sniffed at, [...]
Filed under: Climate, Commuting, Conspiracy Theories, Education, Family, Time-Wasters, Travel, anxiety, being chippy, teaching and learning, weasels | 1 Comment
Tags: snow days
Jesus Christ
I was disappointed to see that the atheist bus campaign’s slogan included the word “probably”. Apparently this was at the behest of the advertising agency that produced the posters, who were worried they’d fall foul of advertising rules. What? I thought the whole point of the campaign was that you couldn’t possibly fall foul of [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, Culture, Time-Wasters, being chippy, science fiction, weasels | 2 Comments
The story about Linda Lusardi dialling 999 because she was stuck in traffic on her way to a panto makes me laugh on so many levels. Of course, it’s the usual fare we’ve come to expect at this time of year from the emergency services, as they seek to instruct us on the wrongness of [...]
Filed under: Commuting, Entertainment, Luvvies, Time-Wasters, being chippy, motoring, narcissism, weasels | 4 Comments
Review of the Year
January: Blank
February: Blank
March: Blank
April: …Nope
May: Holiday in the Vendée, which was quite nice
June: Blank
July: Wet
August: Wet. Bought a new (well, low-miler) car
September: Started diet
October: Fairly blank
November: Cold
December: Are we there yet?
Blogging seems to be a substitute for having a memory. Which is a concern, should something ever happen to WordPress, which is fairly likely, given [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, Entertainment, Middle Age, TV, Television, Time-Wasters, arts, autobiography, being chippy, weasels | 4 Comments
Tags: 2008, review of the year
We are a Medium
I bought a new belt, as do-it-yourself belt holes tend to be unsatisfactory. As of right now, I’m officially a Medium in belt sizes, not a Large. This is because I have dropped around 7kg (a stone… ish) since starting WeightWatchers (online) just under 6 weeks ago.
You don’t need to be a maths genius to [...]
Filed under: Education, Entertainment, Exercise, Middle Age, Movies, Time-Wasters, ambitions in life, arts, film, happiness, health, marketing, media studies | 4 Comments
Tags: diets, lifestyle, slimming, weight loss, weightwatchers
Closing down for the summer
My niece was complaining yesterday that she’s working hard at her summer job (at the same place her dad works), and after a hard morning walked into the main office to find the place almost silent, with everyone hunched over their desks. She thought for a moment they were all actually being productive, but then [...]
Filed under: Flickr, MySpace, Time-Wasters, autobiography, media studies, narcissism, omens and portents | 2 Comments
Tags: blogging, blogs, hiatus, intermission
Weekend Blogger
Today was sports day, a bummer because it meant I lost my best day of the week, Friday, the day for which I have no lessons to prepare. So instead of catching up on marking and planning, I spent the day standing out on the field doing crowd control and suffering paroxysms of boredom. It’s [...]
Filed under: Education, Time-Wasters, anxiety, being chippy, motoring, omens and portents | 1 Comment
