Duckworthing
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
Well it’s finally happened, the pair of glasses I’ve had for going on four or five years now has finally given up.
This morning when I arrived at work and sat at my desk I did what I usually do. I took my glasses off and gave them a clean on my shirt. Usually I just put them back on and get to the nitty-gritty, usually sitting sifting through emails to find out if any of the spam is actually useful.
Today, however was a different story indeed, as soon as I placed the glasses on my face I felt a ping and then everything went blurry. I thought that the screw holding the lens into my frames had pinged out again, yes it’s happened before, but alas no! No, the actual frame had broken right at the point where the rim meets the legs, leaving a jagged edge and a confounded Chris.
Tags: broken, Duckworthing, glasses, Jack Duckworth
You absolute beauty
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
The local football team in Dumfries, Queen of the South, has made club history by beating Aberdeen 4-3 in the semi-final of the Scottish Cup at Hampden today.
They’ll be in the final of the Scottish Cup on the 24th May playing either St Johnstone, Rangers or Partick Thistle.
Tags: Aberdeen, Dumfries, football, QOS, Scottish Cup, semi-final
Most Popular Stories Now
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
Isn’t there something quite ironic about this?
Tags: BBC, email, ironic, top read
Switching to Dreamhost
Posted by Chris | Filed under Blogging, General
I’m currently in the midst of switching my site hosting over to Dreamhost and you may see some disruption in this or some other sites I host. It’ll probably last about a week due to myself getting bored transferring all the files/databases and playing World of Warcraft instead.
Just a note to say, if you are ever in need of a virtual machine with very configurable settings or the need to install certain software on it, Bytemark is a good choice - just a little more than I currently need (and more pricey as well).
- Chris
Tags: bytemark, Dreamhost, hosting
If I were confectionery I would be a Dib Dab…
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
… because they fucking rule!
Tags: confectionery, Dib Dab
Death by Cunnilingus
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
We’ve been playing with a bot in the #beardedmonkeys IRC channel for a while - here’s a conversation I had with it about how to eradicate the entire human race.
Beating the Devil out of me
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
I’ve not posted here in a while, but the dream I had last night had to be recorded.
The majority of this dream is uneventful, I’m rich and live in a large mansion, two minders follow me throughout the dream, you know the type, one tall man in sunglasses and a shorter white guy with a near shaven head. Both wear black coats and skulk around in whichever room I’m in at the time.
Towards the end of the dream I’m in a room, my minders are floating around in the background, there’s a little black girl playing in the room. At some point I manage to end up crawling around on my knees, the girl has a small child size chair and is trying to put the legs over my head as to trap it in there. She is following me around, chanting something that sounds really sinister in child-rhyme style, although the words she is chanting do not sound like words at all.
Open Source Smoothie
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
Open source software is good, so good it’s catching. After attending the local supermarket to purchase some food rations for the week ahead, I sat cracked open a carton of mangoes and passion fruits innocent smoothie. Once I’d satisfied my initial thirst I decided to have a read of the carton, they usually put some pretty funny stuff on them.
Tags: carton, innocent, mangoes, open, passion fruits, smoothie, source
Dumfries - Rockin’ and Rolling
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
So today it’s boxing day and all the folks in Dumfries got an extra special, albeit late, Christmas present: 3.5 Richters of ass rocking earthquake!
At 10:40 AM on the 26th December 2006 we had an earthquake lasting just 10 seconds and as I say measured 3.5 on the Richter scale. It’s the largest seismic activity to be recorded in the UK this year and the strongest recorded in this area since 1969, also on boxing day!
The full story can be found at the BBC News website “Dumfries is shaken by earthquake“.
- Chris
Tags: Christmas, Dumfries, earthquake, Richter
It’s Christmas
Posted by Chris | Filed under General
Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you have a good day and get all the socks and oranges you can handle.
Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall?
It’s the time that every Santa has a ball
Does he ride a red nosed reindeer?
Does he turn up on his sleigh?
Do the fairies keep him sober for a day?
