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Anti-Anti-Valentineism
Today is not Valentines. I have therefore repainted Aquarionics blue in celebration of this fact.
(Seriously, this year the “I hate Valentines” brigade have done more than any other factor in turning the day sour for anyone who would otherwise have enjoyed it, treated it as a bit of fun, whatever. If you feel that strongly about it, pick another day of the year and celebrate “Happy Depressed Singletons” day instead, and stop poisoning other people’s enjoyment of existing traditions.)
Those who spoke on this:
CCA:):
As I’ve already said in LJ, you don’t have read our comments or let it ‘poison’ your enjoyment of the day.
CCA:)
Aquarion:
This is also true, and neither mine yours, but that’s not really the point (I dislike Valentines day for other reasons. I’d be quite happy if the entire concept were sealed in a lead vault for a million years for future historians to laugh at.
What I object to is that every single time I’ve seen someone mention Valentines day – even in the “Oh, That means we’re taking this live on Valentines day” or ”...on Monday, which is Valentines day” sense has had somebody pipe up with a medium-long rant about how stupid an idea it is and how it belittles relationships/depresses people/is commercialised. It’s the inability of these people to let any mention of it slide just once without some sarky comment.
I’d prefer it if they took the “If we ignore it, maybe it’ll go away” route. At least then it’d be quiet.
gilmae:
The problem is that the people who go into that rant tend to be the people who are in the Valentine’s marketing segment; 18-40, sometimes male, sometimes both genders, depending on the client. When you are in that segment, you have the day crammed down your throat until you choke on its fakeness. It’s hard to let it slide in those circumstances.
Oh yeah, anyone 18-40 in Australia who got spammed with Valentine’s Day marketing in the last ten days, sorry. I probably was involved, in that I didn’t quit my job rather than spam you.
Not a lot to say
I’ve said the stuff I think about Rememberance Day before and while I should do another article relating to now, I’m not going to just yet.
My excuse isn’t very good, it’s that I’m playing The Movies instead (Which is, in Quick-Capsule-Review mode: Theme Movie Studio).
From The Mailbag:
Hello, I have found your website aquarionics.com by searching Google for “pirate 20/20 kitchen design software”. I think our websites has a similar theme, so I have already added your link to my website.
Now, if their website was really about Pirate Kitchens and how to design them (one of these with a complete set of mini-cutlasses? Hardwood countertops, Pirate flags, &c.) I’d add the link like a shot. Alas, it’s a sub-Yahoo site directory with no real purpose at all. Damnit.
I should mention it here, since I’ve said it everywhere else. I’m moving house again, possibly before Christmas. It’s not my choice, but since very few things this year have been I ought really to be used to it. I’ve dusted off the Very Big Net with which I go house-hunting, and will be taking it with me to Bedford. First viewing was a perfect flat I couldn’t get the deposit in line fast enough to afford, Second is tomorrow (and I will take my chequebook with me :-))
[Edited: Go read One City, One Community. Now. ]
- 2005-11-13 10:45:00
- By Aquarion
- From Home, Paddock Wood
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- Filed under Computer Games, Events & Moving To Beford
Pancakes and RSS
There is an advantage to living with other people. There are several, in fact. One of the advantages, for example, for living back home with my family is that my brother is far better at making pancakes than I am. However, nothing ventured, nothing gained, and today I had three and several half pancakes, but all the whole pancakes were tossed properly.
Also, Pancakes with icecream and melted chocolate for the win.
I had a big rant about RSS and Atom and how it’s just fucking life up for those of us who want to produce things where the user can press a button and have it Just Work.
But I can’t be bothered, so here’s the straight dude’s guide to Brokeback Mountain
Edit this site
Open source applications. Epistula – the engine that runs this site – has just got its new trac install & SVN repo, as has AqWiki and my other projects. Yay.
So I’ve joined them up, and opened the first public aqwiki instance.
Those who spoke on this:
Cathy:
That took longer than I thought, mainly because your content blocks are in a different order than mine so I had to redo the layout. But it resizes and everything now.
(What a way to spend Friday night.)
Cathy:
Oops, and I forgot that my images wouldn’t come through because I have hotlinking code to prevent that sort of thing… (Darn browsers caching my images so I wouldn’t realise…)
But hurrah, I think it works now. Except for being kinda broken – but still readable – in IE6. Perhaps I could be bothered to fix things if it were my own website ;-)
Roger:
Just let me go re-read the CSS Anarchist’s cookbook first… :)
Jocoloco
A few hours before Jonathan Coulton performed his very first gig in the UK ever (And the first outside the states, I believe), he bought a Tenori-on which is apparently only available over here.
This means we ended up being the first people to ever see him perform playing with a new geeky toy. It looked very much like this:
I also, briefly, met Rory Parle.
We also ended up with covers of The Saturday Boy and “Do They Know It’s Christmas Time?” The latter of which doesn’t appear to have made it to YouTube yet. Most of the rest of the concert did, though
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Stuart Langridge:
Happy birthday :)
Senji:
Subtle.
You had me confused there :-).
Happy Birthday!
dtl:
Many happy returns.
Stephen:
Yeah, Happy Birthday Aq. Share a piece of that cake. (ah the much sought after cake over IP… man, that would make me rich)
AdrianO:
Happy birthday Aq! (LJ seem to have marked mine by declaring it “Rabbit Hole Day”; I hadn’t realised I shared it with Lewis Carroll.)
Ruthi:
Happy Birthday!
Cake