Tweets this Week – 2010-02-28

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, February 28th, 2010
  • Entirely forgot we're going to see Sean Hughes tonight. 2 hours to get ready and not a child washed. Though, to be fair, we don't have kids. #
  • RT @boydhilton Times: BBC must do more than "axe a few radio stations no one listens to". But more people listen to 6Music than buy Times #
  • .@josephruss Naaah… 1Xtra, I agree, but BBC 3 & 4 are doing a sterling job. You know what the beeb should fillet? Their mag division… #
  • #unsuitabledirectors George Lucas for… Anything. #
  • If the BBC has to close down two radio stations it should be the two shit ones: Radio 7 and Radio 1 – #save6music #
  • . @hiddeneloise tracks trash talking commenter back to paperchase.co.uk… Der. http://www.hiddeneloise.com #
  • I had to repost this on Broken English today to cheer myself up: http://bit.ly/marxistjoke #
  • Worried about my fiction submission for new MA group. Should've chosen the storyline with the '30s explorer. Not the Viagra fueled drunk. #
  • .@DominiqueKing Crisps are thinly sliced potato, fried until crispy. Hula Hoops are extruded and baked reconstituted potato based snacks. #
  • Have you heard Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? It's like the Beatles, but on acid. #
  • .@ruthellenbrown, drinking a glass of water: "Hmm, this is really moreish". #
  • Movie tie-in game makers Konami have blocked Lord of the Rings fanfilm that took six years to complete. http://bit.ly/6yoviW #
  • Been linking folks up on my fiction blog, before I go offline for 24 hours of electro-magnetic field avoidance. Peace out. #
  • .@ruthellenbrown is repeating things back to me in a "Rain Man" voice. Wish we'd never seen the bloody film. Also, I'm an excellent driver. #
  • http://twitpic.com/14bal9 – Average survival time of Tory posters in Huddersfield: 19 hours. #
  • Tomorrow is @ruthellenbrown's detox day. No EMFs. No, I don't mean the proto-chav, PWEI clone electro clash band of the 80s. #
  • Travel Journalist: "I've never been on a plane, but an expert told me they are flying tubes full of people". And so on. #
  • Increasing number of mainstream tech journalists who proclaim ignorance. Wonder when trend will spread to health, business, money etc… #
  • Building a website layout in Photoshop, writing a chapter of the book, doing invoices – all at the same time… #
  • My recently built Quad Core PC just freshly updated to OS X10.6.2. Everything working. Nice. #
  • .@ali07 Photoshop's 20th made me feel very old this AM! I remember using version 1.0 on a Mac LC II, doing my Master's in Graphic Design. #
  • There's either a growing trend for wearing bandanas around your face, or I just walked past a group of chav highwaymen. #
  • New fast fiction at Broken English: A Slight Apocalypse – http://bit.ly/9vh1uR #
  • Hooky is that proverbial man arguing with himself, in a room, alone. As for pills, they give me more bellyaches than thrills these days. :) #
  • Sign of the coming apocalypse: Muse to headline Glastonbury. #
  • Just had a haircut from @ruthellenbrown. She says I am now "slightly above average attractiveness". Good for me. #
  • GatherNoMoss designer admits copying. #paperchase yet to apologise for smearing name of Hidden Eloise in Telegraph. http://bit.ly/bd3kzA #
  • .@ruthellenbrown will watch Rain Man for the first time tonight. Tomorrow she'll know why I slap my head when we fly anything but Quantas. #
  • Banned phrases of 2010, number 12: "F-Bomb". #
  • #paperchase and GatherNoMoss still trying to wriggle out of blame. Time to start a formal boycott. Do not shop there… #boycottpaperchase #
  • Tried, and failed, to watch Inglourious Basterds. Yes, cool filmic references to Sergio Leone, but ultimately just jingoistic torture porn. #
  • Watching news about Hindu gentleman's campaign to be allowed an open cremation. My plan is to be fired into the sea from a giant catapult. #
  • Yes, as a tech journalist it's entirely appropriate for you to send me press releases about dance events in Ibiza. In Spanish. #
  • The problem with blogging fiction is you want to keep tinkering after it's been posted… My story Duet, retweeted: http://bit.ly/91PRgz #
  • "Start your Netflix trial today!" I would *love* to. Sadly, not available in the UK. The excremental LoveFilm has the monopoly. #
  • Last month, a person found my creative writing blog using the search phrase "your cock and stinging nettles". #
  • New fast fiction by me at Broken English: http://bit.ly/91PRgz #
  • RT @AIannucci: There'll be a 2nd series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. Huzzah! Huzzah! #
  • I know it's not popular to say it – but I really like Gordon Brown. A real politician caught in the legacy of fake decade. #
  • RT @techradar: Whatever happened to PC soundcards? http://bit.ly/c9l5JS <- By me. #
  • Neil Gaiman confirms he's writing an episode of Doctor Who, for Steven Moffat's second season: http://bit.ly/b8o5uT via @sfxmagazine #
  • Me: "Why don't like Blade II?" Ruth: "Because I've seen it". #
  • Building a PC today. Or I was until I discovered I'd been sent an IDE drive instead of SATA. #firstworldproblems #
  • Communicating with @123reg customer services is positively Kafkaesque. And I deal with other people's consumer complaints for a living… #
  • Until I Googled him 2 minutes ago, I had no idea who John Terry was. My fop credentials are intact. #
  • "Nearly half of new teachers do not feel properly equipped to deal with violence in the classroom". One word: "Tazer": http://bit.ly/acMFNw #
  • Knew we were in narrative trouble when it cut to rocking horse's eye in medium, then CU. Direction on a par with 70s Doctor Who. #
  • Started watching BBC version of Turn of the Screw. Didn't finish. #
  • Supernaturally chuffed to see Brian Aldiss on the "lost" Booker competition list. http://bit.ly/9pJ2FB #
  • Nice that @123reg feel they can simply refuse to pay back the £98.70 they owe me, for the hosting I won't be using. #
  • The layout of the London Weekly takes me back to that horrible time when company websites were designed by the YTS kid in the IT department. #
  • TV Gorge streams telly content in your browser using Flash – including brand new Lost, CSI, Fringe… Legal? Probably not: tvgorge.com #
  • When telemarketers ring, I ask for their postal address. When they say "why?", I reply that I'll be invoicing them for my time. Click, brrr. #
  • Unexpectedly pleasant evening spontaneously spent with like-minded people I don't really know. Aren't those the best nights out? #
  • How little I've come to expect from humanity: saw Don McCullin's name trending on Twitter, and assumed he must have died. #
  • New Year get off to a slow, snowy start? No fear. @ruthellenbrown and I have just declared Feb 3rd, new New Year's Day. #
  • Mark Chapman asks memorabilia expert, "Is my signed Lennon album worth anything? By the way, got any Salinger stuff?". http://bit.ly/9ljiWz #
  • I would move to South Korea to get faster broadband before voting Tory: http://bit.ly/9ugq1p #