And while I’m in a humourous mood, I thought I’d share some photos which have been sitting in my inbox for quite a few months. Every time I take a look at them I pretty much cry with laughter. This has obviously been done in some professional studio while the boss is out…. Enjoy!
OK, everyone stop what you’re doing right now and head over to South Park Studio. Now you can have your own South Park caricature that looks like you in less than five minutes (time quoted is excluding time spent laughing). Here’s mine:
Gear Aquisition Syndrome that is. A term coined by musicians over at Harmony Central forum. This week I got a Yamaha EL90 which is currently situated in my spare room, although I plan to move it into my living room as it takes up too much room in the spare bedroom. It’s a really versitile instrument, even though its over 10 years old it can produce some very convincing orchestral as well as organ sounds. I’ve owned one of these organs before but sold it just after I got my three manual Johannus classical organ, but for about the last year I’ve wanted the EL90 back…. so here it is:
OK, so it’s not a great picture. I’ll take some more at a later date. I might even record some videos of me playing it and upload them to You Tube
I’ve also bought a microwave. It’s one of these combination jobs, so I’ll be able to use it as an oven and grill as well – very handy. Here it is in all it’s glory:
As well as playing with my toys this weekend, I decided to take my girlfiend upto London so that we could experience the National Gallery, which is home to Van Gogh‘s Sunflowers, as well as many other famous works of art. We also went to Convent Garden which is well known for it’s street entertainers. We weren’t dissapointed – apart from the well rehersed musicians and the Charlie Chaplin look-a-like, there was a guy that had dressed up like a statue of a roman centurian. Women were litterally queing up to have their picture taken with him while he placed a sword to their neck and pulled a funny face. I got a picture of my girlfriend with him – I cant wait to see it. The whole thing was pretty hilarious. A brilliant exersize in providing a unique service. There were a few other people being statues in the same street, but this guy was raking in a ton more cash because of the entertainment value.
The taps on my bath are broken – I can’t switch between taps and shower at the moment, so this evening I made a trip to the Crawley branch of Sainsburys Homebase. Here is the conversation I had with the store assistant after choosing the taps that I wanted:
Me: Can you tell me if your bath taps work at mains pressure.
Shop Assistant: I’ll need to speak to someone to find out.
5 minutes later…
Shop Assistant: I’ve been told that different areas have different mains pressures, and that we wouldn’t be able to take the taps back if they leaked because of a high mains pressure.
Me: OK, can you tell what pressure these taps go up to ?
Shop Assistant: Mains pressure.
Me: Can I speak to a manager ?
Shop Assistant: No, he’s too busy.
I kid you not. You can’t make this stuff up, if I could, I would be working in comedy and not IT. Despite the comedic value, this level of customer service is pretty unaccepable I think, although sadly it’s all too common in the UK.
Homebase can kiss the £100+ that I was prepared to spend in their store this evening goodbye…
One of the reasons that I have been so quiet recently, apart from my Big Brother experiment, is that I have been working on a new layout for my brother’s website. He had asked me to change it quite a few months ago, but I’ve had to pull my finger out in the last two weeks as he’s been visiting.
On reviewing the original code I found quite a few security holes, so these have been patched, and I’m quite pleased with the overall design. Take a look here: Historic photographic processes
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