I was out and about this evening, I had dinner and Guinness in Celtics Irish bar (last Guinness of the trip!) and I was reading some of my feeds. I grab whatever comes up on Metafilter but I usually only read through it if I’m bored, sorry MeFi! I was skimming through it this evening and I saw the headline
Matt Harding details the hoax behind “Where the Hell is Matt”.
Now first of all, if you don’t know who Matt Harding is, well that’s alright but if you don’t know what “Where the Hell is Matt?” is, you need to go to this link and you need to watch the video. Seriously please. If you have not seen it, go and click on the link and take 5 minutes. Trust me. There is something wrong with you if you don’t have something in your eye by the time it’s finished.
So I’m sat there and I read this headline and I’m thinking, it can’t be a hoax, there isn’t CGI good enough to have faked that video, there just isn’t. A little part of me I think would just shrivel up and die if the video turned out to have been faked.
So I watch the video. As it turns out, it’s a very badly titled FPP and not a hoax (of course it’s not, how could it have been?) but you know what, even if it was a hoax the last 90 seconds of the video would still make me smile…and wonder if I have something in my eye…
I find it hard to believe that with the number of you using feed readers that no-one thought to check with me to see if I was actually posting those porn links. While I can’t recall a time offhand where I have posted porn links, I would have thought you’d be able to tell that they weren’t from me…
As far as I can tell the display tags were all set to none so it was only showing up on a feed. I found out about it as I was skimming my own feed to make sure all was well. Anyway I think I’ve removed them all and of course changed all my passwords.
So on the subject of porn, here is the second best thing on the internet from World of Warcraft:
Welcome to Tuesday morning. So far it’s a pretty normal one of ‘em though I slept pretty badly last night and this does not help.
Lots of things to recap back on. Lets start with something nice and simple. I saw Michael Clayton last week. It wasn’t great. Cloony was pretty good but that’s really all you can say about the movie. There was a few moments of spot the actor from The Wire for added amusement but yeah not great.
Saturday was a long day. In the morning I finished off The Matrix: Revolutions which wasn’t bad but nothing really came close after the first movie. I don’t mind the second two but really neither even gets close to the brilliance of the first one. I was slightly surprised at how well it stands up even now eight/nine years later.
Saturday evening was flatwarming drinks in a local pub. It was alright, it got a little drunken but thanks to TFL royally screwing up and shutting down a number of lines, attendance was lacking. It was probably a little bit of a relief for KG to not have to meet so many people and just some of the good ones. Of course the tube being fucked meant we had a couple of strays at the end of the night to stay over. This lead to a little more drinking and some comedy of course.
This wasn’t to be the end of it of course, after about five minutes in bed, my head suddenly started to hurt, quite badly. Not even booze related before you comment, it had been a light enough evening for me and this was a proper headache. After about an hour it was so bad that I had to get up for water and a spot of throwing up. Not good at all. I felt fine the next morning (thankfully) and indeed went out early to get some extra food and cooked breakfast for KG and strays. That was pretty good even if I do say so myself. Nice and simple of course but scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and croissants ain’t a bad breakfast at all!
The rest of Sunday was quiet. It was the first time in about two weeks that I’d actually been home for an evening and it was so nice. I lazed around, pretty much as simple as that. I reinstalled Civilization II (the greatest game in the history of gaming) and played that for a while. Then I watched Men In Black. It doesn’t really stand up to repeated viewings but I hadn’t seen it in years and the cast are all very watchable. So that was a decent enough evening.
Monday morning, I slept through my first alarm, managed to knock my second off and felt like shit. I seem to have fallen back asleep and didn’t wake for another couple of hours but still felt like shit. So I stayed in bed and watched Men in Black II which did the job, again mainly due to the cast, but isn’t as good as the first one.
Last night I sat down to type some more but it didn’t really work out that way, but sometimes that’s okay.
So other stuff. Obviously, the release of the new Radiohead album is a big deal in itself. The method of release is jaw dropping. Before RadioheadLP7 was discovered as a hoax, I had posited on Metafilter about a possible internet only release in the immediate future. To be honest, it was mainly wishful thinking but with a slight hope that the band seemed to have been going that way. So to put what is unquestionably going to be one of the biggest albums of year on the internet for all to download (on the same day, no advance copies!) and letting customers pick their own price is just astounding. I’m, of course, ordering the full box set as I want both CDs and the extra stuff (not really the vinyl but what can you do?).
So this has naturally pushed me right back into Radiohead and I’m currently listening to Hail To The Thief and my soundtrack on the way into work this morning was Kid A.
My friend Nathan mentioned recently that he’s stopped getting music from the internet and he’s gone back to buying CD’s because (and I’ll slightly paraphrase him here) he’s lost touch with the music. It’s a good way of phrasing something that I’ve been thinking about off and on for a little while now. There is so much music on the net and if you hear a song you like, it’s so easy to just have the entire album within moments and then go on a kick about it. There are so many bands that I have discovered over the past few months that I really like and I wonder if I am doing them a disservice by simply downloading the albums. Note, I’m not talking about money here, iTunes and eMusic have had a good showing from me for these bands but I’m talking about the simple act of picking up and album and pressing play and appreciating. It’s so easy to go from album to album on an iPod or computer, I wonder if sometimes I’m missing something central to the album concept. I don’t think I’m going to go back to buying CD’s, I mean it seems like such a waste but I do have a nice new CD player in my room and having a collection of the best stuff on CD lined up next to it might be nice…man as I type this that suddenly sounds so appealing. Oh dear.
Right lets see what else. Ah yes so my sister is still searching for a job and looks likely to be back staying next week possibly for two weeks. Lots on over the next couple of weeks too. Good few gigs coming up which will be good and I do want to get some theatre booked. In fact I’m meant to be doing that today.
Sites that only provide partial feed RSS. Just don’t bother unless you are going to post the entire thing. It pretty much means that unless your headline really jumps out at me I’m going to mark all as read. I’d prefer to get ads inside a full feed than to just 5 lines.
I’m quite tired this morning. I hadn’t realised how tired I was last night until I typed a few things out and noticed afterwards they were pretty much lacking. So I went to bed around 10.30 and slept through till just before 9.00 this morning which was nice.
I’m still quite tired though. It’ll pass.
Moving this coming weekend and I’m really not looking forward to it. I’ll be so glad when it’s all over.
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull…hmm well I was reminded of how much I love the theme tune but I’m still not convinced by anything I see that this is going to be a good movie.
On the flip side there seems to be alot of stuff out now I want to see Superbad, Shoot ‘em Up (please please be as good as Crank), Run FatBoy, Run (Pegg, Moran & Azaria!), 3:10 To Yuma and hell I even want to see 1408 as John Cusack is always watchable.
Mr. Curtiss also has a strong emotional attachment to the car. He met his wife, Dorothy, shortly after he bought it, when he was 17 and she was 14; they had been married 56 years when she died in 1998. The initials they carved on the steering wheel as teenagers can still be seen. “She was the first and only girl I ever kissed in the car,” he said. “It’s priceless because of that, as far as I’m concerned.”
1991: The world wide web becomes publicly available on the internet for the first time.
The web has changed a lot since Tim Berners-Lee posted, on this day, the first web pages summarizing his World Wide Web project, a method of storing knowledge using hypertext documents. In the months leading up to his post, Berners-Lee had developed everything necessary to make the web a reality, including the first browser and server.
Infoporn: Despite the Web, Americans Remain Woefully Ill-Informed
More than a decade after the Internet went mainstream, the world’s richest information source hasn’t necessarily made its users any more informed. A new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows that Americans, on average, are less able to correctly answer questions about current events than they were in 1989. Citizens who call the Internet their primary news source know slightly less than fans of TV and radio news. Hmmm…maybe a little less Paris Hilton and a little more Jim Lehrer.