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Kids today

Caroline — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:39:26 +0000

Someone at work borrowed my old laptop for three months. I got it back yesterday and she said ‘sorry, the (PCI) wifi card is a bit bent. I’ll get you a new one if you really want me to’.

It’s practically broken in two. If I borrowed something expensive off of someone and broke it, I’d buy a new one immediately and not guilt the other into saying it’s ok.

What is WRONG with people?

Finding pictures of said colleague, partly naked, on the hard disk partly makes up for it all.

Perneau, live at Club Meander

Caroline — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:16:01 +0000

You don’t always get all members of a band together in one shot. This is Perneau, from Utrecht. The bass player’s an ex-colleague of mine and I went to the show specifically to take pictures. I’ve got a nice set on Flickr that’s currently private as I’d like the band to see them first.

I can see clearly now

Caroline — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 03:51:32 +0000

Spending money before you’ve got it… to be able to earn it. That’s what I did today. I have been working on a website for a colleague the last couple of weekends. It’s been tough because the house has been drafty and cold – not the ideal circumstances to sit still in – but also because my old LG monitor was getting old in the teeth and very blurry in some areas of the screen. I was squinting too much and it was tiring. So I went to a computer hardware store this morning to buy myself a TFT-monitor.

I hadn’t really prepared for it, all I knew was I wanted ‘a black one’ and I wanted it fast.

In the shop I pointed out their cheapest Acer monitor and asked if it was available in black. It wasn’t. So I pointed to the dearer black Iiyama ProLite E431s and said: ‘Ok, gimme that one.’ They came back with a box, I pulled my credit card, cussed when they charged 1.5% extra for the use of the card ($&#*!! bloody annoying country…)

Then I rushed back home to connect the thing and start working. On the tram I thought to myself… ‘wouldn’t it be typical if they’d sold me a silver coloured monitor?’

Well, they did.

But fuck it, at least I can see what I’m doing now.

You know, that band? With that singer?

Caroline — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 01:01:04 +0000

This has been bothering me all weekend. I have some MP3′s at work, a full (recently released?) album by a band whose name I can’t recall. I’d never heard of them before, but they may have been around for a while. My colleague passed them on to me. I went through all the Pitchfork reviews and current charts yesterdat, but couldn’t find them. I don’t know anything about the band and haven’t heard the songs enough to say anything about them, but their singer sounds a lot like Tom Jones. I think they’re British, but they might not be. I think their name sounded a little odd or funny, in that it didn’t fit with the music they played. I could wait till tomorrow to find out, but maybe you can tell me right now.Update: Duh. Remembered I can access work mail from home, found the original mail with the download link. The band is called Electric Six . If the Scissor Sisters played rock music, that’s what they sound like.

Can you remember any of the song titles?

Futureheads maybe? Killers? Not sure about the Tom Jones thing though..
Gordon – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

No, can’t remember anything. Other than it isn’t the Killers or the Futureheads, or Interpol, or Bloc Party. They’re not one of the ‘new new wave’ bands, afaik.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

Electric Six? Tom Jones?? ;-)
Gordon – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

I’m not the only one who thinks so:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/m..

Check out the song Future is in the Future – where it’s most noticeable.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:52

Ever tried MusicBrainz? It’ll analyse an MP3 and tell you what song it is. It works pretty well. On Mac there’s something called IEatBrainz that’ll take your iTunes library and let you ID any song. I’m sure there’s something similar on the PC.
Andy – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

That wasn’t really the problem. The files were properly named, but they were at work and I was at home.
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

Aaah, fair enough. Anyway, from what I see, I should have assumed you’d be on top of such things.
Andy – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

Have you heard their first album, “Fire”?
Milo – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

No, I haven’t, should I?
Caroline – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

It’s a lot more fun than this one, so… maybe.
Milo – 08 May 2005 – 09:53

I heard the singles from the first album, this album is completely different. I downloaded it after you wrote about it. Sounds nice.
Tom (link) – 08 May 2005 – 09:54