Homemade Jelly

For the last few months I’ve been freelancing and whilst this does have some benefits: not getting on the evil tube crush, being able to work in a dressing gown, popping out to see friends for tea etc there are some serious drawbacks. The lack of (during the day) social contact comes top.


I’m lucky to have the opportunity to meet friends for lunch, as they live near by, but if they didn’t, I’d see no one…for days.

I have no illusions that I will become Jack Nicholson in The Shinning after a day or two, but other ‘workomers’ and their psyches might yet be saved via Jelly:

Hungry eyes

Ever get the feeling that eyes in an image are following you? This is the next step in that creepy evolution: http://cubo.cc/

For the love of Skype

Love and relationships can be tricky at the best of times but with the advent of SMS, Skype, social networking etc completely new levels of love ratdom can be achieved. Below is a pod from Current TV:

David Simon

The Wire has been praised ad nauseum over the interweb so I'll simply say, I can't find a single fault with the program. The creator of The Wire, David Simon gives a talk about 'the end of the American empire.' Why hasn't he been invited to talk at TED?

Google results envy

When I first started this blog I was way back on page nine and now only a small child, an associate tutor and a very talented comic book artist stand in my way. This is how Machiavelli must have felt.


From what I understand of Google Organic the small child is ranked higher due to the amount of times his name appears across the site, that or he’s got a massive family all linking to him like the Borg collective. The associate tutor must have many an enamored student linking to his profile. The comic book artist invariably has a small army of fan boys linking, discussing and gushing over his works.


Why even bother to disclose this information? I dunno, I didn’t care until I was so bored over the egg’s weekend that I Google smacked my name. Now the top is so close I can type it. The first two seem beatable. As for the comic artist you’ve got a digital David and Goliath thing going on. I’ve changed the title of this blog in an effort to make some in roads. We shall see if Google is a kind mistress in a few days or if I decide to grow up.

School's not cool but it could be

Monolith

My TV sits in the corner like that annoying person at parties, the one you try and avoid for fear of being trapped in a boring vortex. Poor TV, no longer are you the gateway to entertainment, learning and zoning out, well maybe the last one still holds true.


I can only think of three instances when I watch TV programs/the screen on the actual TV set:

1) Current TV – Although the quality of content on Current far surpasses that of say YouTube or the others, like Youtube et all I can’t watch it for hours on end via my laptop. I don’t know why. Maybe the screen isn’t big enough. Or maybe it’s the sentimental part of me that desperately wants something my long-standing friend TV and I can enjoy together.

2) Hung-over: When hung-over I’ve been known to watch appalling dross like, America’s Next Top Model, The Girls of the Playboy Mansion, Vanity Lair and many more programmes that if you watched in full sobriety you’d think humanity had actually taken an evolutionary step backwards.

3) Games! Well, not really anymore. Due to a sort of conscious objection (and lack of funds) I opted out of the ‘next gen’ console war. I’ve only had my DS and aging PS2 for company. That same sentimentality organ, that’s inoperable by the way, started secreting and I began to play some of my old PS2 games. “Lo, these games really do not bare another play through,” I thought.

So, providing I stop drinking, learn to watch Current on my laptop and finally get rid of my PS2, my TV really will become a monolith of a by gone era.