the possibly accurate nowMon, 18 Jul 2005
[07:29] The Fragility Of Objects
Date: 7/18/05 at 3:29PM
I've always had a bit of a reputation for things "just breaking off in my hands" and this skill ,or whatever you want to call it, is still alive and well. In my time here so far I have managed to:
- Break the middle of an Argus flatpack hutch assembly
- Put my foot through my friends bed
- Snap the leg off a desk
- Rip the valve out of my friends bicycle tyre
None of this was intentional but the shoddy construction of English goods is costing me a lot of money.
I had a pretty good weekend. We finished GTA:San Andreas late on Friday night (and I am now addicted to Plush by the Stone Temple Pilots because I listened to Radio X too much in the cars). I finished listening to Steve Wozniaks
speech at Gnomedex 4.0 on the way home on the bus. I highly recommend this if you haven't already heard it. It is quite old now (October 2004) but the way he describes building the first computers is amazingly approachable, I want to build one like that too now!
I got my copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I didn't go and queue up, I bought it for £7.99 on Saturday afternoon from the supermarket. I don't know how they can sell it for that price as that is less than 50% of the RRP! Unfortunately I'm a voracious reader and I've only 100 pages to go. I've enjoyed it and I don't know what the critics are all whining about.
I also tried to get a phone (you don't get a dodgy free one over here) and my neighbours sugested Argus. As mentioned above I've already had a run-in with Argus but I thought I'd give it a shot so I navigated my way to Victoria and checked it out. Argus is a most bizarre place. They have a catalouge the size of a phone book (they sell EVERYTHING) and you peruse this, noting down the catalog numbers of the objects you require. You then hand your slip of paper over the counter and someone wanders off into the warehouse to find your goods. I'm not really keen on this as I prefer to see the quality (or lack thereof) of the goods I'm forking out cash for so I am still phoneless.
For a bit of physical activity I went to Battersea Park on Sunday afternoon and tried to get the hang of
Devilsticks. They are deceptively hard and I nearly took out several passers-by with my flailings.
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