Passing clouds of inconsequential observations
Himself I used the instrumental “Best Batch Yet” for the Jam Making Movie so here is [wikipop]Captain Beefheart[/wikipop] in 1980 with a vocal version…
The offerings on YouTube seem decidedly low Def so I shall rummage in my boxes and see what I can fish out… “if you want to be a different fish, you’ve got to jump out of the school.”… Beefheart said claiming he tried school for half a day and never went back. His high school graduation photograph somewhat counters the claim.
The BBC obituary
Excuse me while I bang my head against the wall…. Ah that’s better. So you move to a new address. So you need to tell the [wikipop]DVLA[/wikipop] your new address. You can fill in the new address on the back of the old driving licence and send it to them via snail mail or you can do it online. Being an online type of chap I opt for the latter. After some time filling and clicking my way through the online form I am informed that…
They even have the nerve to use Online in the form’s title…
Does [wikipop]Martha Lane Fox[/wikipop] know about this? She does not mention it. Excuse me while I print out my form and pop it and my old driving licence into an envelope, find a stamp, trudge out into the snow and post it…. roll on the [wikipop]Digital revolution[/wikipop]/[wikipop search=”Gershon Review”]Joined up government[/wikipop]/[wikipop]Brave New World[/wikipop] (Delete as appropriate).
Caught the end of the TV documentary Smash His Camera (available on iPlayer until 28th December 2010) about the American photographer [wikipop]Ron Galella[/wikipop]. As the camera panned around his basement vault a couple of boxes caught my eye…
…you realise just how many mice you have – even a boxed [wikipop search=”Apple Desktop Bus”]ADB [/wikipop] one…
…although you use the Magic Trackpad for everything these days. There are probably a couple more somewhere ;-).
We have moved.
Throw another log on the fire and I shall regale you with tales of a hired van with rear doors that refused to stay shut due to worn locks, a new home with leaking roof, the inevitable BT cock ups (two weeks off-line!) which resulted in our switching to a Virgin Media broadband/TV/phone package…
More to follow….