The Paperclip Script

A mere test, the potential of web 2.0

Chris — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:15:57 +0000

This is a short post, just to highlight an experiment I am carrying out. I am currently seeing how many blogs I can start and maintain with posterous as a blog manager. So far 5 platforms have this blog sent to it. Extra challange, i can only update them from my phone. Not sure how suessful it’ll be!

The absurdity of it all… An elegy to 21st Century insomnia.

Chris — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:14:04 +0000

So, it's 5:02am and I have been up for two hours. I have read, played with google latitude, made cheese on toast and tried to sleep. I have taken two Kalms that might help, but I am doubting it very much.

I try and keep most of my personal life out of this blog, because it's a long a complicated situation that would take hours to explain without any guarantee that you would understand any of it. I say that because I don't fully understand most of it, so it's not suprising I try and avoid explaining the finer details.

Laura is expecting to move out next weekend, the 21st to be exact. I am suprised that she is moving so quickly and in many respects, I am suprised that she has found the money to do so.
It has left me in a very tight position. Without a fridge/freezer, without a matress or a bed, without a television (this is the source of most contention) and now without a car.

I don't want the car, I do want the television and given she is having a vast amout of expensive furniture for pretty much nothing, I have not got a sniff of gratitude throughout the whole thing. I really felt that this was going to be an amicable process but I am starting to feel that the whole thing could quickly escalate in to materialistic chaos.

But then who said divorce was easy.

Tomorrow I am off to see the mortgage company with the intention of taking her off the mortgage. If not, then I will have to look at the current situation as a temporary stopgap, rather then any permanence.

Soup

Chris — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:12:50 +0000

Liquidity, preserve our
Waist lines. Fat free,
Nice when home made.
Cans, not quite the
same, a bit too thick.
Not like planks, as
plank soup tastes
like builder’s skin.

Untitled

Chris — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:29:32 +0000

I am having a test run to see if I can paste larrgee amounts of text
in to something.

A good film.

Chris — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:44:12 +0000

Going to see Bright Stars at the Picture House, review when I can be bothered. Day was tiring but good, drank tea and ran around, no change there. Just had nice gammon steak at ’spoons, seen guy with amazing chin, Tori drawing him as I write.

Testing

Chris — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:24:11 +0000

Nothing interesting, just testing something out…

Willows and Pillows

Chris — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:39:48 +0000

As another weekend draws it’s final curtains, I look back and realise what a testing week it has been. I’m in no doubt that things will be better this week, but we will find out.
I’ve figured out the WordPress app on my phone, so hopefully I’ll be much more active now with updates and thoughts. More later, Chris out…

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Discovering things in shops…

Chris — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:33:21 +0000

So, after work, I decided that to lessen the blow of having to go to the Halifax to make an appointment to see a mortgage advisor, I would visit Bookcycle and see what they had in. Of course I needed to go via Sainsburys which means a compulsory stop to The Boston Tea Party and an oppurtunity to ravage WH Smiths.
So, Bookcycle brought up a few gems. First off, a book of Baudelaire’s selected poetry which was brilliant as he was mentioned by Luke Kennard at a recent book launch, and the inspiration behind one of his new poems in his new book ‘The Migraine Hotel’ entitled ‘Spade’. One of the first French Symbolists, if not the first, his poetry was recognised by the surrealism and symbolic nature that came to be the signature of the movement.
Most of the book is in french but has translations as well. I also picked up a book of talks given by Betjemen about hymn writing and a book of poetry by Leonard Nimoy when he suddenly realised he was crap at acting anything else other then emotionally anal aliens, so he’d better try and find something else to do. He seemed to end up doing photography in the end, but here was his foray in to poetry.
After that I had to go to Bostons and read through my acquisitions over a nice cup of house blend and a sausage bap.
Next was over the WH Smiths to root through the sale items, picking up a good notebook and a parker fountain pen for £2.00, I was also chuffed to pick up a copy of ‘The Bloggers Handbook’, a book/magazine thing that has the content of a magazine but strangely the price of a book. I have looked through and the price of the information really isn’t worth it, so I’ll take it back tomorrow after work as really…£12.99 for tutorials you can get online and information that really is out there in the open domain.
So tonight, reading, eating and an early night. Oh and some writing too.

My Christmas List

Chris — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:38:37 +0000

It is about this time of year that I keep being asked the same question.

“What do you want for Christmas!?”

I normally look at people with the sort of blank stare that I would give a University Challange question on the co-efficient triangulation of the construction of an equation to work out the width of a pea.

So, to help people I am have given some thought as to what sort of Christmas presents might be a good idea. There are a few which are very much pie-in-sky but some which are attainable. None of them are expensive. I will edit this post as I think of new things.

Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
A laptop. Yes I have five but they are either old or broken.
TK Maxx voucher
Book token
Second hand book shop (whole thing)
Publishing contract from Faber and Faber
A small island with nuclear bunker so that I can survive the end of the world.
Nine large avacados.
Something radio controlled and flyable.
Anything by Hugo Williams, preferably ‘West End Final’
Anything by Simon Armitage

OK so that’s it so far, not great but I’ll add to it when I come up with things.

Nokia 5800

Chris — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:49:03 +0000

Well I am happy to say I have a new phone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njEG9CcMs74

However, I am still trying to get my head around it, so new reviews about it at the moment. Expect strange posts from me whilst I am trying to work it all out.