Russell Davies

teen machine

ToysRUs have also invented this rather ungainly jargon - teentronics. Presumably they mean the kind of surly electronics which only work when they want to. Ha ha.

what, absolutely no chance?

I saw this at toys 'r' us at the weekend. How bad a design does this have to be? So bad that it demands this kind of warning. It's one of those Amstrad phone/emailler things. You almost take it as a challenge, just to see if it can be done.

showstudio

taking liberty's is a great project from showstudio. the signs explain it all really. i took these a while back but was reminded of it by things.

and this is me. 12 noon on Feb 26th. very cold day. on my way to a meeting.

beautiful and/or sad

Saw this this morning in Great Titchfield Street

i am pedant, hear me roar

I know this is a real old sore. And I know this isn't the most grammatically correct, or well-spelled blog in the world. But I still get occasional delight from a bit of pedantry, especially spotting inappropriate quotation marks. Because they're always so undermining. Like this great example from the music shop in the Royal Festival Hall in the South Bank. Which you'd have thought would have pretentions to being quite a literate place. But no, they seem to be telling us that they're special offers aren't so great after all.

(and no, that incorrect 'they're' was not ironic. it was a mistake. i'm an idiot.)

more words

once upon a time all you had to say was this...

now, it seems, you have to say all this...

the opposite of invisible

it's the strangest thing...

...people are starting to read this. And not just people I already know. It's a very nice feeling. But weird. And other, brilliant blogs like i like and things, have linked to me and said lovely things. Which is like being on TOTP or something. What's odd is the funny truths it forces you to acknowledge. You pretend that you're just writing it for yourself. But obviously you're not. You're writing it to be read by people; with a funny mixture of arrogance and showing-off; but when people start to find it you begin to feel nervous. Ah, bollocks, whatever.

modest retail

this is my favourite electrical shop. on cleveland street, in london. I don't know why it's called 'THE B ELECTRICAL CO'. But I like to think it's because the owner thought 'THE A ELECTRICAL CO' was too arogant. And they sell tin soldiers too.

new ideas about new ideas

Just tried to read New Ideas About New Ideas. It may contain some new ideas, but it was so densely written and badly laid-out that I couldn't really persevere with it.

Found a couple of interesting quotes though:

'Our beliefs determine our measurements' - Einstein

'We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are' - Anais Nin

'Reality is nothing but a collective hunch' - Lily Tomlin (The Search For Intelligent Life in The Universe

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