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10:26 : Vote Early! Vote Often!
You have voted havent you? Or you intend to I hope.

For the first time in a while I actually didnt spoil my ballot paper or vote for the Monster Raving Loonies. I may have even voted for a mainstream political party.

15:37 : Amusing Sunburn!
( Image and poll. May contain flesh (sfw) )

Tags: elephant, gun, poll, sunburn

14:47 : 64 and counting
Its warm and sunny in spain. Although it is cloudy at the moment. I seem to have tanned quite a lot already.

The trip down was relatively uneventful. We did Godalming to La Mora in just under 18 hours in the car. We actually did the eurotunnel to the french/spanish border in just under 11 hours.

We had 62 confirmed sightings of windsocks[1] in france. We think there were another 2 but didnt see them. One of the ones we missed was on the villau viaduct. which is pretty impressive.

Biggest sign the machines are taking over is that one of the roadsigns told me i was going to fast. It did freak me out a bit.

Finished 1 book so far. House of suns. I had stopped reading this after about 100 pages a few months ago but made an effort to carry on during this holiday and it was worth it. Obviously just a slow start. Now finally reading Executive Orders by Tom Clancy after having owned it for about 5 years. Its been pretty good so far. I get the impression I might be missing stuff by not having read the previous book but I dont feel to out of the loop. A lot of what you need to know gets regurgitated.



[1] Windsocks are an important part of every car journey. honest.

Tags: books, spain, windsocks

23:47 : watchmen
Since my cough was tolerable today I went to the cinema to see Watchmen. It was good. I had reread it on sunday. The changed ending made sense. I didnt miss the bits which were dropped. Music was a touch loud at times. Which was probably covering for the lack of dialogue at times.

11:12 : Is it pie?
In an effort to rid the world of heretical pies I finally bought isitpie.com the other day and put some content up.

I have further plans but for now I feel it gets my main point across.
hmm pie.

Tags: pie, web

13:52 : Peanut butter and jelly burger.

Peanut butter and jelly burger.
Originally uploaded by rjw1

this weeks special at ground

13:05 : A day at the rugby.


So yesterday I went to Twickenham to watch South Africa beat England. (well humilate actually but at least we didnt play as badly as we did in the pool game in last years world cup.)
In our continueing quest to photograph everything on RGL I went to Strawberry Hill from Waterloo to grab a few photos on the way into Twickenham. So I've now ticked off the Prince Albert, the Prince Blucher, the Prince of Wales and Sagar. Although I need to go back to two of the pubs at some point to sample thier wares. The strawberry hill train is strange because its final destination keeps on changing until you get to strawberry hill at which point it becomes a waterloo train. This is because it's on the Kingston Loop Line.

Before the match there was soem confusion about which pub we were meeting in. So we ended up in the Grand Union which was okay and makes a change from the Cabbage Patch.

After the match we went back to the Grand Union to watch the welsh match. Who played a lot better than we did.

Then we went to Clapham to find an Indian Restaurantfor dinner. The first one we stumbled upon was Indian Moment which was pretty good if not a little full.

We finished the evening with a quick pint in the dependable Falcon. Which I recommend if you want a quick pint near Clapham Junction Station

Tags: indian, pubs, rgl, rugby, twickenham

14:02 : Double Standards
When I commute into work I always think why do the people Ive followed up from the Jubilee Line at Westminster bother to get on a tube to St Jame's Park when they should just walk and not fill up the carriages.
Yet when I leave the Buckingham Arms after a few beers I'm quite happy to take the tube for that one stop. Does this make me a hypocrite?

Then again it is quite a walk and at least I didnt take a taxi home instead.

17:51 : Watch out for apples!

Watch out for apples!
Originally uploaded by rjw1

On the way back form taking my mother to Gatwick I stopped in Chelsfield. Where I had a quick drink in the Chelsfield and quite a nice lunch in the Five Bells.

Whilst walking between the two I spotted this sign. It amused me. The tree was quite high and the apples were of a decent size.

Tags: apple, chelsfield, pubs

15:12 : Steak!
For lunch today I did the 25oz rump steak challenge at Chakalaka in Chiswick. I had thought this was too easy so I set a personal target of 10 minutes. I did this with at least 8 seconds to spare. My exif data doesnt lie.before-after. I think i could of gone faster however I was talking to cow-orkers aswell.

For this feat I won a t-shirt which doesnt fit me.

I am now full of steak.

Next challenge is to see if I can bankrupt them with their all you can eat ribs offer at lunchtimes.

Tags: food, rgl, south africa, steak, tshirt

10:11 : Obama conspiracy!
Obama is obviously an icelandic ocelot

Tags: animalmen, conspiracy, election, kook, ocelot

19:40 : The new routemaster?

The new routemaster?
Originally uploaded by rjw1.

The future of transport in london? we could have one each with a driver. or we could make linked trains of them and have AIs drive them.

17:41 : Pig + Fire = yum



Hmmm piggy goodness

17:57 : Semiconductor archives

Semiconductor archives
Originally uploaded by rjw1.

While wondering around Deptford the other day I came across this intriguing shop.

Tags: deptford, interesting, shop

21:03 : gbbf
So its the first full week of august this means its gbbf time.
I will be there all day on wednesday and thursday. I may be there friday afternoon. this calls for a poll.
( gbbf attendance poll )

23:44 : Jon does a forfeit



Were making jon do bad things

16:13 : is is the weekend yet?
( A poll for your amusement )

Tags: poll

17:09 : Work
$newjob is okay. Im almost used to getting up at 7am for a 9am start. The leaving at 17:30 is quite good though.

The best bit of course is having a new area to explore for RGL review purposes. Chiswick it would seem has a lot of good restaurants and pubs. Ive only had go to two(Oriental Brasserie and Yupa's of them twice and thats because other people wanted to go. I still havent run out of new places to try. One of which is michelin starred(La Trompette) and another which is the sister restaurant to Le Cassoulet

16:50 : eastercon 2008
I went to my first Eastercon at easter. I enjoyed myself. Who knew that going to programme items could be fun. All the items with Neil Gaiman were great even other panelists did seem to defer to him. I really enjoyed the critical items i went to. The not the clarke awards was particulary great. I also did a fair few of the comic panels.
China Mieville GoH spot was very good. Charlie Strosses was okay but it was stuff i mostly knew anyway. The funniest panel was almost certainly sex and the singularity.


The beer was pretty good in the real ale bar and on the monday night I even talked to random people I didnt already know. I even geeked out about the eee with Charlie Stross and someone else at David Devereux. Also Charlie showed off his sony ebook reader. Very shiny it was.

Im thinking about going to LX next year. Although Im not entirely sure about the guests. I certainly intend to go to Odyssey in 2010. Since Im a big fan of two of the guests and Heathrow isnt Bradford. Possibly as soul destorying but a lot closer to home. Not that I felt the need to flee as much as I thought I might have done. Although breakfast was a bit scary at times.

I also found a few pubs outside the hotel whilst I was there. I had to escape from the fans. There was only so much I could take. :) things within 2k of the radisson edwardian

hmm this seems to have actually turned into a coherent con report. How strange. Blarp

14:40 : yet more wrongness
( a photo this time )

not that any of you have worked out what i thought was wrong on the last one