I’ll see your Nikon…..

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Not a nice thing to say……

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Lunch at La Gallerie with an iPhone 4

 

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“WTF is he shooting at?”

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“Looks like 30 some odd givers of zero f#%^s to me…”

Archery in Afghanistan

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 5 February 2013

T4TAntonia Jane – Lightning Dust [Listen]
Bare – Matt Nathanson – Live [Listen]
Boogie (Tripe Face Boogie) (From Sessions for Sailin’ Shoes) – Little Feat – Hotcakes & Outtakes [Listen]
Ich Will Dich – Michy Reincke – Mach Dein Herz Laut [Listen]
Just One Kiss – Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers – Roots Music – an American Journey 3 [Listen]
NY Hanamojo – Tarika Ramilson – A World Out of Time – Henry Kaiser & David Lindley in Madagascar, Vol. 3 (1993) [Listen]
She Sells Sanctuary – The Cult – Pure Cult: the Singles 1984-1995 [Listen]
The Take Over, The Break’s Over – Fall Out Boy – Infinity On High [Listen]
Teardrop Windows – Benjamin Gibbard – BIRP! September 2012 [Listen]
We Are Young – Ennui – BIRP! May 2011 [Listen]

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Countrymen

An ignorant Lancastrian having occasion to go to France, was surprised on his arrival to hear the men speaking French, the women speaking French, and the children jabbering away in the same tongue.

In the height of the perplexity which this occasioned, he retired to his hotel, and awakened in the morning by the cock crowing, whereupon he burst into a wild exclamation of astonishment and delight, crying, ‘Thank goodness! there’s English at last!’

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Feynman for a Saturday

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Comfortably numb

Cover and original

Close your eyes and pick the difference if you can…

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Before and after

 

1&!

 

1&1 is one of the leading broadband retailers in the German market. They obviously buy their bandwidth from Telekom, the infrastructure monopolist and they’re limited to what Telekom gives them.

Which is around 3Mb/s with nothing faster on the horizon.

Kabel Deutschland

Enter Kabel Deutschland.

We get our TV feed from them and – for €29.90/NZ$50/US$40 a month (with a 30% discount for the first year) – we get

  • up to 32Mb/s
  • No data cap
  • Free national calls
  • Calls to Europe and USA under 10c/minute

!&1 made a valiant attempt to retain me as their longtime (10 year) customer.

They wrote, saying “Give us a call on this regular phone number to let us try and convince you to stay with us….”

Yeah right…

 

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 29 January 2013

T4TBad Day – Darwin Deez – BIRP! January 2010 [Listen]
Black Velvet Band – The Dubliners – Original Dubliners [Listen]
Blissed Out – Junk Culture – BIRP! May 2011 [Listen]
Bonaparte’s Retreat – Kay Starr – Billboard Top 30 – 1950 [Listen]
Do It Again – Guards – BIRP! January 2012 [Listen]
Don’t Bogart Me – The Fraternity of Man – Easy Rider [Listen]
Have a Drink on Me – Lonnie Donegan – King of Skiffle [Listen]
This is the Song of Songs – Andrew Rose Gregory & The Color Red Band – The Song of Songs [Listen]
Wide Open Spaces – The Dixie Chicks – History of Country Vol. 19 – 1995-99 [Listen]
You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) – Bruce Springsteen – The River [Listen]

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