Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter et al diluted the realtime pool.
Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people pretending they are the centre of the universe is stupefyingly pointless — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. I can now omit vowels and apostrophes with impunity.
Vorsprung durch Technics
[1 comment] · 992 words (laps up about 5 mins)Forget Meccano. Lego is where it’s at. Even now it’s the epitome of construction cool, as I recently refound out.
Street lingo
· 258 words (munches about 2 mins)I’m so uncool. I’ve started campaigning for proper English usage. Word.
Amazon reviews of note
[2 comments] · 258 words (wastes about 2 mins)Hands up anyone who’s ever read a product review on Amazon? Ever written one? You really should flex those literary muscles and join the ranks of people with too much time on their hands.
Insult my loft
· 373 words (eats up about 2 mins)You’d have thought that unsolicited callers would have given up calling us by now. The number of times I’ve bought anything or given any detailed info about us is zero. But still they persist.
Quote me awkward
· 70 words (devours less than a minute)Doc Brown stumbles into difficulties dealing with customer service computer systems that aren’t designed for eccentric inventors.
Teen music fans get a bad name
· 67 words (sucks up less than a minute)If you had the job of marketing and promoting a teen rock festival, what would you call it?
QoS
· 136 words (vacuums up less than a minute)What’s over 40 years old and should be put to pasture? The BBC’s longest running quiz show, that’s what.
Radio 1 late to the party (again)
· 256 words (kills about 2 mins)Like their Big Weekend in Carlisle, Radio 1 think that bigging something up into the stratosphere makes it new and exciting. Once again, they demonstrate they are merely followers of fashion.
