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Fame at last (sort of)
My friend up in Edinburgh has started selling his own brews to pubs in the Edinburgh area and has started renting out a local microbrewery to mass produce his creations. He's called it "Innocente brewing company" after himself and I managed to win naming his first beer which is the "Bystander". I actually came up with several names and suggested a ( Read more... ) -
top albums of 2011
This one's a little late but I like to try and get these things down if just so I can look back and see how my tastes change or remind myself to check out a forgotten classic.
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good song
It's funny how some albums slowly creep up on you. I've been a fan of Apparat for a while but it's taken me of 6 month for his most recent album to "click". As is usually the case, I'm left wondering why it took so long to realise it was so good. A particularly good example is this one.
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Don't do drugs kids
http://youtu.be/UVu0VGAVuOw Tygra is the man and Mumm-ra is creepier than ever. Why did he have to pose as a female fairy?
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Super smart animals
Anyone with access to BBC's iplayer should try and check http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01by6lm/Super_Smart_Animals_Episode_2/ . It's a little bit dumbed down but has some excellent examples across the animal kingdom that humans aren't the only intelligent creatures. The presenter does a good job of building up all the criteria of what ( Read more... ) -
Snow in London
Thank God for facebook, Otherwise I'd never have known it had snowed in London now I'm living "oop norff". Apparently I'm 261 miles Northwest of london now. I found this great site that tries to make Flimby seem fun http://visitflimby.com/our-town/our-town-2/ enjoy!
While I'm back I will try and compile a dictionary of cumbrian phrases as it will ( Read more... ) -
why my generation in the UK probably like Fantasy
When I was 8 years old our school used to show us educational programs to encourage us to read and spell. The series was called "look and read". The one I have the fondest memories of was "Through the Dragon's eye" which was a bit like the chronicles of Narnia but with a highly literate dragon as opposed to a lion.
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Twins
Last week over coffee my (old) lab were talking about identical twins. The usual stuff was cropping up like how can identical twins brought up in the same home have different personalities (we figure it's because they aren't treat exactly the same - one might be a favourite or initially submissive to the other one) and the question of spare parts ( Read more... ) -
livejournal new year's resolutions.
Inspired by Xray's post I thought I'd play too: http://thesurrealist.co.uk/newyear
Give up sufjan stevens.
Spend more time with my
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time out cryptic christmas walk
I noticed this http://www.inthehiddencity.com/time-out-cryptic-christmas/ advertised last weekend and thought it would be a fun way to spend an afternoon. It also had the advantage of being free, It almost didn't happen due to the incredibly bad weather report ( Read more... )
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