From the desk of a colleague #2...

Customer: Here, translator, finish this translation. As you can see, we have put in many of the English words ourselves. We are clever and are saving money ( Read more... )

In a fit of boredom, and in the knowledge that I'll probably be up all night because I have a stinking cold and I've been dozing on and off this evening, I've just fired up my Amstrad CPC emulator and am currently playing none other than the legendary Rock Star Ate My Hamster ( Read more... )

I always forget just how good London is for live music, and it's one of those things I ought to force myself to remember ( Read more... )

I just nipped out to the doctors' and noticed that the Evening Standard's sandwichboard headline today is "KILLER GUNS FOR HIRE". Call me wrongheaded, but I'm not convinced that's the ideal thing to be sitting outside newsagents all over London. :)

You can tell Rice Krispies from normal rice because the two look different, because one comes in a cereal packet and the other doesn't, and because you'd break your fucking teeth if you tried eating uncooked rice with milk for breakfast, you little twat ( Read more... )

Happy New Year to one and all. Don't it just feel like a Monday morning?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/6146826.stm

Yikes. I believe the murder site is just round the corner from where aliiis's family lives, whereas Rydal Road is near to two of my old schools (and my own parents live somewhere inbetween the two). Very strange when ( Read more... )

( So I went to Belgrade. )

The Weetabix Week: Because you're such a lousy parent that your kids are scared of vitamins!

From the desk of a colleague:

An employee in the Corporate Communications division of a leading German banking group today returned two files to us that I had translated, complaining that there were insurmountable formatting errors preventing her from editing the text ( Read more... )