they are sacrificial lambs – costs wise 6 music and BBC AN are small fry

it will almost certainly be insured on your credit card by the way

a colleague of mine at work was in the habit of leaving her brompton folded up by the door, whilst she took a seat. I would never do this – but she is a basically trusting sort

one day the inevitable happened and 2 young men in sportswear grabbed the bike and legged it off the train whilst it was stopped at a station

luckily she saw it happen, leapt off the train, ran up the platform, caught them up, grabbed the brompton from their sweaty clutches (I think she caught them by surprise by approaching from behind them). Not only that she also then leapt back onto the train just before it left the station.

she now stays with her bike whilst on the train

great stuff – thanks all

one name has come up from both of you, so I'll give them a call

bassspine – Member
smash granules in white bread with marge and tomato ketchup

I'm sorry but nothing can top this – I think I want to vomit just thinking about it

Did I hear this wrong – but does Marge not exist as a product anymore?

its all just a load of meaningless numbers

cheap hot dogs, in cheap white rolls, with squeezy mustard and ketchup

she texted me a bit later saying she was soaked, frezing and one of her boots had developed a leak – not good. But the forks look tremend!

you better bake real good

have you seen the documentary "Riding Giants"

Its a history of big wave surfing – but the bit about Mavericks is amazing

This one guy "discovered" it on his local patch – and surfed it alone for 12 years or so before other surfers caught on.

Then all the big name surfers came to try it with all the surfing press there etc- and one of the top Hawaiian guys got killed surfing it that same day

if you use a twitter client such as Tweetie, you can do this stuff easier (although you still need to tell it to shorten the URL)

6 and 5 months old – might be a bit old to worry about?

Although to be honest, if you need good quality equipment for a song to work, you're listening to crap music. Like that Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus someone posted up there, that is genius, and still sounds great on a pair of cheap laptop speakers.

great article a while ago in the Word magazine (I think) about modern mastering techniques. Pretty much all modern music is compressed like crazy so that it sounds good on/ and the vocals can be heard clearly on/ a cheap mobile phone speaker or a transistor radio.

this definately means that quite a large slice of new music being produced now will not sound significantly better on an expensive system – because all that detail that the expensive system is deigned to pick out just isn't there anymore to be picked out

morvelo

these chaps do design as a day job alongside making rather nice cycle gear/ ts etc

pedalhead

where do you live?

I'll come round and keep you company next time you watch a film

I'll evan bring a bag of butterkist!

but how do you know they are doing it less well? were you in the control room of abbey road when dark side of the moon was recorded?

presenting it in a musical way with proper pitch, pace, rhythm and timing.

this statement really is utter, utter nonsense.

I don't doubt for a minute that a nice hifi will sound very, very good – and do the best job possible of reproducing whatever has been recorded to vinyl or CD. I have no doubt that you stand a better chance of hearing detail on certain instruments that will be lost when listening on a transistor radio

but the pitch of a note is the pitch of the note, the rhythmn is the rhythmn and no expensive speakers are going to change that

sorry

but "spaces" on mac osx is great if you have lots of windows open at once – lets you basically have multiple desktops

so might have one running e-mail/ safari/ twitter client

another with my actual work in – say a word doc

and another running itunes or spotify

helps bring a bit of calm to things

what other pets have people eaten?

must resist "are you being served" joke 😡

bonnie prince billy – master and everyone

the opposite of something like dark side of the moon, but very "immersive" on headphones

yes – well done all and thanks Guitarhero

what's next – STW jazz fusion jam? 😀

i run 100mm maguras on mine, and before that 100mm rebas

it feels great, fast turning etc – not "twitchy" unless you spend all your time riding slack angled bikes

I expect you will love it coming off a bike that already uses 100mm forks

read and article in the guardian about it a few months ago. They were trying to make it sound sinister/ exciting. I suspect the reality is lots of nerds/ conspiracy nuts and perverts browsing sites laid out with "dangerous" looking fonts

when I was there with the family in April last year, we used the open top tourist bus tour thing. It sounds cheesy but it was actually very good – buses doing laps of the city with a recorded commentary on local history etc. Then you could just hop off when a place takes your fancy, then get back on the bus when you are ready (buses come by every half hour or so). Bus goes over the GGB, past the park, chinatown, north beach etc so you can get a good feel for the city over the course of a day. Then maybe use the cable cars to visit places that take your fancy in more detail on other days.

I suspect "matt from leicester" doesn't exist

instead whoever put the website together nicked some photos to get things started – and put some made up names on

same as the bbc using production team/ production teams kids to call in as competition winners

tyger – what happened to the 62 strat you were kind of recreating from bits? think it was you who posted about it last year. Project still ongoing – or abandoned now you have the real thing?

oxnop – it's nationwide

thanks for the help

to clarify

she spoke to the building society in October – and all was fine then

maybe black mark is strong – she missed a payment (she says she never got the bill, but "mislaid" it is more likely". she is all paid up now .

she is enrolled in credit alert things from equifax, and it came up on that. Maybe "black mark" is too strong but it will show up I think

just have to hope that its too low level to cause any issues

if it was white wine, pour a glass of red over it

if red – pour over white

it'll be like it never happened after that

but this ones real – did you not follow the link. The plane crash was reported on the BBC website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I imagine they are a "franchise opportunity"

I would think that when trying to choose a franchise to open – most people play it safe and open a burger king or KFC. Mexican food just isn't as popular here as in the US

retro83 – Member
the only benefit of valentines day is that it offers a convenient opportunity to amass points which can be reclaimed on steak'n'blowy day

only joking

it's never steak'n'blowy day

you've given me an idea for a new restaurant chain

"Sizzlin Noshers – where every day is steak'N"blowy day!"

its going to be big

GaryLake – Member
I love how STW automatically assumes zaskar is white btw!

nope – can't see where/ how anyone has done that

there was a report on Radio 4 the other day about robot technology being used in Iraq/ Afghanistan – including talk of an unmanned vehicle that could fuel itself via "organic matter" it found on its travels

When they named the company developing this stuff I half expected it to be called Skynet

I always buy 2 bags of beans at a time from hasbean – keeps the cost down a bit

"as is pop. this is music to make the listener not think. "

really? I would disagree strongly with that – just because something is popular doesn't mean it can't be thought provoking/ interesting/ original / whatever

phiiiiil – Member
I haven't seen the film, but I thought the book was a bit rubbish – it was just a vehicle to contain the text of the "secret book" or whatever it was called. He should have just published it on its own as a political essay rather than making up a pretty rubbish story to go around it. But of course then he wouldn't have sold millions of copies to people who wanted it on their bookshelf where other people would see it… </cynic>

the whole pointy is that he wanted people to read his book. Would a political essay be getting read in schools today?

People seem to be looking at the story as if it just came out – if you can't see the significance of the story/ when it was written, and how its become more and more relevant each year then I'm amazed

I'd put 1984 and Animal Farm in the same shelf. They are both very overrated

Given the enormous cultural impact both of these novels have had in the recent past, and continue to exert, that is one of less impressive comments I've ever read on this forum

it's like the "Beatles are overrated" debate all over again

I've not read the book of starship troopers – but I was always led to believe that the film is effectively a parody of the book

ie The book is a right wing fantasy (and not satirical), Starship Troopers (the film) is a very funny satire of the source novel, and present day US foreign policy (as Robocop was a satire of US policing methods and the tide turning to privatisation of law enforcement)

Be interested to hear from people who have read the book if I have got that wrong

30 Rock is all kinds of awesome – but a comedy not a drama

series 3 ended on comedy central on Monday night

hasbean are great – coffee always delicious, and very fast turnaround on orders. They seem to be busy roasting and shipping over the weekends as well as during the week