One of the staff at Norwood Junction station has a habit of announcing where our late running train has reached/just left the preceding station. I’m sure he’s just trying to be helpful but his wording irks me every time. The [train] has just left East Croydon and is due in x minutes time
. No. No, it’s not due then; it’s due when the timetable says, normally several minutes ago. That’s just when you expect it to arrive.
[Annoyed]
Just seen one of those weather forecast summary things in a website sidebar. 100% chance of rain
. You don’t say!
You don’t say
[Wetly Amused]
Difference is the mackems have something to play for (clinging on to premiership) while our midfield doesn’t know what to do without Cabaye and the players wonder what the point is. Effort and passion, why bother when there’s no ambition? Get out of our club you cockney bastard, and wanker Kinnear (couldn’t sign an autograph). #nufc
[Pissed Off]
I’ve just begun to develop a lighting scheme (for a school hall and extension) in Dialux. As I was examining the space I’d built I came across this view—couldn’t help but think of a modernist painting; accidental art in the building services!
Liking the Depressed Alien webcomic by Connor Ullmann; made me laugh.
Title Text: Alien blinks
Title Text: Alien expresses typographical discomfort
Title Text: Only happens once in a full moon, too
Title Text: Alien is afraid of the dark. Still.
Final got a page up about The Greenways, one of EngDesigns recent projects. One of the first zero-carbon residential developments with some interesting features.
Alan Turing pardoned. About time; now do the same for all the others convicted under that law.
World Cup draw. Here we go…
Italy
Costa Rica
Uruguay
Arrrgggg
[Nervous]