Archive for March, 2004

It is amazing how “going to the loo” involves a great deal of slittering. slittering being defined as playing with water with zeal. As defined by the dow book of knowledge.

At the 2-3 year old stage it means making lovely sculptures with toilet paper and water in every possible surface in the bathroom.

At 5 it means getting as wet as possible while learning that those lovely spongy letters and numbers are not sweets, as previously discovered (where’s the rest of this letter gone????? at 4 yo), but are in fact little monsters/creatures on a wild adventure (white water rafting in the bathroom sink).

Also ramming the bathroom tap with this wonderful thing called soap is great fun and messy too.

I wonder if these things ll be in the baby manuals…aha! Maybe I should write one. hee hee.

Debbie.

“Is there a twenty pound note in this bag?” proclaimed the flash on the front of the crisp bag. Well, was there? I don’t care – what the flash should say is “Are there any fucking crisps in this bag?”, and the answer to that was “barely”. Oh the bag looks big and puffy and stuffed full of crispy goodness, but when you open it and there’s a sudden outrush of pressurised air, all that’s left is a little herd of crisps stuffed in the bottom of the bag beside a dirty great card saying “fuck off loser, no twenty quid for you but here’s a voucher for another bag of pressurised air”.

If they vaccuum packed em instead of going down the puffy bag route, they’d end up the size of a bloody oxo cube! Mined ewe, that wouldn’t be so bad – teensy little snack cubes – multipacks would be a damn sight easier to carry – how many times have I wrestled a dirty great box of fucking AIR into the back of my car? Too bloody many.

The other thing that pisses me off about them (except the recursive “here’s a twenty, oh no it’s another bag of sodding crisps” thing) is the flavour claims. Smokey Bacon my arse. I’ve tasted smokey bacon and it tastes bugger all like bacon crisps. And what about the poncy new pseud flavours aimed at yuppies and new media types? Can you imagine standing in a pub and asking for a packet of “cream cheese and chives” or “rock salt and bavarian sandmonkey”? For fuck’s sake! “oh I say, Farquar! Have you tasted those Quails tongue and Walrus tusk crisps? They’re simply delightful!”

If you came out with that in any of the pubs around here you’d be up to your eyes in chib wielding Neds and Chavs before you could say “pikey-bait”.

FUCK OFF! What the hell’s the matter with Ready Bloody Salted, eh? Basts!

Nelesoft’s first software release is on the cusp of completion. I reckon one late night caffiene-fuelled coding session will see it ready to go, bar testing. It’s quite exciting really. The development time has been a little, er, extended, but it’s come on leaps and bounds in the past few weeks. It’s my intention to make the software a MacOS X release only. If there’s enough (i.e. any) requests, I may do a Windows port but, to be honest, Windows users have enough software already. Besides, Windows users tend to not bother with nicities like licenses ;-)

Nelesoft’s first software release is on the cusp of completion. I reckon one late night caffiene-fuelled coding session will see it ready to go, bar testing. It’s quite exciting really. The development time has been a little, er, extended, but it’s come on leaps and bounds in the past few weeks. It’s my intention to make the software a MacOS X release only. If there’s enough (i.e. any) requests, I may do a Windows port but, to be honest, Windows users have enough software already. Besides, Windows users tend to not bother with nicities like licenses ;-)

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