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So there is no rugby on now that I can watch

I have 1.5 Terrabytes (1,500 gigabytes) of music on my hord-disk. Oh ja roysh.

Most of it is dead-mans music. Which I find to be the best. No dinky-dinky-dum or rapcrap for moi.

Well that's it. Back from the second concert featuring my work in two days. This time I was the composer out of the limelight and behind the mixing desk. Now my undergraduate degree is over, I feel at a complete loss. It's been my life for the past three months. I really don't know what to do with myself between now and September. It's an empty page; any suggestions?

Listening to my music being played today in the Lab, diffusing it- was such a satisfying experience. Just felt like 'my life wouldn't make much sense without this in it'. Bring on next year.

greybeard wrote:

Gibson wrote:Actually, the answer is either 1000 MB = 1 GB or 1024 MB = 1 GB, depending on the context.

I would argue further and say it is 1024 if you're dealing with facts, and 1000 if you work for the marketing department and are a lying shyte.

Yeah Grey, been dealing with that one for over 30 years now. We used dream of gigabytes. The whole of FIAT UK ran on a floor as big as football-pitch. Total = 20mbs.

What's wrong with the BBC?!

Question of Sport's on tonight, and one of the guests is Patrick Kielty. Yes, Patrick Kielty, that well-loved sportsman. This comes after appearances on the show by Brian Blessed and Nick Flip Knowles.

David Coleman would be turning in his grave if he was dead.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:What's wrong with the BBC?!

Question of Sport's on tonight, and one of the guests is Patrick Kielty. Yes, Patrick Kielty, that well-loved sportsman. This comes after appearances on the show by Brian Blessed and Nick Flip Knowles.

David Coleman would be turning in his grave if he was dead.

I was going to say they probably decided they needed to bring in a comedian to boost ratings, but then you mentioned Patrick Kielty. So I'm stumped to be honest.

Get on ITV2 - American Idol Finale! Always loads of stars on there!

Hobo do you moderate an American Idol forum. At home tonight looking after my sister. Might let her have a bottle of beer and watch a movie with me. Sure she's not old enough but a bottle will be good for her.

They've really messed up the show, Notch. If a programme's been running that long, the chances are that the format works and you should keep it as it is. Now they have really stupid rounds and non-sports guests. It's just a shame.

Did you see the Sports Personality of the Year show last year? That was an absolute shambles.

That's always been a farce. And I've never enjoyed a Question of Sport at all. The things that make really successful sportsmen and women admirable- their tunnel vision, their dedication, their self-confidence, their competitiveness- make them pretty boring to watch on TV in my opinion when they aren't doing what they do best.

I'd rather watch a panel show with some comedians or musicians, you know, neurotic wrecks and egotists. Insecure creative types with God complexes and poorly concealed coke habits. That's just much more fun all round.

That said, the Panel Show has been drastically overdone as a format. The only one I'd occasionally put on is HIGNFY.

No, I like a Question of Sport. They don't ask sportsmen to be entertaining, just to answer questions about sport - well, until recently anyway.

What annoyed me most about the Sports Personality of the Year was that it didn't provide a review of the year sport by sport, which it always has in the past. It was just a mish-mash of video montages and non sequiturs. Maybe that's what people want.

Fair enough. It's not going to end well if they try and turn it into Mock The Week. But I think it's ratings are low anyway, hence the desperate tricks.

It might go the way of Top Of The Pops.

Sky have a QoS-style show now, hosted by James Corden. That's even worse.

Ugh, James Corden... oh dear.

Ahh... Belshaft.

14 bomb alerts and dozens of DeLoreans trapped in the subsequent traffic jams, due to some knd of DeLorean owners' anniversary celebration. No-one can get home from the city centre, so there's hundreds in the pubs, with a Bank Holiday weekend vibe. What a gloriously odd city.

Fun times Don. You stuck out there?

? Back to the Past not the Future

poissonrouge wrote:? Back to the Past not the Future

Hope Don can make like a tree and get out of there.

Nah, just walked home. But I love - absolutely relish - that sense that things are simply beyond your control. A lot of people get so worked up when their real powerlessness is demonstrated. I find it liberating - shrugged, went for a few pints, dandered home.

poissonrouge wrote:? Back to the Past not the Future

Brilliant.

Don,
Get hold of a flux-capacitor and travel past it man.

Listening to TV On the Radio, Fela Kuti and Kate Bush on the mp3 player. Now away to get a bottle of Laphroaig. Sometimes, it all comes good.

Don't ee knock it all back at once (The Laphroaig)

Don, did you hear about Gerard Smith of TV on the Radio? Terrible news.

Not to put a downer on your evening, of course...

Don,
It is the best way to handle those things. It's bad for the heart & soul if you let it get to you. Same happened to me, trying to get to the UK for Christmas from Dublin, after a few snowdrops fell. Only in Ireland. People were passing out with anger at Dublin Airport having been told they would not make Christmas Day with their families, all over the World. I left the place and re-booked online for 1st thing the next day. Went for pints and enjoyed them immensely. Happy with my cool.

In the past, I would have lost the plot with some poor defenceless check-in person. Not good for anyone concerned.

I'd love a Delorean. Big hapes of sheet but... sooo cool. Not to be sniffed at.

Mr Fish - I won't make any promises I can't keep. LP - awful, just awful.

Incredible try for Toulouse in the semi in France!

Beautiful rugby from deep. Great start to this game.

Gibbo - "I can't do anything at all about this" - you can accept that and sigh a sigh that comes right up from the soles of your shoes, and it feels like all bets are off - just enjoy a bit of banter at the bar. Great feelng of everyone being in the same boat.

I daresay I'd feel different if I was waiting on an ambulance, of course.

Notch - is it on ESPN?

It is Don, I've got a link to it.

Bloody Hell thanks Notch! Forgot that was on. Just speaking to the Chef on the phone and he never metioned it. To the game... :run1:

Not a good start for ASM. Toulouse are in the mood to make up for missed European opportunities. They are bossing it.

Notch wrote:Well that's it. Back from the second concert featuring my work in two days. This time I was the composer out of the limelight and behind the mixing desk. Now my undergraduate degree is over, I feel at a complete loss. It's been my life for the past three months. I really don't know what to do with myself between now and September. It's an empty page; any suggestions?

Listening to my music being played today in the Lab, diffusing it- was such a satisfying experience. Just felt like 'my life wouldn't make much sense without this in it'. Bring on next year.

Get a job!

Thanks for the suggestion Glas

Luckily I do have my little part time job, and I'm VERY glad of it. If you wanted a part time bar job, or waiting tables there are so, so, so many applications for those jobs right now. You're competing against 50 other people even for those. It's a complete lottery.

Get to a building site, do a bit of labouring. Harden those hands a bit. It will give you a different perspective on life.

Found a stream for the match. What a great little player Maxime Medard is. Who wouldn't want him on their books?

Great feet and facial hair on Medard.

That's why I like my current job. Lugging equipment around, outside all day, doing odd-jobs around the track- it's very different to my meat and veg.

Please, Notch - keep your meat and veg to yourself.

8)

Clermont should have taken the points.

"it's very different to my meat and veg."

Is that a Belfast saying? I'm sure it has a different meaning elsewhere.

Meat and 2 veg.

Glas - I suspect it's a Notch saying.

The sooner we get him onto a building site, the better.

There's still not much in it at half-time.

I've heard of 'meat and potatoes' as a saying, but I don't think that's what Notch means either.

You know what I mean. Context, gentlemen. Context.

Yeah. I hear Sound-sculpturing plasterwork is all the rage now. Puts pebble-dashing to shame. And it rocks.

If I build it they will come.

They just showed a replay of Toulouse's try. Was that a forward pass I spotted?

Maybe Notch only has one veg - so don't mock the afflicted

Touche! <dressedorange>

ASM really need to come out of the blocks fast here. Toulouse look hungry.

I definitely have both of my testicles. How did it come to this lads, eh?