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smokeyjoe

All stressed up and no-where to throw

About Me

I'm heading toward middle age and have been informed i need a myspace presence. we'll see... UPDATE need is still a strong term but I am enjoying it mostly...'nother update: particularly enjoying the series of blogs i'm doing on slang, jump on here
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My Interests

the world, travel, politics, media, comics, environment, art... not necessarily in that order.

I'd like to meet:

angry, lucid, erudite people, not afraid to cock-a-snoop or spit in the face of mediocrity. Love the forthrightness of Hunter S Thomspon (RIP), Jeremy Paxman and even Janet Street Porter. Hate the unacaring consumption of capitalism, ignorant drivers (ready to risk the lives of others as well as their own useless existence) and Rupert Murdoch (Owner of this site, blaagghh) Don't wanna meet any more creationists, anyone who is willfully stupid enough to ignore the mountains of scientific evidence for evolution just aint worth trying to convince.

Music:

most but cant get opera or thrash metal really. Love Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, The the, Smiths, Faithless, Billy Bragg, Fat Boy Slim, Chemical Brothers, punk, dance, John Coltrane (the only JC to matter). Hate 'Power ballads' (what a crock of warbling shit that is), manufactured pop (except the Monkeys) and easy listening.

Movies:

Bob Roberts, Blade Runner, Sin City, V For Vendetta, South Park The Movie, Short Cuts, sci-fi, martial arts, political, comedys, musicals.

Television:

Simpsons, south park, doctor who, Horizon, science

Books:

philosophy, science, comics.

Heroes:

Newton, Darwin, Hawkin, Dawkins

My Blog

tech aarrggh, garden grows

Hiya, I gonna be quick posting this, all the tech shit in my house is going kaka and i don't believe for a second that this is certain to even upload to blog space.We been making our own bread in a br...
Posted by smokeyjoe on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:54:00 PST

The week gone by...

Evenin' more extreme right wing Austrians take power as i start this, when will this end?Ooh what a week it's been, i strated last monday keen with excitement to get the degree in 'interactive media' ...
Posted by smokeyjoe on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:25:00 PST

banks... let ’em fall!

Hi How ya doing?this morning Lloyds insurers announced profits are down for the last 6 months, they didn't even manage a billion pounds, £948 million was all that they got! How can they get by on so l...
Posted by smokeyjoe on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:27:00 PST

maturity, etc

Hi, how ya doing?Apperently the transfer into manhood round these parts is not the killing of a wild boar as i'd hoped but the movement of a shed... from one part of the allotment to the other corner ...
Posted by smokeyjoe on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:02:00 PST

A sense of scale, LHC geek speak Alert.

  An atom is small, one million or so atoms side by side are about the thickness of a human hair, now if you imagine that a single atom is the size of a football stadium then the proton that...
Posted by smokeyjoe on Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:00:00 PST

Education times 3

Howdy, "Education, Education, Education" is apparently an original Tony Blair quote, so said Stephen Fry in his radio 4 show yesterday but that doesn't mean that education is inherantly evil does...
Posted by smokeyjoe on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:12:00 PST

comittee decisions, rolling news

Hi, all a bit chaotic here, I been to the allotment committee meeting tonight, I was hoping for it to include a few gardening tips but instead it was full of discussions of insurance, environmental h...
Posted by smokeyjoe on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:45:00 PST

Random

HiI'm a big fan of words and one of my fave words is "random". My dictionary defines random: haphazard, chance; uncontrolled; irregular. Although those last 2 may be just about shitting.In a mathemati...
Posted by smokeyjoe on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:58:00 PST

Balloons, Boris, buffoon.

Howdy, ..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O />  Sorry straight away for any Microsoft tags that appear here, I been trying to do some spazzing earlier and not for the first time in my life I consider a Murdo...
Posted by smokeyjoe on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:02:00 PST

me old China

Hello Beijing, it's great not to be there. Normally the olympics doesn't interest me but this one has me by the throat, from 5 minutes into the opening ceremony with those thousand drummers pounding o...
Posted by smokeyjoe on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:04:00 PST