7:37 pm - 29 May 2004
homework, london, & reality tv
i have spent most of today arsing about with inkysoso's sister's laptop. this seems to be par for the weekend course. i like to think of 6pm friday until 8am monday as time off, but every weekend spend a certain amount of time doing something computer related at inky's yard. to be fair, it is rarely for her. if its not for her father its for her brother and if its not for her brother its for her sister. and i can't start something unless i'm going to finish it, and the laptop still isnt working right so i'll probably be pissing about with it most of the night. nice and positive attitude. when i started, it took 20mins to load but still didnt work. did an adware scan in safe mode (472 pieces of adware), it loads in about 2mins. but keeps crashing goddammit. at work i get paid �3:50 an hour (appalling), so far i've spent 3hrs on this with more to come, wonder how much i should charge. only i wont charge because thats just wrong.
yesterday we went to london and did tourist stuff, like the london eye and the london aquarium which was nice. i'd recommend both of them. london confuses me. its one of the most populated cities in the world, full of famous people. now, i must average 6 or 7 big city visits a year into the city, but i've never ever seen anyone remotely famous. i spent 3yrs working in a tin-pot airport and saw more well-known people. here's the full rundown. i apologise for non-english people, there is only 1 person you will have heard of, but they ARE mega-famous. no idea why they were at a shit airport though.
- ricky from eastenders. apparently.
- some trueman bloke from eastenders. apparently.
- frankie dettori
- leeroy thornhill from the prodigy. 3 times.
- ricky gervais
- arsenhole fc
- kilmarnock fc
- pat jennings (big hands. very big hands.)
- jeremy clarkson
- gwyneth paltrow
yesterday channel 4 were advertising "black friday". apparently this was because it was the end of friends. excuse me while i wipe away the tears. if i'm honest, i was never that much of a fan anyway. it was alright, but i never made an effort to watch it, despite the plethora of famous special guest stars.
i think its more black because big brother is back on. i'll probably still watch it, but its appalling really that such a load of bollocks has reached 5 series. social experiment my arse. reality tv? how can it be reality tv when you put 12 people in an artificial environment with a shitload of alcohol for 10 weeks? we watched the people all go in last night, its full of homosexuals, omophobics, and a portuguese trans-sexual. from seeing the 2mins of footage before each of them went in, they all appear to be control freaks, always in charge. "i don't take nah shit from nah one", "i don't care if people 'av a problem with who i am, this is just me" etc.
a few years ago, i was entertained by the daily mirror (for the sake my foreign readers, this is a shit tabloid "newspaper") announcing themselves as "the official anti-big brother newspaper". they spent the next 10 weeks giving more coverage to it than any other paper. twats.
thats all for now.
