Sunday, April 15, 2007

Man proposes four minutes after meeting girl

Is this news? It probably happened about 25,000 times last night.

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posted by Matthew @ 4/15/2007 10:25:00 AM Comments: 1

Friday, February 02, 2007

Too cool for Skool, and too old too

Apparently one of the 'class of 2007' for people who take their style tips from the Observer Music Magazine, is Kate Nash, a female singer-songwriter type. Anyway, your humble correspondent was at Hoxton Bar & Grill last night to keep you all up to date. Unlike last year at the Artic Monkeys, I managed to work out who the main act was, and didn't leave before she was on.

The embarassing thing this time, however, was that I was there as a guest of the mother one of Miss Nash's schoolfriend's. Luckily apparently the singer's grandmother was there, saving us the disaster of being the oldest people attending. And we didn't get to sit at the front with blankets on our knees (though that would have been nice).

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posted by Matthew @ 2/02/2007 10:06:00 AM Comments: 2

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Time capsules

Interesting article here about a time capsule in America that was built in 1936, and if all goes to plan will not be opened until 8113. It seems a pretty serious effort, with nitrogen-filled steel casks protecting the documents and scientific instruments, a language-translator if found by non-English speaking people (which no-one can remember how it works). As the article says for how long it will remain unopened is hard to say. It seems to me that as long as people remember it exists year by year it has a good chance of surviving a reasonable time, but if it gets forgotten for a period of time the first people to stumble across it will open it.

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posted by Matthew @ 1/13/2007 08:57:00 PM Comments: 0