So I’m currently reading ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’ by Hemmingway which frankly is a pretty mediocre book. I mean yeah it’s a nice portrayal of the Spanish civil war and all and of course the theme of “never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee” is worth reading about but frankly after the first 100 pages or so the book really loses steam and plods along for far too long. Anyway, enough of that waffle – what I really wanted to talk about was the following passage.

Background: So Maria and Roberto are spending possibly their last night together before they go to blow the bridge but Maria confesses that she can’t have sex with him (most likely due to the abuse she suffered some time before). Roberto then engages in the following internal monologue on page 355 (of my copy) about his own sperm:

“I’ll keep any oversupply of that for tomorrow. I’ll need all of it that there is tomorrow. There are no pine needles that need that now as I will need it tomorrow. Who was it cast his seed upon the ground in the Bible? Onan. How did Onan turn out? he thought. I don’t recall ever hearing any more about Onan. He smiled in the dark.”

This one passage made the rest of the book bearable for me – I didn’t realise he could be so funny!

So, in the ongoing saga of Amazon-knowing-more-about-me-than-I-know-myself I was emailing a friend online about the Bombay Dub Orchestra asking if he’d recommend it. His reply: “it’s good but I’d recommend filmtales by Paul Leonard-Morgan instead mate”. Ok, I thought let’s go check it out. I search for Paul Leonard-Morgan on amazon, click on filmtales and I’m presented with this:

How freaking scary! I hate you Amazon, I really hate you sometimes. It’s been an expensive month. sigh

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Cool!

So while I’m whiling away the evening playing on the internet I thought I’d throw up a blog post about everything ‘playing on the internet’ has given me in my life:

• It taught me to play poker. Sure, it was expensive to start with but all hobbies are and once I’d gotten the hang of it I’ve made a fairly healthy sum of money from it (which some day will be spent on hookers and blow. Just you wait….). Not to mention the free trip to Vegas!

• It gave me a career. Reading blogs and finding funny shit online is my job. Bonza.

• I found the bigchill festival and with it the associated forum where lots of lovely people have shared gigabytes upon gigabytes of good music with me, not to mention the joys of the festival itself (officially the best weekend of the year).

• It also taught me how to make mp3 mixes so I can make virtual mixtapes.

• I found my girlfriend online.

• The interweb gave me every single episode of seinfeld right there on my computer. Seinfeld got me into good comedy and opened my eyes to the horrors of life. Thanks Jerry!

Is there anything else to life?

Awww, well will you look at that I found some more tom critchlow images online.

If you’re in the UK, or more specifically London then you should check out this cool site from a friend off the bigchill forums.

he also has a blog here

So for all your london wedding photography needs check him out (all stumbles appreciated too!)

And best of luck to matt for living the dream

Ok, so I’m starting to get image results for some Tom Critchlow related searches to appear in the main SERPs. Only problem is, the images are of Jane. Bummer.

Tom Critchlow Photos search:

If you use Last.fm (and frankly, why wouldn’t you?!) then I strongly recommend you download the Last.fm Extra Stats program. It allows you to slice and dice your listening data in many different ways. Not least of which is the ability to create those nice listening graphs which I did a few of much much more easily than having to do it through the web application.

Of course, I suspect this will appeal to geeks and data junkies far more than your average fucking coldplay fan. But that’s cool – I don’t want those people reading anyway

Check out some of this graph which is an alltime listening graph of my top 100:

Unfortunately, it cuts off about the end of Jan which was when I moved down to London and have had very little listening via a PC, all my listening has been done via my new fancy Klipsch iGroove!!

PS – I’m fully aware how broken this post is with the large image but I don’t care.

More on the online Poker Cats Contest

Go vote for me now! Vegas FTW!

Please stumble the page also. kthanx

I’ve been consistently impressed by Amazon’s personalised recommendations and I often browse through their recommendations before I make my emusic downloads each month. So they’re good at it, ok, they have a lot of data to show me, ok.

But how in the world do they know this?

For those of you who have ever played poker with me, well ‘aggressive player’ doesn’t quite describe my style of play but it comes close!