KevAyreski

Just finished my 1st Soduko puzzle. Easy level.
Good fun.
Think I'll stick with the easy levels for a while.
Quite proud of myself.
Even tho it's easy level, I used Excel to do it & tons of people have done it before.
I'm still cool tho.

2 Funny True Stories that have happened recently.


1. Garlic Shake:

Was in Birmingham a few weeks ago to visit DaveR.
Had a great time, been meaning to post news, pics etc about it but been lazy.
Anyway, the 2 of us went to the chipper one of the nights to grab some chips to go with the fish we had cooking in the oven.
Got to the chipper, ordered the chips, waited a while.
The chips are served to us after a while & I ask the guy behind the counter for some garlic mayonaisse.
He leans into a cabinet to pick out the garlic from the other sauces, but they're just in small styrofoam tubs & they're not labelled.
To confuse things more, one of them is mayonaisse, & the garlic mayo doesn't have garlic bits in it.
So it's impossible to tell the regular mayo from the garlic mayo.
He opens the lid of one of the tubs, but decides it would be a bit rude to stick his nose in it.
Unsure of what to do, he closes the lid, fumbles around with a few other tubs, then goes back to the first tub he was investigating.
He pick up the tub, shakes it (?) and decides that's garlic mayo.
Myself & Dave stand there looking at each other in puzzlement.
Anyway, we get back to the fish, which we feared would be burnt.
The fish is cooked perfectly,
& the mayo is... garlic.
Legendary!


2. Auto-Response:

One of the girls in the office is away on holidays for a few weeks.
So she set up an auto-response on her email saying,
'I'm not in the office at the moment. Will be back in 2 weeks' etc. etc.
Someone sent her an e-mail.
They got the response, but had obviously gone on holidays after they sent the e-mail & set up an auto-response themselves.
So when they got the response, their e-mail responded with a response.
And so & so one, until 1,300 e-mails later when the email account of girl in the office filled & crashed.
Madness.

'Invisible Monsters', (my favourite book) by Chuck Palahniuk (my favourite author) has been made into a fantastic comic by a fan. Hosted on "The Cult" ChuckPalahniuk.net.

Anyway, I found this excellent quote accompanied with a fantastic animation, so I thought i'd put it on a t-shirt, but apparently it will only go on a white t-shirt, & I want it on a grey t-shirt. Boo! If anyone can help me, let me know please.

So here's the image as drawn in the comic,
Before:

And how I edited it in PhotoShop,
After:

Just got 2 tickets.
Whoop! (As Meggles would say)
Only 39 weeks to go.
Can't wait.

This chick has a 2006 calendar out now.
She's an author of fantasy fiction.
I've no interest in that.
But she's an illustrator too,
& her illustrations are fantastic.

Check her out:

Here: http://www.artaskagency.com/artists/frances.asp
Here: http://gallery.celestial-star.net/albums.php?id=1
or
Here: http://www.scanraptor.com/cabernet/vicfrances1.htm

Went to cinema with Andy yesterday.
Saw 'Everything Is Illuminated'. Good film.
And haven't seen Andy in ages so it was good to have a chat.
Before I met him, spent some money in Tower Records & Laser (which now has a basement - Did it always?)
Got 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' which i've been looking for on DVD for ages.

Anyway, met Andy & went to film.
Got there early so had to sit through the trailers & the obligatory 10 minute long Guinness advert.
I enjoy trailers, but Andy don't (hates to know anything about a film before seeing it!)

Anyway, 'Everything Is Illuminated' was good,
But I'm really falling in love with the trailer for 'Breakfast On Pluto'
Can't wait for it now.
Cillian Murphy is forever crawling higher & higher in my list of favourite actors,
The guy's a god damn genius, in every film he does.

So I decided to stick up the fantastic lyrics for the song accompanying the trailer.

Dusty Springfield
'Windmills Of Your Mind'


Round
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that’s turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of it’s face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of it’s own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half-forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of it’s face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly?
Was it something that you said?
Lovers walk along a shore
And leave their footprints in the sand
Is the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
And the fragment of a song
Half-remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
You were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the colour of her hair

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind