Oh, Auntie Beeb, how I love thee...

I personally think banning drinking on public transport (even if it is only in London) is worthwhile, not because it's inherently bad, but because there are inevitably a bunch of pricks that cannot, will not, accept resposibility for their actions. Yes, they spoil it for the rest of us, but as sensible, reasonable people, I think there's sense in spoiling it for THEM.

After all, if you're too stupid to drink on the tube without acting like an obnoxious twat, you're probably too stupid to add some vodka to that bottle of coke, then drink in a fashion that Does Not Draw Attention or Otherwise Inconvenience People.

Regardless, a few sensible people joined the mindless lager louts in making the most of the last hours. I suspect also that The Internet was in attendance...

David Mudkips, 25, a web programmer from Hackney, described the experience on the train as: "Like rush hour but fun. There were people's sweaty armpits in my face but I didn't care because I was drinking."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7429638.stm

Yesterday

Was gloriously sunny, a perfect day for being outside.

Today is revolting, pissing it down, grey and shit.

Guess which day I planned to be outside on.

No classic car show for me. Also no fitting a new bulb to the outside light. I shall lurk in the house and be pissed off.

On the way back from Glasgow yesterday, stopped in Tesco to use up expired Clubcard vouchers; bought a discount Technika DAB radio since the radio in the kitchen was Siani's boombox, which she's taken back. Despite everyone telling me DAB won't work in Hawick (so never buying myself the Bush retro DAB one that looks like the FM/AM/LW 1950s-style one), I plugged it in, and within seconds it had got a time signal and tuned in. Result - perfect Radio 4 reception with no hisses, changes in quality as you move around the room, etc.

Also, there's a birdsong channel.

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Revisionists!

The BBC website no longer has the quote from "David Mudkips" on the Liverpool Street news item!

I should have screengrabbed...

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So, I'm like, posting crap on eBay.

If i list anything that your circle of nerds may want, please point them at the auctions; I'm especially stuck on how to promote windscreens for 1970s Vauxhall/Opel cars. If no-one takes them I have no option but to recycle them, which seems a terrible shame as it's very easy to replace the windscreen on a pre-bonded screen type car and these are brand new, so have no scratches/stonechips/gravelrash.

http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZrichardk66

More stuff inevitably to be added. Goals are: Get rid of stuff. Buy iPod-compatible headunit for Ignis. Get rid of more stuff.

Yes, the pictures are shit. I really cannot be arsed processing RAW files from the D3, setting everything up, etc. Phonecamera ftw unless it's giving me blue pictures, which it currently seems to be doing.