Gradations of toast done-ness. My preference is for about 45 secs; Child K ranges between 45 secs and 1,45 min; Wife goes for a hardcore 3,15 mins every time. Plenty of scope for family dissent, depending on who’s making breakfast.
Found this on standingintheheartofdarkness via a reblog on the delightful letsjustwastetime whose author Vivien lives in Melbourne and is aged… well only click through and find out if you really, really don’t mind feeling your age:
The great Warren Zevon at his macabre best. Other bleak classics from the same 1978 album include Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner and the title track Excitable Boy. Co-produced by Jackson Browne of all people, it also featured James Taylor sidekicks Leland Sklar, Danny Kortchmar and Russ Kunkel. Though as it happens Mick Fleetwood was the guest drummer on this track, which could (at the time of writing this) be heard below courtesy of the late lamented Grooveshark.
The marvellous Grooveshark used to let you embed pretty much anything from Bach to The Beatles pretty much anywhere you want, for free. Predictably the RIAA and BPI stomped all over them with lawyers and injunctions, and the service is now defunct. Comparitech have compiled a list of all the available, legal successors here: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/grooveshark-limewire-alternatives
Enjoy them while they last… Meanwhile at least Warren Zevon’s Werewolves can be heard and seen on YouTube:
From the splendid How To Be A Retronaut blog - slogan: “Ever get the feeling you’re living in the wrong time?”. This vintage Twitter snapshot comes from the post If There Had Always Been An Internet by Jesse Eisemann which also includes re-imaginings of Gmail, Facebook and a pirate torrent.
From The Guardian 6th June 2011:
“If the internet gave free back rubs, people would complain when it stopped because its thumbs were sore…” Spotify’s problem is that no one wants to pay for anything they access via a computer… [read more]
In case you haven’t seen this, The Guardian reports: “Féilim Mac An Iomaire, who erected an advertising hoarding on the busy Merrion Road in south Dublin in an attempt to find a job, has said he has been overwhelmed by the response.”
Brilliant, just brilliant. Stil no job, mind you: check out Féilim’s Jobless Paddy page on Facebook.
