Martin Gleeson: Blue Zone » Nonsense

My First Album Cover

marty — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:23:39 +0000

A cool meme. I’m not even going to try it twice because the first attempt was so perfect.

1 – Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random.
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 – Go to Random quotations:
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3.
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 – Go to flickr’s “explore the last seven days”
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/. Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Put it all together, that’s your first album.

Now to put together some music…

Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13715436@N00/3379917660/
Quote: http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3276.html

Weird spam of the day

marty — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:03:05 +0000

Weird enough to get through my gmail spam filter.

From: Pearlie Horn
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2006 22:45:38 0000
Subject: ostrich-egg nitrogen balance
To: info@gleeson.net

employed in agreeing to everything her ladyship said, thanking her for every fish he won, and

Yes, that’s the whole email. No attachments, no hyperlinks, nothing else.

The body of the message is a fragment from Pride and Prejudice: “Mr. Collins was employed in agreeing to everything her Ladyship said, thanking her for every fish he won, and apologising if he thought he won too many.”

The only purpose I can imagine for this is a spammer checking through a mailing list and sending these messages to track bounces to cleanse incorrect/inactive addresses from the list. At least they have an interest in classical literature.

Pre-pasta?

marty — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:44:42 +0000

We had spinach and ricotta agnolotti for dinner tonight and got onto the subject of the origins of pasta. Noodles, pasta, history – some real, some legend (like Marco Polo bringing it back from China in the 13th century) all the italian names for the various types, and Deb says “so what did they [Italians] eat before pasta?”. I responded: “sauce.”

13337

marty — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:14:41 +0000

Today I have been around for 13337 days (thanks Mum. For the spreadsheet too!). Now THAT’s ‘leeet.

GG Blog

marty — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:32:04 +0000

Best blog I’ve seen in a while: There ain’t no sanity clause. Worth a look just for the intro/disclaimer at the top.

81 days to Festivus

marty — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 11:50:53 +0000

Nick mentioned to me a while ago that he didn’t like the commercialism* associated with Christmas. I suggested that he celebrate Festivus. So I’m having Festivus this year at my place. 8pm on the day. Let me know if you want to come.

* My characterisation rather than his. I’ll leave it to him to tell you what he really thinks.

Me? I like Christmas. The family, friends, fun part. Not the shopping part.

Linkage

marty — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:24:53 +0000

bl a th e r

Linkage

marty — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:36:51 +0000

Interesting and amusing review of the inspiration for The Da Vinci Code.

It’s always heartening to see a 419 scammer scammed.

John Howard’s Lies. Geez, where do you stop?

Happy B-Day to me

marty — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 06:50:05 +0000

And now for today’s history lesson.

You want more?

46285800 before the Epoch

marty — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:20:02 +0000

Nick thought it was cool to express his DOB as a Unix timestamp. But then I told him mine was a negative number. I was born before the Epoch. Before Zero. BZ. Another thing that’s cool about being old.