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Omlet make an Eglu

Posted on May 16, 2004 by dots and spaces

The was a great article this week called Dairy of an Urban Chicken Keeper. In it, the writer test drives an Eglu, which is the award winning chicken coop pictured above. The design is witty and clever, it looks like an old imac and shares the same colours. Omlet will provide you with the Eglu, some chickens, a bag of feed and lots of advice to help you start the good life. At the moment, our garden isn’t big enough, and I wonder how many people will have trouble when they want to go on holiday, pet passports just don’t stretch to chickens, nor will they take them into kennels, maybe a kind neighbour will water your plants and feed the chickens. Anyway, it caught my eye, and I think this is the kind of blog which should mention the Pixies and Chickens in the same page.

Record of the Week

Posted on May 12, 2004 by dots and spaces

This long awaited little gem arrived just the other day. I’ve been a life-long Pixies fan, they’re the only band I’ve ever actively stalked, getting Black Francis, Kim Deal and Joey Santiago to sign my ticket stub after thier gig in Portsmouth. I don’t remember seeing Dave Lovering, he must have sneaked past me into the van. I saw them a couple of times, back in the early ’90’s and really looking forward to seeing them next month at Brixton Academy. The ‘best of Pixies has most of the greats, but there’s a few missing – I would have loved to see Tony’s theme and Motorway to Roswell, which I think is a great, no River euphrates either, but we could be here all night. The DVD is ok…the documentary is very interesting, but really, the videos are pretty rubbish – Pixies just don’t work visually, except for Vaughan Oliver cover art. The video for Dig for Fire had me in stitches. Anyway, the rest of this package is glorious, Pixies are (go on..I’ll say it) the Greatest Band that Ever Lived.

Posted on May 9, 2004 by dots and spaces

Suze has a sweet tooth and she’s a dentist. She recommends A quarter of…

Stephen Malkmus and Jicks

Posted on May 9, 2004 by dots and spaces

Following the breakup of Pavement, SM has re-invented himself, up to a point as a singer songwriter with prog leanings, putting together a tight little outfit called Jicks. The first record,featured some great songs, but felt like a chance to tie up loose ends, finish songs he’d begun with Pavement, and find a new direction. This he’s done with Pig Lib which is a fantastic, sprawling, solo-strewn patchwork of songs. He sounds like he’s having a great time, so I thought I’d give it a mention, along with an entry in the typelist.

Six Nails in Man’s Skull

Posted on May 8, 2004 by dots and spaces

No, its not the name of my new favourite heavy metal band, but a tragic tail of Whoa! This is not for weak hearted. We were discussing it today, and it occured to me that the man had become a kind of human Kerplunk. Thanks to Si for the link.

Posted on May 8, 2004 by dots and spaces

The Circus of Disemboweled Plush Toys, it gives me a nice warm feeling to link to this.

Posted on May 8, 2004 by dots and spaces

London to Brighton Flyer click here

Can Dogs look up?

Posted on May 6, 2004 by dots and spaces

It seems that the question of whether dogs can look up? is bringing hundreds of people to dots and spaces. Google lists me as an authority, but I’m afraid I don’t have much to go on. There might be a clue here, but someone pointed out that this might be due to not letting go of the rock. In the meantime, detailed research is being held at bugs, if you want to find a site that has tons of “SOTD” and “Spaced” information, then look no further than Spaced Out. Anyway, a quick straw poll shows that we’re mostly divided on the subject of dogs looking up, please feel free to contribute to the debate.

*After all this time talking about this subject, the first photo has finally arrived…and its not conclusive. Is the dog merely looking forward towards the person with the dodgy camera phone?

Doglookingup

Matt explains more: After seeing Shaun of the Dead again, I made an AIM screen name “dogsCANNOTlookup”, after several dog owners argued with me about a dog’s ability to look up, I agreed. Then I wondered: had my dog ever looked up?

I did a www.ask.com search and came across your beautiful debate on the subject. After reading through the many amused comments, I decided to check my old pictures of the Anti-Christ Pomeranians my mom owns, I came across this single photo. I’m not convinced dogs can look straight up though. I will try to get my dogs to look up and send a more convincing picture in time.

– thanks Matt…

test your pets part 2

Posted on May 5, 2004 by dots and spaces

I’m afraid test your pets wasn’t a great success. Neil reported that Frankie’s spacial awareness was a bit pants. Harry is ambidextrious, but lacks sensory awareness. On the programme itself, the pets were either super-bright, or wouldn’t perform. The talking Miner Bird, was sadly, quite silent, but Rolf took it with good heart. Food played a big part in terms of rewards – pets don’t really do it for their own satisfaction. The whole thing had a kind of larson quality about it…

Frisbee

Posted on May 4, 2004 by dots and spaces

Just by our building is an old airfield, with a huge runway, now every lunchtime (weather permitting) we’ve been playing with the frisbee, and escaping from the air conditioning for a few minutes. We were pretty rubbish when we started, but we’re frisbee champs now, each one of us perfecting our frisbee technique. We’ve noticed how you have to adapt your style for each of the two or three frisbees we’ve been using…am I going into too much detail. Anyway, this site has hundreds of frisbees. There’s also a link to Wham-o who claim to sell the orginals. Come on people…make your summer….a frisbee summer.