Friday Night Is Working Night
Saturday, September 16, 2006
What more could a guy ask for than a Friday night in, disassembling then reassembling his keyboard and working on some emergency graphic design for a client...? Erm... yep, I can think of few things...
Well it's not so bad. I went out for a few drinks last night and ended up sitting around with most of OSH for the evening. There was some good discussion about music and... well I'm not to sure, but we definitely discussed music at some point. Actually it was Tom's music and if you are into a bit of a hard punk ska reggae (with some political opinions to boot) then you might want to give his MySpace a visit. It's a bit heavier than what I generally listen to, but the people on his scene seem to like it. If you want to know what Coprolite (the name he's gone by) it means fossilised dinosaur excrement. Which is nice.
Devito phoned yesterday. He's back in the country and seems impressed with his new setup out in Spain. There is a good chance there will be some kind of trip out to visit sometime soon, but for the moment we're just trying to organise a meet up in Blighty first.
A couple of things worth doing if you also find yourself stuck in on a Friday night:
- Watch the TED video podcasts. I've been working my way through these for a few weeks now and there is some really good stuff. Basically its a series of lectures by some high profilers in front of other high profilers and the discussions, technology and debate is fantastic. If I recommend any my top choices are:
- Ken Robinson on creativity in education (very impressive/good talk)
- Al Gore (in his own words "the man who used to be the next President of the United States") on Climate Crisis (before hthe release of his new film on the topic)
- David Deutsch (Physicist) on the universe and human knowledge
- Ross Lovegrove (British Industrial Designer) works with fantastic organic forms - don't be put off by this
- Tony Robbins (Life coach) you'll probably know the face - passionate and enthusiastic speaker
- Dismantle and reassemble your keyboard for maintenance. Actually, don't bother.
- Respond to emails that you shouldn't have recieved. I know Bruce had a little thing going a while ago, but as a website designer I do find it interesting that I should be contacted about whether I would like a new website (and this is high quality spam, I'm not talking that normal rubbish). Results to follow soon.