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Viva the Safeway CoinMaster

Viva the Safeway CoinMaster

We’ve been accumulating coins for a fair old while (4 years). And since we’re selling everything I thought now might be a good time to get rid of them once and for all.
I went through it to make sure I’d taken out the pound coins, Romanian skiing proficiency badges, pennies with the Golden Gate bridge squeezed onto them and plectrums and spread ‘em all out on the table…

Anyroad, there’s this machine round the corner in Safeway called the Coinmaster. You dump your coins in it and it sorts them and gives you a total (minus 8% for the service). It’s one of the best machines I’ve ever played with, combining the thrill of free money, with fruit machine payouts and penny fountain things at seaside arcades. Little by little the total rises as you push more coins into its mechanical guts. Things whirr and whine and lights flash around. I wish I could do it again…Here’s a blurry picture of the machine:

and here’s the link to the picture of the receipt I got with the exact amount. It’s all going towards an ultra light laptop…

My card

My business cardStill a bit too quiet on the web design front, although I think I could probably do a series of lectures on the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. Were it not for my crushing fear of public speaking… Anyway, I just sent off my business card to the printers. 100 will be ready on Saturday. So don’t tell me about any spelling mistakes please. On the actual card, my phone and address aren’t blurred. Both sides are shown in the pic. Hopefully I can drum up some interest, but 10% commission to anyone who finds me a client 😉

You Go, Mr. Stewart

If you’ve yet to see Jon Stewart taking on the “Partisan Hackery” of CNN, click to enjoy 13 minutes of JS exposing the twunts on Crossfire

In other news, I’ve joined BritBlog.com. So if you’ve clicked through from there, then cheers. I have a guestbook you know… It’s been fun skimming through other UK peeps’ blogs.

And finally, I found a fantastic program online where you upload a photo, and it delivers you a rasterized version in as many sheets of paper as you want that you then assemble into a full size poster. Klem’s poster fell down, but pictured below is Sita in front of Lulu’s makeshift shrine:

luluposter (26k image)

Katrina

katrina (62k image)While I’m obviously thinking of the people affected by this latest full contact natural confrontation, especially the 10,000 poor and immobile who are holed up in an American football stadium with no A/C, I can’t help worrying about the possibility of flight cancellations. We’re leaving on Wednesday morning from LAX then on to Newark and eventually Bristol, UK on Thursday. Friday’s the day of me little sister and Ali’s wedding/commitment/knees-up and I will be gutted if we don’t make it.

Continental Airlines were bad enough last time in perfect travelling conditions (miserable flight staff, inept announcers, no free booze, same movies shown in both directions, National Express-quality food, crappy overhead TVs, cretinous security folk…) so Jebus knows what it’ll be like this time around. At least they don’t use the verb ‘to deplane’ like some airlines, but you do hear about there being a lot of ‘weather’. Ah well, as long as they get us to the church stately home in the Quantock Hills of Somerset on time I’ll be happy.

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