Good lord...

[xmakina]

Remind to be careful what I wish for in the future.

Went to D&D (hosted by the lovely amuletts and DM'd by the fantastic feanorfinwe) in Headington, Oxford last night. After the game (about 10pm) it was a bus down to Oxford city centre and a wait at the bus station, only to find out that the country buses had all been cancelled due to snow.

A kinda creepy foreign guy was heading back to Eynsham but thankfully so was another passenger so we swapped looks of "If he is a creepy murderer at least the two of us should be able to stop him." The guy phoned his son to give us all a lift back to Eynsham. We chatted for a while outside the Randolph waiting to be picked up and despite initial impressions the guy turned out to be really quite pleasant. Thankfully his son was able to make it from Eynsham and back again so I got home around midnight.

I'm not the only one in the office today, 3 others and the boss are too. So that's not so bad.

ION: The new LostProphets album is shaping up nicely, given the singles released so far. Really looking forward to it's release - I might even (gasp!) buy it.

Also, a 1GHz processor and up to 32GB of storage? I can see why they're calling it mobile computing...

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[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

*nods* The Nexus One does look pretty cool. My brother got one for Christmas, so I had the chance to look at it up close over the holidays. I've resisted the smartphone (or, as it seems to be now, the superphone) trend thus far. Maybe in another year or two, though...

[xmakina.livejournal.com]

I do wonder if my next phone will be one that doesn't adhere "Yes, but can I make phone calls on it?" mantra.

They're getting good enough now that asking for Phone/MP3/Camera/Affordable is actually becoming quite reasonable.

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Last year, the Kiddo[*] got a G1 phone for Christmas. He sold it, because he uses Verizon as his carrier and they don't cover Google phones. I'm not even sure what he plans to do with his Nexus One, really! Again, not compatible with his carrier... so, thus far, he has just been using it as a portable WiFi device! I wouldn't be surprised if he eventually sells this one, too!

I should tell him that, next year, he should forget about buying me a gift... and just pass on whatever phone he gets... *grin*

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[*] That has been my name for my brother since longer than I can remember. (Certainly since well before miss_amaranth was born and maybe longer than you've been on this earth, too, my friend!)

[feanorfinwe.livejournal.com]

Glad you got back ok. Thanks for making the risky trip, hope you had fun anyway.

[xmakina.livejournal.com]

And plenty of it. As you said, 6 giants and a super-dwarf should be a good step towards making Brian go "ping"!