...the toilet! 1st February 2010

I found a little white label about 2mm square with the number 7 on it.
I subsequently found a little white label about 2mm square with the number 32 on it.
This must be God's way of communicating next week's lottery numbers to me.
This is also proof of God.
Productive!

...band practice! 14th January 2010

Trams in Amsterdam combine spoken geographical references with reminders to check in and out of the tram. I was approaching Concertgebouw on the tram 5 when the usual message played. It's meant to be something like "Concert hall. Please remember to check in and out of the tram using your public transport chip card.". On this occasion the tram said "Concert hall. Plea..." and cut out.
Several seconds later, after some kind of electrical whirring sounds, the tram said "Cunt".
I was shocked...had I heard that?
"Cunt" it said again.
Really?! I looked around to see if anyone else had noticed.
"Cunt"
I was becoming a little embarrassed. This tram clearly had developed Tourette's Syndrome.
"Cunt...
...Concert hall, Please remember to check in and out of the tram using your public transport chip card."

...band practice! 14th January 2010

I was in the tram and I heard one of the old polyphonic mobile phones ring. It was a truncated theme from Ghostbusters...retro squared! It was intrusive but hypercool. It rang for a while. I don't know if that's because the owner liked the tune or because they couldn't find their phone. I mused that it might have been an old jacket they hadn't worn for 10 years, and they'd just found that missing phone.

...nowhere! 12th June 2007

On a dutch subtitled episode of Friends - when Ross goes to Rachel's office with a picnic because she can't make their anniversary - as Ross starts moodily packing up the hamper, Rachel's colleague exclaims "That's our 3 hole punch!". The Dutch subtitles translated this as something like "That's our vitamin drink!". I'm guessing the Dutch subtitlers weren't aware what (a) '3 hole punch' was.

...work! - 19th April 2007

There is a building I cycle by on the way to and from work whose airco unit sounds like the opening keyboard/chello note from Fade to Black by Metallica.

...nowhere. 22nd Jan 2007

Amusing chapter from the bible:

Solomon 4 : 1
How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead.

...the pub! 4th January 2007

The number 2 tram has been the new style tram for ages. People get used to this and queue in the place where they know the doors are going to open. Amused though, I was, by a couple of Dutch guys who refused to process the altered situation when the old style number 2 tram I was on pulled up and the door didn't open (you need to get in the back of these). Shoutin and a hollerin they were when it appeared they would miss it...banging on the door for openage. Tools.

...work! - 4th January 2007

I saw two mad professor types lowering a pedal car with two seats and two sets of pedals and tram wheels on to the museum tram line. I was running late but I wanted a go. I didn't stop. It looked great.