justafish

Me and Tim entered a contest on Monday at the 100 club. It was a bit last minute and quite terrifying but good fun. Someone posted a few highlights (with bits we f***ed up cut out luckily ) on youtube

(I’m the one in the turquoise top/black skirt)

I also was on Strictly Come Dancing very(!) briefly this weekend. Supposed to be doing some jam circle type stuff for a film at the weekend as well, no idea what it is though. Unfortunately I don’t get paid for this stuff so my dream of becoming a full time lindy bum is still on the back burner

(I’m the one in the sailor dress)

I got some Adobe product stickers whilst I was at FOWA, we managed to write some interesting words with them.

Dave Morin demonstrating Facebook Connect at FOWA 2008

Here is our quick, and frankly poor, effort for a last minute submission to the Raindance TV Short Circuit 1 minute film competition.

Higher quality version available on Dailymotion.

Avast ye scurvy dogs, today be talk like a pirate day. In celebration, one of our sites has gone pirate for the day:

http://raindance.tv/

Today I visited Nanis on Great Portland Street. I’d been recommended the place by my boss, upon hearing about my sausage sandwich quest, telling me it’s well renowned locally for it’s cumberland sausages. To my surprise, when I entered I couldn’t see any sausages on the menu- until I wandered into the back of the shop and realised they had a separate counter for hot drinks and breakfast- how delightful! I ordered a cumberland sausage sandwich on white, buttered and slightly toasted bread. The sausages were cooked in a proper hot plate grill and not microwaved. All for £2.30. I received my sandwich wrapped in a foil package, but it was not quite as satisfying as the Make Mine wrapper- being a bit on the thin side.

I was disappointed to find upon unwrapping that the sandwich had been cut into four slices. I find this an inconvenient configuration as the sausages tend to slip out more easily. Also, much more work is required when applying sauces as each of the four tops much be lifted and placed back. Due to this my expectations had been lowered, however it turned out to contain the most delicious sausages that I had eaten in a very long time and this combined with the perfect amount of butter on the bread was delectable. 

It is unfortunate then that I can only give this sandwich a 7.5/10. The quality of the bead combined with overenthusiastic slicing did taint my enjoyment somewhat. Perhaps I shall go back another day and request a different type of bread and slicing style.

I love Drupal and I’m a regular listener to the Lullabot Drupal Podcast. Usually I lap up everything these guys have to say, but I was most surprised at this week’s episode (63) to hear them talking about Rasmus Lerdorf’s talk at Drupalcon about testing different PHP frameworks for effeciency etc. I have heard them talk before about Drupal being used a framework, this time they mentioned how it’s so different to all the others out there- in order for a page to be made with Drupal, a module has to be created, functions hooked into, callbacks made, pigs sacraficed… I think they’re misunderstanding the concept of what a framework is and the complexity involved in making that page should be telling them something. Drupal is a fantastic extensible CMS but I don’t think it should be put in the same category as things like Zend Framework or CodeIgniter. The other thing that makes me worry was when they said Drupal came about the middle of the pack with regards to performance, but people were shifting in their seats as anonymous page caching hadn’t been turned on. Turning on anonymous page caching does not test the performance of your application, the only thing that it tests is the ability of your web server to chuck out raw HTML.

It’s surprisingly hard to find a good sausage sandwich in the morning that meets all my criteria - taste, texture, price, satisfaction of purchase, distance from work. Clearly this is a very important issue that needs addressing, so I shall be keeping a record of my future sausage sandwich purchases.

Today I stopped at Make Mine on Regent Street having been enticed by their offer of a DIY sandwich chalked on a board outside their establishment. I was most impressed by their sandwich configuration options, but for you dear readers I stuck true to my quest. The service was very quick, it was a good price at £1.80 and on my regular route to work. Best of all it came in a very satisfying thick foil wrapper.

Upon unwrapping I was most pleased at the amount of sausage I got for my money and happy that they were of that dense type that isn’t full of rusk and fat as is so popular with many a greasy spoon (what kind of sausages are either of those, anyone?). The bread was also slightly toasted and unbuttered. I’m usually a bit wary of toasted bread in a sandwich, but was pleasantly surprised to find it was soft to the bite.

Overall I’m going to give this an 7/10.

I’d just like to add that I’ll be using the same sauce each time- Stokes Real Brown Sauce. Mmm.

My current house looks like a bit of a pikey hell hole, it’s cheap and the people are nice though so hey ho. Unfortunately we’ve recently had someone move in whom our landlord described as “cool and laidback” but I would describe as “an annoying arse”. So far his annoyances have only been minor and not really bothered me too much (Actually that’s a lie. He shaves in our bathroom sink, never rinses it and leaves his horrible ginger hairs all over it, then proceeds to stand in the kitchen all night juggling cocktail shakers. That’s quite bothersome) but now he’s decided he’s a wicke’ wicke’ DJ aaaaayee! and is busting out some ‘bangin’ choons’ on his set of decks. I was able to bear this out but I think I reached the end of my tether at 6am this morning when he started making a noise that I can only descibe as throwing cricket balls at his floor/my ceiling. There shall be words had this evening…