Seak

Most recent activity

• 1990's appreciation thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 11 years, 11 months

  

  

  And this

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVjEhqKANTo
  

• Proper leather shoes

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 12 years, 2 months

  

  Mmm, those were the other option. I just love the idea of having really toasty toes as I take the dog for a walk on a frosty morning.

  Might be a tad overkill though.

• Proper leather shoes

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 12 years, 2 months

  

  I've been looking at a pair of winter boots - and found these:

  

  Loake 'wolf' brogue boots - with fur lining and a winter-ready rubber sole. Should be nice and toasty for winter (and slightly cheaper than the awesome cordovan boots, which you should totally get).

  Before I bite the bullet - has anyone got a pair? I can't find anywhere in London that stocks them, so would have to buy online.

• London 2012 Olympics

  in General • 12 years, 5 months

  

  

  Jeremy Hunt is a bell end, etc.

• TfL considering modifying cycle lane on Blackfriars Bridge

  @Seak started

  • 331 comments
  • 14,773 views

  @youramericanlover replied
• Coffee Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 12 years, 9 months

  

  After displaying the usual newbie error (spending money on machine, not grinder) I've stumped up several pounds for one of these:

  http://www.orphanespresso.com/OE-Pharos-Hand-Coffee-Grinder_c_392.html

  Needless to say it will get stuck at customs and require bailing out, but I'm really quite excited. The reviews on Home-Barista etc. are gushing - although it seems there is a bit of adjustment time needed.

• Cycle campaigning

  in General • 12 years, 10 months

  

  I dunno - it's a bit gruesome - and the infographic they made is flouro nodder hell - but it's a pretty big indication of how mainstream cyclist (in London) has gone when the Paper of Record (tm) sets out its front page to fight for cyclists' protection.

  (As an aside, papers generally only take up campaigns they know they can win, so I wonder whether there's some upcoming announcement... isn't DfT more than halfway through a review of cycle safety?)

• Comics

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 13 years, 3 months

  

  Has anyone been following / getting confused by the new DC Comics reboot?

  

  Picked up the last Flashpoint yesterday and am getting excited by the idea of loads of new stuff mixed with a little bit of 'oh god, another reboot'.

  Then again: Grant Morrison writing Action Comics? Yes please.

• What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 13 years, 3 months

  

  

• Greenpeace anti-VW protest

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 13 years, 4 months

  

  I don't think they wake up each morning, rubbing their hands at the prospect of evil :)

  From what we've been able to work out, the real profit is in the luxury add-ons and the 'executive' end of the spectrum. So they develop technologies (BlueMotion) knowing that eventually the time to use it will come.

  None of the companies are prepared to step up and make it available as standard, in case the rest of the industry doesn't follow suit and leaves them on a limb. But unlike other companies, they're lobbying against proposals which would require the industry as a whole to move.

  The development costs are one thing, and they clearly exist. But they've already developed the tech, so its a fixed cost, and one which would fall as a unit cost (i.e. the cost of one vehicle's tech). It's all done in the same factories too, so it' s not like they've got to go adding loads of expensive gear to their production lines.