Happy New Year everyone! Long time without posting. Went back to London for the Christmas period which was very nice. Got up to all the usual mischief and saw all the usual suspects. Except Bil and Sid who abandoned me to go to Dubai. I mean for God's sake, ME or heat, wealth and crazy architecture? No point even answering that question. Anyway, not going to bother writing about London, as it was as nice as it always is. I did, however, get shafted by those fuckers at Virgin Atlantic on the way back in Japan, who insisted (for the first time in like 6 trips between London and Japan) on weighing my hand baggage. I usually use the hand baggage as a very useful way of transporting small heavy things, specifically my records. This means that my bags are always over the 6 kilo weight limit...by quite a lot. Anyway, this time they weighed it and it was like 20 kilos, so I had to take a lot of the records out, all of the ones that I had left at home last time and was really itching to have in Japan. Really annoying, even more so as I could have easily just gone upstairs and put them all in the bag again, but I didn't think of that at the time as I was too busy being late for my flight. Anyway it really pisses me off when some fat fuckers who easily weigh more than 20 kilos more than me are allowed on the plane and yet I am not with my little record bag. There should be mandatory liposuction or stomach stapling or something for fat people before they are allowed on planes. And, come to think of it, why are Americans allowed so much luggage to the US? I guess just because their bigger "bulk" requires wider, heavier clothes...that and the fact that they rule the world. Anyway, it really pissed me off, especially as I now have to go another x amount of time before I can get my hands on those records again.
More exciting than all of this is the project I worked on yesterday...a planetarium. There is this series of science magazines for adults in Japan called "Otona No Kagaku". Having seen what their planetarium edition looks like in the webpage of
Kozyndan, I really wanted to get one. Anyway, the shops had all sold out so I had to order it from their webpage. I ordered it on Tuesday and it came last night, which is pretty damn impressive! I think the delivery man was a little confused as, due to the webpage order form, I had to write my name in Kanji (Chinese "pictograph" characters that the Japanese use), which strictly you can't do if you are a foreign devil like myself. Anyway, got to work last night, and after a few hours of screwing in nuts, folding and sticking plastic and screaming at Japanese instructions, I finished and tried it out, and amazingly it works really really well! The only slight problem is that my bedroom is probably a bit light, even for all the lights off, but if you take it into the bathroom, it looks amazing! I'm gonna go and try to buy a brighter bulb for it tonight and see if that makes any difference, but still, amazing value for £10! Here's some pictures. Can you guess which are the ones I stole off their webpage? Yeah, still haven't quite worked out how to take good picture of it myself!
Big Profit Electric Pig ?????
