A long time ago, when this site/blog/folly was established, I chose the domain name petty.me.uk. I liked the idea of the “me.uk” domains, and I chose my surname because I couldn’t think of a better name. Stick with the truth and all that. Since moving to the US, I moved hosting service to one recommended… Continue reading Master Of My Own Domain
Year: 2012
Rogier Mekel’s Nautical Parodies
Moin! When I was studying in Flensburg in 1994-5, I regularly went to a bar with a shipping and nautical theme. There was a big mural of sailors cavorting on an island beach with nubile natives in grass skirts. Reasonable, being a port town. Once a week they would boil a big bucket of bockwurst, and it… Continue reading Rogier Mekel’s Nautical Parodies
Orbandaid
I’ve been listening to a lot of The Orb recently, after getting into Soma FM‘s nice ambient and chilled streams. I got a good t-shirt from them recently as well. Picture not to follow – although I should post one, because then they’d show it on their site. I could wax nostaligc about The Orb.… Continue reading Orbandaid
My new project, a podcast called Coiled Spring, is now up and running and available on iTunes here. Episode 1 is already available, and I’m working on episode 2 now. It’s a fun podcast, with interesting guests who are attractive and fun to be with, reviews of American cultural artifacts, experiments in spoken word soundscaping, and some other guff.
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Quick, post somethign
So I’d better get something up before the flood of people sent over here by Matt at The Tool Shed arrive, take one look around, shrug and leave. And what better thing to entice them over the threshold than news of my exciting new project, which is tantalizingly close to bearing fruit. My new podcast, Coiled Spring,… Continue reading Quick, post somethign
More Shoes Update
After my disappointment with the recrafting of my black Allen Edmonds shoes, I was told they could be sent back, and I may be able to pick out a brand new pair. Well, I received an email confirming just that. They offered to send a replacement pair, but I asked if it was OK to go to… Continue reading More Shoes Update
Another American Backwards Thing
Just thought of another thing that this country gets consistently wrong in a weird contrarian illogical way: dates. OK, it’s just another cultural difference, which I have to get used to. But this one irks me more than some of the others – there’s no logic behind it that I can see (although when explained… Continue reading Another American Backwards Thing
California Wildlife Update
Up where I live in the Oakland hills, there’s lots of wildlife. We encountered quite a few species not seen in the UK. Just this morning, as I was walking down the path in my yard to catch the Transbay bus, I noticed something strange on the ground. I looked closer, and saw that it… Continue reading California Wildlife Update
American Backwards
I love living here, got my Green Card, not going anywhere, building a life etc etc please don’t shoot me. That said, here are some weird backwards things I’ve been noticing. Consider it an addendum to the Same but Different posts. Political Red and Blue In the UK, red is left-wing and blue is right-wing.… Continue reading American Backwards
More Recrafted Shoes
Here’s a follow up to this post about having my Allen Edmonds shoes recrafted. I’d sent one of the pairs of shoes I bought from eBay back to be recrafted, and I received them back a few days ago. I’m wearing them now, and they’re great – just as comfortable as they were before, but… Continue reading More Recrafted Shoes